Just curious - what DAW do you use? ...and why do you like it for guitar recording, mixing, etc?

BigAl47 said:
I want to buy a avid s1 control surface and avid dock

I think the 2 daw that is most compatible is Pro Tools and Cubase

so I think to buy Cubase PRO to go with the avid s1 and dock
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I have an avid dock and love it. Looking to add an S1 in the future to take advantage of VCA/folder spill
 
In the 90's I was a Cakewalk guy. Early 2000's I switched to Sonar/XL before moving over to Acid/Acid Pro when it was a Sony product. In the early 2010's I discovered Reaper and stuck with that until 2023 when I made the switch to Cubase Pro. I had an ill-fated attempt with Pro Tools around v9 to v10, but just a mention is about all that's worth. LOL

Other than recording guitars, most everything else I do these days is midi/VSTi's, and Cubase is simply far beyond any other DAW for midi composing, especially when it comes to cinematic themes with HUGE arrangements. I haven't quite gotten to that phase of music production, but it's getting there, and knowing my DAW can handle the workload is comforting. Combine it with the switch to a Mac Studio Ultra last year, and I'm just in music production Heaven. Steinberg Halion 7 and Native-Instruments Kontakt 8 are the real workhorses of my studio.
 
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Pro Tools for 30 years so I don't see a change for me.

As others have said, Avid sucks and PT is slow in implementing new features. If I was starting out anew today, I would be trying other products.
 
Started on Pro Tools, got a good collection of plugins, figured out a good workflow and never looked left, right or back...no need. Still on 12.5, but won't upgrade unless my setup stops working for some reason.
 
Hobby recording here, logic pro and garage band before that. Started with audacity in the 2000s to not much effect, then reaper with similar results. I briefly tried ableton but the UI was a no go. GB/logic has been straightforward with pretty good results.
 
Pro Tools and Logic. Someone else already said it, but I’ll echo it again - Pro Tools feels like more of an engineer’s tool and Logic more like more a creator’s tool. Can’t go wrong with either though, and Avid has made Pro Tools affordable… both have free trials available.
 
Studio One 7 Pro - Went from Abletone (Ugh), Reaper then found SO - suits my brain .. plus I have a HD2 and the FX3 integrates nicely
 
I used Cubase and Reaper for many years but after I bought my Mac Mini, I‘m using mainly Logic.
I do still use Reaper on my Laptop.
 
BigAl47 said:
just for my knowledge, what do you mean by VCA/folder spill?
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If you have a dock and an S1 with a tablet on the dock, you can make it send the underlying tracks on a folder track or VCA to the S1 faders while putting the folder or VCA level on the dock fader. So if you click on the drum VCA on the tablet, you’d get kick in, kick out, snare, toms, etc on the S1. If you then clicked on the bass VCA, the S1 would switch its faders to be bass DI and bass amp signal.
 
haloll said:
If you have a dock and an S1 with a tablet on the dock, you can make it send the underlying tracks on a folder track or VCA to the S1 faders while putting the folder or VCA level on the dock fader. So if you click on the drum VCA on the tablet, you’d get kick in, kick out, snare, toms, etc on the S1. If you then clicked on the bass VCA, the S1 would switch its faders to be bass DI and bass amp signal.
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I'm new to daws

what do you mean by the acronyme VCA?
 
BigAl47 said:
I can read the user's manual that is 1700 pages!!!
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Definitely don’t read the user manual top to bottom. Start at a section you want to know more about and go from there.

A manual will teach you what things are but it’s not going to tell you how to use it.
 
VCA stands for "Voltage Controlled Amplifier". The name doesn't really apply literally anymore in the era of digital consoles.

But what it does is allow you to control the volume of multiple other channels with a single fader, without requiring all those channels to be grouped into a single bus (a "bus" is like a submix, ie: all the drums or guitars go to a bus so you can apply processing to the entire set of sounds instead of individually).

So imagine you wanted to make some volume moves to the lead guitar line and the vocal line at the same time, but you have the actual mix/processing of those tracks and their groups just where you want them. You could assign both to a single VCA and then adjust their volumes together, but without affecting how the audio itself is routed (just the volume).

Hope that makes sense.
 
rossipedia said:
VCA stands for "Voltage Controlled Amplifier". The name doesn't really apply literally anymore in the era of digital consoles.

But what it does is allow you to control the volume of multiple other channels with a single fader, without requiring all those channels to be grouped into a single bus (a "bus" is like a submix, ie: all the drums or guitars go to a bus so you can apply processing to the entire set of sounds instead of individually).

So imagine you wanted to make some volume moves to the lead guitar line and the vocal line at the same time, but you have the actual mix of those tracks just where you want them. You could assign both to a single VCA and then adjust their volumes together, but without affecting how the audio itself is routed (just the volume).

Hope that makes sense.
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Thanks
 
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