The Verdict is IN!!!

This years Music Radar Survey for fan fav DAW results are in...

Sonar X1 -2 Placed 9th....Pro Tools 8th....

ANY GUESSES FOR NUMBER 1?

Nope...

I think GB was 15....out of 15

I'm gonna go with Ableton. These surveys mean nothing.

Was it McQ Base¹⁰?

Cubase was WAY down the list as a were all the serious musicians DAWs (that probably comes off as pretentious but fer crickets sakes I PLAY GUITAR!) 

What a joke... and Nuendo? Whar Nuendo? WHAR?!

FLstudio is fine and I'd like to get a full version eventually but it's not geared towards flesh and nail artists.

I guess I'm slowly becoming obsolete. :-(

bapu


Was it McQ Base¹⁰?

 
BBP........E!!

timidi

Logic users need to get off it and start thinking about an alternative program for the Mac.

I think it's gonna Rain soon.

LOL


Well, Jeff did perform the Rain Dance... But it's not so much just a Logic thing as the empty statements that gets me.

bapu


Was it McQ Base¹⁰?

Beepster said...

Cubase was WAY down the list as a were all the serious musicians DAWs (that probably comes off as pretentious but fer crickets sakes I PLAY GUITAR!)   What a joke... and Nuendo? Whar Nuendo? WHAR?! 

Cubase was actually 4th....

Well above Pro Junk and ReX2...

There are some pretty innovative and excellent features in Cubase...AND it supports VST 3!!!  (3.5 too -  go figure?)


Sonar still controls the PC Only market...as it's just about the ONLY MAJOR DAW that is still PC only...


I'm sure Rain will be horrified where Logic fell in the poll....

MR has quite a readership....with CM, FM, and lot of other Music Mags...

One thing you'll see.....Digital Performer, if it's stable on Windows...is gonna kick some serious BOOTAY in the near
future....It's not an easy learn...but once you do....look out...

I can tell you this...if Cake doesn't step up their game....they're going to be losing a lot of customers...
When all these other "budget" DAW's , like FL and Reaper are out-performing and out-innovating them...
and including support for technology that Cakewalk is too proud and arrogant to support..
There are some serious issues and questions there....

They better get on the stick...that's all I'm sayin' ...forget the Plugins....get the "substance" - that's what everyone wants..
we can (AND DO) buy plugin's all day long....so that's really not a program "Improvement"  It's a program "BONUS"

The added enhancements are nice...but that's all they are...enhancements...nothing really "ground breaking"
as other DAW's have those features as well, and have for a while...

They've slipped from 5th place last year...to 9th....that's a pretty steep decline...
I know no one HERE puts stock in these things..but, I can tell you this...there really aren't a whole lot
of "Pro's" who use X1 -2....just sayin'....and a lot MORE non-pros use other programs...

I know you fanboi's are gonna ream me...but that's ok..you, too, are entitled to your opinion...

If X2 was the most successful program launch in the HISTORY of Cakewalk. as the "politicians" have stated
....that's pretty scary...we'll see how this plays out...

I'm a HUGE fan of X1 - 2...but I call 'em like I see 'em...that's all....end of story...bye bye...
I'm not "blinded" by "fan-dom"

BUT - that's just my opinion for what it's worth...and they're like ********everyone has one...

Beepster


@cclarry... Oh goodness me, you are correct. Where I got that from I'm not sure. I do not recall smoking any crack this evening. :-/

Nice....

Just for the record...I'm not a big Cubase fan...I left Cubase for Pro Tools..which I hated...Cubase is an excellent program....and left Pro Tools for X1....which I love...and still love...X2 is even better....but it had the potential to be GREAT...and they again missed the
boat...(my opinion only)

cclarry

I'm sure Rain will be horrified where Logic fell in the poll....

Actually, I don't give a fudge. ;) 


No matter where those polls put it, it's still the best solution for me. As well as for 90% of the people in my line of business. 

What bugs me is people making empty statements. These I sometimes (okay, quite often) feel a need to address. Especially coming from people who go out of their way to show you that if you say a bad thing about Studio One, it's only because you haven't used it for long enough. 


I must say - the last time I had a chat w/ a studio owner, we didn't talk much about Logic - but actually, I told him about Studio One and the merits of Sonar. 

Notepad wasn't #1?   Wow...

What we need here is Mr Reaper and Mr reason and this will be a cluster****

Hi Rain. I must say though that Logic has been around for a long time and as a result it is very stable and reliable especially in a teaching situation where the software gets treated very badly and I must say Logic just keeps on going and rarely falls over which is great. One school I was teaching at for a while had Sonar Home Studio and it was a disaster.

Regarding synths I agree Studio One is not overly great with them but that is what is good about it. I have 40 or 50 amazing virtual synths in there now so I rarely use the bundled instruments. They don't waste time trying to impress you with instruments. They give you a few and let you put the ones in you want to work with. Presence is pretty good though. Their drum machine actually works better than Beatscape. There is a fair bit of content too for Studio One about 20 Gig I think. Have you got all that too Rain? And the third party VST's all work without a hitch as well.

I do like the ESX24, I think it has a great sound. And I was lucky enough to get that and the Electric piano, oragn etc when they were available as separate VST's and I have all those as well. I have just found a lot of the other instruments in Logic I don't use that much because they are a little similar sounding to me.

I have still got a Sonar 8.5 install on my system and just love Dimension Pro, Rapture and Z3ta+ and they all work and sound great in Studio One too. I am not that impressed with the Logic reverb either, I feel there are many nicer sounding convolution reverbs around now which go much further and sound much better. But that is due mainly to the fact that no one is really developing Logic, they are just in this mode of staying with what they have got. 

The one thing that all the programs that have been mentioned here (and Sonar of course!) have in common is that they are developing and moving forward. Logic is the only one that is basically remaining still.

I think it depends on which part of the world you live in too as to what software is being used in very professional studios. I have been into many here in Australia and never seen Logic once. But as you and people like Freddie have pointed out that is not the case in Europe perhaps and other parts of the world.

Ah, the voice of Reason!

LOL!