AI technologist @deepfates requests community recommendations for digital audio workstations, drawing an endorsement for Ableton
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An AI technologist known for satire and memes posted a straightforward request for digital audio workstation suggestions, prompting brief replies that singled out Ableton as a strong all-around pick without any deeper context or product details attached.
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Followers offered subjective preferences, with one positioning Ableton as the comprehensive choice for any task and another calling it the right option while favoring a different tool for casual enjoyment.
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The exchange contains no software updates, comparisons, or usage specifics, leaving the conversation as an informal poll among creators rather than a source of concrete guidance.
Positive users praise DAWs like FL Studio and Ableton for being fun, intuitive, and addictive to use, while negative users express regret over investing in Ableton or dismiss it in favor of Logic Pro X.
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@deepfates Ableton is correct
FL Studio is more fun
do you guys have opinions on DAWs
Oops. I think i just bougt the WRong one
do you guys have opinions on DAWs
@deepfates ableton for everything
@deepfates pick one of the big ones and you can’t really go wrong. i’m an fl studio guy. they all do things a little differently, in ways that are significant but impossible to appreciate beforehand.
just learn one and then some all your money on plugins, vsts, and sample packs
@deepfates naah everyone's honestly really chill about what to use
@deepfates i’d call this an opinion
Ableton is the neatest thing to experiment with. Literally white canvas type stuff; simple and intuitive. FL is like… great for some stuff and a complete pain in the ass for other? Definitely more of an easy to learn hard to master (and is that mastering even worth it? Unless you like writing python? I mean, there’s some genuinely insane stuff one can do there). Logic Pro is meh; it’s okay I guess. Good maybe even. Simple and intuitive — but nothing special, really. Latest stuff I remember is their advanced stem separation? Cool stuff. Bitwig is probably cool asf and a compromise between Ableton and something more advanced (Reason?) but like eh; it lacks the Ableton polish. Wasn’t a fan of how it feels so idk; is great once mastered I imagine.
@deepfates Dawless
@deepfates grimes's most acclaimed music was made in garageband. DAW potency isn't that important/constraints are usually the key for creativity
@deepfates logic for production, ableton for performance, unless you exclusively make bleepbloop then just ableton
@deepfates Yes
@aaronmahlke @deepfates I did my degree in Ableton and it took so much fun out of it that I became a programmer.
FL brought back a lot of that fun for me
i like Ableton. Reason was fun when I wasn't trying to do anything live, I enjoyed the physical racking/wiring they had (this was...many years ago, no clue how it works now).
Is sony acid pro still a thing? That was pretty okay.
I've heard good things about reaper but haven't tried it myself.
@deepfates Ableton imo
@prer4ph I'm learning this
@deepfates learn avid pro tools, if you want to be able to go to any studio in the world and be able to sit down and work
for midi and vst's/composing: logic is great
free/oss: reaper
@deepfates i invested in ableton and regret. i wish i started with a free one
otoh it forced me to stick with the hobby instead of quitting
looking at yt vids it seems theyre all basically the same unless you get into some super niche. an ai daw will spawn soon enough
@deepfates except for live jungle, then sp404mk2
@deepfates yes, daw it from scratch
if it's not a modular synthesizer then its a virtual modular synthesizer
@deepfates I use ableton for plugins and live performances, and reaper for everything else.