Yea, 60 bucks is for the hobby-home usage version, which you ( under the agreement of Cockos) can not use commercially.
Commercial version is 225 $ and you still have to pay for later upgrades.

 

1.Sure, i want to record my electric guitar by my laney irt studio. In the future i will buy a bass guitar, but in this moments i think im gonna use midi for bass and drums. Same for keyboards and another instruments.

2. I prefer a daw with a lot of effects like fl studio, but that is not my priority, i can search and download that things. (i dont want to use fl studio for metal, i think that daw is oriented to electronic or hip hop music, right?)

3.Pc specs:
Intel i core 3 5005u (2.0 ghz)
4gb ram
Interface: laney irt studio head
I think my pc is not so bad xD, i mean, i can run ps3 and ps4 games.

 

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Yes you can, under the provisions of the license. Up to $20,000 of yearly gross revenue is allowed.

After that, I doubt anyone would go and check if you purchased the commercial license. Cockos is about honest approach, 60-days demo extended to unlimited and DRM-free

 

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- You can record electric guitar with any DAW
- No, FL Studio is not only for electronic music, you can do anything with it. Still there are better options for what you want. If you prefer a DAW that include effects, Band Lab may be a good option as it's free and comes already with the necessary Eq, comp etc..
I would forget about cubase as you will not be able to update it without money.
Studio one 4 is not a bad option either.

- Your computer specs are right on the limit given today's CPU usage of DAWs and VSTs, but yes, you can do music with it if you are very careful choosing each element.

 

I think the genre doesnt make much difference, in the end it's the plugins you use, that make the sound.
cubase 5 is fine and stable, but you're stuck to 32bit. That wouldn't be much of a problem, but i guess more and more plugins won't be released in 32bit versions.

But why going for the pirated cubase 5 version? there's a pretty nice cracked cubase elements that offers more features and is 64bits.
being patched, that version is not limited to the elements features.
only thing i miss: no destructive render for audio files.

Just find the one that is installed with the soft elicenser, the newer one needs a trial key.
but those newer ones are fine too, just a bit more hassle to get that key.

Cubase for sure is more widespread than studio one.
In case you're going to a studio you're most likely to find a cubase, a logic and a protools installed.
Most pro media composers either use cubase or logic.
Pro trackers use pro tools and some use nuendo

 

I think better stars with smth simple. Ableton Live 10 is perfect

 

Ooh i see...
But for midi drums? Does exist a better option? Or is the same in all daw?

Thank you guys for your answers.

 

Ableton 10 with the "options" file is amazing.
If you have MIDI controllers it's the best DAW for assigning (MIDI Learn) your controls to built-in stuff or 3rd party plugins.
Watch how Opolopo using Ableton (you can't see the screen but he is using Ableton)

 

Huh? Every daw has a blacklist, ie plugins not working properly with the daw get deactivated. That Cubase blacklists warez seems to be an urban myth. Or did i misunderstand you?
See here for more info: https://helpcenter.steinberg.de/hc/en-us/articles/207348390-Plug-in-Sentinel-for-Cubase-9

 

Yeah sure.....but which DAW SOUNDS the best?......LMFAO!!

 

PreSonus.Studio.One.4.Professional

 

HI mimo69 and welcome bro

since you just started producing music (no matter whether its rock or church music )
first you need fast workflow /easier process /effective results

1- you made a good choice already with studio one v4 installed already so you are ''ready''

2- get these plugins (sylenth/spire/dune and few rob papen plugins to get things going
then get the rock related plugins like modo bass / few ujam plugins for guitars/and there are few tube fxu need to get as well)
3- you need a drums library to make rock drums /and other genre

4- and this is important you need to see few tutorials on how to use studio one v4 as a backup
5- you need general knowledge on how to use fx like delay /reverbs/and compression
6 - try create a demo and post here and and we (the AZ community )will help you in reviewing your demo /tips/advices

7-baby steps brother ,baby steps ,dont rush things ,(when i started making tunes i did some covers in demos )
so every bit of knowledge you learn about music making comes with reliving old tracks ,these legends spend months crafting
few tracks ,so making rock songs always starts with building your track slowly with melodies that can attract the listeners and rock fans /

8 -if you own a guitar /you need to know how to hook it up correctly to studio one
so you can record the guitar then edit the sound and apply the fx to it (follow the tutorials)

these 8 points is a must do list (and you can add the desire and the will to go through all these points
remember this :be creative even if you dont have a pro studio or sound engineer to help
just use your ears while building tracks and layers /drums/guitars/bass/keys/pads/
and panning the sounds to give a better impression on your tracks

welcome brother mimo69 to our world of music production ,good luck

HKK

 

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PRESONUS STUDIO ONE PRO

 

For midi drums for hard rock, you will always need a third party plugin, so the DAW you will chose does not matter much.

 

@No Avenger, yeah you're right. I've heard that Cubase is super-picky when it comes to loading plugins on multiple occasions. Then again, they invented vst so maybe it helps stability if plugins not playing by the book a 100% get blacklisted. My point just was that resetting or editing the blacklist MUST be possible (even in Cubase 5) and that Cubase doesn't check "is this warez or genuine", even though there will probably be cases where the genuine plugin loads fine whereas the tampered with version doesn't check out.
Whatevs, don't use Cubarse.

 

3 best DAWs right now are:
1) Reaper - no virtual instruments, blazing fast, totally reliable, intimidating at first but extremely powerful and customizable, so the feature set is literally limitless IF you spend some time to set things up the way you need - important is YOU CAN
2) Studio One - nowadays probably most quickly-advancing DAW, given the fact company makes decent controllers, mixers, interfaces and monitors guarantees at some extent you will be able to work with what you get, I personally don't like it much though (do have Eris E8 monitors though hah)
3) Cakewalk (Sonar) by Bandlab - it's free, but literally dead now, so don't expect any major enhancements - it's a really strong versatile DAW anyway, so if you're not planning to use Mac then it's a way to go (unless you figure out some missing features, like me, then you'll move to Reaper again)

honorable mentions are Ableton Live and Bitwig for virtual arranging and composition, but nobody really wants to use them for mixing/mastering, so that's why not among my top 3

jokes in the industry are nowadays ProTools (ridiculous price for inferior feature set, nobody buys the anymore, studios are using legacy versions just because they need to cooperate), Cubase (only full Pro version offers usable feature set, all lesser versions are waste) and Logic (with Apple's situation, and annual MacOS+Logic updates, there's no reason to stick to such restricted non-multiplatform DAW unless you really can justify that, moreover it doesn't support VST/VST3 so many plugins won't work there)

 

Well, with your computer specs, especially 4GB RAM, more reason to use Reaper (especially super-low memory usage), but if you can do it with Studio one...