Year End Accounting - User Survey

3 Questions for you:

A: What DAW (digital audio workstation ) do you mainly use?
B: Which operating system do you use: Windows: macOS or Linux?
C: Which software company do you use the most and which company is the best for you?

At the end of the survey (1.1 2023) we want to evaluate the results and make a clear statement.

 

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A: Primary: Reaper, Secondary: Studio One
B: Windows 11
C: Best for me is Native Instruments because almost all my project is 80% Kontakt, and the rest is Valhalla, Ample Sound (SC), Fabfilter, Toontrack (Superior Drummer, EZBass), Roland (SoundCanvas), Reason Studios (Plugin), Waves.

 

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Since people will reach for different things depending on what they make, might be good to include genre in your survey too!

(Genre: Pop [Synth-pop & Electro-pop], R&B/Hip-hop, Experimental)

A: Logic Pro X
B: MacOS Monterey (M1 Pro)
C: Difficult to say just one company as different ones give me what I need, but if it's really just one >>>>>
- Most used software company for Instruments:
Tied between Arturia [Synths] and NI [Libraries] (usage depends on the project)

- Most used software company for Audio FX:
Fabfilter (The usage of Q 3 alone shoots this company to the top since it's the first EQ I reach for)

- All other software companies that are important/crucial to my workflow and needs
(Plugin Alliance, Valhalla, Ample Sound, XLN Audio, u-he, Toontrack, Soundtoys, Overloud, Xfer, TAL, iZotope, Wavesfactory, Tone Projects, Kilohearts)

 

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OS: windows 7
DAW: Ableton 11
Plugins: Mainly Softube (i use Console 1 a lot), Soundtoys, Fabfilter, Tokyo Dawn, Valhalla Vintage verb.
Some hardware for parallel compression, color and fx (roland space echo, focusrite preamp...)
Recording,mixing and mastering electronic music/hip-hop and podcasts

 

Reason 12 original
Windows 11
Falcon and Expanse also ni stuff like the original massive some serum and sometimes nexus and avenger also reason players like the chord sequencer and bassline generator

 

A. DAW = PreSonus - Studio One
B. OS = Windows 10
C: VST = Brainworx, FabFilter, Nomad Factory & VSTi = U-HE, Synapse Audio, GForce, Togo Audio Line (TAL)

 

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A: Reaper DAW (this year there have been so many crucial feature updates, I can really start recommending it for serious audio business now)
B: MacOS (mostly Catalina and Big Sur, no rush forward)
C: HW: Synology (NAS helped me become independent of OS platform, streamline my DAW projects organization, libraries and installers etc... so much I do take it as most useful "audio" company this year)
C: SW: Fabfilter (they provided full native Apple Silicon support on all their older plugins, and among first already approved their plugins for new MacOS Ventura compatibility, they are the example of how audio plugin company should behave)

I'll be re-evaluating my initial thoughts on new MacOS Ventura once hacktintosh opencore community settles on some guides and guidelines,

I feel like there isn't much room for improvement in audio software anymore, I'll be investing more time into exploring what I already have, instead of hoarding more stuff, looking forward to how post-covid, and war/energy situation makes sw/hw manufacturers rethink the priorities of business in 2023

 

A: Reaper
B: Windows10
C: Cockos. I use some other companies too but Reaper stock stuff is always there, being all ugly and awesome, it deserves all the love.

 

Studio One and FL Studio.
Win10 x64.
FabFilter,, u-He, Tokyo Dawn Labs and Wavesfactory. Dan Worrall isn't involved, I learned about him because of these devs. Also Synapse Audio DUNE. Special mention goes to Voxengo MSED. I use it literally everywhere.

 

A. Pro Tools 2019.10
B. Windows 11
C. Mainly UAD and Waves, sometimes Sonnox (envolution and transmod). Honestly I have everything I need with these companies. Surely there will be other DAWs and plugins that are better, and certainly more performing, but I personally manage to create my projects very quickly and with very satisfying results this way.

 

A: Bitwig Studio v4.4.4 (live perf./sound design/production), REAPER v6.71 (secondary DAW), VCV Rack 2 Pro (development).
B: Windows 10 Pro (64-bit, 22H2, French-localized).
C: Synapse Audio (DUNE 3, Legend), Parawave (RAPID), Cherry Audio, Klanghelm, Vengeance-Sound (VPS Avenger), VCV, DiscoDSP (Discovery Pro), Bitwig Grid & stock devices, Hexachords (Obs Producer Suite 3), Plugin Boutique (Scaler 2), a lot of free stuff...

 

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(Genre: Pop)

A. Reaper
B. Win 11 22H2 (built with NTLite)
C. VSTi - Vienna Symphonic Library (Synchron Pianos), Toontrack (Superior Drummer 3), Ample Sound
C. VST - Playfair Audio Dynamic Grading, TBT Kirchhoff EQ, SoundRadix Pi, Oeksound Soothe2

 

A: Reaper/Cubase for mixing. Live/Bitwig - for production.
B: Windows 11 21H2
C: Hate both NI an PA, replaced most of my legit with R2R to avoid complication but I'm depending too much on their stuff now which I also hate.

 

A. DAW = Nuendo 12 + Reason Rack Plugin
B. OS = Windows 10
C: VST = Spectrasonics, Kontakt, U-he, Ample Sound

 

Cubase
W10
Waves / Kirchhoff EQ

 

Genre:
Electronic Dance Music

Main DAW:
Logic Pro 10.7.5

Secondary DAW:
Ableton Live 11

OS:
macOS Monterey / Windows 10

AU/VST3:
Arturia, Analog Obsession, Cableguys, Celemony, Cytomic, D16 Group, Devious Machines, FabFilter, Focusrite, iZotope, Klanghelm, KV331,
Lennar Digital, NoiseAsh, Native Instruments, Overloud, Parawave, Plugin Alliance, Polyverse Music, Pulsar Audio, ReFX, Reveal Sound, Roland Cloud, Slate Digital, Softube, SSL, Sonic Academy, Spectrasonics, Synapse Audio, SoundToys, Tone2, U-he, UAD, Valhalla DSP, Vital Audio, Waves, Xfer Records, XLN Audio, Youlean

 

Reaper
Win10 22h2 lite
all the best vst R2R has to offer
with 83 vst open my rig slows down.

 

1.Reaper DAW
2.Win 10
3. Kush Audio

 

A: Studio One Pro 6
B: Windows 10
C: Acustica Audio