All daws sound equally. I only want to ask you about performance in different hosts. What you think? In my opinion the most rapid daw is reaper. I can use a lot of kontakts, of effects, other stuff you know. On the other hand, I think Studio one 2 is very easy to use and powerfull program, but I can`t create large grojects in it, unfortunately. I think FL is very fast, but 2 BIG "BUT" - no 64bit and no freeze (in classic option). What about you?

 

FL Studio and modplug tracker is fast and easy to use.
Goldwave is easier to use than audacity. Edison in FL Studio to make samples with loop points.
Then using them in kontakt.

 

For out & out speed to get idea from Brain to App.............

Ableton, EVERY time! *yes*

 

Reaper definitely. Other DAWs that I have tried include: Audition 1/2/3, Flstudio, Studioone 1/2, Cubase, Sonar, Live and Modplug tracker !

 

All DAWs render equally.

 

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FX Freeze.

Look at EnergyXT, it has strong and weak suits (as all DAWs).

 

Thank you very much Von Geschaftemacher! Will try! Ops, I think developer closed the project - the last version is very old

 

I have to agree with pilz971 that the quickest and easiest way to get from your brain to song is definitely Ableton.

 

Ableton = less thinking.. more music

 

Ableton crashes on my PC. GreaT Program, but I see "out of mamory" too often.

 

Reaper seems very quick and stable. Haven't tried them all though.

 

ableton 99% of the time. Ability to click once or twice and write an entire part, easy renaming, colouring and FX grouping. Saving patches for later recall, drag and drop any project into another. Freeze to audio, macro knobs to create super knobs, everything is midi mappable and linkable. Very quick sidechain literally two clicks. Slide to zoom is so so fast.

These are the main advantages for me, I let FL studio due to old projects getting corrupt and even after nagging on FL forums they continue to forge ahead with new features before resolving the basics and the huge gaping issues with the software.

 

I think this question is subjective. It all depends on how you work and how well you know the DAW you're working with. I've seen people make different DAW's appear to be "fast" but that's b/c they knew them inside and out.

 

PRODUCING/CREATING on FL STUDIO seems to be the fastest way...but i don't trust him for RECORDING/MIXING/MASTERING

 

The fastest DAW is Ableton Live. Nothing is faster than "LIVE" but the most intuitive ones with a good U.I and fast workflow would be Reaper and\or Studio One!

 

This is wrong. all daws do not render equally, and some only render realtime. The cleanest renerding DAW (according to the null tests) is saw studio, next is Samplitude. I dont use either. If you dont believe it, try it yourself. Make a simple sine wav, then render it out and import it back in. Flip the phase then hit play, playing it alongside the original wave. Now you can hear the sound of your DAW.

I use ableton to get it out of my head and reaper to get it into yours

This is the fastest way for me

 

Reaper is fast and has good features. also depends as what you count in as a daw (what is it aimed at). In my view ableton is aimed at different users than reaper and also has different things it is "fast" at. So, you may have to decide what you aim for (recording vs. remixing/djing).

Another item is that for some protools was "fast" due to the coupling of hardware and software. Still, this coupling is no longer the case.

In terms of the learning curve vs. efficiency tradeoff I think a good DAW should allow for the basics to be performed easily (recording, vst, midi, click track, some editing) but give you enough to play with and get into in the long run. Reaper definitely has that. Still, I know people who hate the reaper workflow, others again, like me, like it a lot.

Definitely not fast: cubase

 

I know that performance of Ableton Live really sucks. But on the other hand it's quick for composing.

 

Fastest to turn an idea into an audible result: Orion

Unfortunately it lacks big time in certain departments, i.e. no freezing, no stems, exported WAVs sound like crap compared to original output, etc.

In a serious project only usable as a ReWire slave...

 

guys, can you tell me one thing: why during Ableton installation on PC it installs C++2008 lib, but on MAC it doesn`t? I heard opinion that Ableton is really MAC program (works perfect and fast on MAC). As FL does on PC, you know.