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What is the best DAW for Windows?

Hi, I'm looking around for equipment at the moment and I was wondering what the best DAW is. Can anyone help me?

Bias is hailed as a great one and affordable as well.

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thanks heaps!!

Isn't bias an amp simulator, not a full fledged piece of recording kit for making entire tracks?

Boom, I don't think DAW means what you think it means ;-)

EDIT: there's an equipboard article about this and its also been discussed ad nauseum in all 3 forums... there aren't any bad options anymore, it just depends what you want to do and how you feel comfortable doing it. Jope, I seem to recall you wanted to make dance music and the 2 major windows contenders for beginners in that arena are FL Studio and Ableton Live. If you have a lot of hardware synths Cubase or Sonar are solid options with quite a pedigree... but unless you are planning to go ALL AHRDWARE in the near future then I would stick with the 'big2' I mentioned. In the 90s I loved Cubase, but FL studio can handle complex MIDI sequences and records audio adequately now so I didn't bother installing Cubase SX on my last couple of PCs as FL easily integrates my vast sample library, hardware synths and plugins in a way that helps me get my ideas out really quickly and effectively... however, its not much of a live performance platform. You will probably want to get some demo versions and fool around with them and see what feels easiest for YOU to learn.

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Yup, what Jim said ^^

Have a look at this guide here: Best DAW

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Reaper is the best when we balance Prices/capabilities/development and in the approach for beginners as how for experts. With all the possibilities of the more known DAW in the market have a procedure to work that the beginner can quickly understand and, after, when understanding more and more the sound sciences the customer have never the sensation that is limited by the Reaper capabilities. Allis there. Under a easy surface have a really complex and logic machine. 60 dollars. And if you don't pay Reaper rest in marche free. We all finish for pay. This people merit this tiny price.

I don't know what you mean by "best" but I can tell you that all the high echelon underground hip-hop producers use ableton and I'm trying to convince myself to switch over from FL.

fl is great but there's something inherently monotonous about its overall mixes

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I realize this is a now a dead thread, but Cakewalk by BandLab, formerly Cakewalk Sonar, is completely free and compatible with Windows. Enjoy!

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hi cool if sonar is free but midi edition is not as quite as samplitude for my work magix do also free sofware "music maker" seems to be well also in fact everyone use the daw that he like. i have used : cubase/sonar/ernergy xt/samplitude/protools and with my pulsar 2 creamware and scope 5 the best for me is samplitude or sequoia

+1 for Cakewalk here. It's what I use to do all my stuff (course, I've been using Cakewalk since Guitar Tracks 2.0). They also have a mobile app for Android and iPhone, it's not "Cakewalk" on those platforms, but it's a great little pocket took for taking down riffs on the run I've found.

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Nowadays it is not as big of an issue choosing between DAWS. Most of the traditional ones (Ableton, FL Studio, etc) have undergone many updates to become fully capable, and there is beginning to be a good base of tutorial videos for the newer and also highly capable DAWs such as Cakewalk. Look at videos of the workflow for each and choose for yourself.

I'd say if you want many more Youtube tutorials available for the exact DAW you use, then I would recommend a big name like Ableton (most adored workflow probably, extremelyyyy capable) or FL Studio (what I have: I think a bit cheaper and you get lifetime license, adored by hip hop and electronic producers for its more step sequencer/MIDI-based workflow versus Ableton which is much more audio-clip based because you place everything on the main timeline instead of also the step sequencer).

But also a lot of free DAWS are fully capable, like Reaper. Just less bells and whistles and fancy pre-packaged plugins.

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