Trying to pick a DAW ?

https://www.musicradar.com/news/best-beginner-daws

...but this is Equipboard, we use whatever FINNEAS, Kevin Parker, or John Frusciante are using.

(I kid. Hard to argue against any of the top 3 recommendations in that article)

I have everything but logic. They all run together for me when I use them like a tape deck but once I'm sequencing or treating samples ableton and fl studio shine above all. The output routing on fl is annoying in that everything is stere. For a straight itb mix nothing beats Harrison mixbus32c. For hybrid cubase and protools have the stellar latency compensation for hardware hooked to an interface. Cubase has a lot of facilities but the workflow isn't intuitive... I've been mixing trashgodz in it and taking their midi click and trying to apply a simple sample to it to clock an analog sequencer is a nightmare of superfluous windows and drop downs... this would take 3 seconds in fl studio or ableton... protools is obviously next to worthless for midi and such. That's an afterthought but you sure can lock that pesky drummer to grid and remove all humanity from a performance with ease...

I've used Cakewalk's products since Guitar Tracks 2.0. Cakewalk by Bandlabs is free, it's feature laden, it's powerful, and it does pretty much everything you need it to do. That's my £0.02.

I doubt many people will remember Steinberg Pro 24... :-D

I doubt many people will remember Steinberg Pro 24... :-D

I remember it but didn't switch over from logic until SX... my PC wasn't fast enough. I remmber going PC and I traded my alesis quadraverb to a bandmate for his license to Acid which he couldn't figure out and I also go fruity loops 1 around then as a sampling beatbox solution to make my own loops for acid and really fell in love with it (I still don't have a piece of hardware for that kinda stuff, back then my MS1 still worked but it was 1 channel sort of thing and had more isnteresting uses). I remember getting SX because fruityloops could be a plugin over rewire shortly after SX got going and the whole loop stretching thing was feeling lame, apple was acquiring logic I think, I tried cakewalk sonar and it was okay... Somewhere during SX2 my PC burned out (thanks Scott, long story) and I had a sojourb with mac and started using protools native because that became a thing and I knew it from my studio jobs... then i got pissed off with mac and went PC again and started trying everything out there. During that time I also had a free limited copy of ableton live v1 I got at NAMM and didn't like it but its a beast now, I admit it. It still has the weakest latency compensation of any DAW for hardware processing in a hybrid mix though, very underwhelming.

memories, in the corner of my mind, misty dot matrix memories of the way things were

My computer experience pre-dates PCs - my first computer was with an 8bit (BBC Microcomputer). Eventually got a dickless PC with a single builtin floppy disk drive (no hard drive). You had to boot with a "system" floppy disk which you then ejected after its loaded to put in your application floppy disk to load an app.

Later I got into 16bit bit and I still have two Atari STs in my parents attic :-)

My computer experience pre-dates PCs - my first computer was with an 8bit (BBC Microcomputer). Eventually got a dickless PC with a single builtin floppy disk drive (no hard drive). You had to boot with a "system" floppy disk which you then ejected after its loaded to put in your application floppy disk to load an app.

I remember that boot disc.... the ataris and amigas felt like a vast improvement