Most of its userbase had already jumped ship, and a ton of them took those cross grade discounts that came out after the announcement and never looked back. and never really thought to diversify themselves in terms of proficiency with different software products.įor example, most of the SONAR users left by the time it got shut down (before BandLab's purchase) had been using the software for 5-15+ years, some even longer. When a product 'falls out of favor,' the people left hanging on for dear life tend to be those who just sat on one DAW/NLE/etc. These people have been through enough to know that it's important to leave yourself with options by maintaining proficiency beyond your current 'choice' production platform. This is why you see even popular producers streaming and trying out different DAWs. The first DAW you learn is always like a ball and chain - and even if stability and development (in your opinion) suffer, you're going to constantly feel like you have to stick with it.īeing a on-DAW user is productivity blackmail against yourself. Until you commit to actually using another DAW, you're always going to feel like it's worse. Take user feedback with giant buckets of salt.īut I do agree with what he stated, and this is what I meant in my initial response.

People always say great things about the DAWs they use, and those that they feel have 'burned' them.

just never put in the time to figure it out.

I may give Studio One another shot at some point because I do like the look of it. Studio One, in addition to Reaper, were the other DAWs I considered. So dont be afraid to try one daw for a while and you might find a gem. So after a year I finaly moved to Presonus Studio One and now in this daw I have everything, the sound and flexibility, after I learned this daw, now when I come back to Acid I'm thinking why was I using this daw for so long(Acid Pro), everything feels so tedious, and slow compare to Studio One. I was also a only Acid Pro User for about 7 years, but once I wanted to use some more complex plugs, and more flexibility with workflow, that never worked in Acid I moved to Waveform from Tracktion, and that was preaty good daw, but still some of my plugs did not work and after using it for 3 years and no fixes from Tracktion I moved to Ableton 9, that daw was great, much better then Acid and Waveform, lots of commands and setup was much better, but for unknown reason I could not get a decent sound from that daw. Every Daw once you learn it is easy to use, one probobly needs about 6 months of constant use to get familior with one.

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