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Music Production

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Would anyone be willing to lay out their experiences with DAWs? Preferably free ones? I tried waveform, but I'm thinking I'm going to use Cakewalk. A lot of people say Reaper, but the UI seems lackluster. What do yo think?

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[–] breaks@lemmy.studio 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Bitwig Studio! Made from former Ableton devs so it's similar but the workflow is amazing for modulation and sound design. Plus Linux support. Not free but you can rent-to-own via splice (you do not need an active splice sounds sub).

!bitwig@lemmy.studio

Edit: oh and it can also sandbox your plugins (either individually, by company, or all together) so having a vst crash doesn't bring down your whole project.

[–] astrsk@fedia.io 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Any performance hit on the sandboxing? Even just a few ms latency?

[–] breaks@lemmy.studio 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

That's a good question but not one I can adequately answer. I'm currently mostly using a low-end setup so I'm just sandboxing my plugins as one.