Poll: If Reason Didn't Exist, What DAW Would You Use?

[Re8et]

I'd be on Atari ST with Cubase, you can keep FL, Logic, Ableton... I was on Atari ST when Reason came out, and I still miss its sequencer...

[Re8et]

I'm hardly in Reason recently. Studio One is delivering on a level that Reason can only dream of and even the very conservative Cubase is looking very modern. I'm starting to see Reason as a tool for sound designing and geeky wiring rather than music making, and I've never been into sound design.

BTW, you missed Cakewalk out, it's still got a decent user base plus it's now completely free via Bandlab.

Cakewalk Gold edition has been with me for years, given I never had the money to jump on the Logic/Mac wagon, which I always googled upon, but I never wanted to invest much money on Vst's and computer stuff back then; probably with time I would have chosen Logic because of the modularity aspect of it.

Now I guess Ableton or Bitwig, but as a producer, Reaper or S1, which simply weren't there 20y. ago. Even Logic came later on.

[OverneathTheSkyBridg]

Reason was introduced to me by a buddy way back in the Reason 3 days. At the time I was cranking out beats in Impulse Tracker. Had Reason never existed I'd likely have migrated to Renoise eventually.

[Faastwalker]

Okay, I'll give it a shot ........... Acid Pro.

Not everyone's first choice. Actually, not a choice for many at all I'd guess! But I've got a real soft spot for Acid Acid Music (when Sonic Foundry) was the first PC music software I ever bought. I've used it ever since, although these days mostly for the Beatmapper & doing DJ style mixes. But I know my way around it well enough & like it enough to probably go for it over most other options. For a while I really liked Tracktion, that was before Reason had audio tracks & MIDI-output. But that kind of died off after Mackie bought it up to include it bundled with their own hardware. If I was a Mac user maybe Logic would get some consideration. I also like the look of Bitwig Studio. Live is obviously hugely popular. But I've never really clicked with it.

To be honest I just hope & pray I can use Reason for as long as I can draw breath & are still interested in this stuff. Because it's better than anything else as far as I'm concerned

[bxbrkrz]

"Other".