That last statement isn't entirely true. As far as trap goes, like it was stated earlier in the thread, this is the Cracked Version generation and that usually means they use FL. Also, Reason, Live, and FL started out and continue to mainly support Electronic music. They weren't/aren't really targeting Rock, Jazz, Hip Hop, Acoustic, Orchestral etc... The reason, no pun intended, that most people in other genres started using those DAWs was when someone who had a cracked version gave it to them or when someone with a name that they were fans of figured out how to make it work for that genre.Goriila Texas wrote: ↑14 Jan 2022It's just facts that Reason is behind the competition and not appealing to the youth of Trap producers which is a billion dollar genre. Many do both hip hop and Trap and don't touch Reason! RS or PH throughout since Reason inception has continued to ignore this genre of music makers and their growth has been stagnant at best.
The first person I can think of is 9th Wonder. I'm 42 and I can say that I remember Pro Tools with the firewire racks was the only DAW folks I knew were using, if they could afford it. Other than that it was still all hardware like the MPC and DATs. But once Little Brother dropped their first album it was clear that Fruity Loops was a viable option for even a sample based genre with some workarounds. Then he plastered all over every music publication that cared about hip hop talking about how he used FL on Jay-Z's album. Next thing I knew, everyone, including me, had that at the time $100 program.
Another is Hanz Zimmer. He is credited with being the cause for many orchestral producers moving over to Cubase from Pro Tools.
The name matters. Kanye was once credited with an uptick in sales of hardware samplers because people wanted his sound. J Dilla with the MPC 2000XL etc.
If you make Trap, which is the hot thing now, of course up and coming producers who are fans of your sound will want what you work with. So it makes sense that if you have said number of producers, esp in the Youtube/TikTok/IG era, where they can now see how you make your money with said DAW then it will be more popular than another DAW.