I am new to music making, I use Reason 4. My question is whether sounds are different, specific to the DAWs. Do Reason, FL, Ableton etc. have charasterictic sounds in electronic music (or DnB), or with endless amounts of time on EQ, compression, etc. these sounds are no different and become 'neutral'? If there are differences, which one(s) do you think are better?
Originally posted by SteakJohnson
All the various synths' saw waves and various waves and built in fx like flange or distortion or their filters usually sound different
But those synths can be used in all DAWs (except Reason of course).
Would anyone ever start to use a certain DAW to sound exactly like their idols?
I bet there are people who do this.
Stupidity is available in many shapes and shapes and sizes I guess.
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yeh, people big up the main ones obviously but ive heard amazing stuff produced in fruity loops (which some snobs seem to overlook), reason (think Liam Howlett did an album with this), acid....whatever. people are making albums on their phone ha.
I use Logic which is quality, and Dr Dre uses it apparently but I aint never gonna be Dr Dre no matter what software I have...
The daw doesn't really matter. Different vsts will get you different sounds. Massive seems to be really digital and dirty while stuff on reason is more natural analog sounding.
Originally posted by gripz
Don't some daw's have a build in compressor/limiter.
That should do something 2 the sound, at least for starting producers.
YES, these things exist, but I don't think many people chose a certain daw for the "built-in" plugins. You can get several compressors/limiters for free or as a commercial VST and load them in a DAW without limitations, so if you really get turned on by some Cubase only plugs or whatever you should go for it.
Basically I don't think you can tell from a tune what plugs were used to create it unless you use some obvious preset from a synth.
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what i actually meant with my remark was that starting producers should try 2 stay away or be very aware of these build in plug ins.
When i said it does something 2 a beginning producers sound i meant it in a bad way.
They often end up maxing all there volume knobs not understanding that the on board limiter is clipping the **** out of there track.
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there was this crazy distortion unit in Logic that gave sick distortion when you gave it a reese (i discovered this at an apple store lol) I think it was called phase distortion, I havent seen any other dist. plugins like it
