When it comes to pricing, Band Lab offers Cakewalk for absolutely free, and also allows you to use 3-party VSTs for absolutely free! This may be the only factor that would make me shift to Cakewalk, but it would not be enough.ĭAWs after an extended period of use, you will find or run into bugs that cause crashes, freezing and recording errors, recording issues, and importing and exporting issues, among others. This and the fact that it is not very popular amongst most producers, will limit your collaborative projects. If the GUI aesthetics do not put you off, the fact that Cakewalk is only exclusive to Windows should. Just have a look at this spider of a GUI! This could put a first-time user off, but if you have had experience with numerous DAWs, the learning curve will not be as steep. For DAWs like Cakewalk by Band Lab, I find such user interfaces so complicated as they are packed full of so many controls and parameters upon first opening. In my tutorial on whether Live is easy to learn, the GUI (graphic user interface) was a major point of why I thought that Live is one of the easiest DAWs due to the simple user interface. This in my opinion is an addition to a bill you would not otherwise have to pay for the rest of your life if you made the switch to Live. Live has a fixed price for all the 3 types of Live that is payable over 6, 12 or 24 months, or a once fee, but Pro Tools is a subscription-based charged to you every month or yearly, depending on the package you choose. Sure, there are different versions of both DAWs, but the difference is in the subscriptions. When it comes to pricing, the rigid nature of Pro Tools remains. Live is a breath of fresh air when you make the switch from Pro Tools to Live. In my studies, I could not find a version compatible with both MacOS and Windows and was not willing to use a pirated version of this DAW for professional, ethical, and legal reasons. Pro Tools is also almost exclusive to MacOS. The learning curve with Pro Tools is very steep compared to Live. The user interface is very one-dimensional and some of the functions are very hidden. When it comes to use cases such as Live recording in-the-moment production changes and ‘freestyling’ Pro Tool is very rigid and not adaptive, yet now most DAWs are equipped for large band and orchestral recordings. This DAW is fantastic for sound design and surround sound music production as it is geared for studio band recording and other productions. You will see that this trend has gradually gone down over the years, and it is in my opinion and the opinion of my peers that Pro Tools is stuck in the past. This is why I think became so popular and why this trend continues to ring true even at the time of writing this:Ĭompared to Pro Tools, which had been the industry standard for recording studios around the world. Now, depending on who you ask, the best DAW software is very subjective, but around the time I made the switch to Live, a survey carried MacProvideo to around 30,000 producers and industry professionals on the best DAW at the time, Ableton Live got the highest rating among peers. I made the switch to Live in around 2015 from FL Studio. These new features, building upon the previous versions of Live are what I shall discuss in this tutorial, comparing how other DAWs perform, as well as price. Once Ableton leapt to make Live a DAW for studio use, all these characteristics came into the studio software we know now. It was designed for speed, efficiency, and ease of use in a high-performance, live setting, allowing you to load up loops and queue them in any particular play order that best suits the live performance. I will discuss the advantages that come with Live and drawbacks, specifically comparing it to other DAWs and what they bring to the table, and in some instances, why Live is the better choice.īefore going in, you need to know that Live was initially developed by Ableton as a performance software. I will also provide drawbacks to why in some cases Live is not the best suite for your use case, pointing out some limitations that come with Live. Following my write up on what it costs to get Live, and the different variations, this article will be my personal opinion on why Live is worth its cost and why it is a good addition to your productions.
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