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Ableton itself barely crashes and if it does, the cause is mostly something like Kontakt. There is no best DAW, just the one that guides you the best while making music.ĮDIT: I havent mentioned stability, and boy, FL studio always felt instable as hell. That being said, using FL just feels like going back in time and I would never switch away from Ableton. It’s fun, has a decent but doable learning curve, is relatively cheap, has an unlimited trial, and is extremely well documented by the large community. I do think that FL has really caught up on this regard since FL12.0īut hey, there’s many upsides to FL as well.
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Warping and such were not only absent from FL, but the whole recording process just felt like a mess. Don’t even get me started on their browser, which is an abomination.įor tracking live instruments Ableton used to be miles ahead. FL studio has great plugins as well, but the quality and design is inconsistent, it’s a mess. Speaking of seeing things at a glance, the build in plugins are crazy powerful, unique, and live at the bottom of the screen without needing to open the UI.
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Every stage has it’s own volume meter, so I can find the cause in a glance. In Ableton I know that it’s either the instrument itself, mixer control, or a plugin i added manually. Was it in the channel rack, channel settings, routing, volume slider, maybe some automation that’s constantly resetting, or an automation of an automation, who knows! not me. If you want to change a parameter in FL Studio, lets say volume/gain, there’s more than a dozen places that you can go without ever touching Fruity Gain. I bought Ableton because I needed better MIDI capabilities, tighter integration with my external synths, and easier audio recording since I also sing now. Have you ever tried to automate a CC in FL? Send a program change (to a VST)? Record audio? Even with their new additions recording audio is still a pain. Anyways I have a few hardware synths now and maschine augmenting my workflow, and FL just doesn't get along with the outside world. It's way easier to just jam and lay down tracks than in Ableton, which is ironic because 'Live'. It worked, somewhat, FL is just a very fun and inspiring interface. I bought FL last year after a long creative block, hoping to reignite my youthful creativity. Both of them were too expensive for me at the time and ofc I didn't have my own money then. I also heard it was better for recording and I was playing 'shred' guitar then too.
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I then switched to Ableton because I was also an angsty kid and I wanted to use something that all my friends were Not using and also I heard Skrillex used it. (With brief forays into reason and studio one, and also now I have a maschine)įirst time I got FL for 'free' because I was a kid and it's what all my cool producer friends were using.