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@Tom,

I think that it is a shame that even with the pay-for Studio One artist - it does not support VST. Sure you can make music with it, but if you have already invested in a grip of VST/VSTi, why would you pay for a DAW that won't even let you use your existing investment? That would be almost like making a DAW dongled to a manufacturer-sold microphone. No other microphones will work except those which we provide.

Keep in mind that the vast majority of musicians on KVR are making electronic and dance music and theirs is a plugin-heavy world, just as much as punk rock is guitars cranked to 11 and drums and sometimes someone who can sing.

To the KVRian, if it doesn't roll with plugins, it doesn't roll. Period. To their definition of music, the bolded quotation actually makes quite a bit of sense. Viewed from your guitar-focused world of music - it is a joke.

The DAW I use would be useless to someone that's used to entering in MIDI notes either via staff or via old-school step functionality. They would have to learn an entirely different method of note entry - perhaps even learning how to 'play' a MIDI input device.

I've made comments about Studio One Artist as being disingenuous due to it's lack of VST plugin support. It's not that PreSonus don't know how to do it, but they force one to pay extra for that very standard capability. I think that's wrong. They've decided that it's right for their marketing. I think they are making a big mistake.



Oh, I don't disagree -- not with a single point. I was just vastly amused by the guy saying he had no idea how to make music just because he couldn't have his particular flavors of plugins. I mean, dude, I got some sticks and rocks and glasses filled with varying levels of water that might help you out....

For me, the demo and free versions of these programs are to show you how it works and hint at what you can do and sound like. If it turns out you can do a creditable final project in one, well, that's a really good sign, right?

I found Studio One to be reasonable, but a bit clunky. Same with Ableton. Cubase is a pain in the tuchus -- it moves windows around, it doesn't want to work with ASIO (or anything else, apparently), it's clumsy and ugly. The Skylight interface in Sonar X1, on the other hand, is pretty amazing, and much friendly. The routing is a breeze; the only problem I had was some crackling, which I got rid of by boosting the buffer for ASIO from 512 to 1028 (I ended up taking it to 2048, just 'cause I can). And it was the only one I've finished something in.

Best,
Tom Smith
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