hahahaha I love how my previous post f*cked up the width settings on this thread 
Scrolling across on my iPhone isnāt funny!
Hm, itās really difficult to say, I like both, but for me cubase is more convenient, if you want to create techno or house youād better to use ableton, I thinkā¦ But for trance cubase is incomparable:Whistling:
Coming in a bit late to this oneā¦ but its not about what you have, but how you use it.
Cubase is obviously more traditionalā¦ Ableton is more of a new kid on the block.
Each have their strengthsā¦ and weaknesses.
You can do absolutely anything you want in Cubase. Unlimited possibilities.
Abletonās stongest features are the fact that all of its FX are easy to use & are all over a lot of the Tech-House / Minimal tracks that you loveā¦ So youāll be able to get into that sound almost immeadiately if you have Ableton.
Best of both worlds - have Cubase & get a soundcard or new midicontroller keyboard that comes bundled with a version of Liveā¦ Its the same as Live Intro & has all the FX & you can make the bones of tracks & export or rewire.
Personally, I haveĀ Logic as my main - but I also use Live Intro in this way. I find it a good little sketchpad.
of course there is a diff in sound quality between DAWās ā¦basically the better the programmersā¦the better the quality ā¦the lowest latency & plug-ins !!! ā¦
thatās it ā¦thatās all
Adobe has the best programmers in the world ā¦so its understandable that they have the best sound engineās ā¦if enough producers became interested in Adobe Audition it could & would become the best DAW !!!..itās mastering tools are just totally awesome ā¦the best !!
Audition kicks ProTools butt ā¦even just Sound Booth kicks Pro Tools butt in sound output ā¦
just the fact that you can take a favourate track ā¦a track that you think has been mixed & mastered really good & is really loud & clear
& you really wish your track could get that loud while retaining its EQ quality ānon destructiveā ā¦well in Audition or Sound Booth in just 2 moves all the frequencies & levels in both tracks are calculated ā¦"i think, if i remember correctlyā¦ you can analyze up to 10 tracks at once "
& your track is pretty much guaranteed to be just as loud & clear as your fav track
ā¦you might need to tweak just a couple of things abit on rare occasionsā¦but it should be close enough ā¦& finally its DC OFFSET kicks buttā¦ the best !!
as a long time Cubase & Adobe user ā¦i think if i didnāt rely on Cubase Instruments so much ā¦i would definitely switch to Audition if Adobe was also willing to start to improve the DAWā¦ by creating Instruments
whoops i almost forgot ā¦& itās Spectrum Analyzer is totally cool !!;)
yes, but ableton has the prettiest clip colours
I tried out Ableton and found that I really could not get to grips with itā¦Itās not that it is difficult or anything, I guess that it was just me!
I have heard it said that if you are into dance/techno type music then Ableton is the way to go but I canāt comment on that.
I prefer Cubase which has been around for many years now and in my opinion is truly great.
Reaper is not that bad eitherā¦!!!
Laterā¦
[quote]MIDIManNI (21/05/2010)[hr]I tried out Ableton and found that I really could not get to grips with itā¦Itās not that it is difficult or anything, I guess that it was just me!
I have heard it said that if you are into dance/techno type music then Ableton is the way to go but I canāt comment on that.
I prefer Cubase which has been around for many years now and in my opinion is truly great.
Reaper is not that bad eitherā¦!!!
Laterā¦
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I hear ye, MiDi and i agree, if youāre main stuff is most house, techno, and all that other stuff i would say ableton is the way. iāve been trying it out and i started to pulling my hair out after a couple of minutes, been looking for the perfect program and settled with FL9 for a while, moved to cubase which i find easier to use. but i find some of the plugins hard to understand. i mainly produce metal and techno into one bucket if you could say so. And by far i do find cubase worthy of such a task
Neither, I think the best is either Cubuleton or Ablebase!