Cubase seems a bit better for the GUI, but my Akai Midimix is not recognized while the Korg nanokontrol 2 is partly recognized
And it doesn’t like any of the Izotope’s! YUK
well, I can survive without the latter, even because Jamieh said that my manual mixes are better without 
, but now I have to work
I’ll go on testing later
Cakewalk might be the answer 
Thanks for your tip
I’ll try it after Cubase
Well, at the end, I prefer a DAW that crashes but is easy to use, compared to one that is possibly stable, but I can’t swallow 
I deleted presets, and I uninstalled all the izotope’s because I think to remember that they made issues in the past, then I jammed a bit, closed the DAW with no issues
I’ll let you know what happens later
Nanokontroll 2 works quite well
MIDImix likely not, but I can survive to it
Good luck with that one !
Cubase is great, It’s the main one I use these days. There are a couple tricks to work with Scaler in case you’re having a problem. Let me know.
I agree. Problem is Claudio won’t be able to learn it in 20 minutes.
This is why no DAW, nevertheless the stability, is good enough for me compared to Ableton Live
I D&D a series of plugins from the cozy Explorer, then I select INs and OUTs of each plugin in a WYSIWYG, user-friendly, easy and fast way
No other DAW lets me do that so fast & easy
The counterbalance is that I must be very careful selecting plugins, presets etc. but for a guy like me with very low needs it’s bearable (with some burst of curses here and then 
)
20 minutes and another failure are a total waste of time
Better go out in the garden, believe me
Buy a Mac, Ableton runs smooth af. Cheap 2nd hand mac mini m1 is all you need.
Or, I can buy a cheap used guitar and bass, plus one 1000 ml bottle of white glue for my fingers 
then I can add a cheap used flute and a cheap used drum machine
and then I can throw all DAWs and plugins and use the real things instead!
I doubt that I can do that, but I am a dreamer
After 30+ years using windoze, I am unsure I can do that
Here is what I would do - Start with a blank Live session and save it Named Test. Then close.
Did it crash on closing?
Y - It’s not the plugins
N - Open again and Add first plugin - Save - Close Did it crash on close?
That’s the plugin. If it didn’t add the second plugin and repeat until you find out what it is. My guess is BB.
This is hilarious. Made my day. I needed a good laugh after spending a few hours in Studio ONE…
There’s nothing more friendly than bitwig when it comes to routing… In the case of scaler, there’s no routing to be done…
This just works… three midi instruments in a row… both audio and midi travel from left to right on the same track. Amazingly simple.
It’s as simple or as complicated as you like. But you might have to watch some videos for the later
BW has a 30day trial. and a cheaper (essentials) option if you’re still unsure.
But nothing comes for free. There is always some effort involved.
I never bothered to upgrade from version 10 with Ableton. Once I switched to BW there was no point using Ableton. It’s a no-brainer.
Ableton is literally the worst at routing. It’s the only one where you can’t send multiple midi channels out to different instruments.
I had Bitwig, and I appreciated many things, routing included, but I was never able to use a few plugins that are essential to me: this is the only reason why I resold its license
Moreover, it’s faster to show Ableton multiple routing with just one screen-shot, while Bitwig required many screen-shots, at the point I stopped doing tutorials
I hate videotutorials man: they are mainly a waste of time, let’s say half of greetings, mumbles, and trifles, and half for essential things (when you are lucky), and you cannot index them nor doing searches
I love books, or PDFs as the very least resort
And today I found a manual (possibly cubase, but unsure) that claimed to be easy to start with, and it lacked the TOC, not mentioning the missed index!
Thsi is unbearable to me
As I said (no more time to debug anyway, I hate debugging) I suspect that the #1 is the building-up of GUI customizations, and after that the Izotope’s
I killed the Izotope’s, and I’ll try to use only a few essential customizations
That’s all at the moment
Thanks to the folks that try to help me with my Fight Against The Machines
And I am very happy that somebody had a big laugh today
Laughing is healthy
Nice tips, but it’s not so simple: curses are hard to stop
I used BB and other alien plugins for months and all was fine up to a few days ago, and I clearly installed nothing new a few days ago…
Let’s face it guys, everyone likes the DAW that they use because they are used to it. Switching DAWS will always involve a learning curve so your old DAW will always seem better at first, but…
Personally I have two DAWS that I use on my computer: Ableton Live, which I got a few years ago because everyone seemed to use it (but the midi routing is poor and it occasionally crashes memory issues?), and Reaper, which I got last year after trialling it because the midi routing is good flexible and easy.
I also have Cakewalk, which was my original DAW, but I use rarely use it.
Mac users love Macs but I believe there have been issues recently with some operating systems on them, and I have used Windows for such a long time.
