I reckon it’s quite a bit lower. Iirc, when I started dabbling in ableton I wouldn’t get much further than 7 tracks before under-running heavily.
I have no idea. Worst case scenario you can always bounce stuff anyways.
FL probably uses the least cpu out of all of them
me
I would say CPU usage is more up to what plugins you are using and how many instances. I hardly see any evidence that FL Studio is designed or targeted at beginners in anyway.
Essentially the only difference between DAWs is how they organize what they can do (workflow). There are minor differences between them. But for a beginner I would say the most important thing is to just pick one and stick with it for a couple years. They are all going to be confusing at first. And trying to learn more than one at a time or only sticking with one DAW a few months then switching is a fast road that leads no where.
FL Studio’s strengths are probably automation options and a very powerful piano roll. Some people like the step sequencer. Patcher is pretty powerful too.
Ableton is ace for working with audio and as its name sake suggestions working with it live–Push and other controllers will let you get more hands on with music making than other DAWs. Also racks.
Reason comes with a ton of kick as synths and FX and will also teach you a lot about signal flow because of the whole “wires” thing, where as that is all pretty hidden in other DAWs.
Reaper is very capable, but IMO is more geared toward people recording external instruments in some ways. It also comes with a lot of powerful plug ins, but you can use these in any DAW you choose for free (I think).
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Well then, I can confidently say that abelton’s stock plugins are more intensive than fl’s stock plugins, since I only really use stock plugins.
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I’m not a programmer at all, I’m sure DAWs handle resources differently. But the logic that Ableton stock plug-ins are more CPU heavy is just as plausible. I do have to say in FL Studio even with CPU heavy plugins I have to go fairly nuts before I take a hit.
I’ve used both and ableton’s stock plug-ins are way more resource intensive than FL’s, in some cases using a VST equivelent of a stock plugin (EasyQ over the default 8 band EQ for example) saved me some CPU
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Fl is quite clean and easy to get around. When I tried ableton my eyes hurt cus the GUI was a bit small for my tastes. But they’re all great
In Ableton, you can scale the size and change the colour scheme.
The scaling thing’s not that useful unless you have a particularly large screen though. The layout makes it such that everything takes up too much space or all the text is too small.
pretty sure Skream switched to Logic like 09-10ish
‘‘it’s not what you use - it’s how you use it’’
and that’s coming from someone who uses both hardware and software.
e.g.: Wen uses FL.
Yeah but by then he had already made most of his best tunes imo if he did switch to logic then.
Doesn’t Flylo still use a dated version a of Reason?!
Ses it all imo
Not sure
But I know mala uses reason, benga, coki and loefah use logic and distance and el-b use cubase iirc.
Pretty sure i heard Mala uses Logic nowadays acciridng ti that Redbull
Dunno, but he does use ableton for his gigs, so may have made the switch.
all his classics were in FL doe
whaaat? coki’s tunes reek of reason
Never used FL but work rate in Ableton is superb, It’s preset plugins are fine (obviously not as good as normal plugins, but if you don’t want to use CPU) plus you can rewire it into other DAWs