but the daw itself sucks. It crashes a lot, not reccomended for a laptop. but for phone is good but yeah still so so. Sometimes I make some beats\demos on phone then I usually finished my bandlab beats\demos on ableton. Verdict, bandlab is lowkey semi daw, i'd say, but the packs are decent and IT'S FREE FREE.
I love seeing big producers using LMMS. I used it for about 13 years before finally getting FL studio, which is much easier, but LMMS still feels like home to me. It takes some creativity, but you can make some good stuff with it.
yo bro as a pretty avid producer on bandlab i wanted to lyk that you can actually make drums way better by pulling one shots into the sampler and using that instead of the drum machine. a combo of soundtrap and bandlab is a good way to make a beat as well. i tend to make the 808s and some melodies in soundtrap and then use the sampler to make the drums in bandlab. preciate your videos tho.
I used to produce in Soundtrap for 1,5 years so when you played these sounds, instant nostalgia hit me cause every time I thought,,Hey, I know that sound, I used it in that song of mine" lol But yeah definitely a very limiting DAW, even in the supreme version. I wouldn't say it was a wasted 1,5 years, but I'm definitely glad I made a switch to FL half a year ago, I finally feel free haha
yeah soundtrap does have some limitations but personally i really like the sounds it has. also im so used to it that i dont think i can switch to something else (ive tried)
Oh boy. As a Reaper user for the last couple of years, I totally understand your experience because it was similar to my experience when I tried Reaper for the first time. But after trying pretty much every major daw under the sun like pro tools, ableton, fl, bitwig, s1, cubase etc. etc. I decided to stick with Reaper because it's the most customizable and most flexible and one of the most powerful daw out there. But one of the biggest downside of Reaper is that the UI doesn't look as good and pretty as most other daws and the hotkeys out of the box is not the best, especially if you've used any other daw before. But man, when I tell you this is the most powerful and most flexible daw I've ever used in my life, I mean it. There's nothing that you can't do in Reaper. Every single thing is customizable in Reaper, it's so customizable and not just that you can download themes to make it look like a completely another daw, but you can basically replicate workflows and hotkeys from other daws or combine workflows from other daws and make really powerful and fast workflows and literally customize the right click context menus. It's extremely powerful and CPU efficient, like it runs better on apple hardware than apple's own daw. Reaper is definitely not one of those daws that you can just download and start making beats seamlessly out of the box like FL or LPX, although I'm sure there are people who've done the exact same. But Reaper is a daw that will take some more initial investment and some setting up, but it will give you a lot more in return and saves hours and hours of your life in the future. I've been using Reaper for a few years now and after customizing it, it takes me 1/5 of the time to make beats compared to when I was using FL. Reaper is in a league of it's own, so I hope you'd give it another try in the future.
I never thought about trying a bunch of different DAWs to see which one I like most, I personally use cubase because my dad passed it down to me. But I have been using it long enough that using other ones hasn't even crossed my mind
@@W1ntumn If Cubase works for you then keep using it. At the end it doesn't really matter what daw you use because no one's gonna be able to listen to your music and accurately guess what daw was used to make the song lol.
Yep. I didn't had a PC, so I started with FL studio Mobile, last year got a PC but I'm learning and practicing on mobile for 5 years now so even though it has less features and no plugin support, I still manage to make pretty good sounding beats using it. Ig it depends more upon your skills, cuz it still has majority of the necessary plugins.
says the platform that broke so many songs i wanted to make, i tried bandlab and instantly switched, how about you stop breaking my songs and add more features.
ive been using soundtrap for a while now, its amazing! my school gives everyone a soundtrap account and they pay for everything so i have access to all the sounds! i love all the different instruments and sounds it has, and it is very easy to use. it can get buggy at times, but its not that big of a deal. thank you for making a great DAW and getting me into making music!
Reaper is fire I know Big records that have been mixed in reaper and i also use it religiously I can give you mad shortcuts and theres also a file manager which you can access with this shortcut Ctrl,Alt, X
That scroll cursor that was showing when you were trying to get the audio to stretch correctly to the BPM allows you to make specific adjustments down to the .1's. Band-Lab allows for velocity changes as well, which is found in the MIDI editor in the top left of the MIDI UI. The Sampler is how you obtain better sounds in Band-Lab.
Reaper is not only the most powerful DAW in this video, but it's also the most powerful, flexible, versatile daw in the market. But It does have a steeper learning curve than any other daw out of the box, but it's so worth learning it because there's nothing you can't do in Reaper. Anything that's possible in other daws, it's also possible in Reaper. Everything you wanted to do in this video in Reaper can be done. Like there's a browser in Reaper, it's under view > Media explorer or the hotkey ctrl + alt + x. The media explorer in Reaper is way more powerful and feature rich than the browser in FL or Ableton or Logic, like you detect pitch and synch with the project tempo and half time and double time the samples directly from the browser and also route the signal through an fx chain and do other crazy stuff. And it seems like in the latest FL update, they've copied one of the features from Reaper. Reaper also comes with a sampler called Reasamplomatic500, long name, but it's pretty powerful, and you can add your samples to make 808s there pretty easily. To delete a note, you can double left click or right click and chose delete or press delete.
Reaper can do everything and there are tutorials for everything as well but if you are looking to make beats and looking for tutorials on YT, I'd highly recommend Learning Reaper and Wodzu beats on YT. They have answers to all of your questions about Reaper.
More out of the box features is not always better... There is a reason why DAWs like ableton are most used.... It's because finding ways to make otherwise impossible things in the daw possible by making your own solutions.. well that works great on the part of your brain that handles problem solving and creativity... Also the dopamine when you finally have something that sounds just the way you wanted after a few hours of work... Well.. that's just amazing
@@amynagtegaal6941 Reaper might not be the most producer focused daw out of the box such as Ableton, FL etc. But the devs of Reaper have realized that different people have different needs and there are a lot of different types of music in the world and people have different ways to make it, so instead forcing everyone to only one to way to make all the music like Ableton, FL etc. (they are most used because they've been around for much longer and have had a much bigger budget for marketing where anytime you'd buy a hardware, you'd get Ableton with it and how I started with it as well vs Reaper with no budget for marketing, advertising), they've made the daw an open canvas so you can decide and design your own workflow overtime so not only you can be satisfied with your music but also the way you make it. There are a lot of things plain impossible in daws like Ableton, FL, Logic etc. that you can do in Reaper and there are no workarounds for it. Just compare the export window in Reaper vs Ableton/FL/Bitwig/LPX etc. and you'll see what I'm talking about, or compared the media browser, IK because I have pretty much every major daw in the planet on my computer and have spent years of my life comparing them lmao. Flexibility and modularity are t few of the reasons why Reaper has become industry standard in game audio. There's no DAW on planet at this time has scripting capabilities anywhere close even to Reaper, it's so powerful people have made 'max for live' inside Reaper, Reaper has its own plugin format and people even made games inside Reaper lmao.
when i first used REAPER, I couldn't put the kick and snare in time, it took me some time to figure it out. and the its like Reaper has a configuration for each thing you wanna do. However, with time, I loved editing vocals from Reaper and making beats from Fl or Logic (and some from Serato Studio) I only use Reaper now for vocals...Its the best daw in making all those twiks but for sure its hard to make a trap beat from it.
Reaper is BY FAR the best daw of these those, everything is customizable. Yes, it may have some learning curve but it's the most expandable daw ever. You can actually create your drumkits being part of a bus, you can add markers for more sliced beats (You only had your 4 beats set) so you can more easily time your high hats... Reaper has everything any professional daw has and more... You can do everything from arrangement and mixing to mastering in one project in reaper and you can do it all simultaneously as well... it's not too hard on cpu and as said before its 100% customizable, you can even make your own shortcuts if you don't like the existing ones...
I have used all these DAWs except for Soundtrrap.. I will have to check that one out.. Reaper has a steep learning curve due to its made for people who like to tinker .. other daws are TractionWaveform... MPC Beats... Luna and if on PC Cakewalk by Bandlab. Thanks for the video Ocean
@@marvin2678 I would say yes due to the unlocked features and plugins... Reaper is the only exception where it comes the same way if you pay for it or not .. there is a channel called Learning Reaper that I do to show people how to use Reaper it's a very powerful DAW but does have a learning curve .. but once you get it you won't want to use another DAW... Let me know if you have questions...😀🙏🏾
@@marvin2678 they usually have more features or an easier workflow but but it depends on the person. i say use something free until you get decent or until you want features and stuff youd need to pay for, then just look up what ones are good and work the most with what you want and need.
100% Reapers dope once you set it up the way you want it The way it lets you move anything anywhere, create toolbars and have VSTs and scripts docked anywhere
Reaper has a setting for everything…which makes it a bit overwhelming. I went to move my mouse one time….and even the pointer had a setting. The pixels that make up reaper have individual settings as well.😂 REAPER has the “little guy” stigma to it and people defend it with their lives…..”Stop picking on MY Reaper!…It’s the best in the world!”
Reaper definitely has a learning curve but I guarantee you it's *way* more powerful than the other DAWs. And even WRT hotkeys you were definitely doing some stuff the hard way. Want to copy something? Ctrl/Cmd + D. Want to delete something you've selected? Press delete.
I used to use Soundtrap for years before switching to FL Studio, but it's really good. All of my old music is from Soundtrap, but I ended up switching over due to the lack of effects and some bugs
Reaper is definitely the one with the highest learning curve, but once you get the hang of it, you can do almost ANYTHING. The MIDI editor is probably its weakest feature, but you can almost certainly change a few hotkeys around to make it flow as easy as, say, FL's MIDI editor. I personally don't really use the MIDI editor that often as I use reaper more as a live recording DAW, but I can see how it can be a little strange out of the box :P
@@FyreofShadow I mean you did, "The MIDI editor is probably its weakest feature" I wouldn't say that even tho that's what I thought when I first tried it, it just needs to set up the way other daws work and add few scripts. I can make stuff many times faster in Reaper now compared to when I used to use FL, Ableton etc.
@@rano12321 (missed this, mb) Oh for sure, it's just that the settings you get with it out of the box aren't the _absolute_ best, IMO. It's still absolutely as powerful a feature as it is in any other DAW when it's configured right, I'd say, and even the default config for it is still usable to a professional extent. The weakness just lies in said default configuration being a bit clunky in my opinion (double-clicking to create notes among other gripes I can't remember right now), but those drawbacks are easily fixable, so even though I have issues with the MIDI editor I wouldn't really say they're issues to the point of me thinking it's "Bad", so to speak.
i think you should do vocals on these daws as well just to see their capabilities....one with like a pro vocalist and another with a regular person for comparison
Reaper is the world of totally freedom. A track is a track, equal if MIDI or instrument or pure audio. You can make the craziest things with it while routing and mixing all together.
i started in reaper. Because of how long it took me to figure it out and now that I actually got it down, I moved to a different DAW and barely had any DAW handicap. Never going back to Reaper tho lol. But like Dead Mau5 said, if you learn reaper you learn them all haha
I will say with reaper out of the box it is not that great but once you get it set up to your workflow it tunrs into one of the best daws out there. i been using it for 2 years now and now that i got everything dialed into what i want it to be it is amazing! Reaper has so many user plugins and scripts that can make it such a powerhouse of a daw
sorry mate, as a Reaper stan it was painful to watch your workflow XD I know at first Reaper is daunting to use, but once you find out how to do something then it's super quick (quicker than everything else because you can assign macros and shortcuts to everything). There is a drum view on the piano roll if you wanted to do it that way, and the browser is just on the menu on top : view ->media explorer, and you can assign to it any shortcut. Also Reaper tracks are just tracks, there is no distinction between instrument tracks, audio tracks and anything else. You can just double click on the track area and it creates a new one. Then you click the FX button and load anything (instrument needs to be before the effects for them to be applied and thats it). On the mixer view if you make the console higher (by just dragging the top green border that shows on top of the console up), you can get all the fx inserts view. I think it's a bit unfair to call this video "best free daw" because your only metric was "the most user friendly right from the bat". that's it Cheers
Bandlab is fire asf, I use it for all my music, soundtrap is ass but has higher quality instruments, lmms is more lile fl but idk how to vsts and I'm scared
LMMS is best. An acceptable learning curve that doesn't make you want to throw away all of your music equipment and never touch the subject again, but enough of a modular experience to get anyone started on music. I make metal, and it does everything I need it to, bar actually recording my guitars for me (I record the DI in Bandlab, then use a sampler to play the parts in LMMS so I can add all the FX there). It's so much easier. Yes, Cakewalk and Reaper might have more features, but there's so much time you have to invest to learn it, that it really kills the passion for me.
The best daw I used was MPC software , you get a super high quality sound out of the box . If you don’t know how to mix and master and want that dr . Dre , Timbeland , jermaine du pre , Neptune sounds mpc software will give it to you . All you really have to do is adjust your sound because the sound engine is so powerful. You can also record vocals if you don’t have a interface just a rode mic it will sound like you have a top quality interface it’s so simple when you record it comes out top quality. Everything thing is so easy like when you hook up your mic go to preferences click on audio and you will see your mic click ok . If you plug in your mic before you load the program it will automatically detect it and you can use it right away .
bandlab to me is the most underrated free daw. it’s actually amazing, i have studio one n fl and i genuinely prefer bandlab over fl. to me nothing compares to studio one but bandlab isn’t that bad compared to it. i’ve tried other daws but i don’t own them
lmms >> but for those who want to use lmms get the alpha version the alpha version has more features, better ui and more stable than the stable version
Hey Ocean...a free DAW that you missed is Traction Waveform Free, it's a free unlimited daw like reaper but without the annoying popup to pay for it whenever you enter the daw
as a Cakewalk user for decades I am not sure if you can still get the free version. It is one of the most powerful DAW's in the game. It will be interesting to see how well the "re-released" Sonar will fare.
Reaper is like, Emacs xD You need to pay attention to, you have to customise it the way you want, so it really becomes the most insane cause of his flexibility... (But not for me cause too long to switch 😂)
That is an Apple user right there. Reaper is challenging, it's so hard, I give it 5/10. Bruh I was using FL for 15 years and when I tried Reaper it was not that challenging at all. It's as any other DAW. You just didn't want to invest even an hour in it. Reaper is a DAW that can compete with Avid and Steinberg and cost $60 for all future versions. Live, FL, Logic and others needs a lot of work to be on par with Reaper. By the way, I am a fan of FL.
Personally I think FL definitely got a step up with the new update when they added 2dblend opensource GUI to it for example which improved the performance a bit. But you're right reaper is incredibly powerful and lightweight. Personally I still have some issues getting a proper workflow in it, things like playing with automations and stuff is kind of confusing to me in reaper. But I agree, it is definitely an incredibly powerful lightweight DAW.
@@orangeeeeeee Automation in Reaper is super easy and fast. You can use the envelope menu (the Trim button on each track) or the fastest option for me is to assign a hotkey to the action: "FX: Show/hide track/take envelope for last touched FX parameter" so if I touch any parameter of any plugin and then hit the hotkey, it adds the automation button for me, faster than any other daw.
For me the FL is extremely lightweight. around 500 MB on a 6 minute track with 50 samples, 15-20 midis and 30 track channels, that`s my averages, but anyway. The workflow in fl is one thing for sure, as im a BIG fan of it. Fl is very compatible with a lotta plugins as well which makes the testing easier, the basics plugins are also great
I've been making things in bandlab for a year with a big break, and just now have i realized how much of a dumbass i am and making things harder for myself😭😭😭i still wanna learn fl studio tho
Caustic 3 isn't free, but for 10 dollars and the absolute insanity that is that caustic 3 workflow (especially on android, tho i hear it's pretty good on computer too), the price is justified!
0:15 Bandlab
5:22 Soundtrap
8:44 LMMS
12:58 Reaper
Thanks
In the chapter list it says FL Studio btw
@@ItsLyxne it's wrong
@@Faath2 I know, I meant that in the list it says FL Studio instead of Lmms
Why to try Bandlab instead of free full Daw Cakewalk by BandLab?
Here are my 2 favorite free DAWs:
- fl studio (cracked)
- ableton live (cracked)
lmfao
how do I get them?
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Logic pro (Cracked)
bro bandlab sounds is lowkey underated. they got hella shit for free.
i swear, 8/10 is hella crazy ngl
bro IS NOT onto something
but the daw itself sucks. It crashes a lot, not reccomended for a laptop. but for phone is good but yeah still so so. Sometimes I make some beats\demos on phone then I usually finished my bandlab beats\demos on ableton. Verdict, bandlab is lowkey semi daw, i'd say, but the packs are decent and IT'S FREE FREE.
Bro the thing is if you know how to use it is as good as fl whitout plugins
U have automations timestrech make your samples and the thing is better to rappers then producers
I love seeing big producers using LMMS. I used it for about 13 years before finally getting FL studio, which is much easier, but LMMS still feels like home to me. It takes some creativity, but you can make some good stuff with it.
I haven't found any good tutorials for it have you thought about making your own series? I would be incredibly thankful and so would so many people
LMMS is garbage and I wouldn't recommend using it, but you do you.
yo bro as a pretty avid producer on bandlab i wanted to lyk that you can actually make drums way better by pulling one shots into the sampler and using that instead of the drum machine. a combo of soundtrap and bandlab is a good way to make a beat as well. i tend to make the 808s and some melodies in soundtrap and then use the sampler to make the drums in bandlab. preciate your videos tho.
Yooo bro I’d just like to say that sampler idea is genius I’ve made some music on BandLab and that’ll help a lot
@@c_z_u_r_e ofc bro, i might start dropping tutorials on how i make beats too.
thats exactly what i do and the beats turn out great for me 🔥
Reaper for mixing. Actually far superior to any other daw for so many reasons! So cpu efficient as well 🔥
reaper is also incredibly powerful if you record audio into your DAW.
It's probably in the top 2 DAWs among guitar players who record themselves.
if you customize it, you can produce much faster than typical producer based daws.
For everything this is the best better than fl and logic❤
@@tonybonestheproducer debatable but alright
second this @@rano12321
Reaper for creating Metal/rock as a musician is incredible. Not sure how it is for making trap beats n pop but for a Metal musician i love it
You can do anything you want in Reaper, Checkout Learning Reaper, he makes beats in Reaper.
You can do anything in Reaper. Mixing, mastering, recording, producing beats, sound designing, etc.
Is great for trap, hip-hop, drill etc.. that's what I do with it❤
I've used it for for trap, electronic, jazz, black metal, old-school hip-hop beats, etc. never had an issue in my work flow. reaper forever bro
ace for hardstyle too
I used to produce in Soundtrap for 1,5 years so when you played these sounds, instant nostalgia hit me cause every time I thought,,Hey, I know that sound, I used it in that song of mine" lol
But yeah definitely a very limiting DAW, even in the supreme version. I wouldn't say it was a wasted 1,5 years, but I'm definitely glad I made a switch to FL half a year ago, I finally feel free haha
for me its ehhh as i just constantly am trying to find the best ones n i usually cant as most of them are so corny
@@vTwinkillzBeats8751 I had this feeling too haha, 90% of them were just pure dogwater
Piktvre spotted XDD
@@WilliamWilliamWilliamWill Hell yeah
yeah soundtrap does have some limitations but personally i really like the sounds it has. also im so used to it that i dont think i can switch to something else (ive tried)
Oh boy. As a Reaper user for the last couple of years, I totally understand your experience because it was similar to my experience when I tried Reaper for the first time. But after trying pretty much every major daw under the sun like pro tools, ableton, fl, bitwig, s1, cubase etc. etc. I decided to stick with Reaper because it's the most customizable and most flexible and one of the most powerful daw out there. But one of the biggest downside of Reaper is that the UI doesn't look as good and pretty as most other daws and the hotkeys out of the box is not the best, especially if you've used any other daw before.
But man, when I tell you this is the most powerful and most flexible daw I've ever used in my life, I mean it. There's nothing that you can't do in Reaper. Every single thing is customizable in Reaper, it's so customizable and not just that you can download themes to make it look like a completely another daw, but you can basically replicate workflows and hotkeys from other daws or combine workflows from other daws and make really powerful and fast workflows and literally customize the right click context menus. It's extremely powerful and CPU efficient, like it runs better on apple hardware than apple's own daw.
Reaper is definitely not one of those daws that you can just download and start making beats seamlessly out of the box like FL or LPX, although I'm sure there are people who've done the exact same. But Reaper is a daw that will take some more initial investment and some setting up, but it will give you a lot more in return and saves hours and hours of your life in the future. I've been using Reaper for a few years now and after customizing it, it takes me 1/5 of the time to make beats compared to when I was using FL. Reaper is in a league of it's own, so I hope you'd give it another try in the future.
15:14 I think when you are selecting multiple clips but only parts of them getting copied is because of the time selection.
I never thought about trying a bunch of different DAWs to see which one I like most, I personally use cubase because my dad passed it down to me. But I have been using it long enough that using other ones hasn't even crossed my mind
Totally agree. Reaper is awesome!!! Maybe the very best DAW there is atm.
@@W1ntumn If Cubase works for you then keep using it. At the end it doesn't really matter what daw you use because no one's gonna be able to listen to your music and accurately guess what daw was used to make the song lol.
Yep.
I didn't had a PC, so I started with FL studio Mobile, last year got a PC but I'm learning and practicing on mobile for 5 years now so even though it has less features and no plugin support, I still manage to make pretty good sounding beats using it.
Ig it depends more upon your skills, cuz it still has majority of the necessary plugins.
Thanks for the love 💜
soundtrap is doo doo +ratio
fix your app, its trash
says the platform that broke so many songs i wanted to make, i tried bandlab and instantly switched, how about you stop breaking my songs and add more features.
@@19_shot fr i just switched to bandlab today, and its 100000x better loolllll
ive been using soundtrap for a while now, its amazing! my school gives everyone a soundtrap account and they pay for everything so i have access to all the sounds! i love all the different instruments and sounds it has, and it is very easy to use. it can get buggy at times, but its not that big of a deal. thank you for making a great DAW and getting me into making music!
Reaper is fire
I know Big records that have been mixed in reaper and i also use it religiously
I can give you mad shortcuts and theres also a file manager which you can access with this shortcut Ctrl,Alt, X
Big shout out to reaper man, so much value for free
Reaper Gang!!!
Bro how did you not test universal audios Luna daw u trippin
@@inreachent.4981 it's crippled.
6:41 Ocean is playing with fire😂😂😂
The nice thing bout reaper is that you can customize it any which way you like ,it's super lightweight and powerful
That scroll cursor that was showing when you were trying to get the audio to stretch correctly to the BPM allows you to make specific adjustments down to the .1's.
Band-Lab allows for velocity changes as well, which is found in the MIDI editor in the top left of the MIDI UI.
The Sampler is how you obtain better sounds in Band-Lab.
No love for GarageBand? It's surprisingly powerful with a wide variety of downloadable sound packs, effect pedals, and instruments, hella underrated
you need to give band lab another try, you can drag in the one shots into the sampler and use them from there
Used to live in London when I was younger. It's cool seeing a producer from there! Keep it up man :)
Reaper is not only the most powerful DAW in this video, but it's also the most powerful, flexible, versatile daw in the market. But It does have a steeper learning curve than any other daw out of the box, but it's so worth learning it because there's nothing you can't do in Reaper. Anything that's possible in other daws, it's also possible in Reaper. Everything you wanted to do in this video in Reaper can be done.
Like there's a browser in Reaper, it's under view > Media explorer or the hotkey ctrl + alt + x. The media explorer in Reaper is way more powerful and feature rich than the browser in FL or Ableton or Logic, like you detect pitch and synch with the project tempo and half time and double time the samples directly from the browser and also route the signal through an fx chain and do other crazy stuff. And it seems like in the latest FL update, they've copied one of the features from Reaper. Reaper also comes with a sampler called Reasamplomatic500, long name, but it's pretty powerful, and you can add your samples to make 808s there pretty easily. To delete a note, you can double left click or right click and chose delete or press delete.
Reaper can do everything and there are tutorials for everything as well but if you are looking to make beats and looking for tutorials on YT, I'd highly recommend Learning Reaper and Wodzu beats on YT. They have answers to all of your questions about Reaper.
thank you very much lol.... they unaware
More out of the box features is not always better...
There is a reason why DAWs like ableton are most used.... It's because finding ways to make otherwise impossible things in the daw possible by making your own solutions.. well that works great on the part of your brain that handles problem solving and creativity... Also the dopamine when you finally have something that sounds just the way you wanted after a few hours of work... Well.. that's just amazing
@@amynagtegaal6941 I guess u lying FL might be most busily than any DAWs
@@amynagtegaal6941 Reaper might not be the most producer focused daw out of the box such as Ableton, FL etc. But the devs of Reaper have realized that different people have different needs and there are a lot of different types of music in the world and people have different ways to make it, so instead forcing everyone to only one to way to make all the music like Ableton, FL etc. (they are most used because they've been around for much longer and have had a much bigger budget for marketing where anytime you'd buy a hardware, you'd get Ableton with it and how I started with it as well vs Reaper with no budget for marketing, advertising), they've made the daw an open canvas so you can decide and design your own workflow overtime so not only you can be satisfied with your music but also the way you make it. There are a lot of things plain impossible in daws like Ableton, FL, Logic etc. that you can do in Reaper and there are no workarounds for it. Just compare the export window in Reaper vs Ableton/FL/Bitwig/LPX etc. and you'll see what I'm talking about, or compared the media browser, IK because I have pretty much every major daw in the planet on my computer and have spent years of my life comparing them lmao. Flexibility and modularity are t few of the reasons why Reaper has become industry standard in game audio. There's no DAW on planet at this time has scripting capabilities anywhere close even to Reaper, it's so powerful people have made 'max for live' inside Reaper, Reaper has its own plugin format and people even made games inside Reaper lmao.
when i first used REAPER, I couldn't put the kick and snare in time, it took me some time to figure it out. and the its like Reaper has a configuration for each thing you wanna do. However, with time, I loved editing vocals from Reaper and making beats from Fl or Logic (and some from Serato Studio) I only use Reaper now for vocals...Its the best daw in making all those twiks but for sure its hard to make a trap beat from it.
Reaper is BY FAR the best daw of these those, everything is customizable. Yes, it may have some learning curve but it's the most expandable daw ever. You can actually create your drumkits being part of a bus, you can add markers for more sliced beats (You only had your 4 beats set) so you can more easily time your high hats... Reaper has everything any professional daw has and more... You can do everything from arrangement and mixing to mastering in one project in reaper and you can do it all simultaneously as well... it's not too hard on cpu and as said before its 100% customizable, you can even make your own shortcuts if you don't like the existing ones...
my first DAW was LMMS, made probably 10 beats on that one. 😂
Is my friend the only person that uses beatbox?
I have used all these DAWs except for Soundtrrap.. I will have to check that one out.. Reaper has a steep learning curve due to its made for people who like to tinker .. other daws are TractionWaveform... MPC Beats... Luna and if on PC Cakewalk by Bandlab. Thanks for the video Ocean
are paid ones b etter?
@@marvin2678 I would say yes due to the unlocked features and plugins... Reaper is the only exception where it comes the same way if you pay for it or not .. there is a channel called Learning Reaper that I do to show people how to use Reaper it's a very powerful DAW but does have a learning curve .. but once you get it you won't want to use another DAW... Let me know if you have questions...😀🙏🏾
@@marvin2678 they usually have more features or an easier workflow but but it depends on the person. i say use something free until you get decent or until you want features and stuff youd need to pay for, then just look up what ones are good and work the most with what you want and need.
The goat of free stuff himself
@@slim1446 i like free..😂🙏🏾
bro i haven’t seen u in YEARS…. THE HAIR i was watching u 24/7
For reaper to use samples in midi the inbuilt plugin is called sampleomatic (or something along those lines)
I used Lmms before getting fl, i think i used it for a year or so. Definetly do not regret upgrading to fl
I started on Soundtrap in 2017 and watched loads of videos in 2018 and switched to logic in 2019! Big ups ocean.
Damn I thought my boy Reaper would CRUSH this comparison 😔
I swear by it but I’ll admit the beginning was BRUTAL
100%
Reapers dope once you set it up the way you want it
The way it lets you move anything anywhere, create toolbars and have VSTs and scripts docked anywhere
Reaper has a setting for everything…which makes it a bit overwhelming. I went to move my mouse one time….and even the pointer had a setting. The pixels that make up reaper have individual settings as well.😂
REAPER has the “little guy” stigma to it and people defend it with their lives…..”Stop picking on MY Reaper!…It’s the best in the world!”
Reaper definitely has a learning curve but I guarantee you it's *way* more powerful than the other DAWs. And even WRT hotkeys you were definitely doing some stuff the hard way. Want to copy something? Ctrl/Cmd + D. Want to delete something you've selected? Press delete.
Earliest I have been to a video but I see free and I'm in.
I used to use Soundtrap for years before switching to FL Studio, but it's really good. All of my old music is from Soundtrap, but I ended up switching over due to the lack of effects and some bugs
Soundtrap is in fact really good :)
Reaper is definitely the one with the highest learning curve, but once you get the hang of it, you can do almost ANYTHING. The MIDI editor is probably its weakest feature, but you can almost certainly change a few hotkeys around to make it flow as easy as, say, FL's MIDI editor. I personally don't really use the MIDI editor that often as I use reaper more as a live recording DAW, but I can see how it can be a little strange out of the box :P
lol the midi editor is actually veryyyyy verryyy good lol learn before u speak
@@DJZONEYmusic You think I haven't used it before? I didn't say it was bad, it's just a bit to get used to :P
@@FyreofShadow I mean you did, "The MIDI editor is probably its weakest feature" I wouldn't say that even tho that's what I thought when I first tried it, it just needs to set up the way other daws work and add few scripts. I can make stuff many times faster in Reaper now compared to when I used to use FL, Ableton etc.
@@rano12321 (missed this, mb) Oh for sure, it's just that the settings you get with it out of the box aren't the _absolute_ best, IMO. It's still absolutely as powerful a feature as it is in any other DAW when it's configured right, I'd say, and even the default config for it is still usable to a professional extent. The weakness just lies in said default configuration being a bit clunky in my opinion (double-clicking to create notes among other gripes I can't remember right now), but those drawbacks are easily fixable, so even though I have issues with the MIDI editor I wouldn't really say they're issues to the point of me thinking it's "Bad", so to speak.
@@DJZONEYmusicYou’re from the Reaper cult aren’t you?
As a bandlab rapper you have been approved
i think you should do vocals on these daws as well just to see their capabilities....one with like a pro vocalist and another with a regular person for comparison
Reaper is the world of totally freedom. A track is a track, equal if MIDI or instrument or pure audio. You can make the craziest things with it while routing and mixing all together.
Mpc Beats is free to use from Akai , you just need a controller .
After I got my MPC live and I learnt the software on there it helped me figure out MPC beats and it’s actually a pretty good DAW
i started in reaper. Because of how long it took me to figure it out and now that I actually got it down, I moved to a different DAW and barely had any DAW handicap. Never going back to Reaper tho lol. But like Dead Mau5 said, if you learn reaper you learn them all haha
You missed GarageBand 😅
imo soundtrap is the best out of all ngl...
yeah
Just wondering, why not Luna? Also Serato Studio has a free version. Both of these daws are amazing.
currently using FL for drums, reaper for everything else
Use sower in reaper for channel rack
@@Ae-Jay10 good looking out
@@ekoarpa also u can use mc sequencer
To use the drums in Bandlab you can use em in the sampler
Love from Jamaica 🇯🇲
I will say with reaper out of the box it is not that great but once you get it set up to your workflow it tunrs into one of the best daws out there. i been using it for 2 years now and now that i got everything dialed into what i want it to be it is amazing! Reaper has so many user plugins and scripts that can make it such a powerhouse of a daw
sampler for bandlab is godsend bc you can add ur own files as well.
NEVER IN MY 2 YEARS ON MY USE OF SOUNDTRAP, I NEVER THOUGHT YOU COULD SHRING SAMPLES😭
sorry mate, as a Reaper stan it was painful to watch your workflow XD I know at first Reaper is daunting to use, but once you find out how to do something then it's super quick (quicker than everything else because you can assign macros and shortcuts to everything). There is a drum view on the piano roll if you wanted to do it that way, and the browser is just on the menu on top : view ->media explorer, and you can assign to it any shortcut. Also Reaper tracks are just tracks, there is no distinction between instrument tracks, audio tracks and anything else. You can just double click on the track area and it creates a new one. Then you click the FX button and load anything (instrument needs to be before the effects for them to be applied and thats it). On the mixer view if you make the console higher (by just dragging the top green border that shows on top of the console up), you can get all the fx inserts view.
I think it's a bit unfair to call this video "best free daw" because your only metric was "the most user friendly right from the bat". that's it
Cheers
LMMS's EQ looked sick it looks much more professional than the rest of the DAW
caustic's been quite fr
Reaper is mixing oriented
I made some heat on Reaper fs, but I got hooked on FL and no turning back lol
It'd have been good if you tried Cakewalk too.
It's only for PC and he is on a Mac
In my opinion you should get reaper. It's not that easy to get into it but there's way more headroom compared to the other ones.
In order for you to use the snare for a song you have to use the sampler that come with the app.
Bandlab is fire asf, I use it for all my music, soundtrap is ass but has higher quality instruments, lmms is more lile fl but idk how to vsts and I'm scared
Best Daw is the brain. Anyone else made a beat in there mind? No? Just me then
LMMS is best. An acceptable learning curve that doesn't make you want to throw away all of your music equipment and never touch the subject again, but enough of a modular experience to get anyone started on music. I make metal, and it does everything I need it to, bar actually recording my guitars for me (I record the DI in Bandlab, then use a sampler to play the parts in LMMS so I can add all the FX there). It's so much easier. Yes, Cakewalk and Reaper might have more features, but there's so much time you have to invest to learn it, that it really kills the passion for me.
Reaper is a bore but once you get it down its quick. I have been on Reaper since 2011 and I'm still learning haha
The best daw I used was MPC software , you get a super high quality sound out of the box . If you don’t know how to mix and master and want that dr . Dre , Timbeland , jermaine du pre , Neptune sounds mpc software will give it to you . All you really have to do is adjust your sound because the sound engine is so powerful. You can also record vocals if you don’t have a interface just a rode mic it will sound like you have a top quality interface it’s so simple when you record it comes out top quality. Everything thing is so easy like when you hook up your mic go to preferences click on audio and you will see your mic click ok . If you plug in your mic before you load the program it will automatically detect it and you can use it right away .
bandlab to me is the most underrated free daw. it’s actually amazing, i have studio one n fl and i genuinely prefer bandlab over fl. to me nothing compares to studio one but bandlab isn’t that bad compared to it. i’ve tried other daws but i don’t own them
lmms >>
but for those who want to use lmms get the alpha version
the alpha version has more features, better ui and more stable than the stable version
As an LMMS user of 8 years I second this.
I always make my drums on GarageBand with samples and export them as audio files then I import them to band lab
Hey Ocean...a free DAW that you missed is Traction Waveform Free, it's a free unlimited daw like reaper but without the annoying popup to pay for it whenever you enter the daw
True, a little hard to get into and a slight pain when it comes to tempo switches but very versatile, do recommend
Show cakewalk some appreciation its lowkey the best free daw by far
you can time stretch it, only if you put that track in first then change the bpm before you add more tracks
11:54 sounds like a travis scott beat its nice
if u use LMMS with some encourage, it will be the best ever free DAW all the time.
It doesn't accept vst3 so that's a shame
using reaper for like 10 years, best DAW ever out there
And here I am using a free DAW (pirated fl studio)
real ones only use audacity
I mostly use Soundtrap for my music and remixes, but you also missed Studio One Prime or Zenbeats
Did you try out Luna, Tracktion Waveform, and Zrythm?
How were they in the ranking?
Ima god on bandlab 🔥🔥🔥
i'm on bandlab too!
@@officialskullfadermusic let's collab
I'm on bandlab too but mostly do group projects
@@gotanypain3083 let's collab
Luna from UAD is pretty solid as of late
Have you tried cakewalk? Best free daw for windows out there
The only problem I have with bandlab is not being able to use presets or play one shots as midi
Excellent video, thanks man. Really helped me
The hardest of all to learn is cakewalk by BandLab 😅😅
I got a bandlab ad watching this
Funny as shit to see the…Daw devs?? Responding
Actual Ocean Aura😮💨😂
Reaper is for Og’s and it not free
Avant-garde since the bigining
Reaper is the best Daw free or not. You just have to take a few days to learn how it's different but it does EVERYTHING.
your really good on soundtrap i am so uneducated
dude how do you have the right note/key whaaaaaaaaaaaaat i sit there going crazy losing hope
@@vTwinkillzBeats8751 ua-cam.com/video/MKf-1KkeGzI/v-deo.html
Bandlab also has a daw called 'CakeWalk by Bandlab'. I use it for realtime fx for my guitar and it works great.
as a Cakewalk user for decades I am not sure if you can still get the free version. It is one of the most powerful DAW's in the game. It will be interesting to see how well the "re-released" Sonar will fare.
@@jayneubauer3401 I think you still can get the free version. It needs activation after a couple of weeks tho and that doesn't always work.
CAKE WALK! you forgot cakewalk!!!!
2:34 bro theres an icon in the rigth of automations that time stretches
Reaper is like, Emacs xD You need to pay attention to, you have to customise it the way you want, so it really becomes the most insane cause of his flexibility... (But not for me cause too long to switch 😂)
Loved the title. Def got me to click!
That is an Apple user right there. Reaper is challenging, it's so hard, I give it 5/10. Bruh I was using FL for 15 years and when I tried Reaper it was not that challenging at all. It's as any other DAW. You just didn't want to invest even an hour in it. Reaper is a DAW that can compete with Avid and Steinberg and cost $60 for all future versions. Live, FL, Logic and others needs a lot of work to be on par with Reaper. By the way, I am a fan of FL.
Personally I think FL definitely got a step up with the new update when they added 2dblend opensource GUI to it for example which improved the performance a bit. But you're right reaper is incredibly powerful and lightweight. Personally I still have some issues getting a proper workflow in it, things like playing with automations and stuff is kind of confusing to me in reaper. But I agree, it is definitely an incredibly powerful lightweight DAW.
@@orangeeeeeee Automation in Reaper is super easy and fast. You can use the envelope menu (the Trim button on each track) or the fastest option for me is to assign a hotkey to the action: "FX: Show/hide track/take envelope for last touched FX parameter" so if I touch any parameter of any plugin and then hit the hotkey, it adds the automation button for me, faster than any other daw.
For me the FL is extremely lightweight. around 500 MB on a 6 minute track with 50 samples, 15-20 midis and 30 track channels, that`s my averages, but anyway. The workflow in fl is one thing for sure, as im a BIG fan of it. Fl is very compatible with a lotta plugins as well which makes the testing easier, the basics plugins are also great
Bro I am just starting to use LMMS and I think it is kinda confusing but pretty sure it will be smooth after sometime
I'm a band lab producer/artist and I personally find as the most uncomplicated music daw
All is good but we miss one of great daw { OHM STUDIO } 😔
What about Universal Audio's LUNA? I've seen some good things from that too, with it's free version
Should’ve used sampler for bandlab!! Maybe next time?
Soundtrap is the best one
I've been making things in bandlab for a year with a big break, and just now have i realized how much of a dumbass i am and making things harder for myself😭😭😭i still wanna learn fl studio tho
Caustic 3 isn't free, but for 10 dollars and the absolute insanity that is that caustic 3 workflow (especially on android, tho i hear it's pretty good on computer too), the price is justified!