Your first DAW !

[kamalamalamalam]

LMMS

[datacrk]

i began by the stuff by bramm boss tuareg hammerhead and tunefish and lots of other free software(orangator and studiofactory)
when i found vst i began to use the demo of synthedit with vst and some patching and in 2012 i found renoise and i always use it

[lilith]

This is my first track I have made 6 years agos (the picture is from a dead bird lying in front of my front door).

https://soundcloud.com/lilith_93/temptation

and that's my last track I have finished just 7 days ago:

https://soundcloud.com/lilith_93/this-is-the-water

Both are made in Renoise .

Funny thing is that both have almost the same number of plays and the same number of likes

[tripomatic]

First one i played with was Fast tracker 2. Enjoyed it very much,
Later came across cubase but i didn't understand nothing about it, had also no hardware synths. So didn't do anything with it.

[peter.zenk]

Ardour.
Once I got used to workflow never really tried anything else.
Does all I need.

[cowboystitching]

Used to use tape decks and then a Zoom digital multitrack. Eventually got a Macbook and tried Logic Pro back in like 2006? When Apple decided my hardware wasn't good enough I installed Ubuntu on an old Thinkpad and tried Ardour, and never looked back.

Nowadays I'm using Reaper because I like the workflow/built in tools better and it's easy for me to collaborate with friends who use Mac/Windows.

[folderol]

Never had an actual DAW, it was always ad-hoc bits and pieces.
Real instruments in the 1960s-early 80s;
BBC Model B + Music5000 first computer based (no built in recording).
Yamaha SY22 + Acorn Archimedes + Inspiration Sequencer
SY22 + Roland Sound Canvas +Mandrake Linux + Rosegarden.
SY22 + Roland Sound Canvas + Debian + Rosegarden + ZynAddSubFX + Qsynth + Hydrogen
Any plain keyboard controller + Devuan + Rosegarden + Yoshimi

[brian.madigan]

Midi Maker? Something like that, some early MIDI sequencing/playback thing.
Sound Designer and then Pro Tools
Steinberg released Cubase VST around the time.
Emagic Logic was also in there somewhere

[peter.semiletov]

What was your first DAW you ever used?
And which other ones did you try or use before you end up with your current setup?

From the end of 1998, I used Cool Edit Pro, Digital Orchestrator, Cakewalk, Samplitude, Cubase VST, Nuendo, Cubase VST again, Reaper, at that time started to use from time to time non-MIDI Ardour, at some point used Reaper (at Windows) and Ardour (with MIDI, at Linux), freeware Bandlab's Cakewalk (Windows), then completely dropped Windows suff, and now at Linux use Reaper and Ardour. Ardour inspires me more, but Reaper is more handy for me. Also for testing purposes (for my plugins) I use Muse and Bitwig.

[init0]

steinberg notator on atari st1040

[patchtheuniform]

ScreamTracker

[rncbc]

Cakewalk Pro Audio series 8 and 9, back on 1998 (yes, win98, no other) and it shows quite blatantly on yours truly qtractor design

cheers

ps. yes bought those; back then software came in shrink-wrapped boxes

[lazyklimm]

Cakewalk Pro Audio series 8 and 9, back on 1998 (yes, win98, no other) and it shows quite blatantly on yours truly qtractor design

cheers

ps. yes bought those; back then software came in shrink-wrapped boxes

Oh yeh, CWPA9 was great, though I used it only for MIDI. Unfortunately, no matter how many times I tried Qtractor, it didn't fit my workflow, for some reason. And as I remember, it misses staff editor, and piano roll doesn't have ability to per-note velocity automation switch (which is a must for drums).

[rncbc]

per-note velocity automation switch (which is a must for drums).

what's that?

[lazyklimm]

per-note velocity automation switch (which is a must for drums).

what's that?

when you choose a note (by clicking on it or smth like that) and the velocity window shows only velocities of that note (Muse has it, btw)