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0:15 Bandlab
5:22 Soundtrap
8:44 LMMS
12:58 Reaper
Thanks
In the chapter list it says FL Studio btw
@@prodLyxne-zq4vy it's wrong
@@Faath2 I know, I meant that in the list it says FL Studio instead of Lmms
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!
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
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
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❤
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.
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.
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)
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.
6:41 Ocean is playing with fire😂😂😂
Big shout out to reaper man, so much value for free
The nice thing bout reaper is that you can customize it any which way you like ,it's super lightweight and powerful
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.
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
Reaper Gang!!!
Bro how did you not test universal audios Luna daw u trippin
@@inreachent.4981 it's crippled.
Used to live in London when I was younger. It's cool seeing a producer from there! Keep it up man :)
my first DAW was LMMS, made probably 10 beats on that one. 😂
you need to give band lab another try, you can drag in the one shots into the sampler and use them from there
I started on Soundtrap in 2017 and watched loads of videos in 2018 and switched to logic in 2019! Big ups ocean.
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)
Excellent video, thanks man. Really helped me
I used Lmms before getting fl, i think i used it for a year or so. Definetly do not regret upgrading to fl
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.
Earliest I have been to a video but I see free and I'm in.
you can time stretch it, only if you put that track in first then change the bpm before you add more tracks
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
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
No love for GarageBand? It's surprisingly powerful with a wide variety of downloadable sound packs, effect pedals, and instruments, hella underrated
As a bandlab rapper you have been approved
Just wondering, why not Luna? Also Serato Studio has a free version. Both of these daws are amazing.
You missed GarageBand 😅
hi ocean love the content, I have a really annoying problem where I have a lot of wav files for drums and melodies and basses but don't know how to import them as an instrument in logic? Couldn't help but notice that you do that in some of your videos so would hugely appreciate some help.
Love from Jamaica 🇯🇲
NEVER IN MY 2 YEARS ON MY USE OF SOUNDTRAP, I NEVER THOUGHT YOU COULD SHRING SAMPLES😭
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 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
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..😂🙏🏾
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
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.
sampler for bandlab is godsend bc you can add ur own files as well.
Bro I am just starting to use LMMS and I think it is kinda confusing but pretty sure it will be smooth after sometime
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 .
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
Soundtrap is in fact really good :)
What about Universal Audio's LUNA? I've seen some good things from that too, with it's free version
I mostly use Soundtrap for my music and remixes, but you also missed Studio One Prime or Zenbeats
The only problem I have with bandlab is not being able to use presets or play one shots as midi
I love this
Talented🎉
I made some heat on Reaper fs, but I got hooked on FL and no turning back lol
My friends started using lmms and me and him both couldnt figure out how to use it, even with my prior knowledge with cubase
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
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
reaper is an insane daw, after using it for years it is way more capable and powerful than any daw especially fl studio
using reaper for like 10 years, best DAW ever out there
imo soundtrap is the best out of all ngl...
yeah
Show cakewalk some appreciation its lowkey the best free daw by far
Although there are sometimes Links not loading when the streamers take the links
Really love my Mixcraft don know if am gonna cheat on it
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
CAKE WALK! you forgot cakewalk!!!!
Should’ve used sampler for bandlab!! Maybe next time?
BandLab ❤
Reaper King ;)
2:34 bro theres an icon in the rigth of automations that time stretches
Funny as shit to see the…Daw devs?? Responding
Actual Ocean Aura😮💨😂
All is good but we miss one of great daw { OHM STUDIO } 😔
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
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
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.
i use soundtrap but i have presonus and idk how to use it
Should've tried Ultraboxx
you need to press add and add sampler
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
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
give mixcraft a go, i want to see how you get on with that one
Try tracktion waveform
No Waveform?
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
I made 3 albums whit BandLab, love it
caustic's been quite fr
I haven’t seen someone use LMMS since the last time I stop using it 😭
best free alternative to ur favorite daw is ur favorite daw for free ;0
serato studio?
It'd have been good if you tried Cakewalk too.
It's only for PC and he is on a Mac
No longer available for free, I believe. Or at least its going away soon enough
good vid
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.
use the splice drum editor lmao
Best Daw is the brain. Anyone else made a beat in there mind? No? Just me then
Bandlab doesn’t do premium restricted sounds
can u try cakewalk by bandlab/ sonar by bandlab
Awesome show
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
Can you showcase cubase sometime
Waveform free daw is also good 👍
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 ruclips.net/video/MKf-1KkeGzI/видео.html
n track fire
Reaper is for Og’s and it not free
Avant-garde since the bigining
One thing i can say!
You don't learn from beginners😢 a person on the DAW for first time can't rate it right😮
Reaper is way better that it was made to look in here and it is wayy better than all this other DAWs
Reaper is fully functioning DAW if you willing to learn and it's your first time in DAWs and you willing to grow take it and you will never regret❤