u/gigantorecords

Anyone using Davinci as a DAW and does it get easier after version 17?

I’ve recently been working on some music after several years break and I decided to use Davinci as I don’t want to buy Logic yet in case this song is a one off. I used to use Logic 9.

I’m still on Davinci 17 free and it’s a little clunky to use as a DAW. I only need super basic functions though, I’m cutting and pasting 808 samples and recording basic guitar and bass tracks and it’s getting the job done. I wanted to make a piece of music to go alongside a super short match cut reel idea and decided to make it directly in Davinci.

Does it get much better as a DAW? I’m liking the idea of doing everything all in one box. Obviously I need to upgrade Davinci and if it works reasonably well as a DAW it’s probably also time to pay for the studio version. As long as it works with a 2020 MacBook Air M1.

I think the only real issue I’ve had so far is I had a plugin where it wouldn’t render the GUI.

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u/gigantorecords — 3 months ago