Do You Recognise The Sound Of The DAW?

[Greenstorm33]

*FL Studio Startup Sound Plays*

[VOODOO U]

Personally, I have been electrocuted by an electric toaster in the past 5-7 years, which threw me halfway across the kitchen floor, the full 240 Volts hit me so I'm quite lucky to be alive I think.

You got an electric shock not electrocuted otherwise you'd be dead.
I myself got shocked. Shocked that this stupid thread has gone to 5 pages.

[THE INTRANCER]

I have music here on my playlist which is both created in Studio One and Reason. I can hear the difference between the DAWs that have been used.

https://intrancersonic-ds.blogspot.com/ ... .html#mpt1

[Michael L]

I have music here on my playlist which is both created in Studio One and Reason. I can hear the difference between the DAWs that have been used.
https://intrancersonic-ds.blogspot.com/ ... .html#mpt1

Create a new thread as a poll for voting to match song > DAW

[THE INTRANCER]

Personally, I have been electrocuted by an electric toaster in the past 5-7 years, which threw me halfway across the kitchen floor, the full 240 Volts hit me so I'm quite lucky to be alive I think.

You got an electric shock not electrocuted otherwise you'd be dead.
I myself got shocked. Shocked that this stupid thread has gone to 5 pages.

No, it doesn't necessarily mean that you would be dead, it can also refer to injury.

[i need Help]

Idk, all I know is that thanks to Reason, to this day I still mentally think “64” when I want something at 50% lol.

With that, I’m outs! These INTRANCER parties typically go on waaay past my bedtime.

[Jac459]

I remember there was always an ongoing debate about the "Reason sound", as if you knew straight away that it was made with it.

the "Reason sound" thing came from the time when it was a closed system, so it was sometimes easy to pick.

Reason was a closed system, with all the built-in synths designed by the same group of people.
Thats the basis for my theory as to why people initially started to say Reason has a “sound”

Exactly.

These posts prove that a 'closed system' has a sound that people recognise in comparison with an 'open system' which has a different sound. This thread asks the Reasonable question, Can people recognise the sound of different open systems in comparison with each other?

Everyone knows that hardware mixing desks have a sound, because some desks became quite famous for their sound.

A DAW is just a model of a mixing desk, so it is quite logical that a DAW would also have a sound.
Some people cannot hear or discriminate the sound of DAWS, probably due to age and/or exposure to loud music.

However, other posts in this thread prove that some people do have the ear sensitivity and the ear training that enables them to discriminate those subtle qualities.

Q.E.D.

I don't think that these posts prove anything. Clearly the point on reason was valid in the past theoretically but it doesn't prove that it is valid in practice. And anyway, it surely isn't valid anymore since a long time as reason is now an open system.

And we need to decide what would validate the point anyway.
If I open redrum and subtractor and play default patch you will surely recognise. But does it validate the claim?
What if I do a complete song with my own sounds, my own presets? Well you be able to recognise?
People can claim what they want, as long as there is no blind test, I don't believe it.

And for open system, I agree with everybody else... That's BS....

[Jac459]

I have music here on my playlist which is both created in Studio One and Reason. I can hear the difference between the DAWs that have been used.

https://intrancersonic-ds.blogspot.com/ ... .html#mpt1

Yes. Because of you creating it differently.
That doesn't mean that another guy wouldn't create something similar to what you did in S1 with RS.

[jules99]

I have music here on my playlist which is both created in Studio One and Reason. I can hear the difference between the DAWs that have been used.

https://intrancersonic-ds.blogspot.com/ ... .html#mpt1

KeyGen-core.

[chk071]

I must admit that I also was able to identify some stuff which was made in Reason in the past. Probably has to do with the included instruments, and the fact that the same guy was responsible for the DSP on all of the devices.

What's weird is that I also thought that Antidote, a rack extension by Synapse Audio, has a bit the same sound as Thor. I frankly don't know if that's really the case or if I was just imagining things.

Anyway, if you guys have a license of Cubase AI or LE, and you have some time to waste, install it, and compare the sound with the same instruments in other DAWs, and let me know what you think. I won't say more than that. Just try it out.

[Burillo]

Everyone knows that hardware mixing desks have a sound, because some desks became quite famous for their sound.

A DAW is just a model of a mixing desk, so it is quite logical that a DAW would also have a sound.

no it is not "quite logical".

physical desks "have a sound" because they're not linear devices - the sound comes from preamps, EQ's, etc. which, although strive to be linear, still impart their own character due to either limitations of the time, or deliberately being engineered to impart it.

DAW mixer is completely linear. if you understand what "linear" means, you will recognize that "DAWs having a sound" is completely illogical (because that would make them not linear). in fact, in another thread, one of the developers mentioned that actually hardware mixers are completely linear as well (so they do not have "a sound"), and any sort of "sound" comes from amplifiers or crosstalk (neither of which are present in a DAW unless you add them with plugins).

so, it is "quite logical" only to a person who does not know how desks and DAWs work. a DAW is an abstraction - an idealized version of a hardware desk, if you will. "idealized" means "does not impart any character unless you want it to", that is to say, completely linear, and hence does not have "a sound".

[seafire]

I have music here on my playlist which is both created in Studio One and Reason. I can hear the difference between the DAWs

Same instruments used in both DAWs?
Same music?

[whyterabbyt]

I have music here on my playlist which is both created in Studio One and Reason, so I already know which is which. I can remember the DAWs that have been used, and that means I think I can hear a difference.

ftfy

[Michael L]

Everyone knows that hardware mixing desks have a sound, because some desks became quite famous for their sound.

A DAW is just a model of a mixing desk, so it is quite logical that a DAW would also have a sound.

no it is not "quite logical".

physical desks "have a sound" because they're not linear devices - the sound comes from preamps, EQ's, etc. which, although strive to be linear, still impart their own character due to either limitations of the time, or deliberately being engineered to impart it.

DAW mixer is completely linear. if you understand what "linear" means, you will recognize that "DAWs having a sound" is completely illogical (because that would make them not linear). in fact, in another thread, one of the developers mentioned that actually hardware mixers are completely linear as well (so they do not have "a sound"), and any sort of "sound" comes from amplifiers or crosstalk (neither of which are present in a DAW unless you add them with plugins).

so, it is "quite logical" only to a person who does not know how desks and DAWs work. a DAW is an abstraction - an idealized version of a hardware desk, if you will. "idealized" means "does not impart any character unless you want it to", that is to say, completely linear, and hence does not have "a sound".

You are too knowledgeable, intelligent, logical and rational to be in this thread

[vurt]

we need some files.
someone who has all the hosts, just out put a two min file of silence in each.
then let's see intrancer pick out the reason and studio one silences, to prove his claim.