What is your main DAW and why?

42:14the M6 Pros and Maxes and Ultras. I guess probably we'll get an M6 Pro in the 14 and probably an M6 Max and an Ultra in the 16 when it comes out, but who knows. Don't we sound spoiled when we say, it's just a normal M6. Come on. I'm still working in M1. Me too. And happy. Yeah, I have an M1 studio and an M3 something laptop.

42:45It might be a Max. I can't remember. Anyway, next question. All right, this one is coming in from Tommy Shantz in St. Paul, Minnesota. What is your main DAW? That's Digital Audio Workstation. And why? Jeff Cohen, what do you use? My soapbox, thank you very much. which Reaper is my daily driver. And because of how extensible it is and how powerful it is,

43:11despite the visual aesthetics of it, they definitely opted for function over form. So people look at it and it is by no means a modern interface. That said, it's extremely powerful. And I've talked about the scripting and you can build practically any function, Everything is completely reprogrammable. Every function, every keyboard function, everything. You can combine different functions into the equivalent of like a macro.

43:45You can step things. You can do loops. You can do all this kind of stuff. And then you can do even more powerful JavaScript, Lua. And I've done many, many customizations that have just made things extremely fast. And by the way, that's the main point, is it lets me do things really, really fast compared to any other editor I've tried. And now, especially with AI

44:09and the ability to code scripts in a couple of minutes of an idea versus a weekend is phenomenal. I mean, I've added more functionality in the past few months than I had in the past few years. So that's my main reason. It ultimately comes down to speed and everything is laid out exactly where I want. I'm left-handed, so I want different things

44:31on the left side of the keyboard compared to where my mouse hand is. It just all makes it faster. But I will say it is a steeper learning curve because of the user interface. Alexander, what do you use? I use, well, I grew up learning Pro Tools, but these days most of my workflow is all video, So I'm pretty much doing all my video and audio work inside of DaVinci Resolve Studio

44:59But if I have to do a project in for editing or recording that is music based I'm probably gonna use Pro Tools and it's it's not just good. It's not because I think it's the best It's just that's what I learned on its muscle memory. There's so many great digital audio works these Workstations these days you have so much choice. So There are lots of other DAWs that have a tons of advantages now over Pro Tools

45:23I mean what used to be called studio one that pre Sonos made which is now fender something studio because they bought pre Sonos is Incredibly powerful logic is incredibly powerful They all these dogs have so much value Packed in them into them in terms of like the the sheer amount of free sample libraries that they give you with their virtual Instruments they all sound great. So I would say just pick one because I really don't want this to be a battle

45:49We always focus on well what? What DAW reigns supreme? What hardware reigns supreme? The thing is, these days, everything is so good now. It doesn't really matter. Mickey, what's your choice? What's your tool? So, yeah, for me, my go-to is good old CoolEdit 2000. Lovely piece of software. But seriously, my go-to is Pro Tools. It is, I guess you would say, the most widely used DAW in the post-production world and also to an extent in the music world, especially when it comes to mixing.

46:28So if you want to be able to collaborate with productions all across the world, it's sort of the tool of choice. and also if you want to be able to use other tools that are very useful to workflows most of them are with Pro Tools and I do want to show just very briefly going back to what we were discussing earlier about sample rates