Usine Hollyhock 2 Used As A DAW

[SuggarBearr]

Wassup my name is SuggarBearr can someone give me a little more information on how
Usine Hollyhock 2 can be used as a DAW because I need a Good DAW will this one do????

[oli_lab]

I'd say Usine is for live music like DJ stuff, loop doctors and improvised music (stand alone or used with instruments)

for non linear editing I suggest you have a go at REAPER : it is the best and very affordable.

[SuggarBearr]

Thanks oli lab

[oli_lab]

+1
Usine is definitly worth trying !

[gurulogic]

I do find myself wishing that Usine had a more conventional linear layer for seguencing, editing and recording but that isn't a deal breaker for me because Usine is able to do things that no other audio software comes close to. For live performance or extremely creatively engineered production purposes, Usine is second to none in my opinion.

I own ableton live w./nax also, and a few times i have considered trying to integrate my live setup into Live to have better linear integration but after wasting a couple days of my life trying to find workarounds for Lives's limitations, i ultimately end up realizing that Live falls way short of the functionality i need, even with max for live, and i end up back in Usine.

[SuggarBearr]

So for music production and modulation is this a good one also
what about mixing and mastering?????

[lytz1]

You really *have* to see for yourself what suits your style of working, what you need, what you don't need. Which way of working you like or what you hate.
Nobody can tell you "use this and this for that and that" . Certainly not going to end well for you. You just get DAW names thrown at you from people you don't know and where you don't even know what kind of music they do and on which quality level they actually are in their own productions.

(On top of that: Ask in different forums, you'll get different DAW names thrown at you. Obviously...)

Everybody is different. Every musical style is different and so different software has different strenghts and weaknesses,
which are again differently perceived by different people.

So you *have* to put a little bit of time and effort into various applications and see for yourself how it "feels" to work with them.
Everybody in the industry has been through this, so must you.. There is no shortcut or one-solves-all solution.


Best,
tL.