What DAWs is everyone using and why did you choose that particular one or more? Mine is Steinberg Nuendo 4.3. I also just got FL Studio.

Hello fellow Logic Pro experts! This question is for you. In our studio we often arrange music on a Yamaha psr-sx900. We then import a WAV file into a Logic Pro session. When I import the wave file, it follows the built in click or metronome well in the beginning, but slowly moves so that by the end of the (usually 7-8min) song it's completely out of sync with the click. There's no noticable tempo change though, as in internally the music sounds ok without the click. Smart Tempo is set to Keep (same as the tempo from the keyboard), and both "Set new recordings to" and "set imported files to" are set to OFF in the Smart Tempo project settings. Flex and Follow is OFF for the chanel, and I make sure the first downbeat of the file aligns with a downbeat on the grid. Also, everything is quantized on the keyboard before it's arranged into a MIDI file (style) and exported to audio. When I set Smart Tempo to Adapt, I see lots of small changes on the tempo line and sometimes hear noticable changes in the file itself. When I set Smart Tempo to AUTO, sometimes it's ok, but sometimes the music slows down or speeds up very obviously. So, Keep seems the least destructive. I'd rather Logic not alter my file at all. It really slows down my workflow and is super frustrating. Any thoughts??

I've always been a visual person, and it's always killed me that these huge lists of available plugins in any given DAW are just lists of text. Sure, they can be broken down by type or by manufacturer, but when there are, say, 30 compressors I don't get that immediate feel of which one I want to use just by seeing the name. But when I see an IMAGE of the plugin, I always know right away which one I'm looking for. (Also doesn't help when a plugin is simply called "Tape", for example -- I'm looking at YOU, Softube.) Back in the day, word processors and graphics programs like Illustrator would have you pick a font from a huge list of names, which to me is a bit useless. Nowadays, many of those programs show you a SAMPLE of each of those fonts, making it much easier to find the one you're looking for. I wish that the list of plugins available to a DAW would have, at the bare minimum, an image of the plugin for reference. So I finally did something I've been wanting to do for ages. I made a database in Notion of every plugin I have, with a short description of each and other helpful info (FET vs OPTO vs Vari-Mu etc. for example, or Spring reverb vs. Plate, Hall, Chamber etc. etc.), AND that database is completely filterable (show me all limiters! Or show me all tape delays! Show me all amp simulators!). It's truly been a silver bullet for me. Plus, I'll admit, it's just kinda fun to have at my disposal and to play around with.