Best quality music rendering DAW
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    So I've been an avid FL studio user for many years now. I to the point where I can make the program do backflips. I know all the effects, generators and all that and I know how to mix. But everytime i render to wavs or mp3 the audio quality isnt where i want it to be. So DJtechtools ... I'm wondering, which DAW do you think has the best quality rendering at the end of the day?

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    this my friend is hotly debated topic. i encourage you to search the kvrforum for threads about it. you'll find some strong opinions.

    since you know flstudio so well the other question to ask is how do i make my rendered music sound better?

    how would you describe this lack of audio quality

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    logic is damn fine for my tastes. pro quality dithering handling, sounds awesome
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    I have been using FlStudio for years as well now (since version 3) and noticed that Fl's rendering engine is not that great. Love the program and all those backflips that it can do. It is disappointing when you have a track done up sounding prime and when you bounce it the audio changes even if just slightly.

    I will agree with DJH, LOGIC! is where its at for great rendering engine. I started to use the software about a year ago with the purchase of my Mac(s) and slowly I have been not using my PC at all.
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    I've used extensively Cubase (up to sx3) on windows, and Logic (up to latest version) on the mac. In both of those daws you get what you hear.

    The thing is, I've never heard a pro daw that does not render what you hear. After all "render" (as you call it) or mixdown or bounce (as it's called in pro tools) it's only buffering whats going to the master output. Usually it's not done in realtime but if you have hardware synths it can.

    I'd bet the problem is not which daw has good rendering method... but instead if FL is a pro DAW with the features you should find in any pro DAW.

    IMO FL is a toy. Get serious.

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    There have been tests where a wave file was imported into several DAWs and exported again. The result of that would then have been phase inversed and run through the same bus as the original wave file.
    In the end, all DAWs made a perfect noise cancellation (two same signals cancel each other out if one of them is phase inversed).

    So what do we learn from that? That there is no difference in the rendering engine. A bad worksman blames his tools. Use what you are comfortable with.

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