GARAGEBAND 10.1 WAVEFORMS GENERATOR
The M1 software synthesizer reconstructs the M1 into an eight-part multi-timbral tone generator featuring up to 256 notes of polyphony. This is the criteria you should first consider when choosing a DAW, since it's one of your needs.īeyond that, it's basically down to how much you like it, as the general functionality between DAW packages is pretty similar. 950 PCM Waveforms 34 Types of on-board effects In 1988, the M1 created the workstation category and went on to become one of the top selling keyboards of all time, easily surpassing an amazing 100,000 units. Ableton Live, for example, does not handle SysEx data of any kind, and I've never tried it with any of the others so I can't speak to their capabilities. However, it's your third criteria - MIDI SysEx - that I think will narrow this down a bit. Pristine sound quality and a powerful set of features including high-definition waveforms, four decks, audio effects, and hardware integration give you endless creative flexibility to take your sets to new heights. As far as handling audio and MIDI tracks together, I imagine most any of them can handle this - Logic and Pro Tools should handle this fine, as will Cubase, Sonar, Ableton Live, Reaper, and even GarageBand. Most, but not all of them will handle your scenario. While the term "DAW" technically refers only to audio editing (waveforms), it's very common for a DAW to also support MIDI sequencing, or to be more of a MIDI tool than an audio one, so the term has come to imply both. Collectively, these programs are known as Digital Audio Workstations, commonly abbreviated DAWs. What you need is a sequencer that can also handle audio data, or an audio suite that also handles sequencing.