[raghavkukreti]

Man, honestly, not too sure about this, picking the "second best" is very random and can probably affect your choices of stack/methods in the long run. Take for example the DAW part, i chose FL studio to start with for the same reason as the "best" one being pretty complicated. Unfortunately when I did switch to Ableton and saw what the industry standard was, my whole year long progress pretty much went to s*t because of how overly simplified FL is, Just an opinion.

[jwdunne]

I remember going through this and ended up learning Nuendo and Ableton. Then I realised I knew all this technical stuff without a grasp of the fundamentals. I reckon if I had, I’d have been extraordinarily more productive in FL Studio than I ever was with Ableton without it.