By
fdodds
Sat Nov 01, 2014 2:58 am
DAWs are better for a lot of things, the main thing is that they support VSTs better and allow for more sophisticated audio routing, which lets you do things like sidechain compression, unlimited buses for FX, unlimited FX support per track.
Also there is nothing 'wrong' with the mpc mixer, per se, but it's a little convoluted and doesn't have as good useability as most DAWS (a lot of little things, like ctrl clicking different tracks then applying pan/vol changes across all of them, colouring them differently, hiding them, disabling master send, easy and quick changes to send/receive volumes, drag n drop fx capability).
And when you bounce tracks down to audio you can achieve a lot of edits that are difficult/impossible on mpc software by directly clipping/copying/shifting waveform positions, using lfo generators on automation lanes, copy pasting automation, perform sophisticated crossfades, reverse the audio of sequences, plenty more.
most of that stuff doesn't belong in the mpc software, it would clutter it and make it less effective at quickly laying down tracks. for this reason i'll continue to use it paired up with a DAW, with audio routed from the mpc software into the DAW.