Feb 16, 2010 10:29 pm Couldn't live without Samplitude Professional (V11). Object-based editing, workflow unlike anything else, best native DSP I've had the pleasure of using.
Best DAW software for; Recording/multitracking, and Editing??
Posted on Feb 16, 2010 09:43 pm
Ryker
Member Since: Feb 14, 2010
Hey all
So we all have used or heard of DAW software, such as Pro tools 8, or cubase 4le, or nuendo, adobe, logic... ? but whats the best for recording/multitracking and Editing? give us your opinions and exp. with them. Thanks.
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Feb 16, 2010 10:29 pm Couldn't live without Samplitude Professional (V11). Object-based editing, workflow unlike anything else, best native DSP I've had the pleasure of using.
Feb 16, 2010 11:39 pm I'm a big fan of reaper. Great audio, great routing, stable, fast, and teeny download. Includes some great plugs (but most don't have fancy GUIs so you need to trust your ears).
Is free to DL and try, and is shareware so after 30 days you should but a license. But it doesn't expire, instead, figuring you'll like the program and business model enough that the personal edition ($60) won't be a problem. Somewhere around 200$ if you use it professionally.
Good forum as well, the devs are involved fairly often, but there's quite a few people highly experienced and usually decent to learn from. This was written mostly by Justin Frankel, who wrote winamp and later sold it to AOL.
Don't let the shareware moniker fool you. It's full fledged DAW, and is used in real studios every day.
www.reaper.fm
of course, ymmv, imho, etc.
Feb 17, 2010 01:00 am Reaper does rock.
Feb 17, 2010 12:39 pm Man, I used to use Samplitude back in the day on my PII with a soundblaster AWE64. I loved it then, I should take a look at the new.
Feb 17, 2010 12:41 pm I have always found Cakewalk stuff the most intuitive, but Ihated the sound of the "Pro Audio" series so I used Cubase back then...switched to Cakewalk after I heard the sound improvements when they released Sonar and completely rebuilt the audio engine in the process.
Feb 17, 2010 12:54 pm After reading a bit, for the price I will stick with Audition. There were a couple pretty cool features that adobe does not do, but they are things I would not use.
I would love the object editing if I could afford it :)
Feb 17, 2010 05:58 pm What is this object editing? I'm not quite sure if I know what that is.
Feb 17, 2010 08:39 pm Having basically full mix control over an individual object on the timeline. It's not really like automation (however, it's sort of like global automation on steroids), but instead of only having specific control at the track level, you have specific control on the object *on* the track, *and* the track level. And you can chop an object into as many objects as desired and have that control on each of those objects. Volume, EQ, dynamics, aux sends, inserts, pitch, pan, spread - name it.
You can assign a different set of inserts to each word in a phrase (for whatever reason you'd want to...) and keep everything on the same track with the same global track settings or following the track's global automation. That's extreme, but it goes that far. You don't need 20 "stinger" tracks taking up tons of space and resources - You can line up 20 stingers on *one* track and they each have individual control over basically everything listed above.
It'll change your whole workflow. Changed my whole concept of digital mixing. And that's just scratching the surface.
Feb 18, 2010 09:31 am i'm using cubase 4 now it seems ok for what i do,, tho if i get this new job i'm after i'm prob goina get me a new mac to do my music on (been havin issues with my current windows machine) and i may try another software platform.. but maybe not..
Feb 18, 2010 12:18 pm I read up on their object level control, it sounds kickass for sure.
Feb 18, 2010 12:38 pm Reaper has per item effects, so you can chop up a track, and put effects on each item individually. I'm not sure if Reaper is as involved with all the other aspects of each item, but I haven't done this part much, so it may but I've not played with it.
Very cool. I can certainly see how that would speed up a lot of editing tasks.
Mar 29, 2010 09:32 am Sonar 8.5 here is incredible to me. I've tried Logic (love it) and Cubase (not sure yet) but I just keep going back to Sonar. I hate didgidesign and their "pro"tools. I should have the freedom to choose my own interface and not some digi/m-audio thing.
May 13, 2010 11:43 am Which DAW is best for home recording?
I'm trying to answer this question for my degree's research project. If you have an opinion please can you take my survey, it will take 5min and will be a great help for my project.
www.surveymonkey.com/s/89BPXMQ
Cheers
Phil M
May 13, 2010 08:14 pm I'll second that, Massive Master. I've only known Samplitude (I started on their "light" version, Music Studio, which for the money, is at this point quite good in and of itself). Excellent native plug-ins, and great (and deep) editing functions and options.
May 13, 2010 08:32 pm Well if you throw Editing in and require/want it in the same application then I'd say Adobe Audition is one of the best and reasonably priced.
For everything else I like, and use Sonar Producer 8.5.
Dan
May 20, 2010 04:01 pm hi guys i'm new to home recording but have tried Reaper and Mixcraft and for me Mixcraft is far better. (It just seems easier to work with), and the likes of Pro-tools and Cubase etc. just seem too expensive. Or is that me being ignorant?
Anyway guys, great forum! Keep up the good work!
May 20, 2010 04:03 pm Those more expensive options may just have a lot of features that you don't use, or haven't found a need for yet...nothing wrong with that.
Aug 28, 2011 06:30 pm See this post about music production software.
homestudio-recording.blogspot.com/
:)
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