audacity???

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Member Since: Feb 14, 2012

I just downloaded audacity for free...i played with it for a little bit, but I would like to know what everyone thinks of it..is the program really worth the time to use to record vocals, guitars, bass and drums? It was free and virus free so I tried it.

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www.TheLondonProject.ca
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Since: Feb 07, 2005


Feb 17, 2012 05:13 pm

If you are to invest some time into learning software I think you should look into Reaper. Best bang for the buck. Essentially free. It has everything you would ever want to start out with and it is a very efficiant and customizable to grow with you.

www.reaper.fm/

PS - nothing agaist Audacity

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Since: Apr 03, 2002


Feb 17, 2012 07:22 pm

Audacity is pretty cool, I use it now and then, but not for recording purposes, usually for mp3 encoding and silly little light projects like that.

I agree with BeerHunter, Reaper is great, I have been using it on my latest recording collab and it's been pretty darn amazing.

Byte-Mixer
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Since: Dec 04, 2007


Feb 17, 2012 08:13 pm

Another vote for Reaper from me too. I've used Audacity in the past as well, but it's not really suited for major music/recording work. For small projects, sure it's fine.

But Reaper has a free demo, which is uncrippled, and you can use it as long as you need while you're learning and doing personal projects and such. However, if you are doing any kind of public work (non-commercial or revenue is less tan $20,000/year) then you have to pay a license. The discount license is $60 which I just mentioned, is $60. The commercial license is $225. A license (either one) will cover two major version number upgrades. (if you buy it now, you're good for up to version 5.99)

Reaper really is a very capable software. There's also a bit of a skinning/graphics community around it that tweaks the looks and layouts of the user interfaces. And it's developed by the guy who created Winamp.

As with any fully featured workstation, Reaper does have a little bit of a learning curve, but nothing we can't help out with, or that can't be gained from reading the manual. :)

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Since: Jan 30, 2011


Feb 17, 2012 08:21 pm

I used audacity for a long time before I got too big for the tank so to speak. It has its limitations but I back audacity 100% for straight-forward recording.

It doesn't have insert effects, so there's a LOT of guess and check bound to happen. You throw some verb on there, wait for it to render (which usually only takes about 10sec-1min) then if you don't like it, just ctrl-z and try again. Your best bet is to use audacity for scratch tracks rather than trying to get a mix going or anything. And you cant beat 100% FREE :)

I think its better to start on audacity and get good at tracking and getting a good sound before any mixing happens. It's like training with weights or whatever. When you do make the jump to pro tools or cubase you'll be able to throw down tracks right away. If you start with a full on DAW you're likely to get bogged down with all the features and that's no fun.

So ya...use it.

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