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Post by andyhowell on Oct 10, 2016 10:23:03 GMT
Just for interest — for those of you using a computer DAW (recording app), which DAW are you using? lavaman uses Pro Tools I think while I ma using Logic X. Was thinking a comparing notes own plugins, reverbs and so on. Sad, I know.
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Post by ocarolan on Oct 10, 2016 11:44:17 GMT
I still use very first edition of Cakewalk Guitar Tracks that came out about 20 years ago, intended for Windows 95. It has soldiered on through various later editions of Windows, though tending to lose various facilities each time. The basic recording and editing still works fine, and I'm loathe to move on because I'm now so familiar with it. Its own effects stopped working a long time ago, and so I use the free ANWIDA plug in for the occasions where I want a little mild reverb.
I have tried Audacity and Reaper but revert to my stone age technology every time!
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Post by andyhowell on Oct 10, 2016 12:01:57 GMT
I have tried Audacity and Reaper but revert to my stone age technology every time! Keith That's fine but you know the stone age will pass one day :-) I'm just feeling a bit geeky today. SaveSave
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Post by Martin on Oct 10, 2016 12:13:42 GMT
Audacity only for me, I'm afraid, and that's just for polishing (amplification, topping/tailing, converting to mp3) as I use my Tascam DP-004 for recording and mastering. I'm like a day visitor to the stone age
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Post by leitrimnick on Oct 10, 2016 12:15:16 GMT
Staying in the stone age must a COG thing. I use a second hand MBox which came complete with ProTools LE7 and some Waves software. For mastering I use a very old piece of software from Steinberg called Get It On CD (actually an early Wavelab derivative), I've had this for donkeys' years. I do use a couple of Waves plug-ins at the very end of the record/mix/master process but generally I try and keep reverbs etc simple. Run the whole lot on a PC still running on Windows XP.
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Post by lavaman on Oct 10, 2016 13:08:15 GMT
Actually, andyhowell, I use Reaper, not Pro Tools. I don't think it matters which DAW you use. They all use the same mathematics to process the sound. What's most important is the steep learning curve needed to get the most out of your DAW software. Once you've put the hours in learning one product you'll be reluctant to invest in another. I choose Reaper because it's cheap (60 euros) and very flexible. However, the flexibility makes it more difficult to learn. My 'goto' plug-ins are: EQ -- Reaper's ReaEQ and Fabfilter Pro Q2 Compression -- Reaper's ReaComp, Fabfilter Pro C, and Tokyo Dawn Kotelnekov Limiter -- Tonebooster's Barricade Delay -- Native Instrument's Replika Reverb -- Valhallaroom and Reaper's ReaVerb used with the Samplicty M7 or Lexicon PCM90 impulse files
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Post by scripsit on Oct 10, 2016 13:20:43 GMT
Presonus Studio One. Mainly because it didn't seem any more complicated that any of the others, it worked well on a PC (don't like Macs) and has a workflow which goes straight through from tracking to mastering/publishing all in the one package.
[Edit] and the stock plugins are logical and seem to be all one needs (I've reverted to using them after experimenting with lots of third party plugins which didn't seem to be any better or easier to use).
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Post by walkingdecay on Oct 10, 2016 13:53:55 GMT
Cakewalk Sonar for me, because my first copy came with my Samson mic and then took advantage of a very cheap upgrade offer, but I'd be happily using Audacity otherwise. Audacity makes good clean recordings and it undoubtedly has the least fiddly interface of any DAW out there. While I know my way around most of Sonar now (there are features I'll never use) it's taken a long time, whereas with Audacity I made my first multi-tracker within an hour of downloading it for the first time.
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Post by andyhowell on Oct 10, 2016 16:07:07 GMT
Actually, andyhowell , I use Reaper, not Pro Tools. Don't know where I got the Pro Tools from! Logic comes with some very advanced plugins the I find myself using simpler ones more and more, the ones that look at work like analogue kit. The most common plugins I'm using came free with my Focusrite interface. SaveSave
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Post by vikingblues on Oct 10, 2016 18:42:57 GMT
Magix Samplitude Music Studio. A minority choice I know, and pretty low budget. Currently I'm on version 16 for Audio work and on the 2013 version for MIDI. I prefer the way 16 is laid out in general so I happily use it for audio but found that trying to wrestle with MIDI on it left me a snarling grouchy git, so I stuck with the earlier version which I can manage with fine for MIDI. I ended up using the Samplitude DAWs as my existing software and gear had problems when I had an enforced XP to Vista move on Operating System, and Samplitude was the first thing I could get to work at all. I'm now thankfully on to Windows 7 but I've now got used to the way the Samplitude DAWs work and it all seems natural. I dabbled with other possibilities including Reaper but I don't have the energy I used to have in learning new software ... or the patience. A steep learning curve of a new DAW just means I fall over a little way up the slope and roll down to the bottom again not knowing what went wrong. I'm afraid I don't go in much for plugins. Samplitude has built in reverb, delay, compression etc and it does OK. I don't play to a standard or have guitars of a standard that get benefit from quality plug ins. I dabbled a bit with plugins when I played electric guitars but decided I'd rather get the sounds I wanted from guitar amp and pedals and just tweak things slightly in the DAW - those digital simulations I tried mainly sounded awful. The only plug in I use much now is the Garritan Instant Orchestra / ARIA player combo. Mark
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Post by gavdav on Oct 14, 2016 14:33:57 GMT
Logic here. Graduated from Garage Band and it's an easy switch. Mac dependent, but good, pretty cheap now for what it does, hardware independent. I still use Garage Band on the iPad for sketching demos.
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Post by earthbalm on Oct 15, 2016 7:07:06 GMT
Logic here. Graduated from Garage Band and it's an easy switch. Mac dependent, but good, pretty cheap now for what it does, hardware independent. I still use Garage Band on the iPad for sketching demos. Likewise, but I do have Cubase Artist 7.5 also sitting on my Mac as I find the work flow easier. It's just that Logic is far more 'fully featured'.
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Post by delb0y on Oct 15, 2016 9:49:06 GMT
Cakewalk Sonar for me, because my first copy came with my Samson mic and then took advantage of a very cheap upgrade offer, . Same here, except I never upgraded. So I still use that original free version - and the same Samson mic. I probably use 1% of what it's capable of.
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Post by Cams on Nov 29, 2016 20:39:39 GMT
Studio One for me. I had to decide on one this year and stared with Cubase because I bought (and returned) a mixer that came with a license, but I found it difficult to use. I follow Joe Gilder and he uses Studio One. His tutorials on YouTube are excellent and I can follow what he does on Dueling Mixes to learn the ins and outs. And it's cross platform so I can mix on my MacBook Pro and Windows 10 box. I've been studying since May and setting up a studio. We started recording last week, and talk about a learning curve! I hope to be done with recording by March and album released by June.
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Post by NikGnashers on Nov 30, 2016 17:06:11 GMT
I really loved Logic, but when it went MAC-only a few years ago it was out of my reach.
I tried a few, and surprised myself by really liking the way FL Studio 11 works. I think you can get newer versions now, but although it is a little different from Cubase/Ableton/Logic/etc it is actually just as good as any yet seems to be a lot cheaper.
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