Reaper or Audacity?

[Far Rider]

I like your style sir! ….reading manuals…..

I always say, when all else fails, read the instructions.

 

[eSGEe]

I like your style sir! ….reading manuals…..

you leave Manuela out of this

 

[eSGEe]

I always say, when all else fails, read the instructions.

audacity has instructions?

 

[Thatbastarddon]

audacity has instructions?

 

[eSGEe]

VON SCHTUPP!

 

[steveb63]

Reaper user.

Never needed to learn Audacity.

 

[Headache]

Reaper all the way.

You can watch like 3 intro to reaper videos and be well on your way.

It is powerful if you want to dig in to it, or as simple as you want it.

The effects are powerful and sound great.

 

[Sp8ctre]

Audacity has been around a lot longer than Reaper and that's why I started with it. It came out in 2000 and Reaper didn't show up until late 2006.

I used Audacity for things other than guitar back then. It was a logical choice since I knew how to use it well.

 

[Thatbastarddon]

Audacity has been around a lot longer than Reaper and that's why I started with it. It came out in 2000 and Reaper didn't show up until late 2006.

I used Audacity for things other than guitar back then. It was a logical choice since I knew how to use it well.

That was version 1.0 in late 2006. They released public pre version 1.0 in late 2005. I hopped on in the early spring(edit: late winter…February-March) of 2006…just poking around in something like version 0.6x…then I got really interested around version 0.86 when it all clicked with me as to how the audio engine worked.

 

[Inspector #20]

I use Audacity at home.

Cubase Pro 11 at the studio

 

[Inspector #20]

Presonus studio monitors here LOVE EM

Dynaudio

 

[Inspector #20]

Best vocal mic I've ever used..

Peavey PVM-328 Tom Mic...

 

[Thatbastarddon]

I use Audacity at home.

Cubase Pro 11 at the studio

Hahahahaha! I was using Cubase SX 3.1 when I found Reaper….but mostly just in learning mode for me, as I was still using hardware recorders as a main rig(AKAI DPS24). Computer audio was for finalizing, and CD production for me at that time, but I knew it was the future.

 

[Ramo]

I use Audacity at home.

Cubase Pro 11 at the studio

I had cubase and lost the license number and cd…

I liked Cubase.

 

[Far Rider]

So Audacity has always been one of the reliable stalwarts of the digital audio industry and they were just bought up by a venture capital firm last year after 20+ years of being open source and pro-privacy. Turns out the move was purely a user data grab and essentially Audacity is a data mining operation anymore.

Audacity users are seriously angry right now - here’s why

Audacity privacy policy update has caused an outcry

www.techradar.com

That figures. I knew something had to bomb on this new interest of mine.

 

[Thatbastarddon]

I started working at a recording studio at the end of 1999 and was hired for PC support and graphic design. Even with some of the most powerful PC parts available at the time - dual Xeon CPUs, 1GB RAM and Sonorus 8 channel lightpipe cards - Cubase, Cakewalk, etc barely could handle multitrack at all. It was a combination of iffy hardware drivers, especially the Sonorus, and how slow hard drives were. It really only became possible once we started running drives in RAID0 but that came with its own set of issues.

We've got it pretty good nowadays.

We certainly do have it good nowadays! When I can pull 16 tracks from a live mixers inserts, and record them to a 1 terabyte SSD, that’s the size of a cookie, for an hour and a half without a hiccup…and that interface is 5 years out of date…yeah, things have improved immensely since 1999, when I was lucky to get a 6 track per pass recording for drums, on a 12 track recorder, packing a 2.5 Gig SCSI drive…

 

[Thatbastarddon]

So Audacity has always been one of the reliable stalwarts of the digital audio industry and they were just bought up by a venture capital firm last year after 20+ years of being open source and pro-privacy. Turns out the move was purely a user data grab and essentially Audacity is a data mining operation anymore.

Audacity users are seriously angry right now - here’s why

Audacity privacy policy update has caused an outcry

www.techradar.com

That is frikken sad! The article’s published date is a bit ironic too…That sucks.

 

[eSGEe]

I record maybe 3 minutes of sound clips a year.... from an old laptop that is only used for guitar (amp modelers interface etc) they wont "mine" much through that avenue here...... but they can try I guess

 

[Iron1]

Reaper all day. Audacity never again.

 

[guitarweasel]

Anyone tried the PreSonus Studio One Artist? I was looking at the Presonus interface and it come with that.