Reaper or Audacity?

got free trial WITH my monitors-- seems nice feature packed.... but again -- was not as simple for me as audacity so......
but with the new light shed on audacity I may open it up and take a look next time I have several hours to kill ........
 
guitarweasel said:
Anyone tried the PreSonus Studio One Artist? I was looking at the Presonus interface and it come with that.
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Studio One made me crazy;)…just…I didn’t have the patience for learning it. It seemed to be difficult to manage track data(to me). Pretty slick interface though, and lots of bells and whistles. I could see people liking it…just not me.
 
I used Audacity for work and it was easy, but that was then.
If you are going to do any new learning curve, especially with the data mining / evil new Audacity, I would say use something else.

I got started on Reaper and it was easy enough with the tutorials available.
Havent had much time with it but thats the path I'm on.
 
Yargnad said:
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.

www.techradar.com

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

Audacity privacy policy update has caused an outcry
www.techradar.com www.techradar.com
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So, is this only a concern with the newer versions? I see they are on 3.1.3 and I'm still using 2.4.2 from 2018.
 
Far Rider said:
That figures. I knew something had to bomb on this new interest of mine. :mad:
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You are being monitored and data mined every time you get on the internet. It's not just one program doing it.

You're also being recorded almost everywhere you go nowadays. I've been in plenty of Joint Operations Centers with local PD and others.

There are cameras everywhere and someone is monitoring them. I was amazed at the stuff I was seeing on the monitors...
 
Sp8ctre said:
You are being monitored and data mined every time you get on the internet. It's not just one program doing it.

You're also being recorded almost everywhere you go nowadays. I've been in plenty of Joint Operations Centers with local PD and others.

There are cameras everywhere and someone is monitoring them. I was amazed at the stuff I was seeing on the monitors...
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Scariest thing is when you talk about something and you see an ad online within days of that very thing
 
eSGEe said:
days its happened to me within MINUTES!
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Isnt that freaky? Like i get it if you run a search on something online then you get an ad for said search: its the "cookies" bull:poo:. But my wife and i were talking one day about old simple products you dont see anymore, namely Hi-c ecto coolers ( stupid right? Lol) and ill be damned if within a day or so, i had ads on my google mainpage for Ecto Coolers via Ebay.

Now whats the coincidental odds of that :poo:?!?
 
WavMixer said:
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Me too
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Had a crappy cassette made up of recorded tunes off the radio. Amboy Dukes “Migration.” Guess Who’s live version of “American Woman.” The one that goes on for 10ish minutes. Several others I’m not remembering right now. That was like 1970/71 after all. Up until a few years ago I still had that cassette. It may have finally hit the dumpster. Don’t have a working player anymore.
 
Did some practice recoding tonight. First threw down a track in reaper. A few too many playing mistakes, so didn’t save it. But to just toss in a recording, it does seem fairly easy. Did play around a few minutes adding some effects. Also fairly intuitive.

Then I moved over to Abelton. A program I’ve had for a bunch of years. Came with a piece of hardware I installed in my old desktop. Strummed several bars of a fairly simple tune. Opened another track and attempted playing a melody line over it. That did not end well. :eek:

But hey. Gotta start somewhere
 
iblive said:
Did some practice recoding tonight. First threw down a track in reaper. A few too many playing mistakes, so didn’t save it. But to just toss in a recording, it does seem fairly easy. Did play around a few minutes adding some effects. Also fairly intuitive.

Then I moved over to Abelton. A program I’ve had for a bunch of years. Came with a piece of hardware I installed in my old desktop. Strummed several bars of a fairly simple tune. Opened another track and attempted playing a melody line over it. That did not end well. :eek:

But hey. Gotta start somewhere
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I’ve always looked at Reaper as a modular mixer/recorder. You can add effects to the inserts….use aux sends…create the returns for them…even run effects in-line on those sends…if you can imagine how you want something routed, you can pretty much get it done…or…you can just “KIS”.
 
Audacity is fully ok as long as You are recording 1 or 2 channels at once. More is possible, but there there are only 2 VU meters for the 1st two tracks.

Which means that i would have to use ardour (with ALSA as the sound system) - also free, far more complex, but surprisingly the simple "tape recorder" alike stuff is similarly easy to handle than with audacity. But over all Ardour is a lot more capable than Audacity.
 
Clockworkmike said:
Isnt that freaky? Like i get it if you run a search on something online then you get an ad for said search: its the "cookies" bull:poo:. But my wife and i were talking one day about old simple products you dont see anymore, namely Hi-c ecto coolers ( stupid right? Lol) and ill be damned if within a day or so, i had ads on my google mainpage for Ecto Coolers via Ebay.

Now whats the coincidental odds of that :poo:?!?
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yep-- exactly ----I have had a CONVERSATION with Shannon about some product or another and later the same day had ADVERTISEMENTS fed to me for that product---- OR similar other brands of same product----never googled--- never searched TALKED about the item ----
 
eSGEe said:
yep-- exactly ----I have had a CONVERSATION with Shannon about some product or another and later the same day had ADVERTISEMENTS fed to me for that product---- OR similar other brands of same product----never googled--- never searched TALKED about the item ----
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Lol its friggin weird and i thought i was on my way to a nice month's long stay in a cozy padded room with a fine new extra long sleeve jacket, first time i noticed it. But then began to read about it happening to LOTS of people too. And now here's another example!
 
Far Rider said:
I always say, when all else fails, read the instructions. ;)
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This is what I tell my Techs when they call for support, "Step 1: RTFM"

I use Reaper for my recordings. I use less than 1% of what it does, but it's easy for me. I've tried several options, and Reaper was the easiest for me to set up and get going. I rarely record, maybe once every six months or so, which makes it a new experience every time since I don't remember how to get things going right away. Regardless, I'm usually up and running in 5 minutes.
 
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