What’s Your DAW of Choice?

Studio One here, all everything in the box. I occasionally peep out of the box and chuck rocks at Scott B.

I am not great at all this but my very modest gear has been trickling punkish stuff to the masses. In my DIY domain my stuff stands up well compared with what other bands are doing.

Note: Scott is a good guy. The rocks are mostly metaphorical.
 
Sam The Lion said:
Done on an early 2006 MBP running Logic. NI Kontact..Abbey Road Drums...Chris Hein horns.
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Fantastically done sir!
Sam The Lion said:
It's about using a platform that works for you, and what you're capturing/creating. The platform is secondary. It's about the music.
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This^^^^^^^^^It’s all about what works for the human behind the wheel of the project.
I started this discussion as a bit of an introduction for the players here…with the hopes that everyone would share, and perhaps be willing and/or able to contribute to the betterment of each other’s mutual interests. Wether it’s through sharing super cool gear talk, contributing super cool material, or contributing knowledge and experience to some that may not have anything but the desire to create and share their music.
 
Here is a track I did during the Covid lockdown. I took some of my gear to Parker Colorado in a spare bedroom in a small apartment. This came about right after the George Floyd Murder I went did a deep dive into the Tulsa Massacre of 1921. This song came from this. It was recorded remotely with several of my Athens Ga musician friends. The Drums and Bass are the rhythm section from the band Cracker, Brian Howard and Carlton Owens. The keyboards are Jay Gonzalez of the Drive-by Truckers, and the Steel is John Neff formerly of the DBT’s who is the best pedal steel player I’ve ever met. We shared the files with Google Drive. I recorded this through my API box console and I used the UAOXBOX to track all the guitars through headphones. It has a restriction on it because of the images of the actual massacre.

 
The majority of my recording is done in Logic nowadays.
Since most of what i do is about capturing a moment, i like to keep things simple and easy and the workflow in Logic just seems to suit me well.
i've also worked with GarageBand pretty extensively in the past, and also used Ableton for some things.
 
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Okay boys and girls. How in the world do I use the metronome in Reaper. All I want to do is have it count me in and then shut up. I seem to have two choices. No Metronome.... so no count in. Or Metronome thru the entire song/recording. Thoughts?
 
iblive said:
Okay boys and girls. How in the world do I use the metronome in Reaper. All I want to do is have it count me in and then shut up. I seem to have two choices. No Metronome.... so no count in. Or Metronome thru the entire song/recording. Thoughts?
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Should be in the Metronome and Preroll settings. But it's been awhile for me.
 
Ghostman said:
Should be in the Metronome and Preroll settings. But it's been awhile for me.
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Thank you. Been there done that. Watched a You Tube video. Walked me thru it. No matter what I do, still only two choice. No count in or metronome thru the whole thing. I can live without it.... just felt maybe a tool I should use.
 
LiveeviL2000 said:
You should be able to right click the metronome icon and it should give you count in options
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Yep. Been there. What’s frustrating is knowing it should do it. Making the metronome go is simple. Just don’t want it for the whole song. Just to count in.

I have done it in Abelton. Was actually really easy…. So obviously I’m missing something. Or over thinking. Or both. I’ll figure it out. Was just thinking on another tune. Thought I’d take another step in figuring some stuff out in Reaper.

Work in progress. Figure after my Riffmaster entry where I’m pretty much at the 1 percentile…. I only have one direction to go. :cool:
 
Record your own count in. Pick a percussion instrument, play four beats, quantize them, and boom.

I do it all the time, the better to keep the DAW from ripping off the first few samples of a guitar part or something. When you start your production on the second bar, you get some breathing room.
 
Seamus OReally said:
Record your own count in. Pick a percussion instrument, play four beats, quantize them, and boom.

I do it all the time, the better to keep the DAW from ripping off the first few samples of a guitar part or something. When you start your production on the second bar, you get some breathing room.
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I wondered about that. Thanks. Like I said. I have a huge learning curve to work on here.
 
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