What’s Your DAW of Choice?

RunDown said:
Simon, Is your Reaper on version 7? They wanted more money for me to update to 7.
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I've just checked and I'm running Reaper 7.6 under macOS10.15.4. Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought once you'd bought a license, future upgrades were free. From what you're saying, it's maybe only the fractional upgrades. That suggests they'll want more money when they get to v8. TBH, I'm not too worried. Logic Pro gives you a lifetime of free upgrades, but requires an OS too recent for my Mac to run these days. Plus, it costs $199, last time I looked. Logic is my go-to, but the Reaper pricing policy seems very fair to me.
 
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RunDown said:
Simon, Is your Reaper on version 7? They wanted more money for me to update to 7.
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simoncroft said:
I've just checked and I'm running Reaper 7.6 under macOS10.15.4. Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought once you'd bought a license, future upgrades were free. From what you're saying, it's maybe only the fractional upgrades. That suggests they'll want more money when they get to v8. TBH, I'm not too worried. Logic Pro gives you a lifetime of free upgrades, but requires an OS too recent for my Mac to run these days. Plus, it costs $199, last time I looked. Logic is my go-to, but the Reaper pricing policy seems vaery fair to me.
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IIRC, Reaper licenses are good through two full version cycles. If you purchased during V5, then you’re good to V7.99. That’s the way it used to be.
 
Thatbastarddon said:
My bad…it must be “purchase at V5…good to V6.99” for the “two full version” license purchase. Doh!
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I just a cheap SOB. :) I will eventually pony up the money. Just not on my priority list. I still have MixBus 32C. Reaper still works fine. I make guitars better than I make music. But it is nice to learn this stuff and theory. I have drywall and HVAC ahead of that though.

Yeah Simon, I still haven't hung drywall. LOL.
 
Aynirar27 said:
Right on, thanks man. Once I get a hang of that, I’m going to figure out how to silence all the parts between vocals and then I’ll be unstoppable!! I “sing” incredibly quiet so I get a good amount of hiss from having the mic preamp cranking
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Sometimes you want to go inbetween the grids , turn off grid , mark a spot with the cursor , hit "S" on the keyboard go to the the other spot hit "S" again then delete but be careful because it will cut through all the tracks at once and if hit save it's hard to undo. Once you hit "S" it is split.
 
ibmorjamn said:
Sometimes you want to go inbetween the grids , turn off grid , mark a spot with the cursor , hit "S" on the keyboard go to the the other spot hit "S" again then delete but be careful because it will cut through all the tracks at once and if hit save it's hard to undo. Once you hit "S" it is split.
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Nice, thanks man. I’ve definitely run into problems where I was attempting to select a an area of one track and ended up affecting all of the tracks. My ghostbusters song was dangerously close to being about 2 minutes shorter because of it lol
 
ibmorjamn said:
I had Abelton live lite for free . I just didn't care for it.
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I do as well. Came with some piece of hardware I installed in our old desktop years ago. I keep it updated. But been learning reaper… so we’ll see. Maybe keep it…. Maybe not. I will say. Ableton’s interface out of the box is pretty. Lots of colors. ;)
 
iblive said:
I do as well. Came with some piece of hardware I installed in our old desktop years ago. I keep it updated. But been learning reaper… so we’ll see. Maybe keep it…. Maybe not. I will say. Ableton’s interface out of the box is pretty. Lots of colors. ;)
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One of the reasons I ended up using a Akai APC40 controller is you get a low of controls for little money if you buy used. I think that's because it was designed to be used with Ableton Live – and has the Ableton logo on it – so people assume it will only work with Ableton. Not so, but it did mean it was up to me, as the end-user, to write all the assignments myself. Otherwise, it wouldn't do anything.

I've made a couple of screen grabs: one showing some of the plug-ins I can control from the APC40, plus another showing some of the commands specific to one plug-in. Basically you push a button and that determines which plug-in the rotary controls address. But some plug-ins have so few adjustable parameters, I doubled up, so the top rotaries will do one plug-in and the lower ones a different plug-in.

I'll happily explain how to do it, if anyone is interested. I was messing about for about two years – and got help on-line - before I started to grasp what Controller Assignments were all about. Even then, it wasn't a trivial task.

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Aynirar27 said:
Nice, thanks man. I’ve definitely run into problems where I was attempting to select a an area of one track and ended up affecting all of the tracks. My ghostbusters song was dangerously close to being about 2 minutes shorter because of it lol
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There is hardly nothing that annoys me more than having to adjust, tweak, move, resize, whatever, lanes or elements in a lane in a DAW. The frustration from bumps and awkward behavior have had me near fit to be tied before. Lucky I haven't punched a hole through my laptop monitor yet. Lol.
 
Sapient said:
There is hardly nothing that annoys me more than having to adjust, tweak, move, resize, whatever, lanes or elements in a lane in a DAW. The frustration from bumps and awkward behavior have had me near fit to be tied before. Lucky I haven't punched a hole through my laptop monitor yet. Lol.
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lol I hear ya man. I will certainly practice making edits and all the wonderful options that Daws offer, but in the meantime it’s much less frustrating for me to just play the song a few extra times until I nail it all the way through. I get more cred for that too right? Lol
 
Sapient said:
There is hardly nothing that annoys me more than having to adjust, tweak, move, resize, whatever, lanes or elements in a lane in a DAW. The frustration from bumps and awkward behavior have had me near fit to be tied before. Lucky I haven't punched a hole through my laptop monitor yet. Lol.
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Somewhere in the Reaper menu, you can turn off the split behavior so it doesn't cut all tracks at once. But since I figured out it does that I just click on the spot on the single track, it highlights it and then cut.
 
simoncroft said:
One of the reasons I ended up using a Akai APC40 controller is you get a low of controls for little money if you buy used. I think that's because it was designed to be used with Ableton Live – and has the Ableton logo on it – so people assume it will only work with Ableton. Not so, but it did mean it was up to me, as the end-user, to write all the assignments myself. Otherwise, it wouldn't do anything.

I've made a couple of screen grabs: one showing some of the plug-ins I can control from the APC40, plus another showing some of the commands specific to one plug-in. Basically you push a button and that determines which plug-in the rotary controls address. But some plug-ins have so few adjustable parameters, I doubled up, so the top rotaries will do one plug-in and the lower ones a different plug-in.

I'll happily explain how to do it, if anyone is interested. I was messing about for about two years – and got help on-line - before I started to grasp what Controller Assignments were all about. Even then, it wasn't a trivial task.

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I see even that is plagued by the knob cap problem. I have 3 missing on my MPK88.

If anyone knows a source of replacements, please post! Thanks.
 
I am still using Samplitude for recording and adding things, mixing and all other stuff.
I am not too deep into those things I just love to hit the botton and record my guitar tracks.
I love to record ideas and little riffs using my smart phone (yes, I am playing my ENGL Blackmore) and just to keep the ideas.
Later I sort them out and record them using Samplitude.
That is a great way for me to have more time playing than to loose time recording and mixing.
I like to keep it simple and fast.

Life is good,
Robin
 
Okay. I give up. Using Reaper. I can't disable my onboard laptop mic without also simultaneously disabling recording in reaper. WIN10 OS. The problem being. As soon as I arm the track, I'm picking up ambient room noise before actually hitting record. Very distracting. Googled it and can't seem to find anything helpful. Thoughts?
 
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