What’s Your DAW of Choice?

I may have just had an epiphany. I'm wondering if my issue is that I don't have my GT1 plugged in that I use to interface my guitars into the computer. I was sitting here with the laptop in my lap working on finding a drum track to import...... and the laptop was defaulting to the internal mic by default. Guess I'll find out here in a bit. Probably making rocket science out of this. Also needed to remember to click off of Record Monitor.
 
iblive said:
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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I'm not sure I can give you an exact answer, but I'll try to help. Unfortunately, the computer I usually run DAWs on has a serious problem right now, so this is just from memory. When you mount Reaper, you can go into Preferences and select the audio interface you want to be your input and output. Assuming you've already attached an external audio interface, along with any required driver software etc, that interface should show up as an option you can select.

Yes, when you have Reaper loaded, your internal mic will then be disabled. When you quit Reaper, your overall System Preferences should take over and restore the internal mic.

What you specifically shouldn't do if you want the internal mic to be operational when you are not using Reaper is change the Preferences for the Operating System itself. If you tell the OS that your chosen audio I/O is the external audio interface, that will be a universal change, meaning that Zoom calls etc will all need a mic plugged into your audio box.

If that doesn't help, please tell me.
 
iblive said:
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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Try searching some video’s. What interface?
 
ibmorjamn said:
Try searching some video’s. What interface?
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Have been watching videos. @Thatbastarddon PM’d with some stuff. Things to check. Thought I’d checked all the settings in Preference…. And finally figured out sometime in the past, as in when I did Jessie’s Girl, I had changed input to the computer default so I could edit. I hadn’t changed it back to the Boss GT1 which is what I’ve been using to interface the guitars. I need to get a legit audio interface. Probably make some things easier….. like being able to record vocals. Or putting a mic on an amp speaker.

Would have pulled my head out sooner…. But basically I haven’t picked up a guitar since the previous challenge ended. Just haven’t been motivated.
 
I like the 2i2 for my budget. I am not sure about the Focusrite solo though. I think it only has one preamp section it vs. the two in the 2i2. I also use it as my headphone amp.
 
RunDown said:
I like the 2i2 for my budget. I am not sure about the Focusrite solo though. I think it only has one preamp section it vs. the two in the 2i2. I also use it as my headphone amp.
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I use the 2i2 as well.

3rd gen (refurbished)

Got it on a flash sale.
 
I am currently using Ardour 8.6 on Alpine linux, which runs nicely on a 15 year old notebook. Interface is a ZEDi10 mixer from Allen&Heath (4 mics, 4 channels USB) and an additional tiny mixer providing additional 2 mics/2 USB channels. Sound daemon jack, synchronisation of the 2nd source via zita resampler. In the live recording i just posted i was using only 4 channels.

The nice thing about the A&H mixer ist that it provides 4 USB channels for the price of a 2 channel interface
 
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iblive said:
Have been watching videos. @Thatbastarddon PM’d with some stuff. Things to check. Thought I’d checked all the settings in Preference…. And finally figured out sometime in the past, as in when I did Jessie’s Girl, I had changed input to the computer default so I could edit. I hadn’t changed it back to the Boss GT1 which is what I’ve been using to interface the guitars. I need to get a legit audio interface. Probably make some things easier….. like being able to record vocals. Or putting a mic on an amp speaker.

Would have pulled my head out sooner…. But basically I haven’t picked up a guitar since the previous challenge ended. Just haven’t been motivated.
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So you solved it , cool.
 
ibmorjamn said:
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.
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Thanks. Reaper is so convoluted though and the menu's are laid out so poorly that I ditched it. It's good I guess for free, which most seem to fall into. Studio One is the :poo: for me.
 
The other DAWs I have on my machine is Audacity and Harrison MixBus32. All depends on the mood I am in. A long day at work, I use Audacity because it is quick and easy. But I like the sound MixBus32 imparts and it reminds me of the Hill console I used to play with until I got kicked out of the control room. :)
 
I somewhat seriously started with ProTools free on an old mac. I bought into that for up to vers 8.0.5. That's the highest my current old mac can run. My band guys like their Samplitude, because of price.

It does MIDI so great for me.
 
Reaper. It just works without complaining no matter how complex the project. The forum is great for asking usage questions and getting a timely answer that is right. Tons of instructional videos. Love the fact I can add specific task buttons to the toolbars, including for scripts I wrote myself.

And you can use SSL 360 with it and turn it into a virtual SSL console.

I was on Samplitude for years and finally got tired of all the bugs and excuses why it would be x months before it got fixed. Only to have to pay and it still doesn't work right. None of that nonsense with Reaper.

I also have Harrison Mixbuss Pro 12 but haven't used it on a project yet. I want to teach my son how to mix on a console, and I have no room or money for a real one, and Mixbuss is the closest thing in software. It sounds fantastic in the evaluations I've done on it.
 
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