Don't faint...I bought an interface

[robin]

Hey Dedman, I do all my crappy recordings using REAPER. Couldn't be happier with it. I must admit that I didn't find the learning curve too bad, but I haven't even scratched the surface yet, and probably never will. I just wanted a bog standard DAW.

You can Demo it for free, I think. It will give you a nag screen after a month or so. Their upgrade path is a bit hard to explain but for $60 you get 2 complete version upgrades. I bought mine at v4.8 (I think) about 3 years ago and it is now on v5.9, so at v6 I will have to fork out another $60, which I will do gladly. But v6 will be released shortly so if you can make do with the demo until then, and then buy v6 instead of v5.9 it should be good for several years.

Join the REAPER Forums. Next to BYOG Forums, they are the best, very friendly, and a goldmine of information.

You should also check out videos from Kenny Goiai - http://www.kennymania.com/reaper-videos/#latest-videos

A fully featured DAW for $60, its a no-brainer. Although I must admit I have spent too much on 3rd party plugins.

rob

p.s. I'm going to post my next sound demo shortly, it has been done with REAPER.

[dave.king1]

You get two full version releases from where you bought in, I started with Reaper 3.x and had to send another $60.00US when it went to 5.x

As I have said elsewhere I had a hate/hate relationship with Cubase, didn't get along with ProTools at all and despite downloading and installing it couldn't see the point in changing to Cakewalk even though it's now free, also wasn't keen on saving into their cloud.

GarageBand and Audacity will also get you out of the blocks at the right price but ultimately don't have the features you will want not long after you get into it

[dave.king1]

Also to add, join TDPRI and lurk the Recording In Progress sub forum, there are many very skilled recording dudes there who will offer a lot of help with the "black art" of recording & production.

Some of those very skilled dudes do this stuff for a living who are more than generous with their advice ( Bob Womack to name but one )

[robin]

Thanks for the heads-up Dave. I visit TDPRI quite regularly and didn't know about their Recording Forums. Will take a visit

[dave.king1]

Thanks for the heads-up Dave. I visit TDPRI quite regularly and didn't know about their Recording Forums. Will take a visit

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[Dedman]

well, my work station died before the interface even arrived so....stalled

[robin]

Bumma Deddie

[blinddrew]

head - desk - interface

Sorry to hear that.
Recoverable? Or doornails?

[Dedman]

because it IS my workstation every thing was backed up, but now comes the tedious task of installing the many programs , utilities and libraries as well as the fun of trying to remember passwords for umpteen web sites

[Sonic Mountain]

Bugger. If you use chrome while logged into google it should remember most of your passwords.

When I switched to PC for work is was a very tedious task transferring all my passwords over as I'd been using Safari on the Mac.