Recording Software

[jafo37]

Hello All: I was wondering what software for recording each of you use and what you like and dislike about it. I'm currently using Sonar and I like it just fine but i'm curious as to what everyone else here uses.

[davewalton]

Quote:Quote:Hello All: I was wondering what software for recording each of you use and what you like and dislike about it. I'm currently using Sonar and I like it just fine but i'm curious as to what everyone else here uses.Wax Cylinder!I went with Sonar because Wax Cylinder doesn't handle midi very well.

[johnnydean1]

Quote:Quote:Wax Cylinder!I went with Sonar because Wax Cylinder doesn't handle midi very well. Dave,you need to hook it up with the Flux Capicitor.PM me if I can be of any assistance.

[mazz]

I use Digital Performer on Mac. Been using it since the early 90s when it was just Performer. Before that wax cylinder. I had MIDI retrofitted to it in 1983. I like Digital Performer way better. Since I do a ton of MIDI and I know my way around it well, DP works for me. I edit in notation a lot and that is very functional in DP as well. I've heard good and bad about Logic and the same about DP but it's really what you're used to. I've always preferred Macs but I have a PC as well, just for playing back samples.So far I haven't been able to hear what platform anyone's music was created on so hopefully it's still the music that ultimately matters anyway!Mazz

[sgs4u]

Quote:Well... I eat, live and breathe Pro Tools... but...If I had it all to do over again, and was using my own money I would buy the baddest Mac I could afford and go with Logic Pro. IMHO it's the best bang for the buck out there. For $1,000 bucks, you can't match the features and tools, and for midi it's pretty much king of the hill. Yes, I use Logic. It is a beautiful piece of work. Apparently difficult for many people. I have learned maybe 1/10 of it's awesome power. But my pedestal is cracked and my tower is leaning like pizza.Mr Apple, who bought the nice logic program and all their staff from it's makers(emagic), seems to have decided that Logic shall be outmoded soon, to be replaced by what - no one knows. Don't ya just love big corporations? So I'd love to recommend Logic, but I have no idea what is going to happen with it in the next few years. Logic users are pretty fanatical, tho. They'll keep it around for a while yet. As Aub said, Logic is fabulous for midi-minded nerds like myself. I haven't learned any other programs since I dumped my Atari with Edit tracks or whatever it was called. In fact I still have my little JL Cooper box that connected my Atari to a 4 track cassette, then a 1/2" 8 track and all the way to my 16 track(which now lies abandoned in another buddies flooded basement). So if there is anything worth learning, it's ProTools. There are so many studios around the world that it's used in. Kinda like Taxi. Or Windows I guess. There is no real reason to use a different product when almost everyone with credibility uses ProTools. I hear lots of great stuff about Sonar. But just not as many people use it, or transfer files with it from studio to studio. Some day I'll have to learn ProTools as well... steve

[jeffe]

Quote:Quote:Wax Cylinder!I went with Sonar because Wax Cylinder doesn't handle midi very well. Yeah but I heard that Johnny was upgrading to the XL 6 version.That's got sharper needles than before and has a VU meter with a real light bulb in it.

[jeffe]

Quote:I've been out of circulation for a while but the Wax Cylinder thing? That was a joke right?A joke?Johnny is also reportedly in possession of 700 light bulbs that don't work too.

[sgs4u]

really funny

[jeffe]

Quote:Quote:JD, Faraday has discontinued the flux capacitor. You have to use needles these days.Thanx Ed but I'm ahead of you.I just got a new system.It's by a company called HMV.It's got a great bit metal thing on the end,a bit like the end of a Tuba and a dongle.you've never seen a dongle like it.It's massive.You have to keep turning it till it won't turn no more and then you flick a switch and Viola or is it voila the music starts.You will know if you have the right make because it's got a picture of a little doggie listening to the music.I know the doggie's not listening to jeffes music because he doesn't have his paws over his ears!Well. Each to their own.I was trying to think what your music reminded me of Johnny. I am reminded of two old classics when I endeavor to experience your music:"Silence is golden" - Tremeloes."Sound of silence" - Simon & garfunkel

[johnnydean1]

Quote:Quote:Thanx Ed but I'm ahead of you.I just got a new system.It's by a company called HMV.It's got a great bit metal thing on the end,a bit like the end of a Tuba and a dongle.you've never seen a dongle like it.It's massive.You have to keep turning it till it won't turn no more and then you flick a switch and Viola or is it voila the music starts.You will know if you have the right make because it's got a picture of a little doggie listening to the music.I know the doggie's not listening to jeffes music because he doesn't have his paws over his ears!Well. Each to their own.I was trying to think what your music reminded me of Johnny. I am reminded of two old classics when I endeavor to experience your music:"Silence is golden" - Tremeloes."Sound of silence" - Simon & garfunkel jeffe geoff,you will be able to listen to my music soon.It will be hosted by a company called BroadTaxiClickSpace.Should be up about 3017 AD.BTW,already said I like your music.I just thought you would be the least offended by the joke.I have to be careful because I am on my final final warning!!!!