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DannyHowe2	Date: February 19, 2007 @ 5:11 PM Just curious what is your favorite multitrack software and wave editor. Mine is the old 2.0 Cool Edit pro and Wavelab. Believe it or not the freeware multitrack audacity is fairly good. Danny
ndstgmoe	Date: February 20, 2007 @ 4:03 PM I use Pro Tools at work and Digital Performer at home. I also used Pro Tools in college a lot, but I still haven't definitively decided which I like better. Maybe DP. It's a bit more intuitive?.. and aesthetically pleasing .. and cheaper.
Veracohr	Date: February 20, 2007 @ 5:48 PM Yeah! Digital Performer! I just bought DP 5.1, skipping a couple revisions from my old 2.72.
tsand20175	Date: February 20, 2007 @ 6:18 PM LogicPro 7 here.
leedsquietman	Date: February 20, 2007 @ 10:25 PM At the moment I'm loving Ableton Live 6, it is just amazing for getting ideas together and being productive, either with samples/loops/midi or real time playing, the session view for auditioning clips and the realtime manipulation of effects, crossfaders and filters is just awesome. For more traditional recording of miced guitars in a timeline, live recordings of audio off a mixer or intensive MIDI editing needs then I still need Cubase SX3 (haven't upgraded to C4 until they sort out some bug fixes yet). I also like Cubase's mixer better so I sometimes rewire Live into it. Basically it's the same as which cars do you like best - some are chevy guys, some like Toyotas most of these apps do the same thing, give or take a function or two and if that function is crucial to you then go with it, otherwise audition them all to taste. PC - Cubase, Sonar, Samplitude, Live, FL, Acid Pro, PoorTools/ProFools (sic), Tracktion, and Reaper (which is amazing for $40) Mac - Logic, DP, Live, Tracktion, PT.
GeneHilbert	Date: February 20, 2007 @ 10:46 PM Cubase 4, doesn't support DX......... That is pretty fucked up. It does have a new protocol called VST3 but at this point 3rd party plugins are behind the curve. I’ll wait…….
leedsquietman	Date: February 20, 2007 @ 11:42 PM Steinberg insist that DX is 'legacy code' and that everyone will be dropping DX. They didn't inform anyone about this until they'd already pocketed some people's cash and those people were posting up notes about why my Waves/Antares DX plugins don't work... They don't even want to be associated with a wrapper (heck, cakewalk needed a wrapper for vst for the longest time). They won't give the vst3 code for anyone just yet, meaning developers will be already looking at other platforms. Stuff is crazy with SB right now. But Cubase 4 does look tasty and most DX plugins do work with a wrapper (although not Antares autotune which is one of the major DX plugins). Luckily for me, all my plugins are vst so it doesn;t affect me, just p***ed off at the poor attitude and terrible customer service/communications from steinberg.
DannyHowe2	Date: February 23, 2007 @ 1:16 AM On 20th Feb 2008, ndstgmoe said: I use Pro Tools at work and Digital Performer at home. I also used Pro Tools in college a lot, but I still haven't definitively decided which I like better. Maybe DP. It's a bit more intuitive?.. and aesthetically pleasing .. and cheaper. That does sound really good especially the cheaper part.
DannyHowe2	Date: February 23, 2007 @ 1:21 AM Thanks to everyone for giving your opinions and you seem very far along with all of this. I hope to be hearing some of your work. Danny
GeneHilbert	Date: February 23, 2007 @ 1:50 AM I haven't heard anyone say this before, isn't Cakewalk 6 still supporting DX?
leedsquietman	Date: February 23, 2007 @ 8:02 AM Yes. Cakewalk have been in bed with Microsoft for a long time, it is rumored that they are going to produce an equivalent 'Garageband' program for Microsoft to sell Vista with, and Sonar 5 and 6 are the only apps where DX plugins (under dx8 standard at least) reveal their inner latency, allowing for plugin delay compensation with DX plugs, SB are kind of pissed about that (doesn't work with Cubase) which is probably part of the reson why they are having this hissy fit and dropped DX support and won't reveal vst3 architecture to 3rd parties yet.
GeneHilbert	Date: February 23, 2007 @ 10:25 AM Pecker-heads
evansorchid	Date: February 23, 2007 @ 10:32 AM I don't reveal my architecture to just anybody either. Uh, what were we talking about.... Oh, Cakewalk rules.... only because I haven't used anything else.
HenriRoger	Date: February 23, 2007 @ 10:20 PM protools le , digi002 , mac book pro
leedsquietman	Date: February 23, 2007 @ 10:45 PM "Pecker-heads" Totally agree with you Gene. You, me and others (Tallisman here and a couple hundred people AT LEAST at cubase.net) feel the same but Steinberg are such arrogant pr*cks that they just say 'well, you might not like it but we're still selling the product at projected rates, so suck it up or choose something else' it's unbelieveable
Tallisman	Date: February 24, 2007 @ 3:57 PM Here I am biting the bullet after Writing and recording this 50 Ways (to Lose your Userbase) Completely in REAPER with a couple of plugs, I have been using C4 exclusively for about a month. Once you know the application and can steer clear of the showstoppers, Nothing beats it. Cubase C4 is fantastic, and when they iron out the crappy broken bits, look out. True the DX thing sux! I lost a coupe of EX EQs, but the New bundled effects kick arsk! as for autotune... visit celemony and trade up to Melodyne (nuff said). Cubase 4 Live 5 (6 soon...) but for the price, REAPER is king of the hill (complete with better routing than anyother DAW, and an update schedule so wuick it is har to keep up with it!) boogie, T
leedsquietman	Date: February 24, 2007 @ 4:07 PM Yep, the broken bits is what's deterring me from upgrading, I will wait at least 1, maybe 2 updates before committing to C4. This rather than the DX plugs as that doesn't affect me but the general attitude I find very poor and I really want to kick Steiny up the ass and not spend any more money on their product, but like those suckers they interview at the gas stations when the price spikes who just numbly go 'oh well, that's the price you pay, I need gas so I'll have to pay it...' (why are there never people who go 'screw this, I'm getting a hybrid' or 'esso can suck on my pole, I'll dust off the bicycle') I too will probably end up biting the bullet and shelling out more like the other subservient zombies...
leflaw	Date: February 24, 2007 @ 7:49 PM protools digi002 for multitrack on a Dual 2.0 gig PowerMac, and wavelab 4.0 on a PC for editing. Audacity on a MacBook, too. Garage band for the loops.
hexagon	Date: February 27, 2007 @ 1:19 AM On 19th Feb 2008, DannyHowe2 said: Just curious what is your favorite multitrack software and wave editor. Danny FlexiMusic Wave Editor is my choice. http://www.fleximusic.com/
theblacklodge	Date: February 28, 2007 @ 10:30 AM I've almost completely been a Logic user (and a mac user), ever since emagic released those last Atari versions, with a key verifier/MIDI interface (oh how I love those combinations) that was the size of a brick! I've tried the other sort of "major applications", in case they were available for mac, and actually used Cubase up until version 5, I believe. Since then it's been Logic for me and I guess my long experience with it has made me somewhat biased towards it. But biased or not I am very satisfied with it's power and what I find, largely intuitive features. I've gotten the impression though, that competition between the "high runners" has evened out a lot of previous quality gaps and differences (much like between the leading operating systems). So, at least from how I percieve it, I would think twice about claims that one of these applications is just so much outrageously better than all the others!
nellym	Date: March 4, 2007 @ 12:54 AM Logic Pro and Reason here. Hey guys I am new to this site. For the life of me I cannot work out how to upload music! Been to the help page etc. Forgive my obtuseness but can someone help me please?
nellym	Date: March 4, 2007 @ 1:29 AM "s ok. Found it thanks.
esalinna	Date: March 7, 2007 @ 5:07 PM Ardour as daw, Audacity or ReZound as wave editor. Both on Linux.
KainerWeissmann	Date: May 4, 2008 @ 11:54 PM Logic8 and Reaper (word up Tallisman!)
Mojosnake	Date: May 5, 2008 @ 2:56 AM garageband 2 , Reason 4 , logic express 7 (though i'm still pretty much at a loss with logic i'm pretty dense and havent figured it out yet )
celtaidd	Date: May 5, 2008 @ 8:27 AM Cubase SX, Wavelab, FL6
leedsquietman	Date: May 5, 2008 @ 3:30 PM Ableton Live 7 Suite for production and Soundforge 8 for editing and mix finalizing. I have Cubase SX3 and I like certain things about it, but in terms of arrangement and composition, nothing beats Live.
Vickxxx	Date: May 6, 2008 @ 8:11 AM Digital Performer 6 & Reason 4