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Location: south east Michigan | Anyone have experience with WavePad?.
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I'm looking for a "user friendly" program.
I've tried Q-base and Reaper.
I used Reaper a couple years ago. I think the size of their user manual has doubled in the last couple years. |
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Location: Connersville, Indiana | Slip I like using my garage band, and logic express on my mac mini. I really like that there is a tutorial you can click on to answer any question you may have. |
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Location: Flahdaw | I'm too stupid to figure out ANY of that software. I'm lucky I can use the Q3 |
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| Just take the plunge. The full-featured DAWs like Reaper and Cubase have tons of features that you might rarely use, unless you do a lot of MIDI and virtual instruments. You can get up and running with basic recording, even multitrack, without a lot of fuss and a shallow learning curve. And if you need to use the more advanced functionality you can pick it up later. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Brad, Cubase and Reaper (and every other DAW) is just like Microsoft Word.
90% of us will use 5-10% of the program and that is all you need....the rest is just handy to have for those moments that never come.
I like the simplicity of the signal path in Cubase and over the years it has gotten to be pretty rock solid and basic recording hasn't changed over the last 7-8 years.
Reaper is nice but at this stage (with v4 coming out) it is a moving target as they keep changing it and adding new features to the mix. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by Slipkid:
Anyone have experience with WavePad?.
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I'm looking for a "user friendly" program.
I've tried Q-base and Reaper.
Maybe give Riffworks Standard a try. It was recently bought by Line6 and has a really simple and intuitive interface. Easy to use and relatively inexpensive to own. |
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Location: Eaton, Indiana | scott lamperd b c (before computers)
old dog, no new tricks :( |
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Location: south east Michigan | Reaper is nice but at this stage (with v4 coming out) it is a moving target as they keep changing it and adding new features to the mix. Yeah... eventually it gets to be like an overloaded Christmas tree about ready to topple under its own weight.
I'm looking into Riffworks.
Specially because I'm using a Line 6 interface.
And to all of ya... thanks for the advise. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | I used Logic Studio 8 (Mac only) but I recently started using Pro Tools 9 and really like it (and its Windows friendly)...there are lots of videos out for step by step help and before long you're up and running... |
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Location: south east Michigan | From one of the reviews of RiffWorks..
Sure, there are other more complicated recording packages, but if you want to focus on your playing as opposed to futzing around, RiffWorks is a great way to get started. Looks like this might be the one. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Good luck with it Brad... |
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Location: south east Michigan | tanks |
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Location: south east Michigan | Looks like Riffworks is set up to record in 8 bar blocks. Then you paste together a song a section at a time.
You are able to lay a vocal track over the whole thing when done.
For those interested here is a tutorial.. HERE
It does seem easy enough to use.
The research continues. |
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