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Yo,

Longtime musician here but never got into recording. What do ppl recommend for a free or relatively inexpensive DAW on MacOS?

I mainly want to record stereo synth, guitar & bass guitar (both direct from preamp), and sequenced drum machine. Possibly would check out MIDI with a global clock, but I’d be much more interested in scoring actual notation (IE Sibelius) than some grid based system.

I’d also like to upgrade my audio interface from 2 to 8+ inputs. Any decent models that I might find used?

Cheers. #asknostr #wavlake

Ava 1y ago

focusrite for the interface. depends on what you want to do. ableton is great for sample based composing and arrangement. reason is awesome for beat creation, sound crafting, and modular synth chaining. for daw, i recommend studio one pro (you can pay monthly for the whole suite) or ardour + bitwig if you want fully open source.

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Ava 1y ago

studio one pro is like logic pro meets pro tools

MF_HODL 1y ago

Wow I forgot about Reason! Didn’t know it was still around.

I used it a bit around 10 years ago, along with Logic. Never learned either deeply.

Seems like Logic or Ableton is probably what I’m looking for

Ava 1y ago

awesome. do check out studio one pro full suite (there's a free trial) if you like logic, you'll love studio one pro imo.

MF_HODL 1y ago

Thanks! Will do.

Tbh I don’t really know what I’m doing wrt the DAW stuff. Used them many years ago, and have watched some videos recently.

I have tons of experience with scoring software like Sibelius, but obvs that’s a different can of worms.