Trying out Reaper to replace Ableton. My copy of Ableton isn't legit and crashes. Pretty impressed with Reaper. Apparently will continue to work after 40 day trial period, relying on an honestly system. It's pretty cheap tho, approx $70.
Still plan to try Ardour the free open source daw. Not sure if anyone has used that here?
Reaper is very nice. I'm not a real pro, I only used it for voice/podcast for producing some smaller shows (including my own) and am very happy with the workflow. Very macro friendly, not the most visual intuitive, but no professional tool is. I think I paid for it before even trying it XD
Never tried it. Just watched the why reaper video on their website. Looks pretty cool. I like that it’s very light
What do you use? I think a legit fully working Ableton is sort of unbeatable. But pricey. Ultimately worth it. But also reaper is pretty great and a fraction of the cost.
Synth, drum machine, mixer. All analog. No computer but very complex sequencer that lets you do pretty much anything (on the synth and the drum machine). Before I would use Ableton.
And even before that I would use Reason
I have a very basic and cheap set up, a cheap synth, a cheap drum machine and a multi fx, but I can barely understand a fraction of each of them lol. I quite like a lofi sound and hardware knobs to twiddle for the nonsense;)
Knobs and buttons are great. You’re actually playing instruments instead of looking at a screen.
Can’t say I master all of it either. But with time I learn a bit more every time I use them
nostr:npub1njst6azswskk5gp3ns8r6nr8nj0qg65acu8gaa2u9yz7yszjxs9s6k7fqx what drum machine do you use?
I love Reaper, it’s my daily driver at home and the 2 studios I work at… you can use it free indefinitely, you just have a pause screen and wait 4 seconds before clicking ‘still evaluating’.
Paid £60 for 2 version numbers and I can use it on as many machines as I like!
Super customisable and someone’s even made an Ableton interface for it, although I’m yet to try that…
Check for Kenny Goia and ReaperTips Blog for help getting started.
Was originally a Pro Tools user, then went to Logic but Reaper defo my fav now, no bloat, just does the job.
I still use Ableton for live but may well try the ‘Ableton’ script once I finish the Liotia album.
nostr:nprofile1qqsqxefne258ydmfgm2wfl02fsdqgs0d5wx29kweg9amxcqxew4t7kqpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtcprdmhxue69uhhg6r9vehhyetnwshxummnw3erztnrdakj7pvj5mv I was sorting of playing with the idea of being limited to audacity lol. But I am far far far from a professional.
I actually really like audacity, that and virtualdj are both free and have some really creative stuff to play with.
But I can't do without the synth1 vst
Like you wanted to see what you could do with just audacity, live on pleb tier?
I only know about voice and podcast/voice production so anything sounds cool to me XD
Yeah, I'm pretty sure there have been some Celer albums made on audacity. Pretty sure he said that anyway. Very believable. I mean it's drone with field recordings. So probably used some hardware and recordings and added effects.
I think it can be good to have some limitations too for sure. I can easily get into a wormhole of playing around with all the stuff and all the tutorials, all the plugins and etc etc and end up not doing anything. I quite like doing that but also I sometimes feel like actually trying to make something (even if no one else finds it listenable lol)
I've made some stuff only using virtualdj as a looper, it is incredibly powerful actually. You can have multiple loops on the go, and effects, they even updated it to have the ability to pretty accurately isolate drums/vocals /etc stems. It's considered amateur tech. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sargent Pepper was made on 2 x 4 track tape machines, that always blows my mind. Just goes to show it’s the creativity of the user that makes things happen.
Limitations are defo good, at the point where I’ve settled down to a handful of tools. In the past I’ve been fooled into thinking ‘if I just get this…’ no idea what I’ve spent over the years but in hindsight only maybe 5% of it is still used.
I’ve a couple of friends I really rate that never moved from Fruity Loops and they do brilliant work.
I did see the Ableton theme they have on offer. I sort of agreed with a comment on Reddit about that tho. You could get used to this theme and then be stuck if the dev stops updating. Not sure if there is a live performance mode for reaper,
I do miss ableton's operator tool. And being able to put an lfo on an lfo on an lfo etc etc (not worked out how to do that on reaper, and not sure if it's possible, I know you can put an lfo on stuff, but not seen a way to put an lfo on an lfo lolol).
Yeah the LFO side of stuff exists but it's not as smooth as the Max 4 Life stuff tbh (unless anyone's made an updated one for Reaper). Good point about the Live shell, hadn't considered that. Good info. I've been using Ableton for live stuff for years (also with VideoSync) and long term I really want to be off Apple products but at the same time, I'm so used to it, and it's served me very well... The only issue I've ever had at a gig is when I stupidly thought I'd put a bitcoin node on the machine I used for gigs! Didn't realise I was online and syncing the whole blockchain in the time between soundcheck and showtime. 10 seconds into the first song, major crash and I had to work on it for 10 minutes in front of 300 people lol, not fun!
In fact just about to press go on an order for the boss for his next tour, moving away from an Allen and Heath ICE multitrack to Ableton, big step for him but it means we can sync video with the band (and stop loads of headaches I currently have with the ICE... long story).
Lolol
The price is so ridiculously cheap for what you get that I will inevitably pay it once I'm more financially stable. Just after one day of trying it out, I'm pretty convinced.
Sounds interesting. 🎶
