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OK, over the years I have tried and used many different DAW apps. At this point I'm kind of wondering what everyone thinks is the easiest or simplest of the bunch. I personally feel that Garageband is the easiest I've used, unfortunately my old iBook G4 can't do much with it. Also the fact...

Must...have...it.... Seriously, this update seems to address every freaking thing I didn't like about PT. I will upgrade for sure although I may hold off until after the first update, just to let the early adopters shake the bugs out.

Absolutely. In fact I believe when you pull an acidized loop into reaper it will adjust it to tempo withour altering pitch automatically. However, if you change tempo, the loops do not adjust automatically and you need to do it yourself. Al you have to do is hit alt and left-click and drag...

I haven't used a creative card in years, although my first recordings were done on one since it is what I had at the time. I have since bought a few different audio interfaces created specifically for recording and I wouldn't ever go back. Before you buy, take a look at what M-audio has...

I think Audacity is OK to mix with, as long as you back up all your original .wav files so you can go back if you don't like your edits. Actually I just don't like it because it sounds a bit muddy to me when mixing. I am not sure of the specs of the mixing engine, but there it is. If you are...

There are many things to consider when buying any computer. In particular, you should consider that a Mac Pro (the tower) has the most power and is the most upgradeable, and the notebooks and the iMac have decent power, but have extremely limited upgrade potential. However, both the notebooks...

I prefer melodyne. I generally record some vocal takes, do a comp if I have to, and then once I have a full track I bring it into melodyne. I find it much easier to use than Autotune's graphical mode, and far superior to Autotune's automatic. There is an automatic mode in Melodyne too, but in...

First of all, debating the whole 24 vs 16, 44.1 vs 96 really doesn't answer this guys question. I haven't used Cakewalk Pro 9 in many years, but I would go in and make sure you are using the most recent drivers from M-audio's website. Also check the mode the drivers are in. In may make a...

I know that Cakewalk prohibits selling software you've bought from them, which is lame and people do it anyway, but it totally depends on the software. You have to wade through the license agreement to find out for sure.

Easy way is to check out the drivers. If you take a look at the drivers for the Fasttrack Pro, you'll see that they offer separate drivers for PPC based macs and Intel based macs up until 10.4.11, after that if you look at the driver descriptions you'll see that for 10.4.11 and 10.5.1 the...

Mine is a 4 port hub that will run powered and unpowered. It has an ac in, plus the cable to connect to the PC is a Y cable with two USB ends, the second end is red and is to draw additional power only if you need it but can't connect the hub to ac power (very useful for laptops). I bought it...

OK, first of all, saying that Reaper does not have a "pro" feel is a bit too much for me. Defining that feel is so subjective that it is pointless. After all, none of the so-called "pro" apps share the same feel. I have bought PT M-Powered, Logic Express, and tried cubase in my looking for...

That is actually pretty inaccurate. N-track's pricing scheme involves limited functionality and the demo is limited. To buy N-track, you pay $54.00 for the 16bit version and $79.00 for the 24bit version. You can upgrade from 16 to 24 bits by paying the difference. Reaper provides a free...

Addictive Drums

I have searched all over for free RTAS and can't find any. I just ended up buying the fxpansion VST - RTAS adapter and got some good free VST I found on KVR. It works great.

Nope. All versions of PT require their respective hardware. M-Powered requires a appropriate M-Audio interface AND a Dongle. No one has come up with any hack for it.

A Core Duo with a gig of Ram is a good start. I do pretty well on my PC with an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ with 1 gig of RAM. I have used BFD on it a few times (I switched to Addictive Drums) with no problems. I usually create my drum tracks and then move them over to wavs so I can unload the...

I have the first version of Tracktion (they had a free release through a magazine) and it is good. I also have tried Cubase and I hated it's UI. Reaper is one of the easiest I know of to get started in, although there are lots of things it can do that aren't readily apparent at first. Check...

Logic doesn't support VST natively, but fxpansion has a VST to AU wrapper that works very well.

Reaper is great. It has pretty much everything that PT has. But the best thing is that you can explore it totally for free. As far as PT goes, you will not be able to do any rendering with the demo. I can tell you that what you want to do is fairly easy with the full version. It is more...