Audacity vs. Things you have to pay for

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Hi everybody,

I'm not exactly new to this, I am however, quite amatuarish. Anyway, I've noticed that most people tend to use software you have to (or at least are
supposed to) pay for. Which includes shareware. When I first moved from using a stand-alone digital recorder to computer based recording I experimented with verious shareware/free trail software programs as well. But I found that none of them really were comparable to audacity, which is open source and completely free. It's a not-for-profit project that has no built in limitations, it's not just a marketing ploy to get you to buy 'the full version' of some type of software. And it's pretty versatile. You can check out the project here:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Here's a link to a feature list:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/features

Audacity tends to get pretty good user reviews and it's worked Ok with all the projects I want to use it for. It can be very resource intensive (in terms of CPU power required) and the data files are HUGE, but what I've read seems to indicate, if anything, that most other software programs get even worse in these departments. But at the same time, most people who compare the various recording softwares like pro tools, audition, etc. tend not even to include Audacity in thier comparisons.

If you've tried Audacity and some commercial programs I'd really appreciate it if you could post a comparison here.
 
I don't like Audacity.
It's limited, I don't like the sample rate & the file saving system isn't too flash either.
The only other multitracker I've had any real experience with is Cakewalk Pro Audio 9.3 & it's worth what I paid for it & more. I keep learning new things, tricks, pathways, etc so it's a constant learner for me & I like that - also the learning is TOO challenging so I haven't become frustrated with it.
 
I used Audacity to recover headerless wave files from when my old copy of SONAR 2.2XL crashed... now I use DeMuDi linux which usues Ardour but also has Audacity for wave editing...
 
rnms:

I'll try it and see what I think.

I want to try Ardour too.
 
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