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Hello. I have been offered an opportunity to put some vocals on someone's CD project however, the guy offering asked if I have ProTools, I don't. I hear it is expensive, is there something comparable to ProTools that is not as expensive?
 
Try out Reaper. It's free for 30 days and has a very low price if you choose to buy it. If you're on a Mac, you can always use GarageBand too. The only problem you might run into is if the person who you're doing vocals for intends to send you the Pro Tools file/wants you to send them the Pro Tools file, you won't be able to do that with anything other than Pro Tools. However, you can just send .WAVs of your vocals which should be acceptable.
 
There is always the education edition. It is the SAME EXACT software exept has a sticker on the box, and has a low price tag of $150 for pro tools 8.
No education edition for pro tools 9 yet. Ive been using 8 for awhile and love it.
 
+1 Reaper, it's kinda like cubase, you won't miss out on anything. Also it has a trial for a month, and if you decide to finally buy it, it will be much cheaper. And then, you might want to look for free VST's (on a budget)
 
rysmom1 said:
Hello. I have been offered an opportunity to put some vocals on someone's CD project however, the guy offering asked if I have ProTools, I don't. I hear it is expensive, is there something comparable to ProTools that is not as expensive?
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If someone is asking you to do vocals on their project, why can't you go there and do the recording? Why do you need to get a whole set up yourself? Because it's not just ProTools, it's everything else that goes with it.
 
gecko zzed said:
If someone is asking you to do vocals on their project, why can't you go there and do the recording? Why do you need to get a whole set up yourself? Because it's not just ProTools, it's everything else that goes with it.
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Yeah, I agree.
I am going to try reaper as well;do anybody know rather you can use two different software such as reaper and reason together? or this may cause complications with the software, etc. Thanks!
 
Yes you can use Rewire to run Reaper and Reason together.
Details in the Reaper manual and many users on the Reaper forum doing it.
 
... is there something comparable to ProTools that is not as expensive?

No...if for no other reason than certain standards exist in the professional world.

There are other tools that may perform as well as, or perhaps even better than, Pro Tools does. But that's not the important criteria.

Poke around on this or any of the other "recording" boards; see how many times you read, "I started out with (insert name of another DAW here), but I switched to Pro Tools because that's what clients expect."

No matter what DAW you choose you will face a steep learning curve. Sure, you might can lay down a couple of tracks without cracking the manual (and you can do that with Pro Tools, too), but to really use any DAW you have to spend a lot of time learning how to use it and experimenting with it to learn the "in's and out's".

If you are absolutely sure that you will never ever be a professional in the music business, go ahead and use another DAW.

But if you have even the slightest dream of being a pro in the music biz, you might as well go ahead and learn Pro Tools now. Because you will have to learn it someday. So why waste your time learning something you'll just have to turn around and un-learn later?
 
Standards like CDs or DVD-As? Or SACD and others? ProTools isn't the ONLY thing that will help you get there from here. Some clients might expect it. But who are YOUR clients? The college kid who doesn't know what protools even is? Or RCA? For the clients that require it, make sure that your starting bid is at least the purchase price of ProTools.
 
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But if you have even the slightest dream of being a pro in the music biz, you might as well go ahead and learn Pro Tools now. Because you will have to learn it someday. So why waste your time learning something you'll just have to turn around and un-learn later?
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Why does this sound so wrong? I know lots of pro's who don't use Protools. You can pass around wav files and they can manipulate them on any DAW. Only Protools will read thier files. But wav files work fine in any DAW.
 
What's so different about "learning" PT that you have to "unlearn" something else later???

The only difference I'm aware of is how overpriced the entire PT trip is.
 
I hear more complaints about pro tools than compliments. With all the DAW's available, that may be better or easier than pro tools, I'm not sure why pro tools would be required in pro circles.....
 
Has he actually requested you use Pro Tools? Or has he just asked if you have it. He won't be able to tell the difference to be honest.
 
I use cool edit and im fine with it. Its pretty much what you feel most comfortable using.
 
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