Tascam DP24 and Mixing and Mastering software

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I was just wondering if any DP24/32 users out their, use Mixing and Mastering software to complete there songs after using the DP24 to record, or do you
use the on-board mixing and mastering capabilities of the DP24,
If so, what software do you use and why?
Any samples of your songs would be great too, but only if you can.
Thanks
 
i never actually finished more than one song on my DP-32 before i axed it, but always planned on doing the final touches outboard, on a PC - that would be pretty much standard fare for most people i think, because it is much simpler to do and you have a wider array of tools to use in a basic sound app on PC than you have in the DP.

many songs want a fade-in or fade-out and that is much neater done in a sound editor. you also mentioned mastering; that assumes you have two or more songs and you want to make them similar volume-wise and tonally, so they sound 'right' played one after the other. that kind of thing is also much easier in an editor, where you can have all your .wav's open at once and can A/B between them instantly

i use Sound Forge and WaveLab but there is another out there called Audacity which i believe is still free to download and use, and has a good feature set. perhaps try that one first, it will probably do everything you want.
 
That is the only way I do it. I use the 24 for tracking only, then move everything into a DAW. I use REAPER because it is cheap and very good. When I'm done tracking I just clean up the folder (I think it's called delete unused media) and then copy the files out of the SD card. One tip...If you have some tracks where you punch in in the middle of the song like a lead solo, try bouncing that track to another. This will give your bounced track the same length as the full tracks and it will line up correctly in the DAW. Otherwise you have a track that starts at let's say 2:00 but comes into to reaper at 00:00 and you have to sync it manually.
 
I still have my DP-24 and used to do all my tracking, mixing and mastering on it.......even though the on-board tools for both were not really great. Then, after a while, I was still doing my multi-tracking on the DP-24.........and my mix-down.....(no "mastering" as Tascam calls it) and then moved the two track stereo song to Reaper for the much better tools for finishing / mastering work. Then.......as you can probably guess....it became obvious that the DP-24....while easy to use and much more conducive to the creative process as regards ease of transport functions....etc.....just was not able to bring enough track tools and effects to the process as Reaper.......so........now I do it all with Reaper. I tell you this because the first sign for me that the DP-24 wasn't going to be my last stop was when I realized I couldn't "finish" a song on it because the two track effects were less than desired. It seems that you might be at that point too.
 
I'm sure a lot of people use the 24 as a full stand alone porta-studio. But for me, because I take evrything into a DAW, my "dream machine" would be a smaller unit with just the transport functions and more of the production cost applied to the preamps and build quality of the faders and hardware. For instance I would love to have attenuation pad on the inputs and maybe even a low-cut.
But in any case I love my 24. I think it's killer bang for the buck.
 
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