What DAW are you using?

[paperhatrecords]

Samplitude Pro X. Not even the upgraded version, the one from 15 years ago. I really should upgrade though as the big hindrance is not being able to use VST3. There are a lot of noticeable bugs I am sure have been fixed since then too.

 

[ecc83]

Samplitude Pro X. Not even the upgraded version, the one from 15 years ago. I really should upgrade though as the big hindrance is not being able to use VST3. There are a lot of noticeable bugs I am sure have been fixed since then too.

Hi there! I have used Samplitude for many years and presently have Pro X suite 6 on this laptop along with Pro X2 Silver* which I fire up much more often. I have Pro X suite 3 on an old HP lappy and even SE8 from a magazine freebie years ago! But I am neither musician nor song builder. My son who lives in France is both and uses Sam pro X 3. (and Reaper and the free Cakewalk. note, both might solve your VST3 problem?)

However MAGIX, Samplitude's parent company got into financial difficulties earlier this year, they are still going but the situation is unclear. A new firm called "Boris FX.com have now released Samplitude 2025 and a year's subscription will cost me about £100, something I shall do for my son later this year. Nice guy there you can email <neal@borisfx.com> You can download a complete copy of Sam 2025 for evaluation.

*Sam Silver is free forever and mainly released in America, always takes me a time to track it down. Pretty good but you need to get it activated by MAGIX and I don't know how that works now due to their recent troubles.

Hope this helps?

Dave.

 

[paperhatrecords]

Hi there! I have used Samplitude for many years and presently have Pro X suite 6 on this laptop along with Pro X2 Silver* which I fire up much more often. I have Pro X suite 3 on an old HP lappy and even SE8 from a magazine freebie years ago! But I am neither musician nor song builder. My son who lives in France is both and uses Sam pro X 3. (and Reaper and the free Cakewalk. note, both might solve your VST3 problem?)

However MAGIX, Samplitude's parent company got into financial difficulties earlier this year, they are still going but the situation is unclear. A new firm called "Boris FX.com have now released Samplitude 2025 and a year's subscription will cost me about £100, something I shall do for my son later this year. Nice guy there you can email <neal@borisfx.com> You can download a complete copy of Sam 2025 for evaluation.

*Sam Silver is free forever and mainly released in America, always takes me a time to track it down. Pretty good but you need to get it activated by MAGIX and I don't know how that works now due to their recent troubles.

Hope this helps?

Dave.

Good to know - hadn't followed their financial difficulties. I am a hell no on subscription models for anything. If they go to that I may have to find a different DAW. Sucks.

I can't stand it when companies change their model.

 

[ecc83]

"I can't stand it when companies change their model." Well, strictly speaking they haven't, Borisfx .com have bought them out?

A year's subscription is £110 which is what I shall do. The good news is Sam 2025 supports VST3. If you wanted to change DAWs the most cost effective by far is Cockos Reaper, it is also very powerful and my son is starting to use it more and more. He does still find Samplitude way the best editor though.

Dave.

 

[Count Bassie]

I'm just re-starting my recording thing, got REAPER because later Windows systems won't deal with Cool Edit Pro- I really liked that one for my purposes: it's primarily an editor, and I liked the way it was laid out. I find REAPER to be way too feature-rich for my simpler needs, but you don't have to go deep to be functional. Anyway I'm kind of starting my learning curve again and will stick with what I've got.

 

[ecc83]

I'm just re-starting my recording thing, got REAPER because later Windows systems won't deal with Cool Edit Pro- I really liked that one for my purposes: it's primarily an editor, and I liked the way it was laid out. I find REAPER to be way too feature-rich for my simpler needs, but you don't have to go deep to be functional. Anyway I'm kind of starting my learning curve again and will stick with what I've got.

Have a hack round for the free Samplitide ProX 2 Silver*. Sam is a very good editor. Also, just for editing don't forget Audacity? Runs on anything and totally free and zero hassle. If you use it don't forget to "export as .wav" otherwise nothing else will play the tracks.

*going to have a look myself. https://miditech.de/en/software/

Dave.

 

[RRuskin]

Audition 3 works just fine for me.

 

[TalismanRich]

I'm just re-starting my recording thing, got REAPER because later Windows systems won't deal with Cool Edit Pro- I really liked that one for my purposes: it's primarily an editor, and I liked the way it was laid out. I find REAPER to be way too feature-rich for my simpler needs, but you don't have to go deep to be functional. Anyway I'm kind of starting my learning curve again and will stick with what I've got.

That's something that I discovered early on. Just because you CAN customize it, create a theme, write scripts, do surround sound, etc. etc., doesn't mean you have to do that. I have never once in the 10 years that I've used it, written a script or designed a theme. I use the 5.x theme, that's about as customized as I've gone but that's because I used v5 for so many years.

If you enjoy doing those things, it's a great platform. If you just want to record a few tracks, mix them down and post them on Bandcamp or Youtube, it works great for that too.