Would you believe the best audio software is free? (Reaper)

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Cheaper than Ntracks!
It's gotta run leaner than N, right?
 
like dooood its like sooooo smallllllll fillllleeeeeee to downlooooaaaaaaaddddd :D
 
I didn't like how you cannot resize the frames. It also crashed several times when I went to open plugin's. It seemed to need to rescan them every time I opened the "FX" option.

You cannot make the time line anything other than hours:minutes:seconds. I really like working sometimes in Measure grids.

No markers in the time line.

I could not assign multi outputs. Everything must run into the master buss and to the pair of outputs that you assign via the Preferences. :(

No balloon popups when the cursor hovers over a button to tell you what it is. He should include ESP lessons with the release! :)

I didn't go far enough after all these discoveries to find more. I am sure there is plenty.

I personally ain't a fan of the Vegas layout.

$20 says the author burns out trying to add the features that people are going to want, and/or, he starts running into some hard to fix problems. If some of the other freeware is any indication, this software is going to be feature-lean and buggy for at least another couple years. Unless the guy is totally rich and doesn't have to work, and ENJOYS making complicated free software, getting finishing touches on something like that is very time consuming. I doubt it will be free for long!

It isn't that bad. Just not ready to replace other software yet.
 
So your answer to my original thread title would be a no then? Good, me too.

I actually started to get some glitches today using the new version. I will post a detailed account of the problems though. I am hoping that together we can actually make something useful of this thing. I am a simple software guy, I need a bare minimum of a solid multitracker with a max of a plug or two per channel.

Please folks, keep the reports coming. I plan to use this thread to help the makers of this app develop it further.

Of course if you want to keep paying hundreds for the unsupported crap you are using now go right ahead.
 
Haha, three days into testing and it's finally starting to crack up on me. I seem to be having....well, the same problems I have with Vegas so maybe it's just me.
 
jake-owa said:
Of course if you want to keep paying hundreds for the unsupported crap you are using now go right ahead.

Cakewalk has great support, at least through the forums. So does n-Track, even though it's a bit buggy. Neither of these are crap.

Sheesh...
 
Ok, you got me there. I really don't know what the hell I am talking about.
 
You busting my chops, bro? C-mon- you wouldn't be here if the above were true. Would you?...

Either way, you are pressing a case. So go ahead! But know that this is not a new idea, and some of the bigger cats (read: Un-supportive dealers of crap!) have already been down this road from the beginning of computer-based recording. There are, allegedly, un-supportive companies out there, but they still have a devoted user-base. This Reaper fellow may just be re-inventing the wheel, or simply building a 'better' napkin.

If this app has potential to offer something novel or has itself a niche- or maybe is just useful, solid, and free, that's cool! It'll earn a response. But a 90-lb upstart needs to exercise a little respect for the big guys. Right? I bet he's not making any rash claims about the 'competition'.

n-Track is a good app, but the most die-hard users will tell you it's got some bugs (as I may have mentioned before), and Flavio's been at it a good while now.

I am not an authority on all this- but I know that 2+2=4, and it stands to reason that I make sense here. I'll load this booger when my PC comes back from getting it's upgrade, and when I've run at it good and hard, I'll throw in my less-than-.02 with the rest of this motley crew here!

Allright! :cool:
 
I have tried N-track and it didn't even see my hardware.

I like the idea of a lean app and I plan on staying on this program to try to ensure that it stays this way.

I know that Vegas has been going down the tubes and this program offers a ray of hope for us who want things simpler and more streamlined.
 
Ford Van said:
$20 says the author burns out trying to add the features that people are going to want, and/or, he starts running into some hard to fix problems. If some of the other freeware is any indication, this software is going to be feature-lean and buggy for at least another couple years. Unless the guy is totally rich and doesn't have to work, and ENJOYS making complicated free software, getting finishing touches on something like that is very time consuming. I doubt it will be free for long!


From what I understand, this guy created WinAmp. I'm watching this one closely.
 
James HE said:
From what I understand, this guy created WinAmp. I'm watching this one closely.
Well that explains alot. Winamp is also buggy and caused random freezes on my computers as well as several of my friends computers.
 
jake-owa said:
I have tried N-track and it didn't even see my hardware.

I like the idea of a lean app and I plan on staying on this program to try to ensure that it stays this way.

I know that Vegas has been going down the tubes and this program offers a ray of hope for us who want things simpler and more streamlined.

Hey, I've been as frustrated as anyone with n-Track! I know it's a virtual termite's singles' bar- but if you work with it a bit and get over to the forum you find answers and get it running. The forum is the best asset the program has, I think. And I'm using it in part because of some of the reasons I state in another thread- that most software is too high priced. It's part of a running "argument". :)

Hey I hope this thing becomes what it's supposed to be. I'm pullin' for it!
 
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