Recording Program for Musicians

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I just found a really bad-ass FREE! multitrack recording program on the net......It's called REAPER (sorry no link) found it easily on google...If you've ever used cubase, or pro-tools, you'll love this one....There is even a good forum to check out for support....I loaded it on my lap-top, loaded an ASIO driver for my soundcard, and now all I got do is plug my guitar straight into the mic input on my computer and record away! Very easy, I recomend it for any of you guitar players...

[fattatoo]

Sounds cool, have to check that out. What's the recording quality like?

[L_Pease]

nothin' beats ProTools.

[papadurivage]

nothin' beats ProTools.

Agreed....

[fattatoo]

Any of you try Garage Band (Mac)? It's pretty sweet. All of the samples are realistic...not the 80's midi stuff... not that midi sound doesn't have it's place in rock n roll history. I have found that a few of the sound progs out there have poor quality drum kit samples. But back to the original post...I just tried Reaper out and for being free, it's pretty good.

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nothin' beats ProTools.
oh hell yeah, pro-tools is the best, but I don't have it anymore, so for just demo type applications, Reaper works allright, plus it's free....Now for REALLY recording, I have vintage reel to reel 4 tracks (akai), Mackie board, and a freaking roomful of rack mount crap.....But poor me, my amp head (Marshall JCM 70) and two of my 4x10 cabs are out on tour with a band (Brokencyde) won't get em back till after next years Warped tour....oh, forgot, this was about recording software...anyone ever use cubase le? I have a copy of it I can send someone who needs it, it doesn't work with Windows Vista, so it's worthless to me now...pm me if ya want the cubase disk

[pookie]

icant be doin with recordin program thingy me bobs lol im crap woth stuff like that, thats why i sold my fender and got an acoustic instead

[L_Pease]

oh hell yeah, pro-tools is the best, but I don't have it anymore, so for just demo type applications, Reaper works allright, plus it's free....Now for REALLY recording, I have vintage reel to reel 4 tracks (akai), Mackie board, and a freaking roomful of rack mount crap.....But poor me, my amp head (Marshall JCM 70) and two of my 4x10 cabs are out on tour with a band (Brokencyde) won't get em back till after next years Warped tour....oh, forgot, this was about recording software...anyone ever use cubase le? I have a copy of it I can send someone who needs it, it doesn't work with Windows Vista, so it's worthless to me now...pm me if ya want the cubase disk

I hear ya'. I still track all drums on an old 8-track reel to reel. Nothing like tape compression. After that it gets dumped into ProTools and edited and then built up into a song with all of the additional tracks. I'm a sucker for gear so I barter out for it and check out pawn shops whenever I can for a good buy on good gear. That way if I ever get in a pinch and need to unload I have extra gear so I'm seldom out. Touring takes the life right out of amps...Mine have never been the same.

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Thats what i was worried about, but they (Brokencyde) are getting their breakthrough oppurtunities..I could help, so I did....I don't even like their music much, but they are local boys (I tutored they're guitar player on music theory) and they have a bunch of tattoos from me, so good exposure by them is good exposure for me...Now I really like the idea of using tape compression on a tape track dumped to digital, drums were the only thing I was tracking straight digital (since I'm not much of a drummer) and I haven't been happy with the overall sound, not enough saturation....Thanx L Pease....

[pudscud]

i've been using a br1600cd from boss. it's nice, but i've heard pc recording is less of a pain in the ass.