Hello everyone,
I'm new to this forum.
Long time ago I was doing a lot of music and recording it with cool edit pro. I stopped playing (moving to an appartment, got a kid etc) but I miss it too much so I got myself a place to jam and record with a laptop and my babyface sound card.
My problem now is that I don't know which software (DAW) to use to record my music. I'm looking for something easy to learn and use (or even feel like if possible) something like cool edit pro but with better sound effects (I remember some of the effects were a bit cheap in cool edit pro) and that is good with midi keynboard too.
Any suggestions ?
Please don't tell me Ableron Live. I got it with my midi keyboard and really gave it a good try, following the tutorials etc. I just don't like the interface.
I got Sonar LE (4) with my sound card 3-4 years ago but didn't try it yet, when I got it I saw was from cakewalk and i used the first version of cakewalk long time ago and wasn't impressed so i didn't touched it. I saw this week a video in YouTube and it seems not too bad, maybe I will give it a try.
I might have an old version of Cubase somewhere too (version 5). My friend is using the new Cubase and told me it's the best with midi. I almost bought it but I saw there was only things for midi in there artist version and it was a bit expensive. Is it worth it ?
Any other suggestions ? (Reaper? Logic? )
I used Fruity Look as a drum machine and wouldn't want it to record other things. I'm not doing electronic music, I'm doing black metal.
My laptop is not a Mac, it has windows 7 pro. It's a i5 with 8 gigs of ram.
My Midi keyboard is a M-AUDIO Axiom 61
It's to record guitar, bass, vocal and midi keyboards.
Thank you in advance for your help!
JD
I'm new to this forum.
Long time ago I was doing a lot of music and recording it with cool edit pro. I stopped playing (moving to an appartment, got a kid etc) but I miss it too much so I got myself a place to jam and record with a laptop and my babyface sound card.
My problem now is that I don't know which software (DAW) to use to record my music. I'm looking for something easy to learn and use (or even feel like if possible) something like cool edit pro but with better sound effects (I remember some of the effects were a bit cheap in cool edit pro) and that is good with midi keynboard too.
Any suggestions ?
Please don't tell me Ableron Live. I got it with my midi keyboard and really gave it a good try, following the tutorials etc. I just don't like the interface.
I got Sonar LE (4) with my sound card 3-4 years ago but didn't try it yet, when I got it I saw was from cakewalk and i used the first version of cakewalk long time ago and wasn't impressed so i didn't touched it. I saw this week a video in YouTube and it seems not too bad, maybe I will give it a try.
I might have an old version of Cubase somewhere too (version 5). My friend is using the new Cubase and told me it's the best with midi. I almost bought it but I saw there was only things for midi in there artist version and it was a bit expensive. Is it worth it ?
Any other suggestions ? (Reaper? Logic? )
I used Fruity Look as a drum machine and wouldn't want it to record other things. I'm not doing electronic music, I'm doing black metal.
My laptop is not a Mac, it has windows 7 pro. It's a i5 with 8 gigs of ram.
My Midi keyboard is a M-AUDIO Axiom 61
It's to record guitar, bass, vocal and midi keyboards.
Thank you in advance for your help!
JD
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