Need help finding new DAW software.

[kboman]

Reviving this thread...

So I've just downloaded and briefly tried Audacity and Reaper. Audacity was absolutely horrendous and I will have nothing to do with it. Reaper looks more promising, but it's very difficult to make it work! I'd like to avoid having to go back to my ancient Cubase 4LE, but when I can't even get something as basic as an input meter, I don't know why I should bother with Reaper.

Anyone who can help with this? I'm basically trying to get Guitar Rig to work with it: I can be happy with pretty much any other limitations and/or weirdness from my DAW as long as I can just record my guitar.

EDIT: Well hey, I finally found it. Evaluation continuing...

 

[elfro89]

That's great man, keep it up I'll be interested to see what you make of it. Just been using cubase 6 the past week and it's great, I love the mastering tools on it, I'm getting near cd worthy results

 

[taez555]

I just started using Reaper last month after finally upgrading my 10 year old studio from a mac g4 running Digital Performer to now running reaper through a new pc laptop with a focusrite 18i6 as my interface and I also picked up NI Komplete8 (guitarrig, kotakt, massive, etc) for base instruments.    It's pretty crazy, I have a damn degree in Recording and am still learning the ropes with Reaper. (Although I did already go ahead and purchase it)

There's definitely a huge learning curve(much more than I anticipated), but it seems like there's not much it can't do and that's what I really like about it so far.  If you already understand the basics of DAW's and recording; ins and outs, busing, midi etc... it's just a matter knowing what you want to do and figuring out how this particular software does it.   

On top of that, every day I play it with I find new features that I may not have thought I wanted or needed, but it's great to know it has the flexability.  Especially myself as someone who learned recording on actual consoles and tape, it's cool to see things in there that aren't dumbed down.  It just reinforces to me that this software isn't just some cheap freeware.  It runs all my VST plugs flawlessly, and  it definitely can hold it's own against protools.  (Although, had money been no issue that would have been my first choice)

Anyway.. Good luck!!!  I'm there with you (Took me a while to figure out Virtual instruments too).