Your Top 5 peices of recording Software

Symatic Star

What is your top 5 peices of recording software and why?
I am using windows vista on a Hp laptop and looking to get a mac.
I am interested in software that runs on both O/S
My experience so far has been with Pro tools, Nuendo, Ableton Live, Cubase, Logic. Not sure on my order guess thats why I am posing the question I am weighing them all up, before move to mac.
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Airlock · Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 9:55 am Post subject:

Reaper. Everything it is supposed to do works, the support forums are the best, and you can't touch any of the others for the price. I don't have any experience on the DAWs you mentioned, YMMV.

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BobTheDog · Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 10:12 am Post subject:

For Macs:

Ableton Live Very Happy

Logic

Max/MSP

Cubase/Nuendo Sad

ProTools

softfin · Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 11:07 am Post subject:

Here goes my list:

Logic (what I currently use as my main daw) Very Happy

Cubase (used to use it a lot, somewhat similar to logic) Smile

Reaper (use it rarely...probable the best rec software for the price!) thumright

Pro tools LE (have it, but rarely use it... Protools HD is better and more in line with other rec software like the ones mentioned above, but PT HD costs way too much and it's not really better than Logic in my opinion) Sad

Symatic Star · Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 9:04 am Post subject:

thanks for the answers so far all interesting, I am leaning towards ableton Live at the moment on pc then on mac next, great fast user friendly interface and love the format of instructions within the panels on the right side of screen...

paugui · Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 1:25 pm Post subject:

Garage Band Very Happy

It's free and it's enough to just record audio tracks.

Will likely start using Ableton Live if I buy a Korg Zero 8, since it includes a version of it.

DES · Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 8:15 am Post subject:

Right now...

Saw Studio for recording. Yea, it's expensive - but it sounds good (at least to me). The midi workshop add-on though is not very usable for me which is why # 2 is.....

Reaper - for the money I think it's hard to beat what this can app can do with regards to recording and midi. I'll do midi work here and then transfer tracks to Saw Studio.

That's pretty much it for now. I used to use Sonar but stopped doing the upgrades after 4. Years ago I tried using Logic for PC - loved the program but it was very unstable. Then it went only Apple (which was probably a good thing) when they bought the company.

loydb · Joined: Feb 04, 2010 Posts: 364 Location: Providence, RI

PC:
Sound Forge 9
Ableton 8
Max for Live
NI Komplete 6 (7 soon!)
Kore