On 20 Apr 2014 02:36, "Atte" <atte@youmail.dk> wrote:
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> On 04/19/2014 06:36 PM, Len Ovens wrote:
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>> So some of us are "handicapped" when it comes to commenting on
>> commercial SW.
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> Fair enough!
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> To me the $60 for a license was not nearly enough to stop me. I use my DAW(s) *alot* I even make some money with it from time to time, so I simply need something that works. I feel bitwig is expensive at 300 euros is a bit expensive, though...
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It's completely free to try Reaper tho..

I did try it a while back but stopped after only a short try out because I couldn't work out how to do audio punch-in recording (also a problem with qtractor and rosegarden for me last time I tried it). Also there was some suggestion that reaper on wine didn't scale that well with multiple tracks vs. Windows. Didn't have a change to test that tho. I also got too caught up with trying which vsts I could get to work stably and wasted a lot of time!!!

In the end I do most of my live recordings in mixbus which is quite good but fairly heavy to run, and no midi, which is a bit of a problem but jack transport with hydrogen/seq24 is quite good. Last time I tried ardour 3 it wasn't quite there for me. For electronic or loop-based live instruments I still think renoise is the best option.

J