Having trouble picking out a DAW

Hello everyone. I am still using my MPC1000 and am starting to create better sequences with it. I want to be able to track it into a DAW and then have greater EQ control over my individual drum tracks like snares, kicks, and what not. I am not sure what DAW would be best for hip-hop too (if there even is one? ) but I have a lot of good WAVES plugins that I want to use in my DAW. I am also thinking of selling my MPC and getting money + Maschine. Not sure folks.

If your looking to be in the industry standard hoe tools
if not ableton is king
if money is a budget reaper

I'm thinking Pro Tools.

Dont let the price on Reaper fool you. Its really powerful. I love the quote they use on the site too:

"I suspect some would be more convinced of its excellence if Cockos significantly raised the license cost, but those in the know (and I consider myself one of that number) simply regard it as a bargain."

"Try it out and judge for yourself."

http://www.reaper.fm/

Anybody know if there is a way to get JUST the software for Pro Tools on Windows XP?

Why the eff are you asking if your already set on pro tools

GTFO

Chill BG, I asked a question too

There's no good reason Pro Tools was considered an "industry standard" other than that it was a closed system where it forced its customers to buy expensive proprietary hardware and overpriced plugins back when there were far less choices and competition around, and a lot of people started falling into the trap. It's no longer as much of an "industry standard" though, thankfully. I can't wait for it to die, to be honest.

If you like having a non-linear pattern sequencer like MPC, I'd recommend Ableton Live.

If you want a typical linear sequencer, I recommend Reaper. While other DAWs like Logic, Cubase, Digital Performer...etc. are all very powerful and deep, they're also very complicated and bloated. Reaper just works and makes sense. Yet, it's still just as powerful and has important features like elastique audio timestretch.

Yeah I'm not sure really, I am consdering Maschine and already have Ableton Live but am struggling with it.

MGStudios wrote:Yeah I'm not sure really, I am consdering Maschine and already have Ableton Live but am struggling with it.

Well, if you already have Live and want to keep it/learn it more than yeah Maschine makes a lot of sense. For example, you can do all your beats/bass...etc. on Maschine and just drag and drop patterns as audio into Live and arrange. Then you can bring in Live's effects and other third party plugins as well. But the same applies for Reaper or any other DAW. So I guess it all depends on knowing what you prefer as far as DAWs go, linear vs. non-linear being the most obvious one. You don't really have to choose that with Live though. I would recommend Live as a DAW/host before anything else because that's what I use and find it to be the most versatile, but also because you already have it.

well I always hear about people buying reaper... however I always assumed it worked on some sort of donation system. I downloaded a full version off the reaper website a while back and didn't see where you had to pay for it...

least you could do is try it out and see if it's for you. I suggest doing the same with audacity and anything else you can grab some sort of functioning demo of... worst comes to worst you learn which one suits you best and you get that.


there are so many DAWs out there to choose from. I mean, cubase works nice, so does sound forge. they are to the point and easy to understand what is going on... do you have an interface of some sort? maybe you could get something like cubase going and record your mpc into it and if you get maschine in the end you could record that with it too... even both at the same time maybe.


pro tools is cool also, if you dont already have an m-box or another interface maybe getting that with pro tools would work for you. I suggest seeing if there is a way to try out pro tools before dropping dough on it just in case yo wind up hating it.

PT 8 with an MBox2

Is that what you got explicit?

MGStudios wrote:Yeah I'm not sure really, I am consdering Maschine and already have Ableton Live but am struggling with it.

what makes you think pro tools is easier if you're trying to learn ?

All the studios I work out of are PT based. Wouldnt have it any other way.