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poojunior has downloaded reaper...
Reaper has a load of good plugins included but a couple of good free vst plugins to add include Tokyo Dawn TDR Nova Dynamic EQ and George Yohng's W1 limiter which is basically a Waves limiter clone.
I have to have ProTools HD and Logic etc but if I was starting again from scratch and wasn't working in a commercial studio environment then it would be literally the only thing I'd look at.
IO routing is incredibly capable.
Pretty much all the live engineers I interact with are using it and have no complaints tracking 60+ channel live gigs.
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Ableton can do tape-style as well, but it's not its strength
Basic version is about £70, but gets bundled with everything
Probably there are some on here with unused licences
Now im starting again and these free videos are a great help. I'm still struggling recording/remembering all the functions etc but i am improving thanks to these lessons and a few sages from here.
Can anyone explain the best way to do multiple takes and select the best one?
I always end up in a jumbled mess when trying to do that.
Yet I've read that this is one of reapers strengths.
In case you haven't guessed I rarely read the instructions for Ikea furniture.
Nothing else I have used takes you away from adding just one more plug in like MB does. You have to use your ears, which to me is what it is all about. Saying that though, you can load it up with plug-ins if you really want to.
Lots of users track in their DAW of choice, and Reaper is as good if not better than most for this, then move to MB for mixing.
This would create Multiple tracks where as you only want multiple takes. see down below.
RTFM. Or watch this video
Just record something, then record over it in the same track. Do that a few times.
Then select the last take (click on it), and listen through until you hear a mistake. Select the area that you want to replace - left-click anywhere in the timeline that's not an audio item, and drag the mouse - it should highlight that section. Don't worry if you're not exact with it - you can move the mouse to the edges of the selection and the cursor will change, thus allowing you to adjust it. Roll the mouse wheel to zoom in if you need to.
Now, right-click and drag to select the item you recorded (with all the takes in it). Press shift-S; this will split the item within the time selection and highlight the area with the mistake in it.
Now press shift-T, and it will select the previous take within the selected section. Keep going until you find a take which is right.
You may get some popping when you play it, as it crosses the boundary between different takes. The way to fix this is to either move the boundary (hover your mouse over the cut point between the sections until the pointer is an arrow pointing both ways, and click and drag) or to crossfade across the break point (hover the mouse left/right over the cut point until it's an arrow pointing only left or right) and extend one section over the other.
Here's an example of multiple takes of a solo DI track with a bit of editing:
I know it seems a little complicated with that description, but it's much easier to deal with than using loads of tracks.
EDIT: I missed the post from @flying_pie - you could just watch that video instead.
Well, apart from the RTFM bit ;-)