Caltrops - No Stairway to Heaven





	[quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"][quote name="Fullofkittens"]To make the album <i>A House is a Machine For Living</i> I used Cubase. It is very powerful and more straightforward than Ableton and if you have no desire to DJ or play live I would look there before Ableton. The first places I'd look for you, though, Jonesy would be: - <a href="https://www.reaper.fm/">Reaper</a> - which is an indie DAW that is very reasonably priced and does pretty much the same thing that Cubase does. I have friends that are indie acoustic rockers that do all of their recording in this and they love it. I have not used it myself but it is cheap and very well-regarded. [/quote] Would you not recommend Cubase? I downloaded Reaper over the weekend and was not able to figure out on my own how to get it working with my MIDI In. I was pretty cranky coming into the weekend and, having gotten everything talking to each other in Abelton, I know I have to resist the thoughts that come through my head like, "They know what we want to do, why the fuck is it so difficult to make it do this thing?" (AN ASIDE: Pinback once described Apache Tomcat that way many, many years ago. On one hand it is a great way to make you feel that poorly designed things are poorly designed. "These assholes know what we want to do, host a goddamn web page." It is easy to feel superior. But ultimately it's not productive.) I don't need help just yet with Reaper. I'd like to look at it with a fresh mind. But would you recommend it over Cubase? I put a lot of stock in stuff that actually lets people ship. In text adventures, every six months for the last 20 years some impassioned newbie posts a thread talking about the new text adventure system they are working on. You quickly learn that it is useless to them and to you to encourage them until the first game is made. This is another aside, I see.) What blew my mind, and I may have this wrong, is that a hardware synth can make anything from a snare drum to a cow bell to a trumpet to a bass guitar. Unless I have that wrong? Blows my mind! ICJ[/quote]