Musicians' thread.

TheHiveMind said:
You two care to elaborate on some advantages of Reaper and/or short falls of Fruityloops?
Click to expand...

Like any piece of software, they both have their strong areas, and weak areas.

Fruity loops is a much more complete electronic music solution from the get go, and Reaper is the FAR more powerful DAW in general, much for focused in it's intent, but able to do a lot more if you put the time in to learn the software.

I'm a Reaper fanboy of note, so I tend to punt it.

If someone is just wanting to fiddle with electronic stuff, then Fruity Loops would serve them well, but I'd recommend Reaper for a deeper recording experience in general, personally.

At the end of the day though, they are both just tools.

In the context of electronic production though, Reaper falls far short as a standalone package, as it comes with no VST instruments or sounds of any type, but all that can found for free, if you look for five minutes.
 
TheHiveMind said:
You two care to elaborate on some advantages of Reaper and/or short falls of Fruityloops?
Click to expand...

a DAW is a very intimate, personal choice. Reaper's strength lies in it's community, it's stability and fast bug fixes and feature additions. It's incredibly fast and well rounded.

Just like any DAW, it's frustrating and confusing to learn but it seems fiarly consistent compared to 'traditional' DAWs like Pro Tools, Cubase etc; I'd give it a try, it's free to use with just a nag screen when you load it up. It's very cheap to register but bear in mind the two license fees and be honest, should you buy it. (You'll know what I mean if you take the plunge).

Also the great thing about Reaper is that a lot of big companies are taking it seriously, there are professionally produced tutorials for it now, it's very compatible with (probably) every VST on the market. The track I did with Copacetic, The Universe is in Us uses about 8GB of RAM for the session, it's no small project, and it copes flawlessly ;-)

I started using trackers in my day and have only recently, in the last year or so started getting into Reaper and it's time well spent and has been a pleasure to use, and a ton of fun.

I haven't used FL Studio, I suggest you get both and play with them, watch Youtube tutorials, investigate them both and make a purchase. In the end, it's going to shape your creations...
 
copacetic said:
I don't actually even own a guitar currently. :o

I'm playing on a borrowed Mexican American Strat at the moment, it's my friend's, he's working on the cruise-ships at the moment.

What I would recommend, is a versatile guitar for you, one that has both 'strat' and 'Les Paul' characteristics'.

My previous guitar was one of these:

sz520QMBurst.jpg


It's an Ibanez sz520QM, and it's ****ing KICKASS. If you can find one second hand (they are not made any more, at least not the version I had), I can highly recommend it!
Click to expand...

Ah yes I remember you going on about how you regretted selling it. What a beauty :)

Thanks, still have a while to go until I go out and buy something so i'll do some research.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X