anonymous
4 April 2003
I am about to be in the market for a DAW I believe. Any suggestions? I was just trying to edit some drums on my Fostex VF-160 and I couldn't do what I needed to do. I was just trying to cut out a crappy fill and either replace it with another, or just graft a straight 4/4 back over it. I went into scrub zoom and when I set a mark, it would not cut on my mark! Also I tried to copy a kick drum hit, so I could move it somewhere else, and apparently I can't edit such a small bit of data. I am pretty disappointed. So anyway, are all the computer based DAW's able to do this type of editing or what? I was looking at Cubase SX btw. If one of the others is a lot better for more money, I would consider it also.
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Kev1 I did finally buy a DAW, but I'm afraid being married and
Kev1
I did finally buy a DAW, but I'm afraid being married and putting my wife through school, I couldn't afford to get what I wanted. I pretty much went the cheaper way, and picked up Cakewalk 9.0 for $100 used. I tried it out for free for a while first. I am very comfortable with this program, but I don't lean on it too hard.
I transport my Fostex vf-160 to my practice room then bring it back and load the stuff on to Cakewalk. Overall I would say that this program does what I need it to do, but we spend extra time making sure things are right when we leave the session. Harmonies are tight with the vocal tracks, drums are "straight", etc. This is the only way I know how to do things. There may be some things out there that would save me some time, but it seems like fixing things on the computer is cheesy if you use it too much. If I use the DAW to change tempo or pitch for example, I hear too much "digital" stuff going on. So basically all I use it for is to clean up and align tracks, light EQ and effects, and mixdown.