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On this thread, we like synthesisers.

I don't really take advantage of all the Daft Punk-esque sample chopping stuff; perhaps I ought to. I just like the drag and drop nature to it all and the fact it's just two screens for everything that you can flip back and forth to.
 
All the cool kids use Ableton. I'm sure I would to if it wasn't a million quid or soemthing :D

I use Reaper. It has it's issues, but then I dont' make time to learn it, too busy writing stuff. I made a bunch of sketchpad song templates for my main synths and scribble stuff down that way.

I would love to use Reaper purely for the reason of supporting the people who make it but when I was learning to use a DAW there were ten million ways to learn how to use and integrate Abelton into any iteration of hardware or software I cared for. Reaper? Nothing but the manual and I tend to have to read them, sleep on it for a few months and then read them again before they start to become slightly less opaque.

How you getting on AverageJoe?
 
Loads of people love Reaper. I was watching something the other day about some pretty big artist and they had Reaper open on a screen in the background. Did you give it a go?
Nope. Although I see little point in learning another DAW if I don’t intend using it. Does it have any advantages over Ableton other than price?
 
I would love to use Reaper purely for the reason of supporting the people who make it but when I was learning to use a DAW there were ten million ways to learn how to use and integrate Abelton into any iteration of hardware or software I cared for. Reaper? Nothing but the manual and I tend to have to read them, sleep on it for a few months and then read them again before they start to become slightly less opaque.
Ableton seems to be very popular and so is a bit of a go to, afaict.

Reaper is very customisable and flexible, apparently. You just have a bit of work up front to customise it. That is something I haven't done much of. I find the midi editor a bit of a chore. I'm sure I could learn better ways of using it but the view options and pointer can be a bit annoying. For example, if you mouse over a note to extend it you might trigger the velocity option instead and just have to fiddle with the position a bit. Also I've noticed that, sometimes, if I Select All the data on screen, it then ends up selecting all the data on every track so if i want to delete taht data I end up deleting everything. That's not intuitive!
 
Can you please say a bit more about what these are?
Cadac channels. Basically a mixing desk that I use as a side car for my desk. Came out of a theatre / Lloyd Webber production.
Squaeky clean, very musical EQs, flexible routing. Using them for vox and drum stems atm, but have bigger plans for them. Need to build a patch bay to fully integrate them into my main desk.

Main Trident desk - good for drive and saturation, rock'n'roll
Cadac side - very clean, almost SSL-style

Got them for a very very good deal when a studio around the corner closed down.
 
Got a cheap, second hand Elektron Model Cycles the other week.
Really getting into it now. It’s a lot of fun
 
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Oh and I am trying to learn the other screen in Ableton. The horizontal one rather than the one with Clips. I think
Cadac channels. Basically a mixing desk that I use as a side car for my desk. Came out of a theatre / Lloyd Webber production.
Squaeky clean, very musical EQs, flexible routing. Using them for vox and drum stems atm, but have bigger plans for them. Need to build a patch bay to fully integrate them into my main desk.

Main Trident desk - good for drive and saturation, rock'n'roll
Cadac side - very clean, almost SSL-style

Got them for a very very good deal when a studio around the corner closed down.

I thought they looked like an SSL-style layout. So you basically send channels into them and then, what? Map each knob to whatever on the desk? Sorry if this is all a bit noob.
 
Nope. Although I see little point in learning another DAW if I don’t intend using it. Does it have any advantages over Ableton other than price?

The footprint is tiny. The price is bloody amazing and it's not Ableton. I could have googled but that's what I actually know right now. I'm sure a Reaper enthusiast will be along at some point.
 
I haven’t used Ableton but reaper is phenomenal. You can do anything you want with it. I think its flexibility is part of the daunting complexity of it. but you can just use it as a single track editor or produce and master 100 track song. It is also really light on resources. Doesn’t come bundled with fancy plug-ins but there’s 1 million companies selling those.
Nope. Although I see little point in learning another DAW if I don’t intend using it. Does it have any advantages over Ableton other than price?
 
I haven’t used Ableton but reaper is phenomenal. You can do anything you want with it. I think its flexibility is part of the daunting complexity of it. but you can just use it as a single track editor or produce and master 100 track song. It is also really light on resources. Doesn’t come bundled with fancy plug-ins but there’s 1 million companies selling those.
The beauty of Ableton is how easy it is to use. It made sense almost immediately. Plus I have the Push to control it. I don’t see the point in learning another DAW.
 
So you basically send channels into them and then, what? Map each knob to whatever on the desk?
Can be anything I want it to be. I can use them as mic or line pres straight into pro tools or I can send busses from pro tools straight into it. Or I can group channels from my main desk into it and use it for sub mixes. Or I can use it as a plug in from my desk and back into it. The possibilities are endless.
 
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Can be anything I want it to be. I can use them as mic or line pres straight into pro tools or I can send busses from pro tools straight into it. Or I can group channels from my main desk into it and use it for sub mixes. Or I can use it as a plug in from my desk and back into it. The possibilities are endless.

The routing stuff out of a daw and back in via hardware channel strips makes my head hurt. :D

Although I can do it a bit on my Soundcraft Signature 12mtk which is my interface, I spose.
 
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I like that. I left it on while I was doing something and remembered at the end that it was yours when I thought "mmmmm".

Cheers. Needs finishing but I want to play around with the piano and massive reverb thing again. I'm still not very good on keys but a piano and huge reverb = instant moody ambience.
 
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