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I’m planning on making a video that illustrates how EVERYBODY can make a song, a good song! My first problem now is, which daw should I use? GarageBand would be perfect if it was multiplatform, but it isn’t and I don’t want people to think that Apple is the way to go, if you wanna make music. I mainly use Ableton and so far my best alternative is the trial of Reaper. But please hit me op if you know some nice, creative, free or almost free daw that runs both Mac and win! smile

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From my perspective it really depends on how far you want to go and how much time you are prepared to spend developing product knowledge and designing your work flow.

Reaper is very powerful with a huge user base and heaps of useful tutorials, particularly the stuff by Kenny Gioia. Cakewalk by BandLab is really great also once again there is a fair bit to learn and a lot of useful information with a huge user base.

They are two DAWs that I tend to use I have looked at others but am happy with these. Lately I tend to use Reaper for most stuff.

Either way whatever you decide if you go into correctly you’ll learn heaps. Funny stuff knowledge, sometimes hard to acquire but usually easy to carry.

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Edit: Forgot to add Cakewalk by BandLab is free, Reaper is US$60 but cheap at half the price.


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How about Audacity? It is free and easy to use.

https://www.audacityteam.org/

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Audacity is free and it does have its uses I often look at stuff in Audacity but I would not describe Audacity as a full blown DAW. There are many things a good DAW can do that Audacity (to me as least) seems very limited at.

Editing audio for video can be fairly easily achieved in Cakewalk or Reaper as I understand it.

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Cakewalk Free download and support.

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It's my understanding that Reaper and Cakewalk are good for this, but I can't speak too much on how well they work - I've never used either. I've heard positive things though.


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He asked for a DAW that works on both a PC and a Mac. Cakewalk is PC only but Reaper will work in both OSes.


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Originally Posted By: denmark77
I’m planning on making a video that illustrates how EVERYBODY can make a song, a good song!


Check out this guy's blog. He does videos like that all the time. That should give you some good ideas.

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I would have thought it would be obvious......

Real Band. It's a DAW, it's got a ton of useful features, you just have to take the time to learn them, and...... you already have it if you have Band In A Box.


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I would have thought it would be obvious......

Real Band. It's a DAW, it's got a ton of useful features, you just have to take the time to learn them, and...... you already have it if you have Band In A Box.


At the risk of starting yet another argument I would not put RB in the same league as Cakewalk by BandLab which is also free. I tried RB and to get a workflow like I had in Sonar, Reaper or any of the other DAWs I have used. I found RB laking in functionality. Things like the channel strips in Cakewalk or all the plugins that come with Reaper.

Sorry RB loses for me in the DAWs stakes.

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I would have thought it would be obvious......

Real Band. It's a DAW, it's got a ton of useful features, you just have to take the time to learn them, and...... you already have it if you have Band In A Box.


At the risk of starting yet another argument I would not put RB in the same league as Cakewalk by BandLab which is also free. I tried RB and to get a workflow like I had in Sonar, Reaper or any of the other DAWs I have used. I found RB laking in functionality. Things like the channel strips in Cakewalk or all the plugins that come with Reaper.

Sorry RB loses for me in the DAWs stakes.

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And I totally agree with you. No question. But the OP was looking for a reasonably good DAW for free. He already has RB.

I don't consider RB to be a full featured DAW but it does a good job if you're short of money for one of the big names.

Yeah... I've been a Cakewalk user and still am.... Sonar X1. Love it. But.... I'm also seeing where lots of people are having issues with BLCW. I was considering the jump but decided to stay with my "works perfectly" X1.


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Again guys he is looking for a cheap or free DAW that runs on both Win and Mac OSs.


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At US$60 I consider Reaper really cheap for what you get and it will run on both. Functionality wise I think Reaper is right up there. However, learning wise there is a bit of work.

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Probably Reaper. Reaper runs on a PC or a Mac, the price is right, and there are a lot of folks here (not me) who use it if you need help integrating it with BIAB.


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I’m planning on making a video that illustrates how EVERYBODY can make a song, a good song! My first problem now is, which daw should I use? GarageBand would be perfect if it was multiplatform, but it isn’t and I don’t want people to think that Apple is the way to go, if you wanna make music. I mainly use Ableton and so far my best alternative is the trial of Reaper. But please hit me op if you know some nice, creative, free or almost free daw that runs both Mac and win! smile

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If one googles/bings free daws that work in both mac and win oss you will find a few. Note that I have no experience with any of these but the price is right so you could DL them and decide if one is OK for you.


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I recently started using Cakewalk from bandlab. I'm really liking it and it's free.

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Cakewalk by BandLab is just SONAR reborn and as such it’s very good, but it isn’t available for a Mac.


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