Hi all. Well way after the fact, I finally am taking piano lessons at age 71. Maybe there's still some hope for this old trumpet player? Anyway, I just bought an Alesis q25 keyboard/midi controller. The price was only $59 and it has full size keys (we also have a piano and yamaha dgx 500 keyboard). It came with Ableton Live Lite. It took me some time to get everything installed and working. I've started going through the tutorials which are pretty good, IMO. Up to now, I've been using BIAB and RB. I also have Wavepad which I use once in awhile. I still have a lot to learn about BIAB and RB and have been using RB mainly as my DAW. I'm really a rookie on the sound stuff and have a long way to go. My question is about continuing with Ableton. It does seem like a powerful and complex program from my perspective, at least. I can see many hours invested in learning before even doing simple stuff with it. I didn't buy the keyboard because it had this Ableton DAW with it. So, I would have no problem at all removing it from my laptop. In fact, it installed both the lite and new versions as separate programs and I sure don't need both. Should I just dump it?

Although I have a paid version of Wavepad, I'm not totally happy with it either because NCH Software charges for every upgrade and I don't see any major features added such as PG Music does either. I think that when I got my UA-4x (used with my SD2), it came with a daw--maybe sonic or cubase. That could be a demo version though. I would like something simple and I don't mind paying a few bucks. However, I think that there are a lot of programs out there that try to be all things to all people that are probably too many for me to learn/need. Any suggestions for a simpleton's daw? Thanks.

Stan

Cornet Curmudgeon