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Robh and Scott, (aka rockstar_not),

Since both of you know a thousand times more than I do about DAW’s, let me ask a very simple question.

For the average home recording artist, is there anything RB can’t do that would prohibit them from recording a perfectly good demo or home CD that would include EQ, Compression and Reverb?



That's a loaded question - with the 'perfectly good' aspect being very subjective in nature.

Here's what folks are starting to expect; since you can do it now on your iPhone.

Amp simulation; realtime, record it, etc. You can get a killer version of Amplitube for your danged iPhone these days and have a Marshall Plexi stack in your pocket as a result. For $39! The interface and the ability to record it.

'Perfectly good' includes that kind of functionality when it works on the iPhone now. That's my opinion.

Assignment of inputs and outputs, slots, etc. seems overly complicated in PG products when I read the help provided here to folks that go 'huh?' when they can't get sound end-to-end for play-through. Watch how often this comes up in the next couple months with Amplitube bundled in. The forums (is that proper plural for forum?) here are already starting to get loaded with those questions.

Now, if your opinion of 'perfectly good' means that one can record an input, apply the treatments you describe, and save out files for a CD - then I say: "Save Your Money", as in all of it, and just use freeware. Audacity, Wavosaur, Podium, several that are bundled with Computer Music magazine, all have this kind of capability, as does Cubase LE which comes bundled with a shed-load of audio interfaces. In fact, I don't know of any audio interface that's on the entry-level side of the business that doesn't include a 'perfectly good' DAW software in the purchase. Many of these have the play-through thing nailed down. Workflow varies in these different bundled DAW softwares, and amount of capability turned off from the non-bundled version varies, but they all provide your definition of 'perfectly good'.

So, kind of a long answer, but it does depend on what you mean by 'perfectly good'.

About that 'thousand times' comment - I couldn't flatpick a bluegrass tune if my life depended on it.


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