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.

Have fun

Tony

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


Last edited by Teunis; 02/14/19 11:52 PM.
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