PG Music Home Forums General Discussion Help! Tech S.O.S (Off topic) TEST BENCHMARKS OF VARIOUS DAW MULTITRACK SOFTWARE AND AUDIO INTERFACES.

charlie.
my reply/thoughts.

i welcome intelligent "friendly" discussion like this.
even if ones views are different to the other persons.
every happiness to you charlie.

you have a heck of a lot of firepower there.
and a lot of flexibility.

re MTRs. i have always had really poor eyesight forever since i was a kid.
so i use strong corrective eyewear of course, but its still a pain.lol. thus a problem with small screens.

i was purely wondering if the MTR use was because of any problems or frustrations with the usb audio interface. so thanks for clarifying that.
obviously your a seasoned user of biab rather than a new user that typically has a learning curve involved with setting up a computer as a recording studio.
in a previous life i made some pretty decent mic preamps for my use, but now the audio interfaces contain pretty decent ones. so no point.
if one has a low output dynamic mic, just use an in line booster for dynamics outputting to line in of the sound interface.
funnily enough , even though i have more than a few mics/gear lol i rather like the tascam tm 80 mic.
once i heard it on an opera singer , i was sold. so i'm not surprised some MTRs mics can be used.

i often recommend a new user to contact a company that specialises in building custom computers for recording studios.
like say scan uk , or sweetwater or others one can find by googling.
a TURNKEY deal, where just turn it on and the interface is pre installed etc etc,
and the computer is optimised for daw/recording studio work.
saves a lot of set up problems for a new user.
but of course things can get pricey, particularly at several thousand dollars because of high end processor prices between one and two thousand dollars for just the processor alone !!

but even then ive seen the odd problem. not lots, just the odd one here and there which any reputable vendor rapidly fixes. ive never bought a custom job myself because of my tech background, as i know how to deal with the set ups and other craziness/problems. lol.

frankly, and full disclosure, ive done over 90 songs in biab. from scratch ideas to full blown songs in conjunction with the daw i use. i do everything on the one refurb computer without problem. (an old powertraks user lol.)
beds/scratch in biab then off to the daw. rinse and repeat. biab traks >> daw.
i dont believe in scads of traks and plug ins.
my own methodology is if i have to use 80 traks and another ton of plug ins for example , i should re-evaluate the song. maybe the song is just no good.
i force myself to make hard song decisions, like they did in the old days with a few traks. eg studer b67's
i contend that if george martin had just biab/RB/reaper or any other daw , he would produce great songs. why ?? because the beatles had great songs.
so if i fail, its my own stupidity.

(BTW as an aside , what happened to PG user MAC ??. ton of experience he had. miss him.
hope he is ok. highly respected on these forums. was a user of multitrack studio.
little known daw but highly rated if i remember.
i was checking out MTS recently at multitrackstudio.com. its come a long way. now versions for tablet etc. i tested it once and no problems. )

BTW. i always pay for software, but i refuse to buy products with usb dongles, because you end up with a nest of them. it ends up in maintenance headaches for the user.

respectfully.
muso.