Heads up, Repear ("experimental" but works) is also available on Linux, and so is Bitwig (made by ex Ableton Live devs). Bitwig is currently the best non-FOSS/FLOSS thing out there when it comes...
Heads up, Repear ("experimental" but works) is also available on Linux, and so is Bitwig (made by ex Ableton Live devs). Bitwig is currently the best non-FOSS/FLOSS thing out there when it comes to music production in Linux.
I used Tracktion as my exclusive DAW years ago. It's the most user-friendly DAW I've ever used. Extremely intuitive and very powerful way to record and mix music. I was using it with live...
I used Tracktion as my exclusive DAW years ago. It's the most user-friendly DAW I've ever used. Extremely intuitive and very powerful way to record and mix music. I was using it with live instruments, but I played around with the midi aspects and ended up recording some music using some old-school electric piano VSTs.
This isn't just for people who are hardcore into music recording and mixing; it's useful for the casual user as well. Just being able to import audio and edit it non-destructively, add effects, volume fades, cross-fading between tracks...hell, it even does really nice sidechain compression, useful for podcasts and DJ work (sidechain compression lowers the volume of a background track when a another track is initiated, like a DJ working over a musical bed–the bed lowers to make the vocal more prominent, then comes back up to volume when he's not speaking). It's used constantly in live broadcasting, and being able to it well natively in a DAW is a nice thing to have for pre-recorded commentary. Overall a really solid DAW.
I've never worked in Logic because it's Apple-only. I've seen it in use, but that doesn't tell you much. I'd put it in the "pro-sumer" category, because I haven't heard of many studios using it,...
I've never worked in Logic because it's Apple-only. I've seen it in use, but that doesn't tell you much. I'd put it in the "pro-sumer" category, because I haven't heard of many studios using it, although it's very capable. It's hard to explain how Tracktion is different without actually using it. Your signal chain is all laid out in order right on your main working window, and can be re-ordered using drag-and-drop, something that's not really possible in most DAWs. It has a thing called Rewire (or it was at the time) that allows for heavily complex signal chains to be easily visualized and changed–it's laid out like physical cords would be in a physical setup. Really brilliant to work with. Give it a try if you work with audio.
Now just wait until it's on flathub and we are golden
Heads up, Repear ("experimental" but works) is also available on Linux, and so is Bitwig (made by ex Ableton Live devs). Bitwig is currently the best non-FOSS/FLOSS thing out there when it comes to music production in Linux.
I used Tracktion as my exclusive DAW years ago. It's the most user-friendly DAW I've ever used. Extremely intuitive and very powerful way to record and mix music. I was using it with live instruments, but I played around with the midi aspects and ended up recording some music using some old-school electric piano VSTs.
This isn't just for people who are hardcore into music recording and mixing; it's useful for the casual user as well. Just being able to import audio and edit it non-destructively, add effects, volume fades, cross-fading between tracks...hell, it even does really nice sidechain compression, useful for podcasts and DJ work (sidechain compression lowers the volume of a background track when a another track is initiated, like a DJ working over a musical bed–the bed lowers to make the vocal more prominent, then comes back up to volume when he's not speaking). It's used constantly in live broadcasting, and being able to it well natively in a DAW is a nice thing to have for pre-recorded commentary. Overall a really solid DAW.
How's it compare to Logic Pro X?
I've never worked in Logic because it's Apple-only. I've seen it in use, but that doesn't tell you much. I'd put it in the "pro-sumer" category, because I haven't heard of many studios using it, although it's very capable. It's hard to explain how Tracktion is different without actually using it. Your signal chain is all laid out in order right on your main working window, and can be re-ordered using drag-and-drop, something that's not really possible in most DAWs. It has a thing called Rewire (or it was at the time) that allows for heavily complex signal chains to be easily visualized and changed–it's laid out like physical cords would be in a physical setup. Really brilliant to work with. Give it a try if you work with audio.
Why not link to the actual Tracktion page?
For those having trouble finding the link: https://www.tracktion.com/products/t7-daw
So people that don't know anything about it could get informed by reading this article.
I already have FL Studio, but for $0 it does looks pretty good.