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by leedsquietman » Sat Sep 11, 2010 4:37 am
Live is still the creative tool you need. After you get your ideas down, then you can render audio or rewire and mix in another app such as Reaper, Cubase, Logic, etc.
I like Reaper but am still too attached to Cubase for mixing, but it's my laptop mobile recording DAW of choice (no dongle to break or lose).
Remember though that Reaper is 4.5 MB because it has no sound content, no sample player, only rudimentary inbuilt synths, no scoring, and is not quite at the peak of MIDI as Logic and Cubase yet, but is improving all the time. I have a big hunch that someone is going to buy it out soon though, like Cool Edit was bought up by Adobe, and then the price will be hiked (or another DAW manufacturer will buy it and then retire it to maintain profitability). Although for 40 bucks you can't go wrong, even if they never updated it again it can do a heck of a lot of stuff well, but you need time and patience to set it up your way, it's flexible as all hell but gives you more than enough rope to hang yourself. It won't hold your hand and be already set up in a nice way like Cubase and Logic, but for anyone who has a bit of experience, powerful, flexible, no dongle, and very worthy once set up.
I think people overhype bloat a lot. In many cases bloat means more features, more plugin FX and more sound content. Live isn't really THAT sluggish (L7.0.18 on Vista and XP), neither are Cubase and Logic. Although Reaper can run the most tracks and plugins that I've seen on several people's machines before it chokes.
