Hello thar Elektronaughts
Dipping my toes into using a DAW with AK –– OB. On a tight budget and am considering going to buy Reaper licence or pick up Ableton Intro.
Little Newbie, but have used Reaper a few times and thought it was good. Just wanted to know which would be the best learning tool and best fun with AK - OB. I suppose the Reaper program will be more comprehensive of the two for the dosh.
Any thoughts………………
Dabbled a little with Ableton and use Reaper all the time. They have different orientations. Ableton is very loop-oriented compared to Reaper, at least from my experience.
I don’t have an AK but if you are recording long jam sessions probably either would work. You can get Reaper to do loops as well.
My guess is that Ableton would shine if you are using a lot of sample packs/samples/soft synths for loops. Reaper is probably better for a more traditional “band” setup like guitar, 8 tracks of drums, bass, singer etc. For you I am not sure where you will be given those two extremes. I happen to use Reaper in kind of a loop-ish way sometimes with some of its automation so it can definitely get you part of the way to Ableton.
sounds like either will fill my needs. more traditional in term of my set up: guitars, more guitars and an old drum machine: ) keyboard (AK and Microkorg) are my new projects - hence my leaning to ableton
I suppose the simple solution is
get live intro this month
reaper next month
besty regards
You get a very generous trial period with Reaper. You could, in fact, use it forever without paying if you liked (well, it used to be possible).
If on such a tight budget is jump straight to Reaper. I think you’d be left wanting with Live Intro and always looking for more.