Music making/editing programs

[ZeZipster]

So yeah, what does everyone use here? Does anybody know anything about Adobe Audition 2?

[Meat Puppet]

I use Cakewalk Sonar 5 and Audacity. I'm considering getting FL Studio. But I will need more money and more money and more hdd space before then. I've never used or seen used Adobe Audition 2, and I only heard about it from this annoying fat guy on a bus one time.

[eestlinc]

do you want a sequencer? get logic pro audio, although it's Mac proprietary. but it's the best. Nuendo is pretty good too and is a windows program.

[theundeadhero]

Audacity.

[Samuraid]

For audio editing and post I use Sound Forge 8.

For multitrack recording projects, I use Cakewalk Sonar. (I don't have version 5 yet though )

[nik0tine]

I use Finale 2006 to compose. Does that count?

[hardboiled]

sonar 3 is good.

[o_O]

For sound editing, I use Audacity. It good, and open-source.

For composition, I use a combination od Sibelius, Guitar Pro and mostly FL Studio. Which is not open-source and very expensive. :{

[rubah]

cdex for recording from piano and noteworthy composer for writing midi. I don't do anything fancier than that xD

[ZeZipster]

do you want a sequencer? get logic pro audio, although it's Mac proprietary. but it's the best. Nuendo is pretty good too and is a windows program.

IDK what I want as of this point? Actually, I probably need something idiot proof to get me started, because Adobe Audition just gave me a headache. So far I've tried Acid Xpress, Adobe Audition 2, Fruity Loops, N-Track Studio, Reaper, and I'm trying to get Pro Tools. Acid Xpress is really the only one I can understand I guess it's a sequencer. I'm really lost though.

A friend of mine is in a band, and they really need semi-decent editing for their demo. I also wanna kinda learn synthesizing and stuff.

[Shine On...]

My friend that is in a band and does all of their recording, uses Adobe Auditions, he had Cakewalk Sonar 5, but then he deemed it too challenging and way to complicated for the likes of his tastes so he got rid of it, he loves Adobe Auditions though, and is going to burn it for me, so I can record my solo/acoustic stuff.

[Markus. D]

Acid [number]

though pricey, this is as proffessionalllllllll as it may get.

[eestlinc]

well, the professional standard is Pro Tools, but it's more hardware based than software based.

[Vincent, Thunder God]

Music Maker, it's an excellent MIDI program with 200 instruments, a maximum of 8 tracks, cutting/pasting ability and a huge range of tempo. Unfortunately it is only available with the Adventure Maker (no seperate download). That's how I found it, by downloading the Advenutre Maker to create advenutre games. If anyone wants the program (despite it having to be downloaded with the other program) you can get it here, for free: http://www.adventuremaker.com/downloads.htm

Once you have it, go into tools. There you will find Music Maker.

[isaac17]

Protools LE. Industry standard. I just bought an MBox 2, and Protools and Reason are bundled with it. www.digidesign.com