salamaundra

it’s time to start my new year resolutions:

software to dig more :
Ableton Live is a great tool, and Max4Live is very sexy…spanky….but expensive…(and the marketing of it starts to be a bit annoying).

instead I am very intrigued by a couple of softwares that are very cheap…real bargains considered the quality…I can buy both of them
and still I am saving some dosh to go out on NYE (instead of buying the spanky max4live).

Renoise
a mod tracker…works like the old digital sequencers of 25 years ago…no timeline, no clips, NUMBERS.
great for obscure techno…but actually you can do anything with it… only 49 euros !
watch what you can do with Renoise and a Launchpad

Reaper
a “normal” DAW (like Cubase, Logic)…but slimmer and smarter than those bloated whales…I love the GUI and more than anything I love their anti marketing campaign..

you can read on the website:

Honest Business Model
We offer a good product at a fair price.
We don’t spend money and effort on marketing, complicated piracy protection, or other things that do not directly improve REAPER and the user experience.
We think the good will generated by playing fair and being responsive to users is more valuable to our business than short-term profits.

No Intrusive Copy Protection
We believe that technological enforcement of copy protection is not in the best interest of our customers.

a full license cost 225$….BUT…if you are just playing with it and not macking any money…or even if your income from music is less than 20.000$ a year
(and I def make less than 20 grand a year from music), you can get the discounted license for 60$ !
(and anyway if you are a pirate you don’t need to crack it…but only deal with your karma).

on the top of that it works really well, has many plug ins included, and does internet streaming with Ninjam…and aldo distribute the cpu over your network…guck yeah :-)
…it was about time… I am sold…actually…I am buying it.