Best Recording Software?

Aye.. What Do Yall Think Is The Best Pc Recording Software?
Does Acid Have A Compressor With It?

Best pc recording software IMO is Cool Edit Pro/Adobe Audition

pro tools but i doubt i have the hardware or the resources to afford it

soo get adobe audition

^^ yup i use cool edit tha most...but itz all about whoz behind tha software not tha software itself

they all do tha same thing pretty much

Tru dat. I say get, Adobe Audition. And then find the Waves diamond bundle plugins. Thats all you need really.

Audacity is good as far as free programs go if your planning to buy a program to record with Adobe Audition is nice too hard to go wrong with adobe products. Personally I just use FL Studio for pretty much everything I do, but if I was trying to record live music Adobe Audition would make alot more sense and I'd be more likely to use that.

^ yup same on all that

i like wavepad or cool edit

Do ya'll not know about cakewalk sonar 6? I mean adobe is cool but, come on. Its the most complete program to use.

I use Pro Tools M-Powered. However if you don't have the resources for PT I suggest Sonar 6 or Cubase 4. Adobe is a good editor but probably won't cut it as a sequencer.

i use adobe audition for all my recording stuff excelent stuff u can choose what grave of quality and all

its no different between them and cubase 4 has more options IMO. To me unless you got pro tools HD, you're not running industry standard as they try to say sometimes. But it really doesnt matter in the long run as long as you know what you're doing, and there lies the real key.

Oh and i agree that adobe audition is waaayyy behind in the sequencer department(editing is its focus by far) and i wouldnt record on it myself. But anybody saying the "sound quality" is way better on anything again doesnt know what they are talking about. Either you know how to mix the sound or you dont. But no DAW is going to put you further ahead than any professional using something else. I say grab Pro tools, Nuendo, Cubase 4, or Sonar 6. If you got the money, then buy Pro tools HD and Cubase 4 together. Because nothing comes close to the amount of recording and production options you have on Cubase, but Pro Tools is still a strong player in the DAW community and the main format to exchange files on still. Cubase is gaining ground, but not there yet.

I got Pro Tools because it allowed me to send projects to some partners I have, and they can work with the sessions, among a couple other things. The program is extremely memory intensive, and it slows your work flow down. However the editing capabilities are unmatched as are some of the RTAS only plugins. Truthfully, I would trade for Sonar or Cubase (newest versions, respectively) anyday. They can do just about the same things, at a much faster rate.

Also when choosing between Cubase and Sonar, TRY BOTH OUT! They have very similar features, you need to figure out whats right for you.

Very good points In-Dent. Pro tools definitely has the advantage of being the format people mainly exchange on. But I contend that the VST effects on cubase 4 and the 3rd party vst effects(waves bundle, waves SSL, and Nomad Factory Blue Tubes) are just as good if not better than the RTAS effects in Pro Tools. Either way its like we've both said. All the same and you should decide based on preference.