General Music Chat

my Toneport UX-2 come with a free license to use Ableton 5 recording software .. is it right up there with Garageband? I want sometihing that is easy to operate, and do not want to spend months learning the thing how to check if the Gear Box is t"alking" to the Ableton software checking to see if ASIO card is the correct one? costly upgrades to a XP system I will be eliminating in April cause XP expires then..

Never used it myself. Tammy said that's what came with her Fender amp, but she hasn't been able to figure it out. It's more difficult using one input device and a different output device, I know that.
With most DAWs its a matter of setting the options (input device, output device, drivers), and then the GUI (user interface) is what differentiates one from another.

I just want to know if I'm stuck using Ableton Five since it was what sold with the Line6 Toneport UX-2 interface as a package deal, maybe it is customized for use w/ UX-2 and will be a problem if I use another recording software.. guess I'll continue to learn the Gearbox by Line6 too , since it was packaged together also.. afraid to try mix n' match with other products.. Tascam has a 6 track recorder digital for ?169.00 ? you can bump all the tracks to a master WAV file and export to computer w/ USB cable, then I don't have to figure out the whys it is silent and not working right..

You cna use any DAW, you're not stuck wiht Ableton.
Gearbox (which is no longer supported by Line 6, who BTW were bought by Yamaha) is run as a stand-alone amp sim, then feed the input to a DAW. I use Line 6 PodFarm, which can be used as a stand-alone, or with the full version, inserted as a plug-in in a DAW (allowing you to record a dry signal, then make changes to it after recording).
Listen to my song '50 years Ago' on my BM player - both rhythm guitar tracks were done using PodFarm. I had recorded a couple of other tracks amped, but ended up liking the tone from the PodFarm inserts better.

no wonder I can't get something I bought new years ago, set back in the attic because of frustration and am now playing around with again cause I gotta get my tunes uploaded for the masses to hear..LOL..now Line6 is not replying to my support ticket regarding inability to get my Toneport registered..

1 page of a 28 page introduction chapter, 1 of many chapters.. I did not know I need to be a genius almost to operate it correctly

I just bought a book on how to use Reaper. I got Reaper because it seemed fairly straight forward but now I find I need a book. And a degree in electrical engineering!

Talbot

once again, LOL, I think my CPU is gonna flunk the stress test Ableton has you perform bu clicking a button emitting a pulsed tone out of the puter's spkrs. LOl.. the phreakin cursor disappears for 5 seconds and sheeet turns white w/ (not responding) warnings LOL..don't ya just love it?

I just bought a book on how to use Reaper. I got Reaper because it seemed fairly straight forward but now I find I need a book. And a degree in electrical engineering!

Talbot

Reaper's user manual is over 400 pages, but many of the sections can be put aside for 'later use' (if ever) such as MIDI and advanced routing. I keep a copy on a thumb drive for quick access any time. The user forums at the reaper website are pretty useful, too.
If you've done any recording before, it's pretty straight forward, just need to select input and output devices, create and enable tracks for recording.
Learning how to use Reaper will let you adapt to almost any DAW. Or you can be like my 82-year-old- mother who can't do more than send an email on her computer (yet she manages to download viruses on a regular basis!)


Dane - If your computer is as old as you make it out to be (XP??!!) you may be out of luck. Line 6 was bought out by Yamaha, not sure how quick they are answering support tickets these days. there's also a user forum for help on the line6 website.

Mike, my puter, is a Dell Dimension 2400..which was considered a lower tier quality puter in it's heyday 2001, I bought it new from Dell website back in 2003, XP support expiring in Apr. 8, 2014 has a lot of business owners mad because many businesses are not ready to shell out more big bucks for computers when they are not broken down yet, only MS wants to be selling "new" software as a O/S but, XP still works well for 100's of thousands of business owners like myself..MS wants to profit at entrepreneur's expense..

come on mark, quit deleting your post.. I was gonna call you GLenny Junior..

We were using 'Professional XP' here at work until just recently, now we're on Windows 7 - the fact is that a lot of the newest revisions of add-ons, programs and aps just wouldn't function well on XP.
That you've got a 10-year-old computer that is still functioning is unusual in itself. Think between my wife and I we've gone through 6 computers in that time!

come on mark, quit deleting your post.. I was gonna call you GLenny Junior..

hehehe.

rather than be a smartass....i deleted it because i thought this deserved to stay in the realm of "musical thread".

glad you found it humorous though (as i knew you would).

Patience Dane, it's worth the time and effort.

It was actually someone on here that convinced me to learn my DAW. I use Sonar. At the point I was frustrated and contemplating returning to a straight hardware solution. That was a few years ago and I’m still learning, but I’m glad to have finally taken the leap.

Once you learn to use a DAW it opens up possibilities so much more than recording to a pocket recorder or even multi-track digital recorder.
Yeah, there's a learning curve. There was with the first 4-track cassette recorders, too, and before that using reel-to-reel recorders with "sound on sound".
Any DAW-specific questions can be dressed at specific forums. The ones at homerecording.com are particularly useful.