Since it really costs pennies compared to other DAWs I suggest you give it a try Of course, someone else might find it quite non-intuitive, it really depends on what music you want to do- it certainly won't 'warp' your tracks together, but you can cut everything and glue it in perfect sync because you have all the timing information written for you on screen. And YES, you can record audio to renoise from hardware synths.Īctually, one of the best things about renoise for me is that it's so good at putting together a song that is based on both external audio AND a piano roll. I work in Renoise exclusively now and it sure as hell can be a full on DAW, you just need to get used to a different workflow from the 'usual' one. but it's totally capable of sequencing external gear and may be easier to get going than w/cakewalk or cubase or DP etc. usually i just dump a bunch of audio into it and go from there. i've never used live for sequencing external gear.

which is more spendy and comes w/all kinds of instruments that are mostly good but since you're all hardware you may not use them. i don't really enjoy mixing in it but it's a really easy program to learn and does a lot and w/Max for Live you can add all kinds of really great features. i like live for editing and sometimes record into it.

the audio editing is fantastic as is midi support and if you spend time learning it there's really nothing you can't do and as a bonus you get cross platform support. you can do a ton with it and it's quite innovative but i've never recorded audio form hardware synths into and i don't even know if that's possible but i've seen it FS used on KVR for $40 so kind of a no brainer if you want to really jam with somethingĭP is windows friendly as of DP8 and though it's different to many DAWs in that it's kind of right brained. but it is really awesome and a great work flow once you get used to it. Renoise is great but isn't gonna be a full on DAW for recording/mixing.

If you are all hardware and need good midi/audio recording then i'd look at MOTU DP, Live, cakewalk, cubase

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