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A new entry into the DAW market from Propellerhead has been officially announced.
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I'm always interested to see a different take on this software genre. It looks OK to me, but I really don't care much about looks. I can't tell if it's any good unless I try it out.
When trying out a new DAW, the first thing I do is try to split an audio clip. If I have to navigate a menu to do this, the next step is to uninstall the software. Hopefully Record has a sensible (customizable) control scheme.
The arranger looks good. I like how there are no labels or names on the waveforms. One thing about Cubase that really annoys me is the inability to show just a simple waveform with no name or label unless I make the track height insanely small.
The mixer section doesn't interest me much. I'd be happier with a simple VST rack on every track and completely flexible routing.
Reason integration doesn't do anything for me at all. I don't use Reason.
So, that's my first impression. More meh than yeh, but who knows, it could be the case that I can edit at a hundred miles an hour on it, and that's really all that matters.
I signed up for the beta test. The link is on the product page. They don't have anything to download at the moment... My guess is that I'll be fairly low on the list since I don't own any Propellerhead software, and I only created my Propellerhead user account to sign up for the beta test. I guess I'll have to wait and see.
edit: Peter Kirn over at CDM has done an in depth preview with a test copy he's received. The modular track routing looks great. No plug in support (boooooo!). No mention on the editing control scheme - it seems to be a standard tool based scheme.
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Written May 11 2009 , Tags: DAW, beta, propellerhead, record
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I signed up for the beta, as well, but do actually have a couple products registered. This was all but a few hours ago and I've yet to receive a response. I'm just now really starting to focus only on Live and Reason for my main DAW/Soft Synth stuff and am curious if this will add to, take away, or do absolutely nothing for my workflow.
This product sounds like experiments in turd polishing and spin escapades.
This sucks that we have to wait longer now for Reason 5 strange move on phead's part, IMO. The market is overcrowded already. It's hard enough for the various DAWs to distinguish each other, and even those that do (ie. Ableton) end up converging somewhere in the middle as they mature anyway.
Good luck to them, though. Certainly worth a look. lol... i get the impression that the props make fun of their userbase in their promo vids.
i'd say rediciulous. best thing is the copy protection scheme, where you have to be connected to the internet to run it. or use just another dongle. this is so LOL.
Eh, I just don't think we're the intended audience for this. Seems better than Garageband to me :p
true. but still the protection scheme is just plain weird. i hope this will stay a propellerhead thing only
"Full-featured MIDI sequencer"
"No MIDI out" DOES NOT COMPUTE supposedly they have a pretty big dev team at propellerhead hq these days. maybe they have a separate team working on reason 5? i sure hope so. i like the sound of the ssl clone mixing desk in record, but otherwise kind of underwhelmed. but, of course playing with the beta may change my mind. still looking forward to reason 5 though.
When trying out a new DAW, the first thing I do is try to split an audio clip. If I have to navigate a menu to do this, the next step is to uninstall the software. Hahaha. Well put. What I really want is a Native Instruments DAW with full Reaktor integration...
It would probably need about 8 Core i7 965s to run smooth though. i just wish they were doing Reaktor for Live.
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why isn't it just an addition to reason, seems greedy to make recording a separated product because it will pobably cost as much as reason.
all I really want is soundforge, with multi-track.
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