Good recording software for mac

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Well ive finally gotten sick of windows and installed mac osx tiger on my pc.

so what good recording programs are there?

all i require is thats it supports vst plugins such as drum kit from hell and has at least 16 audio tracks that can be used in the mixes.

[CUBE]

cubase sx or sl should do the trick for ya

[Bird]

I use the original mbox with PT LE and I haven't had any problems. I also use EZ Drummer, with the Drumkit From Hell add-on, and the Custom & Vintage (Chris Whitten)  package and they all work great.

[gingataff]

Cubase definately I reckon.
Apple's own DAWs (Garageband and the Logics) don't support VSTs.

[FELINEGUITARS]

Well ive finally gotten sick of windows and installed mac osx tiger on my pc..

Are you running it via an emulator because I didnt think that you couldd run OS X native on a Windows machine

[Kilby]

Well ive finally gotten sick of windows and installed mac osx tiger on my pc..

Are you running it via an emulator because I didnt think that you couldd run OS X native on a Windows machine

Heh, it's not very hard to do, though apple don't like you to do so.

It's a matter of using a patched version of the OS.

Only thing to watch out for is sometimes stuff like USB or firewire ports are not always 100% operational

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Well ive finally gotten sick of windows and installed mac osx tiger on my pc..

Are you running it via an emulator because I didnt think that you couldd run OS X native on a Windows machine

Heh, it's not very hard to do, though apple don't like you to do so.

It's a matter of using a patched version of the OS.

Only thing to watch out for is sometimes stuff like USB or firewire ports are not always 100% operational

Yeah thats exactly what im doing its just a patch for the specific cpu that you are using as the ones whilst still basically the same in macs have security coding on them so that it just installs normally.

The patched os just pretends that this is present.

Pretty much like my OEM vista ultimate installation :D

[carlaz]

Cubase definately I reckon.
Apple's own DAWs (Garageband and the Logics) don't support VSTs.

Though an increasing number of plug-ins supplied as VSTs are increasingly also supplied as AUs (Apple's plug-in format).  That's not much help with one's legacy VST stuff, of course -- but switching platforms is like that!

I tried Cubase, but didn't really get on with it.  I really like GarageBand's interface, and it's limitations haven't annoyed me enough yet that I've felt like springing for Logic SE.  On the other hand, I've heard that Logic's interface is not as pleasant as GarageBand's ....

[_tom_]

I use reaper and it works great, works with Ez Drummer as well :D Apparently they're bringing out a version for OS X later this year http://www.c--kos.com/reaper/

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I use reaper and it works great, works with Ez Drummer as well :D Apparently they're bringing out a version for OS X later this year http://www.c--kos.com/reaper/

Is that entirely free?

[_tom_]

Yeah. You get a nag screen to pay for a license for it, just so you dont get that  screen I think, but it works perfectly if you can live with waiting a few seconds to close down the nag screen!

[carlaz]

I use reaper and it works great, works with Ez Drummer as well :D Apparently they're bringing out a version for OS X later this year http://www.c--kos.com/reaper/

Looks cool -- I'll definitely have to check out the proper OS X version when it comes along. (Dunno if I can be arsed to truck with the beta! :))  And USD 40 is almost no money for a piece of software like this!

[_tom_]

Yeah, its a good price for a great piece of software. Only problem I find with it is that I always get lag/latency when recording through it, so I use audacity to record guitar parts, and Reaper for drums/midi and mixing/adding fx. Maybe the lagging is just my computers fault anyway.

Someone on HC recommended it to me, he prefers it over Cubase and Protools etc, and gets great results with it, so it cant be that bad.

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just so long as it works with my toneport and ezdrummer im fine.

[_tom_]

Definitely works with ez drummer, I'm using it as we speak :P  No idea about toneport though.