REAPER

I used to dabble with Adobe Audition back in the day.

I also used Reaper.

But lately, I've been leaning onto Descript and Auphonic a bit too much, although the thing is I'm not starting from zero at all.

Uh, I already have, you know, that basic EQ, compression knowledge, and all of that.

[gentle music] Also, you should get super specific about what you want at the end, at the finish line.

Because if you say something vague like, "I want to be able to understand After Effects," well, that's not gonna do much, right? You better try something like, "In six weeks, I want to take one of my existing static logos and build a small motion system for it, animated type, a logo animation, and a couple of transitions." So now there's something to build backwards from.

In my case, for my audio engineering course, uh, I stated something like, "At the end of six weeks," or however long it was, "I wanna be able to listen to a bad recording, name the problem before opening an EQ, apply a restrained fix, and stop depending on a preset to decide for me." So what my six-week course ended up being some Reaper, Reaper tutorials EQ, ear training, uh, then compression and de-essing, then noise and dialogue repair, then iZotope RX, and then pulling all of that into one workflow.

Also, it wasn't a few prompts.

But hey, you know.

So I use Reaper.

I use...

Ableton and I use Logic it's sort of equal but those are the three that I hover but I'm not really making I'm not doing project work anymore I'm not really kind of involved in that sort of big gotta get my act together sort of door work.

Trying to, trying to kind of take on a bit more variety right now.

Like I'm in the process of kind of mainlining Reaper when it comes to like contract work and stuff like that, because for-

Okay

... like I'm a sound designer for games and, and that-

It is something to play around, something to get started with, uh, not the big thing.

You know, it's not like Reaper sitting over here, all the stuff you see flashing around in the background, hooked up to the control surface and all that.

And I'm like, "Okay, maybe, maybe more than a simple thing." I get it.

Uh, still a gang of technical debt under the hood they need to pay off.

[laughs]

And so they gotta get that fixed, 'cause that's like a very base thing you need in any digital audio workstation.

You expect that in Reaper.

You expect that in LLMS.

If you're using Adobe Audition, which I do every day, it's a great piece of work.

But if you used Audacity in the past and you moved on to something like Audition or Reaper or Pro Tools and you're thinking, you know, maybe it's time to give Audacity a look again, I would say, yeah, now is a good time.

It has a great community around it and you can do just about everything you need with it.

I would say, yeah, look at it again.