Order Propellerhead Record (for Reason Owners) Software Recording Studio for Musicians

I tried the demo to Record for a couple of months, (fully functional, except you can't open what you save till you buy it).

I have used Pro-Tools, SONAR 8 and always had latency, CPU resource hogging of audio drop out issues with those programs.

Record is not demanding on your system so it runs great, (anyone who has used "Reason" knows that already).

I can even use a crappy Sound Blaster card with it!

Record does not support DX, RTAS or other plug ins you may be used to using with other DAWs, but Record has it's own which I think can achieve the same basic results.

My only beef? No MIDI OUT as of now. Thousands of people are raising their voices about this on Propellerhead's website and perhaps a new downloadable patch will fix that for those of us who own great real synths and want to sequence them with Record.

There also is no support for video, (I'll still have to use SONAR for film/video scoring, unless I want to blindly score to a SMPTE cue sheet, YIKES!)

If you simply want to record audio (I record live groups around town all the time) then this is perfect!

The ID8 virtual instrument sounds pretty good and I will be using it to lay down temp tracks for real musicians to later replace.

If you have Reason, then this will combine all the instruments and effects into one program.

If you do not have Reason, go ahead and buy the combo pack, saves you sone cash and fills out Records capabilities.

I have recorded a couple of sessions on this so far and it has not crashed, locked up, dropped audio or anything like that at all!

I run both my desktop and laptop on XP Pro SP3 (I don't see any reason to getting Vista or Win 7 when XP is faster).Get more detail about Propellerhead Record (for Reason Owners) Software Recording Studio for Musicians.