Audio Software - Mostly DAWs

Every now and then I sneak off to the growing number of charity shops on the local high street and gorge myself on second hand CDs. Five for two pounds was the best deal I could find the other day. At the more expensive end of the market somebody had been clearing out their U2 albums as I got Joshua …

There are some things that are better left uncounted, like the number of computers under my desk. Five last time I looked. It’s not quite as bad as that, two are on the mend pile and one of the others is a single task machine. It runs Sadie 4 under Windows 2000, and that’s all it does. Why? Well editing …

Man on Fire is a standard Hollywood revenge film made watchable by Denzel Washington. As Denzel blasts his way through the layers of corruption every bent copper claims in mitigation, ‘I’m a professional’.  But Mr. Washington is not impressed by the pro label. What would he make of Cubase Pro 8? Yes, the latest version of one of the icons …

‘How much is too much in the business of pro audio?’, I wondered as I meandered through a blog about audio apps for iOS the other day. Had I been drinking tea I might have resprayed my Benq on coming across the statement that one piece of software was priced ‘at a point that would only be of interest to …

Sequoia is a heavyweight DAW. The packaging is professional, the features are professional — the manual is a book. Yes, a proper bound book. Then there’s the ten installation DVDs. Yes, ten. One for the software, nine for the Independence Sample library and one for the Pro-X suite extra content pack. Eleven DVDs. That’s more than the director’s cut of …

Just when you thought there wasn’t any room in the world for another DAW, along comes a plucky new upstart that starts making waves. But instead of competing in the well stocked end of the pool — where music and post are what matters — Hindenburg is aiming for a much more sparsely populated niche — radio — well actually …