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Garage Band for Windows?

#3
Audacity is free and pretty easy to use. I have never had any luck laying down multiple tracks and getting them to line up correctly, but I am sure that is more to do with me not knowing what I am doing, than the software itself. I use it to record sound samples of my bass and guitar builds. It works great for what I use it for.
 
#4
Audacity yeah.
I use Ableton Live when I record ideas. It has midi and direct recording.
I program drum tracks in Fruity Loops.

Neither Fl Studio nor Ableton are free, doesn't mean I didn't get them free.
Ableton Live Lite Fender edition is what I have, got it with my Fender Mustang.
 
#6
I've used Mixcraft. It's pretty good, but no garageband. I like garageband so much, I bought a mac just for it. because the truth is........i absolutely hate macs for everything else. That's how much i liked Garageband (i only got to try it in the first place cause my gf had a mac that since passed...) It's nice anyway to have a computer dedicated only to recording. But yeah, i don't know audacity, but i'd reccomend Mixcraft. I still use it to make beats with Superior Drummer.
 
#14
Lots of opinions on DAWs. I've used Audacity and others. Now I'm a big fan of Presonus Studio One. They offer a free version that's pretty versatile. $100 buys you a huge upgrade with tons of effects and instruments. Basically it gives you the power of ProTools or Logic that is much simpler to use. And without the headaches you often run into with hardware glitches. Studio One works on about any Windows machine.

http://www.presonus.com/products/studio-one
 
#17
Audacity is a wonderful wave editor. If you're simply looking to record a sound and then do very minor editing, Audacity is very simple to use and powerful. I tend to use it to trim tracks and prepare them for entering into a DAW project. When I was studying for my degree, I used Audacity extensively for quick and accurate wave editing.

For the DAW, I use Reaper. I take my edited wave files and arrange them in Reaper. I have a paid-for version. It's identical to the trial version. No complaints whatsoever, it's very good. Until I bought Reaper, I'd been using Logic for about 8 years and had used every version from 5 to 9.
 
#19
At this point I don't really miss my Mac much, but I definitely miss Garage Band. I tried Reaper and couldn't get past the GUI. I ended up getting Cubase and after some initial pains I'm now using it at the same level I used GB and I'm pretty happy with it. The Steingberg CI2 interface is cheap and comes bundled with a lower-level version of Cubase that works just fine.
 

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