Well, I made up my mind: I got both.
The Samplitude Suite was the cheapest path to Spectralayers Pro 11. I won't be using Samplitude or SoundForge until the Magix Insolvency issues are resolved. Samplitude needs to phone home once a month to remain usable. No response? No DAW.
I'm actually extremely irritated with Magix, because if they had actually spent time developing the products they had, rather than haphazardly buying software IPs and hoping mud would stick to the wall, I believe Samplitude would be a contender for most desirable DAW on the market. But sadly that isn't what happened. And I'm not going to risk getting locked out of my projects because of the incompetence of Magix. I view this suite as buying Spectralayers 50% with a free bundle of software I won't be installing (which is a shame, because despite the warts from negligence, Samplitude is a great DAW).
As I said, I also got Cubase. Going forward, Cubase will be my main DAW for musical composition, coupled with Dorico. That will free me up to go all in on customizing Reaper for sound design, foley, game audio, etc, rather than fighting with a thousand scripts to make Reaper a do-everything DAW. If I get around to setting up a Linux laptop for travel, Reaper of course will get the spotlight for that.
The Samplitude Suite was the cheapest path to Spectralayers Pro 11. I won't be using Samplitude or SoundForge until the Magix Insolvency issues are resolved. Samplitude needs to phone home once a month to remain usable. No response? No DAW.
I'm actually extremely irritated with Magix, because if they had actually spent time developing the products they had, rather than haphazardly buying software IPs and hoping mud would stick to the wall, I believe Samplitude would be a contender for most desirable DAW on the market. But sadly that isn't what happened. And I'm not going to risk getting locked out of my projects because of the incompetence of Magix. I view this suite as buying Spectralayers 50% with a free bundle of software I won't be installing (which is a shame, because despite the warts from negligence, Samplitude is a great DAW).
As I said, I also got Cubase. Going forward, Cubase will be my main DAW for musical composition, coupled with Dorico. That will free me up to go all in on customizing Reaper for sound design, foley, game audio, etc, rather than fighting with a thousand scripts to make Reaper a do-everything DAW. If I get around to setting up a Linux laptop for travel, Reaper of course will get the spotlight for that.
Statistics: Posted by KBSoundSmith — Sun Sep 29, 2024 12:16 am