It definitely isn't easy at first, after I got the hang of it I can now do pretty much anything, but it still is a pain sometimes, for example I have a large session with the tempo maps and midi files for the backing tracks of all my band's songs. It's all in one session because I'm constantly changing sounds and I want all songs to have the same basic sounds. The problem is that if I want to move one song in the order (for example the third song put first), then all the tempo markers of the songs after it get all messed up, they move but the midi doesn't so it all falls apart. I still have no solution for this, but it's really a problem for me right now.
To add to the thread, I love Reaper
I have one for you but you should try it because I don't know exactly if it works : put a tempo marker at the beginning of every song, even if it is redundant, so that no matter what every song starts with its tempo marker, and so that recorded audio will be associated with this tempo. Then whenever you want to change order, you ensure that at every one of these song tempo markers all audio are sliced. Now if you move a song around, there should be a way to have it move with this marker, the audio together, and since everything is sliced at the same point, and every song starts with its own marker, even if you put its audio t a different place its tempo will no change and nothing should be messed up.
tl;dr try putting a tempo marker in the beginning of every song
For me :
- Mario Paint Composer (had fun with it as a kid)
- Windows Sound Recorder, experienced the same things as you all, I actually recorded like a whole album of song parodies with friends, with a $5 PC microphone (some kind of flat plastic thing with a hole), on top of avery cheesy backing track we could find. I don't even know how was the workflow
- cracked Acid Pro 2 and a CD with a few loops
- cracked Cool Edit Pro just for a test
- cracked Cubase SX2 I think
- I tried then all the usual suspects, using the demo when it existed or cracked it when it didn't, to see which one I liked more
- I gave a try to Magix Samplitude, and I'm surprised no one mentionned it, it's such a nice DAW or at least at the moment I tried it it was way ahead of the game in terms of possibilities
- But then I fell in love with Reaper and have used it exclusively, I love how light and responsive it is, with no BS packaged in it, never crashes to me (when it does it usually means I have to find the buggy vst or quit some of the 4838 softwares using my CPU on top of reaper)
