As we all know, finidng good information on the internet can be a difficult task. Search engines don't always supply you with exactly what you're looking for and that can lead to an exhausting process of searching site by site. When it comes to quality reviews about music software things are no different. Usually if I do a search to find a review on music software, mixing software, audio editing software... almost always I only come across the manufacterer of the softwares webpage. After that its mostly just online vendors websites where I can go to buy the software. Occassionaly they'll be maybe a forum or blog post with some minimal information. Its definitely a frustrating process.
Music software comes in all types. Like I stated above the types im talking about have to do with audio production. Within this niche are audio editing software, audio mixing software, beat making software ect... Most programs on the market do all these things. There are endless options when it comes to programs for audio engineering and the idea of choosing the right one can be very daunting. In my years as a mix engineer ive worked on almost all of them. Spending endless hours in the studio trying to figure out each program to see exactly what it does. Wasting weeks of my life trying to understand if these programs would be the right one for me. I always wished the reviews on these pieces of software were better. If someone with some real world experience could detail what they thought I wouldnt have had to waste so much time. Its always seemed odd to me that there wasn't much good information out there. Im not going to say there are none. Things like sound on sound are a great place for reviews. Gearslutz is also a great forum to find out reviews from real world users. It may take a bit of searching to find exactly what you're looking for but at least the reviews are quality. These places are also good because they are update with the newest releases of software. Theres nothing worse then going to read a review only to find that it was for a piece of software made years ago. This is something ive done many many times. It makes me want to pull my hair out.
Getting a good review is difficult within any subject but its especially so in the pro audio world. Hopefully as time goes on there will be more sites like the ones mentioned above. Maybe it will become more of a priority for manufacterers to give good real world reviews. I personally think that this would be a much better way to entice the customer into buying your product. Rather then having fluff press releases about your products have some well known engineers give it a good honest review. I know if something like this existed I would have saved a lot of time in my life. I wouldn't have had to spend so much time and money trying different audio production software hoping to find the one that works best for me. I would have had all that information in front of me from the start. Lets hope things get better.
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Dan has been writing articles for 5 years. You can read more on Music Mixing Software and learn about Mixing Music .
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