FL Studio vs. WavePad

I would recommend FL Studio for anyone who wants to get their hands on music making or even just recording audio for videos. I would suggest making the somewhat small investment and trying it out, you could end up with a career from it. For beginners I would definitely suggest watching online courses/tutorials as they helped me a lot and it will for you as well. Also, I would recommend using third party plugins which will help in fine tuning your projects and overall produce much better music/recordings. FL Studio is well suited for businesses and personal use to make music. I would confidently say that its one of the best DAW to start making music.

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Highly recommended for voice over recording and editing. Great for splicing together several different recorded files to create a final track. Our voice over talent typically sends us their unedited recordings with multiple recordings of the script. Then we can listen to the different versions to select the best fit for our client. We just select the sections we like and copy them into a new file, then continue to add the sections until we have the final voice over. It is easy to tighten up or stretch out the recording to better fit our timeline.

We have not used WavePad for recording live music so not sure how well it is suited for that. If you need multi-track editing you will need another product. MixPad makes a nice companion.

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• Midi sequencing
• Built in audio processing and VST instruments
• Audio mixing
• Music creation

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• Voice recording is our most used function. It is simple and straight forward. We have trained non-technical voice over talent to use it.
• The cleanup tools have saved us from having to go out and rerecord some bad original recordings.
• Being able to cut out sections of recordings and insert a different audio piece is a great time saver.

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• The recording process can somewhat be confusing and inefficient.
• FL Studio has a confusing routing, for example to use return tracks for reverbs, you will have to click numerous buttons to get that done.
• FL Studio has a somewhat steep learning curve, which can demotivate beginners.
• FL Studio's auto-saving feature is a bit late, which can ruin your project if you rely on it.

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• WavePad only works with a single audio track. NCH does offer MixPad for multi-track editing. We also use MixPad occasionally to mix background music with voice.

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An important product for our production of customer ads.

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Easily handles basic audio recording and editing. Advanced editing features are there but if you don't already understand audio editing you will need to watch some of the provided videos to learn how to use the tools.

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Phone support is not available.

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It is a simple product to start using.

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In selecting this software, we investigated and considered others. We found that FL Studio had a good price point and the life time free version updates made it a one time purchase.

In terms of functionality, the most similar software solutions are Ableton Live, Logic Pro X and Propellerhead Reason.

Of these the most cost effective for us was Ableton Live and FL Studio with Propellerhead Reason being a slightly different product.

We found that FL studio had a wider feature set and was more suited to our use, where as Ableton Live would be better if live music performance was a requirement, in our case it was not.

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We ran across WavePad years ago and used it for some simple music file edits. Cutting out some parts to make it fit better into the time slot. Audacity was recommended by a friend and we installed it and give it a brief try. We didn't find anything bad about it but came back to WavePad.

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• It has definitely reduced costs, because it is slightly cheaper than other software.
• It has decreased the efficiency in workflow because of its poor routing.
• Has helped me grow by letting me create high quality music.
• Helps me record high quality audio.

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• We are able to work with local voice-over talent and amateurs and that allows us to keep our cost low to our clients.
• WavePad is so inexpensive that is pays for itself on the first project. The Master's edition is less than $100 and the standard edition is less than $50.

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