Audio Editor in place of a DAW?

[BertKoor]

25 years ago my recording setup was two SoundBlaster cards

OMG endlessly moving around card slots and jumpers to get the right IRQ/DMA combo

It was a one-minute puzzle (which Plug&Pray could not figure out) but yeah, a third card was no go.

[mjolnir]

Reaper seems like the way to go with the external editor set to ocenaudio and wavosaur.

[lmv]

I want a lot of control over audio, and not too much else. That's why I gravitate towards editors, but . . . tracking is an issue with most of them.

It's hard to understand your reasoning. You want "a lot of control over audio"... but not a DAW? But that is what DAWs are for.

I personally use Waveform for almost everything. I used to launch Audacity sometimes but I have lost that habit. Waveform does everything I need and more. One thing I particularly value is comping. Do "editors" do comping? Comping should be important to someone who is concerned with tracking. It seems you like Reaper. Just stick to it I guess.

[tommyzai]

I want a lot of control over the audio files . . . just that. I don't need all the other stuff that comes with a DAW. I realize I can ignore un-needed stuff, but . . .

I'm leaning towards, "Reaper seems like the way to go with the external editor." At least with Reaper, I can customize and not deal with as many unwanted . . . unneeded stuff. I'll give digital workstations one more go before resorting to caveman methods.

Comping, IMO, is handy and simplifies things, but I'm very proficient with editors. It's easy for me to record a part a few times and then combine the bits from each that I like.

[Michael L]

DSP-Quattro version 5
Recording, Comping, Audio File Editing, Mixing, Audio CD-ROM Mastering, Plug-in Hosting, Batch Processing and other stuff
https://www.dsp-quattro.com/dspquattro/ ... attro.html

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This was my first DAW
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[yoursoul]

I'm leaning towards, "Reaper seems like the way to go with the external editor." At least with Reaper, I can customize and not deal with as many unwanted . . . unneeded stuff. I'll give digital workstations one more go before resorting to caveman methods.

do you own logic by any chance?

its pretty customizable and looks better than reaper imo. you could create a template only with audiotracks, hide all symbols in the menu bar except basic transport controls, delete shortcuts for mixer, piano roll etc and use all free keys for audio editing purpose shortcuts instead. double clicking audio clips would open the audio editor or you could do it in the arrangement view directly. there is a basic audio file browser.

basically you could have an arrangement window there + audio editing window and everything else is blank and not accessible.

[jens]

yes, thats a tape recorder (in essence).

Do you happen to know which editors can do this? It seems only Melodyne Studio can multitrack.

I think it would be faster done with to list those which can't...