Now I'm confused.

You said your dad only bought you one bit of gear...

Now you're saying the only thing you've bought is Reason.

 

So how do you account for the rest of your [non-freeware] software?

lol i mean i download reason i brought the rest. I went halfs on a few as well cause my dads mate has a studio so we shared the cost of the applications

Gotcha ... think I misread your post.

Make sure you set your recording properties correctly, I tried for ages to use soundforge for recording from minidisk and realised I'd made some schoolboy error.

DJ_Elemental said:

 

never really understood why software is so expeience - ok yes alot of time is involved in making them but still

 

i think u mean expensive btw.

 

Neway the price depends not just on cost of creating it but also how many people are going to be buying it. Eg comp games: take yrs to develop sometimes (one i have took 7 yrs) but end up costing £30-40. Thats because many people will buy them. At the other end of the scale the software my dad used to sell was for banks and this software used to only be changed every so often by the banks. the cost of it therefore was £1million.

 

As music production is a specialist industry and therefore few people will buy it, this drives the cost up through the roof.