Hi all. I joined this list hoping to get some answers about home recording. First, I'll list the software I've got access to, and then, I'll go through some of the issues and questions. I guess I'll start out by asking a general question though. I'm recording live instruments, not midi. I've got all the hardware set up, but I'm not sure what the best software is for that. Any suggestions?
I have access to: Gold wave Cool edit Pro 2.0 Sound forge 6?, not sure. NTrack Studio, I think I'm on 3.whatever, the one right before 4, when 4 came out it didn't seem worth upgrading, though I can do that easily enough. Obviously if somebody recommends something else, I'll look into that. And of course, I should have said, I'm asking about multitrack recording. I have one sound card, an SB Live! I've got a nice little four channel mixer though, a Behringer of some sort, and microphones and all of that. So, here are some of my questions. I tried using cool edit pro with the JFW scripts. I'm not sure it's working quite right under JFW 6, but here's what happened under older versions. I'd record a couple of tracks just fine. But then, when I tried to hit enter on a track to edit is individually, or selected that track and then hit f12 to get it into wave view, it would have about a minute of the track. I never did get it back to showing me all of the track, and it would do this for each track, so the whole recording was down to a minute or so, instead of whatever it was. If I could fix that, I'd try using cool edit. Now with NTrack, one question would be, how do I match tracks? Let me explain, suppose I play a guitar track, and I have an intro, and then a bit of silence, and then more guitar. So I want the intro to be just guitar, and then during the silent bit, I start in with some drums, and then the drums and the rest of the guitar track run together. It makes more sense to me to put the drums starting in that silence on the other track, instead of starting a track recording from the beginning and just sitting there waiting for the silence. That way you don't have more background noise in the guitar part. But I have no idea how to adjust the track starting position. Also, I've been told for keeping rhythm, people often generate a click track. Can either cool edit or NTrack do this? If not, how do you keep rhythm? I'm pretty good at it in general, but I mess it up some times, and something to help with that could be useful. Oh, and another thing, I missed all the sound forge discussion, but JFW doesn't seem to be loading any scripts when I run Sound Forge, pretty sure it's 6, under JFW 6. So Sound Forge isn't really working all that well. Anyway, that should be enough for now. What I really need is a sort of crash course in software for recording. I have gotten NTrack to at least record tracks and all that, but I'd like to learn how to use whatever the good software is to make better recordings. Cakewalk seems to be the thing for midi, but I'm not using midi, though I might get into that later. I play a lot of strange ethnic/folk instruments, and that's what I want to record right now. So any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm fairly sure some of you are making music out there. So cmon, share the secrets! (grin) _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
