Don't know much about it, but I understand that Adobe
Audition is more accessible than cool edit. Adobe
bought out cool edit and came out with adobe audition.
The manual is long and more confusing than gold wave
for me though. I haven't been interested in
multitrack, just a better noise reduction.
http://201.130.111.2:8000/?WMCache=1.wma
--- John Schucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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)
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