Recording software?

[hockyfan]

Anyone record their music on to their computers? If so, what software do you use? I've been using Acid Pro for a while but have always had a few questions - if anyone can help out with that also, that'd be great. :)



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[belovedone]

in all the recording studios i've been the software used was either acid, pro tools, or some proprietary software that came w/ some of the mixers...

[hockyfan]

So you're familiar with Acid Pro 4.0?



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[belovedone]

"familiar" isn't really the word...more like...i sorta taught myself how to use the parts that i needed to use...

[adrmalck]

Haha, I do the same thing. Most programs are easy to learn, but then there gets to be some advanced, program-specific stuff that really messes with me.

I havn't looked at acid pro, though, I should, because I want to do a solo project though.

[ToolVacant]

i've tinkered with acid a bit but not enough to know how it compares to anything else

[hockyfan]

Really a http://otnforums.snooboo.com/images/icons/icon14.gif program, simple to use, you can add some effects if you so wish, and very good on multiple tracks and moving them about.

I just had a few questions regarding the preferences in the program, which is why I'd need someone familiar with the program to answer.. :)



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[sam skillet]

I've used Acid Pro 4, Logic (for mac), FruityLoops, and Magix Audio Studio Deluxe 6.

Acid is the most versatile. I use Magix for the most part just for its ease of use. Logic is very good, I borrowed it from a friend for a few months, but had to give it back. Fruity loops is good for creating simple beats, but it can't do the types of things Acid can.

[hockyfan]

sam -
Do you think you'd be able to help me out with some preferences-type questions in regards to Acid?


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[Muzzy]

I use Cakewalk Guitar Tracks, it's much more user friendly than Acid Pro or Cool Edit Pro. I do like alot of the effects on Cool Edit Pro though.

[blindleaf]

i just got sound forge 7 and i haven't had really any experience with recording software before but now its kinda neat to have, and i guess the program is good, i just dont have anything to base it on.... now all i need is a good mic setup..... hmmm...... anyone know anything about computer mics? suggestions?....

[IbanezRocker03]

Cool Edit Pro is easy to use and has good product.. i haven't really experimented with many others.

[Shred Zeppelin]

Hafssol knows Acid Pro pretty well I believe (As far as beat making goes that is). I've never experimented with the recording aspect of it myself.

[Frets]

I'm a cakewalk home studio user.
The output format sucks.

My current treatment is to do an audio capture much like a screen cap
and save to avi.

That way I can preserve all the various formats in to a single master.
(mid, wav etc)

I've gone back to outboard recording with an MR8 by fostex.
While it can only handle recording 2 channels at a time I can slave mids to it
and record over. It's small time compared to a roland vs880. but it has nice
selling features. Each time you record it saves as a .wav (not only for the master
but for each of the tracks) it has built in optimizers to beef up the sound so you can
have the gain without clipping.

It stores on a flash card. and can connect to a pc via usb.
ergo if you fill up all the recording time you just dump and start over.
then pull the files back in when you want to mix down.

hint never lend your recording equipment to your girlfriend.
Especially if she knows how to use it.
you'll never get it back.

[Stratguy]

Cool Edit Pro is easy to use and has good product.. i haven't really experimented with many others.
My friend has Cool Edit, which is what my band used when we recorded, but I didn't help out with tech stuff. It did look fairly simple and sounded good.

[Emo_kid]

Does anybody here use Peak 4.0 i just got it from a friend i used it to record my demo (just me and my acoustic) the only problem is i can't get multiple tracks i don't know how to use this software yet. Any and all help is appreciated.

[gessi]

Anyone heard about Cakewalk Sonar 3? This is a real studio software
no compare to other recording software (even cawewalk),
i use it with Rock Amp Legends (amp/effect simulator) and/or
Amplitube (tube amp sim, has a lot of VIP presets eg. Vai, Hendrict etc)
try it. Output is in fact weird and e bit weak, but if you get a good
mp3 or wave codec you might use it

[J.hendrix]

YEAH!!! sound recorder....laptop style..sucks..yeah..haha

[Emo_kid]

I am learning all this software here at school right now I am using:

Cubase SX-for MIDI
Pro Tools-just starting to learn
Reason-yay for wav editers

I also have limited experience with fruity loops

[ollie]

i use a combination of cakewalk guitar tracks pro and audacity. i use guitar tracks to record edit and add effects etc. then i mix the result down into a .wav and open them in audacity and export them to mp3's from there. guitar tracks is an amazing program, i would recommend it to anyone, iuts simple to use and has a lot of options

[Frets]

Don't buy Fostex MR-8
after a few months of toying with the toy..(originally a roland vs-1680 user)
the menu button broke on me.

I've been playing with Acid5 and...I like it.5 is a sony product and as I'm told is
not as good as 4 was. Magix was much better except magix couldn't do live real
time recording.
One thing I noticed about Acid
shift everything hard left. (see my rant below) when you record and put your record
in on right in via your sound card or...you'll have track bleed and the bleed will have
a time offset.

[hockyfan]

Acid Pro 4 user here with no complaints. How exactly does Acid 5 differ?


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[Frets]

I've never had 4
a friend of mine does and raves about it.

5 as you may know is under the Sony roof.

as he tells me...
4 has latency checks much like cubasis
In cubasis Inwired (or cubase vst (tascam edition)
I can check the latence and do wav profiles it will
search my hardware configuration and drivers.
so I have the option of which sound card I want to record
and which to playback. (I had line leakage/bleeding with acid
that I did not have with cakewalk, cubasis and various other
programs

He also tells me that you can run soundfonts in acid. as well as
directx and vsti's I've yet to get a sound font to load for a synth channel
the effects are all SONY there is no option for vsti effects like those in
cubase. There are no directx effects available for acid5 which work
in numerous programs.
Whilst Acid 5 has the chopper for trimming tracks 4 also had sourceforge
for a sound editor allowing you to use various effects as well do additional
trimming. 5 does not have sourceforge it asks you what wave editor you
want to use. In magix it had the same arrangement with sourceforge or
any editor and would automatically reload the track after editing you could
even use audacity as a wav editor.
Not so with acid 5. Yes audacity will open with the file stored on the chopper
but you need to edit it then save it then re-import it into acid5 if you want to use it. pain in the ***.

Aledgedly Sony has come out with fixes to 5.0 in 5.0.a
which makes it act more so like 4 while fixing latency issues.
(although I never had latency issues just track bleed)
Is it worth the 36mb download? don't know I'm on dial-up
and after going thru three weeks of offline hell
(lost my domain name and lots of other stuff)
I really don't want to find out tonite.

[Emo_kid]

When I get my computer up here I am investing in a copy of Cubase. I like it's MIDI capabilties as compared to Pro Tools (though 6.7 does have better MIDI it's still not great)

[Redsdawnmist]

I use both Acid 4.0 and Sound Forge 7.0. I think I like Sound Forge better because it it really easy to use. I plug my amp into my computer using a mic cable plugged into the output. I usually run a clean tone into the computer then mess with it in Sound Forge. My amp has decent distortion so I use that as well.

[Emo_kid]

I'm thinking of snagging the Presonus Firepod. It comes with 8 XLR inputs and it comes with Cubase LE all for like $799 can.

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Firepod/

[countrypilot]

I would definately recommend Cool Edit Pro 2 to anyone wanting to record music onto their computer. Not only is it very easy to use, it allows the addition of several effects such as reverb and distortion and the such. It is also very usefull when recording entire songs with just one musician since it has an easy to use multi-track feature.