My first home laptop recording experience! (Audacity)

No, but that was feeble even by ILM standards.

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=43004CC422C5E485

when i'm working w/ tons of tracks it seems to help a bit to constantly condense tracks together using the quick mix function. obv, you should save incrementally before you do this so you can go back if you don't like your levels or want to change something. it still takes forever to save a file but i had less problems w/ audacity crashing when i did that.

one more thing that could be done to overcome the 'too many tracks' issue would be to export mixed-down .wav's whenever possible and then re-import them into a new session. (condense all drums into one .wav file, all guitars/synths, all vocals, etc) this will also rid you of all your 'history' info in your data folders, which speeds up the saving process as well as make audacity run smoother. again, save often and incrementally if you're going to do that.

there's some other quirks that i've come across but i can't think of them right now. i'll try to answer any specific questions if you have them...

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=167228EC2A1DE210

Good thing about Cubase is that it keeps your original tracks and remembers what you've done to them, so you can always undo effects/eq at a later time - or so the manual would have you believe.

Audacity's good for futzing around, getting your feet wet in recording digitally, quick scratch pad stuff, but I hesitate to do anything serious with it.

then it's just about what i need right now haha!

thx for the advice everyone...i have another thing almost finished. it doesn't suck as much as the first thing i posted in this thread.

agreed, though = it does kind of defeat the purpose of multi-track. it's something i've made do w/ for the time being because my home computer (which has cool edit pro, adobe audition, a couple other programs, and is what i normally use) has been down for a while and needs to get repaired..

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=4486D9264864E00E

Okay, I'm exporting (in Audio Mixdown) a few tracks. I have them solo'ed and the indicators setup correctly. When I do this and then re-import them, they're at a slower tempo. But otherwise in time and correct. What the fuuuuuuck.

Sounds like it might be a sample rate issue? Moving between sample rates can fuck up the speed tracks play back at.

Will I be able to work directly off an external drive of this sort or will I need to load files onto the laptop to work on them?

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