My first home laptop recording experience! (Audacity)

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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.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, it does hamper your abilities during mixdown. i usually try to combine tracks that don't overlap each other. like 4 bars of hi-hat at the beginning of the song + a guitar part in the middle + bells at the end. then you can still tweak those parts by selecting that part of the track individually.

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..

― 6335, Tuesday, 6 June 2006 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link

oops, xpost.

― 6335, Tuesday, 6 June 2006 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I have some bad habits with this stuff in Cubase. I'll want to save on processing power so if I want some delay on one snare hit, I'll just move it down to a keyboard track that already has that effect running. Then I have to clean everything up and export/import for mixing.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Here is the track that resulted from those beats above. Still tweaking, I fear the first half is too boring compared to the chaos of the second half (which is too short).

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

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 13:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Jordan, that Cubase issue you mentioned on ILM -

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.

― Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, it totally was, thanks Edward. Sample rate was the last thing I checked and that was causing the issue. I think I was mentally confusing it with bit depth.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, uh, Edward (or anyone)...so I open up my project in Cubase and it just won't play. Like, I press play and nothing moves and no sound comes out. Any idea? :(

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

It "fixed itself" after restarting my computer. Sorry for my software freakouts.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 June 2006 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link

btw, i feel i should finally introduce myself - my name is ryan, i've lurked on these boards for a couple years now and finally registered. i live in slc, utah. hi everyone!

― 6335 (6335), Thursday, 8 June 2006 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

Audacity is decent as a wave editor, but sucks for multi-tracking. If you're on Windows, I strongly recommend Kristal Audio Engine. It has a much better interfact than Audacity, and it supports realtime VST plugins and ASIO drivers. I used it for most of the demos on my web site.

― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Friday, 28 July 2006 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link

ten years pass...

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