Hello, Thank you in advance.
I have been slowly taking all my 4 track recordings and trying to bring them digital so I can mess with the mix, and save them for archival purposes. I don't know the best way to do this, so I started in Audacity as a quick, and easy option.
Background: I have about 20 or 30 cassettes from the mid-to late 90's recorded on a Yamaha MT120 4-Track. There are a ton of good songs, and riffs I want to save, and re-visit (I'm currently at 97 riffs, and 22 "songs"documented I want to work on). Most of the tracks are full multi-track recordings. I've had the 4-track, and the mixer board for quite a while, and kept them in good condition.
So my setup is a pic, MT120 each track to a channel on the board, then mono into my only interface... M-Audio Fasttrack. (This sucks, my WHOLE post is on images for help, but I don't have "10" posts... )
PLEASE see links for what I'm talking about!
i.imgur.com / Zbrfs.jpg
So I have multiple recordings, and I obviously can't start play, and click record at the same time, also because it is an analog tape deck I'm not starting at the exact millisecond each time. I've played with the latency and can do a perfect live recording, but from the tape it isn't working. Everything is off-time by a bit, and I can't sync them to the specific point I need. .001 milliseconds over 2 minutes is off by quite a bit by then end.
Here we have 2 tracks off a bit, and I can do my best to get "close" zoomed out like this
i.imgur.com / hJ7kT.png
If I zoom in enough to remove details and make the identical click tracks synced I get this
i.imgur.com / Ks4fV.png
Notice the gap in cursor position to the actual selection point. Is there ANY way to bring these old songs I've done into the digital age and actually sync them up? It's terribly depressing to have written so much and have it totally useless now.
If there is a true 4 track interface that a DAW can isolate all 4 tracks I'd look into investing, but I haven't found one (looking for under $1000). That would solve my problem, but I'd hope there is an answer someone has.
Thanks again for reading, and I hope to hear a possible solution. I'm buying SONAR for a Christmas present to myself, but I don't know if it is capable of what I'm asking until I get down and dirty with it.
I have been slowly taking all my 4 track recordings and trying to bring them digital so I can mess with the mix, and save them for archival purposes. I don't know the best way to do this, so I started in Audacity as a quick, and easy option.
Background: I have about 20 or 30 cassettes from the mid-to late 90's recorded on a Yamaha MT120 4-Track. There are a ton of good songs, and riffs I want to save, and re-visit (I'm currently at 97 riffs, and 22 "songs"documented I want to work on). Most of the tracks are full multi-track recordings. I've had the 4-track, and the mixer board for quite a while, and kept them in good condition.
So my setup is a pic, MT120 each track to a channel on the board, then mono into my only interface... M-Audio Fasttrack. (This sucks, my WHOLE post is on images for help, but I don't have "10" posts... )
PLEASE see links for what I'm talking about!
i.imgur.com / Zbrfs.jpg
So I have multiple recordings, and I obviously can't start play, and click record at the same time, also because it is an analog tape deck I'm not starting at the exact millisecond each time. I've played with the latency and can do a perfect live recording, but from the tape it isn't working. Everything is off-time by a bit, and I can't sync them to the specific point I need. .001 milliseconds over 2 minutes is off by quite a bit by then end.
Here we have 2 tracks off a bit, and I can do my best to get "close" zoomed out like this
i.imgur.com / hJ7kT.png
If I zoom in enough to remove details and make the identical click tracks synced I get this
i.imgur.com / Ks4fV.png
Notice the gap in cursor position to the actual selection point. Is there ANY way to bring these old songs I've done into the digital age and actually sync them up? It's terribly depressing to have written so much and have it totally useless now.
If there is a true 4 track interface that a DAW can isolate all 4 tracks I'd look into investing, but I haven't found one (looking for under $1000). That would solve my problem, but I'd hope there is an answer someone has.
Thanks again for reading, and I hope to hear a possible solution. I'm buying SONAR for a Christmas present to myself, but I don't know if it is capable of what I'm asking until I get down and dirty with it.