Recent content by Chelonian

You have a point! I know even a very modest computer by today's standards would be way more than I'll need for quite a few years, so I'm more inclined to just do that but maybe I should think more long term. I read the reviews on that Geekom and they were rather mixed; a few people had to return...

Thanks for that data point!

Wow, that should really fly. Enjoy it!

Thanks, that's interesting to have a good "floor" for what system can handle what.

I've asked before but life got in the way and I didn't really do music this year. I have a little bit better lay of the land now and there have been some changes in the past year so I'm asking again, a bit more narrowed down: I want to get a better (non-Apple) computer for both music recording...

Thanks for your reply. I probably will use Reaper. Heretofore, I've been using Audacity and it's been good enough for my purposes. I don't want to have to be doing a significant amount of extra work every time I want to record a song. I could bump up in price on the purchase, I just don't know...

I want to buy a used computer (not a Mac) and wanted to just double check that if I get a merely "OK" computer it will be sufficient to do music recording. This will also be my main computer for everything else in my life, all of which is not CPU intensive stuff. I'm thinking something like...

Thanks for your thoughts and some good points!

T Thanks for this video--helpful!

It seems to me from my amateurish attempts at mixing, the loudness of the singing voice in a song matters greatly to how integrated (and professional) the song sounds. Too quiet or too loud but particularly when it's a bit too loud, the voice sounds like it is separate from the music, like just...

Yes, that was the first thing I did. I was able to record my voice but: 1. The waveform went by very quickly and looked very stretched out. 2. I wasn't able to see the waveform after stopping recording. 3. When I tried it a second time, I didn't see a waveform at all. The image you show is...

Thanks for that helpful image! That got it working, though then when I recorded my voice saying "check," I saw some waveform briefly but now it is gone. I then went to record more and I didn't even see the waveform (and yes, the track was armed). Really confusing. Whereas the first time I...

Hm, not in my experience. I just went to do that and it gives me a warning that I must "arm" a track before hitting RECORD or else nothing will be recorded. I don't know yet what purpose that step serves... (although I get that I didn't have a track inserted. I guess just the language of...

Great, thanks for that tip. I had Reaper on my previous (Windows) laptop and tried it and was immediately baffled, couldn't get it to record anything, and shut it off. Somehow Audacity "just worked." But I guess just need to hunker down with a tutorial or something for Reaper. I'm sure once I...

I've been using Audacity to do music recordings and it's been easy to get started and pretty good in some ways, particularly since it got the option to apply realtime effects. However, I've looked around and, unless I'm misunderstanding, it seems there is no way to set up a bunch of realtime...