Acid pro or Cake for recording

[sack blabbith]

I am trying to learn as much as I can about recording music on the computer before I buy any software. I'm mostly going to be using it for guitar and vocals. I know a little about the different cake walk stuff from what I have read. But I know nothing about acid pro. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks

[MadAudio]

Argh! I had typed up this great response when IE crashed on me. Let's see if I can do it again!!!

Acid is a loop-based program. You can use many types of loops, but it works best when the loops have been "acidized," meaning that key and tempo information is within the loop data. This allows you to change tempos or keys and usually it does not drastically alter the sound of the audio. You can also record into it like other programs with the option to "acidize" your audio or not. It used to be that you could only record one track at a time, whether mono or stereo, but the newest version allows for mulitrack recording - a feature many people have wanted since Acid first came out. It also offers MIDI and VST support, as well as DirectX effects. Comes with a basic soft-synth and MIDI piano roll editor. Oh and you can also import video to it.

I use Acid when I want to use loops, and its big brother program Vegas for recording bands, etc.

[MadAudio]

Great screen name, BTW!!!

[sack blabbith]

Thanks for the feedback but I was wondering if you could clarify a couple of things for my newbie ness. First I have no idea what VST stands for. Well actually that was about it that and I have absolutely no experience with midi’s. I'm just a simple guitar plucked who is trying to write some songs and want to try my hand at laying them down. I hope to learn more about looping, especially drum tracks and possibly keys/midi.

Thanks again

Sack

[Tobias]

AcidPro6, due out soon as I understand, will be a full blown multitrack recorder. If your in no rush, I'd wait to see what it has to offer. Acid is a fantastic creative tool for getting ideas down quick. Also look at LIVE5 which does both loops and multitrack like recording today.