Vegas Pro

[mastahnke]

I am familiar with CEP and have used it a whole lot, however I have heard that Vegas pro is better. I don't know where I heard it or whatever, but I was wondering if anyone had any opinion on it. Do I need a seperate wav editor? Can I do preview of effects? Can I preview in the whole mix or just the track? Can I add effects while recording?
Just some questions...

MIKE

[King_Steve]

Yo man, I recently found myself in the same dilemma as you . I have found that as a multitracker vegas is better but it cant edit nearly as well as cool edit pro. I use both and get good results. Cool edit is the best editing program I have found and it is a competent multitracker. While it does offer many cool effects and things, I have not seen any type of compression or anything like Vegas has. I would say your best bet is to go with both.I was wondering if you could help me with something though. When you got vegas did it eat up tons of memory? If not, then that must not be my problem but after I got it like 200 megs of memory suddenly dissapeared. Thanks

[King_Steve]

Sorry man, Im retarded. I forgot that you didnt actually have the program yet. So I guess you cant answer my question. And I guess CEP does have compression. Otherwise my comments still hold true. PEACE

[drstawl]

Get the free demo of Vegas Pro and have all these questions answered directly. The demo is fully functional once you register it.
And yes you need a separate .wav editor.
You can preview your effects singly or all together if your system will support the number of effects and tracks you plan to use.

[ns]

anyone know how to tell vegas not to "always use sound mapper"?
i'm using this demo and i cant figure out how to send tracks to different outputs on my sound card.
i get to the menu where you can select them, but they're all greyed out.
i've called and e-mailed them but they're so slow.....

[drstawl]

Do you have multiple outs on your sound card?
Vegas Pro allows me to choose any output that's installed on my system. You choose the output by selecting the destination for the BUS that's getting your output signal.
Each track is mapped to a bus.
Each bus is mapped to an output that's installed on your system.
Hope that helps.

[Track Rat]

To start with VEGAS RULES!!! Use Sound forge as your editor and you're off to the races. I have cool edit pro as well and I find that the sonic foundry stuff works together extremly well so I hardly ever use it any more.