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[bryanp2449]

Dear friends,

I have been interested in music for a long time and recording only recently. I have a microphone, 10 track digital recorder/ fx processor/ drum pad/ cd burner, and a computer, a m-audio prokeys 88 (keyboard), and a violin. I use sibelius on the computer. I would like to be able to record my piano, violin, and vocals nad also written parts rom sibelius and combine it with drum/bass patterns. I dont know if i should try to do this on my digital recorder or just use ut as a mixer/fx/processor/ and try to do everything on pc??!?! in addition, i would like to use MIDI to sync the drum pad(digital recorder) and the music software n the pc (if needed). I just have no idea where to start and no experience and no one that i know tries to mess with any of this stuff. Please help

Thanks

Bryan

Indiana

 

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Dear friends,

I have been interested in music for a long time and recording only recently. I have a microphone, 10 track digital recorder/ fx processor/ drum pad/ cd burner, and a computer, a m-audio prokeys 88 (keyboard), and a violin. I use sibelius on the computer. I would like to be able to record my piano, violin, and vocals nad also written parts rom sibelius and combine it with drum/bass patterns. I dont know if i should try to do this on my digital recorder or just use ut as a mixer/fx/processor/ and try to do everything on pc??!?! in addition, i would like to use MIDI to sync the drum pad(digital recorder) and the music software n the pc (if needed). I just have no idea where to start and no experience and no one that i know tries to mess with any of this stuff. Please help

Thanks

Bryan

Indiana

To me it would be much easier to do it all on the computer rather than record files from the computer to your digital recorder. It could be done either way though.

I would record the drum part to the PC and layer onto that if you have recording software for the pc and if your recorder will work as a direct real time interface.

Either way I would record to the drum pad live to avoid openning up the can of worms of having to synch two recorded (midi) tracks together from two different machines.

Pick a machine, get the drum track there and build off of it.

IMHO.

F.S.