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hi, i approach this as a hard working lead guitar player first and a recording engineer second. it has to be this way for the band and myself or songwriting suffers, my minimum of 3 hrs. per day guitar work suffers, and so on. when gear and computer setup, drivers that don't work right, and so...

hi, magix studio might be somewhat like acid 3.0 in that if the correct serial number for say the pro version is entered, even the techno or dj versions will rebuild themselves into the pro version. i catch these routines in softice debugger all the time in my work. the opcode calls the cpu...

my rig my daw is modest in comparison to some used by the pro's on this board but it works very well for me with the exception of the sound card. I am a programmer and know much about pc and mac hardware/driver setup. as such, this system of mine runs as well as it possibly can...a very...

hi, if you are into midi combined with analog audio, it is really hard to beat sonar producer 3 for ease of use. I think this lastest version of cakewalk puts sonar in the highest ranks of sequencer software. logic audio is also very good but unless you own a g4 or g5 power mac running the...

hi, after mentioning sawstudio, I remembered that I had not used it in a while and started a practice session with it to brush up on it's features. start with some kind of drum track usually constructed in pcdrummer and and then add guitar rythem, bass ( guitar transposed down one octive )...

hi, jeyan's post was good advice and exactly how I began recording but if you have some cash to invest, read the post by manning1 in the newbies forum. there are some solid suggestions that are not that expensive and will help you learn the trade not fight with too many limitations early on. a...

hi, sound forge 7.0 can be found on www.epinions.com w/links to the lowest prices on the web. version 6.0 was $299.00 last time I checked. an acedemic version of 7.0 including cd architect was going for $169.00. best to try the trial version from sony's media website which is about 30+ MB...

hi, i suggest many of manning1's posts on studio setup. they are reliable advice as are most of the posts of the pros that advise on this board. if you do not need a midi sequencer for soft synths or canned drummers and want to record multiple analog inputs at the same time, then maybe check...

hi, i have been recording with soundblaster live and now audigy 2 zs. I like the card itself because of the midi synth and s/n ratio. I am not impressed with the converters and or it's 24/96 wdm driver. In sonar producer 3, at 24/96, the driver detunes and alters the sound with live input, no...

hi, I read as many of your posts on this forum as I can find and your advice has already helped me for example, your tip about copying a vocal track to another track and then to set it at a small delay panned some left and right, is a recording technique I have used many times, but not quite...

hi, wave editors such as sound forge 7.0, wavelab 4.0, or the multitracking cooledit pro are the tools for detail to say that guitar track that just sounds to tinty. you can get in there and do surgery on your track and then pull it back to n-track where you try to get a good mix. having done...

Hi, I have not used nuendo and so can't comment on it but do use cubase sx and vst. I am networked to a mac that has protools free on it. I think cubase sx is a major upgrade from vst32 and record many songs with it alone. My drawback with cubase sx is the audigy 2 zs asio driver limit of...

clarify Hi, When I say that I use anvil studio with vegas 4.0, anvil is being used to edit and play the midi file or "canned drummer" while vegas is recording or playing the audio file. Vegas does not support midi but will send timecode to another software via virtual midi cables ( midi yoke...

Hello, I am new here but have and use many different mutitracking and sequencing softwares. Thought this may be a good place to hash over the pro's and con's of some of the offerings. I have noticed many posts here that speak about powertracks as a low cost alternative to say, cakewalk sonar...

thanks, I'm not sure yet about the soundcard addition or if I really need multiple imputs at this time. Have been doing most work with multitracking anyway and when I do need a live complete band take, painstakingly adjust all the analog mixers and eq's to get a good overal sound on the one...

Hi. Sounds like you need to set your software to see and use your hardware correctly. Also you need to set the input device to "midi' or the equivalent in your soundcard mixer dialog if you are trying to record midi down to audio tracks. (.Wav files ) In cakewalk, go to ( options - audio ) and...

thanks for the welcome! My DAW has a major weak link in the soundcard but I have managed to get very good results from it. I think it is due to nearly perfect windows xp setup with all the devices. I have been a programmer on mac and pc platforms for almost 20 years and this lends very well to...

Hi everyone, I am new to this forum and joined because of the quality of information here. Many have had years of recording with various digital and analog equipment, they know their business and post reliable advice! I am a computer programmer/musician with many years of road giging as warm...