Another Stinken noob! with stinken noob qs!

[zXao]

Hey guy, I just found this site and i'm really glad i did. hopefully i'll be able to to learn a thing or two

got a question for ya...

this summer i've been experimenting with my life music quite a bit. I use Ableton live and use it i do! I record all my sets on a cheap tascam hdd recorder. 1 track for vocals(Myself and another) and the other track for ALL the music (guitar, piano, ableton live sets). I get a pretty 'Ok' recording. then i send the .wavs to my comp and (try to) mix em. My church bough cubase, sony suite, and sonar 5. But I cant stop from using acid to mix! It's so easy, and all my 100s of plug ins work in it. its fast and i just cant tear myself away from it.

Every time i try another program I end up getting impatient and go back to acid. But I really want to expand and start doing things the "right" way.

So my 1st question is, what program would you guys recommend for a noob that wants to grow? Not whats the best, or whats the industry standard.
Just what good i guess.

before i dump all my time into learning a new daw i want to be sure its the right one.

I tried mixing with live (someone said it works well with post mixing as well as live performance, uh du no) but my tracks kept loading out of sync, and i got this weird, constant, subtle popping in my tracks.

question 2! (your awesome if your still reading!)
I'm my effort to upgrade, I'm thinking about getting this unit-http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/FW1082/
Its a tascam FW1082, its got 10 simultaneous recording inputs and some other features. but i was thinking that i'd be able then to have a track for each voice and instrument. Record the set right to the daw and get away from the pain in the but hdd process.

so what do ya think???

If you wanna hear a few clips from my music...
http://www.acidplanet.com/components/embedfile.asp?asset=874436&T=5342
Some more clips here...
http://www.myspace.com/josiahguile

 

[ermghoti]

I'd suspect the clicks and pops are from overworked hardware, not software. Well, usually, anyway. Post some system specs, and remember, any computer that is not used exclusively for recording, and kept away from the Interwebz, will have a lot more problems.

The interface/control surface looks handy. It may not be expandable, if you decide to go whole-hog computer recordin', but you'll be facing a massive wave of purchases then anyway. I don't know about the converters' quality either, I have no experience with the unit.

 

[zXao]

thanks for the response.
I'm running a 3800 Athlon with 2gigs of ram, i know it sounds like a hardware issue but it only does it with ableton live, other app i try playback great. and when i use ableton for live performance it gives no problems at all. just when i playback a recorded set.

But yeah, i do actually use my comp for more then a daw. I'm building a new system strictly as a daw this next week.
Thats why i'm trying to find out what the best way to record my input channels. Guess i'm just looking for the be-all end-all dream app. I dont really wanna have to use/learn 4 different apps.

 

[gcapel]

I do not know much about those stand alone workstations. I do know that a friend of mine owns a roland 880 and he does sub mixing and then group mixing all in the workstation, and I must say his recordings come out excellant.

I do know about Cubase, but its the only software I know for multitracking. Cubase took me a while to learn, but asking detailed questions on this forum makes it easy.