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jant
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I was thinking about purchasing Vegas but I read a review saying that it was mostly an audio editor. Is anyone multi-tracking in Vegas? If so how would you compare it to Cakewalk? thanks, James
drstawl
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Multitracker Si. Editor No.
On the contrary!
Vegas Pro IS a multitracker and HAS NO editor included other than a "trimmer window" which don't do diddly. Also no support for MIDI. You need Sound Forge or Sound Forge XP or somebody eles's equivalent program if you want to do some real audio editing. The delay while your file is loaded into the external editor ranges from insignificant to moderately annoying. I think it's worth it to use SF XP which combines a great simple (alas- only 16 bit) editor at a great price.
But as a multitracker Vegas Pro <rocks> even if you don't try to make it look better by comparing it to Cakewalk...
The meters and the layout are worth the price of admission as are the EQ and compressor included in the package. Their mp3 encoder does a great job, but doesn't support variable rate encoding/decoding. RealAudio support is kind of spotty.
Why they haven't upgraded SF, their flagship product to the 24/96 environment is beyond me, even though such an upgrade would be academic for my present physical system.
People in the know will tell you to investigate at least two more vendors' products: Logic Audio and Cubase.
Too bad you missed out on the free demo of Vegas Pro. You can still get the free demo of Vegas Audio 2.0 but they've only got the crippled version, unlike the complete demo they provided with Vegas Pro.
On the contrary!
Vegas Pro IS a multitracker and HAS NO editor included other than a "trimmer window" which don't do diddly. Also no support for MIDI. You need Sound Forge or Sound Forge XP or somebody eles's equivalent program if you want to do some real audio editing. The delay while your file is loaded into the external editor ranges from insignificant to moderately annoying. I think it's worth it to use SF XP which combines a great simple (alas- only 16 bit) editor at a great price.
But as a multitracker Vegas Pro <rocks> even if you don't try to make it look better by comparing it to Cakewalk...
The meters and the layout are worth the price of admission as are the EQ and compressor included in the package. Their mp3 encoder does a great job, but doesn't support variable rate encoding/decoding. RealAudio support is kind of spotty.
Why they haven't upgraded SF, their flagship product to the 24/96 environment is beyond me, even though such an upgrade would be academic for my present physical system.
People in the know will tell you to investigate at least two more vendors' products: Logic Audio and Cubase.
Too bad you missed out on the free demo of Vegas Pro. You can still get the free demo of Vegas Audio 2.0 but they've only got the crippled version, unlike the complete demo they provided with Vegas Pro.