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alongthewaves
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Hi everyone. I have been playing guitar for 10 years and used to be in a band and have loads of songs and used to dream of being a "rock star". Over the years naturally I have recorded them on the computer without really mixing or doing any of that stuff in proper fashion, usually just acoustic with vocals and perhaps some lead. It was always a "rush to have something to listen to" attitude that I took and even the simplest basic demos satisfied me. None of it was mixed right but I didn't care. As I've gotten older things have changed. Last year I was married and we bought a 3 bedroom town home and I have plenty of time on my hand during the evenings after work. That's where I'm coming from. In the past months I have a renewed fire to re-record everything I've written and sequence realistic sounding drums, bass and keyboards to basically create a fully professinal sounding song.
I was hoping this forum could be a place for me to ask questions to help me achieve my ultimate goal-which is to have a full albums worth of material sounding like I did it in a studio with a full band. That's the goal, so I've begun working on my newest song. I've been at it for a week and so far its been a good learning experience and on occasion has taken up a lot of time with little results, but its getting there. As of right now, I am using Fruity Loops 8 to create all the "fake" stuff (bass, drums and keyboard loops) with the intent to import the sequenced material into adobe audition for mixing. The guitar and vocals were recorded with a barebones multitrack program, but in the future I will probably use adobe audition. I had cakewalk but it was eating up system resources and playback was choppy when I was trying to record certain parts.
That's basically where I am at. Now I was wondering. Is fruity loops the best program I could be using for creating loops to import into adobe audition? I want to be able to mix my loops within adobe audition. I know I can mix them in fruity but I'd rather do that entire step within 1 program. Please let me know any suggestions you may have. Thanks! If I have to re-create what I've done so far in another program I will if that means I will get a more realistic sound. I definitley don't want it to sound like im singing and playing guitar over a midi beat or automated drum machine. I want it to sound "real" Hope that makes sense. Thanks!
I was hoping this forum could be a place for me to ask questions to help me achieve my ultimate goal-which is to have a full albums worth of material sounding like I did it in a studio with a full band. That's the goal, so I've begun working on my newest song. I've been at it for a week and so far its been a good learning experience and on occasion has taken up a lot of time with little results, but its getting there. As of right now, I am using Fruity Loops 8 to create all the "fake" stuff (bass, drums and keyboard loops) with the intent to import the sequenced material into adobe audition for mixing. The guitar and vocals were recorded with a barebones multitrack program, but in the future I will probably use adobe audition. I had cakewalk but it was eating up system resources and playback was choppy when I was trying to record certain parts.
That's basically where I am at. Now I was wondering. Is fruity loops the best program I could be using for creating loops to import into adobe audition? I want to be able to mix my loops within adobe audition. I know I can mix them in fruity but I'd rather do that entire step within 1 program. Please let me know any suggestions you may have. Thanks! If I have to re-create what I've done so far in another program I will if that means I will get a more realistic sound. I definitley don't want it to sound like im singing and playing guitar over a midi beat or automated drum machine. I want it to sound "real" Hope that makes sense. Thanks!
