I am (watches as the entire board flees for cover) a newbie O_O!

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BenSF81

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Hi there.
Happy New Year.
Ok, now that that's out of the way...*ahem*...
Lol. I'm just going to be completely honest and not try and fool you by using industry and technical terminology...I play by ear...I know nothing about music by most peoples' standards, and I know even less about recording. Why? Well, I have a weird freakish inhumanly grotesque brain or something (lol), and aparently, my left-brain thingamagiggy isn't quite up to snuff. Case in point: I'm 20 years old and can't memorize my multiplication tables, spell correctly allot of the time, learn to read or write sheet music, etc. Unfortunately, this curse came along with an insatiable addiction to/obsession with/passion for music of all forms and varieties, meaning I have to make do with the tools at my dissposal. (But then, don't we all in a sense? lol).
Well, this having been said, I'm still satisfied with my ability to 'compose' (for lack of a more accurate term more applicable to my situation) and play music, by my own standards, which is all I really care about. And through sheer luck and my usual clumbsy muddled efforts, I seem to have established a grasp of how to make some fairly good mixes using my Yamaha AW4416. I had a Roland VS880 prior to this, so I atleast had that to fool around with (and ofcourse, the mandatory prerequisit Porta-3 when I was 15, lol).
Anyhow, the next step for me is not mastering ofcourse because that's too ambitious given my level of knowledge(I know my limits for the time being), but something equivelant to mastering in the home setting. So, anyhow, after this insanely long post, my question to you is, given these choices, which software is best for a 'mastering-like' process, normalization, etc. Sound Forge 5.0 or T-RackS 24 Stand Alone MS, or both...or are there others I should consider? Secondly, are there drum boxes/sequencers, etc. which have multiple outputs (not output types neccessarily, but multiple numbers OF outpouts) for the sole purpose of recording different aspects of a drum track on different channels on my AAW4416 instead of just recording the whole thing onto a 2-channel stereo track, or single mono track? And lastly, given that despite my best efforts I'm unable to learn or even comprehend written music, is there any software application which can successfuly interpret my music as it's being played, and accurately write the music for me? (This last point isn't as important as the others, but incase I ever wanted to play WITH someone someday, it would be a big help, obviously. Lol).
Thanks very much for your help, and forgive my intrusion into your world of far greater expertise. Hehe. ^_^
 
Please keep in mind that this is coming from a guy who's diet consists largely of frosted mini wheats, who's Father spent too much time in Nam and therefore refers to sleep as "blinky" or "tiliting," and who's Mom was aparently abducted by aliens (yes, really...). Lol.
 
Yo BenFS81 and counting:

You have a good first name; it's the same as mine and that's why I'm responding to the best of my knowledge.

Staring near the end of your post, there are PC programs that will print out your music as you play it. I'm not familiar with them except to have read about them and caught a few words here and there on this site.

Since you have a DAW Yam 4416, you have a box that is capable of MANY things. I have the DAW Yam 2816 and am just learning how to push the buttons on it, but I have experience with several other recording devices, analog and digital.

I would just say that you can record a drum track on your 4416 and then bounce it to another track and use your DSP to tweak the track. You can also add more drums to the original drum track because you have 16 of them to play with. I have added drums to drums just using my 8 tracker Yam MD8. Once the rhythm is set and recorded, you can ADD all kinds of stuff.

I don't know if this helps you or not but I hope so. If you're using the 4416 and understand it, your gears are working pretty good.


Happy St. Patrick's Day
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PS If your Mother was abducted by two dudes named Frikon and Ramu, she is in good hands.

GH
 
Thank-you for replying. I will have to ask her if those names ring a bell. I've found most of the answers I needed by surfing the net and calling a freidn or two today, but now I just have one left. as far as mastering goes, (or, again, something which aproximates it atleast) I am going to have a pc custom built over the course of this year that will incorporate Sound Forge 5.0, and T-rackS 24. I want to add to that either Steinberg Nuendo or Steinberg WaveLab. From what I understand, Nuendo, while replete with many powerful editing and mastering-like tools, is largely a multitrack recording application. My question is, which is better-WaveLab or Nuendo-if what I want is strictly mastering, maximization, and normalization-related? Also, just generaly speaking, which allows for greater integrity of data and audio...transfering data directly via SCSI to the hard drive, or recording the audio directly to the hard drive via a digital input on the sound card. Thanks.
 
More importantly, which is better: sending data to a pc hard drive from the yamaha via SCSI or by recording it using some sort of recording software via the digital I/O's on the yamaha and sound card?

As an additional question that will become relevant later, at what stage CAN you make such a transfer? Can you transfer data from just one track/channel via SCSI or does it transfer the whole song? Can I send data from a track to my pc, process it, and send it BACK to the yamaha, and re-insert this newly processed rack back where it was? Man this stuff gets more complicated the more you read about it D: Lol.
 
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