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moustache
Founder, AM/FM
I tried to post this the other day...don't think it made it...not sure if technical difficulties or it was bounced...i think i was having password troubles, though.
I belong to a barbershop singing organization. A common tool to barbershoppers is the learning tape - which is usually purchased with sheet music. They are part-specific - with (for instance) the right channel set up to be the tenor part, while the left channel has bass, bari, and lead. This allows the singer to learn by turning up the right channel so his part is strong and singing along with it, then once comfortable, change the balance from right to left and sing along with the other three parts on the tape. There are even tapes where the part-specific stuff is on side A, but the other voices on side B set up so that you can learn your part singing with the tape in one direction, then flip it over and sing with the other voices.
I want to be able to produce these sorts of tapes myself - preferably on my computer. My thought is that I could start with one part - say, the lead. Then I could play that part, and record a harmony part with it, and continue to do so with each of the four parts. Then when I need to cut a specific tape for a specific song, I could do my own mix of the four independent tracks, and burn a CD with that mix on it. I could even have a dozen or more songs on a CD done in this manner.
I hope I'm using the right terms.
The question I have is, what software/hardware do I need in my computer to accomplish this? I have been considering this as something that I do entirely on my own. I know how to burn the CD, but the recording and synchronization of the tracks is what I'm wondering about.
Thanks in advance.
I belong to a barbershop singing organization. A common tool to barbershoppers is the learning tape - which is usually purchased with sheet music. They are part-specific - with (for instance) the right channel set up to be the tenor part, while the left channel has bass, bari, and lead. This allows the singer to learn by turning up the right channel so his part is strong and singing along with it, then once comfortable, change the balance from right to left and sing along with the other three parts on the tape. There are even tapes where the part-specific stuff is on side A, but the other voices on side B set up so that you can learn your part singing with the tape in one direction, then flip it over and sing with the other voices.
I want to be able to produce these sorts of tapes myself - preferably on my computer. My thought is that I could start with one part - say, the lead. Then I could play that part, and record a harmony part with it, and continue to do so with each of the four parts. Then when I need to cut a specific tape for a specific song, I could do my own mix of the four independent tracks, and burn a CD with that mix on it. I could even have a dozen or more songs on a CD done in this manner.
I hope I'm using the right terms.
The question I have is, what software/hardware do I need in my computer to accomplish this? I have been considering this as something that I do entirely on my own. I know how to burn the CD, but the recording and synchronization of the tracks is what I'm wondering about.
Thanks in advance.