need advice on software

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Hmmmm.... well, I didn't know Sonar could do this, if it can, I just learned something. Let's say you have 4 recordings of a song. You have 4 tracks of each recording for a total of 16 tracks. Say 2 mics on the piano, 1 on vocals, 1 on room ambience. In Vegas, you can "lock" each set of 4 wavs together, so that every time you cut-move-past etc one of the wavs... all 4 of them are effected. Whenever I use Sonar, you have to constantly reselect the 4 waves. How do you lock 4 wav files together without constantly having to reselect them?

Thanks for the info
 
willow said:
hi

i want to mix some songs that i have in wavs

i already have cakewalk 9 and i'm not an expert on pc mixing but a friend has many programs...cool edit, pro tools 5, cakewalk sonar

if i'm going to choose just one to learn which one would be the best?

in the future i may do some recordings on pc too

thanks for any suggestions or advice,

will
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Will, looks like this post has turned into a bit of a software debate!

Back to the initial question. You didn't mention a budget. I don't normally mention it, however if you have less than 8 tracks in each song, you could use a free program like ProTools Free. That will give you a taste of mixing, however it is VERY limited in features, such as the 8 tracks + only 2 I/O at one time.

If you are only interested in mixing Audio, you could get something like Guitar Tracks Pro or Home Studio 2004 (both Cakewalk products). As for Nuendo or Cubase or Sonar, they are 'big boy toys'.. the debate will go on forever as to which is the best and all debate is subjecting with Cakewalk users swearing in Sonar and is it Pinical Systems ? users swearing in Cubase or Nuendo. Personally I'm a Sonar user.

There are a couple of other programs out there that are quite a bit cheaper and will do a basic mix.. just have a look around for them..

In summary, it pretty much comes down to budget and what you want to do in the future.

Porter
 
I was in the same position as yourself when I started and tried a few freebies first. I couldn't get on with Cubase so chose Cakewalk, bottom entry product (Cakewalk Express 8) because I figured that I could learn the basics and then upgrade if I needed to but it would have the same "look and feel" as my entry level product. And thats exactly how it turned out.

The new entry product for Sonar is Home Studio 2004 which is a fantastic product, unlimited audio tracks and midi as well. Later, if you wish to upgrade to Sonar, those nice peeps at Cakewalk will let you do so at a much reduced sum ;)
 
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If youre used to Cakewalk, Sonar is the natural Progression.
Ive been using Cakewalk for a couple of years now and feel there is no point in attempting to cross over to something like cubase for example.
Sonar is a brilliant package.
 
womoma said:
If youre used to Cakewalk, Sonar is the natural Progression.
Ive been using Cakewalk for a couple of years now and feel there is no point in attempting to cross over to something like cubase for example.
Sonar is a brilliant package.
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You are right.....and I hate to be picky but the interim step to Sonar is HS 2004, or HS2004 XL.

If peeps decide to go straight Sonar, thats also cool too. But there is a lower cost alternative in between. :cool:
 
sonar 3 producer edtition is really good but its kind of hard if your completely new at computer software
 
punksoholics said:
sonar 3 producer edtition is really good but its kind of hard if your completely new at computer software
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Spot on, good post. :)

The investment to learning any of the serious music programs is considerable. And you might not stay the course or need all the whizz bangs. Thats why HS2004 is such good value and my top tip to starting out.Especially when you can upgrade for less than the overall cost of Sonar 3 in the first place :eek: :D
 
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