Recording Final Production

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I have not yet bought Cool Edit Pro but have read the manual.

I cannot find any reference to what you do with the final production of all the wav and midi inputs. All I can see is that you save the session.

Is it possible to combine everything and save it as a final wav file of the whole production?

On the face of it it seems that you end up with something that the PC plays but can only be recorded by outputting the sound to an external device ie another pc or tape recorder.

Have I missed something?
 
you can most definately mix your session down to a stereo .wav file in CoolEdit, and then process/edit the stereo .wav file, additionally. ...or, like you thought, you can mixdown thru a multi output soundcard, thru a mixer, to another medium...which is what I do, much of the time.

The selection of what you want to mix, (selected files..whole projects, stereo...mono etc.,) will most likely fit your needs. Version 2.0 is *supposed* to be out....now?? ....in which it appears to have many upgrades over the current 1.2 edition. Supposedly, new(current) 1.2 buyers will be eligable for free upgrades.
 
kevmc, were just trying to figure out how to get all of your tracks into one final stereo WAVE file?

If so, in the *Edit* menu is the *Mixdown* option. You can choose to mixdown all the waves and create a single stereo (or mono) file.

Hope I read your question correctly. And, by the way for just under $300 at most major music stores, CEP is a great application! If you do purchase it, take the time to download the version 1.2a patch -- you should be seeing packages with version 1.2 on the label.
 
Thanks for the replies.

I have traced the information about mixing and now have a better understanding of the programme.
 
I've used CEP for years for editing single files but never as a multi-track recorder or for mixdowns. Is it very flexible with bus routings and such? Can you use any realtime plugins for FX?

Specifically I would want to bus out on 8 channels to my digital mixer and rerecord back in CEP on a stereo bus. Would that be possible?

I'm getting a little frustrated with Logic Audio.
 
Cool can do 64 tracks at once - I think it's your soundcard that's the limiting factor (whatever it is), not Cool.

Cool does DirectX, but if you want to use VST plugins, you have to get a middleman program, a translator - I forget what they're called, but they're easy to find.

"Specifically I would want to bus out on 8 channels to my digital mixer and rerecord back in CEP on a stereo bus. Would that be possible?"

I know next to nothing about mixers, so it isn't surprising that I don't quite understand this question. Bus out from what? Live, or your hard disk? Why not just dump everything into Cool and do your mixdown there?
 
The way I mix down is to send anywhere from 1-8 mono busses out of the DAW into my Roland digital mixer so I can use the rolands' eq's and effects which are much better than Logic and I wouldnt have any realtime effects in CEP.

So the tracks go out of CEP - Into the mixer - and recorded back onto the DAW as a stereo mix file. Did that make sense?

Will CEP allow you to assign multiple tracks to different sub mix busses and assign those busses to outputs on the audio card?
 
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