Recording Software

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For starters,

If you've been searching for the perfect computer program to record with but you've not found anything within your price range, check out Audacity. As part of the open source movement, Audacity is a recording/editing program that can run professional tasks and has a few cool effects. You can customize your list of effects as well, especially if you run a Linux or Unix system. The best part about Audacity is that it is free! It records up to 16 tracks, and, with the right hardware, it can record up to sixteen channels at once! Once a track/channel is recorded, it can then be edited, equalized, modified, cut, pasted... basicly, it does whatever you want! Note that without the right equipment, it cannot work. For instance, the microphone I am currently using... Audacity can be found at Source Forge. The easiest way to find it is to run it through a Google search.
 
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SaidKLE said:
For starters,

If you've been searching for the perfect computer program to record with but you've not found anything within your price range, check out Audacity. As part of the open source movement, Audacity is a recording/editing program that can run professional tasks and has a few cool effects. You can customize your list of effects as well, especially if you run a Linux or Unix system. The best part about Audacity is that it is free! It records up to 16 tracks, and, with the right hardware, it can record up to sixteen channels at once! Once a track/channel is recorded, it can then be edited, equalized, modified, cut, pasted... basicly, it does whatever you want! Note that without the right equipment, it cannot work. For instance, the microphone I am currently using... Audacity can be found at Source Forge. The easiest way to find it is to run it through a Google search.
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It's not that perfect. It doesn't do MIDI
 
thats odd

I havn't been able to get it to record muti tracks at once how do you do that?

also how do you set sample rate everytime iset the rate is changes it as soon as i hit record.

and if I have muti tracks open and want to rerecord over a track how do i do that?

also how do i monitor to set audio levels before i hit record? the meters don't move until i hit record, even thou i have audio input.

don't get me worng this is a nice toy for the price but to put it out there as a free option for the pro software give me a break it doesn't even come close to compeating not even with my spealing?

Audio Monk
 
Granted, audacity is not perfect. It IS open source. I am still learning the program. There are online tutorials for it, but they are few and far between. There have been people that suggest that you run Audacity only as a sound editor and they suggest using a different program for the recording. So far, I haven't run into any major problems except for the fact that I don't yet have good enough equipment. I'm working on that one though. If you are interested in using a different program for recording, there is other open source software available from source forge, and it is all free.
 
I also heard that the sound quality of Audacity is not on professional level (some issue with program algorithm)

I use Audacity for some tasks but I can not check whether this statement is true or not since in my home recording studio I do not have a professional equipment.
 
Audacity is good for some things, but not as a DAW

....Try Ardour instead... It supports most things for multitrack audio recording. I've used it to tremendous success. The only practicaly thing I use audacity for these days, is normalisation.

Ben.
 
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