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porphyrous
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Cakewalk 9 Home Studio is my first attempt at computer-based recording, after using hardware multitrackers for years.
Overall, I like it. I have to disable nearly everything running on my computer to get good results, though. Even running just Norton Anti-virus causes dropouts, and I'm running on a PIII 800 with 128 MB of RAM. I'm using a Soundblaster Live Value for my sound card.
I've had severe problems with the digital recording part of the program. As long as I don't get the levels anywhere near max, I'm okay. But if I overdrive even a little bit, it clips horribly. Frequently, just adding effects will cause hellacious clipping. And it seems to clip instantly! I can't even bounce it out to Cool Edit to limit it -- the damage is already done by Cakewalk.
Amplifying in Cool Edit is a problem too. If I normalize a clip in Cool Edit (so it's maxxed but not clipping), Cakewalk clips the hell out of it, as if Cool Edit's max is higher than Cakewalk's max.
I've been reduced to recording at relatively low levels in Cakewalk and then being extremely careful in Cool Edit. It's a little frustrating.
On top of that, the mixed export function is Cakewalk works extremely poorly. The one attempt I did, I ended up with just the left channel and ripped to shreds by digital clipping. Sending the audio output of Cakewalk into the audio input of Cool Edit (running both simultaneously) seems to work well, but that seems kinda half-assed.
Has anyone had similar problems to this?
Overall, I like it. I have to disable nearly everything running on my computer to get good results, though. Even running just Norton Anti-virus causes dropouts, and I'm running on a PIII 800 with 128 MB of RAM. I'm using a Soundblaster Live Value for my sound card.
I've had severe problems with the digital recording part of the program. As long as I don't get the levels anywhere near max, I'm okay. But if I overdrive even a little bit, it clips horribly. Frequently, just adding effects will cause hellacious clipping. And it seems to clip instantly! I can't even bounce it out to Cool Edit to limit it -- the damage is already done by Cakewalk.
Amplifying in Cool Edit is a problem too. If I normalize a clip in Cool Edit (so it's maxxed but not clipping), Cakewalk clips the hell out of it, as if Cool Edit's max is higher than Cakewalk's max.
I've been reduced to recording at relatively low levels in Cakewalk and then being extremely careful in Cool Edit. It's a little frustrating.
On top of that, the mixed export function is Cakewalk works extremely poorly. The one attempt I did, I ended up with just the left channel and ripped to shreds by digital clipping. Sending the audio output of Cakewalk into the audio input of Cool Edit (running both simultaneously) seems to work well, but that seems kinda half-assed.
Has anyone had similar problems to this?
