shareware question from new guy

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Look,
i'm not like alot of you guys. i have a job that occupies me most of the time, and i'm kind of a musician second as bad as that sounds. you know, i've got an acoustic guitar and i play for small gatherings of listeners and around camp fires and stuff.

anyway, i tried recording into my computer using a CDgrabber program that had a "line in function". i played into the microphone of a headset/microphone thingy i usually use to practice my german pronunciation, and poof! it came back to me ten times better than when i press 'record' on my buddy's little boom-box. neat!

so with this new discovery, i get a little creative.... i put the little mike between me and one of my speakers. i play the wave file i've just recorded through winamp, and i play and sing along while recording again. you get the jist. a real ping-pong jerry rig kind of deal.

but man did it get me addicted. i even made some half decent stuff from my perspective. so my curiosity is more than peeked. but i just can't dive in just yet. i need to baby-step this one.

so if i managed to multi-track like this with the meager tools i had, i know that there has got to be a free version of some kind of multitrack recorder and mixer. don't scoff. quality is of little issue for now. i'm just trying to build some momentum here. so where's the free stuff?
 
Pretty much only one good answer to that question:
www.fasoft.com

Download n-Track 2.09. It's shareware but a GREAT multitracker. Lots of us around here use it. The registration fee is only $35 bucks! (the DEMO is free to download of course)

Slackmaster 2000
 
Most of the people on this page are not professional musicians - you're in good company. But careful... this stuff is addictive. :)
 
I work too...notice the time of most of my posts. But seriously you gotta get the money for your toys somewhere! Try Data Beckers "Music Center" software. I bought it at CompUSA for around $40. It will record up to 16 audio tracks and allows a lot of flexibility with relatively modest computing power. It does everything I need, but gets a little noisy after multitracking 3 or more tracks. I graduated to a Fostex FD-4, but I still gotta come back to my computer to burn the CD.
 
bob .. noisy after 3 or so tracks sounds more like a hardware issue than a software issue.. what kind of soundcard are you using ?

n track is your best bet for 35 bucks..its tried and true.. and theres even a support forum on this bbs for it if you get stuck..

- eddie -
 
Yeah Eddie, its the stock ES1869 card with an AMD K6 processor which I understand is not the greatest for music reproduction. My computer is also not optimized for music since my kids spend a great deal of time on it writing school reports and playing games. Thats sort of why I jumped in with both feet and bought a Fostex FD-4. Besides I couldn't pass it up at $175.
 
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