Which Sound Recording Program Should I Use?

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Hey--
I was wondering which PC sound recording program I should use to interface it with my analog mixing board. I would like it to be as simple and inexpensive as possible. My sound card is a Hercules Game Theatre XP 7.1
--Ned, the 14 Year-Old Engineer
 
How many inputs does that card have? Which mixer is that?

If you're looking for simple and inexpensive go with cool edit pro.
 
I use Cakewalk Home Studio 2002 and would recommend it over n-Track mainly because of the UI. Cakewalk put alot more thought into theirs and it shows - it makes use of the same interface found on its bigger brother Sonar. HS2002 can be bought for $70 at any Guitar Center. You can download the Sonar demo from their website and get a good idea of what HS2002 is like.

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I am a Cool Edit Pro fan mainly cause that is what I started out with and I feel comfortable with it. It does seem to be the easiest software I have seen. I tried some other demos but keep coming back to Cool Edit. You will get about as many different answers as there is software.

Not to be a prick but I would put my recordings up against any other creation on other software packages out there.. Acually I wouldn't cause in my case it is operator error 99.9 percent of the time. Nevermind. :rolleyes:
 
I use Cakewalk HS2002, but I think n-track is also fine if you're starting out like me (its cheap too). Its easy to use and it works OK with an average PC meaning it doesn't really require a big buffed up machine. But if you can afford it, get Home Studio 2002. It'll be great to get used to that in case you want to jump to Professional level programs like Sonar in the near future.
 
Having not tried the others I'd strongly recommend one of the lower level Cubase or Logic packages.

I hear they're the best but dont exactly know why, probably because of the number of audio tracks they can stream on a given CPU and their support for VST instruments, many of which are quite simply fantastic (Pro-53, Reason, Pentagon etc).

These progs are most likely what you will end up using later on down the road, so getting familiar with them early on will be a major plus. But as stated I havent used Cool Edit, N Track, Sonar etc so there you go. I've heard some people find German progs a bit weird from an interface point of view (Steinberg and Emagic are German), so maybe the others score better there (though Cubase SX and Nuendo are a dream to use IMHO).
 
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