User friendly recording software

What's the consensus on the easiest/best recording (PC) software to use with the MPC. I've tried Sonar, but it's over my head. I need to dumb-it-down a notch.

Man I think adobe should hire me! Well I was a strong supporter of Calkwalk music progams, till I realize that in the seqeuncer section I was quite rodundant. So all I needed was just somethin to multitrack, and believe me there are many. But I got a wave editor and multitracker and my audition progam and the interface is simple but deep. within seconds of booting up, I got my tracks armed and recording, 20 minutes after that I am tweaking and adding my plugins. Shit cakewalk has crashed on me a few times but I haven't had problems yet with this one. sorry sounding like a commercial but this is the only peice of software that hasn't pissed me off and stop me looking like and idiot in comparison to my collegues' roland vs series.

where do we buy cakewalk software? is that all i need is a computer and an MPC?

Cakewalk is the company, sonar 3 is their latest software offering. Just about any online music store will have it. Cakewalk also have music creator 2003 (a dummied down version of sonar) at Best Buy and Circuit City. I only use Adobe Audition now. It can be can be bought at WWW.adobe.com under the video editing link. You might be able to find a boxed version of cool edit pro 2.1 (the former name) still floating around on the internet. All you need then is a decent sound card. I use Sound blaster Audigy but I am upgrading to a Terratec Phase 22 when It becomes available.

From my current experiences, if you're just starting out, it'd probably be best to go with Adobe Audition. I've had Sonar since August and I'm still trying to comprehend everything. I might just switch to Audition myself 'cause all I need is something to record, mix, and add effects to my MPC seqeunced tracks. Sonar, I'm learning the hard way is a little bit out of my league for now.

I use Adobe Auditon, Sound Forge and Vegas Video. They all work well.
SF is the wave editor. Vegas Video is the multitracker. All my plugins are direct X compatible so they work in each program.

I'm using Cubase SX. The learning curve is a little hard at first but once you get the hang of it you'll be able to use any DAW. There is books on the market that help out with DAWs. Here are some books you may want to check out Dandy Don.



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I got them all and thought sonar 2.0 xl or protools 5.3 was the esiest to use... I like using audition as a wav editor (very good) I really haven't tried it for multi-tracking yet. I also got a vs1880 I just recorded my first album on it. If you want to be mobile I think you should look into a vs1824 or 1880 (about 680~800 used on ebay), even though I'm doing my next album on protools I will still be using it for projects and such.

I've been fumbling around with audition and am still learning it ( and yes i still got the old cool edit 2000 on my pc )

good luck!!!!

Leroy

Hate to break it to you, but Sonar is one of the easiest ones.

Thanks Itchy V for breaking it 2 me . Truthfully, though, you're right. I've been using it record my MPC tracks for awhile. It's when I try to delve deep into the program is when I get lost, dazed, and confused. I'm just having a hard time figuring out the
softsynths, plug-ins, and such.

In Sonar, click on View then snyth track, a new window will pop up. Click on the button next to the big X icon. that's how you add synths. Now on a midi track, click the out button and change it to the name of your synth

NUENDO works real good , and its found in a lot of studios today along with protools. these are two programs you should know

"User friendly recording software"

Never heard of such a beast. I do know some user friendly recording hardware by Akai called a DPS.