question bout software

whats another good software program to record and edit music in other than cool edit? my cool edit ismessin up and i gotta beatim tryna record.

i 've heard good things about SF, or even vegas.

yo smoothe, what problems are you having with cool edit? what type of machine are you running?

Are you on a PC?
Cubase is nice.
Sonar is big too.

I'm a Mac user. I use Pro Tools and sometimes Logic.
Lately, I've been looking at the cheap programs like Easy Beats.

Befire you abandon what you've got, ask around and try some free demos.
Hell there may be a freebie program that will suit your needs.


Peace and good luck.

mwalker wrote:yo smoothe, what problems are you having with cool edit? what type of machine are you running?

im on a laptop. this laptop is not at all good for recording music onto. unless i upgrade (im waiting for a ram upgrade to come) but im having problems like delay problems. i think people call it latency or something. and sometimes when im done recording and i listen to the whole thing it will skip somewhere in the song. it juss takes longer to do things. i think the main problem is my computer but i also wanted to give another program a chance and learn something new...

homershines wrote:Are you on a PC?
Cubase is nice.
Sonar is big too.

I'm a Mac user. I use Pro Tools and sometimes Logic.
Lately, I've been looking at the cheap programs like Easy Beats.

Befire you abandon what you've got, ask around and try some free demos.
Hell there may be a freebie program that will suit your needs.


Peace and good luck.

naw im usin a laptop. aight thanks!! a good spot to find software is:

www.sonicspot.com

if anybody cared...

Is it true that in Sonar you can save your fiels as Pro Tools files and pull em up in a studio that uses PT with the song intact?

equi-knocks wrote:Is it true that in Sonar you can save your fiels as Pro Tools files and pull em up in a studio that uses PT with the song intact?

Not too sure about sonar but I wouldnt be too suprised if it could do this...I know the new Logic can

Smoove....sounds like you are experiencing some latency which would account for the delay you hear. There is no way around this except to have a low latency soundcard. But as far as the skipping goes, it sounds like it could be your laptop system. The extra ram may be a good fix to help with that. Good luck getting it sorted out, I know those computer systems can be a b!atch when you want to get things done and it doesnt cooperate.

equi-knocks wrote:Is it true that in Sonar you can save your fiels as Pro Tools files and pull em up in a studio that uses PT with the song intact?

youre probably thinking of OMF export. what this does is takes your (insert audio program here) files and saves them to a file that can be translated by a different program. so what i can do with my digital performer set up at home is export the whole project(audio files included) as an OMF, then take it to the studio with Protools and digitranslator(the app that converts the OMF into protools files) and im good to go. your whole project will pop up in protools just like you left it at home, minus any plugins you had on there, unless the studio has the same plugins you have. so as long as sonar can export OMF files, you can take to it to studio with PT.

you could be having a soundcard problem or the hard disk is not fast enough.

maybe you could try recording in mono one channel at a time in CEP? Its worked for me in the past...kind of a pain tho....

latency has to do with a bunch of stuff with a PC. What kind of soundcard u got, memory, CPU (pentium 4 is good. 2.8 ghz, hard disk cache, how ur system is managed, if u have usb devices. I would shut down every program, u can get to the hidden ones by pressing CTRL + ALT + DELETE. And shut off all the non system critical stuff. Also u can optimize ur settings in control panel under settings.

ASIO SOundcards have low latency

It mostly boils down to what soundcard you use. You can also try to use ASIO4All before getting a new soundcard, it's a set of audio drivers for low latency recording using normal consumer soundcards. It's not perfect, but it works pretty well without costing anything, at least until you get the dough to get yourself a pro- or prosumer soundcard.

Here's the website for it: http://michael.tippach.bei.t-online.de/asio4all/

I'm sorry, but I'm a bit tipsy at the moment, I'll get back to you tomorrow.