music recording

[theknightsofni]

right, I need a good program to hook my toneport up to so i can record music (guitar bass and vocals) whats a good free program to do it?

also would be handy if it could easy get midi drums or soem other kind of drums into it and had a click track/metronome

[Somedude]

Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/)?

[Captain Colon]

Audacity really sucks for multitracking IME, I always had issues with the tracks not syncing right.

Shouldn't the toneport come with a program?

[pk!]

For a full basic studio suite, get any month's Computer Music magazine - the coverdisk usually has their in-house freeware CMStudio which is basic but not bad -supports VST plugins.

There are loads of free VST plugins here http://www.freesoundeditor.com/incageneng.html?VSTDelay-Reverbeng.htm~main


edit - Toneports come with a free copy of Ableton Live, if you don't have the disk hassle your supplier for it - it's bound to work well.

[theknightsofni]

got the toneport off ebay and its albeton live LITE that coems with it, and I never got the CD key from the guy i got it from despite hasseling him

[pk!]

there's a freeware 3-track multi recorder here http://www.cleansofts.com/get/313/8169/MultitrackStudio_Lite.html

If you can be bothered to set up a mac machine you can now run pro tools free
http://www.macmusic.org/software/view.php/lang/en/id/17/

the older win 98 version is also free but I can't find the d/l link right now.

Free stuff here http://www.pc-music.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=9&Itemid=52&Itemid=50

[theknightsofni]

thanks for the links, il check em out tomorrow, dont really think 3 tracks is enough as i need a couple of guitars, bass and vocals

also i run vista so dunno if win98 stuff will work

[Captain Colon]

If you're running Vista you'll be lucky if ANY of the suggestions you get in this thread work, TBH :\

thanks for the links, il check em out tomorrow, dont really think 3 tracks is enough as i need a couple of guitars, bass and vocals
Record three tracks and mix them to a suitable level, then use that as track 1 and you can record two more. Ghetto as shit but it works.


Just get Adobe Audition D:

[theknightsofni]

actually so far I've found audacity to be pretty damn good, slightly annoying how you cant import midi drums directly, but if you change them to mp3 first it works great!

thanks for the links

[Evil Superstar]

Ive read somewhere about free multi track recorder with midi & vst support, but unfortunatly it was for some Linux distro only.

I'm not a huge fan of audicity, because it introduces a lot of lag I've found.

Audobe Audition is what I use to mix my recordings, but for recording I just use Cool Edit, because it's quite low on the system requirements, since I don't have a decent soundcard (sb audigy 2), which while good for games and movies, is useless at properly recording music.

[Captain Colon]

I used to use cool edit, then I found out that Audition is just cool edit that doesn't crash randomly and has ASIO support and a better interface.

[Evil Superstar]

cool edit is also around 20 megs while adobe audition (cool edit 3 if you insist) is around 600 mb. And I never had any crashes with cool edit, except while deleting tracks while you were recording on them, which is a daft thing to do anyway.

[Captain Colon]

cool edit is also around 20 megs while adobe audition (cool edit 3 if you insist) is around 600 mb.
Well yeah, but if you have them both installed ANYWAY...:p

Mine's only 335mb :)

[theknightsofni]

ona slightly different note, I'm looking for a way to get better sounding drums, I've got a very basic MIDI track bludgeoned from a guitar pro file, but I'd like something that sounds better and that I can easily add soem intersting fills to

[Captain Colon]

Get a decent-sounding drum soundfont or something, unless you want to learn fruityloops