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| warrenwest67 Member  Thanks for the mammaries. 966 Posts 1/07 |  Posted - Feb 15 2010 : 2:19PMI used to do a lot of home recording with my old Fostex cassette multi-track. Then came kids. Now I am looking at beginning to play again and from what I know about it now, PC software is the way to go instead of the stand alone recorder. Anyone have any suggestions of brand names? I have heard about Cakewalk for years. Are they still good one? I really can't spend alot... a few hundred or so. I am not planning on anything more than tinkering around with my Synths and guitars. I have the mixing boards and racks of processors. I just need to be able to record layers but I figure the programs will come loaded with more effects and amp modelers then I have ever seen. Any info would be greatly appreciated! Edited by - warrenwest67 on Feb 15 2010  [Link] |
| DrP0rn0 Senior Member 1836 Posts 5/04 | Posted - Feb 15 2010 : 4:38PM If you had a mac you'd have GarageBand installed by default and it's not a bad starting point either, especially given all of the software instruments it has, drum loops, bass loops, etc. Audacity doesn't have amp modelers or anything like that, as it's primarily a recording, mixing, and editing tool as opposed to a "music creation tool". But again, it's free so you've got nothing to lose by trying. Dr. P  [Link] |
| Harri Patel Senior Member #SDNY he's all yours. -- Michael Steele 5110 Posts 3/03 | Posted - Feb 15 2010 : 7:11PM If you don't know about Linux, you can download and burn live DVDs for various distributions (i.e., versions) tailored for multimedia: http://www.bandshed.net/AVLinux.html http://www.apodio.org/ http://www.artistx.org/site2/ http://www.musix.org.ar/en/index.html "Live DVD" means your computer boots from the DVD instead of the hard drive, and you can play around with it without worrying that something Windows-related on your hard drive will get screwed up. Another approach is to wangle an old, unwanted but still operable Windows PC from somewhere for little or no money, and install the Linux distro of your choice on it, wiping out the old Windows installation; Linux doesn't need as much CPU and memory as Windows does, so even a really old machine will work well enough. [Link] |
| BYOB_Kenobi Senior Member “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” - Kierkegaard 2684 Posts 8/09 | Posted - Feb 15 2010 : 11:31PM [Link] |
| Leyden Senior Member The people have spoken. I'm a nitpicking dick. Woo! 8751 Posts 1/04 | Posted - Feb 16 2010 : 12:02AM [Link] |
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| Harri Patel Senior Member #SDNY he's all yours. -- Michael Steele 5110 Posts 3/03 | Posted - Feb 16 2010 : 12:33AM [Link] |
| ChodeMasterJ Perpetual Marxist 5405 Posts 4/03 | Posted - Feb 16 2010 : 3:26AM [Link] |
| warrenwest67 Member Thanks for the mammaries. 966 Posts 1/07 | Posted - Feb 16 2010 : 8:34AM [Link] |
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