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what's the simpliest recording software?

#2
With simplicity comes limitations. I think garage band is the easiest to use, but im a pro tools user. Everytime I wanna do something i cant in garage band becuase its pretty stripped down. Great for learning though. If your a PC user then hmmm maybe audacity. Its just as easy as anything else but its free so if you get frustrated and hate it at least your not out any money.
 
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hyperlitem said:
With simplicity comes limitations. I think garage band is the easiest to use, but im a pro tools user. Everytime I wanna do something i cant in garage band becuase its pretty stripped down. Great for learning though. If your a PC user then hmmm maybe audacity. Its just as easy as anything else but its free so if you get frustrated and hate it at least your not out any money.
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I did drop out of school and I DID join a punk band and I WAS in London in 1977 and I was on the boat in the Thems when the Sex Pistols played god save the queen and I was at CBGBs when david burne first sang Psycho Killer and I did play Bass and love it and I still play bass and love it ....But knowone knows me .... that why I use ......CUBASE4 and wavelab6 , Audacaty is cool but really hard to set up... My advise is buy a handheld recorder Zom H4 Korg MR1000 or anything
 
#5
since you're in canada take a look at PGMUSIC ProTracks, if your looking for recording software. Inexpensive, does a lot of things that the big boys does at a fraction of the cost. i've been using for years. pgmusic.com
 
#7
I never found Audacity hard to set up- it's pretty "dumbproof." Simple and has really large, well, everything, so it's also very easy to see if you have poor vision. Not a fancy program, but fine if you're doing simple stuff.
 
#11
Sony Soundforge 9 now does multitrack. Very easy to record, push the record button. But Soundforge has always had an issue of allowing you to listen to a "wet" (with effects) while recording. If you use an external mixer, and reverb/effects, you can listen to the wet signal this way. Soundforge includes Acoustic Mirror which is a great convolution reverb for post. processing.
 
#16
I use the Cubase LE that came bundled with my zoom b2.1u...it's a pretty decent program, not hard to use, at all...

for drum machine, I use a couple of freeware and shareware programs, that aren't too bad...one is called Hammer and does this cool "hip hop" beat box sortof stuff...I then save the program to a .wav and import it into Cubase to lay down the drum track...

i don't have to put the drum track down first, only a click track using hammer. It's accurate enough, that a subsequent full-blown track will be synchronised.
 
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shifter said:
simple and cheap/free i think for a pc

REAPER

Check it out fairly simpple i would say much like PT
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+1 on REAPER

http://reaper.fm/download.php

Not free, 40 buck for a non-commercial license. The demo is unrestricted thought. Unlimited tracks count, unlimited routing possibilities, multi-core/multi CPU native support, DX/DXI/VST/VSTI support, rock solid and one of the best customer support in the DAW software market.
 
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Bryan R. Tyler said:
I never found Audacity hard to set up- it's pretty "dumbproof." Simple and has really large, well, everything, so it's also very easy to see if you have poor vision. Not a fancy program, but fine if you're doing simple stuff.
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how can i record two tracks on thism, like 2 basses and not have one slightly behind? i cant get them to record exacly together...
 

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