Post by thomasallencummins on Apr 12, 2007 14:49:34 GMT -5
Home based recording has been something I've struggled with for many years. I've been involved in music since high school and spent many years trying to record the band's music on less than a shoe string budget. I tried old reel to reel recorders. Layering recordings from 2 and sometimes 3 normal cassette recorders etc. On some few occasions I had the good fortune to have borrowed actual multitrack recorders that were capable of recording 3 tracks and then bouncing the 3 to the 4th open track and then you could keep layering in this way over and over, except that once you bounced the tracks to one track you could no longer edit or mix what you had so you were kind of stuck with your end result. Then one day I was lucky enough to buy a used copy of Cakewalk 6. As soon as I realized that I could record a multitude of independent tracks and keep the original perormances intact to be mixed down as many different ways as I liked, I began recording like a maniac. The only hinderance was that the program consumed much of my hard drive space. Since that first version of Cakewalk I've upgraded a few times but the program remains essentially the same. Now my only issue is being able to peform for the recordings to the level I want and then of course its nice to have some talent in the mixdown area.
I've tried a version of Protools that was distributed as a demo for the PC but didn't like it quite as much as Cakewalk (now called Sonar). I'm always on the lookout for a program that will make my recording easier but so far I haven't found anything to replace CW.