General Music Chat

I use CoolEdit to do things like radio spots (I make part of my living in media creation) but I think it's sub par for doing serious music work. For that I go back to Cubase.

totally agree. never use it to track, but the filters... scientific filters... can't be beat. I also use it for cutting up samples... it's got a nice function for finding zero crossings throughout a piece. Def not the thing to use for multitracking tho.

Wow, sounds like you guys have a lot of software that you use for different things!! Is there anything that does everything?
I am gonna keep trucking. Eventually, I hope to have enough knowledge to share with other people too.

Wow, sounds like you guys have a lot of software that you use for different things!! Is there anything that does everything?
I am gonna keep trucking. Eventually, I hope to have enough knowledge to share with other people too.

A one stop solution for everthing? Not that I've found. But that's a good thing, because it means certain software developers have concentrated on a given area, which means their products will be better. Silver Bullet solutions always make me wary.

Yeah, that makes sense Irminsul.

Thanks Irminsul and MMV for all your help!
I finally found the triangles that you were speaking of Irminsul, I am so excited and I was able to record with music coming in on a separate track. I am so proud of me! Can you tell?! LOL!
Just wanted to say thanks!!

Hey Guys,

It is your favorite PITA on here. LOL

I can not seem to record using Cubase two separate tracks. What am I doing wrong? I set up the record in the mixer, but when I send the MP3 over it has music and vocals together, not separate. Can you speculate if it is happening when I doing the export Irminsul or am I just recording incorrectly somehow?

Thank you again for reading.

I'm not sure what your recording set up is like, but you have to make your "in" is set properly on the given track. On the left side of your tracks you'll see a setting for IN and OUT . Each channel has them.

If you are trying to do seperate mixdowns of your voice and the backing music, you can always mute the one you don't want to come through - its the M button that is yellow when it's active, I think.

I've got the IN line 1 part set. Good on that.

I don't know.

I add a track from file and put MP3 in just music and then sing to it on a 2nd track, only recording on the 2nd track, but when I try to convert to wav using the audio mixdown instructions that you shared with me earlier in this thread and try to open with cool edit pro, it opens as one track. The vocals are not separate. I am trying to send vocals to someone else to add effects, etc.

Can you figure out what I am screwing up by that giant run on sentence?!

Thanks again for all your help. I don't think I can express my gratitude for all the help that I have gotten on this forum!!

Ohhhh I think I see what you are saying. Audio Mixdown always mixes it all down to one track, (mono or stereo), Jaque. If you want to mix only certain tracks down to one, you have to select those and of course mute the others. Perhaps you were thinking that the mixdown feature preserves the multitrack structure?

Yes, Irminsul that is what I was thinking. Obviously I was dead wrong. LOL!
After I posted the last comment, I reread what you had wrote and was successful at hitting the solo button (which automatically mutes the other track- I know you know this but just in case someone else is reading hahaha) and Voila! I was all set.

Like I said before. I am incredibly grateful for all your help!

Hey I'd rather try to save people some steps after my own learning curve experience, than see them tear their hair out replicating it