Recording Software

Subject: RE: Recording Software
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 08:08 AM

I'm on Linux and I use Audacity for the bits of recording I want. I do have Cubase AI and LE (bundled with hardware) but they do not run on Linux and while they may be good, I've not had the need to either run Windows to use them or attempt to get them to run under Wine on Linux.

I think the most interesting for Linux (and possibly of interest to Mac owners) is ardour. Seems quite complicated to learn but it does seem to be targeted for professional use.

I believe the lack of MIDI support has put some off but their 3.0 alpha which I built the other day adds this. I could only find an event list editor though and nothing like the score editor Cakewalk has.

Subject: RE: Recording Software
From: Arkie
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 01:19 PM

I have been using the latest beta version of Audacity and am extremely pleased with it. Time spent on one weekly task has been cut in half. I suspect that what might be viewed as limitations are really my limitations and not the software. It may not meet expectations of a highly skilled technician but it works great for someone with my limited knowledge.

Subject: RE: Recording Software
From: Tootler
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 06:14 PM

I use Audacity and have been for some time. Easy to learn the basics and it does what I want. I was recently able to put together a 3 part recorder arrangement of "All Things Bright and Beautiful" for someone who wanted it for a funeral. He asked me on Saturday afternoon and wanted for the Monday. I had it ready for him on Sunday tea time. The only major fault was that the middle part was slightly out of sync and that was my playing not Audacity. It's what comes of doing something in a hurry. Anyway he seemed happy.

I don't record directly into the computer. I use my Edirol R09 instead. I find it gives cleaner recordings with less noise than going directly into the computer.

Subject: RE: Recording Software
From: treewind
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 06:56 PM

Audacity is fine for simple edits of mono or stereo material, but
Ardour's multitrack recording and editing capabilities are in a completely different league. It's worth learning but you do need a low-latency or real time kernel if you want to do overdubs or build up recordings a track at a time, or you'll get too much monitoring delay. The best way to install it is to get the whole AVLinux distribution - when I did, everything just worked, after I'd spent about a week messing with 64studio and Ubuntu Studio and getting nowhere. I have a separate PC for it, but actually it's good for ordinary office stuff too, and the same PC even dual-boots Windows.

Subject: RE: Recording Software
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 03 Aug 11 - 07:44 PM

I don't see myself using it properly but I'm downloading AVLinux. Sounds worth a look.

Subject: RE: Recording Software
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 04 Aug 11 - 09:55 AM

Just had a bit of a play with Ardour. The busses and tracks, effects, etc. seem to make sense to me. Seems a bit like my mixer only with Ardour has more buses, routing options, etc.

Using alsa_in, I just had it recording from a ZoomH4 and a Yamaha mixer at the same time.

Not that I'm planning on getting one, any idea what the Lexicon Omega which looks as if it can do 4 mono tracks from one device is like.