Looking for advice...Home Computer Instrument Recording???

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Originally Posted by kirk

hey york-
o-fficial studio guy here..btw- mackie 824 monitors yesterday!

there's a ton of great free/shareware/demos at
www.hitsquad.com/smm

there, you'll find a free copy of pro tools LE, a great sequencer
IF you have the computing power for it. check the minimums.
for a decent free audio recorder/editor-
http://audacity.sourceforge.net i've heard good things about it.

you can also DL the free 8 track version of sony acid
at www.acidplanet.com . you'll find 5-6 free sample loops
w/ each package in the library, plus an "8pack" song file
that changes each week. it's a great way to become aquainted.

as far as guitar software goes, cakewalk makes a cut down version
of Sonar, guitar tracks pro-
http://www.cakewalk.com/Products/Gui...ro/default.asp
it'll run you a little over $200, check around.
it has efx, amplitube amp sim software bundled, so it's a good bargin.
by comparison, starting w/ Sonar 5 producer will run you around $799.
thank god i've been maintaining my upgrades since cakewalk 5.

one of the hottest pieces of guitar software is Guitar Rig 2-
http://www.native-instruments.com/in...?guitarrig2_us

i don't recommend a soundcard (damned noisy things), go
USB2 connector. tascam, roland, m-audio all make good ones.

i upgraded recently from the rol.ua-100, to the 24bit tascam US-122.

does that help?

kirk

Hey Kirk,
Are you saying to get something like a hard drive recorder rather than a soundcard? WHen you say noisy, what kind of noise do soundcards generate? I have a WAMI Rack which seems OK, but if there's something better, well, I'll have to get it, you know?

York,
I got into Sonar incrementally, that is, I found the last copy of SOnar 2 a store had for $50.00. Then I upgraded to 3 and then to 4. It beats the $799. Of course, there was also the upgrade from Studio version to producer version (more goodies in the producer version, but you sure can get started with studio versions).

Also, consider the wealth of musical talent here among us! Solicit the help of other players. Being on the internet, you can have a virtual band! I did a tune in MIDI and had a friend in Israel add guitar, another friend in Tx added bass...

Now that I think of it, maybe we can have our own forum...any thoughts?