Vegas and recording

dwhopson wrote on 3/3/2004, 11:23 PM
HI,

Can you record directly into vegas? I'm a little confused....I am working with SF7 and CDA5 right now...as well as Adobe Audition and my turnkey DAW from MicroTechnologyUnlimited. (Not necessarily at the same time.) (I'm in the process of looking for a usable replacement for my MTU system due to its age and now limited support from the manufacturer...and I have about 5 months to make a decision.)

For some reason I was thinking you could only open and edit sound files in Vegas.....but I think I'm confused. Can someone confirm direct recording into vegas?

I work in classical music and record 2-track live to disk, and need the flexability of a multitrack editor for cascade-style editing within larger projects. I record and master about 300 live events per year (not including project recording and commercial projects).

Thanks!
dwh

Comments

PeterWright wrote on 3/4/2004, 4:16 AM
Yes you can record directly into Vegas - (that's what it is, a multitrack recorder/editor), into as many tracks as your hardware allows - I've heard of 24 separate tracks - maybe someone can elaborate.

If you've got 5 months - V5 is coming out in April with external surface support and ..... we expect ...... many other goodies .... and it's already a great program.
Rednroll wrote on 3/4/2004, 7:19 AM
Vegas can record as many simultaneous tracks as your hardware allows. You can playback as many tracks as you want until your PC spits and sputters and finally comes to a complete hault. You can simultaneous record and playback seperate tracks. You can edit until you're blue in the face. You can mix until the cows come home. You can burn master CDr's until you've burned the red out of redbook...........Oh yeah, and you can also edit video with it.
dwhopson wrote on 3/4/2004, 10:23 PM
@#$%^ I think I've bought the wrong thing then. Luckily I can purchase at educational pricing. Thanks for the info.....not quite sure how I missed all that.

dwh
MrPhil wrote on 3/5/2004, 1:22 AM
And of course, you have to have the hardware that can handle simultaneous recording/playback for all this to work. In other words a real soundcard/interface.
Geoff_Wood wrote on 3/5/2004, 10:55 AM
What's 'wrong thing' about it ? Sounds perfect for your purpose.


geoff
dwhopson wrote on 3/8/2004, 3:03 PM
I didn't buy Vegas....I bought a SF7 bundle with CDA5. I should have bought Vegas instead, since it provides a complete solution for my needs.
Rednroll wrote on 3/8/2004, 5:11 PM
Well, if it's any consolidation. Sound Forge integrates very nicely with Vegas. You can right click on tracks in Vegas, and open them directly into Sound Forge, do offline editing within Sound Forge, then when you save your changes get automatically updated within Vegas. I use both Vegas and Sound Forge together like this all the time, so it's not money wasted, it's actually a very nice package for complete audio editing. But you are right, what you really needed was Vegas to get you going on the multitrack recording and editing.
zemlin wrote on 3/9/2004, 4:42 AM
FWIW, Audition (which you mention you are using) should also do what you want as well, but I personally prefer to record with Vegas. The way the software handles the data and the level feedback while recording is far better than Audition.

I still prefer to mix in Audition, however. I'm sure a big part of that is it's what I know and personal preference for the UI.

I track with Vegas, do any rough edits (remove that verse - that's the one where I screwed the lyrics) - choose the takes I want to keep, and then I render out 1 track at a time to load it into Audition where I finish the project.
dwhopson wrote on 3/9/2004, 1:01 PM
I've almost decided that I don't like Audition.......it just doesn't seem very intuitive to me....of course this is only my opinion (based on my background).

For example, with the Sony/Sonic Foundry family of products, I have fairly quickly and easily figured out how use the software for the manipulations that I need to do (recording, editing, cd burning, etc...).

Audition hasn't been that simple, and the manual doesn't help much unless you have time to do lots of reading and reference. As well, it seems that you actually have to do more work in Audtion to do the same type things with Sony/Sonic Foundry products.....not to mention not having the ability to record cd's directly out of Audition....not a big deal....but nice to have included.

Just my observation...so far.

dwhopson wrote on 3/9/2004, 1:08 PM
Rednroll,

I agree....There are a lot of things in Sound Forge that will be useful to me. And CD architect will also have its uses (small/short projects). It's just that when the intial software purchases are coming out of my pocket, it adds up quickly. Again, thankfully I've been able to purchase most of at educational pricing!

I've been really impressed with the Vegas4 demo. It seems to do everything I need it to and then some......all with relative ease so far.