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Subject:Audio recording and loops Posted by: gordholio Date:11/20/2002 8:38:20 PM Hi everybody: I posted this message in the Vegas Audio forum, so please excuse the dual posts. Anyway, I've been toying recently with the demos of ACID, Vegas and Sound Forge, and I have a very important question that I hope might be answered here. Let me preface by saying that I have a R&R band. I want to record live audio (up to 4 simultaneous channels), edit the tracks and add effects where needed, then enhance everything with loops (again, where needed). How would you folks do this? Record the audio first in Vegas and then export the tracks into ACID? Would you lay down the loops first in ACID, send that to Vegas, and combine it there? I suppose I'm asking two things: 1) In what order should I do things? 2) Which Sonic Foundry products would best suit my needs? I don't know anything about MIDI, by the way, so that's not a consideration. Thanks a lot!
Subject:RE: Audio recording and loops Reply by: xxFT13xx Date:11/21/2002 1:06:23 AM first of all...you cant multitrack with Acid Pro 4. you need something like Logic or Cubase to do that. next...id say lay down loops first..as a reference and record your live audio track by track. then apply effects, then mix down and take it into Sound Forge and start EQing and Compressing your face off!! :) -Sin
Subject:RE: Audio recording and loops Reply by: Chienworks Date:11/21/2002 6:31:42 AM I guess my question to you would be, are you planing on having the loops line up with the live performance, or are you planning on performing to the loops? If the former, then record live in Vegas, mix, and open up the end result in ACID so that you can sync the loops to the music. If the latter, create your loop tracks in ACID first so that the band can hear them while they play, then record the whole thing into Vegas while performing.

Subject:Audio recording and loops

Posted by: gordholio

Date:11/20/2002 8:38:20 PM

Hi everybody:

I posted this message in the Vegas Audio forum, so please excuse the dual posts.

Anyway, I've been toying recently with the demos of ACID, Vegas and Sound Forge, and I have a very important question that I hope might be answered here. Let me preface by saying that I have a R&R band. I want to record live audio (up to 4 simultaneous channels), edit the tracks and add effects where needed, then enhance everything with loops (again, where needed). How would you folks do this? Record the audio first in Vegas and then export the tracks into ACID? Would you lay down the loops first in ACID, send that to Vegas, and combine it there?

I suppose I'm asking two things:

1) In what order should I do things?

2) Which Sonic Foundry products would best suit my needs?

I don't know anything about MIDI, by the way, so that's not a consideration.

Thanks a lot!

Subject:RE: Audio recording and loops

Reply by: xxFT13xx

Date:11/21/2002 1:06:23 AM

first of all...you cant multitrack with Acid Pro 4. you need something like Logic or Cubase to do that.

next...id say lay down loops first..as a reference and record your live audio track by track. then apply effects, then mix down and take it into Sound Forge and start EQing and Compressing your face off!! :)

-Sin

Subject:RE: Audio recording and loops

Reply by: Chienworks

Date:11/21/2002 6:31:42 AM

I guess my question to you would be, are you planing on having the loops line up with the live performance, or are you planning on performing to the loops? If the former, then record live in Vegas, mix, and open up the end result in ACID so that you can sync the loops to the music. If the latter, create your loop tracks in ACID first so that the band can hear them while they play, then record the whole thing into Vegas while performing.