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Subject:Mix Engine? Posted by: MoonicaDeenus Date:2/9/2003 11:47:03 AM In reading opinions from PC recording experts, the performance of the recording software's mix engine is one of the most critical operations in the pre-mastering chain. Right now, I use Sound Forge in conjunction with Cakewalk.; & use Cakewalk's mix engine to mixdown complete audio tracks to a stereo .wav file; & then perform my final master-track editing in Sound Forge (by simply) opening the .wav file. Does Sound Forge contain similar functionality; & if so, would it be superior to that of Cakewalk? Can I somehow eliminate a step & wind up with a higher quality .wav file (whereby I record a stereo .wav file in Sound Forge directly from Cakewalk's multiple tracks)? I guess the main question is: Can Sound Forge create a higher quality sound file than conventional multitracking software; & if so, how? Thanks in advance, mark4man
Subject:RE: Mix Engine? Reply by: Geoff_Wood Date:2/9/2003 7:15:18 PM I wouldn't loose any sleep over Cake's mixing quality ... No, no realistic way of doing it in SF. geoff
Subject:RE: Mix Engine? Reply by: Chienworks Date:2/10/2003 7:20:44 AM Sound Forge isn't a multitrack application. The only mixing it can do is when pasting one file on top of another, or when saving a stereo file as mono. Vegas handles multitrack mixing quite nicely.

Subject:Mix Engine?

Date:2/9/2003 11:47:03 AM

In reading opinions from PC recording experts, the performance of the recording software's mix engine is one of the most critical operations in the pre-mastering chain. Right now, I use Sound Forge in conjunction with Cakewalk.; & use Cakewalk's mix engine to mixdown complete audio tracks to a stereo .wav file; & then perform my final master-track editing in Sound Forge (by simply) opening the .wav file.

Does Sound Forge contain similar functionality; & if so, would it be superior to that of Cakewalk? Can I somehow eliminate a step & wind up with a higher quality .wav file (whereby I record a stereo .wav file in Sound Forge directly from Cakewalk's multiple tracks)? I guess the main question is: Can Sound Forge create a higher quality sound file than conventional multitracking software; & if so, how?

Thanks in advance,

mark4man

Subject:RE: Mix Engine?

Reply by: Geoff_Wood

Date:2/9/2003 7:15:18 PM

I wouldn't loose any sleep over Cake's mixing quality ...

No, no realistic way of doing it in SF.

geoff

Subject:RE: Mix Engine?

Reply by: Chienworks

Date:2/10/2003 7:20:44 AM

Sound Forge isn't a multitrack application. The only mixing it can do is when pasting one file on top of another, or when saving a stereo file as mono.

Vegas handles multitrack mixing quite nicely.