https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/what-computer-based-music-tools-do-you-use/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:39:58 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/what-computer-based-music-tools-do-you-use/paged/2/#post-312086 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:00:46 +0000 Opinions and Polls smokindog https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/what-computer-based-music-tools-do-you-use/paged/2/#post-312086 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/what-computer-based-music-tools-do-you-use/paged/2/#post-312074 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:37:03 +0000
If you come up with a product...and want to shop it around...and it looks like it might fly (financially)...you'll be asked as to which format you have it archived on. Better hope it's PT!!!

SURE...it's great and even ADVISEABLE to use what you want...but it's really a prerequisite to at least know how to use it. I mean, you'd be looking rather uneducated if you are sitting at a console...and PT pops up on the screen...and you come up with Patrick Star's infamous "Duhhhhhhh"... :oops:

Cat]]> Opinions and Polls Cat https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/what-computer-based-music-tools-do-you-use/paged/2/#post-312074 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/what-computer-based-music-tools-do-you-use/paged/2/#post-312058 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:41:54 +0000
What it does, it does superbly.]]> Opinions and Polls kingpatzer https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/what-computer-based-music-tools-do-you-use/paged/2/#post-312058 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/what-computer-based-music-tools-do-you-use/paged/2/#post-312012 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:58:32 +0000
Having one helluva time trying to learn how to use the BFD plugin so I can get half way decent drums in my recordings.]]> Opinions and Polls Blueline https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/what-computer-based-music-tools-do-you-use/paged/2/#post-312012 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/what-computer-based-music-tools-do-you-use/paged/2/#post-311980 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:14:16 +0000
But, right now I am more interested in getting to know how to setup a good recording rig. I've been there...

I went and checked out PT and saw the accompanying book that outsized a metropolitan yellow pages!!! So, okay...I took a 14 month course (one night a week)...with my then 15 year old tagging along, too. He's now halfway through the Modern Music: Digital Recording Enginnering BA at Griffith University and is tops in his class.

As for your setting up a good recording rig...are you trying to take on clients or just for yourself. Rahul???

I'll be the first to admit that PT is a genuine pain in the buttocks to get a brainy hold of...but it ain't all that tough. The hard part is "doing tricks with it"...learning some moves that turn out a FLAWLESS product. There's heaps of ancillary Plug Ins that come with it made by different companies...wayyyyyy plenty, in fact.

For me...using a dual screen...you get used to watching the waveform and sort of develop an instinctive understanding of it all.

Again...it ain't really all that hard...but not for the novice, by any stretch!

If you can find some classes...go for it. You'll make some good friends along the way!

Hope this helps!

Cat]]> Opinions and Polls Cat https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/what-computer-based-music-tools-do-you-use/paged/2/#post-311980 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/what-computer-based-music-tools-do-you-use/#post-311970 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:57:45 +0000 But, right now I am more interested in getting to know how to setup a good recording rig. Hi Rahul,

I reckon that topic would be of huge interest to a large number of people who visit GN.

Why don't you start a thread here, with or without a poll, and see what people here think?

There are lots of possible angles. Here's a few, off the top of my head:

Do you record through mics or plug directly to some kind of hardware interface?
What hardware do you prefer?
Do you plug into the sound card or go through a dedicated audio or midi interface?
If you use an interface, how many inputs can it handle at one time?
Effects? If so at what stage in the chain?
Do you use a hardware mixer or a computer based software mixer?
Do you only want guitar, or vocals, drums, bass, keyboard, sax, synths. etc
Do you use only audio, or combine it with midi and virtual instruments?
When is cheap all you need, and when does paying extra prove worthwhile?
Any problems with lag/latency?
What the hell is Chris on about now?.... :?

Cheers,

Chris]]> Opinions and Polls Chris C https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/what-computer-based-music-tools-do-you-use/#post-311970 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/what-computer-based-music-tools-do-you-use/#post-311969 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:41:01 +0000
Thank you all very much for your great additions and comments.

Apologies for all the ones I forgot. :oops: I can't believe I left out Acid Pro for instance, it was one that I did read up about because a local shop who had run out of Band in the Box said "But we do have Acid Pro if you'd like that instead"...

It looked fine, and ran a creditable second in a review of competing products that I read. The main reason I didn't rush straight down and buy it was that I'd already invested a fair bit of time learning how to use Cubase LE, and I also met a few guys who did semi-pro stuff with Cubase and were convincing about its flexibility and suitability for what I had in mind.

I should have remembered Krystal too... :? I also used to use a free program called Best Practice which was good for slowing down music without distorting it too much, so that you could listen and learn more easily. But if you listed all the smaller stuff it would take forever....

I came close to going for ProTools (for the reasons Cat listed, and because a guy I have some lessons from has it in his own backyard studio). The basic version also came bundled with a hardware interface I was interested in. But we both have Garage Band, so that's working well for us now. I just take a project along on a thumb drive and we can work on it at either his place or mine. I'm also finding that I can sometimes move files for individual tracks from one program to another anyway, provided they're in the right format.

Thanks.

Chris]]> Opinions and Polls Chris C https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/what-computer-based-music-tools-do-you-use/#post-311969 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/what-computer-based-music-tools-do-you-use/#post-311951 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:55:31 +0000
But, right now I am more interested in getting to know how to setup a good recording rig.]]> Opinions and Polls Rahul https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/what-computer-based-music-tools-do-you-use/#post-311951 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/what-computer-based-music-tools-do-you-use/#post-311911 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:39:51 +0000
Sure, you can always convert sound files BUT that takes time and producers don't like spending money and they invariably say "Whaddya mean ya don't use ProTools???" It's like being forced to learn Latin, I guess! But...if yer in the industry...it's ProTools up yer sleeve or you don't work.

Go figure!

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