So I've got Cakewalk Pro Audio 9, and I can't seem to get it to install on the new computer with Vista [bang], so I'm in a little dilemma, I've looked for ways to get it to install with Vista without much luck. So now I've got a couple of questions: Does anyone know of a way to get it to install with Vista, and if not is there a decent free multi track recording program out there? I liked Pro Audio just fine, but I payed a shitload of money several years ago, and honestly didn't need 90% of the features, so I'm hoping that there is a free alternative out there now that doesn't have all the bells and whistles that I never used anyway. I'm not looking for a demo version that I cant burn with. I'm just mostly farting around and recording some shitty home made music and torturing those I love with it. Thanks in advance.
i've used 'audacity' before. it's free, open source, and did what i needed it to do.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/)
Quote from: zarn02 on February 22, 2009, 01:03:14 AM
i've used 'audacity' before. it's free, open source, and did what i needed it to do.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/)
+1 on audacity - it is amazing what it can do for a free program.
mitt
So I downloaded Audacity, and got it to work, and it seems to be just what I'm looking for, just one problem, I'm getting a pretty bad lag when I'm listening to what I'm recording,
maybe a second or a second and a half, it makes it pretty hard to sync up the second track with the first when there is such a delay. I suppose there is some way to eliminate or reduce this, but I can't seem to figure it out, and if it's just the nature of the beast, then I can work around it. Also, thanks for the recomendation, this program was exactly what I was looking for!
I don't understand exactly what you are having problems with. When you say lag, you mean from the time you hit play until there is sound? Or the zero noise at the beginning / end of a track?
mitt
Upgrade to xp?
well, it may be a sound card issue, but say you record a track, then you start a second track to record the lead over it, if you are listening to the audio through the headphones, you hear the first track, and there is a small delay when you hear what you play for the second track, I know that I could turn off the audio for the track that I am currently recording and just listen to the sound not through the microphone, but I know in Pro Audio, I was able to listen to the sound through the microphone and there was no delay. I hope that is clear what is happening it makes it really hard to play along with a recorded track because you get distracted by the delay. I'm pretty sure that it is not a Vista thing, I know Vista in general sucks, but this computer has enough ram that Vista isn't nearly as big a pain in the ass as the laptop that I have, that make the beast with two backser makes me want to kill myself sometimes. Does my explanation make sense? I checked and even on one track, if you try to listen to the microphone sound through headphones, there is a delay. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
Quote from: capt steubing on February 23, 2009, 12:48:18 PMI'm pretty sure that it is not a Vista thing, I know Vista in general sucks, but this computer has enough ram that Vista isn't nearly as big a pain in the ass as the laptop that I have, that make the beast with two backser makes me want to kill myself sometimes.
First, have you seen this:
http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=4352 (http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=4352)
Also, from what I hear (and I'm a Mac guy, so take this with the appropriate sized grain of salt) Vista has _serious_ sound card driver problems. Make sure you're running the very latest drivers available for your card, and do some googleing to see if other people are reporting problems with your card (or motherboard if you're running on-board sound).
So maybe it's not _technically_ a Vista problem...
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Can you open both tracks in a new project in audacity, then align them and play them?
I am still not sure what the exact problem is - but it is probably me. I only use audacity for transferring records and tapes into digital.
mitt
Sounds like it could be an audio buffer problem as well. I don't know Vista (don't want to really), but see if under the soundcard or system settings within the program you can change the audio buffer size as well as "release asio driver in the background." What you are hearing is a latency issue that all recording programs suffer from and deal with in different ways. By releasing the asio (audio stream input/output) driver you are sending a direct signal from the recording channel to the soundcard and (hopefully) alleviating the latency issue.