I love music

[AnnoXanti]

(Cakewalk is the absolute worst, I won't recommend it to anyone ever) I won't trust computers with my musical "babies"

I'm quite appalled by the opinion... Cakewalk Sonar is good, complete and powerful. It has extensive midi editing/recording capacity that CoolEdit lacks. However, both software have the same advantages for multi-track recording and editing already.

 

[Slaver123]

Thanx for the links! Is "Audacity" a good program? I've been looking at that one recently...


I bought the cheapo $40 Cakewalk from Staples cause I got sick of the expensive "pro" programs that didn't work. I thought maybe the stripped-down version would have less features going on at once and might work better for just the most basic recording functions, but it's terrible and there's no tech support. They should be ashamed of this product.
Plus it doesn't export to mp3, they wanted me to buy a separate program to do that! Well, it says on the box that it does mp3's, so things got real ugly. After much nasty correspondence and phone calls to Cakewalk company they sent me the mp3 program free.

All I use it for now is to edit soundbytes occasionally, I won't trust it with my music; it kept losing files between sessions; I'd re-open a session and half the data would be gone, nearly every time. I don't have a virus or anything (besides, these are the ONLY files that went missing)

Did I mention there's no tech support?

 

[drew70]

I have an older version of Cakewalk called Pro-Audio 7. I bought it in 1998. It's great as a MIDI sequencer. It does offer capability to do digital audio tracks, but the result is horrendous. Overdriven and out of sync.

Then in 2001 I got Cool Edit Pro. That worked very well for multitrack digital audio recording. For years I've used these two programs in tandem. Cakewalk for MIDI and Cool Edit for digital audio.

Now I've got Sonar 8. This program is the ultimate single recording program in my opinion. Second only to Pro-Tools. Sonar 8 offers great plugins for effects and mastering and even has a couple of soft synths in the package for those that are lacking in hardware.

I must say, that it's really cool to know and meet fellow musicians and producers. I've been totally digging the music from AnnoXanti for a year or so now. Would love to hear the works of some of you others.

 

[Frost King]

Does anyone know how to program guitar riffs into keyboard? i want to do that so i can create some efects to the riffs. i wrote.

 

[kopfhorer1]

...My breed of musician does NOT want to wrestle with his instrument for hours to get it to do even the simplest things. On a Piano you press a key and it sounds; on a Guitar you pluck a string; you don't have to right click and then select from a drop-down menu, then go back and re-set all your line inputs for 2 hours, then go to an online forum to see why it still won't work; that's NOT musical (or elegant, or simple, or efficient, or conducive to creativity)

And it's NOT because we're stupid, or technically illiterate. I don't find ANY joy in wrestling with equipment to accomplish what's basically a CHORE, such as recording audio or saving a file. I don't live for the nuts-and-bolts "chore" side of music, I live for the musical side of it.

Programmers and engineers DO find joy and pleasure in wrestling with problems, in coaxing machinery to perform a basic task; so they can't understand when someone else doesn't like it. (BTW this is the "ANSWER" I've searched for for years, I believe it's the reason why all software sucks)

[standing ovation] You need to send these 3 paragraphs to the CEO's of a few major software concerns!

It seems to be standard operating procedure here in the digital age for companies to use customers as beta testers for new products, no matter what it does to our work or our sanity.

 

[NMKamikaze1]

this is hardly music,but I listen to it every day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NisCkxU544c
Like a baws!!!!!!!

LMAO... Slim Thug will fuck them up if he finds out those assholes made a joke out of his song.

 

[Slaver123]

Does anyone know how to program guitar riffs into keyboard? i want to do that so i can create some efects to the riffs. i wrote.

Some keyboards ((like the Triton) can be used as effects processors; plug the guitar amp's output into it and follow the complicated instructions. Or you can do it via sampling.

With software (if it works) you can record a track and then add effects like crazy after the fact.