I have finally fixed the technical problem that was preventing me from recording with my brand new computer, brand new Alesis IO 26 Firewire interface and brand new recording software! All I had to do was disable the wireless network card. Dumbshits. The world of computing has moved to wireless. How about programming your shit accordingly. OK! Full speed ahead--BAM! I hit a wall with CuBase setup. This program has the most poorly designed "out of the box" installation setup and technical setup that could possibly exist. I'm no slouch with computers. If you know anything about electronic discovery and forensics, you'll know there is a skill involved that requires you to know how to set up ANY program and make it do what you want in a very quick time frame. That includes making some programs do things they weren't intended to do. So, now I have to figure out how to get the playback to go somewhere, anywhere! Once I do that, I'll be ready to learn about how CuBase is used to overdub. That should be as entertaining as stabbing my own eyes out. If you are so inclined, follow the link to Steinberg and give them as much shit as you'd like for me.
As I said in my first post on the matter of recording, we're doing this on the cheap--code for POOR. I can't afford to be buying multiple software programs to test them for ease of use and appropriate functionality. So, I'm stuck. I just have to keep climbing that brick wall of a learning curve that CuBase requires.
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http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
ReplyDeleteCheck it out, there are also plenty of other open-source (free) options out there.
http://ardour.org/
is another multi-track editor but only for mac and linux.
Audacity will only record 2 simultaneous tracks on a windows based system. We started out with a MAC G5, Audacity and the Alesis. It had a sound spike across all channels at irregular intervals. I was led to believe that was caused by the processor by the Apple official support forums, so I got rid of the MAC and bought this x86 Windows system. That forced the hand on buying a recording program because of the above mentioned problem. I was going to partition the hard drive on the new system and put linux on it...Alesis doesn't make Linux drivers for it's IO 26.
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