BEST RECORDING SOFTWARE?

Todd Ellis · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007, 04:46 (GMT) Post subject:

Colin wrote:

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Colin Campbell · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007, 19:24 (GMT) Post subject:

The .pk files just tend to build up.

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Colin Campbell · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007, 20:35 (GMT) Post subject:

Let me ask you this about Audition. How do you keep all the source files straight? I'll pull a music bed, some EFX off an external drive and do some edits and it keeps wanting to save OVER THE ORIGINAL! I've tried to come up with a scheme to keep all the edited files for a session in one folder but it's nerve racking trying to make sure my originals are not being destructively saved over themselves. Drives me nuts.

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Colin Campbell · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007, 21:06 (GMT) Post subject:

I have both 1.5 and 2.0 installed but I can't get used to 2.0 yet. 1.5 just seems more responsive. So if you check that box, does it continually prompt you to save files when you exit? I am always so afraid to check "yes to all."

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Don Randall · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007, 22:44 (GMT) Post subject:

Everytime I read the various notes in a thread regarding digital editing software, I see all the difficulties associated with this program or that program and then all the notes telling how to work around all the problems - or the comments regarding how expensive it was to upgrade when the time came for revisions or fixes to some old problems.

Whhhoooooooey!

If you are doing voiceover work and not complex music production, ask yourself if you really need a multi track program or any other program with a long list of features that cost a bunch of money, take a long time to learn before you finally figure out that you don't need 'em and won't use 'em. Does it makes sense to spend megabucks for something like that?

I use an inexpensive ($45 USD) but very high quality program that is easy to learn and understand and it comes with a well thought out list of native digital audio editing and processing tools that work well - and it will host DirectX plug-ins with no muss, no fuss and without the hair pulling sessions we occasionally see being discussed.

The built in Noise Reduction feature is very effective - and easy to use. Unless the objectionable background noise is extreme, there is no perceptible loss of quality to the original once it is processed (unlike some other programs I have played with). Whenever the developer upgrades and improves the program, I get the upgrade free of charge - for life. I never did ask if that means his life or mine - perhaps it's one of those "whichever comes (goes?) first" kinda things.

Most of the time I record in glorious monaural and at times - when I'm feeling really daring and crave some excitement in my life - I will go to full living stereo. If I need to produce something that requires two or three or four music track changes and a handful of sfx, I can put it all together without need of six, eight, ten or twelve separate tracks.

It sure is nice to know that among all the ugliness, horror, pestilence, disease, drought, famine, wars and the general hunger, pain and misery in this world - I don't have to get all door slammin' / wall kickin' mad because my digital audio editing and processing software was way too expensive and a pain in the patoot.

It sure is nice to have something that just works right.

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Don Randall · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007, 22:58 (GMT) Post subject:

Colin Campbell · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007, 23:05 (GMT) Post subject:

I am a producer by trade. I want to be able to do true multi-track. I know many others don't need or want that capability.

I have not found ANY multi-track editors that are exactly how I'd like them to be (a mimic of an Orban Audicy) but I make due with Audition until I can get Pro Tools.

Multi-track is FUN.

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Colin Campbell · Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007, 05:40 (GMT) Post subject:

Brian, don't tell me anyone thinks that Audition is better than Pro Tools!

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