Music Editing Program?

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Postby taifunbrowser » Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:50 am

Scintilla wrote:Which, by the way, is now <s>Verizon</s> Adobe Audition.


which is fucking awful.

Cool edit pro, you hit play, and INSTANT playback. Adobe Audition performs really slowly, even on my new computer. I mean, its not that it itself is unresponsive, just specifically playing back audio has a short delay... that they had to have added manually?

I stick with cool edit pro, and I host it on my website (no links here)
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Postby Scintilla » Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:20 pm

taifunbrowser wrote:
Scintilla wrote:Which, by the way, is now <s>Verizon</s> Adobe Audition.

which is fucking awful.

Cool edit pro, you hit play, and INSTANT playback. Adobe Audition performs really slowly, even on my new computer. I mean, its not that it itself is unresponsive, just specifically playing back audio has a short delay... that they had to have added manually?

Huh. It's always worked swimmingly for me.

Try the settings for the buffers? Or the buffer length setting on your sound card itself.
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Postby post-it » Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:20 pm

Scintilla wrote:Try the settings for the buffers? Or the buffer length setting on your sound card itself.

I borrowed a copy from a friend of mine and tryed to use it -- my resource-monitor almost said "out of memory" with 4gig of ram. I tryed the same thing in Cool Edit Pro and it ate 200k of memory for the same operation!

Cool Edit Pro is now voted x4

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Postby MechaTheGreat » Thu Aug 16, 2007 4:38 pm

k. I am in a Multimedia class for school and since we would need a liscense to use other people's music my teacher wants us to compose our own music, and has put me in charge of composing some samples.

Are Audition, SoundForge, Acid Pro, Cool Edit Pro, Audacity, etc., etc. good for composing music from scratch?

Keep in mind I want to make hip hop like beats, with techno sounds in them too. I want to compose beats with the same quality as the ones that techno and hip hop instrumentalists compose. Basically top of the line stuff.

So would the aforementioned programs be good for that? If not what would be? I would also like to screw and chop and add scratches and stuff.
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Postby Scintilla » Thu Aug 16, 2007 5:03 pm

I'm going to assume that you don't have any virtual instruments that you can use either standalone or as DXi/VSTi plugins when I say:

MechaTheGreat wrote:Are Audition

No. You get a loop-based multi-track arrangement interface, but it won't do you any good without something else you can use to actually create the loops.

MechaTheGreat wrote:SoundForge

No.

MechaTheGreat wrote:Acid Pro

Maybe. I know it has a multi-track interface similar to Audition, but I don't know if it comes with any instruments.

MechaTheGreat wrote:Cool Edit Pro

Which is now Audition. No.

MechaTheGreat wrote:Audacity

No.

You'll need a sequencer/DAW. I personally like FL Studio and am given to understand that it works well for the type of music you're describing; you may also want to check out Ableton Live, Twelve Tone Systems' Sonar (Windows only?), Steinberg Cubase, Propellerhead Reason, Apple Logic (Macintosh only), etc. etc.
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Postby post-it » Thu Aug 16, 2007 6:20 pm

Twelve Tone Systems' Sonar ( MAC & Windows ) 8-)

if you like to enter things from Sound-Bites and play them beck as Musical notes, then ask your teacher if you can use .MOD's because MOD Trackers have been around for years and years. Most all LOOPs are created from MOD Tracker Hacks. ... just a thought 8-)
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Postby MadScientist » Thu Sep 20, 2007 10:24 am

I agree with Scintilla's recommendation of Fruity Loops Studio. I started out in FL composing beats and used my first VSTs in it as well. I have since moved onto Cubase SX, but FL is still a powerful program with a much better learning curve IMO. You can do everything from original compositions with VSTi's or even just use royalty free loops to make quick compositions.
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Postby Gepetto » Thu Sep 20, 2007 12:22 pm

FL Studio is a indeed a great one. It looks scary when you first open it, and the bundled tutorial is even scarier IMO, but if you ignore that and just play around with it, it produces great results. And if you know your way around it, it can be an immensely powerful tool. Just for the sake of examples, Jonas Altberg (aka Basshunter) uses FL Studio.
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