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Recording Software?

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Lunaray

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I started out recording with Cool Edit 2000, then Adobe came along and assimilated the program, added some enhancements and renamed it "Audition". They offered Cool Edit owners a special price to upgrade, so I fell for it and ordered Audition 1.0 and that's all that I've ever really used. Recently though, I upgraded my PC to Windows Vista and Audition won't run without some nagging pop-up when the program starts, saying something about a color scheme compatibility problem and that Vista is changing to Windows Basic. The program seems to work okay though. Funny, if I open the old Cool Edit program, Vista seems to like it better, no errors when I open it.

Anyway, i'm just wondering what program do most of you use for recording old vinyl, specifically, with Vista? I guess Audacity is pretty popular because it's free, so maybe I'll give it a try to see how I like it.

Opinions?
 
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Professional Recording types seem to gravitate towards Pro Tools or Sonar. Both allow you tremendous control, but can be expensive and take a little work to get a handle on (the dreaded learning curve). They are not specific to digitizing LPs, but can be customized to do virtually anything you want with music. They also have incredible flexibility when it comes to output conversions.

While retail versions are pricey, you can get academic versions that are much more reasonable. So if you are a student, or have kids at almost any level of schooling, you can get a legal copy at a reasonable price.

I used Academic Superstore to get my son a copy of Sonar. He started with a basic version (Home Studio) and later used one of their upgrade deals to get Sonar Producer. He and his friends generate CD quality disks of their original music all the time, and quite easily. I'm now learning it to use in digitizing my analog collection.
 
Audacity is pretty nice. What I really like to use is the software that came with my Creative Labs soundcard. Super easy to use, with accurate meters and some nice bells and whistles. It will only work with a Creative Labs soundcard, but I think it would be worth buying one to get the software. I am very happy with the sound of the card as well. I bought the Audigy 96KHz 24 bit card.
 
Diamond Cut (DC6) as I'm still running Win2000 on the music/photo machine. I refuse to join the XP experience in any flavor including Vista, do to compatibility issues with all my other software :( DC 7 or 8 should be fully compatible with the newer OS's.
 
I'm using Goldwave and Audacity on two PCs, both with XP. I prefer using Goldwave, which is a program that cost about $45 when I downloaded it two years ago.
 
I use Audition 1.5. Thought about buying Audition 2.0 or 3.0, but both claim to be incompatible with my AMD processor.

So far I haven't had any compatibility problems with Win XP and have had no crying need to downgrade to Vista.
 
I am using CoolEdit Pro for years. I gave a good look at Audition 3 hoping to see some interesting and useful enhancements, but to my disappointment I only saw the same functions split among different menus making them hard to find. So I stick with CEPro 2.

Actually, recording software isn't all that difficult to be decent. All it needs to do is grab data from the sound card and store them in a disk file. Filters and effects are what makes editing easier and more effective and I can't say any of the free tools are better than CEPro.
 
dr*audio said:
Audacity is pretty nice. What I really like to use is the software that came with my Creative Labs soundcard. Super easy to use, with accurate meters and some nice bells and whistles. It will only work with a Creative Labs soundcard, but I think it would be worth buying one to get the software. I am very happy with the sound of the card as well. I bought the Audigy 96KHz 24 bit card.
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The meters are one thing that I don't like about either Cool Edit, or Audition, they just don't seem to work very well, and they're horizontal and way down at the bottom of the screen. What is the program called that came with your sound card? I have an Audigy 2z Platinum Pro and maybe I have the same program on the installation disc, 'course there's the Vista compatibility thing I have to worry about. :scratch2:
 
I've always been a big fan of Nero Suite's built-in Wave Editor.
I also liked Creative's Sound Recorder when I ran a Creative card.
 
I use Goldwave or the recording program that was included with my current sound card (built-in on the motherboard). Both work well with XP.
 
SAW for recording and editing
Audition for processing and FX
Sonar for MIDI
Audacity on my portable Linux machine
 
Sony Soundforge is a very good program. It is a wave studio program and will remove hisses and noise plus lots of other stuff. Easy to use once you get the hang of it.
 
I've been using Cool Edit Pro v1.2 for almost 10 years now. I've done a lot of looking around for something that will do "better" but so far, CEP is the top dawg as far as I'm concerned. Works great. I love it.
 
Hi,

I use Sound Forge XP on my laptop for editing. It's excellent except for no multi-track mode and no plug ins. I use Cool Edit Pro at work on PC computers and Pro Tools on Macs. I plan on upgrading Sound Forge to some better software with click and pop NR and light EQ abilities.
 
I loved Cool Edit. It did so many things automagically with macros. Lost my key to it and, of course, can't get it back now.

Anyway, I also use Wave Repair: http://www.delback.co.uk/wavrep/

I love it. It does all the stuff other software does, plus you literally edit the wave form. You can look for pops and clicks and fix 'em yourself. At least the very few that the software missed.

Registered version is $30US
 
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