Music Editing Program?

BurningLeaves · Post by **BurningLeaves** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 12:27 am

A really small and simple program I use to make ringtones and things is a program called <a href="http://www.blazemp.com/">Blaze</a> its prietty easy to use and it offers a free trial, if you want to buy it afterwords its $50 but keep in mind its not a huge program so you are limited as to what you can do with it

fatandpowerful1 · Post by **fatandpowerful1** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:24 am

I like to use Acid Pro 4 and sometimes Cool Edit Pro

taifunbrowser · Post by **taifunbrowser** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 4:34 pm

fatandpowerful1 wrote:Cool Edit Pro

x2

post-it · Post by **post-it** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:35 pm

taifunbrowser wrote:
fatandpowerful1 wrote:Cool Edit Pro
x2

X3 .. or if your using Linux, like I do, try Ardour.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:17 pm

taifunbrowser wrote:
fatandpowerful1 wrote:Cool Edit Pro
x2

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

taifunbrowser · Post by **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)

Scintilla · Post by **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.

post-it · Post by **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

MechaTheGreat · Post by **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.

Scintilla · Post by **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.