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The device you're looking for is generally called an "audio interface", which is conceptually the same thing as a soundcard, but is usually oriented towards recording. There are a TON of different interfaces on the market aimed at different purposes and price points. You are wise to ask "what are the tradeoffs?" as opposed to "what's the best I can get at ...
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I would move the tracks to something like Audacity and do the L/R channel editing there. Audacity lets you split a stereo track and make a copy of L to R and so on..
Ofcourse if you want to stick to Garageband, there is a long winded way.
Pan it hard left.
Export as mono.
Re-import as mono..
I can't think of any quick and easy method.
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DropBox could probably used to accomplish this. You can use up to 2 gigs for free, and it works on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
This would allow either of you to modify your notes and the changes would automatically be snynched to the other's computer.
You can also check out some of the alternatives listed in this article.
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The way double tracking works is to develop width and depth in a track by introducing slight differences in the phase and amplitude of a signal. When you do this with normal double tracking (i.e. recording it twice) this happens as part of the process: you're not going to have the exact same wave from even two near-identical takes.
With ADT you simply ...
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Note that SyxEx data is, by its very nature, vendor specific. Supporting detailed SysEx editing would require custom work for each MIDI synth ever made. EMagic's Sounddriver did this, but was discontinued shortly after Apple bought EMagic.
You can accomplish a lot of MIDI and SysEx manipulation with Logic's environment, though it is awkward, poorly ...
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What you need is a sequencer that can also handle audio data, or an audio suite that also handles sequencing. Collectively, these programs are known as Digital Audio Workstations, commonly abbreviated DAWs. While the term "DAW" technically refers only to audio editing (waveforms), it's very common for a DAW to also support MIDI sequencing, or to be more of a ...
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This is how I do it.
Put a click track on (aka metronome) - record the guitar, then drums, then bass, then vocals. You can move the order around. I like to have the guitar down for the drums to feed off. Then record the bass to react to the kick drum pattern - they are usually in sync for rock. Put your vocal on there and then top it off with some keys, ...
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Apple's Logic software can accomplish this. From their manual:
Automatic Tempo Matching
The following audio files automatically match
the project tempo and will follow any tempo changes made in the global
Tempo track.
Audio recordings made in Logic Pro (7.0 and later)
For example, if you record a bass solo at 100 bpm, you can change ...
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Can you post-process anything after? If so, avoid the FX and:
Snare
Kick
Vox
Backing Vox
Everything Else L
Everything Else R
The kick/snare and vox are what people connect with, so keeping them on their own tracks gives you flexibility to bring them up later. Also separating the lead from backing vox allows you to kill the backups if there's tuning ...
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There's no reason why not. This practice is sometimes called "overdubbing."
There are of course some considerations to think about:
Bands often play off of each other in groups, and there's a sort of vibe that can come out when doing this that is very hard to capture when doing separate recordings. When you're overdubbing, you'll respond to little ...
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It's been done before... before there were computers, using tape... Check out artists like Isoa Tomita ("early" synth musician), Vangelis, and to some extent Tangerine Dream.
[As an aside: many groups still record with only a handful of musicians at one time. Often "extra" musicians (strings, brass) are brought in separately to do their fills after "the ...
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The major feature that a mixer/interface adds over a straight interface is the ability to mix audio without using a computer - just like a hardware mixer with no interface. This isn't much help when recording unless you prefer the sound of the hardware mixer/EQ to the sound of your software mixing and EQ.
Many of them (I believe the Alesis MultiMix 8 is ...
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It has been a long time since I've used Sony's Acid. From what I recall, Acid was particularly good for loop based music.
Given that, Ableton Live is probably the closest thing to Acid, though the user interface is quite different.
Traditional DAWs (Logic, Reaper, Cubase, ProTools, etc.) lay out music as a series of parallel horizontal rows, with time ...
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Josh's recommendation about Apple's Logic is quite good since it is the only in-house pro audio software developed by Apple. Its essentially just an amped up version of GarageBand which comes with all new Macs.
Since no one has listed any of the others I will list all of the notable ones by a few categories and will explain the common pros and cons ...
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I would seriously recommend StudioOne by Presonus. It's really good and very intuitive. Download the trial and read more here.
I find the workflow incredibly fast, it's very easy to use and comes with a decent amount of plugins, effects and sounds. The pro version also comes with melodyne :-). It hasn't got any 'bloat' so it's really quick and the shortcuts ...
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Your MOTU 828 is not just an audio interface, but also a mixer.
The easy way to make multi-track recordings would be to just run all of your inputs into your 828, and then record using your favorite DAW. If you don't have enough inputs on the 828, you can use the Mackie to sum up some of your inputs, reducing the total number of channels. Then use either ...
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I wouldn't count on directly loading the multiple tracks in Premiere Pro CS5.5; usually NLE software is geared towards the video production process, and typically the audio that is captured as part of a footage is a single stream, regardless of the number of channels it contains.
Whereas you seem to be trying to edit a finished product i.e. a ripped movie ...
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Try writing a basic beat in a sequencer, where you can control the tempo. Play your sequenced drums up against the recording of the vocals only, and subtly vary the tempo until they line up.
The sequenced beat will be locked to a "click," so if you can get it to line up with the vocals, you now know the tempo of the vocals. You can set a metronome to ...
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This can be done a couple of ways and which way really depends on the most appropriate blend to best support the image. You can either gradually fade a track to a lower volume using a volume envelope, or discreetly have it drop on a dime using the same tool.
Let's say I want to have the music drop 6 dB but not completely cut out so I can hear the dialogue ...
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According to the manufacturers website:
Caddies can be fitted with IDE/EIDE/ATA drive at 5,400/7,200/10,000 RPM up to 2TB
This means that you can get a drive from anywhere, but it only accepts the older PATA drives. Currently New Egg still has a few at < $100USD.
Any brand of drive will do, but I would recommend either Seagate or Western Digital. ...
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I'd definitely use the Cajon+BD+overhead route, with a condenser microphone for OH (cymbals and percussion never sound nearly as clear as they should, when using dynamic mics). The main possible issue is that the snare might not be powerful enough, but it should be ok if you align the microphone well. As an example for IMO astonishing drum sounds recorded ...
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ASIO is a technology designed for low-latency. You shouldn't see any quality improvements (or indeed, any quality difference at all) using ASIO over, say, Directsound. It's not about quality, just about how close to the hardware the software is.
Where you will see a quality difference is in using different hardware. Your Delta 44 is most likely going to ...
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Recording software like Reaper can generally record as many channels of audio as the device they're using supports. If the device defined in Reaper's audio preferences only has stereo inputs, then that's all you're getting. If the device has eight inputs, then Reaper can record eight channels.
You need to give Reaper (for example, could be any recording ...
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You can do this either with two sound cards and software to use each one (per imsky's answer) or with one sound card that has multiple stereo outputs.
If you take the one sound card route, you'll need software that can send your music (presumably MP3s or something like that) out to the disparate outputs. It sounds kind of like you're looking to DJ a party, ...
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Many Digital Audio Workstation software packages will have beat detection features which can detect and map the beats of a track to a tempo sync track. If the a capella tracks were recorded with a click track, then you should see the detected beats mapped evenly throughout the song. Otherwise, you have the option to either adjust the tempo of the original ...
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