: Hi!, first, i want to give you my congratulatins for your services, and software. They're very usefull. I'm writing you because i need to know wich software can give me a deep bass sound. I'm trying to make trip-hop, so i need a good bass.

: Sincerely

: Pablo

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: I want to record my son playing sax at school and then burn a CD for his grandparents. Do I use a minidisc recorder or a mp3 with voice record. Please help. Thanks Francesca.

Dear Francesca,
In response to your question, I would first like to ask a few questions, the first is, how long do you intend your son to record for?, if the answer is more than a few minutes, then it starts to look like a Minidisc Recorder with a decent Instrument Microphone (Dynamic Mike) is the go. A Minidisc Recorder can record a live source recording for up to 80 minute now, not bad for a small portable digital format. also I am very dubious about the alleged quality of the compression process that M-Peg layer 3 (MP3) uses, in comparison to the Minidisc (ATRAC) compression process, which to my ears sounds indistingishable from a non compressed CD Recording.

Francesca, as for burning the live recording onto a CD, well theoretically its as easy as taking the Line Out jack from the Minidisc (which would be an Analog feed) and attaching it to your iMac or PC. Then setting up your computer with the appropriate sound recording software (Macs record into AIFF format, PCs in WAV format) and pressing record, then play on the Minidisc, whilst making sure the signal is OK. Then if you have a Software program such as Toast and a CDR recorder you can burn a CD which will play on any CD player!. You can also buy stand alone Audio CD burners which by-pass the computer element completey and which operate the same way as an old tape recorder, I have a Pioneer model myself which is just So easy to use.

Anyhow I'll say a big "See Ya Later" from the sunny land "Down Under", and I hope i've been of some help. PS, I'm not at all down on the MP3 format, but I just feel the lack of internal memory for recording sound on them is a drawback for your particular usage, plus the quality issue. Cheers Andrew Shields.

: I want to record my son playing sax at school and then burn a CD for his grandparents. Do I use a minidisc recorder or a mp3 with voice record. Please help. Thanks Francesca.

Just use the minidisk recorder then connect the 'line out' jack on the minidisk to the 'line in' jack on your computer and record it as a .wav file. Then you can burn the CD.

Alf.

: Whistler Composer 4.0 will not download from USA site.

: I have tried several times but keep getting error message. Wrong URL etc. and download will not start.

: Can you please help?

You should be able to get it at <a href="http://members.aol.com/WhistlerAG/Whistler.exe">http://members.aol.com/WhistlerAG/Whistler.exe</a>

: I want to build a recording studio on my computer, and I need some help. I need to record my self at a CD.

point yourself at computermusic.co.uk and subscribe to this good magazine ... read, learn and then you will have a much less general question to ask ...
Trog

okay, i've seen this question on so many boards over the years, and i've never replied to this question, but what the hell....the answer is always the same....someone may try to pawn off some cheap sht that SAYS it can remove the vocals, but the bottom line is, NO, there is ABSOLUTELY no way to effectively remove all the vocals from a track....you may get close with some crap that tries to isolate the frequencies the vocals are on, but it will never work....you need to download the instrumental, and if you want to remix vocals, you need to obtain the acapella. Once a track is "mixed down" which is any song you hear on the radio, on a cd, or in mp3, you can't pick it apart that way, because when a track is mixed down, all the different portions of the track are mixed together to create 1 single track, and that means that all the parts to the song are put together in a way that can't be taken apart....kinda like if you made a pizza, you can still take some cheese off, etc, before you put it in the oven....but once you cook it, (mix down) you can try to separate the tomato sauce from the cheese, and you may be able to do it a little bit, but there's always gonna be cheese in there....its all 'one pizza' rather than parts of a pizza....hope that makes sense....if someone tells you otherwise, they either don't know what they're talking about, or they're lying to you....it is absolutely impossible to completely remove vocals from a mixed down track....now if its a rock type or alt song, you could try to use cooledit pro's vocal cut, and it will do the best it can, but it'll never completely work. hope this clarifies.

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: Does any of the cakewalk software have quantization? If so,which program?

As far as I know; All the sequencers in the Cakewalk family have quantization.
In cakewalk pro audio 8 there are several different ways to quantize.

Hello Kim.
There is a program that is meant to cope with the demands you want it is called pandora .
I cant for the life of me remember who makes it ,
i think its by a company begining with D ?.
But i was looking for the same thing myself and as far as i could see it was only for the Mac.( I use a PC.
Hope this sort of helps .
DJHD2001