Wednesday 25 June 2014

Getting my head around DAW software

I know it is 2014 and DAW software (Digital Audio Workstation) has been around for some time, but I have finally re-bitten the bullet and started working on some tracks with Magix Studio.


I used to use Cubase many years back (I had it running on a Windows 98 system, it was in the 90's) and found it great, but had issues with latency and background noise. However, the initial tests on this are looking very promising. This is me dipping my foot into the digital (DAW) water.

If this works out well I will get Cubase again as it was really good before, and I found it simple to use. Because I have always recorded on a budget, this would be quite a large outlay, so for the moment I will play with the Magix software. I have just started getting my head around MIDI too!

So far, so good. I have managed to get some guitar and bass parts down. The ability to 'drop in' fluffed parts is so much simpler that on the old dedicated recording system.

The really good news was that I had a recording on my old system, but wanted to bring it into this software. Then I found a free piece of software on a chat room for the studio system that would take a backup disk and break it into all the audio tracks. It was so simple to use and it worked|

Looking for the backup for an old recording I have, as I would really like to re-learn the bass part from it.

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