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Ahh you were sandbagging! You have quite a little bit of bucks sunk into your set-up! Can you do MIDI? Create virtual instruments?It works. Obviously from what Amanda taught me here I need to take it more seriously than what I have, use the myriad and various tools it has, instead of treating it like a cassette recorder! I only do this stuff as a hobby but might as well do it the best I can, as I learned today.Never heard of it, it any good?
But I can do 64 tracks in mono, stereo or Dolby 5.1. I have a 24 track Alesis digital USB mixer as default sound on my system, never use the soundcard at all. I can create, in the program, any musical instrument you can name, and it sounds real. I can record live performances either here or anywhere a band might be. (The recording we're discussing here is 16 tracks.)
If you're interested in turning your computer into a music studio, Audacity is a good little free program to cut your teeth on. Then later on you can step up to the home version of Magix, Magix Audio Studio for like, $70 bucks from best Buy or Walk-Mart, or even just buy it online. But there's alot of pretty good software out there for this, such as Sonar which Amanda mentioned earlier.
It's a fun hobby, there's alot worse things I could be doing with some of my time that's for sure.
Sounds pretty good for a home system.
I use Adobe Audition, Pro-Tools and Vegas Video.
I have quite a bit sunk into this little hobby too, the software, mixer, mics, mics for every use. Not cheapies either.
Like I said, there's worse things. One of my hobbies in the late 80s through late 90s was jumping off buildings and racing stock cars. I sorta outgrew those.