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anonymous 29 May 2007

hi all,
i teach guitar part time and am looking a simple recording program for teaching puposes.
i want to have a library of short musical phrases with guitar or keyboard (never both) and spoken word.
i want to be able to quicky make tracks using various combinations of the clips.
i will be using the line in on my budget soundcard.
i want to play a few minutes of exercises then quickly cut them up and label them clearly put them in my library (same with spoken word) then make up tracks from the library then burn them to CD.
latency, sound quality, timing, effects, plugins etc are irrelevant.
easy, speedy and intuitive use is important.
free or cheap would be good.

any help is much appreciated

thanks :D

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anonymous Thu, 05/31/2007 - 20:29

maybe i should define my aim a bit more,
the main use will be standalone eartraining tracks that can be used anywhere anytime, ie plays a chord or interval, a moments silence (to write/think/say answer) then chord or interval type is spoken. just a single track in mono should do it.
i want a library of clips of spoken words "diminished" "major" "suspended 2nd" "minor 3rd" "perfect 5th"
"major 7th 2nd inversion" ect ect
and a library of music clips of the chords and intervals in different keys and octaves. then from the libraries i can quickly piece together a string of exercises based on the students aims/abilitys.
having played around with audacity it seems it wouldn't be as straightforward as i thought.
maybe this would be easier?
record a string of exercises, convert to mp3, use mp3 splitter to separate exercises, save to media player, name tracks, "add to play list" a string of exersises, burn to cd.
this seems reasonably simple but the major problem is each 2-3 second clip would be a separate track, if i could "merge" 20-30 clips to make, for example a 10 exercise track of diatonic intervals it would be much easier on the students cd skip button.
or is that totally crazy and theres a much easier way???
thanks

Boswell Fri, 06/01/2007 - 04:22

I would strongly recommend against editing at the MP3 level. Almost any sound editor will do what you want using .wav files, and Audacity is one of the easier ones to learn and it's free. I don't know how straightforward you thought it would be, but an hour's experimentation and reading of the documentation/help files should have it done. Also, it gets round the problem of generating unwanted separate tracks.

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