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anonymous 1 December 2007

So I got my Sound Forge all nicey nice and I'm recording four tracks at a time.

I got it because it it pretty hospitable to the amateur user, but I am a little too amateur to understand how I mix those four tracks into one stereo track...

Can anyone shred some light?

Thanks

H

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anonymous Sat, 12/01/2007 - 18:09

I guess not -- silly me, I thought that a multitrack recorder like SF9 would actually be capable of an output as well as an input, but I guess I don't understand the environment here.

I got it to replace Audacity, which is a perfect little recorder and simple mixer with no particularly usable effects and no Red Book capability. But it looks like I need them both. They are very similar, and what one lacks, the other has.

Which I just tried and it works well. But it blows my mind that Audacity (free) is such a better mixdown tool than SF9 ($$$).

H

Cucco Sun, 12/02/2007 - 06:02

Sound Forge is capable of mixing and recording in multi-track now. (I certainly remember a time when it wasn't).

There should be an option to bounce down or mix down once you've gotten the mix the way you want it. I have to admit, I haven't used it since version 4.0, so I'm certain (and hopeful) that things have changed since then...

bent Sun, 12/02/2007 - 08:22

It's capable, but not quite the same as other multitrack programs.
It looks like gain and pan changes are done with the envelope tool, versus soft faders, etc.
There's no ability to assign effects via auxes, no submixing of tracks.
To burn to disk you have to use CD Architect, whereas in Vegas it does it all right there...

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