Recording Audio in Vegas

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cassese

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Hi Everyone,

Been using Vegas for a few eeks now and managed to complete two short projects, they both came out great. Since one of my other goals is to be able to integrate a 24 track studio into my current operation, I was wondering if Vegas could actually pull that off, or should I be looking at Sonar 4 say, Producers Edition? A freind has it, and he has produced some exceptional music using it. I also have Sound Forge 8 that I just bought and it is a very, very, good mastering tool. Pro Tools in ANY version is OUT, I will not and cannot use it, for both technical reasons and personal.
Could use some opinions on whether or not Vegas 6 can do this, or is really not meant to be used in this way. I have a 32 channel board, another 16 track board, 10+ outboard effects boxes, and in general, everything else I need except for the tracking software. Thoughts please? I appreciate any help I can get, surely someone else has been there before me!
 
You might want to check out Nuendo, that is what all the ProTools-hater kids seem to use. I have never used it personally, but I understand it to be top notch.
 
Vegas was originally intended to be a multitrack recorder. I used Version 1 and 2 of Vegas like this, and it works quite well. It's very efficient.

Vegas also does MIDI sync as a generator or slave, and I think it supports ReWire which would let you easily use most softsynths/sequencers with it.

I use Cubase for non-video audio, since I use MIDI a lot. As a multitrack recorder, Vegas would work great. Just make yourself a template first so you don't have to configure all the channels every time you start a project.
 
Vegas as MultiTrack? Sonar? Pro Tools?

Vegas as MultiTrack? Sonar? Pro Tools?

Yes, I realize this, that I COULD use Vegas and just keep adding audio tracks, etc. But what about Sonar 4 Producer Edition, or Pro Tools LE, or some of the other Multi Track audio programs? Then I could still use Sound Forge 8 as my mastering program, etc. Question is, running on a laptop, what sound card do I use to say run a 32 track analog mixer, and get it into my multi track software, then final mix it in Sound Forge? E-MU has a card/box combo that looks nice, is only 499.00, but do I have to mix down to stereo in the board to get it into my machine? Or is there a way to have say 16 tracks come in and get recorded to what ever multitrack editing software I am using? Even if I had to buy two A/D/D/A convertors to get it into the digital domain, then edit in my Laptop, then do the finals in Sound Forge? Any help from someone who HAS a 16-24 track setup they are using right now? The reason for all of this is to actually re-engineer many cuts the band I am filming already has, then get them into an stereo audio track for Vegas to use in the film, but have a Red Book CD soundtrack that can go along with it, instead of just the DVD.
 
I've fled ProTools long ago. When I had a recording studio I used a Layla 8-channel card, Yamaha DSP-Factory mixer card with two ADAT channels, giving a total of 32 channels which went to a Mackie mixer and a patchbay (I had a large collection of vintage synths, which were plugged directly to the soundcard). Mixing and production was done in Cubase.

I tried Sonar briefly a couple years ago but wasn't impressed. Maybe it's changed?

I know that Vegas CAN do what you want it to.

There's other options as well, but I don't do much audio recording anymore other than narration -- which is done in Sound Forge -- so I'm a bit out of touch with the latest-and-greatest.

For you laptop, there are a number of multichannel USB devices out there that sound great. Mixing 32 channels isn't a problem any more -- even with internal effects (just don't go too crazy).

Harmony-central.com is a good resource to find out what's new and get some reviews.
 
C;base..sonar

C;base..sonar

Cubase and Sonar can do everythin you need without the hassled of reconverting..your output. As long as there basic film technique and patience..then it shoulb be allright. Don;t get me wrong..but you will also need a seqencer program in the hoth system..Be goodand get a lot of smiles...Cary
 
As for software Vegas 6 is more than capable of doing what you want. Why buy SONAR and learn a new interface and spend more money when Vegas will do what you want. As some have mentioned, Vegas started as a multi-track audio recorder and it is very capable at this task. You already have it so try it.

For multi-track hardware with a laptop, I would check out the Echo products. The Layla24 or Mona are discontinued but you can find them on eBay and they both have cardbus interfaces available. The new Echo products are firewire based. Get a firewire PCMCIA card for your laptop (if you don’t already have one for video) and check out the Echo AudioFire 8 or 12 (8x8 and 12x12 respectively).

Stay away for USB at all costs. USB uses CPU resources while firewire doesn’t. You will need all the CPU you have for FX and don’t need the USB bus choking on you. Firewire is a much better solution for multi-track audio.

~jr
 
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