Guitar Tracks 2.0

[surfing_alien]

Hello. Anyone know of a web page or some help file that will teach people who never used recording equipment how to use Guitar Tracks 2.0?

I just bought it and don't know what bouncing, and all that other jargon means.

Thanks!
Barbara
:-))
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[ESP_Viper]

I dont know the program you have... but I can tell you what bouncing is. Try going to the manufactorer's website.

Let's say you record 5 channels of audio simultaneously... You need more channels to record on, so you can 'bounce' those 5 down to one. So you now have more channels available to you. I just used 5 as a number, it just depends on how many you record and how many channels your equipment can record at once. Hope this helps a little...

[mjamer]

Bouncing (hehe, in my experience) is mainly used because the computer can't keep up.

I'll build on ESP's 5 tracks of audio, your computer trying to play back 5 audio tracks simultaneously will probably choke, especially if you have some sort of audio effects patched in over those audio tracks. Top that off by trying to play those 5 tracks, and record a 6th and you probably have a frozen computer. To keep that from happening, you mix the 5 tracks down into one track (bouncing). This can be done on a temporary basis as well (my choice).. allowing you to play 1 track, while recording one.. then go back to having 6 tracks. If you need to fix say a solo or something, then you still have the separate tracks to edit and mix back down.

Bouncing can also be used if you have a crappy sound card that doesn't synchronize well when playing multiple tracks containing both MIDI and audio (on separate tracks). What happens is the midi stays in "perfect" time, and the audio starts to lag, or vice versa. Mixing down the MIDI + audio tracks into one, fixes that... so does buying a special sound card too hehe.. just cheaper mixing down.. (or bouncing).


Lastly, since you can bounce (or mix down) tracks endlessly without loosing quality (no analog vs digital debates =p), you also have an endless amount of tracks to record on.

happy recording :)

mjamer =)

[ESP_Viper]

What you said makes sense. What I was talkin about is bouncing tracks on a mixer/recorder. But in alien's case I don't know which bouncing they meant.

[mjamer]

ESP.. hehe, we're singing the same song. You just described it more for recording/mixing hardware which has limited tracks/channels, rather than multi-track computer software, which depending on the software is more limited by your computer than the actual tracks you can record. It's still the same thing (as far as i know hehe).. combining multiple tracks/channels into one to free up resources/tracks. :)


mjamer

[ESP_Viper]

Yeah. I have messed with Cubase VST. That is an amazing program. All that it can do. Combined with the DSP factory and its AX-44... with all that it makes any computer a powerful studio! The newer 32bit cubase is a lot easier to use (so i've heard, i haven't seen the 32bit version yet). I should get more into multi-track recording w/ my comp.