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Amateur Audio in X: HOW!
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: montreal
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hello audio nerds!
I have a problem right now regarding audio on osX.
What i want to do is record my guitar, and had an artificial drum. don't forget that i want to do this for my own pleasure, not in a professional and complicated way.
On a pc, it's very easy to do. you just need an app like cooledit to record the guitar, and a software like fruityloop to make the drums. after, you export the drums and put it in a new track in cooledit and you're done.
On osX, it's been a very very bad experience for me so far. i have Deck 3.5. It's a good software, BUT, when i play guitar with it, the sound has a 0.5 sec delay from what i'm playing. it's really annoying, i can't do anything. And i've made some test, Spark ME does the same thing, even soundstudio.
I've tried this in os9 and EVERYTHING WORK PERFECTLY. have i done something wrong in X? i have the same configuration in 9 than in X...
secondly, for the drums: is there something like fruityloop on the mac? on os9, i use virtualPC and fruitty loop and it's working fine, but on osX, it's too freakin slow.  any alternatives???
here my configuration: G4 Dual 450 with 768 MB of ram, plenty of HD space, osX v10.2, and to put the guitar in my mac, i have a v-amp.
i just can't believe that i can do this very easily on a cheap pc but not on a pro model mac with what they call 'the most advanced OS in the world'.
thanks for your help!
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Where my body is
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Afew days ago they announced the release of Cubase for OS X. This could be it... maybe.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: brooklyn ny
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cubase is pro stuff, not cheap.
the entry-level logic is a great buy...
but try versiontracker.com,
look for audio apps (in osx of course)
not sure what's out there but worth a look.
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"At first, there was Nothing. Then Nothing inverted itself and became Something.
And that is what you all are: inverted Nothings...with potential" (Sun Ra)
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Bay Area!
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I like using Sound Studio for audio recording, which is inexpensive and works for my limited needs. As for adding drums and beats to your backgrounds, this is not my forte. However, my cousin has an excellent site dedicated to macintosh audio, where you may find your answer. Best of luck!
Sound Studio Download:
http://www.felttip.com/products/soundstudio/
Macintosh audio site:
http://www.peff.com
- moogatoo
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Minneapolis, MN USA
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Latency happens in any computer based digital audio system.
And OSX is supposed to have VERY LOW latency. As in lower
than OS 9.
What kind of Mac are you using (G3? G4?) How fast (Mhz?)
Stock audio or are you using a soundcard? Soundcards can
be plagued by latency due to poorly written drivers. Stock
Mac audio in my experience is super low latency. Don't know
about OSX yet though.
How are you monitoring what you're doing?
In other words, if you are connecting your guitar to your Mac's
audio input jack via an audio mixer or the like, the audio is
taking this path:
Guitar -> Audio Mixer/FX -> Stereo in on Mac -> the audio then
gets passed through an Analog to Digital converter -> The
software then passes the audio through the Audio Subsystems ->
from there, it then gets passed through a Digital to Analog
converter and back out again.
Are you listening back to what you are playing on the recording
using speakers or headphones?
Can you describe your setup more accurately?
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