Multiple effects with a single track?
Cakewalk 8.5u10 Producer Edition
I've been helping my step-son get started on the road of using a DAW, it was many years ago since I used one, so my knowledge is rusty. My step-son is complaining about performance issues with his PC, it's not the most powerful PC in the world, core2 duo, 4GB memory, 500B HD, but I use to track on much lower end hardware. When he plays his tracks back the CPU is pretty much in the >90%, memory usage is moderate, so it is a CPU limiting issue.
I took at look at the way he is working, and I can't help think that the way he working my be causing the issue, I'll try and explain.
It's a rap track, he has a single stereo channel playing a beat, he then records is vocal on another track, all pretty normal so far, but what he then does is edit that single vocal track into as many as 40 tracks/clips and adds effects to particular phrases, words and sentences on those 40 plus tracks, it's an unusal way of working, he says "all the rappers do it like this".
Essentially he wants to add effects to certain words, sentences etc within the vocal track, is there a way of doing this without creating all these clip tracks?
As a test, lastnight I fired up my old version of CoolEditPro2 and Soundforge, and it does what I think he needs, I recorded a single vocal track, zoomed in on a particular phrases, add some echo just to that, repeated a few times, and there you have it, a single vocal track with many effects added with that single track.
Conceptually, is he doing this incorrectly, or is that he just needs a different product that is more suited to his work flow? I'm thinking he may need a tool that is more focused on audio editing.
post edited by fishface - 2016/09/24 10:58:46