recording music

Widetrack wrote on 7/7/2006, 6:45 PM
I've been using vegas for years to cut video, and for the first time have tried to record a music session.

Does anyone here use the internal vegas metronome when recording Music? Unless I'm missing something, it's the clunkiest Vegas feature i've ever tried to use. Is there a way to change tempo without going thru a couple of menus and not hearing the click til I exit the dialog? I got a stoked up (figuratively, of course) guitar player waiting for me to get my settings straight and losing more of his edge every second, and I can't change tempo without jumping through thru more hoops than carter's has pills. Every MIDI sequencer since about 1989 has had this feature nailed.

what gives here?

WT

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StrobeAlific wrote on 7/7/2006, 7:41 PM
I've used it, but it is pretty awful. I started as a Vegas 1.0 user as a audio only multitrack recorder. I go back and forth between Vegas and Acid for audio projects. I just finished an entire project that was recorded in several different stages and with several different programs. I imported all the files and finished them in Acid/Vegas.

Anyway, through this process I realized how bad the metronome functions are. I'm not sure if that helps, but that is my experience.
Spot|DSE wrote on 7/7/2006, 8:18 PM
I don't use the metronome, I use an Acid Loop with properties set to match the project. Much easier.
Jim H wrote on 7/7/2006, 11:49 PM
I dabble with Avid and Vegas for sounds and have recorded one worthy song with Acid loops and live vocals which I recorded in Acid. I cannot imagine when this metronome function would be useful. Maybe when you don't have a drum track to keep rythem? Can some one explain? Thanks.
Widetrack wrote on 7/11/2006, 8:43 PM
About what I figured. Thanks for the input.

I know at least one influential Vegas user has over the years been spotted lobbying vigorously against including MIDI in Vegas, but It's a little hard to understand why so vital yet so simple a feature on the audio is so underimplemented.

Anyone know how Madison weighs in on this?

what version of Acid are you guys using?
Widetrack wrote on 7/11/2006, 9:41 PM
Congratulations on recording a good song. Can't tell you how many of mine have been summarily executred or got locked safely away from public ears.

but yes, if you have--or especially if you start off with--a drum track that gives you a bar or 2 in front of where the music starts, that's all you need.

If you don't have that, you need something to count you in every time you track a performance that starts on or near the first beat. If you're just working by yourself, as a lot of Acid guys do, this is probalby less important than if you bring is different musicians who need a cue to tell them when to come in. Or if you're starting out with a track of a live musician (!) who needs a solid time reference to lay down a reliable basis for others to use on subsequent tracks, you need a metronome.

In most MIDI/audio software, you can turn the metronome on with a single click, then adjust the tempo if you want and hear it change, and usually watch a readout of the tempo--just like a real metronome.

I forget if Acid has this feature. It's beena while.

Anyway, thanks again for the info.