Can someone help me about: Pre-mixed Bootlegs?! Soundforge?!

[charo]

thanks for your response belchman, yeah i don't think that is cheating at all

you can could use the freeware audacity if you are looking for a soundforge type program. I don't think you are looking for just a wav editor though.

acid or live will do this, i would say the advantage of live for this is that you can very easily then move from making the re-edits behind the seens to making the re-edits on stage with the same software.

[Remote]

I like a lot of the points made in this thread, but I need to ask what exactly were the bootlegs doing?
If it's something like Track A to Track B with a really cool/mash up transition that gives the impression of being live I'm kind of against it. But if it's a mash-up/re-rub I can't see the problem.

[belchman]

Let's just clear this up for everybody's sake - nothing I want to do is any attempt to pull the wool over anyone's eyes. I just want to tweak certain songs so they fit into my mix better, and so I can put my own stamp on mixes if you like.

@charo Audacity's really irritating! I've used it for ages, and I only really use it now to merge samples together for scratching and cue juggling. is that what soundforge basically is? Because it's more expensive than Acid!

Ableton.. yeah. I have AL7 on my PC, but it's not powerful enough to use to play out live, and I don't have a second soundcard. Plus, I do a fair bit of mixing with timecode CDs for shorter sets, and that would be a fair faff to set up. But I'm looking at the sequencer/arrangement view.

Slightly OT: but is the best way to grab samples from a song (loops etc) in a program like Audacity or Soundforge and then saving them as separate files and importing them into the DAW?

[charo]

yeah that's basically what soundforge is. I use the linux version of audacity and don't have too many issues it.

You could still use Ableton to make the re-edits and then down the road when you have a more powerful computer you could start to use it live, esp. if you have it already.

It's about finding what product "fits" your workflow the best.

about your OT question there are a few general ways to do this: do it manually, in audacity cut and paste out the samples how you want them. you or could do it in ableton with the split to midi or you could use a program like recycle that can chop of the samples to individual hits.

there's more then one way to skin a cat as the saying goes. I think best depends on what the samples are.

good luck

[JesC]

Another suggestion to make edits (which I use) is MixMeister. It's a multi-track program similar to acid and ableton basic mixing functions. It's very basic that you will be making your edits in no time. I bought version 6 many years ago and never upgraded. It gets the job done when I need to make my edits.

[djhipnotikk]

i was about to say "you could do it in traktor if you practiced enough and had a little prep" and i thought of something my music theory teacher told me once:

"if you can't do it live, you need to practice more"

[belchman]

i was about to say "you could do it in traktor if you practiced enough and had a little prep" and i thought of something my music theory teacher told me once:

"if you can't do it live, you need to practice more"

to be honest, this is for things which would just be impossible live. or totally pointless..