software question

Posted on Jul 30, 2004 01:11 am
jskipp
Member Since: Jul 30, 2004

I am recording an album on a Roland BR-8 and saving them on the zip drive. Whereas normally I could bounce the tracks down to the final two of the eight available slots and save them in wav. form on my computer, I really cannot and would really rather not limit myself to six tracks per song. So what I'd like to do is connect the BR-8 directly to my computer, record each track seperately onto some sort of program, mix those songs on the computer, get them as close to master-ready as possible, and burn them onto a cd (then I'm sending it off to be mastered). Now the first step, I know, is to get a soundcard, and I have pretty much decided on the Audiophile 2496 (thanks to all of your comments already posted). But now I'm stuck at the question of software.

Since I'm in school, I can get the academic versions of most cakewalk programs (except Sonar Producer). Given my purposes, I was wondering if anyone could suggest which program would best suit my purposes. I've read that Home Studio is okay, that Home Studio XL is better, and that Sonar 3 is much better. I want the very best sound that I can get, and have something that I'll not grow out of. But I don't want to drop a lot of money for things that I'll never use. I have seen academic versions of Sonar 2.0 out there, but it seems up to Sonar 3, there is a real difference between the regular and XL versions.

Any help would be great.

Thanks.

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