Ableton Live

For the most part, I record using the Ableton Live DAW and several SVT plugins.

For a contrast of power between the free app, Audacity, and Ableton Live listen to Idyllwild (discussed on the post about Audacity) then to As It Happens.  As It Happens was recorded on Ableton Live 8.1

 

For precice information on the latest version of Ableton Live, go here --> https://www.ableton.com/en/

A Little Known Well Known Secret

Today I want to write about a software known as Audacity.

Audacity is a free, open-source, audio recording and manipulating software.  With this software, you can record multi-track and edit audio files of many types including .wav, .flac, and .mp3.  You can download it at https://www.audacityteam.org/, and it works on Windows, Mac-OS and Linux.

This wonderful recording application is perfect for recording demos and podcasts on the fly.  It supports a host of plugins and effects.  There is a complete wiki-style manual available here --> https://manual.audacityteam.org/index.html that gives step-by-step instructions, complete with screenshots, that deal with just about every aspect of the recording process.  There is even a section that deals with latency, and how to correct it.

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I recorded a simple acoustic piece, Idyllwild, with rhythm on one track and lead on another.  I quadrupled the lead track out and tripled the rhythm track and applied some compression as is normal to give them width. But otherwise left the recording dry.  You can hear it either on the player on the top right ot the page, or by clicking here --> http://www.reverbnation.com/open_graph/song/28181289