Recommendations for Audio suite…

[John Rofrano]

[Phil Loarie] “First I am wondering if there is a way to record music directly into the Sony Vegas Pro 10 timeline?”

Yea, ARM the track(s) you want to record, select the proper input for each track, and press the Record button on the transport.

[Phil Loarie] “If that’s not possible, does Sony make a multi channel recording suite that can do simul record with unlimited tracks or at least 24 stereo tracks with direct recording inputs that would work with a USB or Firewire audio surface control?”

Vegas Pro can do it all. Vegas started as a audio multi-track recorder and it’s still one of the best multi-track audio recorders on the market in addition to being a fine Video NLE.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Steve Rhoden]

Sony Soundforge
https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/soundforge

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Maker
Filmex Creative Media.
1-876-832-4956

[Danny Hays]

Sony’s Audio workstation is Acid, but you don’t really need it as Vegas does very well with audio.

[Phil Loarie]

WoW! Thank you John.

I am sure glad I asked. I have something to try out tonight.

John, do you know if there is a compatible USB audio interface that can connect to Vegas Pro 10? For instance I have a Tascam US-800 and it came with Steinberg LE 5, and it has been a total nightmare on both WinXP and Win7 machines that I tested it on. The initial US-800 driver crashed my machine, and then the updated one worked for a short while but was very fragile. Last week I tried the latest driver and it is not any better. So I really want something solid and won’t harm my computer.

Suggestions?

Thanks again.
-Phil

[Phil Loarie]

Thank you Steve and Danny.

[Scott Francis]

M-audio make some reasonable audio interfaces, as does Presonus. Vegas is passable as a multitrack audio recorder, if you are talking about up to like 10-15 tracks after that I would use something more pro like Cubase, Sonar, Pro-tools, etc and create “stems” (which are basically subgroups) and import them into Vegas. I do 48 track audio with plays and shows plus 5-6 cams, trying to do it all in Vegas is a nightmare and if you are multicam-ing you will continually loose preview quality as you do more audio. It has been this way for me since version 8. So if you are trying to do more than a few tracks fine, otherwise, use something else is my recommendation.

Scott Francis
Mind’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Stephen Mann]

I have an 8-channel Presonus box that I’ve used for recording music videos and ADR. With Vegas, audio tracks that you don’t “Arm for Record” will play back at the same time.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[John Rofrano]

USB is not a good way to go. It will work for a few tracks but the problem with USB is #1 limited bandwidth and #2 it requires your CPU to do all the processing of data transfer. Firewire, on the other hand, does not use any CPU for data transfer and has much higher bandwidth so you can record a lot more simultaneous tracks. I would recommend you forget about USB for any serious multi-track recording and go with a firewire interface. I have a PreSonus FireStudio Project which is 8×8 analog plus 2 digital for a total of 10×10.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Danny Hays]

I also have a Presonus 8 channel Firepod. Presonus now has a driver for Windows 7 where I had to use the old 1394-Legacy drivers with it until now. I can set the latency low enough, I can record with effects and hear VERY litle latency. I also have two Presonus Inspires and they will do the same thing. I found the Inspires on Ebay for under 120 dollares each.

[Ted Snow]

I bought a Tascam US-1641 USB interface a few months ago for doing remote audio with my laptop which has WIN 7 Home Premium. I did a lot of research reading reviews on several different interfaces. M-Audio got terrible reviews simply because of their drivers. Almost everyone who tried to use one with Windows OS (especially WIN 7) said they had constant crashes or wouldn’t work at all. M-Audio is geared toward the Mac platform even though they claim their WIN drivers work great.

My Tascam works great but then again I usually don’t record more than 5-6 tracks at once.

I’m kind of “old school” and still like using my Alesis HD24 in my recording studio for tracking but I really like mixing with VEGAS.