using sony vegas 14 as a multi-track audio recorder

[Steve Rhoden]

Vegas Pro 14 will work…..

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[Graham Bernard]

[Duane Weed] “I have Sony Vegas 14 and was wondering if anyone is doing band mixes?”

Hi Duane! Sounds exciting. OK, not a band mixing bone in my body, but…. I’ve done plenty of multitrack Audio work professionally for soundscapes and v/o and Stems from both Royalty Free licences from one company that supplies to the BBC and AdAgencies. And yes Steve is correct, it is more than just doable in VP – up to a point. And it’s this up to a point reality and thusly creativity that I want to share, get across to you… Hells teeth, if I’d only had the balls to have gotten:

1) A decent external Control Surface, like the USB 8 Track Mixer – I now have the PreSonus Fader8

and something like, no, correction that IS:

2) Studio One Pro

Then I’d have been flying with more options and creativity than ALL my previous 20 years of scrabbling around.

As to 1) above if you can get a multifader that utilises envelope automation with SFXs and so on then please explore this. Trying or attempting to do Fader manipulations straight inside VP is a bit of a pain, no, a major PITA. PreSonus do do a single Fader option, worth a look at. But be warned, the MACKIE emulation from within VP is frantic and confusing. Just saying…..

Tips for Mixing Audio in VP? But I’m sure you’d be doing this anyways:

1) Get the VP VERTICAL Fader Menu front and centre. It’s a great piece of VP Control.

2) Levels and output monitors correctly set.

I’ll shutup now and look forward to listening to yer band-age ????

* Grazie

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[Bill Burnette]

Duane,
The professional DAW software Sonar recently became rebranded and free. It’s Digital Audio Workstation software that is geared to multitrack recording, editing, mixing, effects application, and rendering for publication. Its new name is Cakewalk by Bandlab (https://www.bandlab.com/products/cakewalk).

[Aaron Star]

Cakewalk still kicking. I used cakewalk to do midi on a 386 way back.

Vegas can be used to record multi-track, but it comes down to what hardware will be used to do the multi-channel digitizing. It is possible to turn all the audio inputs on a pc into individual channels, using the built in audio interface. But this is not optimal for dynamic range when recording. Getting a good multi-channel audio I/O device would be the best, unless the tascam can operate as a multichannel audio interface via USB.

There are other posts on the forum that talk about what to change in the Vegas Audio settings to use multi-channel vs Windows Sound mapper. Then all you do is set the channel interface for each track, and hit arm, then record on the bottom screen controls. I believe the location the sound is recorded to is in the project settings.

A dedicated software like Cakewalk, Ableton, or ProTools might be a better choice. A Dante recording system would be the state of the art, since it gives a virtually unlimited channel ability. You can have as many recorders as you like, or input devices. Dante audio interface option would be a nice thing for Vegas to support, but unlikely it ever will.