Music Editing Software

[el Chi]

I want to try my hand at music editing on my comp and I was hoping for some suggestions that fit the following criteria: not too difficult to master, but not too simplistic that it's limited; effective; I'm mainly looking to mix together bits of songs/soundbites together; FREE.

Cheers.

 

[Hazar]

hmmm, I use nero wave editor, but it comes with nero.

 

[Ames]

http://cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t=199303

 

[el Chi]

I've been using Nero wave editor which is good, but - and it's more than likely I'm just being a monumental retard - I can't see how to mix/overlay tracks. Inserting other files is all well and good, but that isn't exactly what I'm trying to do.

And cheersfor that links, Shens!

 

[Hazar]

If I know what you're trying to do then here goes:

you can clip the peices of songs you want and do some fade in/out effects on the ends, and then you can insert the other peices you want.

 

[el Chi]

If I know what you're trying to do then here goes:

you can clip the peices of songs you want and do some fade in/out effects on the ends, and then you can insert the other peices you want.

Well, what I really wanted to do was put a capella vocals over an instrumental track.

 

[Hazar]

hmmm, I don't know about that

 

[StardogChampion]

I here from a lot of people that Audacity is good:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

 

[Space Farm]

Yeah use Audacity, It's FREE! I've tried the Adobe Sound editor which is just CoolEdit with Adobe stamped all over it and it's much better. Audacity all the way!

 

[don_johnson]

yea i use audacity, its the best thing i have found so far. i was wondering if anyone knows of any programs where it is possible to create your own drum beats/instrument sounds for free? i tried fruity loops, and tried to crack it, but in the process of downloading a crack, the all powerful Norton told me i had jsut aquired a few dandy trojans, but of course it coudlent fix it....so that kinda turned me off fruity loops

 

[ilovemetal]

audacity is also a program i use and it records great and i have converters to make it sound better w00t

 

[Hazar]

I just read that supposidly you can layer tracks with one of the nero programs (it might be soundtrax) but I have yet to find out how.

But again, I haven't messed with soundtrax, so it very well could be that.

 

[Dinkleberry]

Yeah, soundtrax can do it. Its like a basic multi-track sequencer thing.

 

[jondy]

soundforge ACID music, just to add another to the pile. There's a free download over at Sony.

 

[el Chi]

I just read that supposidly you can layer tracks with one of the nero programs (it might be soundtrax) but I have yet to find out how.

But again, I haven't messed with soundtrax, so it very well could be that.

Well I used audacity and it worked really really well so thank you to everyone for their suggestions.