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cyph · Posts: 1

alright, i'm a newbie, so please bare with me.

but as far as this goes... ok, for the longest time when i laced vocal over beat, what i did was just play the beat in winamp, hit record on cep, and it would just mix my voice from the mic and the beat from winamp in realtime. wonderful.

but ever since reformatting my comp, it no longer does that, and i'm stuck to magnifying 100 times to move my vocal track to the correct position to ride a beat.

my question: what must i "turn on" in order to have such devices like winamp, and windows media player to "play in winamp" while recording?

sorry if i worded my question akwardly, but there's really no other way to put it. X(

cyph

William Rose · Location: USA Posts: 467

I'm assuming you're using Cool Edit 2000, without the studio plug-in ?

Because, if not, then you could switch to "Multitrack" and all your problems would be solved.

But, to do what it is you're describing, you would need to set the "record" device in the Windows Mixer to "wave out" or "wave" or "stereo out". It depends on your soundcard model as to which of these devices will be available and what exactly they're called.

If you can't get it after trying this, post back with Cool Edit version and make and model of soundcard, and we'll try again.

William Rose · Location: USA Posts: 467

I guess I should have asked, when you say, "it no longer does that" what exactly do you mean ? Do you get some sort of error message ? Or, does it seem to work, but you wind up with a recording that's either a flatline or missing one component or another ?

Craig Jackman · Location: Canada Posts: 909

I blew out Winamp a year or 2 ago. I found that having Winamp and CEP running at the same time was doing funny things to the soundcard controller software. On my Gina mixer, once you had fired the 2 programs up, you could sit there and watch the Gina faders gradually slide down with no prompting from anyone. Delete Winamp, reset the mixer to the appropriate settings and it's been fine ever since.

As for this situation, pay the $99 and get Adobe's Audtion upgrade in a couple of weeks. Not only will this let you mix and overdub your raps to your hearts content. It'll give you EQ, compression, and effects options you never even thought of.

Rap done cheap by playing various sources simultaneously into CE2k! I'm not being sarcastic, I think that's fantastic! It's the way recording was from the start ... that method is so old, it taught the kiddies in "old school". Wink