recording software question!

[Guitarplayerdan]

I am geting a duet... but the time will come when I want to lay down drum tracks. My friend has a studio where he lays down drum tracks. Most likely I will be using Logic... he uses cakewalk. If I went to his studio, laid down the drum tracks, how would I transfer each individual track to be on logic. Would I have to export each track ( ie tom, snare, overhead) on a seperate mp3 and then import it into Logic. Your help is appriciated.

[stevel]

I am geting a duet... but the time will come when I want to lay down drum tracks. My friend has a studio where he lays down drum tracks. Most likely I will be using Logic... he uses cakewalk. If I went to his studio, laid down the drum tracks, how would I transfer each individual track to be on logic. Would I have to export each track ( ie tom, snare, overhead) on a seperate mp3 and then import it into Logic. Your help is appriciated.

MP3 - ahhhh.

AIF.

Or maybe WAV.

Yes, you would have to export each track individually. Most software gives you the option of exporting a batch of tracks simultaneously.

When you get a chance, choose "mixdown" command in Cakewalk and look -

You will usually see a choice of "Stereo Interleaved" - that makes a single, 2 channel file (like what you'd put on a CD), "multiple mono" that will produce an individual mono file for each track you have (or have selected to be exported, etc.). The latter is what you want.

In some cases, you can just drag the files from the host programs audio folder, burn them to CD (as files, not audio mixdowns) or USB/FW drive, and then just import them into the program in the host computer.

If you're doing everything at 16 bit 44.1 k already, choosing the "mixdown" command to create audio files isn't going to hurt anything.

But you should be using a file format like AIF, or WAV, not MP3 to do this.

Best,
Steve