best software for recording band music

[d_unbeliever]

Received this email from a friend

> > We are into reliqious song composition. We want to
> > protect the songs we sung so far and recording is the
> best
> > option. Do you know any software that we can use in recording?
> > Also, do you know any sofware for piano note reading?

What is the best software he can use for the recording?
do you know any sofware for piano note reading?

[ofbarea]

For this kind or recording, I use a Hi-MD. When the recording is done just transfer the songs from the minidisc to a PC as a wav file. Edit as needed (you could use Audacity).

More info on Hi-MD on http://www.minidisc.org/hi-md_faq.html#_q101

[edDV]

Is this just a single microphone or multi track? For single microphone or house mixer recording to a PC most anything will work. Try Audacity (free).

For multi-track recording you will need multi mic input hardware and software.

[Sillyname]

I use Adobe Audition. It's very intuitive.

[Midzuki]

> > Also, do you know any sofware for piano note reading?

I'll assume he meant a score/midi editor. Here goes a starting point:

http://thedickeys.net/links/consumer/MidiScoreEditors.htm

> > We are into reliqious song composition.

Unnecessary job. Johann Sebastian Bach has already written
all religious music that we'll ever need.

[yahoobuckaroo]

Sonar or Audition. Audition is a resource hog though. I mostly just use it for editing.

[edDV]

We are all guessing the requirement. We need better task definition from the original poster.

[hauntedtony]

pro tools, industry standard

[goodsharer2012]

If you have a decent microphone (preferably a Condensor mic with pop filter) you should be able to get professional style recordings with Acid Pro or anything similar in the Sony arsenal. I've been producing music for years (thats my job) using Acid with no problems with sound and quality. It really all depends on your mic and sound card set up. I use onboard.

[redwudz]

goodsharer2012, Please don't dig up old threads to comment in.

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