recording with different programs?

[FreCKo]

So, my band will record our first demo pretty soon, and the place that has our rehearsingspace also has a studio, and we can record there FOR FREE with someone helping us for 20h/year.

So we started thinking, I just bought an M-Audio Firewire 410-card, and our plan is this to record the drums in the real studio, and recording guitar, bass and vocals ourselves.

BUT then I started thinking, what if they have an different recordingsoftware? If I have like Adobe Audition 1.5 and they have like Cubase SX 2.0, can we still import the drumtracks and record guitar and bass, or do we need to record it all in one type of program?

[intorvert]

Presumably, you/they will be saving the drum tracks as .wav files so you will be able to open them in anything.

You just won't be able to do any editing/mixing prior to export/import.

[FreCKo]

Originally posted by intorvert
Presumably, you/they will be saving the drum tracks as .wav files so you will be able to open them in anything.

You just won't be able to do any editing/mixing prior to export/import.

Yeah, I figured that, but my plan is to record the drums in the studio and then set all the levels on the drums and so, and save it as an .wav-file and then import it...

But wait, I assume that the drumkit will be miced alot (with one mic per tom, overhead mics and so on), is it possible to save each mic on seperate .wav-files?

If it was badly explained, instead of having ONE .wav-file with all the drums, I would have one .wav-file for the bassdrum, one .wav-file for each tom and so on...

[Daaf260]

That's pretty hard to do. I prefer not to mic every piece of the drumkit but you can like it.

[Halford87]

i think providing the files you want to use are compatible with either software then you should be fine.

I used sibelius which isn't for recording you write your music on the score with the selected instruments and it plays it back to you but anyway i transfered that to Cubase SX i think and it played back fine. The only thing was some of the sounds were weird but thats just down to your soundcard and what sounds you have on each program.

So basicly yeh you should be alright

[FreCKo]

Originally posted by Daaf260
That's pretty hard to do. I prefer not to mic every piece of the drumkit but you can like it.

Ah well, we won't be recording the drums by ourselves, it will be done in an real studio... So we want some pretty damn good sound :D

[Moo]

You should be able to get every track as a different file, shouldn't be too much trouble. You want to have control over the separate tracks' levels in the mixing stage, otherwise it's pointless getting them done in studio.

[FreCKo]

Originally posted by Moo
You should be able to get every track as a different file, shouldn't be too much trouble. You want to have control over the separate tracks' levels in the mixing stage, otherwise it's pointless getting them done in studio.

Yeah, that's what I thought! Thanks for the input, I'll come back in three months with some recordings (hopefully :D )...