Topic: Help with track recording

[super-phat-al]

I am putting together a project for a family friend who is getting married and wants to put together a song for his fiance.  What he wants to do is take a Karaoke track which is piano and sing and play trumpet over it.  He wants my help cause i have what he would need to do it.  What program should i use to do this?  I have soundforge and i have cool edit.  I really have no idea how to use either one to do any tracking.  Dont know if its even capable of tracking.  Anyway dont really want to spend any money, so if you could point me in the right direction with what to do i would greatly appreciate it.

[super-phat-al]

^bump^

[leegeddy]

few clarification ?'s:

>>What he wants to do is take a Karaoke track which is piano and sing and play trumpet over it.

does he want to sing/play it live or prerecorded?

>>What program should i use to do this?  I have soundforge and i have cool edit.  I really have no idea how to use either one to do any tracking.  

CEP can do multi track.

>>Dont know if its even capable of tracking.  Anyway dont really want to spend any money, so if you could point me in the right direction with what to do i would greatly appreciate it.

if he wants to record himself singing and playing the trumpet then you record him. take that recording and multitrack it with the karaoke track on CEP.

marc

[Brian Skalinder]

I believe both SF and CEP support multitracking.  I've never done multitracking before so maybe others will chime in with more detailed info, but I'd do something like:

[1] get the karoake tune onto PC as its own two-track
[2] play back the karoake on his headphones while he sings and you record
[3] play back the karoake on his headphones while he plays trumpet and you record
[4] master in SF or CEP - align tracks, adjust relative levels, etc.
[5] mix down to two-track

To enter the multitrack view in CEP, on the main menu: View > Multitrack View.  CEP has pretty good documentation - try starting there and learning as you go.