Making music in Audacity or SoundBooth?

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Pete

Hey everyone!

In at least two video projects coming up, I need to make my own music with pre-recorded sounds (piano tracks, vocal tracks, other sounds, etc). I was wondering if there's any simple way (or if anyone has experience) to make something in either Adobe Soundbooth CS4 or Audacity, which are the two audio softwares I have?

All I'm really looking for is a way to lay out measures and beats so I can place sounds accordingly, but so far I haven't found a whole lot for either software that will let me do that.

Thanks for the help!
 
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I don't use Soundbooth but my understanding is that you need to activate and set up the measures timeline and the tempo function. There are lots of tutorials on YouTube.

There are softwares and plugs that are specifically aimed at making music. Here are a few of the more popular:

Reaper
Cakewalk/Sonar
Acid
Reason
Digital Performer

If you have a Mac even Garage Band can do a decent job.
 
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you're best off using ableton live if you want to syncronise beats.

cooledit pro is a good one as well (it was adobe audition before it got bought by adobe and made it bloated).

you can lay some tracks down using both of your software titles you mention, just don't be surprised if you find it a bit tricky. Aslong as the music is all in the same temp you won't have much of an issue. Audacity is in its infancy at the moment in terms of ease of use so i'd stick with adobe for the time being.
 
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LMMS (which is Linux MultiMedia Software (wich will run in windows!)) is an open source music production software, that operates much like Cubase or Fruity Loops. I've got it, but I've hardlly used it, so I'm unsure if it's any good.
 
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Could you "build" it on different tracks in whatever NLE you use?
Beat loop on one line.
Piano on the second.
Vocals on the third.
Accents on fourth, etc.

Play and record with Audacity while it's playing to make a single track?
 
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Thanks for all the responses everyone, and I'm sorry for not replying earlier.

I finally got LMMS downloaded and running, and it's pretty awesome! For at least the first few projects I need it for, I think I'll be sticking with it.

I also found two cloud-based editing suites which may be of use to someone else:
-Aviary, which looked pretty simple but didn't seem to have very indepth tools -- http://www.aviary.com/tools/music-creator
-Audiotool, which looks super-cool but was way over my head -- http://www.audiotool.com/

(As an aside, one of the developers of Audiotool has a separate site that contains some individual components of Audiotool as well as a bunch of cool audio projects: http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix -- http://lab.andre-michelle.com/pulsate)
 
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