Hello everyone,

I'm a newbie on digital audio editing. I use Audacity on my Linux system. I
would like to play with multiple tracks (guitar, drum, vocals etc) , mix
them etc... Does anyone know where can I download tracks? By any chance, is
there any site with tracks of popular songs? (rock, pop..etc)?

Thanks,
Jose

José Arango wrote:
Hello everyone,

I'm a newbie on digital audio editing. I use Audacity on my Linux system. I
would like to play with multiple tracks (guitar, drum, vocals etc) , mix
them etc... Does anyone know where can I download tracks? By any chance, is
there any site with tracks of popular songs? (rock, pop..etc)?


Jose,

I am selling a CD-ROM that contains the multi-track WAV files for a
song. I have a demo you can download from my site. If you want the full
tracks, you have to purchase the CD, I don't have them available for
download.

--
Eric

Practice Your Mixing Skills
Multi-Track Masters on CD-ROM
www.Raw-Tracks.com

EricK wrote:

I am selling a CD-ROM that contains the multi-track WAV files for a
song. I have a demo you can download from my site. If you want the full
tracks, you have to purchase the CD, I don't have them available for
download.

Eric,

Wow! That's EXACTLY the kind of stuff I was looking for ! I'm going to buy
it right away!

Jose

José Arango wrote:

I'm a newbie on digital audio editing. I use Audacity on my Linux system.*
I would like to play with multiple tracks (guitar, drum, vocals etc) , mix
them etc... Does anyone know where can I download tracks? By any chance,
is there any site with tracks of popular songs? (rock, pop..etc)?

ok. I ordered it

I have a question regarding raw tracks. It may be a stupid question but
well..I really have no idea. Is there a possibility of contacting a Record
Label and ask them for raw tracks? Let say I want "Message in a bottle" raw
tracks from "The Police". Can I contact , e.g., EMI and ask them for
it? ..since I own the cd? Or are these raw tracks like the family jewels?
Is it the same like asking Microsoft for the Windows source-code?

Thanks,
Jose

"José Arango" wrote in message
...
José Arango wrote:

I'm a newbie on digital audio editing. I use Audacity on my Linux
system.
I would like to play with multiple tracks (guitar, drum, vocals etc) ,
mix
them etc... Does anyone know where can I download tracks? By any
chance,
is there any site with tracks of popular songs? (rock, pop..etc)?

ok. I ordered it

I have a question regarding raw tracks. It may be a stupid question but
well..I really have no idea. Is there a possibility of contacting a
Record
Label and ask them for raw tracks?

If there was, why would Eric have found a need to start up his little
venture (for which I will, again, high-five him for his subtly brilliant
idea)?

Let say I want "Message in a bottle" raw
tracks from "The Police". Can I contact , e.g., EMI and ask them for
it? ..since I own the cd?

If this were possible, don't you think there would be about seven hundred
abortions of that song done with various qualities of mixing floating
around on the web?

Or are these raw tracks like the family jewels?
Is it the same like asking Microsoft for the Windows source-code?

No, it's less likely to happen than getting Windows source code... you can
actually get access to that (or parts of it) if you're a third-party
developer for Microsoft. If you want more tracks to play around with, offer
to record some local band for free - they get something out of it & so do
you.
--


Neil Henderson
Progressive Rock
http://www.saqqararecords.com

OSPAM wrote:

No, it's less likely to happen than getting Windows source code... you can
actually get access to that (or parts of it) if you're a third-party
developer for Microsoft. If you want more tracks to play around with,
offer to record some local band for free - they get something out of it &
so do you.

All right. I got it

Thanks Neil.

Jose

"José Arango" wrote in message
...
Hello everyone,

I'm a newbie on digital audio editing. I use Audacity on my Linux system.
I
would like to play with multiple tracks (guitar, drum, vocals etc) , mix
them etc... Does anyone know where can I download tracks? By any chance,
is
there any site with tracks of popular songs? (rock, pop..etc)?

http://www.waves.com/content.asp?id=677

OSPAM wrote:

"José Arango" wrote in message
I have a question regarding raw tracks. It may be a stupid question but
well..I really have no idea. Is there a possibility of contacting a
Record Label and ask them for raw tracks?

Let say I want "Message in a bottle" raw
tracks from "The Police". Can I contact , e.g., EMI and ask them for
it? ..since I own the cd?


If this were possible, don't you think there would be about seven hundred
abortions of that song done with various qualities of mixing floating
around on the web?

I think that about sums it up, Neil. I don't think the record companies
will be releasing multi-tracks anytime soon. Maybe if they decide there
is a large amount of money to be made, then they'll think about. The way
I see it, it's a pretty small, nitch market.

--
Eric

Practice Your Mixing Skills
Multi-Track Masters on CD-ROM
www.Raw-Tracks.com

"EricK" wrote in message
...

I think that about sums it up, Neil. I don't think the record companies
will be releasing multi-tracks anytime soon. Maybe if they decide there
is a large amount of money to be made, then they'll think about. The way
I see it, it's a pretty small, nitch market.


Prince offered all the multitracks to his songs awhile back (for $700, IIRC)
but failed to go through with it when pre-orders didn't reach 125,000 units
(again IIRC). I still have the audio ad with snippets of the tracks broken
out. In all honesty I'd have LOVED to have a set of them though.

Ricky W. Hunt wrote:
Prince offered all the multitracks to his songs awhile back (for $700, IIRC)
but failed to go through with it when pre-orders didn't reach 125,000 units
(again IIRC). I still have the audio ad with snippets of the tracks broken
out. In all honesty I'd have LOVED to have a set of them though.

125,000 units? At $750 a pop! That's 87 million dollars! When was that?
Seems like pretty high expectations to me.

--
Eric

Practice Your Mixing Skills
Multi-Track Masters on CD-ROM
www.Raw-Tracks.com

"EricK" wrote in message
...

125,000 units? At $750 a pop! That's 87 million dollars! When was that?
Seems like pretty high expectations to me.


I'm guessing around the mid-1990's. He was also saying you could use any of
it royalty-free in any of your own recordings. I would liked to hear some of
the legal arguments that would have generated (from all parties including
Warners). It was for real. As I said I still have the commercial.

EricK wrote:

I am selling a CD-ROM that contains the multi-track WAV files
for a song. I have a demo you can download from my site. If
you want the full tracks, you have to purchase the CD, I don't
have them available for download.

It is great practice material and certainly its moneysworth, well and
truly.

I had however preferred less choices made in advance, it is well neigh
impossible to reconstruct the musically relevant dynamics of the vox,
also because mic distance seems to have been altered between recording
the segments. Reconstructive gain riding does not do it. I could of
course be a good sport and see it as a vocal track replacement excersize
.... O;-) ... but that takes it from being "beginners" to be "advanced".

I completely fail to comprehend the reason for first recording on an
analog tape recorder instead of simply making a clean digital recording.
I can understand why it is done IF a given end product sound is decided
on, but so is not the case for raw tracks, these are semi cooked
prefabs.

Generally I worry about a single capacitor in my recording chain and
desolder it if I can, and avoid every single component that can be
avoided, allow me to put the enhancement request of less prefab on the
next one forth, please ... less (electronics) generally is more
(quality).

Eric


Kind regards

Peter Larsen

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