is there any freeware software that lets you make music approximate in quality to four track demos?

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i need to make some demos of songs for a band, which will have my singing plus toy instruments plus occasional real instruments plus maybe some drum loops. i can record/make/fiddle with all these in soundforge, audiomulch, & fruityloops, but none of these let me play a few files at a time and cut bits off so they line up with each other, which is basically all i need to be able to do. so, what do i download now?

i worry that the answer to this question is "pirate cubase", which is far too massive for what i'm trying to do at the moment.

― tom west (thomp), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

There was a link on another thread to a free download of a demo (8 track) version of Pro Tools:

http://www.digidesign.com/ptfree/

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe:

http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/index.php

I've never used it but it seems pretty 4-track like.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

n-track is the best, easy, shareware multitrack i've tried.

pt free has its strengths... it doesn't work under osx or win xp..

― b mulvey, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

thankyou. yeah, a friend on a mac sent me that protools link: sadly i'm running an XP laptop, which possibly i should have mentioned before.

― tom west (thomp), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.cockos.com/reaper/

― Jubalique (Jubalique), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

Audacity

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

Pretty sure you can still get a free trial version of Acid, once made by Sonic Foundry, not sure who makes it now. Last I used it (about a year ago) the free trial was just like the main program except you couldn't use some effects etc, and you only had maybe 8 or 10 tracks to use instead of an infinite number. Combine that with a free crippled version of CoolEdit (or, hell, Windows Sound Recorder) to create the WAVs in the first place and you're set.

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 2 March 2006 06:54 (nineteen years ago)

Sonic Foundry was eaten by Sony.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 2 March 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

I've been playing with Ableton Live 5.

HOLY SHIT.

Someone give me $500 RIGHT NOW

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

― mayakovsky's cousin, Friday, 3 March 2006 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

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