How to mix music with software?

I was able to open two audio files in Audacity through drag-and-drop. They open as separate tracks within the same project, but you can then copy and paste the one track into the other and engage in all kinds of editing fun before “exporting the selection” (as WAV or MP3). Have you read the Audacity tutorials ( http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/index.html )? It might help you to follow these steps before you do anything else:

Edit > Snap To > Snap On

and

View > Set Selection Format > cdda min:sec:frames 75 fps

(I don’t know what either of these things mean, but in the Audacity splitting and exporting tutorial they say it is necessary, so I always do it and have encountered no problems.)

Linux MultiMedia Studio should be able to do that…

Ive been trying this freeware- kristal – similar goal.

I’m just starting like you, but I’ve got the free version running.

I’m trying to replace guitar amp with freeware effects, and do multi track recording

(I sing too, but it might harm your ears)

thanks, I’ll give it a shot

@cjunifer for making mashups then Ableton Live would suit your needs perfectly

@RareDenver How does Ableton compare to other not free software. I will eventually be in the market. It looks good – there are so many out there.

@DrMC it’s really good, as far as choosing a DAW goes though I think it’s worth having a bit of a play around with a few to see what you are comfortable with. I mostly use Reason for example but that’s because I’m used to using hardware so it’s rack layout is very intuitive for me. It’s down side is it doesn’t support plugins but I can get around that by basically using it as a plugin with Ableton with the ReWire application. I’ve never come across anything else (apart from specific DJ software) that has a timestretch function as good as Abelton’s. A friend of mine has just started using Cubase after many years of using Reason and he is now singing it’s praises to anyone who cares to listen. But he did say that he thinks if he had jumped in with Cubase before getting to grips with Reason he wouldn’t have gotten very far with it.

I would definitely spend a bit of time trying before you go buying !!

Thanks rare. We will protect you after the cultural revolution for your use to society ; )