Good to know, Pam - it’s a great resource for anyone starting out with recording and videotaping 
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No… They were not part of my website…
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I use GarageBand and I have always liked it for it’s ease of use. as for outgrowing it’s capabilities, I offer this:
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I love GarageBand. It’s plenty for recording. I don’t have the needs for layers and layers of plugins and modeling. Plus, I don’t do more than 12-16 tracks max GarageBand can easily handle that.
The only reason I play around with Logic Pro is the X-touch controller I have, it’s kinda cool to use it for recording.
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Hey all! Not sure if this thread is still active, but I’m also looking for the simplest, easiest, quickest, CHEAPEST way to record myself playing. That’s it. No bells, whistles, music producing shenanigans…
I literally want to plug something in my PC (Windows 11), plug in my bass, add a drum track/drum track file, hit record, and play. That’s it.
I’ve already bought the M-Audio M-Track Solo, which apparently I needed, and am using Cakewalk (cause it’s free. I also got the MPC Beats, which is complicated AF), but I’m still running into issues.
Cakewalk seemed the easiest, however I can’t seem to hear the drum track as I play - I also don’t want to use headphones (cause again, not a music producer, and I don’t want my bass hitting my monitors as I play). I just ordered RCA cables so I can use them instead of the headphones, but again, this seems far more complicated then it should be.
What is the MOST easiest, simplest, takes all of 10 minutes to do solution here? I’m all for returning the M-Audio if it means I get something I can just literally plug and play.
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I’ve been trying to improve my sound a bit also… especially now that eldest daughter (Inspired by EllenPlaysBass) wants to start playing Guitar & Bass to Yousician on my PC.
There are some limitations on my setup, due to the original nature of it.
As a SysAdm/SysEng, PC was built for Perfomance… tons of cores, Memory, fast local disk and a 30TB Storage using Mechanical Drives. I mainly work / give classes or webminars / play games and yousician or BassBuzz lessons… screen is 37’’ Curved… so movies are also a must here… hence also the THX compatible headphones/Speakers.
Setup:
- Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 with XLR Mic (1) and Bass (2) for input
- Output - Through headphones(proprietary Bluetooth) compatible with THX Spatial Audio / surrounds or also THX compatible logitech speakers(from Motherboard sound card)
- Cakewalk is my DAW at the moment because I tried Cubase and without a bit of “hacking around”, you can’t pick a different output from the input in Cubase… and that’s a must for me as if I play whatever at night, I want it to come through the headphones.
- Record using AMD Adrenaline because has a better cap bitrate and allows to capture all sounds from the PC without having to spend hours on OBS/Streamlabs
If anyone has suggestions on how to improve this… change some stuff on the setup, I’d be really appreciated. I am not an Audiophile… so I don’t need superior latency… or best sound speakers, etc. But I do want a good quality out of it.
I would use the focusrite as the audio output as well and just use the headphones with it.
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Headphones are USB… bluetooth adapter…
Only other option is buying more cables and fight with adapters… and then I lose the THX functionality also… so yeah
Cable swappie… every single time I need to fire up Cubase ?
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I meant to just hang separate headphones (and optionally, monitor speakers if you like) off the focusrite for recording and bass practice, as THX is meaningless there and it would give you the least headaches with your DAW. Then leave the system settings alone for main in/out, for games and movies.
Alternatively you could use a different DAW of course.
Don’t use bluetooth for headphones - it introduces lots of latency, which is very frustrating!
Games… movies.
Dont require low latency for what I do atm 
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Yeah bluetooth is fine for that (and most audio for that matter, provided good gear).
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Hmmmmm … but is it?
For movies you could do an A/V synch, but for games it’s different, cause of realtime stuff going on.
I would play Wordle with bluetooth, but maybe not Halo!? ^^
With good gear the latency is typically around 100ms. Far too slow for recording music production but fine for general listening.
In games this is about six frames at 60fps. This would be annoying but maybe not a dealbreaker for the audio. I’d be much much more concerned about mouse input lag for FPS (one of the two reasons wireless mice suck for gaming, the other being weight).
I mean, I wouldn’t do it myself, but I can understand why someone might if they had 'phones they liked.
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Yeah, that’s true!
I notice latency even with APTX LL, but I think it’s a matter of what you’re sensitive to!?
By the way: using Logitech Lightspeed devices, latency is a non issue, also for wireless. Not that this is a relevant factor for me anymore - since an 18 year old girl kicked my @ss in the most humiliating way during a Wipeout game, I had to accept that my gaming days are over…
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It depends. Current 2.4GHz wifi wireless USB mice generally are in the 1-2ms range, which is fine. Bluetooth mice are up around 10, which will be a dumpster fire for FPS.
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“with a 1ms report rate, zero delay & interference” - I have only Lightspeed devices (mouse/keyboard) … in case a miracle happens and my senso motoric abilities improve enough to take revenge for that one last game…
Lets please get back to the topic at hand… Recording bass. I kinda derailed it a bit… apologies!
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