Record Producer Deluxe

by Turtle Beach

Product Features

• Compose your own multitrack songs with your MIDI keyboard and live instruments -- the powerful sound editing tools to layer other instruments onto your MIDI keyboard or drum machine
• Record and add your own lead vocals, background harmonies and process them with professional sound effects
• Powerful audio restoration tools give you the same options you'd get from a professional mixing board -- Pop Removal, Smooth, Noise Reduction and Low Pass Filter
• More than 1500 built-in audio and MIDI samples - drum loops, keyboard riffs, guitar leads and more -- create your own backing band
• Work with numerous Digital Audio Effects - Scale, Normalize, DC Offset, Crescendo/Fade, Compressor/Gate, Delay, EQ, Pitch Shift, Time Compress/Expand, Reverse

Product Details

Product Manual [3.38mb PDF]

• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00008WMFQ
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 19, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,451 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #24 in Software > Video & Music > Software > MIDI
  • #50 in Software > Video & Music > Software > Music Creation & Sequencing
  • #70 in Software > Video & Music > Software > Sound Editing
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Even more control over your tracks! Record Producer Deluxe adds even more power to choose how your song was meant to sound. This deluxe edition adds powerful tools like the Advanced Audio Editor and digital effects like delay, reverb, compression, and EQ so you can adjust your recorded tracks and final mixes with the finest precision. When you are done sculpting your musical masterpiece, Record Producer Deluxe lets you choose how you want to share it. You may also burn your song to a CD.

Features:

The Deluxe version includes all the features of Record Producer, plus:

• Advanced digital audio editor and CD creator: Turn your composition into a stereo wave file for burning to CD! Editing tools let you add fade outs, maximize the volume of the final mix, and more.
• Delay, compression, and reverb controls: Use digital effects like delay, reverb, compression, and EQ to put the final touches on your songs. Make your voice sound like it was recorded in a professional recording studio!
• Lots of samples: The boxed version of Record Producer Deluxe comes with 1,500 samples on the program CD, plus 3 additional CDs of 4,000 high-quality samples. That's a total of 5,500 samples for your arsenal!

Note: the three CDs of extra samples are included only with the boxed version of Record Producer Deluxe, not the downloadable version.

Powerful, multi-track, audio recording, mixing, and editing tools:

• Track window: Edit MIDI and digital audio tracks side-by-side. Layer a virtually unlimited number of MIDI tracks right alongside your digital audio tracks to create complex, richly musical songs and compositions.
• Audio editor: This powerful wave editor enables you to edit individual digital tracks for a professional touch. Normalize your tracks for maximum volume, fade endings, create crescendos, and more!

Comprehensive MIDI recording and composing:

• Mixer window: Real-time mixing of MIDI tracks creates the perfect blend of instruments with real-time MIDI mixing. Control panning (stereo placement), levels, effects, and more!
• Sheet music screen: print the MIDI tracks in your song as sheet music.
• Piano roll and event list editors: edit every detail of your MIDI composition with a comprehensive set or tools for modifying and viewing notes, dynamics, and more!

Product Description

With Record Producer Deluxe you can record your own music, edit it digitally and produce it to share with others! Impress the world with your musical composition abilities with this new music production tool!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good product for the price, February 29, 2004

By 

kyle wagner (san diego, ca, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Record Producer Deluxe (CD-ROM)

I bought this program to do midi sequencing and audio recording for guitar and voice. Overall I think it's a really good program for doing standard musical recording tasks on an intel-based system (on a Mac I'd expect more and pay more too). It's totally replaced my 4-track cassette recorder system since Record Producer also records midi. I'd used MOTU's FreeStyle and Digital Performer before (for college coursework), so I wanted something that would work kind of like these programs but didn't cost so much. Record Producer doesn't have the same slick setup for midi instruments that FreeStyle has - doesn't recognize my Alesis QS6.1 banks - but you can still access all the banks.

The program has a reasonably good interface for recording and overdubbing audio and midi tracks, and it's pretty easy to edit things as well. It's also very quick from startup time to recording your first track - very nice if you're in the heat of inspiration. The audio editing isn't perfect - could use some more work to give you finer control. You can edit midi data directly, and you can easily edit midi controllers and related parameters (volume, tempo, etc.). It lets you do punch in/out recording for midi and audio which I've found to be very useful. Does NOT let you edit in the musical score - you'd better go with Finale or something like that if you're looking for notation-oriented software.

I must admit I haven't tried many other sequencer programs for the PC. I just read reviews, looked at their specs, and decided on this one. I tried Jazz (a free program) and it's not bad, but not as full-featured and a bit more difficult to use.

I found the online help (mostly the FAQ from Voyetra's website) to be a lot more useful than the manual. The FAQ/online help answered all of my questions about step recording, audio recording latency (needed to set my onboard audio card to full duplex mode and updated my audio driver).

One important note though: a fast, modern processor (I'd guess at least a 2GHz Pentium/AMD) and a separate soundcard (probably any modern soundblaster thingy) would be really nice. Otherwise, you won't be able to record and playback lots of audio simultaneously (a problem I'm having with a 1GHz-equivalent AMD machine using the motherboard's sound chip (a K7SEM motherboard), though not too bad for me since I usually only record 2 tracks of audio and the rest is midi).

I sympathize with the earlier review - this program takes a fair bit of work to set up, and you have to play around a bit to get the right drivers, the right midi interface, etc. But once you do that, it's full-featured. I didn't have nearly as many problems as that reviewer did, so this is probably very hardware-dependent.

I do not recommend getting the cheaper version of Record Producer (the non-deluxe one) - it doesn't let you record your stuff to CDs and doesn't have all of the audio editing tools. The deluxe version just makes the music-making process a lot more fun.

If you've got a couple hundred dollars more, I'd suggest moving up to the more professional programs, or moving to a Mac (which is much better for doing anything audio and has much better software out for it). But this is a good intro program if you're not sure what you want yet.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars No professionals/semi-professionals allowed!, May 23, 2005

By 

Robert S. Kronenthal (San Antonio, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Record Producer Deluxe (CD-ROM)

After I purchased the software directly from Voyetra, I soon became aware that Record Producer Deluxe has several significantly limiting flaws for anyone other than a casual hobbyist:

1. You cannot use ANY VST/VSTI or DX/DXI plugins - there is simply no way to integrate them from within.
2. You cannot export wave files produced in RP Deluxe. For example, you might want to use a program such as Sound Forge (or any other program to apply effects or adjust EQ. Once you create something in RP deluxe, you are stuck with RP Deluxe! If you want to move to a non-Voyetra software product later, you are out of luck on moving your compositions to the new product.
3. I had a technical issue in that the timing of my digital tracking was off (with RP Deluxe ONLY, not Cakewalk products). I went around with tech support by email. Finally, they just gave up on me. I asked for a refund or even a credit, which they would not give me!
4. The digital effects (which is what you are limited to) I found to be VERY basic at best.

Overall I rate this product quite poorly in that it has a lack of even semi-professional features. I also had a horrible time with tech support. I spent just a little more money on Cakewalk Home Studio and I am infinitely more pleased with this. If you are anything more than just a casual music enthusiast, I would recommend another product.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars My Review of Record Producer deluxe, April 3, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Record Producer Deluxe (CD-ROM)

I agree with much of what K. Wagner of Rosslyn VA wrote.

I use Digital Performer in the classroom. I noticed last year that Digital Orhestrator Pro, which preceded Record Producer Deluxe and by all accounts is the same program re-packaged, worked very much like the Digtal Performer software. I used it extensively and then decided to buy Record Producer when it was introduced. I upgraded to Deluxe when I realized I did not have all of the tools.

Record Producer Deluxe interfaces well with my equipment. No problems yet.

I have not used the FAQ page form Voyetra but I am getting close because of a nuance. I have noticed that Record Producer Deluxe arbitrarily changes my patches. For example, I assign patch 65 to an instrument but when it is saved and I load it again later, that patch may be (and usually is) changed to 64. The same goes if I assign 57, 58, 66 or 67. They all move. I have noticed that patch 68 stays in place. I don't know why this happens but it causes a sound problem when music is played back.

One other thing that I really don't like is that wave sounds are not called waves, but RPP files and can not be accessed or played like waves. There is some special set up that Voyetra has inserted that keeps you from using any of the sounds and effects that come with the program. Bummer.

The program may be hard to work with but I have not noticed as yet. I think that Digital Performer prepared me for it.

I like this program, especially the piano roll editing, and really wish that Voyetra would concentrate on improving it by maybe intergrating a form of Music Write with it, making it good for universal use, like reading and accepting all types of audio files, adding a little color to the track lines, grouping the sliders, and charging more for the good product that it is and can be. Just now, it is like a toy but very useful. It is a good place to jump off