How to Remix With Cool Edit Pro
Cool Edit Pro is a fairly comprehensive and easy to use audio editing program. Use Cool Edit Pro to remix songs, tweak audio and edit sound files. The features and program options are fairly extensive. Users can cut vocals from one track, isolate frequencies, increase/decrease speed and pitch as well as mix different songs together. The user is more or less limited by their imagination. Cool Edit Pro does not include sophisticated keyboards or samples; it is simply an audio editing tool.
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Instructions
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Cut the vocals. Doing a vocal cut allows new vocals to be remixed into the song. Load the song into the project window. Click "Effects," then "Amplitude," "Channel Mixer." Click "Vocal Cut" from the presets menu, then click "OK." The vocals for the song will now be removed.
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Normalize the track. Normalizing flattens out any volume peaks in the song. Those peaks can cause some serious problems as they will distort levels and even possibly damage speakers. Click "Effects," then "Normalize." Select the percentage for which to normalize the track: 100 percent amplifies the entire track to its "max" safe level. Anything less cuts the volume peaks. This tool is useful for matching volumes between tracks.
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Add a chorus. A chorus gives a deeper experience to an audio track, it sounds as if several of the same audio tracks are being played at once. Click "Effects," then "Chorus." For users who are unfamiliar with how a chorus works selecting a "Preset" is recommended. A "Preset" is a perfectly tuned type of chorus; there are several different types of chorus presets that can be selected depending on the type of song being remixed.
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Add a delay. Delays are used to create a solitary echo, which can change the feel of the acoustics of a track. Click "Effects," then "Delay." Select a "Preset" or adjust the "Delay" levels for both channels (left and right) to create a delay. Delays longer than 35 milliseconds will create a discrete echo.
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