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if have a question about sending my beats to emails...if i send them...can THEY seperate the tracks...or do i need something else......also....how do i get the best quality while recording..i have an mpc 2000xl hooked into a firebox interface...sometimes when i record....it sounds bad...how do i fix...thanks

<<<if have a question about sending my beats to emails>>>

For any kind of serious editing, you should be sharing WAV sound files. Those are easily edited and they suffer very little damage when you apply filters and effects. However. WAV files are very large and most email services cut you off at 10 MB.

You can easily share MP3 files and they go through email just fine, they just don't edit very well. MP3 creates sound damage that makes editing, effects, and filters harder to use and the smaller the files, the worse the damage.

Most people find ways to post large files on line somewhere so other people can go up and pull them down when they're needed. I use my web site for that. YMMV.

You can play tricks with stereo WAV files. If you put your voice on one side and the music on the other, the person at the far end can split the tracks apart and remix them along with their own work. You get a mono show, but that's one way.

You can also send the tracks as many different sound files and put them back together later. Drum1.wav, Guitar2.wav, vocalLead1.wav.

Do not mix the show down to stereo before you send it. Nobody can take that apart again.

I need to look at the documents for your sound device.

Koz