Meteo Xavier
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Are there any additional instruments or refills or whatever I can get with KOMPAKT? I like what it has, but it has a rather small number of instruments to play with.
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I seem to have gotten it with Fruity Wrapper. But I would dump them into the folder which I could activate from VST function under CHANNELS, and I would click to open, oh say, CHIMERA.DLL and it would give me an error saying it could not be found and to try again.
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Ok, I'm a fucking idiot. For some reason, I cannot EVER seem to add a VST plugin to Fruity Loops correctly. I just got NI KOMPAKT and I can't get it to load. In fact, there are about a dozen VSTs I've tried to put in the right folder that do not load in Fruity Loops because it says it can't find it, even though the .dll is very evidently there.
What am I persistantly doing wrong? What specific folder or item is supposed to go where?
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I don't know if I've asked this question before, but I need to know a few things:
1. How to change tempo
2. How to slowly fade in or fade out the entire song or individual instruments.
3. Why all my MIDI creations export in piano only.
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I've had it up to here with free stuff, I want professional stuff I have to pay for. And when I say here, you need to imagine a 6'1 Jesus figure holding his hand up to his uvula to get the full effect of what I'm saying.
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Back in August I bought, for $50, a beat up Yamaha CP70 and amplifier, and me and my dad are looking to try and fix them up to sell (I want to get some professional VSTs with the profits) and I'm looking for good resources or ideas for fixing and polishing up this baby as best I can so's I can sell it for as much as I can.
Any ideas, resources? I can't be specific with the actual problems at this point, save some damage in the plastic cabinet above the keys where the YAMAHA label is.
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Awesome advice, brother. Very, very good!
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You never talk to me on AIM anymore, myf, we've lost contact and such
ANother tip for performing live, interact with the audience, really bring your performance to them. Whether it's just talking between songs or bringing someone up to sing.
If I build, will you come?
Yeah, good point. Audience interaction is key. I'd rather see a small artist who interacts with the crowd than a big one who stands still in one place fifty feet away from the audience. That's just me though. I love standing front row.
I could tell them I'm a registered sex offender, but I think that would clash with the music I'm playing. I'd rather start by playing music in the background.
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well, first you practice until it sounds right. then you play it for others like that
Good ways of practicing though.. hmm... what I do, on my rigerous practice-to-make-up-my-freshman-jury-so-i-don't-fail-out-of-college schedule is actually budget out time for each thing I'm working on, with comments next to it based on what I want to concentrate on that session. Another thing that helps is recording yourself. i haven't been able to do this much lately because my minidisc isn't working, but you'll be surprised to hear what you think you're doing, but not actually are. Or vise versa.
Yeah, one of my biggest problems is that I can't very well hear how I play in the context of whether or not it sounds good. I mean I can physically hear it, but I can't recognize very well if I'm not playing it smoothly or correctly.
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Sorry if i hijack this thread, but it seems my question is related enough to this as to be stupid to make another thread about it...
I REALLY want to play live and do DJing type things, but what would i have to do/get in order to do so? I guess the question is what kind of equipment is needed in order to play live? I know little to nothing about what goes on onstage: for instance why do the DJs have their headphones on while the music is playing on the speakers? Are they trying to match up the beat before the X-fade it to the headphoned track?
Thanks for any help, and sorry if i hijack the thread.
Nah, don't worry about. *bang*
To answer some other questions, I'm just looking for tips, knowledge and ideas to just perform a decent set so I don't play clunky piano or let one voice overtake another leading voice so on and so forth. What to practice so I get the songs done correctly, what to know about performing for others so I don't fuck it up (Yeah, confidence, except I don't have much of that). Obviously I'm looking to start quite small - just what to do so my songs come off sounding good to the public.
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For other people.
Publicly.
I've going to give my ridiculous excuse for a composing/remixing hobby/habit a break and focus more on actually performing for a bit. I play a modest piano and I'd like to learn to sing with it. I have lessons in place, I just want some tips and information on what it means to perform for others and perform well - like books or websites or even if you have some.
Thanks again, ladies and gentlemen.
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just encode ur mp3s at max bpm
Wazzat?
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God bless you people. You have very helpful to this frustrated quasi-musician.
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I'm listening to sound samples of Kompakt on zzsounds.com and you have pleased me with recommending this product. I'll have to sell the Chroma Polaris to fund this. Are the presets going to sound this good, or will I have to screw around with the knobs and such for a while before I get something that sounds as good as these samples? I have the sound modeling skills of a loose strand of DNA.
http://www.zzounds.com/item--NINKOMPAKT
And thank you again if I didn't say it already.
Edit: Wait, is this a VST? Will this work for Fruit Loops you think?
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Do you use any of those for your mixes?
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I have had enough with soundfonts and I want real instrumentation in my computer work. SampleTank is what I'd like to go with, but its frustratingly expensive and its too much for my computer to handle. I have looked at PlugsoundPro ($299) and it looks decent, but I haven't heard anything about it (I've only discovered it 5 minutes ago)
Any recommendations or ideas? Thanks again.
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I read somewhere on here recently that soundfonts require effects to make them sound good and more believable. What are some suggestions, recommendations, ideas for this?
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I have a mixer I'm sure, my dads a sound guy at Dollywood, he has all kinds of sound equipment lying round the house.
Do you know where its been explained before? Was it on this topic somewhere?
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I don't have....well I don't use an external mixer. How do I record waveforms in FL? And Low Latency? Start speaking ENGRISH man!
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Ok, so I am about to purchase both a KORG WAVESTATION SR and ROLAND JV-880 synth modules and I quite like the sounds I am getting from them. Is there anyway I can hook them up to Fruity Loops through MIDI like soundfonts (in that I can use several instruments from the module at a time, it seems to me that I would only be able to use the instrument that was currently selected) or somehow get them onto my computer? I don't know much about this kind of work, but I would really like to get them working on my piano roll, I really like the instruments on it. Thanks!
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Oh yeah, and I need a decent reverse cymbal sound, something makes a swelling crish sound so I can go into different song parts.
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OK, I needs some help.
I thought I could do well with good, free soundfonts, but now I am at the point where I need professional grade instruments to play on Fruity Loops 4. Does not have to be the greatest, most finely tuned virtual instruments in the world (not the $900 orchestral bundle with 6,000 samples with minor sonic differences etc.) but something where I can get a large quantity of pianos, guitars, organs, synths, strings, pads, effects, drums etc. that are a good cut above the soundfont range of quality for around $150 or so.
Any ideas....? Thanks.
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Hardcore. Thats all I have to say for you Ifirit, Hardcore.
I think I'm going to stick around this a bit, I'm quickly becoming a Silent Hill addict myself.
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Speaking of psychological abuse and such, does anyone know where I can find good information, articles, examples, etc of psychological abuse? Or for that matter, abuse towards mental patients?
Reason I ask is because a friend and I are working on a story of our own that deals with the subject at hand, its about a mental patient who wakes up in the hospital one day to discover that the hospital is completely devoid of anyone but himself, but the hospital itself shows very few signs of any kind of conflict, the power still works, water and food are available, but the hospital is completely locked up, so he has no real means of escaping. At the same time, as he sits around in the hospital trying to investigate the matter and find a way out, his perception of reality keeps changing, and so there are a lot of scene transitions somewhat like those found in this game.
And the whole point of this story is to really exploit the psychological damage he sustains from brain damage and an abusive hospital in a realistic manner. I want to be careful with it so I don't just slap some "psychological thriller" together that everyone else seems to be doing nowadays. I want it to be good, but I have little knowledge and experience in the matter (which is surprising to most people, I should say).
So any help or direction or interest would greatly help me out. Thanks.
Does anyone use NI Kompakt?
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Kompakt is the first professional VST I own and I didn't buy it with any other libraries. Got any suggestions for places to find NKIs, Akais, EXS and whatnot - or is there another topic around here that addresses that?