Meteo Xavier

She's not kidding about that "dare" part either...

That and the general difficulty and fickle nature of advertising creative works. C'mon Strader, it's just a joke. I'm not sure if you're actually saying you're buying it there or not, so a humorous jaunt into surreality is my default there.

Already did. I gave $8 to a 4-K drive and signed it "Brandon Strader". What is 4-K? Well, it's basically the KKK, but the extra K is for "Kardashian".

For anyone who may be interested, this book is now in Kindle form. http://www.amazon.com/Phantoms-Fill-Southern-Skies-Lawhead-ebook/dp/B01E644AR4/ref=sr_1_1_twi_kin_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1461195368&sr=8-1&keywords=Phantoms+Fill+The+Southern+Skies

If you can't see the full title, this problem is actually fixed and I'm not asking for help. Instead, I'm detailing and archiving the problem/solution so anyone else who might run into this ungodly issue may find it and get it solved. Problem: (As previously posted on Game Audio Denizens) I'm having one hell of a strange problem. I've finished a track I'm doing on commission and I go to export a .WAV of it and something in it is causing my Windows 7 computer to have some considerable issues. - Windows Media Player will not play it and causes it to freeze up. Winamp somehow plays it correctly. - If I have ANYTHING recognize it, then Windows will start hanging up, not showing certain folder icons, causing other bizarre hang ups I've never seen before. - I can shred the file with Glary Utilities, but it doesn't show so in the conventional way. It hangs up and freezes too, but the file is gone. - MP3s of the song works and does not give me the same problems. - My DAW, FL Studio 11, does not do this with other .WAVs. I did a whole other song file and it didn't give me the same problem. The fuck is going on here? Has anyone had this problem before? Edit: Rather, what I posted here doesn't include that one render of the .WAV absolutely would not vanish with Glary Utilities. Nothing I tried, Glary, simple delete, shredding with AVG, FileAssassin, using CMD.exe, rebooting, check disking, etc. Nothing would get this one render to delete, however the solution still applies. Solution: (Also previously posted on Game Audio Denizens) So last night I posted an EPIC problem that a .WAV file was giving my computer and was asked to post on it if I fixed the problem. Well holy ***damn motherfucking hell, I fixed it. After many attempts to delete it through conventional and hardcore computer maintenance means - shred with AVG, shred with Glary Utilities, that CMD.exe method, rebooting, disk checking and more, here's how I fixed it: Audacity. This .WAV file is pretty much Pazuzu but, oddly enough, Audacity and Winamp were able to open it and play it correctly. So what I did just now was open the problematic file straight from the original (don't make a copy or anything), put a fade-out on the whole thing (just to put a random effect on it) and export it under the same name. It gave me two files, the one with the same file name and one with old-1 at the end of it. But praise be to Jesus (and I mean that), that somehow fixed the problem. Not only was I able to delete the file, but I was able to salvage the final WAV too into a properly working file that I can give my employer. Take this down for future reference, denizens. If your sound file is completely fucking up your computer as if it was a virus, try opening it in Audacity, edit it, and see if that can work.

...alright, let's try it this way. "Crystal theme", going hard-panned left to hard-panned right and back again. Arranged inside the SK88 Sound Canvas from FL Studio. I press the record button. Goes out from the SK88 through red and white outputs. Travels out the left and right RCA cables into a single 1/8" male adapter. 1/8" male adapter is connected to a PC line-in. The line-in accepts the SK88 audio. The crystal theme is played and recorded in FL Studio. The newly recorded .WAV sounds pretty much exactly the same as I heard it with my headphones plugged in the SK88. The hard-panned automation retains the same. Now the question: If I add the Behringer UM2 into this process and use only the Mic 1 input - where it then goes out from two other red and white outputs at the back of the Behringer unit into the single 1/8" male adapter that goes into the blue PC line-in - what changes from the Soundcloud example above? Do I lose the hard-panning from left to right? Do I only hear the left or right panning? Or does it sound the same as I heard it in my monitor headphones in the SK88? That's all I'm asking. And please don't quote the entire post here if you decide to respond. I know what you're talking about, I can just scroll up to read it.

This is getting really complicated and my limited understanding is drowning in technical terms and cables. Let's simplify down. I recorded this today with the RCA to 1/8th to the line-in jack out of my computer. If I run this through the Behringer Mic/Line 1 and then out the stereo RCA outputs (which pretty much the same cord I used up there), what happens? Does it narrow down so you can't hear it go left to right, or do I get the same thing as above without any noise floor?

The problem I have with that thinking is, again, the two separate inputs aren't labeled or advertised to be stereo inputs of left and right on any of those units, and I still question the design of something that is supposed to record in stereo but leave it so easy to be unbalanced. The Behringer unit outputs in stereo RCA as well, and I would think that would be weird if both inputs were used for vocals and one instrument and both came out mono. The final doubt comes with that my recordings with the Sound Canvas came out without sounding unnaturally narrow or any different than I heard in the module itself (minus the noise floor, of course) and that used the RCA to 1/8th, which I would guess should work about the same as the rest there. I mean, for goodness sakes, the whole point of me wanting to use an audio interface is so I can record the instruments/channels individually and mix it in FL Studio without the noise floor, so whether or not it comes out narrow-sounding is somewhat moot by then. Not trying to speak ahead of my recording naivete, but it just makes very little sense to me to do it that way. I'll find out here soon myself anyway, I just wanted to get the right planning involved so I didn't have to keep buying a bunch of shit and hope something works.

Hey, question on the combo inputs on those boxes. Like the Focusrite and such has two inputs, right? APZX mentioned each input is inherently mono, but they have different gains/volumes on them. That doesn't make sense to me, what if I don't have the two at exactly the same volume? Won't that throw the balance off? Because from the dual RCA to 1/8th I'm using, I'm already getting stereo and that's only going into one input on my computer from my Sound Canvas. I learned tonight my brother has this and will lend it to me: http://www.amazon.com/Behringer-UM2-Audio-Interface/dp/B00EK1OTZC That has one XLR combo and one 1/4" to record a vocal and instrument specifically, not to record left and right. The output from there is also RCA that presumably goes into one computer input, so... how does that work? Am I getting stereo or super narrow mono or what? Or am I simply narrow-minded (pun intended) about the nature of mono/stereo and it will still sound as wide as I need it to sound?

It's actually the Roland SK-88, an 88 Pro with a MIDI keyboard on it. It's apparently pretty obscure. Also, yes, I can plug in an adapter that turns the 1/8th into a 1/4th inch audio jack. The focus right has a "combo" thing that looks weird but I can still plug the 1/4th jack into it, yes? See - I'm catching up some.

Do any of those things take the 1/8th TRS cable I have? I don't have space or resources to keep adding more modules and cables and shit just to record from a Sound Canvas cleanly, so I'd really like to find something that can use what I've already got if it's possible. Edit: Although I might already have a little adapter/jack that might work. I use to use it to plug my monitor headphones into the JV-880 and korg Wavestation SR I used to have (kinda wish I hadnt sold that now, but oh well). Looks like this: https://www.radioshack.com/products/gold-plated-stereo-adapter-1-8-jack-to-1-4-plug?variant=5717462981

Resurrecting this topic as I'm still interested in trying to record one channel at a time. So getting one of these devices functions as an external sound card and allows me to record purely clean without any noise floor/white noise? Does it have to be a whole box or do they make like a USB dongle of it that accepts left and right stereo cables? Bear with me here, I'm still pretty green on this and the overly technical and very loose structure of trying to figure this out with Google isn't working well.

You don't need to repeat yourself, we can simply scroll up and read it again if need be. That KSP guide looks like a starter guide (I'm not an expert on scripting so I don't really know for sure) and forums only give you bits and pieces to put together. Still needs a strong core in there, which is presumably the book.

I've got that bookmarked, but I haven't had time to do more than that with it.

Any way to check that book out and find if it's useful to me without having to spend $50.00 on it? I don't drop that kind of money on text without making sure it lives up to its hype first.

Well, at this point (because after a few days I didn't think anyone else was responding) I think I'll just remain satisfied to record the entire audio in one track and mix the song inside the Sound Canvas itself. There is no noise-floor I can notice at that point, and if there is, I'll probably just be able to use a noise removal tool or something.

Yeah I never looked at that.

Hmm... Flexstyle doesn't usually post giant warning text. Something stirs beneath the ground, methinks.

It is, it's just kinda dead for whatever reason. I have a thread with similar disinterest. To answer your question, don't try too hard to emulate Zun's style. if it doesn't come to you naturally, then it would take more time to accomplish than you probably want it to. That kind of thing, if your style isn't naturally similar to his, requires little more than obsessive study and a LOT of time and patience devoted to it. The good news is that it can absolutely be accomplished if you really want it that badly (like I'm still doing with Motoi Sakuraba), it's just a question of how much time and patience you want to devote to it. Piano improv is the same, you keep working on it until you strike the right stuff, remember what you did to achieve it, and just keep working on it. There's not a technical process to it, you just keep working on it. As far as VSTs go - don't worry too much about that either. Coming from a guy who's spent 10 years trying to achieve "sounds", it's an even bigger time sink. That particular example sounds like a rompler of some kind, maybe a Korg or Yamaha sound module from the mid-to-late 90s. It ain't Roland from what I can tell. You can probably find that info somewhere in a hardcore Touhou group or something. What's more important is you find VSTs with sounds you like and work to get the right combinations out of them to make it more uniquely yours. My two cents anyway.

Well, that input jack surely had to be preettttttttttty dusty before I started to use it. This is the cable I'm using. http://www.amazon.com/Hosa-Cable-CMR206-Stereo-Adapter/dp/B000068O33?ie=UTF8&refRID=DRW59DKC1GKW10VEY0AS&ref_=pd_ybh_a_30

So I've gotten to the point where I can, with some efficiency, record separate tracks from my Sound Canvas into Fl Studio from my audio-line on my computer. Now to the next part, because I'm a recording newb, I'm surprised to find some audio/microphone style feedback/noise, etc. on this direct line and I'd like to know if I can fix it. Here's my test track: And now here's that track with the high-shelf EQ turned all the way up so you can hear it start half a second before the audio does. What sort of things do I need to do to record clean? I hear these Sound Canvas videos on Youtube doing Doom or Duke Nukem soundtracks coming out without this noise and I'd like to know how they're doing it. Thank you!

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He wanted Kurt Russell because Kurt Russell's character in the "ESCAPE FROM" series was the entire inspiration for Solid Snake. It makes total sense that Kojima would want him for the original Snake because Kurt Russell was basically the original Snake. He should kinda be lucky that he got to keep his gig as long as he did, but replacing him with Keifer Sutherland later didn't make as much sense. Oh well, Hayters goin' hayt.

He's not kidding, either...

Found this today, didn't see it posted elsewhere here so I'm sharing it for your interest. http://www.retrocollect.com/News/nintendo-64-games-hacked-to-remove-blurry-graphics-via-action-replay-or-flash-cartridges.html