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Answer to 1: It's indeed the SID chip used for the Comodore. Like linked from from OverCoat already, you can find some infos about that thing here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_SID Answer to 2: The games are remixed a lot because it is like OCR with Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy and Street Fighter. Major games, expecially beginners take a stab at those games. And the most and best known games on the C64 were Comic Bakery, The Last Ninja, Bionic Commando, Turrican and Giana Sistars. Or in short the musicians: Rob Hubbart, Chris Huelsbeck, M. Siebold, etc. Answer to 3: Answer is "no". It's just not common to make Orchestra mixes out of C64 tunes. Some do, but this is rare. It's also like with OCR. Sometimes we get a flood of Rock tracks, then Orchestra (like in the last half year), sometimes electronic only. Also a lot of C64 stuff was pretty upbeat or electronic. That doesn't mean that the remixers are only "electronic" or "trance" artists. It depends on the song, and the mood the song reflected in the first place. Question: Why did you ask "us", if you could have asked that over at KWED. They have a board, too.

You want features, you want accessability, you want good handling, you have to pay money. That's how it is. It's not like you don't get anything as "bonus". But face the truth... good stuff is not free. And if it's cheap, it's years old or on group buy. Stop whining, we had to pay for our stuff, too. And on this boards, we've written a couple of times how to get stuff cheaper, you just have to look. If you're not patient enough to do so, or don't feel like it, maybe making music is your wrong hobby.

Blame the one who truncated the board!

It's still in the tutorial section. And really now. We do like to help, but this question "How do I remix" comes up every other day. We have a huge collection of info on this page, whynot usethe search function, start with the basics, etc. I mean... we don't have sticky topics for nothing. And yeah, a similar thread that is only 2(!) days old! http://www.ocremix.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=83871 You see the problem here? You're an individual, yeah. But that doesn't mean that you can be lazy and start a new thread asking for spoonfeeding where other threads already answer your problems.

Didn't test "Ultimate Piano" yet, but my CD is open already. The Pianos are shuffled in different patches, unlike GIGA pianos who can have keyswitches (damper pad, sustain pad), etc. This makes stuff a bit tricky, but if you program your own trigger, you can generate a "big piano" out of different patches with like 12MB to 32MB. AKAI samples were that way. The time the CD came out, AKAI just had their 32MB and 64MB samplers out, so it's no wonder that the booklet is aimed towards "how to set up the samples in hardware samplers". Personally I'd say it's save to get that CD "blindly". For 20USD, there's nothing much you can do wrong.

Or a sampler that can load that stuff natively. Roland is "similar" to AKAI CDs. It's an own format and can't be loaded that easily. The Major samplers should recognise them fine though. If I can still remember, the samples are sorted in "libaries" like AKAI CDs and you select the patches individually,then copy them to your HDD (will be converted with your sampler) - that simple. Somebody in here mentioned "crappy Roland" versions though (even though Roland also uses wav and aiff, just the patches files are different and the OS). So if you want to be on the save side, get the AKAI CDs. If you don't care and go for the risk, get the Roland version.

Nope, no chance. You have to rip, slice and map them for yourself. And I got my eMail like 1-2 days later that the order was taken, and around another day later, I got an email from FedEx regarding the tracing.

Hell yeah I finally got my samples. But... it seems like Sounds Online either made a mistake, or the third CD I ordered is out of stock/print/whatever. I ordered "Quantum Leap Brass" (to accomodate Peter Siedlaczek CCC), the "Ultimate Piano Collection" (is "Volume 1" standing on your CDs, too?) and a CD called "Diffusion Of Useful Noise" (Audio CD). The last one wasn't shipped, and not listed on my invoice either - which, thankfully, made it cheaper alltogether, too. Even though the TAX (16% VAT, Taxes and and extra Administration Fee from FedEx) was 15,65Euro extra to the 22,95USD shipping. Which means: 42,95USD for shipping and tax only! More than the samples cost themselves!!! Did something similar happen to either of you, too? Just curious.

My pack is in Frankfurt (Germany) now too. So far nobody woke me up from sleeping the whole day and deliver my samplers. BUt it's good to know that this stuff in in germany already.

Is the piano stuff any good, Andrew. Or should I stick to my GIGA material and SF2? I'm a bit curious.

Haha... 2-5 days shipping. Yeah right. Look at that: May 7, 2006 5:53 PM Departed FedEx location MEMPHIS, TN May 6, 2006 3:16 PM In transit MEMPHIS, TN May 5, 2006 7:08 PM Arrived at FedEx location LOS ANGELES, CA 6:28 PM Left origin HOLLYWOOD, CA 5:20 PM Picked up HOLLYWOOD, CA 2:44 PM Package data transmitted to FedEx Does "The King" do private checks of the delivery? XD

WAIT WAIT WAIT, Rellik. I thought the Brass in Miroslav Philharmonik is already "huge sounding". Or do you just add it for spicing things up.

Internal mathematics of most sequencers are at 32bit float.

I give up, too. Just one hint, read this thread again, go over to KVR. I'm sure what you'll find there. Spoonfeeding is not our job.

We can say and say that only again and again: Samplers. Doesn't have to do anything with your hardware (audiocard) at all. CDXtract is a sample converter. You can convert from (let's say) AKAI to SF2. This can be loaded with the SF2 player in FL again. Simple task. Then again, I'd get a "real sampler" for sure. It's helpful in a lot of things. Especially effects and available samplepacks. Due to the fact that samplepacks nowadays are shipped with "bundled sampleplayers" (Halion Player, Kontakt Player, SampleTank LE, etc), the need or the versatility of "big engines" got a bit forgotten. Whatever you use is your thing, but please read the thread a bit more closely next time. We really answered this question like 5-8 times now.

Ugh, it's already gonna be as bad as FL presets. Automatic NO from us. At least QL Brass sounds good. That doesn't stop newbs from writing unbalanced and overpowered remixes. Good samples can sound like crap, but carefully engineered and mixed, chances are you get even more for what you paid for. *quote pyramid yeah!* And no, Gilrad. Those samples won't work with your card alone. You need a sampler that can load and play them.

Can you give me a reference demo? A 24bit snippet and a 16bit snippet? And with what do you render it down? What effects do you use, etc. The more info I have, the better I can help you. And... I work in 48kHz 24bit all the time, even though I don't do any DVD-A or DVD-V stuff.

Looks like most of us got the same packs: QL Brass, Ultimate Piano, Rare Instruments (ProSamples) and Percussive Adventures. And even if it differs "per user", it seems that we all chose "QL Brass" and "Ultimate Piano" for sure. heh...

zircon and I got info from FedEx today that stuff is on the way (which means, I was lucky, my samples were still available). But so far, nothing arrived yet - 1 extra week for germany anyway.

This is the negative thing on "Keyswitches" indeed. Condensing MIDI channels (1 MIDI channel for all articulations) but using ton of RAM. The negative side on "seperate channels for articulations" is, that you clog up your sampler fairly quick in terms of "channel usage" - and some sampler start to barf. So far, no sampler (well maybe GIGA3) works efficient in that way. But then again, I don't have VSL (Vienna Symphonic Libary) and don't know how it is handled here. Keyswitches really have the advantage while scoring and "live play". Though I know people who use both techniques: Scoring with keyswitches, scoring with different channels (while they actually score on one patch, then select individual notes and route them to the respectative channel - like you'd do with Miroslav). Dunno, whatever works best for you. I don't have problems with either of those techniques, though I do prefer "keyswitches" while writing.

Dunno if it works with "your" PC, but it does with mine. And we covered that Q a couple of times "in this thread" now. Well... You use the "old" technique then. But with newer samplepacks, you load one single patch not "once" into your RAM (with keyswitches and the like) but if you go for "each articulation - 1 channel", chances are you load the patch up to 5-6 times into your RAM, each with the same samples,keyswitches and the like. A very negative thing with every sampler I know - no samplesharing like Musiclab RealGuitar if you load 2 instances with the very same samples.

THIS is why we have "this" thread: FRUITY LOOPS 101 - PLEASE direct -ALL- FL questions here It's sticked, then why aren't you using it?!

Back to the roots then. Instead of using "keyswitches", you use one channel for one articulation now. This is how it was done in the old days, and this is how it is still done with Miroslav Philharmonik (as it doesn't have KeySwitches).

As you can read on the "reverse engineering spec sheet", AKAI S5000 is still hardware. AKAI bare went into software tools. They had a VST effects pack once, but I don't recall an "official sampler", though I remember one being for the S1000 - then again it was a third party one. Anyway: The latest Halion and Kontakt should easily load that format. If not,get CDXtract or look for "conversion tools" over at KVR. There're at least 2 if I can still remember.

Everything in here is important and should be sticked.