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I suggest you read Wikipedia's entries on both Sample and Sample-based-synthesis.
Most Midi actually uses samples, it is just that the samples aren't very good. To use better samples, I suggest you get yourself a good sequencer. Check out the various stickies, particularly the mixing for free and Zircon's tips and tricks. Also, if you come across a term you don't know what it means, Wikipedia it. Wikipedia isn't always right, but it will almost always give you an idea of whats going on.
EDIT: the forums url linky thing doesn't liek the brackets in the wiki article link. I assume you can copy/paste, though.
Good luck!
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I don't know about this "Sola" buisness, but Sol is Latin for the personification of the Sun. Sola is probably the female version or somesuch - Latin is one of languages where the endings change depending on whether the noun is male or female, or the subject or object of a sentence.
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Usually I cheat and bust out somebodies MIDI. Often, though, I like to try to derive the chords from the Melody - its an interesting exercise, and leads to some preety cool ideas usually.
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I'm still lookin' for FX Sweep samples. the 1 or 2 bar climax soundin' samples
..Plz.. help me..
In addition to Overcoat's mad sweep strats, if you are using Fruityloops, bust out wave traveller with a pad sample. Just fiddle with the curve of the line, and you should end up with a preety neat "HEY GUYZ THIS NEXT BIT IS IMPORTANT K?" type thing fairly fast.
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DoD is a guitar mixing competition? Nay, I think not.
Its a instrument remixing competition. As in, the lead instrument has to be played, not programmed.
Just a quick correction. =/
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E-Bison seems to have covered most of the production issues.
Hahahahahaha I just got to the Bass. Awesome. Though perhaps a bit intense in comparisson to the rest of the song.
You seems to know what to do, so its sounding good.
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Is there any way of controlling which instrument is being played by my midi controller with some selection buttons on the front of my controller? This is so that I can quickly change, from example, from strings to piano and not having to go get the mouse and aim at the midi in selector in a live performance....
Hmmm. I don't know about switching from instrument to instrument all speedy like, but you could split your keyboard for live play.
Spliting in this case means that part of your keyboard controls one instrument, and another part controls a different instrument. Do this with the Layer channel. I think there are some instructions in the help file.
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WTF.
"checkit, checkit, what I'm going to do, it'll be more gansta than anything, just check this, check this... two notes. Thats all the gangsta you need, right there."
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hey, scandernasher, you see that Sticky called "looking for a synth, sample or effect?" Yeah? Go look in that.
Also, an awful lot of early rap was amde by nothing but an 808 - and I think all the samples for the 808 coem with fruity. So try them out.
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Ummmm... by basic I/O for the soundcard, how basic are we talking? Stereo out and mic in? Or MIDI in/out? How good does the recording quality have to be?
If you are getting a soundcard, you may as well get a pro one - the cheapest are under US$100, so it won't take a huge dint out of your budget. Avoid all those consumer soundcards - you will probably get something with shitty recording quality.
As for the rest... it doesn't matter too much. With your budget, its not like you can do anything extreme like get two computers and wire them together or something... 2GB of RAM is probably a good idea, though. So is a fast CPU, but I have no idea whether Intel or AMD are better.
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Many things try this. But its tricky. There are a few tricks you can try out to try to get vocals and vocals alone out of a track, but don't expect quality results.
1) EQ. try to isolate the vocals. Works best with tracks where there isn't much going on.
2) Stereo stuff. Vocals are usually centered, whereas most other instruments are panned to either side.... so THEORECTICALLY, you can take the left channel, invert it, add the inversion to the right channel... and end up with music. wait wait... you wnat the vocals, not the music... uhhhh... I got nothing.
My college had a bunch of mixers, one of which had a "kareoke mode" whereby it attempted to eliminate vocals... which is the opposite of what you want, but the process is similar. On some tracks, it worked wonderfully... on others... like train wreck. Just a warning, 'sal.
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Hot stuff. Good luck finding a label!
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Okay, plugging reason into FL is kinda weird, but thats beacuse ReWire is weird. Also note that I did this with Reason 2.5 quite some time ago, so stuff might have changed, or I may have misremembered.
Firstly, you have to choose whether you want to choose to mix the reason sounds in fruity or reason. If you wanto to mix in Reason, its all very easy - just drop a mixer down, plug all your instruments into that, and the ouput will go to whatever FX track the rewire plugin is set too.
If you want to mix in fruity, its a little trickier. Okay, you know that audio output thingo? that thing up the top with a gazzilion inputs? Yeah, that thing. How it works is this: the first two ports of that go to whatever FX channel the rewire plugin is set to. The next port goes to the next FX channel.
Lets say you have 4 instruments in reason, each going to the audio ouput thingo, and the rewire plugin goes to FX 11. Then hte first instrument will be on FX 11, the next on FX 12, the third on FX 13, and the forth on FX 14.
However, this raises a problem: except for the first pair of ports, all the other ports on the input bank thing are mono. You can get around this by doing some re-routing in fruity, but keep it in mind.
So I hope that explains all the reason talkign to fruity stuff. But I haven't talked about how teh notes get from fruity to reason.
Well, rewire takes MIDI info on a certain port and rewires it to another program. So create a bunch of MIDI outs in fruity - the same number as however many instruments you have in reason. Now set them all to the same, unused, port.... say, 50.
Bring up the ReWire plugin. Load up reason, so it will be in slave mode, and load your project with all you instruments. Now click on MIDI options in the Rewire plugin. Map port 50 to reason. Yay!
Now all you have to do is make sure the channels on your MIDI outs and the channels on you Reason instuments match up - just fiddle with the channel setting on your MIDI out until it works.
I hope that was sufficently comprehensive. I'm doing this from memory, so fogive me if I gaff something up.
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Fl does have a smart disable - but thats only for effects, if I recall correctly. FX usually don't eat that much memory, though its really nice if you have a gazzilion FX that eat your CPU.
Since your problems seem to be with the generators eating up memory, then it looks like bouncing is the go for you.
Well, there's a suggestion for FL 7 - awesometastic freezing.
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May I ask why you wish to rip midis from ROMs? You're not planning on submitting that as a remix, are you? 'Cause we'd rofl at you.
I know I'm going to lose musician cred for this, but my ear is preety crap, so having a MIDI to make sure I've got the theme right is really quite nice. Yeah, I know, I'm training my ear... but the MIDIs are still handy.
Using MIDIs as a reference doesn't matter as long as you actually rearrange the track - thats the important bit. Oh, and production. But thats another essay.
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Everytime I hear Zircon do his smooth jazz thing, I want him to do Command and Conquer mixes. Though why the 909, zircon? Why the 909?
Nice episode, guys.
ZOMG PIXIE'S GOT A CRUSH
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BRING BACK CotMM
I got the impression CotMM was busy with a new project. If its as good as his last alb(l)um, I'm stoked. I <3 CotMM. I do wish he would do more collabs though - Dreams in Red was amazing.
Anyways, those of you who haven't checked out BGC's work should definatly do so. He's one of the best electro dudes around these parts.
And Rexy, I highly doubt Pixie using nothing but her voice, whether this is true or not, is going to affect her judgin'. Though Zircon could have been a little more polite pointing that out.
Now, get to work on the queue, Judges!
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Grats woo to the new judges, and good luck demolishing that huge ass queue. I'm especially looking forward to all the nicknames djp is going to give the new judges in the writeups.
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Okay. If you don't want to use amp sims, thats cool, but you are going to have to invest a fair whack of money. So I would highly reccomend you try out some demos, just to see what tones you can get, because it might save you a packet.
If you still want to record your amp, your are going to need:
1) An amp. Obviously.
2) A microphone.
3) Mixer/Preamp.
4) Good audio interface.
Discussion of appropriate amps I'll leave to the actual guitarists.
For microphones, I like the trusty SM57, because its durable, can record almost anything, cheap, at least for a microphone. I know other mics are often used, but the 57 gives you lots of flexibility.
A SM57 has an XLR connenction, so are going to need something with an XLR connection. Also, the mic's signal comes in rather low usually, so something to boost that a bit helps. Hence the need for a Preamp/mixer. If you are only going to be using the 1 microphone, a preamp is probably a better idea, but if you want to use more in the future, a mixer could be a good investment.
For an audio interface, you are going to want something that is clean. Mr. intergrated audio isn't going to cut it. Cheapest options here are the E-MU 0404 and the M-audio audiophile 2496.
Don't foget to buy from Zzounds to help OCR.
Okay, once you have all the equipment, the position of the microphone is important. So the position you want depends on the tone you want. A quick google search gives lots of guides to this, so try them out and see what flies and what doesn't.
As for acoustic guitars, I've never micced one up before - they all had internal mics. So I'll let someone else talk about that.
Okay, effects and stuff. FL can do everything you have posted, and it can do it live. Fruity can only take live audio inputs from ASIO drivers, though, so make sure your audio interface doesn't suck. Whether FL suits you is something you have to determine yourself. Grab some demos of other products, and see if they really suit you, buy them. But you alreadly have FL, so if you can work in that, I would stick with it.
Super-quick-FL-guide: In the mixer, each channel has a little pull down box labeled "in". By default, it is set to nothing, so change it to the input your preamp/mixer is connected to. Now just load up all your effects in that channel like you normally would, and start playing. Easy.
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Love the stinger, guys. Also, I approve of this release schedule change - it means the show comes out around 2:00pm on saturday for me, which is great as I can grab it then, and listen to it on the weekend - as opposed to during the week when I should be studying.
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I've never used the hardware in question, but if your laptop is crappy, it having to process everything would slow everything down. Does your laptop have ASIO drivers for its sound card? If it does, make sure they are all installed and running fine. If not... ummmm... kill all your background processes? Pray to various dark gods?
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There is a hoover preset that isn't bad, but as PoM said, it isn't too hard to make your own. Effects are really important though - to be honest, I usually use the preset, and just do the effects differently. Chorus+delay+verb seems to work well though.
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by the sounds of it, it would be a cracked edition. Fear not! the demo is free, and the full version but a few dollars away, depending on what you want.
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Last time I checked, you guys were number 1 in Music and Radio, and number 5 overall.
Number 5, people. Nice.
Can someone shed some light on the whole MP3 making process?
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I think its more of a case of me trying to answer his first question, and you answering his second and third. Regardless, your response was the better. Its always hard to determine just what to tell a newbie to point them in the right direction - its not like we can sit hear for hours typing up lectures on the subject of music making.