[I dont know what happend...]

Actually, my family told me the same, they said I was not gonna be using my keyboard for more than a few weeks. They were so wrong:)

[Having trouble with guitar stuff...]

Well, you have Musiclab Realstrat as well. It's easier to make it sound good, but it will not sound as good as Prominy LPC in heavy metal stuff. It is though much better when it comes to rythm guitar.

[OCR Cribs (the "Post Pics of your Studio Area" thread!)]

Do you record in those rooms, using mics? Seemed a bit unfitting for recordings, due no attenuating of those hard walls, and the fact that you have computers there.

[Is it just me, or does the A major scale sound really weird?]

Is it just me, or does the A major scale sound really weird?

It's just you

[Piano soundfonts/plugins]

holy crap 50 gigs. No way I am getting that unless I get a new computer.

Get an extra harddrive?

[bass guitar samples]

It's an extremely large download, but I really like the bass guitar sounds included with Independence Free.

2nd that! I often even use it instead of VSTi's I've payed for! It also got some other really nice instruments, I especially think the drums are really good as they are free.

[Test your speakers!!!]

does anyone ever feel like they can hear 16-20khz frequencys?. i swear to god I can. >_> I can only describe it as a 'presence" , i realized it when I was cutting and removing the frequencys, what bothers me the most is that none of my headphones can pick it up. it seems to only work on my speakers, whats even weirder is, I'm not even sure my speakers can pick up frequencys beyond 16khz. :S

You're not alone, I hear frequencies all up to 21 kHz, wich is kinda neat and annoying. It's neat because it means my ears work good, but it's annoying as I'm even able to hear some annoying sounds, like ultra-sound devices. (Those who are supposed to scare away mice and rats. I doubt that they really scare away any animals, but they sure annoy me....there's lots of these noisy shits where I work)

[I want some knowledge here, about impedance!]

Thanks, I guess that article explains it pretty well, yes. I don't have time to read it all now, but it looks good. Thanks for helping=)

[I want some knowledge here, about impedance!]

So I've read a little about impedance, but everywhere I read about it, it's written in a very complicated way.

So...can some clever guy, in a simple way tell me: What does impedance mean for me, as a producer/sound engineer? What is most important for me to know about it?

[Donkey Kong Country 2 Hive WIP]

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Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

[Way to remove vocals?]

Maybe lot of the vocals are in the center channel? If so you can just invert the phase of either left or right channel and play it in mono, that way you remove the center channel.

[Obtaining/Extracting vocals?]

...assuming that the sampling and encoding was basically identical.

Exactly! MP3 will for example usually not help you much....you need the CD tracks to make it sound clean. But if you got both the instrumental and the full song on original CDs, you will get very nice and clean results.

If you don't believe me, try output two version of your own works, and mute an instrument in one of them. Then mix them together, with the phase inverted in one of them.

[Obtaining/Extracting vocals?]

They do actually extract the vocals from the original song. Let me explain how:

If you have two soundwaves playing at the same time, which are both identical except they are going in the opposite direction, you will

not hear any sound.

Now how it works with extracting vocals:

If you have both the instrumental and the original song playing at the same time, while one of them have been inverted you will only hear the differencies in those two songs, which is the vocal.

By the way, you should have the CD tracks for this, not MP3's as the bad quality of MP3s will give you problems to make this work.

Maybe I explained difficult.....

EDIT: I guess those "professional" remixers ask the producers of the original songs to get the vocal track. I don't really know anything about that business...

[Best monitors for around $100?]

No, it says $1000 (a grand).

So, if he's seeing double, you can't be seeing at all.

Maybe.....who cares

[Best monitors for around $100?]

$1000? That's totally unnecessary for an amateur home studio. There are many excellent options for $400-$600/pair. Too bad KRK discontinued their V series, those were incredible.

Are you seing double or something?? It says 100=p

[Can't get 24 bit sound to work.]

I've figured out why 24 bit sound wouldn't work. It only works in

ASIO mode.

EDIT: By activate, I meant like registering the product.

Everytime I restart my computer, I have to open my tablet's control panel in order to properly activate it.

Everytime.

It has something to do with my USB chipset I think--it's Via. POS!

From Native Instruments support:

Question: What can I do to optimize the USB connection between my computer and the the Audio Kontrol 1?

Answer: It is recommended to disable power management to the USB hubs if you are on a Windows machine, to assure that the Audio Kontrol 1 receive enough power to work properly. XP turns this on by default. Go to device manager (Control Panel/system/hardware) and right click a USB hub to bring up properties. On the power management page, uncheck all boxes. Repeat for each hub and reboot.

Did that help you?

[Can't get 24 bit sound to work.]

Hmm.....appearently that wasn't the solution for my problem. The problem is back so I still want some help. I will also try to ask for support from Native Instruments.

[Can't get 24 bit sound to work.]

I had to activate the control panel, yes. That is pretty wierd, as the manual tells me it don't need the activation for functionality.

[Can't get 24 bit sound to work.]

It seems to be working now, after I activated it.

[Can't get 24 bit sound to work.]

I've tried to look for an option like that, but the control panel only let me change latency and sample frequenzy.

[Can't get 24 bit sound to work.]

I just bought the 'Native Instruments Audio Control 1', and I've experienced a problem. I know this sound device can take 24 bit sound, but when I set my host to 24 bit, it tells me that the sound

device is incompatible, and resets it to 44 khz, 16 bit sound.

I'm using Cakewalk Sonar 6.

Anyone who can help me??

[orchestral samples]

Their Stradivari is sexy sounding

For me "Sexy" just isn't the word for something related to the classical orchestra.

[SNES music, any way produse such music?]

Never heard of that. I think you're thinking about the program that

converts SPC into IT. I may tell you more later of you want, but now I have to go to bed.

[Laid back pop/ whatever..]

Hi, I've done a new song which I would like to get some comments on. The music genre used is a bit hard to tell, it sounds pretty similar to the kind of music you hear in Simcity 4.

http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/7/28/145427/Jens%20Wulvik%20-%20A%20Long%20Travel.mp3

The sampled electric guitar you hear will be replaced by a live recording soon, I have a friend working on that. You might hear a one minute part close to the end where there's not much going on, that part is reserved for a guitar solo.

Please listen to it and tell me what you think, thank you.

[Music Program Suggestions]

I would suggest Cakewalk Sonar. It is not so difficult to use, and it does suit for almost any style. It comes with Edirol Hyper Canvas ( a pretty good GM module) and a sweet set of studio effects.

By the way, you say you want to make musics in different styles, right? Then I would suggest that you get the VSTi: 'Steinberg Hypersonic'!! Steinberg Hypersonic is a very good all in one sound module, you better check it out.