Frederic Petitpas   Members

10 years sometimes

I hope you where not thinking I was talking about buying expensive things and getting broke. A few free things are cool, LePou's plug-ins are doing it better for my taste than AmpliTube or Guitar Rig for instance. But generally, you pay and get good tools. You can buy a saw in a dollar store and try to make a desk but it's gonna cut better with a better made tool you'd pay 10$. Saving 100$ for Fruity Loop is as much money it costs to buy peanuts. What do you get similar for free ? Some Linux music box ? A good ratio of the free stuff sucks because most of the time when it's good enough, people want to make a few bucks out of it. Or show me a free DAW that's better than one you pay 100$ for like Fruity Loops (basic edition)

You need to pay to get some good stuff, like with everything else. Save some cash and enjoy the good tools.

I want a good mobo, ram & a good processor for a good price. I currently have an M2N-E, 6000+ proc and 4x2GB HyperX 800MHz - That served me well during 5 years and didn't cost 800$ back then, but it's all getting old. I need something on which I could still use my graphic card until I upgrade (9800GT 512 pci-e 2.0 16x). Suggestions?

No dude, it's pretty much the same as you for me. Started composing stuff on Guitar Pro back in 2002 and only bought my DAW in 2010. I used to record with Windows XP's recorder, routing the ouput of my pc soundcard to the mono mic input to record my Guitar Pro backing track and used the merge function of recorder to merge the resulting .wavs Since it was limited to 60 seconds I would use the "slow" function before loading the wavs which doubled the time. Recording guitar with a Metal Zone plugged in the 1/8 mono mic jack. LOL big time but still, part of the learning process.

Hi/Lo pass filters were probably the best discoveries for me. Then maths for some advanced stuff (time-based things and panning) lately and I won't reveal my secrets yet;). Took me a while to understand compression and I'm not a master at it but it's awesome when using with subtility on various things. First thing I've "discovered" which is not advanced was reversed reverb and it's awesome too but I forget to use that nowdays.

LOOL!^ Like in everything else, you need to filter the shit. But there is some great classical music. They all made some shitty tunes tho. I like fucked up ones and other ones like Bartok, Stravinsky, Holtz, Shostakovich, Bruch, Mussorgsky, Paganini, Bach (father and son), Schumann, Ravel, Albinoni, Smetana, Saint-Saëns... I really can't stand some like Vivaldi, Handel, Mozart, Bizet, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev. Can't stand any operatic shit what so ever. Try this: edit: Come on dude, you're not french. French people = France. Thanks merci caliss.

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We have our facebooks, xbox tags and such, but y not YouTube that'd be nice

You got a new subscriber.

why would you need money to compose hu? I just want to understand if I were to donate

Yeah, got a merchant account too and I dunno if that changes anything.

I call it making music heh but yeah it certainly doesn't stain the ears

Knit 3rd, 5ths and octaves ? I dunno I've never had trouble doing harmonies, counterpoints, stuff

I dunno but I'm sick of it.

4th post ;(

A bit late but I said I'd post a "better" version of my remix one day. It has less guitars and a small fix on the keys.

Other than metal .. Acoustic, blues, classical & hip-hop. Favourite depends of how I feel but it implies playing guitar 99% of the time. I use Reason & Reaper. Nothign fancy.

That was my tune for the GMRB 2012 but with a few minor updates and stuff... still a very basic mix but I'm not gonna work on this again anyway so here it is as it is.

What ones have you got ? Polar is quite nice, I bought that one. Radical was really fun to try but I find it a bit expensive, should be 70$ like Polar. What about you guys ? I still want Radical Piano, Radical Keys, Korg's Polysix, every Uhbik device, Cakewalk's RE-2A and probably Antidote and the PX7. Should be a total of 500$ or something. :/ REs are expensive.

Master of Puppets

I did this before going to bed yesterday, with headphones, for a joke video about stupid dance tunes that always sound the same (generic beat/sounds and cheesy generic lyrics). Need to record the lyrics: "move, dance floor, put your hands up, extasy" but will do once it's mastered. See what you can do. http://db.tt/L5m3uqnw

By the way, if you buy a firewire interface, you really need to get a texas instrument chip on the FW pci card. I don't have that and pick up the noise from my computer so there's a subtile hum in my speakers. No hum on the recordings tho

Reason is 100% cross platform. There's virtually no difference except a few shortcuts. I don't know how something could be "much better for that kind of stuff" if we consider this. Your interface does the A/D conversion, it's a logical signal from there. But Macs run Logic & Finale and I'm sure those are the best tools for audio/video, which is probably why pros recommand them. Coreaudio is probably a nice thing when using the computer live.

Yeah, I'm not sure if it's clear (haven't listened to the tune) but I mean: you adjust your low pass filters to 100 Hz. Then you proceed to match the hi pass filter of the drum with the hi pass filter of the bass, from zero hertz to more (0+ Hz). Say the bass at 40Hz and the drums at 50hz, but then you match (fine tune) them using your ears. There is always a sweetspot. Once this is done, you bring those lo pass filters back to their starting point values (example: guitars 12kHz, drums 18kHz, bass X kHz) and match them. But the point is that the bass would be even in the ensemble, giving you a chance to EQ tracks or the master buss. It's just an experimental approach I found. Don't tell anyone.