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To expand a bit on what Yoozer's saying: You're mixing up the ability of the Juno Gi to be used as an audio interface with its capabilities as a hardware workstation keyboard. If you are running MIDI out of your DAW through the Juno, and the Juno is producing the sounds, then the capabilities you're talking about (polyphony, multi-timbral, waveROM) is what is getting used. But, since you say that you're using AU plugins, those are producing the sound and the Juno is simply providing a low-latency mechanism to get those sounds from the computer to your ears via its headphone jack (or normal line out or whatever).

Depends on your personality and creativity. Remixes might be easier because then you don't have to write original material from scratch, you just have to rearrange it. On the other hand, you might be the type who finds it confining to start with limits like that and original ideas might come more naturally. You should do whatever makes you happiest with the sound. Some people suggest that all synth patches should always be done from scratch and that presets are always bad, and those people are, frankly, idiots. On the other hand, only ever using factory presets places some limitations on your creativity and on your sound. As a complete beginner, it's probably easier to just use presets so that you can focus on trying to do less things at once, but if you can't quite find the sound you like, don't be afraid to take a preset and modify it to your liking.

I've used a laptop on stage a number of times running at something like 19ms total latency within my DAW and it stood up perfectly. That said, if you don't already have a laptop or audio interface or the right software or anything else, and you don't want to buy a laptop for other reasons too, you're probably better off with something like the GAIA for live use.

I'll take dungeon crawling over endless sailing anyday. It's the reason why I didn't like Spirit Tracks or Phantom Hourglass for the DS much; too much time spent travelling and so little to do while you did.

Congrats, guys!

The only person I know who's tried it is Another Soundscape, one of the judges here. I remember him tweeting about it, and I asked him about it directly. Basically, it's really, really good.

Answering my own question: The login URL they give you is wrong. You have to go to https://store.playstation.com (the 6.39 firmware update on the PSP adds a /login.gvm to the end of that) and sign in through there. Brilliant that their firmware directs you to a site they haven't had up in over a week.

I tried this before but figured I'd try it again now to double-check. From my PSP (I don't own a PS3), it tells me to try from a PS3 or from a website. Not having a PS3, I went to the website and still get the Under Maintenance message. It's not the same website that I get when trying to change my password from Media Go, but both display the same message. If anyone is able to hit up a login site and change their password after reading this, would you mind posting the link?

I was wondering when NI would give up on Kore. I found it buggy for use as a standalone live performance host, and not worth the overhead for hosting plugins in your DAW just for the sake of finding presets easily. Besides, all the good NI soundpacks are for Kontakt anyway.

Has anyone tried to reset their PSN password in the last week? I basically ignored my PSP until I got the Welcome Back e-mail from Sony; ever since then, I've been getting the Under Maintenance screen that Irish posted a photo of a couple days ago. I've tried to hit their password-change site multiple times a day every day since whenever that e-mail was sent (last Friday?) with no luck, and I've tried a few times from my PSP too. Am I missing something?

The video hasn't been posted yet. The audio file seemed to have gone missing when Jillian Aversa had her website redone not too long ago.

I don't know, it was something about the way it was asked that struck me as arrogant, not the question itself (e.g. "I want you to do this" versus "I have a really good mix that's too long; could you consider increasing the limit"). Either way, the official call has been made.

Interesting...you obviously took the time to read the site standards, and you figure that rather than adhere to them, you'll make them change for you. Arrogant much?

I may not have time to get to this for a couple weeks (yay having a baby and also being at the in-laws next weekend), but I'll definitely give it a shot; I'm a beginning mixer and anything to improve my skills is useful. Great idea, LuIzA!

It was to me; I traded some of the items to my own Guild Wars account and gave Brad's account to my brother so we could play together. Just popping in here to recommend Brad and make sure anyone who might want to buy his account will know that dealing with him will be fine.

I did the same thing for my son. I'm not going to link everything since there's over 50, but here's my list. Morning Sunlight (from Chrono Symphonic) See You Next Time ~WIND~ (from Final Fantasy V: The Fabled Warriors ~I. WIND~) Theme of Love for Guitar Duet & Evoking the Dawn (from the FF IV project) Sleepy, My Sephy & Daydreaming Again (from the FF VII project) Dreams of Valor (from the Kirby - Rise of the Superstar project) Lullaby for Tohru (Pixietricks, from animeremix) Quickening, Shattered Dreams, and The Treasure That Must Be Seduced (from the Xenogears project) Oceanfront View, Sunrise in Mabe, House of Frogs (from the Link's Awakening project) All the rest are plain OCRemixes Vampire Spanker Time's New Scar Another Fair To Lost Epochs Town Life In Piano Winds of Time Lanterns (DKC2) Nirvana (Earthbound) Back to Towne 9FF 3) Little Painter Girl Aeris Lives MelodiesOfLife Arranged Rose of April BalladoftheSea How Much Longer The Rose General City Corner Lullaby While San d'Oria Sleeps The Scarlet Halls of Night Tattered Slippers Aphrodite Oceanus Memories of the Sea This Heart Reflections (Shenmue) Solitude in Arlia Mr. Stork! May I Go Home... Super Mariocean Composition in Q Youthful Bravery Yggdrasil Speaks to Me Visions of Kin Lullaby (Yoshi's Island, by McVaffe) A Link to the Piano A Rose for Zelda Grand Dreams A Heros Legacy Aquescent Symphony A Fate Preordained Eutopia Pegasi Ancient Hero (Wind Waker) Symphonic Ballade Nayru's Love

It has, sorry.

Pointless comment. Yes, the most expensive one that offers the most stuff is the best (surprise!) but there's no reason to get platinum unless you really think you need the 24-bit samples. Even Gold upgraded with both the close and surround mics (@dannthr, you probably have the Kompakt Player edition; the mic positions now are called Close, Stage, and Surround) is cheaper than platinum by a few hundred, bought new.

I'm not sure what you're doing. If you actually have one instance of the VST loaded, then Cubase might popup the Edirol window every time you assign a MIDI track to it (though that would be odd behaviour and I don't think I've seen that happen), but you can't initialize and create a VST instance from the track inspector on a MIDI track; the only choices you have for output destinations are the MIDI ports and VSTs that are *already loaded* on your system. You really aren't describing it well, but either you're loading the same plugin once per track or you've loaded the plugin once but its window pops up for each track you assign to it. The former seems likely. I do know that unless there's a bug in your plugin, you won't have three identical windows open for the same instance of a single plugin, so if you do have multiple windows open *at the same time*, it means you're creating multiple plugin instances. I wonder if you aren't trying to create instrument tracks instead of MIDI tracks.

Mmm, sandwich. I agree; I still wouldn't trust it. I was just posting the link anyway, so we could at least see what Sony was saying. I personally don't care, since for some reason, Sony wouldn't let me use my credit card for purchases on my PSP and I've been using PlayStation Network cards instead.

I got a couple suggestions on Facebook that I'll add for future readers. The Mission Forrest Gump (the Alan Silvestri score was what I was going for here, not the album with all the pop tunes they featured in the movie)

According to Sony, the credit card information was encrypted.

I need to get Calling All Dawns; it's been on my list for a while. I've got both of Jillian's albums. David Arkenstone isn't really what I'm looking for though; I'm thinking more along the lines of authentic, non-western music as opposed to western artists who sometimes have world music flair.

I'm looking to broaden the scope of the music I listen to. I've liked a lot of the world music I've heard as background music in a restaurant or in soundtracks like Guild Wars: Factions and Guild Wars: Nightfall, and even something like the Lord of the Rings movie soundtracks use all kinds of unique instruments. I don't really have anything much in my collection though that would really be called world music, and I'm not even sure where to start. From the bits and pieces I've heard, I'd probably favour middle eastern and far eastern music, but I'm open to anything. Suggest away!

The main purpose is to provide space, just like EQ provides space. You wouldn't say that a mix is well-EQed if the bass drum, bass guitar, and lower end of the synth pads are all competing for the same frequency range and creating a mush, right? You want to be able to hear each instrument clearly, so you cut some unnecessary frequencies. Panning is similar. If you leave everything centered, there's very little spatial depth to your music (more noticeable on headphones, IMO, but it matters regardless of what you listen on). Think about an acoustic concert, in any genre of music. The sounds of individual instruments are stronger in one ear or the other based on where they are on the stage in front of you. If an entire orchestra could somehow be flattened to one player's worth of space in the middle of the stage, the sound would be more dense and cluttered, since you'd have so many more things going on in exactly the same sonic space. Even as a keyboard player, panning makes a big difference in my sound when I have the opportunity to play in stereo; I'll layer several pads together and use panning to spread them out a bit. As for what gets panned where, that depends on your genre, but having the most important instruments in the centre is always a good idea. If there's anything you want your brain to focus on more easily, because you're hearing it more in both ears, it's things like lead vocals or an instrumental solo.