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Rather, you install the drivers for the audio interface, and select it as your audio interface within ProTools. There are plenty of other causes of latency, even when you have the new audio interface set up correctly. If your computer is slow or you're asking too much of the CPU (too many plugins, plugins that use a lot of CPU) and the audio buffer for your sound card isn't large enough (there should be a control panel for the audio interface to set buffer size), then your computer will be trying to play back audio faster than the audio is produced, which will cause static sounds. Also, other applications that you're running, including services in memory that you didn't explicitly launch, can grab the CPU momentarily which can delay ProTools enough to cause static. I found on my old laptop that having the network or wireless network adapters active could do the same, so I always disabled them when I was doing audio work.

Distortion is just an effect; what you distort matters as much as what type of distortion you use. To my ear, the distortion in that song is a distorted synth bass, not a bass guitar.

Studio, unless the sound quality is good, the volume isn't headache-inducing, and the band plays musically different and better in a live setting (i.e. more varied or longer improvisations and solos, producing better music by feeding off the energy of the crowd, etc.)

I'm on vacation on Saturday, at a wedding in Calgary, but I'll definitely do this some other days. Christians have a lot to learn from Islam about fasting; we say it's important but hardly anyone ever actually does it at all.

Have you tried asking on Ableton's forums and on any forums or tech support areas Realtek might have? You might have better luck there than here.

synth1 is free and great. Its only problem is that it's Windows-only.

Um, not sure Brad's right on this one (or, more likely, he probably misread what you said). I can't see Microsoft being ok with selling upgrade versions to people who have no previous version of Windows. That version need not be installed, but that probably doesn't mean you still don't need an older version if you want an upgrade. I have an upgrade version of Win XP and while I can format and install fresh from that CD, it makes me put my Win98 CD in the drive so it can confirm that it's a legitimate upgrade (well, at least, that I have the Win98 media, which could probably be a burned copy).

So far, the upgrade prices are the same for all of the previous versions, so sitting this one out is entirely possible. I like how they're moving to more sample-based instruments for some things (I really like the sound of the Abbey Road drums and the Scarbee basses, and I already own the Scarbee Electric Pianos set), but what I don't understand is why they thought it was a good idea to can B4-II in favour of the Vintage Organs in Komplete 7. From listening to the Vintage Organs demos and remembering what B4-II sounds like, I don't think there's a huge improvement in quality but Vintage Organs uses a lot more RAM. I know which one I'll be sticking with. I wonder how the fact that they're now including samples and presets as instruments in Komplete will hurt the sale of individual Kore and Kontakt instruments. I'd be much more hesitant to buy anything new, knowing that many of their new releases could just end up in the next version of Komplete at a discounted rate.

I don't remix, but I use my laptop for live performance as a keyboard player and get great results with my machine; it's a 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo with 3.25 GB of RAM (well, that's all Windows can access anyway, since I have 32-bit XP). I have to be careful about how much I load, but since I'm not playing *that* many sounds (the highest I usually reach is a 13-part orchestra in Kontakt plus a couple other plugins), I'm short of maxing the CPU, and by being selective about what gets loaded into RAM, I'm fine there too.

My current phone doesn't let me use custom ringtones of any kind, only stuff you pay for through their online store. On my old phone though, I had a bunch of ringtones I made from songs I had; from OCR, I was using Blue Skies Over Guardia, Deliverance of the Heart, and Dragon Song.

If you'd have to redo the automation, wouldn't you also have to redo the audio or MIDI recording? Yes, you really should buy the software. I don't know how you're expecting to get far with the demo.

It's been years since I've looked at FL Studio, so I don't know the details, but you can certainly make a modulation envelope or automate modulation (or whatever term FL Studio uses) and change the modulation over time, so you could do that for specific notes, and I don't know of any DAW that forces you to have a hardware controller in order to create automation events. The only thing you couldn't do, naturally, is apply modulation to one note of a chord unless you split your MIDI track into several tracks and apply modulation on one track but not the other.

If you don't find them before I get home from work tonight, I can e-mail them to you; I've got them all and use them regularly. PM me your e-mail address.

Nice, congratulations! You should learn a ton there.

So not Toronto then, which was what I was getting at. Oh well, Vancouver is awesome. Just don't end up working for EA unless you don't mind not having a life.

Congrats, Brian!

What're you coming to Canada for?

Nevermind, I can't read. You said 'didn't just' instead of 'just didn't'.

People will buy each revision, yes, but there are enough people who would wait on buying the first release KNOWING that the second model is already in the works and knowing in some ways how it will be better. Something like that wouldn't tank the 3DS, by any means, but it certainly would have some impact on sales.

Not likely, why would any organization be stupid enough to announce the second version of their product before or shortly after the first hit the market? They'd lose a ton in sales.

It'd be AND (i.e. Reaper AND Play can only use 2GB) unless you're also running jBridge, in which case you'd have up to 2 GB for Reaper plus up to 2 GB for Play (not going over your total RAM limit, of course).

Are you sure there's not a problem with your discs? That might be what caused the freeze.

I enjoy playing in weird time signatures more, or even in 3/4 or 6/8. Taking a song in 3/4 and adapting it to 5/8 is always fun. One of my favourite is in 22/8, with weird groupings until you stop to count it out.

How much of that is due to your crappy internet connection?

Excellent, glad it worked! Sometimes it's just thinking in a different way that helps. I do similar things in Ableton Live in the project I use for my live keyboard rig to get the routing I want: I route my individual sounds so they're grouped into four main tracks - keyboards, organs, leads, and pads (with more routings for the instruments that I need to route through Guitar Rig to add effects) - and each of those outputs directly to one of the four outputs on my audio interface. I don't let anything get to Live's master track at all! For the second problem, what version of FL Studio are you using? Are you recording directly into FL or into Edison (embedded and integrated within FL?) I'm not an FL user, but Edison might show you the waveform and (hopefully) shouldn't be much more complicated to use. Looking at this, it looks like all you have to do is put Edison on a mixer track, record, and then hit Shift+C to export the audio to FL as an audio clip (and then presumably unload Edison to save memory).