Moseph

Grad school? Production library music?

A VST is software. What he meant by "lightweight" was that the Synth 1 VST doesn't use a lot of system resources to run, so his friend can run it on a laptop while gigging. Yes, the sequencer is built into the DAW. Pro Tools' sequencer isn't the most convenient to use, but it will get the job done. There are two types of VSTs: effects plugins and instruments. It looks like you've maybe been looking at the effects, which are generally accessible from the channel strips in the mixing console view (I don't remember specifically how things are accessed in Pro Tools). The instruments, if you have them, might be accessed by something like an insert instrument command in one of the file menus.(Just a technical note: A plugin is an effect or instrument that the DAW can access. A VST is a specific plugin format that many DAWs are able to access. Technically speaking, Pro Tools doesn't use VSTs; it uses a format called RTAS for its plugins, but I think you can get bridges that let you use the VST format in Pro Tools, and it doesn't really matter much anyway, since most plugins are available in multiple formats.)

Also, both FL Studio and Sonar are Windows only, if that makes any difference.

fraheedayee fraheedayee gotta get down on fraheedayee I count four syllables ...

To elaborate on my above post, the reason the multiband compressor worked in my particular case was that I wanted the frequencies in question to be present fairly consistently, but sometimes they weren't present enough and sometimes they were too present. Regular EQ couldn't fix this because the problem was the level of the frequencies relative to themselves over time and not the level of the frequencies relative to the other frequencies. Regular compression also wouldn't work because it would mess with frequencies that weren't problematic.

I just slapped a multiband compressor on my clarinet and fixed its overpowering muddiness in the sub-400hz range. True story.

The reason being ... ?

It isn't in a thread specifically for general mix help, but I did take one of GarretGraves's tracks and mix it with commentary, which is I think the sort of thing you're interested in seeing. Read the entire thread if you're interested in the context. There's also this thread, which never really saw much action.

My family has never shared save files. I think you can get diseases doing that. Usually what would happen would be my brother and I would both start playing different files at the same time, and the one of us who was most interested in the particular game would go on to finish it while the other got bored, stopped playing his own file, and just watched.

Melodyne Editor can do polyphonic stuff, assuming the original sounds are pitched. It's a few hundred bucks, though.

The rhythm is swung, if that's any help. If you aren't familiar with transcribing swung eighth and sixteenth notes, it may be easier if you write in 12/8 instead of 4/4.

I struggled back in the day with just getting 120 cards on normal. Some of those bomb-bouncing puzzles can be tedious. There's no way I could do it all in three hours.

Nope. I don't want to play this game. ... I must not be drunk enough. Does it come with beer coupons?

How much does your friend want to spend, exactly, and what sort of things will he be doing with the system? I ask, because you could shave at least $500 dollars off of that system and still have a good machine for most music purposes. EDIT: Didn't see that you had $300 in monitors on there, so maybe not $500. The possibilities I was talking about specifically were that you could go with an i7 8xx chip which would let you buy a cheaper motherboard, you could cut the RAM from 12 to 8 GB, you could replace the SSD with a regular disk drive (actually, I'd do this regardless because 80 GB is really too small to be your only sample drive), and you could replace the video card with a bargain-basement model. Dual monitors is a good idea, though. Don't forget the power supply, the case, the DVD drive, and (if needed) the operating system and soundcard/audio interface.

I've been using the drive you ordered (Hitachi Deskstar, I assume) since August and haven't had any problems with it. I just bought another of the same to use as a sample drive so I can use my external drive for backup.

Did you submit it before or after Jan. 1st? It takes a while for them to get to stuff. (For an example wait time, I subbed something early December and it was moved out of the inbox and into the to-be-judged queue maybe a week or so ago.)

If they were ported to the Pico, I'd do a ReMix

So what we're saying is that Guitar Hero was found in its hotel room dead from an overdose.

Don't sink more time into it than you have to. At this point, you've done what's been asked of you, and the completion of the game is entirely out of your hands. Hold off on doing anything more until you know it needs to be done.

When I used Pro Tools five-ish years ago, the MIDI editing issues were things like no dedicated piano roll view (in-track editing only), a lack of ways to filter MIDI data while editing, awkward editing tools, and so forth. I don't know if the MIDI editing has been improved since then or not, but at the time Pro Tools would have been pretty painful (for me, at least) to do complicated MIDI projects with.

Shouldn't the FruityLoops sub-forum be renamed FL Studio since that's now the official name of the software?

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I used to run VSL SE on a laptop from a Firewire drive, and it worked okay. I tended to hit bottlenecks on RAM (I had 2 GB) about the same time I ran into drive bandwidth problems. I can't think of any reason a drive enclosure would be better than a standard external drive.