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Ahh, brilliant. I was going to say that I had already tried turning down the vol all the way on the track in the mixer that is recording, but that doesn't work because then that track doesn't record. But I thought before I complain that this suggestion doesn't work, I should try out the other things you said. So I searched FL's help to see how I could route the track another way, and found this helpful piece of advice: If it is necessary to prevent audio reaching your speakers, deselect the send to Master. This works perfectly, I don't hear the processed audio, but I can still hear what I am singing/playing into the mic using the direct input as Jimmy described in his post. Thank you Kanthos! So I believe that solves one of my 2 major issues with recording in FL! Now if I could get the waveform to display as it's recording, I would be a very happy person.

Huh I thought me + Palp posted in this thread a while ago, but I guess not. May we be added to the "Too lazy/Might as well be" category?

Just wanted to say thanks for your reply, you've given me plenty of things to try out and experiment with

Thanks for all the replies, they are interesting and helpful. Jimmy, after reading your post, I realized something about our recording in FL Studio vs. Cubase. When recording in either program, I always use a mix of direct input and computer playback, such that I can hear the backing track from the computer, but also directly hear what I am singing or playing. I think this is what is going on: When recording in Cubase, I only hear the direct input from the microphone plus whatever tracks are in Cubase. However, in FL, I hear microphone input plus existing tracks PLUS the new track that FL is creating from the microphone input, played back again through the software. (I hope that made sense, it was hard for me to explain that.) That new track is what I hear at a delay from everything else. Plus the sound is very jarring, to me it doesn't sound the same as direct microphone input, and I think that even if it was not at a delay it would throw me off because it sounds unnatural, though I could be wrong and maybe it would sound fine if it was synced up properly. But basically what I am trying to say is if there is a way to turn off playback of the track that is being created, I think that would help a lot. Another thing that bothers me about FL's recording interface is that it doesn't show the waveform as it's being recorded. So you don't necessarily know until you've finished your take whether it actually recorded anything or not. x_x However, maybe there is a setting to turn that on that I don't know about. If so, and if the above problem could be fixed, I think that would make FL's recording interface a lot more usable for me. Our sound interface is the Lexicon Omega.

Happy Bir-- I mean, what? Congratulations David and Anna!!! So happy for you!

Can anyone explain how to make a "whoosh" sound like they do in trance, or point me to a good tutorial on it? Here is a crappy whoosh sound I put together using white noise, and Fruity Phaser where I automated the min. depth and max. depth to get the frequency to rise. (The whoosh is at the end.) But honestly I don't really understand how the phaser works, so I would have a hard time tweaking with it and getting a specific sound out of it. And anyway, I figure there are probably different ways and different kinds of whoosh, so I'd be interested to hear how others do it.

So currently, Palpable's/my system for making songs with live tracks in them is to sequence everything in FL Studio, export a track to put into Cubase, where we record the live tracks, then export them and import them back into FL Studio where we finish the song. I was wondering if this is normal, like do other people do this? Or is this just insanely and needlessly tedious? We don't use Cubase for sequencing because we have a very light version that came with our sound interface. We don't use FL Studio for recording partly because there are major latency issues such that when I sing or play into the microphone, I hear it back in the headphones with a noticeable delay. And partly because I totally hate the interface for recording in FL Studio and find it completely counterintuitive, so I haven't bothered to play around and see if I could fix the latency. (Before anyone explains how to record in FL Studio, we know how to do it and I still do so for like one hour compo and stuff, but I find it a pain and have much more problems with it than doing so in like Cubase or even Garageband.) We have been considering exploring our options with other DAWS such as Reaper or Sonar or just getting the full version of Cubase. But I wanted to know if others deal with the same issues even in other programs, like the latency might be the result of having so many tracks and effects in a song, and the reason why Cubase doesn't have latency issues for us is because it is only playing back one bounced track? Or maybe there are other good reasons why you would want to record in a separate program?

So no re-rolls this time, huh? This was a lot of fun last time around. I'll probably sign up again. I have no idea what source to request, though. But I will come up with something good.

Happy birthday Cyril!! Glad you are rocking out and partying today!

Happy birthday Rama!!

The piano playing and singing are interesting, but I think I'm most surprised by the lyrical content. She goes from writing this sensitive poetic ballad to: "Rah-rah-ah-ah-ah! Roma-Roma-ma-ah! Ga-ga-ooh-la-la!" tee hee

Palpable and I saw Phoenix on Monday, they were amazing! And somehow today he scored us tickets to see Ben Folds/Weezer on Friday. Sooo excited about Weezer

Thanks again for having us on OCAD! This was a lot of fun. Listening through the podcast again, I am pleased to find that I sound slightly less awkwand and idiotic than I'd thought. Don't get caught up in the Brushfire!!

"Music industry" is a bit of a broad term. I give private lessons in playing instruments, I'm also in a band with an album, and I've also done solo acoustic live performances. I'd be happy to elaborate on any of these things, but let me know which (if any) you want to hear about, as I'm not sure any of these are necessarily your idea of what you want to do in the music industry .)

Awesome. Awesome!!! I think that would be a really fun event that a lot of people would be interested in going to. I'd love a live viewing party Ahh such a good idea. I'll have to do this soon. With all this time to work on the video, I'm tempted to do something more elaborate involving costume and set designs and stuff. And having actual people appear in the video, maybe even have them acting!

17 was the highest I could hear, and I heard it just faintly. Did not crank the volume. I'm 28.

Nice song pick by Pandora, too. Breathing you in is awesome .D

I agree that four months gives us more time to promote the MVC and get more participants. I also agree that there is something to be said for the challenge of having a short deadline to work with. But I guess as long as we intend to continue having the MVCs, people can really start working on music videos whenever since there isn't a theme or anything. So for instance Biznut could have announced that the challenge will be from the end of June to the end of August, but I feel like that would have been functionally the same. Except I guess we would be on the honor system not to start working on our videos, but then would there be any benefit to putting off when we can start? I feel like that would just crush people's momentum if they are already coming up with ideas and having the inspiration to work on them now. Anyway, just my thoughts. I don't know what the best solution is.

Huh. Try this link:

The only solid idea for a video I have is for a remix I have submitted that hasn't even been judged yet... so basically, I have intent, but absolutely no ideas. I will think about it though. I want to do something completely different from my last video. Thanks Biznut for organizing this again!! The last one was a blast, and I have a feeling we're going to have even more entries and awesomeness this time around. Yay!

Bump! I made my donation last night

I'm not a big roller coaster fan but I <3 OCR meetups. So I'm definitely interested in going, but... does anybody wanna not ride roller coasters with me? ;

I spent another hour today fleshing out my compo from last night: http://diotrans.com/sound/mannequin%20-%20edit.mp3 Added much-needed bass and auto-tune, and worked on the production. Debating whether to flesh this out and put it on a future album or something. Because the world needs more pop songs about mannequins.

Happy birthday!!

Double-post with more t-shirt remix: