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And it won't be the last. *knows something that everyone can probably guess*

Just a note about that interface that prophetik linked. It feels absolutely flimsy, I used it at my school a year ago for a Music Production. The chassis feels like hollow plastic. I wouldn't be surprised if that thing shatters if it accidentally falls to the floor. If you must get that one, keep it in a safe location, away from places where it could get knocked to the ground. A few higher ups here like PrototypeRaptor recommend this http://www.mackie.com/products/onyxblackjack/ Not only does it have a unique angled designed but that thing looks real sturdy. Like, REALLY sturdy. Metal and all that. It has more input options as well.

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Yes, but don't get that one. It doesn't have the same kind of input jack that guitars use. Absolutely not. I've gotten a good high gain metal tone by putting a software amp through another one.

An interface is an external sound card either by firewire or USB. A mixer is just a hub for audio signals through 1/4 or 1/8 jacks. Some have neutrik connector inputs. You want an interface because that will double as your sound card so the audio processing will be done in the interface instead of your motherboard. Interfaces also have pre amps, so when you try to record your guitar your computer won't play it as super SUPER le quiet.

Or you could just get an interface and what the hell why are you talking about MIDI?

If you have a real good amp, don't use software. Mic your amp. (if it's a good one I mean) Otherwise, yes, plug directly into your computer. Don't get a mixer, get an audio interface with good pre amps. I can only vouch for the Audio Kontrol 1 but it is discontinued.

I can't wait to not see you guys!

Very impressive, I like your guitar tone.

I don't see how that matters.

There are good sampled guitars creeping into the market as of last year. Electri6ity and Shreddage are both wonderful sounding tools that fool all but none other than guitar professionals themselves. (Some guitar pros were fooled by Shreddage, I read in a review)

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Why are you outputting the song through your keyboard? EDIT: What I mean is if you wanna record the sounds that come out of your keyboard you have to plug the "Line Out" on your keyboard into your computer (1/4 or use a 1/8 like your headphones) and then recording the audio output of your keyboard. You can't get the sounds from your keyboard into your computer by MIDI data, because MIDI doesn't transfer audio, only bits and bytes of data. You should use the sounds that Cubase has (instead of setting the output to your keyboard, set it to HALion or something). Your keyboard sound chip is totally separate from the one in your computer, and Cubase doesn't hear your keyboard sounds.

There are hundreds of games after '94 that are on buttons...

If Kanthos's explanation is too hard to grasp (I think he made it a little complicated) then just think of it like this. MIDI is sheet music for computers. MIDI tracks are paper, and recording MIDI is writing music notation on the paper. Instrument tracks are both the paper and the performer that is going to read it to make real sound out of what it reads. A plug in is the performer. You can either put a plug in on an instrument track to be the performer for that paper or you can have it get stuff from MIDI tracks. The reason you would have multiple MIDI tracks is because samplers like Kontakt can get 16 different channels of MIDI data simultaneously. In other words, it has 16 performers ready to read 16 pieces of paper (MIDI track). You would have Kontakt or another sampler open as a VST and then open 16 MIDI tracks. The MIDI tracks by themselves are just the paper, but each instrument in Kontakt that is assigned to a channel number reads the paper and makes sound. However, since you are just starting out, you won't really make much use of this information anyway. Just do instrument tracks for now, which are the paper and the performer all in one to keep it simple.

Good stuff, can't wait to use this in my new project. Friends are making a small game.

What a story, Marc!

That's a rock and roll cap.

What the fruck is a guitar cap?

I had a great time during Otakon. Played lots of WoW at home when the whole thing went down. It's like I never even went to Otakon.

To me it sounds like you're adding filters and EQ to enhance the sound of EVERYTHING, which is not really what you're supposed to do. You use EQ to cut back frequencies when a specific range is too loud or conflicting with another instrument. For instance, synth A has mainly mid high frequencies while a synth pad B has lots of mid lows AND mid highs. If you played them together they would conflict because they're both fighting for the same range. If you used an EQ or filter to cut the mid highs (but not all the way, you still want some room to breathe) on synth pad B, you give synth A more room to cut through the mix. That's the basic theory behind EQ for mixing. For mastering, if the mix generally is biased towards mid to highs, you can boost the bass, within reason so it still sounds balanced. Yes I used synthesizers in my example, but this generally goes for anything especially if you're doing orchestral with instruments from different sources. Like they said above, stuff from the same library go fine together, but stuff from different sources don't.

Why not IRC?

If she's the one directing it then she has the final say. That's why she's called the DIRECTOR.HERPDERP

I have tried the Casio PX-130 at Best Buy and it is fantastic. I'm no pianist but it didn't feel fake to me at all.

Or you could, you know, start asking people for feedback again so they can help you fix what you can't hear.