Nabeel Ansari

Post your tracks on YouTube. Instant exposure to a wider audience. You might say "well I don't want all those people getting my songs for free". Think of it this way: some of them might buy your music after hearing it on YouTube. And the people that won't? They were never gonna buy your music anyway. You win some, you lose none. If you really don't wanna post all the tracks on there, make a big YouTube teaser with like 15 seconds of each track with artwork that has subliminal messages telling them to go buy the CD. Tell your friends to tell their friends. etc.

You had me at the first paragraph that prophetik should've forgiven you. And then you turned right back around and insulted him again.

I don't understand how MIDI keyboard = broken is the same thing as no more music. You have FL Studio, put that mouse to good use. Much faster, you don't have to wait 8 measures to write 8 measures. And you have a guitar. 3 if I remember correctly. So yeah, overreacting.

There's barely anything going on.

You are correct.

You can not use MIDI controls to select specific channels.

Why did you select Casio as your output? You should've left it alone. Make a new instrument track, select a sound you want, and then set "All MIDI inputs" to your USB keyboard.

Set "All MIDI Inputs" to your MIDI thing (USB uno or whatever it is) and the one under that should be whatever instrument you chose. In your case that's "Normal Piano".

I listened to about 5 or 6 songs that he showed me. And I didn't say it so harshly. Stop overthinking what I say and making problems out of nothing. I already talked to him (via PM if you didn't bother to read), and he's not crying over the situation, so neither should you.

Simmer down, there's only one guy in this thread who's being a guitar elitist. You could've just PMed him personally instead of posting a rant that's almost irrelevant to the topic at hand, because you're ranting about an issue that you brought up on your own. No one's bickering about guitars. And this thread hasn't existed for a month. It hasn't existed for 3 days.

What is this i don't even

Obviously I didn't just say that to him that way or I wouldn't have PMed him personally. But I'm not gonna make up some bullshit unicorn sweet nice reason to tell him I found someone better suited for the job. If I found someone better suited to the job, I'm going to tell him I found someone better suited to the job. It's called the truth, and there's no BS involved. O wait.

That box should have buttons. If it doesn't, close Cubase and try again. If it doesn't work, try reinstalling Cubase. There should be buttons there as said in that thread.

You only need one. Get the interface so you can do it on a laptop if you need too. As far as what interface you should get, I'm no expert but the soundcard thread in the guides forum here has good recommendations. Getting both is useless, you can only use one at a time in a DAW.

Because guitar is hard to simulate. Too many dynamics to program and record, too much effort to just dish out for free.

Guitar? Free? Ha! Ha! Hahaha! ... Ha. ... ... ha... *cricket chirp* That set aside you'll need to shell out a LOT of money for good guitar samples. Electri6ity is $400, but you need Kontakt 4, which is $400 more. Shreddage (+X) is $70 total (insanely good rhythm guitars that can fool almost everyone except the experienced guitarists themselves), but you need Kontakt 4, which is $400. Otherwise I've seen the Pettinhouse stuff in action and it's decent. Go with that. It won't be much but it's a start.

It's not secret-ish if you post it in a forum that everyone can see.

I trust your quality more than tshiefer's, so I'm going to tell him that I found someone who has some more experience.

He's not saying tough shit because this is the final battle.

It's not a secret game if you publicly post a thread about it and have it as your forum signature.

Not sure what country you're from, but Kontakt 4 is $400. It's not definitely NOT worth buying over Komplete. I have it standalone simply because it went on sale for $200 on Black Friday, which to me makes a little more sense. If you're ready to drop $400 on Kontakt, wait a little till you have $100 more, then grab Komplete. You get more than double the size of Kontakt's library in synths, samples, and effects for $100 more. That's 90 freaking gigabytes of sounds. Kontakt Player is a free download, and Tonehammer libraries don't work with it.

Big, popular Kontakt libraries have a lot of scripting inside of them. Look at Cinematic Strings, LA Scoring Strings, Electri6ity, Shreddage (+X). And there are musicians who program sample libraries. *cough*zircon*cough*

Like I said, MIDI is not sound, it's instructions. You can't just make a MIDI track and expect it to make sound. Why? Because you're sending the instructions to ACID, but you're not making ACID send them to a synth or sampler (to make sound). Make an INSTRUMENT track. A MIDI track is just an empty track to store MIDI data in, you usually use it when your sampler can take in multiple MIDI channels at the same time. Just ignore that for now and make an instrument track. When you do, you should be able to pick a sound that you want and then that sound will be used when you play on your keyboard. If you want the sounds that come out of your keyboard to go into ACID, you have to record the audio output of the keyboard (with a 1/4 inch stereo cable), not its MIDI output. Also, are you saying that when you play, you don't see any MIDI data appear (visually) in ACID either? Are you sure you set it up correctly? You might have to hit the record button that's on the track itself. Bear with me, because I only know how this works in Pro Tools and Cubase (and FL Studio, but FL is a different, easier system entirely).

Shreddage and the Shreddage X expansion are rhythm guitar libraries. You won't get as expressive leads as you would with Electri6ity, at least from what I've heard of Electri6ity. As far as I've seen getting a good sound is really easy in Shreddage. Just draw your notes and change velocities for mutes and that's all there is to it. I'll let Zircon take it from here if he's reading this forum, he can probably tell you more.

When you play back songs from your keyboard, you're not sending MIDI data to ACID. The keyboard is sending the MIDI data to its sound chip/card/bank and then that makes the sound. You can't play back the song on the keyboard and have it record MIDI into ACID, it doesn't work like that. When you record MIDI you hit the record button and you PERFORM (you play whatever you want to play) on your keyboard and then ACID writes down whatever notes you are physically playing with your hands.