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You can't call software intellectual material unless you're talking about the source code. We're not talking about source code, we're talking about the FULL-COMPILED PRODUCTS that people are stealing. You are not "paying homage" to Cubase by using it illegally. No one can tell you make a song with a certain DAW. All you're doing is stealing and using something that doesn't belong to you for your own self benefit. Seriously guys, why are you lumping music and software together? Software isn't intellectual property. It's as tangible a product as a car. Music is not, at least in your example, Wiesty.

Is the novelty of a hardware synth worth the price? (It's a serious question, I'm more posing it to Zircon)

Why do you need 100MB mp3's? Are these 45 minute 320kbps full orchestration medleys or something?

Instead of doing that via the mixer track, try the playlist. Disable all the patterns/tracks you don't want and then just export a selected section in song mode via Ctrl+R. If I'm being unclear I can show you on skype.

To answer your first question, either click the arrow and select "none" from the list. Or, to never have to deal with it again, start a new project with the "Empty" or "Basic" template. However, to answer you second question: What a limiter does is take any frequencies above a threshold and push them down (i.e. a compressor). When your instruments are interfering with each other like that, it's not the limiter's fault. It's the fault of your composition technique. I say this as specifically your composition technique because you are using simple sounds. You need to learn how to write full music with instruments that have their own space. Two instruments should never be occupying the same frequency range. If they do that, they'll be fighting for the range. In some cases it means the loudness goes above your limiter's threshold, which causes it to just push the offending stuff down. (overcompression on the offending instruments) If a limiter is the problem, your mix is too loud or some specific instruments are too loud. Removing the limiter in this situation will cause distortion/clipping and make your music sound even worse.

We're not talking about music. We're talking about software.

There isn't enough manpower to check every single artist and get in contact with the company owners of all of his/her plug-in uses. Sure it'll catch up eventually and only have to check new artists, but do we really want to have digital distribution sites turn into the OCR judge queue multiplied on a scale of ten thousand? That requires an immense amount of patience and communication.

The sign up period is over. Sorry. :/ But yes, it is fun. It also causes a lot of stress when your opponent's remix is about on par with yours. By next year (early next year or late this year) another competition will be started (I think for mavericks from Megaman X series like last time).

Rewards for customers will not reduce piracy. It will give pirates one more thing to pirate. Example: Give a free plugin to your customer of another plugin. A pirate who has the cracked version of the product will not go "Oh hey look if I buy this product I can get a free plug in!" He will just download a cracked version of the free plugin. What about giving physical things to your customers? The money spent on manufacturing the physical stuff will balance with the money gained from the alleged "reduction" in piracy, if not cause MORE money loss. No. He's saying piracy hurts larger groups than it does a single person. Larger groups need more money. Also, software is more expensive than music. When you're losing that much more money, it becomes a tiny bit of a problem. (sarcasm)

There is no such thing as "security" on the internet. If you want to stop pirating, you make it un-piratable. How? Take it off the internet for good. Even then, others will upload it. So never put anything on the internet. One person and one computer can break anything.

I think you just use the lower keys.

Rozovian, you should've known that this discussion was bound to end up like this. Piracy is not what you would call a trivial issue. This OP question justifies mostly all of Dan's posting.

This is a debate, not a petition. It's part of the discussion to give an answer to "why not pirate?".

What is the name of your soundcard? Google how it performs with ASIO4ALL, see if anyone else has the problem.

I disagree. People pirate because they want to keep their money. That is the main reason.

What ASIO driver are you using? I mean specifically what do you select from the dropdown menu? It might be a soundcard issue.

I think this is a lot harder than saying it, though... :/ I'm not sure, I never tried to get one before.

External hard drives are crap. Go internal if you want sample streaming. FL Studio runs all the VST's I've tried from NI. I.E., that's Guitar Rig 4 Pro, Kontakt 4, Battery 3, and Reaktor. They run fine, and if they're built anything like the other VST's in the Komplete VST/Sample bundle, then you should be good.

You can't say "I can pirate because it's just a hobby." Just like you can't pirate video games because it's "just a hobby" and you can't pirate video/image editing software because it's "just a hobby". These things are made and sold to all people, NOT JUST PROFESSIONALS. If only professionals were to buy things, music software would be so much more damn expensive. Being a hobbyist doesn't give you the right to steal things you want. That's selfish. If you can't afford it, then tough luck. I can't afford East West Quantum Leap Composer's Collection, so now it's suddenly okay for me to just steal it? I don't sell my music, so it's okay and legal, right? Also, you are misreading my argument. I'm not saying it's not a hobby anymore, I'm saying it's not "just a hobby" anymore. Meaning it's no longer something that you can pirate just because you don't really care much for it. I apologize for this, it's the fault of my word choice.

And why is it incorrect, you tell me.

ALL DAW'S WORK MORE OR LESS THE SAME. The similarities between Cubase/Pro Tools and REAPER are astoundingly immeasurable. By the time you can use REAPER properly, the "not spending money on a meager hobby" no longer applies, because you've invested too much time into it to say that you're allowed to pirate a DAW because you're not "that interested". Same goes with most synths and samplers. My argument is a response to "I can pirate because it's just a hobby."

http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=34901

Started my track (finally) It's going to be pendulum style drums chill atmospheric DnB with occasional glitching. Good stuff. EDIT: Not really good stuff, I don't expect to win. My entry's a disappointment, and I can't make it better because I have writer's block. I needed to talk to other people for ideas, and only then did I start to get it rolling a little. Don't expect much from me this round. I think I might be out for good.

Yes. You don't have any reason to pirate something like Cubase if you can't even use free software like REAPER. By the time you develop the kind of skill where you need Cubase over REAPER, you'll have invested enough time into your hobby to justify spending money on it. However, if you DIDN'T invest the time to master free stuff like REAPER, then you don't need something like Cubase and don't need to pirate it.

It's not irrelevant at all. If you pirate your software you're more likely to be someone who doesn't know how to use it. Therefore, you have no need for it and should stop pirating it.