Nabeel Ansari

You're missing the point, Redtails. You're treating the word "VST" as if it equals a synthesizer. No one uses synthesizers to replicate real instruments. There are very few people who try. You're stating the obvious to people who have been doing this for a long time. A VST is a plug in. It can either be a sampler or a synth. Alicia's Keys is a sample library for Kontakt. KONTAKT IS A VST.

Stop being an acoustic instrument elitist and stop posting offtopic babble in this thread.

EDIT: never mind, it never worked like that for me. Having just tested it, i can confirm that this works. Thanks for posting this, I was still using the old MIDI Out channel method until you came along. Was this a recent addition?

You know all sound in the world is sine waves, right? That's basic 8th grade science. Also, lol at last bit. Traktor is DJ software and reaktor is a synth factory (not so much a synth itself) As far as your beautiful comment, it's safe to say you haven't heard a lot of synth sounds (or played with one).

A decent choir package with custom syllables is like $400+.

Sample librares aren't pitch shifted, they actually record every note. And acoustic instrument VST's aren't usually generated. They use samples.

Yeah just the choir alone is basically $400 if you want customized syllables. You're not really asking for 1.5 hour projects here.

This game is crazy and fast paced. The combat is very on-the-edge-of-your-seat-whoever-shoots-faster-wins.

They didn't even develop their own programming language from binary to make their own OS so they could create their own MIDI standard and their own DAW for their own VST's. They didn't even program the frikkin envelopes.

Yet the problem lies where you don't gain any skills in writing your own music, just in manipulating (remixing) music. They're totally different things, and I write all my music from scratch because I want it to be my music. I want all the notes to be placed by my mouse and my mouse alone!

That's FL Studio auto save! Are you recording in "song" or "pattern" mode? Make sure it's song.

As zircon says, you're not really talking about samples. You're talking about what are referred to as loops (or in the arp scenario, presets). Samples refer to something different entirely, it actually just means virtual instruments (at least around here), which you use for the computer to perform your own compositions. As far as loops go, I try to stay away from them. However, when I come across a good drum loop with high quality drum sounds, I slice it up for the individual hits and make my own rhythms (unless it was a dance beat loop that had sounds I wanted for a dance beat, then there's really no need there to slice it up). So in short, if you really like a loop, but you feel guilty about creativity, then use audio slicing and manipulation to add your own twist to it. As far as real life quality audio without loops? That is completely false. Virtual instrument sample libraries can get you real life quality audio (with some effort) just as good as loops can.

I picked her as my second or third.

He doesn't NEED to make it louder. It's not inaudible, and it keeps the rhythm going. I would even go so far as too say that any louder and it'll be too loud. His kick is FINE. And you need to get an hearing exam. There is no sidechaining here.

Bad advice, house production doesn't apply to everything dude.

Read the first post, guys.

You answered your own question.

Really, dude? The least you could do is write whatever you actually do in FL other than just write "loops".

They need to be powers of two for an even one on one in the end. He needs to cut it off here unless 32 other people decide to join.

Hmm, not sure.

You don't have to compare it to anything to say they're not being inventive enough.

You have a lot of sub bass goin on here. I'm listening on headphones, but it sounds like I'm listening on a car stereo. I think the main problem is the kick drum, just some light compression and an EQ cut of the below 40 HZ should do the trick. Yeah I agree the sax fits but it's very fake sounding. It's mostly when you do the quicker notes, vary the velocities in those areas. The sax could also use some more reverb. If you don't like your sax, go to http://soundfonts.darkesword.com and pick the Tenor one on here. I think it would fit the soundscape better. It sounds to me like the pad is panned left, is that true? I don't suggest it, or at least not as much as it is now, put it a little more towards the center (maybe stereo separation would help) and boost the mid high frequencies (only a little bit, nothing too drastic). Do it BEFORE it gets reverb'd in your FX chain, though. xD Other than that, it's got a cool groove. Can't comment on arrangement yet, too early in the morning, but this is sounding good.

A necrobump is a thread bump that bumps a thread back from the dead. And 7200, not 7400.

Do you mean slice an audio clip and make the slice you want its own audio clip? Slice it, go into the clip menu and press Make Unique. Or open it in Edison and save it wherever.

fixed.