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The ARG segment that requires all games is over, no use whining about it anymore. The whole thing has been uncovered now. You can play one or two of the games to contribute CPU, because that is the current phase of the ARG. If you want to contribute to an earlier release date, then buy Rush for $2.50, run it, and then let it sit in the background (or, you know, PLAY IT. It's a great game.) Or really any other games in there you might fancy. Your business is appreciated.

You don't have to buy the whole effing pack. Do some research before whining.

You know in 4 days or less you won't give the slightest damn about it, right?

Too bad CPU speed isn't directly related to GLaDOS@Home contributions. We could all get Sandy Bridge CPU's and overclock the hell out of them to jump start GLaDOS.

I kinda was being unserious, and you don't get to dictate what I'm thinking. To get back on the actual topic, no, making your synths from the ground up doesn't make you a superior synth designer, however, IBBIAZ's synths are better than "bad presets", so he is a superior synth designer (I'm talkin about him and him only )

I'll do it. If you define sarcasm as not really caring about actually being truthful, then yes, I was being sarcastic.

In Rozovian's defense, I was not entirely being serious either. I told you this also, but you chose to ignore it. You've made an ass out of yourself. Y = logtroll Judge^x

Wii 2 will be better than Xbox 360 and PS3. And then Xbox 720 and PS4 will come immediately after, blowing Nintendo out of the water in horsepower (again).

Way overstated, but yeah, percussion can add to any kind of mood.

Kontakt default doesn't have all of the patches in Kontakt Sax & Brass. Also, you need to learn how to humanize them, because they're very workable patches.

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I don't think anyone does, tbh. It's a waste of time. I DO however name the track they're in, right click track and hit "auto name children". If I have a drums track, this will name all of the unique patterns, as they appear in order, "Drums #1", "Drums #2", etc. When I right click the pattern selector number view (the tiny window next to the record button), it'll list all of my patterns by name, letting me choose the one I want, and even more useful, differentiate between patterns of different tracks/instruments.

Get Kontakt Sax & Brass. It has great patches (and a wide variety of instrument/room/ensemble set ups), although it has a bit of a learning curve. It works in the free Kore Player. If $60 isn't the down the "cheap" alley for you, then I honestly would suggest waiting and saving up for it rather than getting some other cheap brass thing and then regretting it down the line.

I read it as he's superior in synth design to people who can't use anything but presets. Which makes absolutely perfect sense. If he can do it, and they can't, he's superior in that ability. Whether or not his actual sounds are good is irrelevant, he is "superior" because he knows how to do things from the ground up.

I think you're missing the point. fixed.

I usually slice'n'splice drum loops.

Channel -> Add One is a dropdown menu, dude. Nutritious is talking about the project picker. Unless you're talking about Plug-In picker, which is EXTREMELY useful to me. I just press a MIDI button on my interface and all of the plug ins pop up, and I can just look for the one I want by image all in the same screen rather than by name in a list.

It depends what presets. If you mean presets of a synth that's more than a few years old, it sounds really aged, simple, and uninteresting. The people who get jumped on for using presets are simply so because they used bad presets, and are lectured on using presets simply because it's a recognizable and popular sound.

Double click behavior is new. Also, you're being unclear? To select a pattern in the playlist, double click on it (will send you right to the piano roll). To select a pattern not in the playlist, use the pattern number at the top. Keep the step sequencer open to see so you can fly through them to get to the one you want.

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Ghost notes have been in there way before 9 Also, if you don't like pattern selection, reenable pattern blocks and use that to select your patterns.

It would be better than integrated audio, but without a need for dedicated recording inputs, it's just a waste of money. The performance boost is barely noticeable as far as playback goes (going from a laptop to an interface has raised my ability to handle things by about 1%). Only get a sound card if you want to master things in 7.1/5.1 (and your mobo doesn't have integrated 7.1/5.1)

If you need a recording input for an XLR or Line In mic (not a USB), get a recording interface/sound card. Actually, I'm pretty sure a little converter box would do the trick, no need for a sound card. As for "clean output", I'm pretty sure any motherboard integrated audio is fine. I'll never heard of computer noise being heard in sound output (otherwise all laptops would pretty much have terrible sound systems), only interfering with an input. If you don't need recording inputs at all, then a sound card will be useless. Its drivers might be more efficient, but if it's a question of computer power, you could sink the money into a better processor instead.

If you need recording inputs, get a sound card. If you don't, then don't.

There's nothing more or less efficient than MIDI Keyboard input. It's really just what you're used to. I can't play keyboard, and as a result of making music for 5 years, I've gotten really fast drawing things in by mouse. Quantization is more for making sure your notes don't sound sloppily performed (takes your notes and aligns them to a grid to make the timing not n00bish). It doesn't really have much to do with time signature, but I can say that if you don't know much about time signature or rhythm, that's a very bad thing you need to fix. It's very important to the structural integrity of your music. So google away, the internet has valuable music theory guides.