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Yeah my friend started with Ableton. Seeing as he's looking for other Daw I'm guessing I should stay away from it lol. FL huh? Everyone and their grandmother uses it, I remember before I started recording I looked at it and ran away lol.

I'm currently using mixcraft and it's satisfactory and what not, but on certain computers of mine it tends to lag and crash. I was wondering if there were other DAWs as simplistic or easy to write on, with a piano roll. Something like garage band or something at least forgiving to beginners...

Thanks for the feedback. I'm starting to find that I wanted thickness so I'm playing with EQ and chorus settings and starting to find something I like. In a somewhat related question I was wondering how I'd get . I know how to do it with a real electric, just no gain and a thin tone, but could I do the same with a sample and not muddle it up?

I'm still learning to mix, but I'm thinking that I'm just looking for thickness. I chorused a demo track and it was a bit closer to what I was looking for. I'm also finding that samples are a bit harder to mold.

I'm like turning up the bass to 11, lowing the treble.. I honestly have no idea what settings give a deeper sound

Are there any good virtual amps that provide guitars (sampled or real) with a really heavy tone. I'm using shreaddage and Guitar Rig but the tone's too thin for me. I'm going to try GR with a real guitar soon to see if I start to get the tone I want.

Yeah I noticed that by improving I've improved but I'm looking for more directed improvement. I'm starting by rewriting songs I've written but I'm gonna have to practice my musicianship again. It's been years lol. I'm finding electric intimidating considering that half the stuff electric guitarists do have no freaking musical notation. Also, I can only play one string at a time and can't alternate between strings. Guitar's the most annoying (but coolest) instrument I've attempted to learn

wow I loved this! I really love eastern music and you captured that dynamic so perfectly, from your voice to everything else! Amazing job!

I'm currently practicing my musician skip skills with one of the only instruments I can play. For any of you pianists, how did you overcome playing rhythm and melody simultaneously with both hands. I can play with both hands, I've been able to for years, but I could never play to distinct rhythms it my hands just don't work like that lol. Also, I'm finally thinking of picking up guitar. I specifically only like electric guitar though, but should I start with acoustic or it doesn't matter? My acoustic isn't tuned and I don't know how to tune it, that's part of the deter ant from trying acoustic

Oh! What kinda sax do you play? I played tenor in hs for a year, it was... fun The most imperative thing you should do is learn theory. And learn how to play piano. Not extremely well, but well enough that you can record tracks (which isn't too hard). Because you play sax, that's really good, certain instruments/instrument groups are really hard to emulate digitally, sax or hell any brass is one of them. You should later in the far future invest into a mic and a firewire, that way if you wanna play arrangements with a sax it'll be much easier. But for now, just focus on learning an instrument and some theory.

Thanks for the feedback everyone, I greatly appreciate that! I know in terms of composition I have a bit to work on. I think this work especially, because it was my first only centered around riffs, specifically the guitar's. Everything else came at random and admittedly was unnecessary or adds to the awkward nature of the song. In some ways it works, and in many like you all said, it's kinda hard to follow it. When I rewrote it, I mostly focused on timing and mixing, thinking that would improve the song. I honestly don't have much of an idea of how to "improve" the writing, but I think I'll let it stand as a sorta book end of my skill. It was my first composition, I was a bit overambitious (you can tell by the number of tracks), and it shows where I need to improve. To some extent I think I'm a better composer than when I wrote this, well at the every least I don't start writing solely based off riffs any longer. I'm basically going to take it slow now, and rather than starting on new music, I'm going to rerecord the music I've already made and hope to improve from it. Thanks again everyone.

I'm starting to think that it's just best to physically write down compositions and create a sheet music... well if I ever become truly commuted to the ideas in my head.

http://ffdistantworlds.com/index.php?option=com_eventlist&view=details&id=42fantasy Apparently this is a two night FF music concert in Los Angeles, featuring Nobuo Uematsu as a soloist. I think the site has all the full details on the program. Anyone thinking of going?

I love rvb, but I'm gonna hold of on watching till the season's over lol. Btw, the music from last season was awesome I had to get the album

I know the middle needs work, part of the problem is that I was only committed to re-recording it and not rewriting it. I think my compostion has improved in my later songs, I just need to re-record them all. But what parts particularly where peculiar

I posted this a few weeks ago, but after no feed back and some revisions I figured I should post it again. I was experimenting with orchestral vsts, but I have no idea what I was thinking when I first wrote this...

With regards to panning, in order to help make a convening performance is it absolutely necessary for one to conform to the positioning of instruments relative to the genre (ie: orchestral music's positioning chart, ect)? For that matter, are there recognized "standard" arrangements for other modern genres like rock, jazz, techno, ect. What determines were you pan instruments other than the standards of a genre?

I was reading the manuals and I couldn't figure out how to downtune shreaddage. Is there a specific patch I have to load or can the master patch downtune?

I know that I need to mix, and also edit the notes of each instrument, but I guess what I didn't get was that you could change the bit rate of the project. My Daw doesn't do that. It only changes bit rate during mixing I believe.

I was the hands clapping practically at the front of the stage, in the pit lol. But yeah that shout out was pretty legit, same for the fanfare that followed.

Kontact is $400? I got Komplete 6 for 349 I believe. I might have been inclined to pirate, however I don't think I have the heart. Also I don't feel like searching for a safe site to pirate from. luckily my dad has a studio and buys equipment so I piggy back off of him lol

I definitely hear every track in my head, at least the first 30 seconds, before I go about recording. My problem is more specifically when I begin to record, I start to loose my initial vision. I still retain the gist of what I initially heard though. Personally I kinda enjoy not adhering to a strict structure as experimentation and serendipity tend to result in interesting results. Admittedly that does show in my work, lol. But I'm a beginner so I'm not going to be too harsh on myself.

I just got my tickets... I wasn't going to go but somehow I've suddenly convinced my dad to go with me lol

I'm aware that I need to mix and humanize, but for some reason my dad was saying that in pro tools, premixing the depth of the library sounded better, idk I have to ask him again

I think the latter. My father pointed out that the sound simply sounded "16 bit" and that his Daw, pro tools, allows you to record at multiple bit depths. He was talking specifically about this recording: I think he was specifically refering to the saxophone. I'm aware that it needs to be mixed but he pointed out to me that even without mixing the quality of kontakt's samples should sound better. Which some of them do I think. However the trumpets, saxes, and strings are the only samples that are really hard to make sound decent for some reason or other.