SnappleMan

No offense, but stick to things you can actually play.

hahaha, I wish Although, Goemon's Great Adventure has the better soundtrack (and MUCH better game to go with it). I'm doing all the main castle themes and a few stage/boss themes from that.

Alright, I can rip it from one of my games. Just let me get the proper tools. (Either that or ask my lady if she has the soundtrack somewhere and beg her to let me rip it)

Hahaha, dude, you don't know what you're talking about. The ONLY thing ProTools HD has going for it is processing power. Audio and midi editing are both much better on Cubase, Sonar and Logic. I've worked on feature films, and I am in regular contact with people in the film and video game industry, they almost all use Nuendo or Sonar. Unlike you, I speak from experience.

You're wrong. Protools has been severely outmatched in every aspect of music creation. Sonar and Cubase are both more powerful, easier to use, and easier to integrate, which is why they're becoming the new standard. (Almost every professional I talk to uses Sonar or Cubase/Nuendo). The only reason people still use protools is because they spent $500,000 on the entire system 15 years ago.

DSP power is even more important these days because audio processing is getting some serious upgrades. Most of the best sounding plugins are DSP only, and a well designed PTHD system is nearly limitless in terms of processing power. BUT! Keep in mind that DSP processing is not exclusive to ProTools. While their HD systems are insanely powerful and capable, they can be matched by Cubase and Sonar in comparable DSP environments.

Man, kyle, you gotta stop extending this shit. People will take advantage of you if you don't man up!

What matters more is how you play it. But, DiMarzio SD is a good pickup, so is the Seymour Duncan JB. If you're planning on doing lots of diving, you'll want a Floyd Rose bridge and a locking nut, if it fits your guitar.

For all my life I used mic, but Firefox spell check keeps underlining it

The higher quality the mike (yeah, I looked it up, the official abbreviation is "mike" not "mic" ), the better, but you can use sm57s, just make sure you know how to set them up properly. When recording non-mono audio, you have to be very careful of phase problems between the two or more mikes. Just make sure that the mikes are not pointing at one another, and it SHOULD help a bit. But, getting into the actual recording of the piano, you really need to do a little bit of homework. You can get a great recording with just ONE mic, just make sure it's a good one and you place is where the piano sounds best. To know where it sounds best, you gotta think logically about how a piano "amplifies" itself (PROTIP: It's the LID). The piano is meant to be listened to with you sitting perpendicular to the opening of the lid, so you place the mike there. BUT, make sure you don't place it too low or too high, pianos are notorious for drowning out recordings in overtones. Usually, I point the mike at half the angle of the opened lid, so if the lid opens at 45 degrees (I think that's standard), point the mike towards the opening at 22 degrees. Once you get that set up, you can start adding more mikes. Try using 2 of them in the player position, one pointing straight down towards the lowest register, one straight down towards the highest register. Or if you have a good condenser mike, place it right in the center of the keyboard. You can also mike the inside of the piano, just point a mike at the strings, you can experiment at varying lengths. The other big part of the sound is the room you're recording in. I'm not going into what makes a good piano room, but basically make sure it sounds good in the room. I don't think you should try getting into miking up rooms yet, that's a whole new animal in itself. You'll get a good amount of room sound into the normal mikes anyway, so yeah.

Everything we do at OCR involves us having to recompose a song. Simply remixing (as in, getting the original raw audio and making a new mix out of it) is NOT allowed here. And on top of that, there's no such thing as dedicated "remixing" software, all music software is primarily for composition. Cluestick sounds like a fantastic idea Though in cases like this it will only shove his head further up his own ass.

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Don't listen to Yoozer, he's just bitter because he can't afford the auto-remixing program the rest of us use. It's called CTB PE (Cinnamon Toast Beats Producer Edition). There's no current way to crack it, so the only way to get it is to pay the $2000 pricetag for it. It lets you import WAVs and MP3s and, converts them to MIDI (still a bit glitchy) and then you arranges the song based on the automatic genre detection algorithm. So I just import a WAV or midi from www.vgmusic.com and pick the "ROCK/HEAVY METAL" preset. Works great.

Unfortunately.

Warning!!!

I'm so glad I use Cubase... Why not just buy yourself Cubase 4 and start cranking out the hits?

I wouldn't say more click, just tone down the extremes of your EQ, the rest of the mix SHOULD fall into place.

Bass drum is too loud, WAYY too loud. You've destroyed it. Ughh Turn that shit down. But before you do that, why not reduce your 400dB gain at 80hz and see how it sits??

Your style of music doesn't really matter, you need whatever will give you the most flexibility and the most room to grow. With FL Studio, you're limited because it's very dependent on loops, Ableton is great, but it's tailored more towards users who use their computers as an instrument on stage. Logic is the best of your options, while it's not as easy to create loops like in FL (it's easy, just different) and will not work for real time arranging like Ableton, it excels in every other aspect of music creation.

I love this.......

YES!! Dwelling Of Duels is the number 1 way to improve as a musician in this scene.The quality of work has improved so much since it started,and the comfortable, friend atmosphere is exactly what people need to look at themselves and their music critically without getting upset or discouraged. I love DoD, because of it I made some real, longterm friends, improved my music a great deal, and it's so insanely fun!

<3...<3...<3

Sorry to burst your bubble, bro, but it when I try to load EWQLSO into Kontakt 2 (legit, if you're wondering) I get "THIS LIBRARY IS PROTECTED FAGGOT LOL!"

Kompakt has some great features but nothing I'd want to use unless I was forced (like in the case of anything that comes bundled with it). You can't use the samples with anything else, they're packed in .lib files which you can't use with anything but that version of kompakt. So even getting full version Kontakt wont let you use your EWQLSO samples with it. The EWQLSO expansions require the original version to run.

EWQLSO Silver is a basic necessity at this point. It's very well articulated for the price, and contains some really good strings. When you learn it well enough that you can notice all the limitations, is when you should upgrade to Gold.