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    New software allows you to change individual notes in a chord

    in Music Composition & Production

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    There should be a rule against people posting huge blocks of pasted text which they found on some random website and they don't have a clue what it means. Bluefox, I'm talking to you.

    Anyway, this is cool stuff. I look forward to trying it out. Not sure if it would be worth it for transcribing as much as changing existing recordings I've made and finally using some interesting loop and phrase libraries.

    Tube preamps...?

    in Music Composition & Production

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    These days all mic preamps are built to support both, guitars and mics. I used a tube preamp for some time, and I really liked it.

    Going 12AX7->12AX7->EL84 will not sound like you're hoping it would. They're not part of the same circuit, and so they work independently, what you want is to mod the amp for another 12AX7 tube, then they work in series or parallel and they thicken up the sound. Adding the preamp will only give you a gain boost.

    SSB Brawl Main Theme WIP - orchestral breaks/big beat

    in Post Your Game ReMixes!

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    I think you people are blinded by the OMG BRAWL OMGGOMGOMGOMGOMGOGM

    The fake guitar gives away any illusion of a performance. The orchestral samples are too slow on the attack and they sound very out of place with the beat because they're mixed very poorly. The beat itself is decent but too repetitive and doesn't go anywhere. The concert bass drum at the end sounds even more out of place in this. The bass is good, I like the bass.

    Overall this sounds very disjointed and awkward. It's too early to judge the quality of your arrangement (so far it's pretty boring and depressing sounding) but I say keep working on this and it should turn into a good song.

    Pirated software

    in Music Composition & Production

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    This is the worst and most common argument I see in amateur communities. If the software companies were only making their products for professionals...

    • There would be few software solutions available
    • They would be prohibitively expensive
    • They would be very difficult to use

    The very reason there is such a variety of music producing software that is inexpensive and easy to use is because of hobbyists like us. We're their main customers; their bread and butter.

    That's why they provide educational licenses and stripped-down cheaper versions of products: so you can learn.

    That's because you're a philosophically-bankrupt adolescent who is trying (and failing) to rationalize your anti-social behavior.

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    Questions about sound pressure and sampling rate...

    in Music Composition & Production

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    Yes, cutting frequencies is what you need to do, but also take into account all the effects that you're using. Reverbs can very quickly drown a track in a heavy, muddy frequency stew. Always check the EQ levels of the reverb, use the high pass and low pass filters to only keep the reverb frequency you want.

    Also, you said that you add distortion, this completely fills up the spectrum. Distorting a B3 organ and then playing a full chord will literally eat up your entire bandwidth. Your goal in mixing a song should be to find and isolate the sweet spots of all your tracks with as little frequency crossover as possible, of course, this doesn't mean brick-wall everything till it's separate, just make sure you familiarize yourself with the sounds you're working with and don't overlook all the frequency boosts that the effects you're using bring to the mix.

    Pirated software

    in Music Composition & Production

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    If the person who originally bought and paid for the music sells it to someone else (or otherwise legitimately gives his license away) he no longer has access to it and no longer has any right to it. It's like selling a physical object second-hand. It doesn't necessarily benefit the artist any more than a used car sale benefits Honda, but it doesn't hurt the artist like piracy does.

    Technically that's not true. I bring forth the case of Peter Quistgard.

    Live audio with effects in Cubase

    in Music Composition & Production

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    You mean you want to use Cubase in a live situation? This is completely doable, but it's limited to the number of audio output channels your interface has. All you have to do is create a new audio track in a cubase project, add all your effects and what not, and then you hit the audition button (next to the Arm For Recording button on the track properties bar). This will let you play live audio through that track with all your effects on it, and it gets automatically routed to the output channel. You can do this with as many tracks as your interface has channels, just create more tracks and route them to use the seperate I/O channels, you can then have them all output through the same out bus, or you can route them independently (if your interface supports that) and run each to its own PA, but you probably wouldn't need that anyway.

    Pirated software

    in Music Composition & Production

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    Not to mention the latest wave of dongle-based protection is quite effective.

    It's not any more effective than it was before, the problem for the pirates is that the leading cracking "team" (H20) has quit the scene. No new waves or steinberg products are going to be cracked until there's someone new to start hacking away at the new license protection. Though, the way I see it, if you're always trying to pirate the latest and "greatest" versions of this stuff and not even thinking of purchasing it, you're an asshole. At this point, there are so many older versions of FL, Sonar, Cubase etc. out there that I don't think new versions should be cracked. Use the old shit, that WAS state of the art 5 years ago, or pay the money to get the current wave of products.

    Pirated software

    in Music Composition & Production

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    Piracy rocks. It has benefited Steinberg, Cakewalk, whoever makes Fruity Loops, Propellerhead, Native Instruments, Waves, pretty much EVERYONE who's software has been pirated.

    Most people who pirate this stuff can't afford it, so they would never buy it anyway, and a good number of those who do pirate start buying the software after they grow to really like it (seriously, do you want to throw $800 away on software that you never used because the company doesn't offer a demo.... STEINBERG?). So piracy ain't all bad. Most people who pirate this shit in our community are between the ages of 14-21, they would never buy this stuff, not till they grow, mature and still have a need for it.

    Super Metroid - Boss

    in Post Your Game ReMixes!

    Posted

    Good idea, really bad execution. The arrangement is cool, and the minimalist idea is a great IDEA, but I don't think you're pulling it off correctly. Minimalism sounds good when done in a way so that it doesn't sound empty and hollow, which unfortunately, this track does...

    I can't exactly put my finger on it, but I think you need more in the way of instrumentation, and more layering. If you keep the composition intact and focus on adding more intricate layering of sounds, this song would sound good. And add a good bassline.

    What do you guys think of this sound card for recording guitars?

    in Music Composition & Production

    Posted

    As far as these things go you want to make sure you're buying something that you know will be supported in the future. The Presonus Firebox is decent, but the drivers aren't the best around so support might not be the greatest. If you MUST go firewire, I can only really recommend to you two brands, the RME Fireface and the Echo Audiofire. I've used all three, and I own two of the Echo Audiofire products.

    Like analoq said, you usually have to go through a few returns to find what you really want, ESPECIALLY when getting into this whole new world of Firewire interfaces. From my experience, Echo will always give you the best value for your money. They have the BEST drivers in the price range, best (USA made) hardware, and they actually read every email you send them, try to re-create whatever problem you're having exactly, and then fix it in a driver update a week later.

    So yeah, my recommendation is the Echo Audiofire 8. Though at $450 it might be too expensive for you, in which case check out the Audiofire 4, though I haven't used it, if it's anything like the 8 or the 2, it's golden. (I also own an audiofire 2 which I take with me when traveling, it's equally impressive.)

    Something to keep in mind though, there's no telling how far firewire audio interfaces will go, and any product you buy may be discontinued much faster than a PCI card would, so you're best off doing the research, and picking something that has very good support now, so that when you want to keep using it 5 or 10 years from now, the last drivers available for it will support whatever insane software applications the world comes up with. MOTU, RME, Echo and M-Audio have permanent holds at different levels of the the interface market, so your best chances are with them. I'm not bashing the FireBox, as it's also a great product, but Presonus is known for signal processing and effects, not audio interfaces (as far as I know at least) so I'm a bit wary of their commitment to that type of product if the industry rejects it.

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