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I have something like this in the works

Well, there were the ones that wrote at 1x (really they just recorded in realtime), but after that with the NetMD's, they wrote between 16x and 64x depending on the model. I could fill up the disc with 2.5 hours of music in about 15 minutes I think. And even the slow ones back then, they were still MUCH tinier than any CD player. Probably the first portable audio player people could fit in their pockets. Even once Ipods came out, back when it was still like $400 for the 10gb, the NetMD that could fit 2.5 or 5 hours on a $2 disc(depending on audio quality) was a great, much cheaper alternative. I think they were super cool. nyah! UMD is cool too, for portable games. Putting the disc part in plastic casing is a great idea.

Minidisc was awesome! stfu!

Thanks dewds! That guitar sound is actually me playing acoustic shittily then put some Camelspace vst on that mofo.

Whut? You do know that you can seperate the rack and sequencer views, right? Reason is pretty good with two monitors.

FL's included synths are musical blasphemy and will pretty much get you instant rejected. It's not that they're bad in themselves, but that there's been 6 trillion songs made with them, and they sound the same 99% of the time (and can be spotted a mile away). There's only so much one can do with 3 crappy oscillators and an ADSR envelope. I said effects. WAY 2 REED!

Longer buffers will be easier on the cpu. You should upgrade to Live6 so you can have deep freeze. Freeze shit but you can still edit the track. Wowoweewow! 6 runs smoother than 5 in general too.

SONAR doesn't come with everything P5 does. It doesn't come with the P5 effects, or Dimension. I really wouldn't recommend Sonar to a newbie. Both because of a bit harsher learning curve and because its damn expensive comparatively to other things.

This is one reason I am so glad I started with Reason. Knowing a few synths very well made things so much faster and actually a bit more creative for me. I'm starting to get too much vsti junk now, but I'm doing ok. Too many options can be bad. I've been thinking about deleting some, but I'm afraid that it might break older projects of mine that included those. Ableton Live is able to read vsti's by pointing it to windows shortcuts you made to the .dll's, so I'm thinking about making a new folder as my default vst folder for Live and just making shortcuts to a pared-down group of vsts. One thing I'm finding is that in whatever host you are using trying to stick with the included effects instead of trying out all kinds of vst effects can be good, as long as the included ones are generally good (which I believe FL's are, Live, Reason, etc).

ACID started as mostly a loop sequencer, but the last two versions added MIDI and VST support that is decent. People who aren't in the know (which is most people) still think its just doing the same old loop stuff only. I don't know of any tutorials really. Just read the manual. RTFM always works for me. If you have questions that AREN'T covered in the manual, I can probably help.

Reason does come with quite good mastering effects that are really easy to use. I used to pimp Cakewalk Project5 a whole lot when it came out a year and a half ago. It is pretty slick, though missing a few things that I personally wanted. However, I think that for its price and useablility, and the stuff it comes with, it is a super duper host to start out with now. Cake sells it for $199. You can probably get it academic discounted at $99 ish. It comes with a good synth (PSYNII), an awesome sampler (Dimension), and some decent effects. It comes with about 4 GB of actually really good general sounds. Really nice strings, plenty of electronic sounds, ethnic sounds, etc. It is pattern oriented like FL, but the arrange view is way better than FL's playlist in my opinion. I think peeps should at least check it out. It's a great value now and a lot of fun to use (even though I personally quit using it. Also, Cake is releasing a huge update to it adding a lot of user requested features in a couple months. Free update yay. So it will get better than it is now. That's what one would think if they hadn't been paying any attention the last couple years. ACID Pro now runs midi and vsti pretty well. And it is still the bizniss for audio manipulation.

Is this for the native plug, or is it vst for everybody yay?

My next album is going to be more abstract and slower paced like most of this song is. I'm not trying to make album sellers on this one. I want to make the album a cohesive piece that works together rather than being a collection of singles. Don't worry - I'm working on another that will be released after this one that is more the beats and synths 'album seller' type stuff too. Joker, I think you'll really like this album then. It is going to have quite an ambient bent to it. I'm hoping to release around April. This is song #2 for the album (the first one is done, but exclusive). There's actually 2.5 minutes more at the beginning of this track that I shaved off for the web release. Ambient/sound design yum! edit: oh, and Doomsday - Chroma is actually my 5th album . The three before Synesthetic were released on mp3.com back when they printed CD's and such. I'm gonna put a bunch of those old tracks on a compilation CD called "Outmoded" and do a short run of those (I'm thinking 20-40 ish). Should be out in a couple/few months. /plug

Glad you guys like it. I released an album a few months ago www.sgxmusic.com/chroma.htm This is the second track i've done for the new album which will be a bit experimental like this track is. I'm shooting for April for that release (very fast for me).

Make sure you have SONAR set to use the ASIO drivers and everything. Something is definitely way wrong. Better answers you'll get at the sonar forum from people who actually use sonar (nobody here does currently afaik).

http://www.sgxmusic.com/music/SGX%20-%20Peripatetic.mp3 5/4 time, ambient parts, abstract sounds, but also symphonic type melodies, kickass bass, thick beat, cool stuff I hope. Most instruments are Reason 3, sequencing and mucho audio manipulation in Live 5 and 6. Huzzah.

I love having dual monitors. However, it helps even more if your software can take advantage, like different pieces of the UI being detatchable and moveable. Reason, ACID, Project5 all do this awesomely. Arrange in one monitor, maybe pattern editor, or mixing controls on the other. Unfortunately Ableton Live can't do that so its UI is all on one screen. The only way it takes advantage is by letting your vst's pop up and move to the other monitor. Still nice though, and since I usually have Reason rewired into it, Reason will go on the second monitor.

but isn't live just for DJ's lol? ur mom.

I used to put SF CD in my discman all the time way back when. Interesting mix. Glad to hear SFCD represented (this song is also in SF for Gamegear, btw).

People still just say "Cakewalk" and think people know what program they are talking about? Cakewalk is the company...they make a lot of software...Kinetic, Project5, and about 8 different versions of SONAR.

If the instrument is disabled and nothing has been rendered to wav, how do you hear it?

BAI!

Does FL not have freeze yet?

What are you talking about? Both systems use both types. There is some crappy device called the iMic that basically is an awful usb audio interface with one line in and one mic in. Sound quality is terrible though. Other than that, all you can do is get that mic you mentioned or a real firewire or usb2 audio interface.