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Good game! Pretty good OST, but I was a bit dissapointed that it wasn't as ambient and weird as the ICO ost was.

Depends what machine you are using. The NNXT does tremelo with the mod wheel. On the other synths, you can easily set up an lfo to control the amplitude. Or, you could make a curve in the matrix and hook that cv up to amp on the synth. Or, a neat trick would be to make a new sequencer track, point it to the same instrument (so you'll have one track for the midi notes and one new one) and draw a little automation pattern on the new track, then make it a group and easily copy paste it in the song.

You are often the troll. Pretty much every conflict in this forum involves you. You are extremely hot-headed and needlessly petulant much of the time. No one is out to get you - most here just want to discuss music stuff without getting into arguments, but it seems whenever someone disagrees with you, you take it as a personal attack and throw a fit. Chill out, grow some thicker skin. Please.

Proprietary format + shitty compression; rather give me the compact flash with a plain .wav on it, then . With all due respect for MDs though; it's a really good replacement for tape. http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/USD/SY_DisplayProductInformation-Start?ProductSKU=MZRH910&Dept=audio&CategoryName=pa_DigitalMusicPlayers_MiniDisc

Get a minidisc recorder.

If your host supports multiple cores (I don't know if Cubase does yet or not), then dual core is the way to go. Otherwise it is a waste of a core.

All that and still only a single 19 inch CRT? Time for multiple Apple Cinema displays!

Try going into your host's audio driver options and choosing a different driver(ASIO is often good if you have it).

Any sequencer with a sampler plugin (Project5, Reason, FLstudio, Live, Sonar, etc come with samplers of some sort) will be able to do what you want I think.

Laptop speakers are always horrible. Yes, get new speakers for it. For laptops, I'd recommend one with an Intel Centrino cpu. My 1.83 ghz Centrino is faster than my 3 ghz P4 desktop in the same music applications. Centrinos don't get too hot either so you won't have irritating laptop fan noises. The Centrino is basically the same cpu that they put in the new Macs that everyone raves about. If your host supports multithreading/multi core cpus, try and go for one of the dual core centrinos. RAM is pretty important, but if you're not going to be using huuuge orchestral and other sample libraries, you can get away with less. 1 GB should be more than enough if that is the case, if you are going to be using large libraries, try and get as much as you can.

You'll need a good audio interface, and working with a laptop this means either an USB 2.0 or FireWire interface. PCMCIA is also possible, but it's not as common anymore. Your laptop needs to have enough internal memory. 512 is a minimum; 1gb is recommended. It's a good idea to dedicate it to making music; having anti-virus and anti-spyware programs running in the back is disastrous for the performance. No, just all the sticky threads. I do music on my laptop. I use an Echo Indigo IO card. Pretty nice. Sounds awesome performs well. I also have it partitioned up so I have a version of XP loaded for web, and all kinds of other junk, then another partition which is XP and my music stuff only. No drivers for the network stuff or anything. Oh and it's probably a good idea to just do a clean install of xp when you get a laptop anyways - my dell was so loaded with drivers and applications that weren't needed it actually slowed it down quiiite a bit.

heheheheh. "das web" Kinda like "Das Boot" but for da "web."

Yeah it makes you insert all the discs just to make sure you have em each time you install even if you have the soundbanks loaded already. I'm sorry I don't know what the problem is. Seems to be a CD-reading problem. Try yet another cd drive if you can? Otherwise I'd contact support. In the meantime see if you can crack it so you can play . You bought it after all. heh.

Well, like 18 years ago the company had a different name and their flagship midi sequencer was actually just called Cakewalk. But that was like 18 years ago....

It's always interesting when people call any software by Cakewalk "Cakewalk." They make quite a range of software...

Yo, maybe I can give you some more specific information myself as an Acid 5 user. You are correct in that Acid kinda blows for midi and soft synths. I think that you will get less satisfaction of using a midi controller for vsti parameters in Acid than you would with another host that's better with midi. If you're familiar with automating vsti parameters in Acid, you probably know that Acid doesn't really support vsti automation - you have to do it with the MIDI - you have to look up the midi CC number for the vsti parameter and then draw in the automation (someone more knowledgeable might know what this is called specifically). That method is a pain in the ass in my opinion compared to other hosts' support for real vsti automation. Its a pain to set it up in Acid. I don't believe acid has any type of midi-learn function built in (midi learn basically lets you choose a parameter for a vsti, turn on midi learn, then twist the knob or hit the key you want mapped to that parameter, and then it will remember that that knob controls that parameter). So I don't know how much you'll love a midi keyboard with Acid 5, since it would take some setup time and in my opinion moving knobs with a mouse is just fine. However, Acid Pro 6 was just announced and looks mighty awesome on paper. They've overhauled the midi system, pretty much added all the features I was complaining about above, and improved a lot of other things. I think it looks like a pretty kickass all-around host if they actually pull off what they hyped up. If you are planning on upgrading, then I'd say your controller might be of more use.

You and I were, but I don't think compy was. I cleared that up in my last post on page 1.

Its not me, it was for Aurora. She didn't want to spend that much.

Compy, i'm getting the feeling we are mixed up on what the iMic is. I'm talking about http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/602-5254781-8132648?asin=B00006BALQ&AFID=Froogle&LNM=B00006BALQ|Griffin_iMic_USB_External_Sound_Card_-_T3041LL/A&ref=tgt_adv_XSC10001 that. It's pretty much a cheap as hell usb audio interface. It just has one line in jack and one mic in jack. It isn't actually a microphone. It's the towers too. About 4 years ago my digital media professor was pissed because the at the time bitchin' G4's they got for the lab didn't have line in and mic ports. He had to go out and get several iMic's for his audio art course. I don't know if the newer models have regained these ports or not, but I'm guessing no.

Aurora and I were looking for a way to record her vocals that was better than her laptop's built in mic. She was paying for it, and didn't want to go over like $80, so she got a $40 mic, and the iMic to plug it in to. There was so much noise the recordings were unuseable. It wasn't the mic either, there was the same noise if you recorded from the imic without anything plugged into it. I'm no audiophile and I'm not picky about the sound so much, but the noise in the recording just was horrible. We then looked online and seems like everyone else was saying what a piece of crap that iMic was. Maybe you got the only good one in existance? I'm just venting about my/our bad experience. Anyways, she returned the imic and the mic, and now she uses a simple $30 usb headset/mic combo which I don't love the sound of but it sounds about 800X better than the imic. Why don't macs have line in or mic in anyways? Irritating.

iMic's are horrible. So much noise.

This should probably go in the remixing forum. You can do this by hooking your PS2's audio output plugs into your computer soundcard's line-in jack. You might need some sort of adapter cable because usually PS2 audio comes in the two rca red and white plugs. You need to get those plugs converted to a male 1/8 inch jack that will go into your computer. Another way to do it is if your TV has a headphone jack, just get a male to male 1/8 inch cable and hook that into your computer. Then you'll need software for recording such as Goldwave www.goldwave.com.

Sending in uncompressed files would just be bad. 1) They get craploads of submissions, so thats a lot of downloading for them to do 2) I'm sure some remixers are on dialup A standard bitrate wouldn't be practical because there is already a 6 mb file limit. A three minute song should be allowed to have a higher bitrate, and a 6 min song should be at 128kbps in order to get the full length in.

He said Dr. Rex and that when he gets FL6 he'll have a slicer. It's implied that he's looking for something to use with Reason. The only option is ReCycle I think, which isn't worth it compared to some of the vsti plugs available in my opinion. If you must do it in Reason, then I guess that's it. Its not cheap either Does it do anything besides help you get your wav into a nicely sliced rx2? I used it for a bit a long time ago and never got into its features. Just turned up that slice meter and then manually placed in any I thought it missed. It didn't seem to have any functions that actually changed the audio unless I missed it. It was cool when it pioneered the concept, but running a whole extra application for slicing I think is lame. LiveSlice and Phatmatik seem like the way to go if you've got vsti.

I'm still not sure what you are trying to do with sliced audio or what you expect to get from a standalone slicer. The only app that fits the description of both standalone and has to do with slicing is ReCycle which is mostly just a utitlity that lets you convert your wav loop into a .rx2 loop that is readable by software instruments such as Dr Rex in Reason which is then used for rearranging the slices inside of the song. I don't know of any other 'standalone' apps that slice unless you consider programs that can Acidize wav files (Acid Pro, Project5, probably some other host apps). Acidized wavs are most often used just for timestretching though. (btw, you do know about how you can right click Dr Rex and select 'sent to track' to send the midi pattern of the rex loop to the Reason sequencer track, right?)