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    What shirt size are you?

    in Announcements

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    I'm a large, but when I got a large OCR shirt, oh, a year and a half ago, it was way way too small. Like, my midriff or back would become embarassingly exposed at several points in the day, SMALL. Wasted $15. So my vote as a large is null unless the sizes are now at a normal standard.

    REASON - Please Direct Reason questions here

    in Music Composition & Production

    Posted

    Hey cheers for those pointers malcos!

    Only one problem though. When I add an effect, such as in RV-7 or the Scream 4 device, the effect is applied to the whole track......such as the Dr Rex loops, and some of the smaples in Redrum. How do I isolate effects, so I have one effect applied to just one device? (Such as having the Hall effects applied only to the 2nd Redrum device?)

    Don't forget that in Reason, you click on what you want to apply the effect to, THEN go to the create menu. So you click on the redrum device, then go to create reverb.

    Also, if all else fails, you can always press TAB and manually wire things up.

    Oh and I just got Reason btw. Well actaully I've had it for about 2 months but it's just sat there mainly...unused etc. For those of us without keyboards, what music program would you recommend? I mean Music 2000 and Music Generator 3 are fine and dandy...but Music 2000 won't let you rip from Unknown(copied lol) cds and the memory is WAY too small to use CD samples anyway. And MG 3 has a very limited midi maker. And it would be nice if the CD sample limit was increased from 20 to 30. That'd be just right. Now if only the two were combined........

    Get a keyboard lol. Or Fruityloops?

    Reason isn't that hard without a keyboard. Well, I have one, but I don't see what would make it more difficult than other programs without a keyboard. :?:

    Pricing teh beats

    in Music Composition & Production

    Posted

    Though on a small tangent, I've always, ALWAYS hated when peoples' reason for liking rap is "It's got a good beat!" That's bullshit. You want a good beat? Listen to techno. Rap beats are techno beats only minus 4/5 layers. God I hate the normal person's sense of logic.

    Geez man. Chill out. Hip hop is just another way to present, and I think can give the listener the feel of a 'good beat' just as much as (and often more than) techno. Just cause a song has five more 'layers' doesn't mean it has a better beat.

    Check your logic, bro.

    Sonic Spinball

    in Post Your Game ReMixes!

    Posted

    Definitely a good base for a song. I think the lead is there, you should just emphasize it more. That dirty synth could sound a little prominent. What it needs more of though, imo, is something that fills the spectrum more. Some mid-to-high legato strings or pads, might fit nicely. The song sounds too barebones right now.

    The drums sound a little dry to me, at least the hats, but I might have a habit of putting too much reverb on the percussion. And you might throw in a crisper snare, or maybe a rim or clap, in addition to the current one. Could just be personal preference though, so I'll leave that one up to you.

    Anyways this songs got lots of potential, I'll tell you that, but it hasn't lived up to it yet. Keep at it. Increase the MOOD.

    Your techniques for learning songs?

    in Music Composition & Production

    Posted

    Specifically on piano, but I guess it can really apply to anything.

    Anyways, I find I'm pretty slow at it. My fingers are physically capable of playing a lot of them, it's more the memorization I need to work on.

    So what kind of approaches do you guys take?

    memorizing chorus/verse seperately?

    In small (two to eight measure) chunks?

    Do you just run through the whole thing several times util you got it down pat?

    Any exercises, techniques or something I'm not thinking o?

    Whatever comes to mind, post it here! :)

    What I do, if a song is easy enough for me to sight-read it, I just play it over and over again. If it's too hard for that, well, I learn it in chunks first until I have enough memory to be able to play it while reading it, and then I play it over and over again until I don't need the sheet music.

    Ummm...I learned a cool technique for memorizing lists and poems....it might apply to music....

    you memorize the first line first, then play through to the second line, and memorize the second line WITH the first, and then the third WITH the 2nd and 1st, and so on. Typically it means you know the first part of the song/list/poem better than any other part but it works surprisingly fast, and sticks for a while.

    How dare you tarnish my double-spaced splendor! :x:wink:

    But yeah, I used to do that technique for memorizing speeches and what not, though I don't think I've ever applied it to music. Worth a shot, I say!

    Your techniques for learning songs?

    in Music Composition & Production

    Posted

    Specifically on piano, but I guess it can really apply to anything.

    Anyways, I find I'm pretty slow at it. My fingers are physically capable of playing a lot of them, it's more the memorization I need to work on.

    So what kind of approaches do you guys take?

    Memorizing chorus/verse seperately?

    In small (two to eight measure) chunks?

    Do you just run through the whole thing several times until you got it down pat?

    Any exercises, techniques or something I'm not thinking of?

    Whatever comes to mind, post it here! :)

    Buying a keyboard...

    in Music Composition & Production

    Posted

    Do you know how to play the keyboard, or at least have the will to learn?

    If not, I'd go with something smaller, like a 2 octave midi controller. Something like this.

    Yeah I know how to play. I'm getting sick of having to put notes in manually with the mouse (especially with piano pieces) and then having to edit the velocities and timing to get that live performance feel. How does it work? Do you have to "record" yourself playing and then the notes get added to the piano roll as you play them? I'm worried that my crap latency is going to cause some problems.

    If you get an ASIO compatible sound card, latency wouldn't be much of an issue.

    Or, if you get an actual sound producing keyboard and not just a midi controller, you can hear your timing externally, then just shift what you played over the needed amount in your sequencer. I hope that made sense.

    Jazz Chords

    in Music Composition & Production

    Posted

    My book got lost in the mail.

    :cry::cry::cry:

    There goes 35 bucks.

    And here goes another 35...

    Edit: Doubt anyone cares, but, it finally got here, yay!

    Oh, and poop on Amazon, they sent me the 1989 edition, when the page says 2005. I don't think a 2005 edition actually exists though. The latest Barnes and Noble had was 1993.

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