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    Finding just the right sample

    in Music Composition & Production

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    Not really, but he's been spamming his company's crap software for a solid two years on audio forums (check google), and it's time someone called him on it.

    The only reason I stopped posting info was because there was too much of it to sift through. The guy's dumb enough to leave huge amounts of info around before he spams. His phone number is floating around somewhere, too. :)

    -steve

    Finding just the right sample

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    My laptop started to catch on fire and debating if i want another brand.

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    But it might be user error. Laptops typically don't have the cooling power of a tower. If you run high-resource applications or leave them on all day long, they will overheat.

    No.

    My wife's main computer is a laptop I gave her when I updated mine. Other than the occasional Windows-required reboot, it's been on continuously for over a year. Now get ready for the irony: it's an eMachines M5310, notorious for overheating issues.

    On Dell: my laptop and my son's laptop are both Dells. I use mine for at least 12 hours every day, and he's 4 years old (hence, hard on his stuff--he spilled water directly into his keyboard just last week, in fact). Both laptops are quite rugged and I would not hesitate to get another when upgrade time comes around again. They also made the best run of cheap PDA ever (Axim 50 and 51 series, on which I ran a full-speed Playstation emulator) and the widescreen 37" LCD TV I have, which has been flawless in every respect. Dell's old reputation for shitty products has been turned around for several years now.

    So I'm going to have to compare my year-old Dell, my son's 11-year-old Dell and my wife's 5-year-old eMachines laptops--none of which have had any problems other than the previously mentioned overheating issue (which isn't affecting my wife because she doesn't play intensive games like I did)--to your year-old Compaq, which has had two problems. Heh.

    Ninja-san: I would recommend Dell's refurb program for whatever you decide to get, if you're not averse to refurbished hardware. You can find stuff really cheap there sometimes, and you still get a 1-year warranty. If you go with another brand, see if they have refurbs with full warranties as well.

    -steve

    PS: in the interest of not sounding like I work for Dell, I have to say that while their hardware support department has been very responsive to questions I had about my laptop's specs, their general customer support department sucks ass. If you need to contact Dell for anything other than tech support, be prepared for several weeks worth of back-and-forth with annoyingly stupid people.

    Classical guitar

    in General Discussion

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    Rubbery Dude: growing your fingernails and keeping them just the right length (a daily procedure, involving precision sanding) and making sure you don't do anything which might break them is a pain in the ass, but it sounds much better. I did it for about a year before I went back to playing with my fingertips instead of nails.

    You can also get fingertip plectrums (plectra?) but I have no experience with those.

    -steve

    A question about LCD TVs

    in General Discussion

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    Burn-in is not an issue on LCDs, as a couple of others have mentioned. Plasmas, apparently. LCDs, no.

    I work in a NOC. We just replaced all of our monitoring CRTs with 5 large (46" and 42") LCDs, and I can tell you these things will have the same images displayed on them for the next 8 years if the life of the CRTs was any indication. We aren't concerned about burn-in. Hell, one of the replaced CRTs had the same thing on it for at least a year and there's no hint of burn-in even on it (the other ones, sure, but remember those are CRTs).

    -steve

    Bioshock

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    after beating the game, or during if your still playing, could you get yourself to harvest, or was it to icky to get yourself to do it, as it was for me.

    I had to stop harvesting after that gameplay twist.

    The biggest theme in the game is Ayn Rand's philosophy of objectivism, which (someone correct me if I'm wrong, I've never read her work) emphasizes personal responsibility, objective reality (truth independent of observation) and the fact that free men should be able to choose their own way in life without undue interference. The only real choice the player has is to either harvest or save the little sisters.

    -steve

    Bioshock

    in General Discussion

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    Played around with this game a bit on PC, like the feel... cept for the fact the game ran slow. But I loved the atmosphere. So now I'm looking for games with a similar vibe but slightly older so I can actually play it. Any recommendations?

    Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is excellent.

    -steve

    Bioshock

    in General Discussion

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    I'm about 70-80% of the way through the game as far as I know. It's lots of fun but I don't know that I would rate it above HL2. The storyline so far is very comparable to the one in F.E.A.R. in terms of how it gets revealed.

    -steve

    Indie Musician looking for OCR's to collaborate

    in General Discussion

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    I can tell you with pretty good confidence this likely will not work out for you. Most of the higher-up OCRemixers are pretty busy people and are rarely interested in working on projects unless they themselves started it, or its started by one of their close associates. Its kinda clique-ish (which, to their credit, is just kinda how it works in this field of entertainment).

    Incorrect. I've seen many collabs between OC remixers and other people, some here and some elsewhere.

    Michael, your music is great and reminds me of both Tool and Radiohead with more of a college feel. I added both your myspace accounts as friends. Sign me up for a collab. I play acoustic and electric guitar (20 years), computer synths (15 years?) and I "play" drums through a drum ROMpler (fxPansion BFD).

    -steve

    CuBase SX and Amplitube 2

    in Music Composition & Production

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    I have an annoying problem in CuBase SX. I can use Amplitube 2 (or any effect) as an insert without problems, but if I try to use it as a send, I hear the dry signal mixed with the effected sound on record and playback, and when bouncing to wav. This is a problem because when I do use guitar, I typically have between 8 and 12 different guitar tracks per song. I'd love to be able to use 3-4 sends instead of 12 inserts because it would save me a lot of time that is now spent freezing individual tracks to save my CPU.

    According to the manual I should be able to adjust the wet/dry mix on the VST mixer panel. The problem is, Amplitube 2 doesn't have a wet/dry control on it and neither does the dedicated mixer for it. Does anyone know what I'm overlooking here? Thanks.

    -steve

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    in Music Composition & Production

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    Honestly, getting it done on a real guitar would probably be easier.

    True dat. This topic comes up every couple of months, and every couple of months we say the same thing: it will take you longer to tweak every virtual parameter on a guitar VST than it will to actually learn to play guitar and do it right.

    Maybe this should be stickied.

    -steve

    Tascam's free Piano VSTi

    in Music Composition & Production

    Posted

    * Spectrasonics UVI players don't function properly - eg. Trilogy, Atmosphere - they create a delay when you render them, which means you have to bounce down the tracks to align them properly

    I use Trilogy and have never seen this issue.

    * Kontakt 2, FM8, Guitar Rig 2, and a couple other NI plugins exhibit dropouts when used with any form of CPU overload protection on. You have to "Use Fixed Size Buffers" to fix the problem, which screws up multi-out configurations and rendering.

    I have not seen issues with any of those. Kontakt 2 did have some strange dropouts going until I changed a setting internal to that program, but it had to do with the rendering engine, not the buffers (if you're interested, I'll try to find the song where I made the note "DO {whatever} TO GET K2 TO RENDER RIGHT" to myself...). In fact, several of my songs use Trilogy with Guitar Rig 2 and I haven't had problems with either.

    * Dual core support is lacking entirely for all VST effects

    How can you tell? I thought FL itself, as the host, was responsible for threading. But I do all of my production and mastering work in another environment, so I don't think I'd notice anyway, personally.

    Pro-53 turns off OSC B LFO -> Pulse Width (which screws up numerous patches)

    I have not noticed this myself...but it's been awhile since I fired up Pro53.

    -steve

    How to sing Death Metal without ruining voice

    in Music Composition & Production

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    Growl from your diaphragm, not from your throat. An exercise I picked up is this: make a quiet hissing sound with your tongue on the roof of your mouth (i.e., an "S" sound) and as you exhale, gradually increase the volume until you're giving it as much pressure as possible. That comes from the diaphragm, and that's the feel you want when growling death metal vox.

    For more tips, this is the google search I used: "death metal vocals" tips

    -steve

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