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Nobody reads FAQs. Even if you'd put it in font size 72 on top of the screen, with a red/green flickering background while it'd play airhorn sounds.

3 monitors. That'll be the solution!

To find out which sequencer software, first start downloading demos of everything you can get your hands on. Plonking down cash on Cubase Studio 4 is useless if the program doesn't match your workflow. Also, I'd argue that $2K may even be too much; what you spend extra will be gone up in smoke next year. Also, you might want to wait until the Core i7's gone more mainstream.

Because it's a very common connection on effects gear and available on some synthesizers and samplers, just to carry a regular stereo signal. The professional version of SPDIF is AES/EBU - but this again doesn't say much about what's being carried over that line.

The question is meaningless without a specified amount of money. As a number, not "cheap" or "well, not too expensive". See also http://arstechnica.com/guides/buyer/guide-200809.ars to get an idea. Be cheap on the graphics card (dual monitor is the only thing you have to do) and invest what you save in a quiet case and better specs.

And before you read those, read http://www.musiciansfriend.com/computerstudio

Those are called Program Changes and they can be annoying, indeed.

haha what No, this is not an application you should use at all to make music with. http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=17685

It is, unless you are completely flat broke (and you're typing this on a computer, so you're not). If you're neck-deep in debt, you shouldn't have started this topic anyway Get something like this one secondhand or look in your local classifieds.. Fact: things get more fun and easier to understand once you can play chords. Mice can't. Thirding FL Studio for the piano roll, by the way.

Do the notes in FL overlap when you look at the piano roll? The sliding effect is called portamento (or glide), the playing technique needed to make it work is called legato.

That's not broken and it's not distorted either . It depends a bit on which synthesizers you have at your disposal. What's happening here is that the pitch is controlled by an LFO, and that the speed of the LFO is controlled by keytracking. Anything you use should be able to do that, and have a high-resolution LFO. In regular English: Observe: At 0:52 you hear the siren - first slow, then faster. The siren is a sound where the pitch is controlled by an LFO. However, the "intensity" of this - the siren has low and high notes is pretty high. The sound in your example doesn't have the intensity the siren has. Also, the LFO waveform is a saw instead of a sine or triangle (this is what causes it to sound "damaged"). Keytracking means that the intensity or speed of something are multiplied by which key you play. High notes = higher multiplier. In this case, keytrack controls the LFO's speed, which means a faster LFO on the higher notes. Now, frequencies are higher with higher notes too, and the LFO kind of works in tandem with those - otherwise it just sounds awkward. Example with the Xhip VST here: http://www.theheartcore.com/megathread/rip_wave.mp3

Correct. You need one of these: http://www.zzounds.com/item--EMUXMIDI1X1 MIDI on audio interfaces is usually supplied as a nice extra - e.g. you generally only have 1 input and 1 output. USB MIDI interfaces can give you up to 8 ins, 8 outs.

I think you mean desktop. If you don't have to use it to perform live, go the desktop route. It's worthless... ...if what you're using now doesn't have OS X versions. Using FL Studio? No Mac. Using several of the free synth plugins made with SynthEdit? No Mac. Pick what runs on the platform or be prepared to not only switch operating systems but the rest of it, too, and expect to be 3-4 months out of the running while you're un-learning and re-learning things.

http://www.flstudio.com/documents/soundfontplayer.html You don't "upload" them, you open them in something that can use them.

The word "pad" has a dozen meanings, so apologies that I'm not motivated enough to whack out 5 pages of "here's how you do X" for each and every one of 'm . HoboKa, if you'll be a bit more specific you'll get an useful answer out of me (e.g. examples, mp3 snippets, good Youtube movies)

Take it for a "lern 2 do sounddesing". Alternatively, http://www.hgf-synthesizer.de/ Making pads isn't really rocket science, but if you look towards buying stuff as your first solution, it probably is.

If you have a mastering plugin on your final mix, remove it now. EQ to remove the rest of the instruments out of the frequency range of the kick, compression to make things punchy (not required, though) and of course having a good source works. Ask them which libraries they use? edit: <sixto> superior 2.0 as of a couple months ago <sixto> before that, superior and c&v

What about http://www.nerds.de/en/ipmidi.html ? edit: actually, buying two of these is even cheaper. Go figure

I've tried to find out how to make it work properly, and I've got two options: - Route NN-XT through Thor's audio inputs. Find a way to trigger both Thor and NN-XT simultaneously and use Thor's modulation matrix to route velocity to the amplifier envelope's attack value. - Drag NN-XT into a Combinator. Open the Programmer. Choose Device: NN-XT. Set Source to Rotary 1, Target to Amp Env Attack. Set Min and Max to taste. You then have to find a way to route velocity to the Combinator's Rotary input, since Velocity is not one of the options. I haven't found out if that's actually possible.

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=766175#766175 use "Save as" on the .rar, unpack them, see if EXS24 will convert .gig (Gigasampler) files for you, and you'll have 2 steel drums. Especially STEEL.RAR sounds pretty good. If that's not working for you for some reason, I've put them through Kontakt 3 which imports .gig files and converted everything to .wav, and I'll upload it if importing doesn't work out. But do try that first. The disadvantage of this is of course that you'll have to reprogram everything again, but since there are 4 samples per note that's not rocket science.

If you use the TAB key to look at the back of your NN-XT you see that there are no inputs for CV/Gate whatsoever, so no. In the modulation matrix of the NN-XT there are also no ways to route velocity to attack or release. If you look at the back of the NN-19, you see Gate inputs for the envelopes. If you connect the Matrix's gate output to the NN-19's Amp envelope Gate input, you can hold down the keys and get a gating effect. It's easy to simulate the "trance gate" you can find on some other synths by using only 4 steps and highlighting "tie" for the last, but that's not what you asked. Gate switches things on and off. CV (control voltage) can be used to control certain knob positions. What are you trying to achieve or mimic?

For simple applications (like a basic 4 to the floor kickdrum), you could consider making a new audio track and drag & drop samples on that. also, yes, this is kind of a stupid question. Get yourself a nice tutorial book if the manual doesn't do that for you, take your time to learn the basics and to wean yourself off your previous DAW (if that's your intention). It's too easy to step back and to avoid learning new things. Don't ask - do.

1) completely wrong place to ask 2) http://www.snakeyes.org/spc/ has it I think

It's the result that counts. What exactly has equipment to do with the resulting quality? The fact that someone plonked down cash for something does not mean that they make better music by default. Stop the self-deprecation and let the rest of OCR be the judge of that. You'll feel better because of it in every single way.

The following won't help, then . You're not the only one. Yes. Trouble. MIDI sucks, can't render sounds, editing sucks even harder to the point where you have to dig out an Atari emulator for some antique editor nobody ever bothered to update for a vintage piece of gear, and there's an extra step of A/D involved. Omnisphere: $480. Hardware synth which does what Omnisphere does: doesn't exist. Cheapest hardware synth with nice pads and arpeggiator: Korg M50, $1099. It'll do more, like realistic sounds, but in terms of sample size and sound selection for the kind of stuff you pull out of Omni it's going to be far, far less. Seriously, the hardware route is the (far) more expensive one since you've already paid for your computer and soundcard anyway.