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Yoozer

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  1. How wide is too wide for a lead?

    This depends entirely on the rest of the mix and how much room it takes up in the frequency spectrum.

    See this as a moving van. You have to cram your furniture in there. The couch is low, but wide (the volume is low, but it takes up a wide swath of the frequency spectrum). Grandma's heirloom cupboard is high, but narrow (the sound is loud, but it only occupies a narrow range).

    They can't occupy the same space at once. You've got powertools - a saw to reduce the width (equalizer), a saw to reduce the height (volume fader), and a clamp to squeeze a stack of furniture to a height so it fits in the truck (compressor/limiter).

    The rules are: if two pieces of furniture overlap they pile on top of eachother, and you can't hit the ceiling of the truck because that'll cause clipping. This means that two sounds occupying the same range won't hit the ceiling if they're quiet enough, or if you use the clamp to squeeze 'm down.

  2. but my leads (apparently, so I am told) suck badly, and they sound vanilla and preset-ish.

    ...

    I'm sort of stuck until I can get a better understanding of leads. Any advice you can offer will be appreciated!

    Can you post a few clips of what they sound like right now (both in context of the song and perhaps solo?)

    What do you have at your disposal to create sounds with?

  3. I really want to convert some of my guitar solos to midi but am finding it hard to figure how to do that.

    You buy a device like this: http://sonuus.com/products_i2m_mp.html

    or you buy something like this: http://www.axon-technologies.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=37&menu=107

    Do you really need a midi controller in order to do such a thing?

    MIDI controllers will not convert your guitar's sound for you. Software has barely learned to recognize the notes in polyphonic music.

  4. This is indeed achieved with a gate (if playing the notes quickly in that pattern does not achieve the desired effect. What software are you using to record and compose?

    If you have your original audio signal, put a gate on it. A gate sets the volume to zero if the incoming signal is not loud enough. In the sidechain input, you put another audio signal - for instance a closed hihat or another clicky sound. The sidechain tricks the gate into believing that the incoming signal is loud enough, so the volume is set to max for the brief duration of the hihat playing, and it jumps back to zero when the sidechain is silent again.

    By rhythmically playing the hihat you can get a da-da-daaa-da-da-daa pattern which is then applied to the incoming signal.

    Nowadays arpeggiators of synths can do it too, but those retrigger the sound.

  5. Is there a VST that I can open, to which I can point that single drum track, that will allow me to load multiple samples on multiple channels? So, instead of me having to have 5 VST instruments open to load 5 samples, I can load 1 VST instrument to load 5 samples? I tried doing this with FL studio, but then it seemed to be mapping the LOOP and not the samples.

    FL has various samplers; I think (but I'm not certain) that FPC can do what you want. Drag samples to pads, and you should be good to go.

    Try also http://vemberaudio.se/shortcircuit.php

    You see that you can assign multiple drum samples to a single key, depending on the velocity; so hit the keys hard, and you can trigger a different sample. It also has multiple outputs.

  6. Good piano roll or gtfo

    lololol lern2play or gtfo

    FL Studio is ugly? This is darker than FL Studio. X_X

    Think before you type. Luminance has nothing to do with aesthetics. FL's interface is inconsistent; you can look at the old FL devices and immediately know what version they're made in and whether they were built for a 1024 x 768 monitor or a 1600 x 1200 monitor (then again, Cubase suffers from the same problem, where you have sleek 6 interfaces next to horrible SX 1 boxes). This inconsistency can not be avoided with 3rd party plugins, but it's jarring within the DAW itself.

    Live, whatever its other flaws are, never dug itself into the hole where an interface would start to look old. Meanwhile, the pixelfonts in FL Studio were already worn out in 1998 when webdesign started to take off. On a big monitor, those piano roll buttons take quite a bit of effort to hit if you have to click them.

    The bar at the top of FL is especially horrible: it could be redesigned and look better -and- work better without sacrificing an ounce of usability.

  7. In this order:

    - a room with acoustic treatment. I don't mean eggcrates, I mean double walls, floating floor, asymmetric, diffusors, chock full o' Rockwool, the works.

    - a set of Barefoot Micromains

    - a Lavry DA11 or Cranesong Avocet or something else that is obscenely expensive.

    Seriously though,you do not want thundering bass. You want honesty and your ears still functional after a day of listening.

    What is your budget?

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