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Download http://www.geocities.jp/daichi1969/softsynth/ Set oscillator 1 to the sinewave (that's the squiggly one in the top left). Set oscillator 2 off (by turning the Mix button completely to the left) Set tempo delay on, chorus off. Set the filter cutoff frequency (frq) to maximum (at setting LP12), filter resonance (res) to zero. Set Amplifier ADSR to 0 max max 0, do the same with the filter ADSR. Most importantly: Set mode to MONO Set portamento at 20% or something. That's all there is to it; a soundfont would be useless if the soundfont player does not support portamento, because that's the gliding effect you're hearing.

http://www.mediacollege.com/audio/microphones/directional-characteristics.html It's not so much that pattern = instrument. For instance, if you were playing something live a cardioid for an acoustic guitar would be good with the pattern aimed at your guitar; that way, any noise from the audience would not be picked up. If you were playing in a room and you want to capture the room's reflections and ambience, then omnidirectional would be nice.

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Microphones have patterns: http://www.homestudioguide.com/AllAboutMicrophonePickupPatternsCardioidOmniBiDirectionalEtc.aspx Microphones are dynamic or condenser, and they don't have to cost you an arm and a leg. For $200 you could get two - one for vocals, the other for guitar, with different patterns. Maybe this is a nice one? http://www.zzounds.com/item--AKGD88S

Looking at: http://static.kvraudio.com/i/b/imposcar.jpg You see the top row of knobs, and you see "BEND". It's only got a single knob, so it's either -2/+2 or -12/+12. This is a parameter that depends entirely on the synthesizer you're dealing with; it is not a system-wide setting and not all synthesizers have it as a possibility. Instead of using the bender, consider portamento, or duplicate the track, set the pitch bending to -12/+12 (if the other track has it set at -2/+2) and play the specific parts that you need with that track.

Audio interface, a sound card that's geared towards music production as opposed to games. They come in several shapes - PCI cards (M-Audio Audiophile 192) or break-out boxes (Firewire, USB or proprietary connection). The way you say it you want something like that. Something like this has a preamp built in: http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/MobilePreUSB-main.html Preamps can have a nice character, but if you just need something that does the job, an audio interface is fine. Going from characterful preamp > audio interface is a better idea anyway, I think.

There's several sounds at once going on here and none of 'm have portamento, actually, so I have no clue how max came to the conclusion. Portamento sounds like this: First, you'll hear an extreme example, then I switch back to almost zero, then I turn it up a bit again. http://www.theheartcore.com/music/portamento_extreme_modest.mp3 You can practice a bit with this (it's a pretty good free plugin): http://www.geocities.jp/daichi1969/softsynth/synth1.jpg Set play mode to mono and adjust the portamento knob; when you play the notes, make sure they blend (so hold the lower key first, while holding it down, hit a higher key). You'll hear the sound rise slowly. If the effect you were looking for is something else, it could be the bass-like sound that increases in brightness in clearly audible steps instead of gradually (but this happens rather fast). This is an option that's not available on every synthesizer. No idea if that's what you mean with wavy. http://www.theheartcore.com/music/stepseq_filter.mp3 What happens is that you put a steqsequencer or "quantized saw wave" on the filter. The (lowpass) filter controls the brightness. Normally, if you turn the knob up, the brightness will increase in a fluent fashion; if you let a step sequencer handle it, you can specify a value per step, so it can jump up from 0 to 20 (or whatever you want to) nearly immediately. The example was done with Native Instruments Massive, and uses 8 steps to go up from a low value to nearly maximum. It basically looks like a staircase. Another option is to use something that can play samples like this in succession: basically you switch around the sample it's supposed to be playing almost immediately so the sound will "stutter" like this. This is how people achieved certain effects back when the tracker scene (Fasttracker, Screamtracker) was at its heyday; because of limited memory and no things like lowpass filters, they had to use other tricks. If it's still not what you are looking for and you mean with "wavy" the tinkling sounds in the background, you can do this using a reverse delay. http://www.gvst.co.uk/grevdly.htm is free. Example below is made with Synth1, GRev Delay, and Ableton's built-in reverb. Synth1's arpeggio is used to play the chords. http://www.theheartcore.com/music/revdelayarp.mp3

This only works with synthesizers which have an on-screen keyboard. It's good that you started with software, instead of diving in the hardware world: I mean, you'd feel a lot more ripped off if you got home with this and couldn't get sounds out of it: The concept is that of a remote and a TV; without a remote, you can't do more than switching channels.

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Ozone's not articifially limited to keep someone's poow wittew CPU in mind, so yeah, that'd probably be a better idea.

this by the way was meant in a sarcastic fashion, because of your stated bullet point 5.

4 years of experience in Logic = priceless No Logic on a PC laptop = worthless See?

Then continue with the platform you've invested nearly 4 years in. Switching will be painful and frustrating, especially if you know and use a lot of shortcuts. There's nothing like it.

Try every single demo/trial version of all packages if possible - otherwise visit a local music store. Pick the one you feel comfortable with after you've worked a while with them. Don't pick the one that makes you want to bash your head against the wall. It's the cook, not the kitchen. Anything that can handle VST plugins will do. No, it doesn't. FL does help a lot thanks to its pattern-based setup and step sequencers, though .

It's funny to see the slew of retarded excuses the Mac fanboys dredge up. Why not use the good excuses, like the fact that the things all look like sex in a plastic or aluminum box? Actually, the price is a good excuse. If I'm supposed to use a certain software package (because the OS is the candy wrapping) the cheapest thing that gets the job done wins. Unless of course you spend all day changing system preferences, moving files and resizing windows. Your MSN for Mac and Adium have little icons next to people's names that say which computer they use? Harbl.

Seconding this, you just dump in a bunch of .wav files and it'll happily churn away.

Then play slower or play with pauses, but more important, exercise until your fingers bleed and Jimmy quits and Jody gets married. Do you have a suckity-suck soundcard? No VST because the VST can't read your mind and guess where you want what. Don't be lazy, just cut the wave file up in parts and put 'm on an audio track.

If you don't specify a sample your request is pretty much worthless yeah. So, just upload the mp3 or point us to a Youtube movie so we have an idea. WE CAN NOT READ YOUR MIND. IF THE WEIGHTED COMPANION CUBE SAYS WE CAN, THROW IT IN THE INCINERATOR. Is this the wobble? http://theheartcore.com/music/dyson_reese.mp3 Is this the wobble? http://theheartcore.com/music/dysonbass.mp3 Is this the wobble? http://www.producer-network.de/forum/ftopic12275.html Is this the wobble? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0FEiAheaKw See? I can continue with this a hundred times, but that is why you should provide an example. edit edit: also, you don't create anything with FL. You create something with the plugins in FL. It helps if you give a small but relevant list of those, too.

Why would you want to make this so complicated? MIDI does not make sound, the General MIDI soundset in your soundcard does. This is not nitpicking and leads to confusion on the level of "lol java and javascript are the same amirite?". The problem is that Guitar Pro doesn't support VSTs (probably too expensive to build in and too complicated for most users) which is sort of a bummer. The latest version has a better bunch of samples for the guitars at least, but if the other instruments suck you're still out of luck. In that case you have to suck it up, export to MIDI when you're done, then use something better. To use an apt analogy: you're putting the cart in front of the horse Synthesizers don't contain sequencers, unless: - the original instrument has an idiosyncratic way of making melodies (e.g. part of "that" sound is the sequencer). Example: TB-303 (check the example halfway the page). A 303 without sequencer doesn't sound like one. - the instrument the software mimics is a modular synthesizer of sorts In both cases the sequencers are almost always pattern-based - e.g. a loop of max 16 notes where you're not supposed to change the note lengths. In almost all cases guitar is recorded straight as an audio track; so you can compose in Guitar Pro, print out the sheet music, then play it back yourself with an actual guitar and record the result of that. Can't change a note halfway, but you can record in steps which allows you to play a chunk of the song differently. Bandstand is a sound library of "regular" instruments (piano, guitar, strings, brass). Most other software plugins either aim to specialize (several gigabytes of orchestral instruments) or don't imitate regular instruments at all (pure synthesizers). Getting a good jack of all trades isn't so much a problem (Steinberg Hypersonic, IK Multimedia Sampletank), but the issue lies in the fact that your favorite sequencer doesn't know how to shot web with those. A good e-guitar will cost you $600 - but sounds pretty rad. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqGJ8y67SU8 The full version of Kontakt 3 adds another $400, but that gives you a lot of great sounding instruments and an awesome guitar. Better however is to just record your own playing; can't beat the realism of that.

Thanks for the demo Nicole Antares Auto-Tune > http://www.antarestech.com/ or GVST GSnap > http://www.gvst.co.uk/gsnap.htm Some reverb and maybe a bit of stereo widening involved, that's all.

Lots of networking. Do some open source/freeware game soundtracks for free. Have a big portfolio. Lots more of networking; composers are an established work force and companies don't switch for the fun of it. Also, a completely Flash-based website is impossible to index by search engines so if you want your tracks and name out there, I'd change that.

Completely different. Live, unlike most other sequencers comes with a really nice manual and a bunch of tutorials, and they've got videos on the site too. I switched from Cubase (SX3) to Live and I'm happy with it - I haven't upgraded to version 7 yet.

No, don't, because PMing or mailing is exactly what ruins the usability and the public display and searchability of information. I think the Guide topics are interesting, it's just that a forum is not a great way to convey and sort information. Also, starting posts, no matter how great and elaborate - if they are 5 years old they turn off newbies looking for info.

There's no effect called "phrase" as far as I know. A delay effect is simply an echo, a chorus makes it sound like two instruments (or people) are playing (or singing). Can't do anything with that if you can't provide a sound demo. There are no specific "voice" editors (well, not in that way you mean it). Ordinarily, what happens is that you open the sequencer (FL Studio, Ableton, Cubase, etc.), add an audio track and drag & drop the recording of the vocals in there. The effects are then "chained" to that track; so the audio stream flows from track to effect to effect to maybe another effect and then to the output. That way, you can try out effects, change their order and their setting. What you're describing with Cool Edit is something that's called "destructive editing". You have the audio file. Then the computer basically records the audio file as it would sound if you'd put it through an effect (or more than one effect). You end up with the "effected" audio file and you've lost the previous one. This means you're usually limited to the effects that Cool Edit has. More modern audio editors have the option to use effect plugins instead of their own effects. Why use something like Cool Edit (or Sound Forge or Wavelab) then? Because it's easier to slice bits of audio files away from existing material; and sometimes you need destructive and manual editing (for instance, removing noise/crackle/hiss from vinyl recordings).

I can't find the manual on the Casio site, but if it's not, you won't find the term "General MIDI" anywhere. Some keyboards have these presets hidden in some obscure way, others just pick what's closest (or in your case, the number of the other preset). That may also have to do with the way the Casio receives Program Change data. Basically you can order a MIDI device to jump to another preset; most (professionally made) MIDI files have program change data included so the song makes the playback keyboard jump to the right presets. But that's a guess, and it depends on the General MIDI compatibility.