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Your keyboard has 2 audio outputs. Plug them in the audio inputs of your computer. Also, "HELP!" is a crappy title for a topic - you seriously get better and more information if you would've said "PSR-3000 songs to computer?" or something like it .

Every minute you spend on posting questions like this is a minute you'll lose in experience and concentration. Don't ask. Fight it. You have a problem - solve it. Even if you take a horribly complicated way of doing it, eventually you'll find something easier. Do not be afraid of the application, because it sounds almost like you are. Make mistakes. You'll learn more from them than from us posting here.

As background music or as a complete portfolio? Do keep in mind that background music is not to everyone's liking - usually offering a small Flash-player streaming short bits of looped music is a better idea.

http://www.fruityloops.com/help/html/basics_externalplugins.htm I don't think they're actually VSTs but just plugins - well, 3xosc is one, DX10 is another... You use MIDI file import if you are not that great in recognizing the notes by ear (also called solfege). Generally, just importing the MIDI file and not doing anything else (or just throwing a single effect over it) then is not remixing; it's taking other people's work. While I can't speak with authority on a fitting all-encompassing term for "remix", it's a reinterpretation of the song in (often) a different style (so you could turn an originally jazzy track in OONTZ OONTZ TEKNO - or the other way 'round), and usually using different instruments (due to the primitive soundchips of the older consoles). Why, is there someone chasing you? Understanding the programs, learning music, all of that costs work, and therefore time. Rushing a piece of music while you don't understand the basics and then having it rejected because it's a shoddy piece of work is infinitely more demoralizing as spending time on it and then having it rejected - because in the latter case nobody can fault you for at least putting effort in your attempt.

Can you figure out Reason? If you can't, the solution is to educate yourself - you'll have to become a techie. In a time where a complete studio fits in a laptop, it means that there's no engineer, no producer, no songwriter, no composer, and no musician but yourself around, so it's pretty important that you'll learn the ropes yourself. In the past, you had other people doing this for you, specializing in a certain discipline. You still have 'm, but not for small personal projects. Any keyboard or synthesizer is just as complicated, only sometimes moreso because of the smaller display. Read the guide at http://www.tweakheadz.com/

If you subtract one of the waves from the other (the same as adding the inverted waveform to the other), you get the wave's differences only. If both waveforms have equal parts and you want to get rid of the differences, subtract the difference again from the original. Any sample-accurate wave-editor that can invert the waveforms should be able to do this.

For what (lol, punz) reason? It's not like there aren't any VST plugins that are modular synths .

I think EXS should be even easier, but in Kontakt, what you do is this: Start the plugin. On the righthand side, you see "KONTAKT_DEF" (which is the default multi and doesn't do anything yet - it's empty). In the "Files" tab on the left, navigate to your folder with samples. Once you see the samples in there (I suppose plain .wav would do) click on one, hold your mouse button down, and drag it to the right hand side. That's all there is to "loading" - you drag and you drop. Importing stuff is trickier, but just try .wav or .aiff files for starters. A new preset with the name of the sample is created. Set the MIDI Ch to OMNI, or "Port A (From Host)". This means that the MIDI channel Kontakt is set on is linked to Kontakt. Play. If you click the wrench icon and then the Mapping editor", you see a big blue rectangle with the name of your sample. The basics are very simple - horizontal means that it's stretched out over several keys with a moving pitch (provided that the "Tracking" button is highlighted), vertical means that it's stretched out over several velocities - e.g, you can trigger another sound if you hit the keys harder. Obviously because it hates your guts. No, just kidding - download a demo of Ableton and see if it crashes there, too.

At the risk of sounding pedantic, if you bought it, it has a manual. Read it. At the risk of sounding like an asshole, if you didn't buy it, you don't deserve any help.

Noise reduction depends on plugins, not so much on wave editors themselves.

Tape saturation. Which is technically speaking compression.

Kore is like Reason's Combinator, only for VSTs. I can tell you that FM8 is a lot cooler to work with than FM7 .

You mean Photoshop. Check the pixels .

Did you add "Everyone" to the list of people with permission? Is there a person in that list with a weird name (G828X-WE298-VV-32XZXZIQ and so on or something - a random combination of letters and numbers?). Show us a screenshot? Pro is the version that doesn't require you to boot up and do the weird stuff just to see the security/permissions crap.

Well, "a Korg synth" doesn't tell anything - a Radias, a Triton, a Micro-X? You'll really need the model names and numbers. Are you willing to go the 2nd hand route? A studio setup consists of: - speakers + amplifier (or just active speakers - those have amps built in) - audio interface (that's a fancy word for sound card, but one that's for audio, not for games and movies) - mixer (if you have more than one instrument) - a synthesizer or sampler - something that'll do your drums (can be a sampler, too) - a sequencer (so you can record what you have played) Industrial music and darkwave leans heavily on samples and distorted synth sounds. For synths, the Nord Leads are often used - they're good in doing a cutting, cold sound. For samples, it doesn't matter that much anymore; but take my advice, don't bother with hardware samplers. If you're a newbie you'll benefit the most of cost and convenience, and for sampling, that means going the software route. For drums, there are drum samplers - the difference with "other" samplers is that they are based on the idea that each sound only occupies a single key. Now, a program like FL Studio actually already has a sampler built in. Ableton Live has a percussion sampler built in and there's a bigger and more bad-ass one, too. My advice? Try out FL and Live (Reason in this case is not an option; no audio tracks and sampling a hardware synth can be a tedious task). Cubase is overkill. Get yourself a Nord Lead 2 rack or an Access Virus B (cheap, lots of bang for the buck, favorites in darkwave and industrial) and a nice controller keyboard with drum pads and knobs (M-Audio Axiom, Novation ReMOTE SL). Buy a decent soundcard with a break-out box if you don't have it already. A microphone for recording your own vocals and soundeffects (you'd be surprised how well it works, the kitchen suddenly becomes sampling paradise). Invest the rest in decent speakers, maybe beef up your computer a bit, and make a choice - the program that suits you the best is the one that allows you to get your ideas on paper (or screen) the fastest. Roland XP-30, and it's filled with regular bread & butter (realistic) sounds.

If you have XP Home, reboot, hit F8, and see if you can get it to boot up again in Safe Mode. Then, log in as administrator. If everything's correct (and the whole simple file sharing crap is off, too) you should be able to modify the permissions using that.

File permissions are basically setting that say who's allowed to read, write and execute a file. In Windows XP: right-click on the file. Go to Properties. Go to the "Security" tab. At "Group or user names", do "Add...", type in "Everyone" and do "Check Names". Click OK. Now, in the list, someone called "Everyone" is added. Set Full Control to "Allow" (meaning all checkboxes on the left are checked). If that doesn't work, it could be that in the Group or user names box there's someone weird-looking (usually a huge string of seemingly random letters and numbers). That's the old user of your previous computer. Remove that person from the list - but only after you've set full control for everyone. If you have XP Home this trick might not work.

Just a random guess, but it could be that you have included files that aren't included in the song itself, and that it has made pointers to the locations on the old disk names. If you'd have an E: drive partition on your old machine and the new one doesn't have it, and you've stored the song in such a way that it doesn't include the samples in the file but links to them, I could see that happening. Also, http://www.reasonfreaks.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&p=35483 is what happens when you use Google on the term reason The operation could not be completed because "device denied access". So it could be a permissions issue; of course the Mac works differently, but still.

The MD is more of a nu-metal box. What you're looking for is something more in the direction of a warm tube-like distortion, I guess. The little pedals are usually not chameleons in terms of character, so go shopping for another one .

Doesn't that require an E-MU sound card? I don't think he's planning to buy an E-MU 0404, just a keyboard. No, not anymore; you just need an E-mu product if I understood it correctly. The card is a nice extra for some mediocre 100%-hardware effects. If you like how the keyboard feels and you like the sounds, it's alright. Personally I think it shouldn't be in the XP-series - all the other boards have 64 voices and are expandable. That's seriously nothing to dislike because MIDI ports are everything but legacy. Sadly enough. USB is not the future in that aspect - the internal "translation" to MIDI signals still takes place. A truly new interface would give a much higher resolution for controllers and hopefully, it'd introduce some kind of peer-to-peer model with timestamping.

That's your soundcard / audio interface, not your keyboard. E-mu Proteus X. No keyboard does soundfonts AFAIK unless you have an Openlabs NEKO, but that -is- a computer already. Just use the free RGC SFZ plugin. Velocity is a function of the keyboard, not of the knobs. Pitch is the pitch wheel or pitch bender, which is present on pretty much every keyboard. Tremolo is an effect and the only thing it has to do with knobs is that you can use a knob to adjust the rate and intensity, provided that you have a tremolo effect on the synthesizer or plugin itself. Now we're talking. Since the original topicstarter was kind of vague: - do you want to go the "dumb" controller + audio interface route? - do you want to go the synthesizer (controller + sounds) + audio interface (for your plugins) route? - do you already have an audio interface (and by that I don't mean an on-board soundcard or something meant for games) - do you already have a decent set of monitor speakers as opposed to PC speakers (what's the use of having great tools if you can't enjoy 'm?)

That's because you shouldn't do distortion guitars with a sample alone. It is actually much more effective to use a good distortion plugin combined with a sample. Distortion is an effect that you can't capture properly in a sample. Most synthesizers with a sample-based engine do the same - they simply throw a distortion effect over it. As for toms, check out http://www.akaipro.com/arc_kotw.html - the Linn drum should have what you need.

Thank god anime smileys don't work here. Well, it's just a self-extracting .rar file. If it stops, it should say what's wrong. If the message is "CRC failed" - then download it again from a different mirror and see if that works.

Good News Everyone: Kontakt 2 works with the EW demo thanks to this: http://www.nativeinstruments.de/forum_us/showthread.php?t=37833