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Well what kind of keyboard do you have already? If it's a fancy keyboard with its own built-in sequencer, you don't necessarily need midi or a computer sequencer. Just a means to get the audio onto your computer [like, with an audio cable, hurr ]. If it's got MIDI [which you have] but no sequencer, you'll need two things. First off, a sequencer like you can find in this list. Second, something which will let you use your midi keyboard on the computer. The cheapest solution is an M-Audio MIDISport Uno or 1x1: http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/MIDISPORT1x1-main.html http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Uno-main.html Don't buy it from there though, you can probably get it for cheaper on other sites. A MIDI keyboard is extremely useful and almost necessary if you're doing computer sequencing. Especially if you know how to play the piano well, it'll help you work efficiently inside a DAW [digital audio workstation] environment. So that's out of the way. Tell me what kind of keyboard you have.

There isn't even much difference between USB2 and Firewire. They're both fast enough to provide for a good external audio interface. There are kinds of I/O boxes you can buy at Guitar Center for a few hundred bucks, and sometimes they come with software. I know a guy who bought a MBox that came with a small version of ProTools [LE right? 17 track recording] for around $300 or so. He had some problems getting it set up, but he was using a PC. Dunno if it's any different on a Mac.

BGC would be relatively unknown to me, except for the fact that he has actually arranged Metroid 2. I'm always on the lookout for new Metroid 2 arrangements!

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I think videogame music is pretty cool to learn how to play anything. There's a big range of difficulty from "easiest song ever" to "holy fuck I'm getting owned by this .vgm." So if I were you I'd just learn songs from whatever game you feel like at the moment.

Actually that's not crazy! Different colors represent different midi channels. So your note color may have been pink and that's channel.... I dunno. The colors are all too damn similar, I don't like using them because of that.

DJP can see what we buy? D:

tweakbench stuff doesn't give me much of a CPU hit anymore. But I am running 3.2 GHz... LoL I have two other mellotron VSTi, they are free but neither of them really have everything that tapeworm does. M-tron seems to have more samples, but it's €100 as opposed to €0

Soundfont mellotron = no good tapeworm VSTi = good http://tweakbench.com/instruments.php?id=6

I taught Gray how to use FruityLoops :3 Other than that I don't really talk to him much. lol

¿hablando a través de los traductores es justo así que asustadizo, no es? : D emotion is not conveyed well! But now you know where to post your songs for feedback. You know, I know a guy from Spain who helped me on my last music disk

That's an issue that happens with some cracked versions of FL... Some cracking groups [or maybe just one] kinda fucked up and distributed a version with saving errors... lol. Er, I mean... buy FL6

Poste en los “Works In Progress: Other” si tienes composiciones originales, y “Works in Progress: OC ReMixes” si tienes el videojuegos remezcla. También REALMENTE te recomiendo aprendo inglés para comunicarse en este Web site.

You can set patterns to have a set number of beats. On the step sequencer [holy fuck it's actually useful?] at the top left there is a [--] box, when you mouse over it, it says "beats per bar for this pattern." I have an older song which takes advantage of this. One pattern is 4/4 and one is 5/4, and they're both playing at the same time. It actually sounded pretty cool. Of course now you have to adjust the playlist snap, which isn't hard. Go forth and make music, Radiowar.

...so glad I'm not Jill right now http://www.vgdj.net/album I already own and wear an OCR babydoll tee. Perhaps babydoll where you come from means something different? I dunno. In any case, I hope Dave will continue to carry them! I thought you'd be creeped out or something, but nevermind!

...so glad I'm not Jill right now

I use a .wav editor and rip them out of songs myself. It's easier than you think. All you gotta do is keep a beat.

This is a very debatable subject. Sites like Kohina.com's radio stream plays SNES tunes, as they are from a 16 bit system and just as oldschool and nostalgic as the Genesis, therefore they must be included in the chiptune scene. I, however, disagree that .SPC and .PSF should be callled chiptunes for the sample-based reason, as they are not using a built-in sound chip to synthesize sounds. Sure the SNES has a built in white noise maker [if I remember right] but that was only used as SFX [Chrono Trigger, FF6]. For the sake of Chipamp though, I believe they should be included in the bundle. This pack was designed to play the source of all the arranged music on the site, and SNES/PSX accounts for quite a bit of that. And I just suggested that DJP include the BASS module plugin as well. Mods are all sample-based too, barring .s3m which can use AdLib/OPL-2.

For any future complaints: All that weird misalignment stuff? That's your old cache conflicting with the new images and formatting. Clear your cache and it should resolve all layout problems.

2nd to last post in the old thread I'll just repost it:

I was recommended these Ignite! books by a studio guy. He says they're a good read but I've never looked in one.

I find myself agreeing with Snapple

Selecting the port does matter, but just to FruityLoops. Give your midi out device a port. EXAMPLE: For me, that would be "Out A-MidiSport 2x2" and you'd set it to 0, so that whenever you load a midi track it is set to go to your keyboard automatically.

Yeah, and I can't believe they actually say that. It's been in the help file since 2000. I'm pretty sure you can change the frequency with no problems.

Er FruityLoops can go up to 192KHz... Options>Audio Options>Sample Rate You could export a 96 khz .mp3 if you really wanted to.