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Like to twiddle knobs (virtual or otherwise)? Talk about the music making experience here and share some tips and tricks you've picked up along the way.
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606 samples?
by Guest môak- 6 replies
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yo greenbank big up for those 808 samples! just wondering if you got any good or 24 bit 606 samples?
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something about my boss dr 770
by Guest eatanter- 6 replies
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fellas, there is something going on with my boss dr 770 that i do not really understand, and it keeps bugging me. often, my patterns tend to be rather longwinded and complex. but sometimes, when i try entering further notes (doesn't matter whether in real or step recording mode), they don't sound at the step where i put them. in fact, they are in place (i can see them in step recording mode as well as on my screen when MIDI-ing around with my pc), but they keep on sounding right at the end of my pattern, just before it loops again. they are all layered, meaning they are played back right at the same time, no matter where they were put in the first place, and ju…
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Recording to tape
by Guest LJG- 4 replies
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I've been thinking that I'd like to get back into tape recording, 4 track. I used to have an excellent Yamaha back in the day, and I really do miss it for sketching. I don't have a computer at home, and I'm not all that interested in hard disk recording per se- I guess I'm a bit of a low tech fetishist. But I was looking at this by tascam: The 414mkII. Anyone else ever use it, or have any other 4 track recommendations? Thoughts on tape recording in general?
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Does anyone know anything about these? http://www.esi-pro.com/viewProduct.php?pid=46&page=1 Since I've finally got a job I plan on spending some money on myself and I've decided that I need a couple of studio monitors, since I noticed that mixing with headphones on makes me think that the bass is nice and phat but it turns out that it's so PHAT that it can't be heard on big monitors.
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Rack gear
by Guest LJG- 7 replies
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More questions from the needy. I'm wondering about rack equipment as opposed to armies of keyboards, tabletop modules, etc... I've seen some lovely glowing racks in the 'post pics of your gear' threads, so I know there's some folks here using them. So the question is, apart from the obvious portability, perhaps cleanliness and hopefully security of a rack setup, are there any other advantages? Any straight out necessities if you're going to build a rack setup, such as power conditioning? I was browsing mixers and ran across a eurorack 12 channel that made me think of this. As well as the rackmount Nord Lead 3, uBer tits. But I was thinking that a rack with powe…
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I NEED SOME MORE KNOBS!?!?!?
by Guest idrn- 15 replies
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hello i need a cheap box of knobs to play live with, what do you recommend? CHEAP
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If you have tired ears from listening to those old tracks to see if they are any good you can just switch the ears around. Its all good again. L-R to R-L. now your tracks are so GREAT!
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yamaha sk 20
by Guest taxman- 10 replies
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local shop has one of these. it's pretty cheap... does anybody have one/ has anybody used one? how do they sound?
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is it possible to drop or record audio to the track and use something like a razor blade tool and chop the shit out of the audio ? and eliminate various part of aformentioned audio... ? thanks in advance
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Hello EKT! My problem is this, I'm looking to buy a MIDI controller for production use, and I have my eye on this http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Oxygen8v2-main.html However as well as using it in Reason, FL or whatever, another major use I really want it for is to enhance my DJ sets. Basically whilst in Traktor I want to be able to assign samples, eg the odd ragga vocal, a gabba kick, a silly whooshing noise etc to the keys and be able to drop them in as I see fit, whilst retaining use of the knobs for volume/effects control in the tracks I'm playing. Is this doable? This is my first foray into the world of MIDI so I'm not really sure if Traktor allows…
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Good spec laptop for Ableton and Traktor
by Guest The Bro- 8 replies
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What's like the minimum spec for a laptop running Ableton and Traktor would you folks say? Currently I have access to P4 2.8ghz 512 rm vaio and it really does the job no problemo. Naturally am thinking about getting my own and am curious realistically what I should get.
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Make your best Disco track 1 2
by Guest Weird Al- 49 replies
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Everyone, make your best disco track, and post it here. Any style of disco is fine, but if it aint got the beat, then keep it in the street. here's mine, under my unreleased Tech-Noir moniker. tech_noir___conner.mp3
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so, uhhh..... 1 2 3 4
by Guest eatanter- 80 replies
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since my synth has no onboard sequencer and i've got some money now again, can somebody recommend me a hardware sequencer? i don't really know what to look for in a sequencer, never had one. so please tell me your sequencer of choice, why you chose it, what to look for, what to avoid.. anything will come in handy!
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Ok so for ages now I've always sampled a 4 bar loop or something and just manipulated it by moving bits of waveform into different places "live" and putting random filters over it but... sequencing seems a tricky job in this case (I heard from somewhere it's near impossible?). What's the best method to get the best results (mostly for variation I was thinking, like some amen break that is always changing and only loops after about 1 minute). Please excuse the noobness but I don't deal with the classic amen's very often.
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Anyone try them out yet? http://www.native-instruments.com/index.ph...=newproducts_us
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OK so I'm trying to process an amen into greatness but having trouble making it sound nice and clear and punchy, anyone got any tips? I'm guessing compression and EQ'ing but don't really know too much about them, tutorials would be handy if people have good ones. (not been doing this too long, be gentle!)
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computer generated voice
by Guest KarakasaMusic- 9 replies
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how does this work? does n.e. one have a program or something?
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i'm making a music shooter game. if you've ever played the game ''rez" it functions alot like that. basically, you fly a thing around and shoot stuff. what makes it interesting is, there's a song playing in the background that, as the level goes on, gets more & more layers. every sound effect in the level (from shots fired to power-ups to explosions) is a musical tone or drum hit that goes with the song for that level, so as you're playing you're not only playing a game but composing a song as well. if any of you are interested in writing songs for this game, that would be awesome (so there'd be a variety outside of my own sound). if interested, this is …
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Japanese Build Dancing Robot Squid
by Guest analogue wings- 3 replies
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Thanksy, avert your eyes! LinXor - LOL machine translation
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so ive realised that i can change the pitch and sound of notes on my 101 just by lightly fingering the power button, without actually pressing it, and in a controlled fashion aswell i can change the speed of the arppegios by pressing certain parts of the plastic casing too, is this a cause for worry?
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renoise
by Guest Adjective- 2 replies
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i have a laptop with no net access, when i buy can i have it on all my machines or what? do i need to do some phone-in crap when i enter the license for the offline comp?
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Kustom amplification equipment
by Guest LJG- 1 reply
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I was wondering if anyone here has used Kustom gear. I assume it's shit, as it's so incredibly CHEAP, or at least assembled by 5 year olds for 3 cents an hour. But you never know, at least not without asking or trying.
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Seriously! I've been fucking around with this track for a couple of hours and nothing has come up yet. Does anyone have any good ideas for a melody or anything. Anything would help!
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I can't seem to figure it out, all the panel readout widgets all only seem to work for audio signals, not event signals. this is pissing me off.
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.. i need some half decent way of getting my guitar and singing into my computer .. and have pissed about for ages not really buying what i really need to effectively lay down tracks from live external audio sources ... will an MBOX be my sviour .. or am i kidding myself .. apparently it's USB .. so whats the latency like ... hrmm :dizzy:
