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I'm using Abelton Live my friend is using cubase. If I want to send a work in progress to him whats the easiest way to do so?
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Stux posted:So he can listen to it or mess around with it? If the latter what are you using in the project ie midi based stuff, pure audio, effects etc and does he have the same vsts as you? Just pure audio. He put down a guitar track at 120 bpm and I was programming some drums, just trying it out. Except when he sends me the file as an mp3 apparantly his 120 bpm doesent seem to correspond exactly with my 120bpm. Is it something to do with being an mp3? Could he just wrap everything up as a bunch of WAV's somehow and have me import it fine? e; that had way too many spelling mistakes. massive spider fucked around with this message at 11:11 on May 4, 2008 |
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May 3, 2008 13:41
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I'm kind of baffled as to how you get a great sounding vocal track. Currently I'm using an sm58 and a PODxt to record, hardly ideal. Soon I'm going to be picking up a condenser mic from a friend and some kind of audio interface (any recommendations? The only feature I really need is phantom power). I'm confused about the following things. Recording: How much does it matter where you record? The room where my pc sits is fairly dead acousticly. EQ: Where exactly is a voice in the eq spectrum, is there anything you should be doing to it with an eq? Compression: What are you aiming for exactly when you compress a vocal other than an even volume? What kind of ratio, attack speed ect? Ambient effects: Every time I attempt to add reverb it sounds far too "real", like I've recorded it in a gym hall or a bathroom or whatever. I can turn it down I'm not exactly sure what I should be doing to give the vocal a sense of space and ambience in the mix as opposed to just sounding like an echoey room. Delay just seems to gently caress things up further.
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May 5, 2008 13:42
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Are there any free amp sim VSTs? I dont need anything great I have a POD for that when I can be bothered to hook it up and patch surf. I just want something that lets me quickly plug guitar straight into my usb and rock out without it sounding like an unplugged guitar.
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Jul 10, 2008 17:51
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Ok, heres something thats killing me: I'm using abelton live. I have a Podxt pedal and an alesis io/2 interface, the POD can also act as an interface. I have ASIO4ALL drivers using the ASIO4ALL to record with the pod, I get 2.18 input latency, 2.18 output latency, 4.35 overall latency. Using the io/2 with its own drivers I get 5.58 input latency 27.9 output latency. Using the io/2 with ASIO4ALL I get 17.3 input, 17.3 output. Is there a way to get latency down with the io/2 or is it just a piece of poo poo? or is it something to do with my pcs speed?
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Aug 17, 2008 12:11
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Stux posted:Is there a reason you're using ASIO4ALL for the pod instead of line6s asio drivers? No particualar reason, I just get the best results that way. Its just weird that the POD works so much better for recording than the io/2 considering thats what its made for. But then I cant use microphoens with the pod.
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Aug 27, 2008 19:10
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Lloyd Christmas posted:What do you guys recommend for non-amped ways to record guitars? I live in an apartment and need to be able to do it quietly. My current setup is a Pod 2.0 into the line input of an Mbox, and it sounds like total rear end. Muddy as gently caress. It might be that I'm completely inept at programming the Pod, but it shouldn't take a rocket scientist to get a relatively decent sound out of it for what I'm doing (mostly simple power chords). I;ve found the best way to use PODs recording is to use much, much less gain than you would normally and then layer the hell out of the guitar track.
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Sep 30, 2008 23:51
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I have a coupon for $50 off ableton live if anyone wants it. I've already got it.
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Dec 11, 2008 20:36
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This may be a stupid question but would a faster PC reduce my latency? Or am I stuck with the same latency as long as I'm using the same audio interface?
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Jan 17, 2009 18:10
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wixard posted:A faster computer isn't going to increase the speed that the audio goes into and back out of the PC as that relies on the A/D, the implementation of the protocol, your divers, etc, but it could shorten the time it spends processing while it's inside. Let me put it this way then. Would a faster pc let me pull down the amount of buffering needed and thus reduce it that way? At the moment I'm getting 5 input latency and 88 output which is workable because everything ends alright when you play it back but its annoying as poo poo when monitoring. massive spider fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Jan 17, 2009 |
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Jan 17, 2009 21:41
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Alesis io/2, if I bring the buffers right right down to their minimum its 2 input /5 output but then that sounds like dogshit. Generally I have to keep pushing them up till it reaches stability at something ridiculous like that.
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Jan 18, 2009 00:13
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Roctor posted:How fast is your processor and how much memory do you have? I could imagine that your problems are caused by a lame computer, but it's hard to judge without specs. Pentium 4 3ghz 1g of ram
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Jan 18, 2009 14:32
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Once you've got a shitload of tracks in Ableton is there any way to clean things up visually? Or do I have to wait until 8 comes out with the zoom feature? Ideally I just want to be able to say, "all those tracks up there? They're done, I dont want to have to look at them anymore" and shuffle them offscreen somehow. massive spider fucked around with this message at 15:27 on Feb 5, 2009 |
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Feb 4, 2009 21:38
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Is sidechaining a compressor when mixing useful for anything specifically? I know about the house music WHOOMPH WOOMPH WHOOMPH thing but I'm thinking more practical than that.
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Feb 22, 2009 04:18
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RivensBitch posted:It's very good for many things. The simplest application is giving a certain instrument priority over others. Let's say for instance you have a heavy distorted guitar that is sitting in the same space as the lead vocal. You could try to EQ it, but another trick would be to put a compressor on the guitar, and sidechain the vocal to the compressor's trigger input. Set a quick release and a medium/fast attack, and set the threshold and ratio so that you get about 2-3db of reduction, and now your vocal will pop out. It can be subtle or extreme, but sometimes using an EQ on the guitar in that situation is like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. You're sacrificing what could be a good tonal area throughout the track, when it's only those sections that really need tweaking. There's a plugin from TC electronic called dynamic EQ, which allows you to do the exact same thing, but it applies EQ instead of compression. Yeah I was thinking that would be obvious but everytime I try to sidechain or automate something when making guitar based music it always sounds awful and fake. Guess I need to work on it some more.
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Feb 23, 2009 18:06
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Question: Why do people record in 48k/ 96k/whatever when CD audio is 44.1? Isnt any benefit just going to be lost in the final mix anyway?
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Mar 10, 2009 03:40
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Are there any good tricks for bringing tracks together in a mix? I mean getting the feel that the bass and drums were recorded together without having the means to actually do so.
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Apr 6, 2009 03:13
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nimper posted:Use a click track when you record. No poo poo, I meant recorded in the same room sounding like a "real" band. That being said I figured out what it mainly was, I was getting a bunch of latency Live wasnt reporting right meaning there was an annoying subtle time disparity between the sequenced drums and the real bass. massive spider fucked around with this message at 23:34 on Apr 6, 2009 |
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Apr 6, 2009 23:25
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Theres a test you can do which involves connecting a cable from the input to the output and seeing the difference with a test tone. It still doesent feel quite right though.
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Apr 7, 2009 00:47
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Drum and bass breakbeats are breaks sampled, cut up and rearranged. Part of the reason they sound the way they go is that they include the ghost hits and other noise from the original sample.
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May 9, 2009 00:02
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RIP LISA LOPEZ posted:What is a decent affordable sound card to get for use with soft synths and recording? Do most cards these days support ASIO? A sound card isnt specificly what you want. Whatever you're getting as an audio interface (usb, firewire, whatever) will effectively be your sound card when you're doing music, it could be a PCI card if you want but there are more options than that.
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May 16, 2009 18:42
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Well your options are basically anything is what I meant. Any audio interface would be an improvement on your current one. Your choice is whether you want to go usb 2.0, firewire or PCI and what features you want, performace of softsynths has more to do with your CPU than anything. Heres a fairly decent guide: http://www.tweakheadz.com/soundcards_for_the_home_studio.htm The only real recommendation I have is dont get an Alesis as they are garbage.
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May 16, 2009 22:57
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Thats a bit of an awkward question as what makes a song sound "studio quality" is like asking what goes into a good painting, or how you build a decent house. The answer is always going to be "tonnes of poo poo". You're better off posting the song and asking for specific critiques. If you want a how-to guide buying a book would be more informative than any single free website I could think of.
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May 17, 2009 23:15
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Stabbing Spork posted:This thread is fantastic, I just got the end of it today. Thats about par with mine and it should be fine. aiming for lower latancies might make it choke sometimes though. Regardless though I find its best to conserve cpu by resampling tracks. Dont record the guitar rig track, bounce the output of it to another track then record that. That way you get multiple guitar tracks with only one instance of GR.
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May 29, 2009 20:23
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I've always heard you should use a condenser mic for vocals but why is this? I'm having a pain getting a good vocal track and I'm wondering whats so criminal about a dynamic mic.
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Jun 2, 2009 18:34
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jebeebus posted:Bleh, just found out my Tascam US-122 I've been using doesn't work with Vista. Anyone have a basic USB interface lying around you'd be willing to sell? Just looking for 2 XLR and phantom power, like the E-MU 0404. Really? I've got a US144 and vista.
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Jun 14, 2009 15:27
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Rashomon posted:Does Logic run well on the less expensive Macbook Pros? My brother and I are moving into an apartment together and going to be doing a lot of recording, I think. We're planning on getting a new computer to do all of our recording since the computers we have are adequate but not ideal, and Logic is really tempting. But the $2500-3000 for a Mac Pro is sort of daunting, especially when you could get basically the same hardware for 1/2 to 1/3 that on a PC. Are the lower end Macs enough power to run a moderately large Logic DAW smoothly? I've been researching this myself. From what I can tell: Logic ought to run fine on the macbook pro or mac mini so long as you arent doing anything like putting space designer plug ins on every track, remember that one of Logic Studios selling points is Mainstage which is basically useless unless it can run well on a laptop. The main issue you'll run into is screen real estate, Logic is much more accessable with a large monitor and the 13" might feel a little dinky. Also you'll want a mouse becasue using a touchpad to work is hell. You can specify additional ram from the store when you buy it, you can get external hard drives about anywhere. massive spider fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Aug 15, 2009 |
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Aug 15, 2009 18:12
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Thirst for Savings posted:I probably could have ran some sort of test before I brought it back. I would be interested to see someone do some science on theirs. As I understand it the advantage of firewire IS that its better with more channels. As it was explained to me with only 1/2 inputs there isnt much difference between firewire and USB, however because of the way firewire handles information its much better for a large amount of simultatious inputs.
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Sep 15, 2009 02:08
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I like Ableton becuase I find it very easy to program drums in it. Click on a slot in the session view and make a clip. Then let the clip run and just punch in whatever on your controller. When you're done and quantised you can just drag and drop the various clips you've made into the arrangement view. I prefer logic's effects though, it just sounds better in some indefinable way but live is so absurdly easy to use.
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Sep 26, 2009 13:12
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IntoTheNihil posted:Can you use the standard Pod XT/Express/etc for recording bass? The podxt yes but you dont get to download the bass amp models unless you pay for them.
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Sep 26, 2009 21:12
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nrr posted:Can anyone tell me if it's possible to get a feedback sound out of a software amp and effects setup? I'm using Ableton Live with FreeAmp3, an acoustic with a pickup, and apart from headphones the closest thing I've got to monitors is a lovely pair of computer speakers. Use a Y cable with a real amp in the room. Subtle feedback/resonance from the speakers is part of the reason simulated amp models dont "feel" quite right.
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Oct 27, 2009 00:22
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mike12345 posted:
I love how 80's this is. 808 BOOM
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Nov 9, 2009 15:39
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This is really annoying the poo poo out of me. I've been using Ableton for ages, and I've got a pretty good workflow going, if I want to do something I can understand fairly quickly and intuitively where to go and how to get down parts quickly. I've recently tried moving to logic though, and it just sounds better. I dont know how, or why but I can spend ages trying to treat a vocal part in ableton so it sounds good, load up a patch in logic and bam, there it is. I think its that abletons built in effects are just sorta crappy, or more likely just user error but whatever, I've spent ages wrestling with them and I'd prefer to go with whatever sounds good right now. The only problem is though that it breaks. All the time. I'm getting weird cpu spikes that come out of nowhere and shut down the project. I tried googling the exact error I'm getting and all I'm seeing is a lot of vauge unhelpful advice and a couple of oh-what-the-gently caress-is-this-apple rants from people with similar problems. So its fustrating as poo poo, I've got the program I can work in, that dosent sound as good. Or the one that sounds great, but I cant trust. FFFFFF
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Nov 18, 2009 18:11
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Too Poetic posted:I'm thinking about picking up a Shure SM58 and an M-Audio MobilePre. The only thing I've seen some people saying the quality isnt great. Does anyone have an example of what kind of quality I can expect from this kind of a set up? Are the people complaining just huge audiophiles? Couldnt say. Its not going to be total dogshit, it might have a small problem with noise or something. Most likely its going to be one of those things where you dont notice the difference until you've used a lot of high end gear.
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Jan 1, 2010 20:35
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How does using an external hard drive help for recording? I've had a few people recommend it to me. I didnt initially believe it was necessary but now Im getting "hard drive too slow or disk error"s in Logic.
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Apr 8, 2010 14:28
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Quick question re: garageband. Is there some place to save files that isnt directly in the arrangement view? I'm talking like a window you can just drag a recorded take you arent using at the minute and drag it back out later. I know Logic saves all your projects files like this and ableton you can just use the clip view to the same end but I want to try GB for bare bones songwriting. massive spider fucked around with this message at 11:00 on Sep 12, 2011 |
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Sep 12, 2011 10:57
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Hmm, that makes in kind of useless for me. I cant really program a drum beat or something without being able to quickly audition a bunch of stuff.
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Sep 12, 2011 11:29
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Can anyone recommed a cheap audio interface that has multiple outs? I'm looking for at least 4. Also, how essential is the min 7200 rpm hard drive for audio recommended in the OP? It seems quite hard to find one on a mid priced laptop. massive spider fucked around with this message at 17:24 on Oct 17, 2011 |
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Oct 17, 2011 15:30
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Holy poo poo how did I only just realize the potential of abletons warp feature for writing riffs and parts. Play a bunch of dumb poo poo, find and loop the best bit, warp it until its something interesting.
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In garageband how do you take a "drummer" track and turn it into midi for editing the actual notes hes playing? I saw it happen once and I dont know how I did it. Is garageband just designed to piss you off until you buy logic now?
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