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Lag problems with USB midi controller into Cubase

bifurcation — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:32:32 GMT

Hey all,

Another problem, whew!

I use a novation ReMOTE 25 LE USB midi keyboard controller, primarily with Cubase SX 3.

All well and good, but i get a pretty significant lag between hitting a note and hearing the sound from the VST plug in it's connected too (in Cubase). Makes it impossible to play anything live.

Bleh, Any suggestions?

My setup:
Box: Dell Dimension 8300 - 2.6 Gighz
Video Card: Nvidia GeForce FX 5200
Monitor: SyncMaster 941bw
Audio Card: SoundBlaster Live!
External Audio Device: Tascam US-122

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Computer Recording - Hum related to LCD monitor

bifurcation — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:32:25 GMT

Hey all,

I'm having an annoying hum problem with my computer recording setup. I notice it goes away when i turn off my monitor. Weird.

I moved the PCI card away from my video card, but no dice. Weird.

Any suggestions?

My setup:
Box: Dell Dimension 8300 - 2.6 Gighz
Video Card: Nvidia GeForce FX 5200
Monitor: SyncMaster 941bw
Audio Card: SoundBlaster Live!

Audio output run through a mini-to-RCA cable to an Alesis RA150 connected a pair of Tannoy passive speakers.

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vocalist / singer looking for electronica artist loops or loop creator or dj or synth or keyboard or producer or dance music creator

Regina — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 08:24:16 GMT

vocalist / singer looking for electronica artist loops or loop creator or dj or synth or keyboard or producer or dance music creator

for electronica to become pop
think: electronica, psychedelic trance, deep house, techno, tech-house, ambient, world
(also think: justin timberlake, beyonce, madonna, fergie)

real influences: dance music electronica cd compilations, underworld, robert miles, enigma, massive attack, shakatura

I am a female vocalist / singer-songwriter with a lot of original songs started, plus a nice macbook pro laptop

(must be clean :-P ) must be very ambitious :-) :-)

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The 30 Songs In 30 Days Contest!

bifurcation — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 09:39:33 GMT

Alright, here's the deal:
From Jan 30th till Feb 28th i am going to write, preform, and record a song a day, every day, for 30 days.

seriously

Join me.

Did i mention it's a contest?

Here's the rules:

There are two levels of difficulty, with two levels of prizes.
LEVEL 1 (for those who wish to push their edge):

Write the lyrics and music for a complete song each day (or write 3 songs a day for 10 days... or write 30 songs in 1 day. Whatever. Just as long as you have 30 songs recorded by 11:59:59 pm Feb 28th.)

What is a song?
You decide. Maybe it's a 30 second jingle. Maybe it's a 10 minute epic. Maybe it's you and an acoustic guitar. Perhaps you'll throw down acapella style or a friend will beatbox behind you. Set your own goals, set your own definition.

What is not a song?
No Scatting. At least 70% of your lyrics must be lyrics (yes, "baby, baby, baby" is okay, if it's followed by what you think of "baby")
No free-form poetry set to random noodling. A song has structure. A song has something that resembles singing (at least as much as Lou Reed or Cake.) Sorry. We need some criteria, and the line is drawn just short of William Shatner.

It's a contest? What do i win?
If you slink past the finish line with ye olde sack of 30 songs, you will gain the oh's and ah's of all your friends and family. You will get bragging rights for years to come. You will have a great icebreaker for wooing potential romantic partners...

... AND you will receive (from me) a rare, gold encrusted, PDF certificate naming YOU as the coolest person in the entire multiverse.
LEVEL 2 (for those who wish drive themselves insane):

Same as above.

* But: Each song must be at least 2 minutes long.
* Each song must have a melody and harmony
* Each song must have at least 1 vocal, singing comprehensible lyrics, and at least 3 other elements (like drums / bass / guitar, or deep rezzy bloops / high screechy bloops / sitar, or hand claps / piano / chainsaw... you decide)

...psst, i'm doing level 2.

Is there a better prize for LEVEL 2?
You bet there is! BETTER bragging rights. BETTER wooing potential... and an even BETTER PDF certificate (diamond encrusted, worthy of framing.)
FAQ

Why am i doing this?
'Cause i'm crazy.

It's kinda like NaNoWriMo for music.

It's about the magical power of deadlines. It's about bragging to everyone you know that you are going to do something scary, something impossible.

Why should you do this?
Because life is about doing crazy, scary things that we don't think we can do.

Just to risk looking bad, to risk doing something you thought you couldn't do. Give someone a goal and a goal-minded community and miracles are bound to happen.

It's about pure creativity. It's about abandoning our inner critic, leaving our inner editor at a day-care center for a month. It's about seeing what comes out when we don't have time to worry our dreams into nothingness.

Chris Baty, creator of NaNoWriMo, once said:
The quickest, easiest way to produce something beautiful and lasting is to risk making something horribly crappy.

Great works of art can be created in a month.

One more quote from Chris:
The glow from making big, messy art, and watching others make big, messy art, lasts for a long, long time. The act of sustained creation does bizarre, wonderful things to you. It changes the way you look at art. And changes, a little bit,your sense of self.

Do it because it's stupid.

Do it because it's impossible.

Drop me an email at 30s30d@systemcrasher.com

* Tell me: Your name
* Your email address
* Level 1 or Level 2

...see ya in february

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New mix - looking for feedback

bifurcation — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 08:23:37 GMT

Hey y'all,

I just DJed together a bunch of my newer breaks. Hoping to get some feedback on the tracks as well as the DJing.

http://www.systemcrasher.com/demo/

Thanks in advance,

bi

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check it!

GyPsy-Nate — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:45:01 GMT

Hey yall I got up a new track for you to check out.I think this is a good clean mix of this track,but why dont you tell me?
The track is called "Trible Eye Closed"
www.myspace.com/gypsynate

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Home Recording Tips Tricks and Techniques

jaandlu — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 20:25:21 GMT

There are tons of great tricks you can use in the home studio for example taping a pencil in front of the diaphram of your mic as a pop guard. Or using an duplicate kick track pitch shifted down to create a larger thump. What are some of your favorite mixing, recording or editing tips, tricks and techniques?

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Best PC DAW

Thu, 08 Dec 2005 21:43:25 GMT

(cross-posted)

Hiya-

Having finally killed my old Win98 P3 at home, I'm in the market for a new PC DAW and am curious to hear from others as far as experiences w/ retailers and machines...

And while I know it's usually cheaper to build your own machine, I really don't want to futz with the BIOS config., driver library, cache settings, etc., - 'out of the box' is what I'm looking for. Would like to spend $2000 or less, but will shell out a little bit more if it means the difference between great and unbelievably great.

Been looking at these sites:

http://www.adkproaudio.com (like 'em 'cause they offer Win2k for all us XP haters)

http://www.shop-sonica.com/

http://www.pcaudiolabs.com

I think I'm also leaning towards an AMD dual-core chipset...

Thoughts?

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vocalist plays with fire

aoka — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:09:25 GMT

I have the ability to record a full length album in a professional studio, gig, and possibly soundtrack a short film. I am interested in melding genres like:: soul + swing + funk + trip hop .or. 50's jingle + electro + punk.

Be fooled. I am crazy; planning invasions, skanking through grocery stores, and singing in the parking lot. I like transistor reggae be-bop hootenannies through rock and rumble piano fiestas and into power trip switch hop on roof-tops to street corners. I have a ridiculous amount of lyrics and songs and am also a free style vocalist.

So what you got. I can sing to it. Play anything. Any fucking thing. I am not afraid. Wheels screeching sweat pouring fire punk, sultry sexed-up Thursday morning house, boogalicous body thumping beats, freedom rock for toy instruments, funk punch for your thirsty palette: I CAN JAM.

I am looking for people who thrive music: bass - stand up/electric, flute/bass clarinet, keyboards/piano, drums- hand/kit, horns, turntables, guitar, violin/viola, poets and funkdafied producers. I am interested in collaborating on specific projects while also finding a cohesive group of musicians that are truly into each other, can travel cross country, laugh till four in the morning and thrash a basement as hard as a stage. I am a rocket. Give me the go. I'll light the fire

listen now to recordings:: www.aoka.moonfruit.com

be.to.the.bop
Aoka

aokasound@gmail.com
www.aoka.moonfruit.com

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M-Audio Trigger Finger and Reason...

kjell — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 23:27:00 GMT

So I went and bought one of those M-Audio Trigger fingers. I've been searching for a pad based controller and have heard great stuff about them. So I brought it home and plugged it up via the USB connection. It's interesting that the power supply is optional...cool, but interesting. Obviously they intend it to be run mainly USB. I primarily use an Ensoniq ASR-10 as my master, routed through a midi midi controller which is in turn run into my PC. I was assuming I would do the same with this little puppy. I am using Reason 3.0 along ReWired with Logic ( I am checking out Cubase SX as I'm pc-centric) and I had a couple questions for someone who might know...

1. I had the trigger finger connected USB, opened Reason and went to the Control Surface Selecton Menu it didn't have the trigger finger listed along with the other M Audio conttrollers like the Oxygen. Is it supposed to be like this, or should Reason recognize it proper...pic and all..?

2. What might be some advantages and disadvantages of running this primarily midi proper like my ASR10?

3. At first I didn't install the drivers it came with as it said it would be recognized by reason etc. So I went ahead and pluged it up and the PC recognized it...but not reason, or at least as mentioned above....I had to select a generic listing in the control surface section. I went back and installed the drivers and nothing really changed. Any thoughts?

4. Anyone have any thoughts on the software included with the trigger finger for librarying sounds and presets?

Thanks much all, hopefully someone else out there can help shed a little light on this for me...

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Mastering Plug-ins?

falik — Fri, 24 Dec 2004 03:06:59 GMT

I'm currently reviewing the T-racks 24 VST mastering plug-ins. Does anyone have any experience with this or similar products on PC?

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PBR can Mic

Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:37:31 GMT

http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2005/04/homemade-beer-based-condenser-mic.html

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M-Audio Audiophile

Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:58:56 GMT

Anyone have any experience using M-Audio's Audiophile FireWire controller interface?

I finally got off my duff and bought a copy of Abelton Live v4.0 to use with my Dell Latitude D800. The Audiophile appears to be a good and inexpensive solution for my interface needs -- particularly, external D/A conversion and analog sampling (the Dell notebooks suffer from a lot of interference with the onboard converters, I've experienced), and hooking up a MIDI keyboard. I may even try plugging in my XONE:92 mixer's MIDI output into it as well...

Your suggestions / feedback / tips would be appreciated...

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tascam fw warning

thephatconductor — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 19:40:02 GMT

tascam fw warning

1 year, 2 pcs, 3 firewire cards, 4 installations of windows, and 5 driver updates later... it works WORSE THAN EVER!!!

i cannot warn you strongly enough, this is the worst piece of kit ever. i have spent a year of my life and hundreds fo dollars trying to get it to work and it is now worse than ever before. it is basically an overpriced mixer with no eqs.

0/10

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Good alternative to Reason

Mon, 21 Mar 2005 22:25:13 GMT

Hey all. I just got a chance to sit in on a product demonstration for Cakewalk's forthcoming Project 5 ver.2. It looks incredible for electronic music production. The work-flow of the application has been completely revised. Here are some of the new things coming:
Audio Recording
Groove Matrix (a la Ableton Live)
Multi-timbral DXi & VST synth support
Revised multi-osc plug-in included
New sampler by RGC audio (makers of Z3ta)
Rewire host & client
Built-in Groove clip slice editor
Increased automation capabilities
New Audio effects, etc.

I thought that Project 5 ver.1.5 had some pretty good advantages over Reason, but I'm totally sold now! I can't wait for it to start shipping.

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Logic still best option for PC?

kjell — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 22:23:38 GMT

So as Logic as gone all-apple, all the time... the question has to be asked. Is Logic still the best way to go for PC users abroad? I know it's the most powerful, and flexible...once you actually learn to navigate it...and it does everything I want it to, and I've invested a lot of time to get to where I'm at. But now that it won't be supported moving forward...what are PC folk to do?

So, maybe in two parts...

What would be the last version of Logic that was PC compatible...was it 5.5?

IF, in your opinion, there may be a better "master" program for PC, what do you think it would be?

Or is the simple answer..."get a Mac" ;)

Either way, it'd be interesting to get peoples thoughts on it.

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What is this?

Oogie — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 02:04:49 GMT

http://www.spaz.org/~ian/begora.mp3

I made this on my gear with Logic as the sequencer, recorded into Wavelab4. I dunno what you'd call it for genre, but listen and tell me what you think.

O

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PC soundcard suggestions?

kjell — Sun, 31 Oct 2004 23:24:13 GMT

So I'm looking to get away from Creative...I know I know... I've got an Audigy 2 ZS and it works alright. But the studio is growing and I think it's time to crank it up a notch. I've read through mad forums...with many a debate over usual suspects... MOTU, RME, M-Audio, Event etc etc... Wondering if anyone has suggestions for a solid pro card at a somewhat affordable price.

Thx in advance...

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Y2K4 International Live Looping Festival next weekend

looppool — Sun, 03 Oct 2004 08:03:07 GMT

Hi, I thought the folks in this tribe might want to know about this really cool festival.
We're bringing 50 live looping artists from 5 countries to perform for four days in San Francisco and
Santa Cruz (where the main festival will be this coming Saturday and Sunday).
I hope you can make it. If you come from this tribe, please come up and say hello if you make one of the
events.

yours, rick walker aka L()()p.p()()L

Y2K4 International Live Looping Festival October 7th -11th, 2004

SCHEDULE for THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7th
The LUGGAGE STORE
1007 Market St. San Francisco

admission: $6-$10/admission (opener begins at 8 p.m.)

9:00 The INAMI/WALKER/WAGNER International Looping Trio

SCHEDULE for FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8th
QUESTION MARK GALLERY Santa Cruz
in the Pearl Alley Building behind the Pacific Garden Mall

admission: FREE

8:00 Michael Klobuchar (USA)*
9:00 Bernhard Wagner (Switzerland)*
10:00 Sunao Inami (Japan)*

MAIN FESTIVAL for SATURDAY and SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9th and 10th
The RESONANT CHURCH, Santa Cruz
429 Pennsylvania (1/4 block south of Soquel Avenue across from Rite Aid/Albertson's)

admission: $10/per day no one turned away for lack of funds

SCHEDULE for SATURDAY,OCTOBER 9th
12 noon Scott Kungha Drengsen (USA) -1
12:30 Krispen Hartung (Idaho, USA)-2
1:00 Trey Donovan (USA) -1
1:30 Craig McCollough (USA) - 2
2:00 Stanosaur (USA) -1
2:30 LX Rudis (USA) - 2
3:00 Kid Beyond -1 (USA) -1*
3:30 Cochlear Electrolysis (Minnesota,USA) -2
4:00 Andre Custodio (USA)- 1
4:30 Matt Davignon (USA)- 2
5:00 ghost 7 -M (Massachussetts, USA) -1
5:30 DINNER BREAK
7:00 Rena Jones (USA)-1*
7:30 Dark Muse (USA) -2
8:00 Sunao Inami (JAPAN) (HEADLINER) -1*
8:30 Armatronix (USA) -2
9:00 Ted Killian (Oregon, USA) -1*
9:30 e o (USA) -2
10:00 James Sidlo (Texas, USA)/Rick Walker (USA) -1
10:30 Are Jay Hoffman (USA) -2
11:00 Joe Balestreri (USA)-1

SCHEDULE for SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10th
12 NOON Kitundu (Iceland) -1*
12:30 Ahl-i Nafs -2 (David Giovachini and Susan Sammel) (USA) -2
1:00 Daniel Thomas (USA)- 1
1:30 Chris Cohn (USA) -2
2:00 Peter Chester & Rob Cross (USA) -1
2:30 Amar (USA) - 2
3:00 Dr Richard Zvonar & Bob Rice (USA) -1
3:30 Warren Sirota (New York, USA)-2
world premiere: Multi Loop software
4:00 Mark Hamburg (USA) -1
4:30 Alex Stahl (USA) -2
5:00 Bernhard Wagner (Switzerland) -M -1
5:30 DINNER BREAK
7:00 Michael Klobuchar (Pennsyvlania, USA)-1*
7:30 Larry Cooperman (USA) -2
8:00 Daniel Lewis (USA) -1 *
8:30 Gary Regina (USA) -2
9:00 Brian Kenney Fresno (Mars) - 1
9:30 Bill Walker & George Perry-2
10:00 Wayne Jackson (USA) - 1
10:30 George Demarest (Massachusetts, USA) -2
11:00 Timothy Crowe (USA)-1

SCHEDULE for MONDAY, OCTOBER 11th
1:00 Annual Loopers Luncheon at the CATALYST, Santa Cruz

Asterisked PERFORMERS are Featured Perfomers
Numbers refer to stage numbers
All artists that say (USA) are from California
SUNAO INAMI is our official Headliner for the festival.

My sincerest thanks go out to the following people.

Webmaster: Bernhard Wagner,
Poster/brochure and Website artwork designer: Ted Killian
Poster/T-shirt photography: Andrew Kaiser (for 'the spiral')
T-shirt design: Rick Walker (ooops, that's me)
T-shirt printing: Jason Gellis
Stage management: Chris Cohn
Simulcast organizer: Bernhard Wagner
Streaming bandwidth provided by ETHERIC NETWORKS
and.....
All the artists who have donated all of their time and who have all
travelled to perform at their own expense.

This festival is run on virtually no budget. The fact that it has become so big and wonderful is a testiment to the live looping community all over the world. None of this would have been possible without the existence of Loopers Delight, founded and maintained by Kim Flint. He just told us that this incredibly informative and exciting website has over 900,000 page views per month now. Thanks Kim for all of your energy, time and financial contribution to this community.

See you all there, I hope!!!!

yours, Rick Walker (festival organizer)

ps Sadly, Concert headliner, Italy's Roberto Zorzi's has had to cancel his tour to the US because of the illness of his partner Paola. Our heart is with them both and we pray for her speedy recovery.

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looking to collect

Sun, 19 Sep 2004 00:30:32 GMT

looking to collect information from all about what i should be looking at/reading/knowing to get back into recording at home utilizing my computer.
previously i have a bit of experience with 4/8/tracks and dat tapes.

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aleatoric production

astroid power-up — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 23:04:27 GMT

so, i've been trying to figure out a way to use random process in music ever since i first hear about john cage. the closest i ever got was to use white noise to trigger timbre shifts/ tones etc.

but i got a good one now.

randomizing pans! do it at a fast rate, and your shitty obscure mix can be imbued with space, life, and clarity. it's kind of like seeing the world through the moving spokes of a bicycle wheel. works better than square-wave pan modulations-which tend to give more of a flickering character in two spots. the randomness gives it an emphemeral feel.

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Intelligent Expenditure

Paul_F — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 23:48:24 GMT

Hey Everyone:

Just wondering if we shouldn't simply put together our own little board for helping each other out. We could at the very least benefit from using a searchable system. The current model here doesn't allow for any searching at all and that means, in a nutshell, that we are dumping any data we provide down the drain.

Should more people start using this as a resource for help (and I hope we get something going in that context) we'll be burried with information and unable to find what we are looking for specifically. The secondary consequence of that is we'd be answering the same questions over, and over.

So...

My proposal is that we seriously consider an actual bulletin board through either a web site we dub as the EM Collective (or something equally catchy) or we tag along on someone else's site.

The advantages to doing a collective is that nobody gets unfairly promoted over anyone else. We'd have mad bandwidth if we were to use my hosting company (15 bucks a month http://www.uberhappy.com). We could "elect" people to handle the duties that are required to make a collective work. Namely a treasurer, a web designer, and a president.

The advantages of tagging along is that we wouldn't have to manage our own site. We get a major hands off approach and get to spend more time on music.

The down sides to having our own thing is that we'd need to actually agree on something. When there are more than two people involved agreement is difficult at best. We'd have to come up with 15 bucks a month plus the domain registration for the year (two years to start at most registrars). Policy would have to be created to handle and protect everyone from the politcs of interaction.

The down side to tagging on is that we'd be promotiing a single member's music over everyone else's. There is a huge possiblity of a political move wheein the system is "taken down" by the pissed off artist. The artist can't afford his or her hosting fees so the system gets shut down beyond their control. Politics are harder to manage when a group is beholden to one person.

My vote is for us to host our own thing with our own name. I'm fond of a BBS and would be happy to install and maintain that part of it. Somene else will have to create the web site though. I'm done with site design. Registration can be done through me for 35 bucks for the first two years or through somene's own thing. Through me it'll automatically get updated when I'm updating everything else I have and I'll just let everyone know when it's due again. Control of ownership for the domain can be handled by me as well. I'm not prone to swaying to politcs. The monthly fee for service is 15 bucks and is a paypal subscription. I'm not sure how that should work but if we all pitch in 5 bucks (and even half of us do this) we'll be fine for quite a while. We could even set it up so that the donor would have a banner of some sort touting their generosity (and advertising their own site).

Hope this all makes sense to you.

TripSeven

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Hello Everybody

Sedusa — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:03:52 GMT

Hey Guys,

If you're anything like me, you would prefer a tribe that has low traffic but is informative and intelligent when there is traffic. I'd like this to be a high traffic tribe, with good exchanges of ideas, but it will not devolve into flamewars.

So,

Discuss as much as you like.

Invite whomever you would like.

Disagree as much as you like.

Ask as many questions as you would like.

But,

Troll, Flame, or Dis, and you get THE AXE.

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