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  1. vitaminman

    Which One

    Hey, A few comments: 1. I like Western Digital drives. I've never used other brands, and I've never needed to. 2. Good RAM is always a good idea. It is so cheap now that I wouldn't worry too much about price. When I built my first machine 4 years ago, it cost me about $100 for 128MB...
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    Looking for a program to rename files

    Hey, I'm not sure! I played around a little with CEP tonight trying to figure out how to do that, but no luck. If you write to support@syntrillium.com, they may be able to help you out. PS: If you're nice, leave your name and write in complete sentences, they'll take you more seriously :D...
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    Grahic card w. dual head

    Hey, Wow, I always thought the Matrox cards were cheaper than other dual head cards....how much are they going for? If you look for OEM versions of the card, you can save yourself a lot of money. Here's an OEM G550 for $98...
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    How does an MPC work?

    Hey, I LOVE sound modules. What's great about them is that you don't have to worry about loading anything into them, all the sounds are ready to go when you turn it on. You also don't have to worry as much about other people having the same sounds as you, for the most part the only people who...
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    Grahic card w. dual head

    Hey, Here's my dual head setup: http://www.leodaley.com/studio/center.jpg It's a Matrox G450, I got it for $100 a couple years ago and it is great. I had purchased an ATI Radeon and had all sorts of problems with things like shapes not drawing or come windows only displaying black...
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    How does an MPC work?

    Hey, That's not such a big deal, anyone can make Akai format samples and post them on the net. It becomes a big deal if someone bought a commercial sample cd and posted the files on the net, that's piracy. As for synths and samplers, there is a fine line to be drawn here between the two...
  7. vitaminman

    Which One

    Hey, YES! Someone finally gets it!!! However, don't get to excited about getting cheap computers just yet, you should choose your hardware wisely or else you will have all sorts of problems later. My suggestion would be to build one from the ground up. That way you have complete control...
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    Grahic card w. dual head

    Hey, To answer your question: YES, you can use a 15" monitor with XP with a dual-head card. Did you get the new Matrox? Take care, Nick
  9. vitaminman

    software seqencer & sampler

    Hey, Any software sequencer will work with your XP-60. My favorite is Cubase, there are plenty of others out there that will work equally as well. Your concern shouldn't be 'will it work with the XP-60', but rather 'will it do what I want it to do'. Take care, Nick
  10. vitaminman

    Hidden Messages In Vinyl? Playit In Reverse

    Hey, If you play The Prodigy's 'Full Throttle' you can hear Luke Skywalker say 'We're going in full throttle...' The whole reverse thing is played out and really dead. I find it hard to understand how people can listen to something played forward and it doesn't effect them, yet when...
  11. vitaminman

    Drug enduced music

    Hey, I used to like staying up making a track, going to bed, then jumping out of bed immediately when the alarm went off to smoke a cigarette...while listening to my track loudly with headphones! I got HIGH every morning this way from the headrush from jumping out of bed and the nicotine...
  12. vitaminman

    How does an MPC work?

    Hey, Reason sounds like old video games because the synths they emulate are similar to the synths used in the old Nintendo systems. If you don't want to sound like Nintendo, don't use those synths. If you only use the sampler and sequencer in Reason, it will sound EXACTLY like an MPC...
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    Protools conversion

    Hey, Waht they mean is: "Did you record, edit and mix your song in PT?" What they want iS for you to bring them the Pro Tools session including your audio files so that they can mess with it some more. In order for you to do so, you will have to import the audio files that you already...
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    How Do you start your beats?

    Hey, I start with a few chords or melody which I like, record them into Cubase, then start adding/removing stuff along the way. Eventually I try to remove the sounds of the initial chords and replace them with more exciting sounds, or try to not make the chords sound so 'obvious'. As for...
  15. vitaminman

    Any tips how to make my strings soond scary?

    Hey, Here's a thought... A trick someone gave me a couple years ago on how to make stings and organs sound scary is to play them as 'diminished 7ths'. I have no idea what that means, but I do know this: Play two notes high on the keyboard that are right next to each other and place them...
  16. vitaminman

    Roland's new workstation

    Hey, Major differences between the two: 1. The Roland comes with 64mb of PCM sounds stored on a chip, you can turn it on and make sounds with it immediately. 2. The Roland has more complex 'synth' parameters like filters, envelopes and LFO's. 3. The Roland has DSP effects. 4. The...
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    how much difference does a good sound card make?

    Hey, The problem with the 'dirty' soundcards is that you will ALWAYS have a bad sound. If you have one of the nicer soundcards, you can make them sound a little dirtier, or you can load an effect into your editors which dirty them up for you. There is a BIG difference between 'dirty' and...
  18. vitaminman

    E-mu e-synth keys

    Hey, Yeah, it's one hell of a keyboard, a friend of mine has one and he won't shut up about how good it is! What's nice about it is that it already comes with a ROM card with a lot of good sounds, so you can start making tunes as soon as you turn it on. The sampler in it is amazing and the...
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    Alesis HR-16

    Hey, Something else to consider...I had a TR707 many years ago and sold it to someone for next to nothing because I didn't think that it was worth that much. It turns out that it was worth a lot more than I expected because it had some sort of CV/Gate thing in the back which allowed older...
  20. vitaminman

    How does an MPC work?

    Hey, 1. There are no samples in it. You have to load your own, either by sampling something into the audio inputs or from a disk. 2. It has some synthesis features like a low-pass filter, envelope and LFO. They are pretty basic though, and I don't think most people use them at all. Take...
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