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  1. MarkN

    Portable Audio Interface

    My new macbook arrived today so I'm looking to get a new portable audio interface that I can carry around with it. It's got to be USB and ideally I want 2x2 in/out, it can be more but I don't need them. The mbox mini is the obvious choice and the one I'll probably go for just wondered if anyone...
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    It feels sooooo good to be baaaacccckkk!

    Been really on and off with music the last couple of years but finally managed to get myself back into it recently. Been a LONG time since I posted on here regularly but I'm gonna try and get on here more often now! Been really busy working on the career front and managed to get myself a good...
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    Sample length in reason

    I've been using Reason for years but I've never found a simple solution to this. When sampling with an MPC you can hit a pad and play back the sample and if you change it to the right mode the sample will only play as long as you hold the pad, as soon as you let go of the pad the sample stops...
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    The Great Debate #2

    Seen as the last post seemed to go down well and get some decent discussion i thought i'd post up another question im looking at.... Is current hip hop/rap (whatever you want to call it) almost just a parody of itself used to make money? so basically are a lot of modern hip hop artist just...
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    The Great Debate

    I wanted to post up a question here to see what people thought! I'm writing my uni dissertation at the moment on the use of sampling in hip hop and wanted to ask people... Do you think 'hip hop' that doesn't use samples can ever really be called 'hip hop'? or is it just rap? or is any of...
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    Afrique Deluxe in SOS !

    lol i don't know if anyone on here reads Sound on Sound im pretty sure its an international mag so im sure some of you do ! I just read this months and Afrique Deluxe is in there in the studio SOS feature where two of their guys go and sort out problems in a reader's studio ! just thought i'd...
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    Reason 4 NN19 problem !

    Right i used to be a big reason 3 user before switching to hardware for a while, well i decided to go back to software and buy reason 4 recently, obviously there are a lot of differences but one thing i can't figure out is before in reason 3 you could load a .wav sample into the NN19 and then...
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    song themes !

    I was listening to the radio today and the new pharoahe monch song came on ! and its good but it got my wondering does it annoy you when you have a song where the chorus and verse have absolutely no relationship to each other, the chorus is on about i want your body baby and in the verse hes...
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    Probably the Best Music Theory Site !!

    http://www.chordmaps.com/ been reading thru it the last few hours, and i think its easily the best music theory site i've seen ! loads of info i didn't know and there seems to be a good spread of actually just theory stuff and stuff relating to playing and songwriting ! ENJOY!
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    Guess Who's Back

    Haven't been on this site properly in ages, mainly due to moving house and my internet hasn't really been working 'til this last week, i'd like to say i've been producing loads but to be honest i've just been working to pay off debts i have been learning the keys a lot tho so thats gonna help ...
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    Nothing beats.......

    stupid long sessions in the studio, yea you get tired as hell eat crap all day and start imagining sounds by then end of it but its all good ! just got bk from a 9 hour session today mixing some of my tracks to submit for part of my first year uni assignment ! its great just being in a proper...
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    I need help from my illmuzik fam !

    Right basically im on the first year of my audio engineering course, and one of my assesments next wk is to have 15 minutes of music and i have to be able to perform it ! the main problem is that im not a band or woteva so i can't really perform live in the usual sense !? anyone got anygood...
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    Happy Birthday ..... !!

    To Me ... lol 21 today ! damn !
  14. MarkN

    Timbaland uses Reason !!

    I was looking through my reason strings re-fill tonight, and i came across the exact sample timbaland used for the solange 'get together' track ! if you have the reason strings refill its the official propellerheads on then its in the 'orchestral strings rex' folder and the name of the rex file...
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    Check These Out !!

    http://www.openlabs.com The NEKO and MIKO workstations, just spotted them on another site, they look fuckin crazy the way you've got everything there in that one station and you can still intergrate with reason and pro tools and woteva and use loads of plug ins etc ! anyone ever used them ...
  16. MarkN

    Keyboard Question

    Im looking at getting a new keyboard at the moment i have a midi controller which is fine but i want to learn the keys a bit better and would rather have something i can switch on and play without having to load up my sounds elsewhere, i dont need a sequencer or sampler or controls on it, i just...
  17. MarkN

    using a mixer and soundcard !

    basically what i want to know is if i had say an m-audio 1010 which has like 8 line inputs but before the soundcard i had a mixer could i only record from the mixers main output ! or is there a way of recording a number of my mixer channels in one go using a number of the m-audio's inputs ? peace
  18. MarkN

    audio routing question !

    at the moment i've got my MPC which obviously needs an audio out, and my PC which also needs its audio fed to my amp ! however my amp can only play one sound source at a time ! so the solution would be to get a mixer to route all my incoming audio signals into one stereo pair which would feed my...
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    Mixer / Audio Interface !?

    yo, i been looking at getting a mixer recently, as i need more I/O for my recording at first i was gonna buy a basic mixer ( yamaha mg 16/4 ) but ive been tempted by some of the audio interfaces lately like the m-audio one othe digi control 8 tascam fw's etc, whats peoples opinions of these is...
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    HAHA have a look at this......

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?d...222362133632201

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