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Hi And welcome to Songstuff! Yep, I meant to use it in conjunction with the Layla. I have this desk, and it's pretty good, and pretty versatile. Glad to help! Cheers John

Hey What sort of budget are you talking? Most Sound card break out boxes are pretty expensive, and using individual pre-amps wouldn't be too cheap either. The best solution, with the most versatility might be to get a budget desk with channel outs (like a Spirit of some kind: http://www.soundcraft.com/product_sheet.as...p?product_id=25, although this may be more than you need) Cheers John

Hi Ok.... You can use that microphone outside. But it requires phantom power (i.e. a 48v power supply, usually a desk or IO unit supplies this). If you intend to capture environmental souns using a portable DAT or mini disc, they won't have a 48v power supply. In fact, outside you have to run on batteries, unless you have a very long power cable, and battery units do not supply this voltage. So either get 2 microphones (a non-phantom power one to be portable, and a good studio mic) or get one good quality non-phantom power mic (recommendations anyone?) The firewire device (FW410) has 2 analogue INs, several analogue OUTs (8 I think), timecode support, and MIDI in and out. There are other units that will provide something. To make sounds using MIDI you have to use a synth or sampler (either an external hardware unit, a soundcard with synth/sample support, or a software synth/sampler). MIDI is control information, like what note, or how long the note is, or how loud. The actual sounds are created by a synth or sampler. MIDI tells the synth or sampler to make play the sound that corresponds to the note, and to play it that lound and for that long. So if you have an external synth or sampler you will need a physical MIDI IO. If you do not have an external synth you can use you laptop soundcard (not very good quality) or get another pc based sound generator (software synth, pcmcia card, usb/firewire device). To play audio/wave files you can do this in several ways, but the most obvious is by directly adding the files to logic as an audio track. You would do this for a 'real' instrument recording, like a vocal. These recordings can be processed with an effect, or moved in time. I'm not a Logic user, so I can't advise on specifics, but if Logic can't import audio tracks, it must be the worst sequencer prog there is, and I don't believe that. Could you be trying to add a wave file to a Midi track? Is it being added but just not playing back? If so, have you set up logic to work with your sound card? Have you selected that card as an output? Just some thoughts... Cheers John

Hey As I said, I don't use a mac, but a lot of the software is similarly featured to PCs. ok, to make a portable studio, look at a firewire audio unit (like the FW410) to give you a reasonable amount of I/O and phantom power, and if you don't have an external synth/sample module get a good synth pcmcia card (or get an I/O and synth in one unit), and some external storage media. Logic Audio should be suffice, but you may need the Platinum version. You'll need to sheck the feature set. For a microphone, consider the Rode NT2. It is excellent for vocals, though it is a studio microphone. Maybe one of the other guys on the board can recommend a good microphone to be used outside (it depends whether you want to always record onto your powerbook, or if you will have a more portable recording unit (like dat or minidisc) for uploading to the powerbook later (I'm thinking of sound effect recording here). I hope this helps! Cheers John Cheers John

Hi Willhig Welcome to Songstuff! Sorry not to have replied sooner. I'm not a Mac user, so I can't help on that score. I'm assuming that you will be recording the audio to sync to the video using smpte time code or similar. I have used a VS880 and it can sync to smpte as MIDI code. The VS880 doesn't have phantom power, so that restricts your choice of microphone. Why do you want a hard disk recorder and a pc/software recording package? I'd be tempted to get a really good sound card (like one from creamware), and make sure that your system components are able to sync to a common time code. What are you intending using the microphones for? I guess some specifics on how you intend to use system components would really help. Cheers John

cue microsoft...

Yep, it's pretty sad....and annoying. Sorry Dave

Hi I found this and thought it was interesting: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main....Fecntdown26.xml Cheers John

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Hi Welcome to Songstuff! You could start looking here: http://www.songstuff.com/links.php?selectedcategory=41 Cheers John

Hi I found this post on the ic-musicmedia board: If you are a registered ProTools User, you should QUICK visit the DIGIDESIGN Website !!!!!!!! They have made available a FREE download of the BombFactory Plug-In's bundle, which normally costs SERIOUS money! Seven full-featured Bomb Factory plug-ins ? Bomb Factory BF76 (formerly, Bomb Factory 1176), Bomb Factory BF Essentials (five plug-ins), and Funk Logic Mastererizer ? are now available for FREE download for Pro Tools TDM and LE systems running on Windows XP or Mac OS X. Quote As our way of saying thanks for your support ? and your way of saving $680 US compared to the plug-ins' combined list price ? we've made the following plug-ins available without copy protection (yep, no iLok required) so you can put them to work in your sessions right away. Bomb Factory BF76 (formerly, Bomb Factory 1176): Digital emulation of the vintage 1176 Peak Limiter BF Essentials Clip Remover: Fast, accurate tool for repairing clipped audio recordings BF Essentials Correlation Meter: Troubleshoots phase coherency on stereo tracks or stereo submixes BF Essentials Meter Bridge: RMS and Peak VU metering with calibration on any channel, with minimal impact on DSP resources BF Essentials Noise Meter: Three meters in one: A-weighted noise meter, a Robinson-Dadson equal-loudness meter, and a VU meter with 100 dB of visual range BF Essentials Tuner: Fast-tracking, accurate instrument tuner Funk Logic Mastererizer: Lo-fi sound effects plug-in These free Bomb Factory plug-ins are compatible with all Pro Tools TDM systems supported by Pro Tools 6.x software, as well as current Pro Tools LE systems. Sample rates up to 192 kHz are supported with Pro Tools|HD and HD Accel systems; sample rates up to 96 kHz are supported with Digi 002 and 002 Rack systems.

Nice one DORUMALIAA!

BS Did you check out Wavelab? Cheers John

doh!

Now I'm sure I've seen you use cubase and a sampler...

Hey Does anyone have any recommendations for a good, versatile, easy to use PC based software sampler? Cheers John

Hi For me it would be a guitar I used to have, a 1986 US Custom Gibson Les Paul white body with gold fittings. It played beautifully, and sounded fantastic. I still miss it. On the acoustic side, something from Taylor guitars would go down well... On the custom side, I'd get a hand made custom guitar from Moon guitars. Cheers John

Hey Jo Welcome to Songstuff! I'm not a cubase user (Davlan should be able to help with the specifics) but if your cymbal is triggered from a sound module or keyboard, I think you will need to create an audio track and put a reversed cymbal wave in it. You don't say if you have a separate wave editor, like wavelab, but I'll assume that you have access to a wave editor of some kind. 1: Set up your wave editor to record from the aoundcard audio inputs. 2: Connect your keyboard audio outputs to the soundcard audio inputs. 3: Set input levels if necessary, start recording and play the cymbal sound on the keyboard and stop recording. 4: zoom in on the wave and trim of the silence at the begining and end of the wave. 5: Select the entire wave and reverse it. (usually an edit or effect option) 6: Save it as a new wave file. 7: Create an audio track in Cubase 8: Add the new wave file to the track at the appropriate point. Copy and paste as usual for other reversed cymbals. And that's it. There may be an easier more direct way of doing it, but midi cannot play sounds in reverse. You will need to create a wave file to do this. I hope this helps, but if not maybe Davlan can advise you. Cheers John

Hey Not a problem. Glad I could help! Cheers John

Hey BS I used to use Sound Forge 4, but I swapped to Wavelab. It's an excellent package I have to say. It might be worth comparing the latest of each. Cheers John

Hey BS That's the one! Great song. Old age makes me forgetful. Still it could be worse, I could be forgetful. Cheers John

Hey Dave I don't think it's greedy. Apart from anything else, I spoke to their customer services manager, and it was his suggestion on any compensation. In fact, I never asked for anything. I didn't pursue it throught small claims court or anything like that. I just spoke to them and let them know I wasn't happy. I didn't mean to seem smug, or money grabbing. As you point out, it has caused you great inconvenience, and possibly a loss of income. To go to court would not be successful if you have no proof of the impact, and it would be a lot of hassle. Have you spoken to their Customer Services manager to see what he is willing to do to make you feel better about it? I'm glad you've finally got your system up and running, and I can't wait to hear the results. I'm sorry you've had so much hassle with this system. Cheers John

Sorry D I meant the band "The The". A uk thing maybe. Cheers John

Dave I got £750. And mine cost £4000. You shoulda held out for more. Did you mention that you'll be writing about your experience on Songstuff.com? Cheers John

Just to say, this post keeps getting picked up for people looking for a vocaloid crack. Cheers John