January 2001 Archive of Music Software Discussion & Help Page

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WHAT IS WMA FORMAT?????????????

It says that files in WMA format allow 60 minutes on my mp3 player, while mp3 files only allow up to 30 minutes.. what is WMA and how do i convert?

Thoughts on Rocket Control for collaboration

Can anyone give me their thoughts on using Rocket Power (either within Cubase 5.0 or via the free Logic download) as a full on recording/collaboration tool? I have just started using it as part of the Logic for Rocket 4.6 app (available via www.rocketnetwork.com) and am blown away by it - but wondered if anyone else had used it in the longer term to create a CD etc (something I am intending on doing)

Would love to hear your thoughts...

Dave

Re: Thoughts on Rocket Control for collaboration

I have just started using it myself and find it an incredible resourse for getting musicians from all over the world to play on my material. I'll let you know how the finished product comes out. Any good musicians out there please come by , I'd love to have you play on my music.

shelia

Re: Thoughts on Rocket Control for collaboration

We have been using Rocket powered software for a good while now especially for post production work on projects coming up for release. Its amazing....

: I have just started using it myself and find it an incredible resourse for getting musicians from all over the world to play on my material. I'll let you know how the finished product comes out. Any good musicians out there please come by , I'd love to have you play on my music.

: shelia

front page...grrr

im relatively new to web page building and i'm using Front Page 98
i set up a page with hover buttons and linked them to midis only to find they wouldn't work when uploaded, now i find FP can't enable that
i have to convert the midis to au ok i dl'd AUSAMPLE.exe..so no explination as to how to make the conversion. i know to you knowledgeable webmasters
this may seem trivial..but i need help. thanks :)

Please Help, Can't play DAT files using laptop CD-ROM

Dear All,
I can't read DAT files using my CD-ROM on my laptop, but the weird thing is if I copy it to my hard-drive and play it, then it'll work. I've downloaded the latest version of Media Player, but still can't read DAT files if reading from CD-ROM. Can you please help. Thanks!!!

Peanut

convert mp3 to wav

when converting mp3s to wav on winamp, the wav file usually usually comes out heavily compressed (high compression ratio), even with volume peaks clipped. The effect is similar to automatic levvelling in a recording, but still with some distortions in high levels. Does anyone know a way around that or uses another software for conversion?

Re: convert mp3 to wav

I generally use audiograbber with a ratio of 256 k/bits and i don`t get any sort of problem with my decoding.

Re: convert mp3 to wav

try this site
http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-1896417-100-1463184.html?tag=st.dl.10001-103-1.lst-7-1.1463184

^_^

Static when playing recordings???

When I record a message and play it back there is a lot of static and can hardly make out what I say. I have went trough the help and no results yet. Please some one help me out...

Re: Static when playing recordings???

: When I record a message and play it back there is a lot of static and can hardly make out what I say. I have went trough the help and no results yet. Please some one help me out...

Hey,
There's so many variables that you haven't addressed. ie, what software, mike, audio card etc. Normally going into a goood quality audio card with a decent mike etc.and keeping your recording levels acceptable produces decent recordings.
Tony

what software to choose?

I have a Cel 633, 64 MB ram, CL 128 PCI sound card.
I would like to know what kind of software can you recomend me for making hip-hop music.I would like to make beats,samples,i would like to mix & remix and i would like to record vocals.So i need som kind of beat makin music samplin multi chanel peace of software or batter yet SHAREWARE.

Why don't you ask someone to write a song for you???

: I have a Cel 633, 64 MB ram, CL 128 PCI sound card.

Waaaaaaaaaaw !!!!

Is there any software to normalize mp3z

I am looking for software which will normalize all of the mp3z that I have in a folder. I know how to do one at a time, but is there software to do all of them.

Good sound samples

hello... i'm looking for high quality recordes sound samples of bass and orchestral string...please tell me where i could find some
(i don't want it for dance music...i need samples from real instruments...)

Re: Good sound samples

http://www.analoguesamples.com/index.asp
theres some good stuff here

Wavelab prob

I have Wavelab, and I was trying to write a CD, when I try to use the "check" feature, or actually burn the CD, it says there has to be a gap before the first track (at least 2 seconds) no matter how I try to put one in, it won't accept it. Anyone know why?

clusterfuck

dont know the answer amigo but this site might be useful http://www.fadden.com/cdrfaq/faq.html

Software and PC mixing.....need help sorting out the clusterfuck

I'm embarassed to ask - but I'm somewhat perplexed
by something that should be simple. First the system
facts: Abit KT7 mobo, 1 gig Athlon, 256 RAM. with
Pioneer 16x DvD, and a Plextor 12/10/32A, SoundBlaster
Live Platinum sound cared, Windows ME.

I have had some odd problems when inserting a music
CD in the Pioneer drive (but no problems with any
other sort of media). More often than not the system
would lock up and then give another weird blue
screen message upon attempts to eject the CD (something
like a prohibition against removing the volume
when it wasn't ready). All this seems to have
been cured, however, by my disabling the Adaptec/
soundblaster recognition program, which apparently
had been causing more than one program to compete
for playing a CD.

There's also the bizzare fact that in Windows File
Manager/explorer files from the same disc appear
with .wav extensions while in the Pioneer drive and
with .cda extensions in the Plextor drive. This
seems impossible - and I haven't "solved" it yet.

Anyway, the real thrust of my question is this: Given
that I received the machine with quite a bit of
Plextor, Creative, and Microsoft Music software (Windows
Media Player) - and that it all seems to be a
clusterfuck of non-intuitive bells and whistlery, is
there a safe (and preferred) way to just uninstall all
the damned stuff and start over. And when I say
start over, I mean the installation of a straight
forward piece of music control software good for
playing, copying, creating and mixing CDs?

Has anyone been driven crazy by this before?

I'm somewhat accomplished in the ancient art of mixing
music on a home stereo system with multiple tape,
turn table and cd sources - and I want to join
modernity and do this on the PC.........but I'm afraid
I'll fuck it up if I give in to my desire to just
uninstall all this annoying software. And, of course,
I don't know what kind of software is best for
what I want to do.....and that's not only to be
able to copy CDs, but primarily to create heavily
mixed CDs from multiple source media (i.e., even
from stuff on cassettes and vinyl).

Thanks for suffering through my suspect attempt
to elaborate on the difficulty....

Lexicon core2 & Abit SE6 motherboard with intel815e

Has anyone been able to install a Lexicon core2 card into an Abit SE6 motherboard (intel 815e chipset) and boot up the machine? Hints, tips or suggestions would be appreciated.

anastasia font

Dear friends,
Due to a lack of "Anastasia Font" after installing ENCORE I was not able to run the program. Please inform me a.s.a.p. from what place in the web I can load it down!

regards

G. Schneider

PROBLEMS WHIT A ZOOM GFX8

I dont speak english but I try to explain my problem:
I have a ZOOM gfx-8 and I can't connected whit my PC, I connect the cable correctly but no signal found.
I connect teh MIDI OUT connector of the sound card of my PC to the MIDI IN jack of the GFX-8 using a MIDI cable. Whit my Midi keyboard contoller no have problems HOw can I do whit my GKX8?????

Re: PROBLEMS WHIT A ZOOM GFX8

: I dont speak english but I try to explain my problem:
: I have a ZOOM gfx-8 and I can't connected whit my PC, I connect the cable correctly but no signal found.
: I connect teh MIDI OUT connector of the sound card of my PC to the MIDI IN jack of the GFX-8 using a MIDI cable. Whit my Midi keyboard contoller no have problems HOw can I do whit my GKX8?????

Hey,
Just a thought, your signal form the gfx8 may not be strong enought into the sound card. I go direct form my Zoom 707 into the mixer board and THEN into the pc an dit works fine.
Good Luck
Tony

Re: PROBLEMS WHIT A ZOOM GFX8

Hi.I cant't use the sampler or jam play of my effect.please help me.

Lost time on CDR

Can anyone solve my problem regarding my CD writer only recording 20 minutes of audio and then telling me that the Cdr. is full.? The following facts may assist -

1. I am practically computer illiterate, so cannot give you a lot of technical information.
2. I am recording records and cassettes onto an Audio CDRW all analogue. This is done by use of a Hi-fi CD Recorder ( Phillips 760).
3.The Audio CDRW plays perfectly on my Computer CD Player. Normally this CDRW has about 70+ minutes of music.
4. Using "Adaptec" easy CD Creator standard edition 3.5 I have tried to copy the audio tracks onto a computer CDR.
5. On each occasion the entire Audio CDRW has not been copied, and on most occasions finishes after 20 minutes, and I am told that the Computer CDR. if full, and it will not accept anymore tracks.
6. Sometimes I get a message telling me that the copying has been completed successfully, but when I play the Computer CDR. the following faults are consistent -
a. It has copied the first 8 or 9 tracks successfully, then
b. All the remaining tracks are shown as being recorded, but when I play them I get about 15 seconds and then it stops.
7. I have downloaded the upgrade for the "Adaptec" software, which has improved it slightly, in that it completes the copying, but when I recheck the tracks there are two or three tracks mid-way through the disc which are faulty ( normally about tracks 10, 11 or 12.)
8. I have had problems with "buffers" but I have solved that problem.
9. I have tried recording at different speeds, doing the entire disc at once, and track by track and it does not make any difference.
10. I have tried different makes of Audio CDRW and Computer CDRW, CDR. and it does not make any difference.
11. I have tried using "professionally shop bought" audio CD's and the same thing happens.
12. I have uninstalled and re-installed the "Adaptec" software and it made no difference.
13 The "Adaptec Direct CD does not work at all, so could the software be faulty?
14. It is a new computer, and I have "SoundBlaster Live 1024" software.
15. There are no other programs running ( That I know off) when I am using the CD writer
Any answers to my problem would be gratefully received. This includes any advice about freeware that I could download to complete the task. Many Thanks

Re: Lost time on CDR

A few tips:

Try doing a full erase of the CDRW disc, instead of a quick erase.

Once you have written songs on a CD-r or CD-RW, it is not reccomended you try to add more songs later, even if the disc is left open, unless you erase your CDRW. THe reason is that after burning the audio, it puts a "buffer" of sorts after that last track, which signifies teh end of the CD, from my understanding(even if the disc is left open.

Disable the Windows "Autorun feature", it tends to cause problems with writing CD's.

Don't use Direct CD. DELETE IT! make sure it is disabled.

If using songs that are from MP3's, or ripped from CD, make sure that the wav file is complete, and not missing part of the track.

: Can anyone solve my problem regarding my CD writer only recording 20 minutes of audio and then telling me that the Cdr. is full.? The following facts may assist -
:
: 1. I am practically computer illiterate, so cannot give you a lot of technical information.
: 2. I am recording records and cassettes onto an Audio CDRW all analogue. This is done by use of a Hi-fi CD Recorder ( Phillips 760).
: 3.The Audio CDRW plays perfectly on my Computer CD Player. Normally this CDRW has about 70+ minutes of music.
: 4. Using "Adaptec" easy CD Creator standard edition 3.5 I have tried to copy the audio tracks onto a computer CDR.
: 5. On each occasion the entire Audio CDRW has not been copied, and on most occasions finishes after 20 minutes, and I am told that the Computer CDR. if full, and it will not accept anymore tracks.
: 6. Sometimes I get a message telling me that the copying has been completed successfully, but when I play the Computer CDR. the following faults are consistent -
: a. It has copied the first 8 or 9 tracks successfully, then
: b. All the remaining tracks are shown as being recorded, but when I play them I get about 15 seconds and then it stops.
: 7. I have downloaded the upgrade for the "Adaptec" software, which has improved it slightly, in that it completes the copying, but when I recheck the tracks there are two or three tracks mid-way through the disc which are faulty ( normally about tracks 10, 11 or 12.)
: 8. I have had problems with "buffers" but I have solved that problem.
: 9. I have tried recording at different speeds, doing the entire disc at once, and track by track and it does not make any difference.
: 10. I have tried different makes of Audio CDRW and Computer CDRW, CDR. and it does not make any difference.
: 11. I have tried using "professionally shop bought" audio CD's and the same thing happens.
: 12. I have uninstalled and re-installed the "Adaptec" software and it made no difference.
: 13 The "Adaptec Direct CD does not work at all, so could the software be faulty?
: 14. It is a new computer, and I have "SoundBlaster Live 1024" software.
: 15. There are no other programs running ( That I know off) when I am using the CD writer
: Any answers to my problem would be gratefully received. This includes any advice about freeware that I could download to complete the task. Many Thanks

cool

i wanna kiss you

HELP ME PLEASE!

i'm lost here: i want to create music, dance/trance/house style, on my computer - win 98, 13.9 gb, currently do not support zip. what is a good program, easy to use, where i can create from scratch. if it requires zip, how do i go about doing that (pls excuse my ignorance in the matter)

i hope someone can start me on the right foot,
thanx,
luticia

Re: HELP ME PLEASE!

hey check out rebirth. its not real easy but no program that you start writing music from scratch is. also another program that just came out is called reason a very awsome program. you can find the demo's for both on propellerhead.com

Re: HELP ME PLEASE!

Luticia,
Try Sonicfoundry.com. They have several applications in the ACID line for DJ, HIP HOP, Techno etc...
I hope this helps - good luck.
Bill

: i'm lost here: i want to create music, dance/trance/house style, on my computer - win 98, 13.9 gb, currently do not support zip. what is a good program, easy to use, where i can create from scratch. if it requires zip, how do i go about doing that (pls excuse my ignorance in the matter)

: i hope someone can start me on the right foot,
: thanx,
: luticia

recording questions cakewalk 9 and effects

Useing Cakewalk 9 can I use copression as I rec on each ch. of audio, also rec with effects on and have effcts asigned to each chanel on the board? Note I"m using gadget wave interface for recording my pre amp is a cassette deck put on rec & pause it works !

Re: recording questions cakewalk 9 and effects

: Useing Cakewalk 9 can I use copression as I rec on each ch. of audio, also rec with effects on and have effcts asigned to each chanel on the board? Note I"m using gadget wave interface for recording my pre amp is a cassette deck put on rec & pause it works !

its better to add the effects after you record them. then you can make changes. i dont think you can recor with the effetcs anyway

does this software come on cd

does this software come on cd or do i have to download it over the net? I'm not sure I want to spend this much money on a download.

I NEED A SERIAL NUMBER FOR ACID DJ 2.0

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I NEED A SERIAL NUMBER FOR ACID DJ 2.0 IF YOU CAN HELP PLEASE RESPOND> THANK YOU>

ask your mama

: I NEED A SERIAL NUMBER FOR ACID DJ 2.0 IF YOU CAN HELP PLEASE RESPOND> THANK YOU>

I want to run a Boss DR5 Rythm Machine from a P.C.

I'm trying to find someone who knows how to run a Boss DR5 rythm machine by storing the MIDI for numerous songs on a P.C. I want to be able to store MIDI sequencing commands for any of hundreds of songs that I have programmed on the DR5, then find them later via a (hopefully) intuitive menu interface.

In other words, I want to program a backup band that never asks questions or asks for a bigger cut.

Can anyone help me?

P.S... Boss is a wholly owned subsidiary of Roland Corp.

need help recording guitar

Okay, I need some help recording guitar into the computer. I've been connecting the output of my amp to the line in of my soundcard, but i can't seem to get volume levels, etc right. Everything comes out distorted or else I can barely hear the guitar. Could someone help me out with setting up the proper volume levels and all that? Cause apparently I dont know what the hell I'm doin, eh? heh.. Thanks!

Re: need help recording guitar

I plug my guitar into my 4-rack...excellent line level output and hardly any noise!

Re: need help recording guitar

MAKE SURE THE OUTPUT FROM THE AMP IS LINE LEVAL INTO THE COMPUTER. THEN DOUBLE CLICK ON THE SPEAKER ICON ON THE LOWER LEFT. GO TO OPTIONS THEN PROPRITIES.CLICK ON RECORD THEN OK MAKE SURE YOUR LINE LEVEL IS ACTIVATED AND NOT YOUR MIC. IT SOUNDS TO ME LIKE YOU DONT HAVE LINE ACTIVATED GOOD LUCK.

2 solutions

well what your doing now will NOT give good results-
heres 2 solutions-
1.microphone & mic pre amp- to get the sound to a "full" level you NEED a preamp.so with this youd simply mic your amplifier.

2.direct box-you dont plug your amp into the computer.an amp isnt made to record direct its made to supply sound to speakers.

so check out the sans amp,pod,yamaha dg.
what youd want to do to get good results is say-plug your pod into a preamp such as the presonus blue tube and PRESTO-good tone.

so either mic your cabinet(and you need a mic pre amp) or get a sans amp or a pod(and youll still want to go through a pre amp trust me) and record direct.

if youve got a nice collection of amplifiers and your adventureous there are cabinet emulators thts you can plug an amp into then plug that direct to record-one of these is made by palmer.

and if your getting a tiny little sound thats because you need a pre amp in the signal chain.

Your recording problem

Hi, Greg...

The question is, which output of your amp are you patching to your line-in? The term "line-in" tells me that your input is expecting a line-level signal, i.e. that coming from the Pre-amp out line of your guitar amp.

That's the first thing I'd check. After that, make sure you record your guitar part on its own, separate track. Reconcile the relative levels of the guitar (V) sound card instruments in your mixdown.

: Okay, I need some help recording guitar into the computer. I've been connecting the output of my amp to the line in of my soundcard, but i can't seem to get volume levels, etc right. Everything comes out distorted or else I can barely hear the guitar. Could someone help me out with setting up the proper volume levels and all that? Cause apparently I dont know what the hell I'm doin, eh? heh.. Thanks!

we are watching this board and we will prosecute

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we have been collecting information on individuals partaking in illeagal transactions regarding copyrighted material.
sincerely,
Robert F. Olsen, copyright control service

Re: we are watching this board and we will prosecute

: we have been collecting information on individuals partaking in illeagal transactions regarding copyrighted material.
: sincerely,
: Robert F. Olsen, copyright control service

How quaint. Thank you, Mr. Olsen. Let me remind you that no matter how many millions of dollars you squeeze out of the paychecks of the working public, your capitalist enterprise gets to prosecute NOTHING. The prosecution of crimes is something only the representatives of the state and/or the nation may do.

And let me make this perfectly clear: the sovereigns are not at all interested in prosecuting random people who happen to rip off a software company or two. We have far bigger fish to fry.

You, my friend, are left with the civil courts. If you are willing to invest the time and money to sue someone whose income renders them "judgment proof," then more power to you. I would like to point out, however, that NO ONE engages in such loser lawsuits unless they have so little integrity as to be completely unethical (what was that about frivolous lawsuits being prohibited?).

What you do for a living is a mystery to me, Mr. Olsen. I, however, am a criminal prosecutor. And I will spend far more time responding to your post than taking any action against the people you're so exciting about decrying.

You should know that I would absolutely LOVE to blast some corporate attorney in front of a state bar for unethically suggesting he has some power to compel the prosecution of a crime ...

In short: you can take your money-grubbing civil pains and try to find someone who cares. The United States, respectfully, does not. Your allegations that it does are reprehensible, unethical, and ... wrong.

Please find something better to do with your time.

A Small Bit of Advice

How about you suck my cock?
Prosecute my hairy sweaty balls you fucking lamer.
Collect the check like the money grubbing soulless whore you are.
Chances are you've got mp3s of musicians who never saw a cent from
your theft of their precious work. Chances are the people you work for
do to. Thats the great irony of this ... you want to fuck the artist
two times. You don't want to pay them for their work and you want to prosecute
them because they can't afford your software and are willing to do anything to
use it to express themselves and keep hypocrits like you in music to listen to.
Musicians reading this ... steal every piece of audio software you can find.
Programmers and lawyers ... you better be motherfucking saintly yourselves
before taking on a musician for software piracy.
The fans ... steal everything, music is freedom. Lawyers and musicians both
are willing to fuck you out of your money so they can live the life for that
3 minutes of happiness they bring to your life in song.

What kind of music do you make?

What kind of music do you make?

Re: A Small Bit of Advice

poor choice of words.
this flamer doesn't know which battles to pick.

why not just blame god, too.

download vst instrument

download vst instrument where...

midi controller

I've started looking for a cheap midi controller for live use with audiomulch. The best I've found til now is the Pocket Control (16 knobs). Does anybody know other good controllers or does anyone has any experience with the pocket control??

Thanks !!

When i play an MPEG the sound works but the screen goes blank

When i play an MPEG the sound works but the screen goes blank. What the hell am i doing wrong. I have already tried new software but that doesn't work. Please help.

DX7IID: All my sounds are gone! Help!!!!!!

After I changed the internal battery all off my sounds are gone. Are they still there (and I just don't get them to work) or are they completely gone? What can I do about that? Please help me, this case is urgent!
By the way the display shows funny characters...
Frank