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I'm looking for a software drum synth

looking for a shareware drum synth capable of generating pure sinewaves/sawtooth blah blah...would like to generate clicks..minimalistic beats etc...anyone know a decent one??

if you're VST capable...

there is nothing like linplug's RM F for a freeware VST drum sampler, or the RM 2 is $45US with even more features!

Ok, Iwas going to say drum synth and stomper too...

But I was just thinking about it and realised that you can get the same results with less work:

Just take existing beats and filter the crap out of them. Lowpass, then more lowpass, then more lowpass, then envelope, the distoriton, then lowpass,, etc
It'll be fun.

<a href="http://drk-sum.50megs.com" target="_top">drk_sum.com</a>

Re: I'm looking for a software drum synth

You'll find drum stuff <a href="http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/win95/DRUMS_PERCUSSION/">here</a>.

<a href="http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/DrumSynth/">DrumSynth</a>
<a href="http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Stomper_Ultra/">Stomper</a>

Lisa

: looking for a shareware drum synth capable of generating pure sinewaves/sawtooth blah blah...would like to generate clicks..minimalistic beats etc...anyone know a decent one??

program that can convert ordinary computer files to audio

Where can i find a program that can comvert ordinary computer files (like .exe, .com, etcetera) to an audio stream? i want to use this to put computer data on to a tape or a dictaphone. This means that the program must also be capable of restoring the computer files from the audiostream it created... who can help me out?
Thanx in advance.... CJ Wacko Jacko

Re: program that can convert ordinary computer files to audio

There's nothing on this site that does all that. But if you find something I'd love to know about it.

Lisa

: Where can i find a program that can comvert ordinary computer files (like .exe, .com, etcetera) to an audio stream? i want to use this to put computer data on to a tape or a dictaphone. This means that the program must also be capable of restoring the computer files from the audiostream it created... who can help me out?
: Thanx in advance.... CJ Wacko Jacko

Re: Re: program that can convert ordinary computer files to audi

I'll do that Lisa, so whats your e-mail then, I posted this question on some other boards, so maybe someone already found something 4 me... i'll let you know if i know, ok! Loe ^ kisses, and the lot, CJ Wacko Jacko

Which Cd Burner?

I have a Plextor 16x10x40 rewriter I have tried using numerous Cd burning proggies to no avail Nero didnt like the Plextor.

What 'good' software will burn using my Plextor.

Thanks in advance guys;-)

Re: Which Cd Burner?

: I have a Plextor 16x10x40 rewriter I have tried using numerous Cd burning proggies to no avail Nero didnt like the Plextor.

: What 'good' software will burn using my Plextor.

: Thanks in advance guys;-)

:Szgany,
Go to mtu.com. These guys believe in Plextor big time. Their stuff is designed for them. You'll LOVE it.
CountryGirl

Re:

Since I have a previus model (SCSI Plextor 12x4x32) that works fine with nero (& the rest) I can only suggest to do the following:
Try getting the latest drives from plextor's site, do the same with nero (I think there is a list there of the CD-Rs that are supported).
Since your CD-R is EIDE no ASPI drivers are needed, but recheck your manual just in case.
Repost a topic with details about the symptoms (ie: My plextor isn't visible when I select Choose Recorder from Nero's menu)...

Re:

Since I have a previus model (SCSI Plextor 12x4x32) that works fine with nero (& the rest) I can only suggest to do the following:
Try getting the latest drives from plextor's site, do the same with nero (I think there is a list there of the CD-Rs that are supported).
Since your CD-R is EIDE no ASPI drivers are needed, but recheck your manual just in case.
Repost a topic with details about the symptoms (ie: My plextor isn't visible when I select Choose Recorder from Nero's menu)...

Raising Vocals

Does anyone know how to use the filters in Cool Edit Pro? I'm trying to raise the vocals on a track so that I can mainly hear the vocals. Many people said it's possible but I don't know exactly how to do it. Rob

Re: Raising Vocals

Simplist most effective way I know is to go to the Graphic Equalizer Filter (under "Transform" menu). In the presets box in the bottom left hand corner scroll down until you come to the "vocal presence boost" option and select it. You can either just go with that or observe the way it changes the frequencies in the graph above and play around yourself. I think most of the filters have similar presets. Also for getting the best results for your vocals I find it helpful to think about where they're panned in the mix (left/right/centre) with regards to other instruments. If you've not spread the sounds out between left and right enough you'll swamp the vocals.

All the best
the Henry

Re: Raising Vocals

: Simplist most effective way I know is to go to the Graphic Equalizer Filter (under "Transform" menu). In the presets box in the bottom left hand corner scroll down until you come to the "vocal presence boost" option and select it. You can either just go with that or observe the way it changes the frequencies in the graph above and play around yourself. I think most of the filters have similar presets. Also for getting the best results for your vocals I find it helpful to think about where they're panned in the mix (left/right/centre) with regards to other instruments. If you've not spread the sounds out between left and right enough you'll swamp the vocals.

: All the best
: the Henry

Do you have any ideas with the bandpass filter/lowpass/highpass filter. I got some feedback from people regarding those filters, any ideas? Rob

Re: Raising Vocals

Ok. So you're not tring to RAISE the vocals; you're trying to ISOLATE the vocals.

Ok, well I just use a bandpass filter centred around about 1500Hz and that works good BUT ONLY IF:

1. You manually edit out the music only parts between the vocal sections.
2. You hide the cuts using delays (pure echoes) and reverbs
3. You provide really loud background instruments to the new mix. It won't sound good if you try to just leave the vocals by themselves.

<a href="http://drk-sum.50megs.com" target="_top">drk_sum.com</a>

Re: Raising Vocals

: Simplist most effective way I know is to go to the Graphic Equalizer Filter (under "Transform" menu). In the presets box in the bottom left hand corner scroll down until you come to the "vocal presence boost" option and select it. You can either just go with that or observe the way it changes the frequencies in the graph above and play around yourself. I think most of the filters have similar presets. Also for getting the best results for your vocals I find it helpful to think about where they're panned in the mix (left/right/centre) with regards to other instruments. If you've not spread the sounds out between left and right enough you'll swamp the vocals.

: All the best
: the Henry

For some reason still, I can't seem to seperate the vocals from the music. I raise the vocals but the music is still there. Rob

Re: Raising Vocals

: Simplist most effective way I know is to go to the Graphic Equalizer Filter (under "Transform" menu). In the presets box in the bottom left hand corner scroll down until you come to the "vocal presence boost" option and select it. You can either just go with that or observe the way it changes the frequencies in the graph above and play around yourself. I think most of the filters have similar presets. Also for getting the best results for your vocals I find it helpful to think about where they're panned in the mix (left/right/centre) with regards to other instruments. If you've not spread the sounds out between left and right enough you'll swamp the vocals.

: All the best
: the Henry

Thank you very much, you've been a great help. Thank you. Rob

the tr-XoX

I have made a webpage about the tr-XoX, a midi drum sequencer for windows 95/98/NT. Here's the adress: http://www.geocities.com/Counterfeit_106u/tr-XoXfreeware.html.

I know that the original homepage of this freeware is no longer available, so now i can say that i have the only webpage dedicated to the tr-XoX!

Thanks!

Counterfeit
http://www.geocities.com/Counterfeit_106u

help with HP 8100

Hello, I have an HP 8100 that I just installed on an win2k machine, it works fine at startup, but when I try to read cds it cant find em... It doesnt matter what type of Cd it is, what can I do to solve this problem??

search sheetmusic for casio sa-10 keyboard(jewel)

Im looking for sheet music from jewel inpurticalie
foolishgames if got a casio sa-10 19 white keys and
13 black keys im just starting to play so if you got any surgestions please tel

Re: search sheetmusic for casio sa-10 keyboard(jewel)

: Im looking for sheet music from jewel inpurticalie
: foolishgames if got a casio sa-10 19 white keys and
: 13 black keys im just starting to play so if you got any surgestions please tel mail me at gd24nl@yahoo.com

groove maker problem

which type of file extention support groove maker in cd-rom.

A quote from their site...

QUOTE:

Groovemaker 2

Import match and remix in real time virtually any audio file (including
WAV, AIFF, MP3, QDesign, SWA, µLaw, aLaw

Regards

Steve...R

I need a vitual keyboard

I'm looking for a graphic keyboard which will display keyboard MIDI files in real time to help people learn how to play them.

Re: I need a vitual keyboard

: I'm looking for a graphic keyboard which will display keyboard MIDI files in real time to help people learn how to play them.

Would you be willing to sell your soul for this so called virtual keyboard?

Re: I need a vitual keyboard

: : I'm looking for a graphic keyboard which will display keyboard MIDI files in real time to help people learn how to play them.

: Would you be willing to sell your soul for this so called virtual keyboard?

I'd be happy to reward the owner of a virtual keyboard to use it as part of a commercial venture but my soul is not for sale!

audio casette to c.d conversion

Hello, my name is Steve and i was wondering if you could please tell of a "audio casette to c.d conversion program". Would you know if there is such a program? If yes where could i find one?? I have many many audio casettes which i would like to convert to c.d.

Thank you

Steve

Re: audio casette to c.d conversion

: Hello, my name is Steve and i was wondering if you could please tell of a "audio casette to c.d conversion program". Would you know if there is such a program? If yes where could i find one?? I have many many audio casettes which i would like to convert to c.d.

: Thank you

: Steve,
Found a cool site that might be useful. Try burningissues.net
Lots of luck
CountryGirl

Re: audio casette to c.d conversion

There isn't a program specifically designed to do this (at least not that I know of). What you need is a program like Cool Edit, which will allow you to record sounds. Connect your cassette deck to the audio in of your sound card and record each track individually, saving each in WAV format. Once you have enough, use something like Nero or Adaptec Easy CD Creator to transfer the WAV files to CD.

Andy

how to take music off internet and record on to cd

I am a Mac user, I have Adeptec Toast, it won't let me record CDs from recorded Audio cds, it comes up with an error each time. Can I copy music off the net and record it on to cds? What software do I need. Will the quality be as good as the original? Or even better, is there a cd burner that I can buy that will allow me to record onto blank cd?
Thanks

Re: how to take music off internet and record on to cd

: I am a Mac user, I have Adeptec Toast, it won't let me record CDs from recorded Audio cds, it comes up with an error each time. Can I copy music off the net and record it on to cds? What software do I need. Will the quality be as good as the original? Or even better, is there a cd burner that I can buy that will allow me to record onto blank cd?
: Thanks

Re: how to take music off internet and record on to cd

i put a blank cd in my cd burner and now i don't know where to get music to put on the cd and i don't how to do it. can someone please tell me where to go and how to do it?

thanks. :)

what kind of music can i burn

: : I am a Mac user, I have Adeptec Toast, it won't let me record CDs from recorded Audio cds, it comes up with an error each time. Can I copy music off the net and record it on to cds? What software do I need. Will the quality be as good as the original? Or even better, is there a cd burner that I can buy that will allow me to record onto blank cd?
: : Thanks

Re: how to take music off internet and record on to cd

: : I am a Mac user, I have Adeptec Toast, it won't let me record CDs from recorded Audio cds, it comes up with an error each time. Can I copy music off the net and record it on to cds? What software do I need. Will the quality be as good as the original? Or even better, is there a cd burner that I can buy that will allow me to record onto blank cd?
: : Thanks

Re: how to take music off internet and record on to cd

: : : I am a window user, can you please tell how to get music off the net and put onto my computer to make me some cds.
please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanx

Re: how to take music off internet and record on to cd

Hi I wanted to know if I can get free software from the internet to do free recording. where can I get the free software and where are the sites I can record from?
Iam a pc user.

It could be the burner...

Hi,

Toast is an all round great program for burning. I generally covert MP3's to uncompressed .wav/.aif on my mac although something like iTunes (i'm sure toast does it too...) will burn an audio CD straight from an MP3. Toast comes with "Toast Audio Extractor" which rips the audio files from an audio CD in the drive. Double click on the resulting file and Toast will automatically boot and configure itself to burn the audio files to a cd, simple...

If you do have some files that are on your HD (from the internet, or where ever) you can boot toast and then drag the files onto the toast window and they will be ready to burn (although make sure that the program knows it's burning audio rather than data..;0). iTunes is a great little application from Apple and works flawlessly and best of all, it burns audio CD's from Mp3 to wave files. It's a free program from apple.. make good use of it..!

If you are doing all these things but the CD burner is failing, then it could be either the CD burner itself OR the CD's that you are using. It's only more recently that companies have managed to make CD burners that actually burn CD's reliably. I have a Yamaha 4416 that burns frisbee's that don't fly too well. I am gagging for a new Firewire burner but the pennies aren't available at the moment. If you get an error whilst burning, tell us what it is and we can try and assist.

Regards

Steve...R

Re: It could be the burner...

Hi,
I am trying to burn a CD of songs from iTunes. I've made the list of songs. I put in the CD when it asks to, it pulls down all the songs, says it is initializing the disk, then it says it is burning the 1st song and it then says it is ending the burning process. An error message comes up saying an unknown error occured type -7932. Do you know what this means? I tried other CD's and have the same problem. This is the 1st time I've tried to burn an audio file since I got the computer. I'd appreciate any help you could give me. I'm going nuts!
-K

Re: how to take music off internet and record on to cd

I don't know why Adaptec won't do the job. But you can copy music off the net and then burn it to CD. Generally, the quality won't be as good as the original as MP3/RA/WMA formats compress the source. You'll find <a href="http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/mac/CD_BURNERS/">Mac burning software</a> here.

Lisa

: I am a Mac user, I have Adeptec Toast, it won't let me record CDs from recorded Audio cds, it comes up with an error each time. Can I copy music off the net and record it on to cds? What software do I need. Will the quality be as good as the original? Or even better, is there a cd burner that I can buy that will allow me to record onto blank cd?
: Thanks

Re: how to take music off internet and record on to cd

How can I burn a cd from the internet

Re: how to take music off internet and record on to cd

do you have to have a cd burner to burn off the net

Re: how to take music off internet and record on to cd

: do you have to have a cd burner to burn off the net
yes i have a cd burner

Re: how to take music off internet and record on to cd

: do you have to have a cd burner to burn off the net

Re: how to take music off internet and record on to cd

Is there any way possible for me to download the latest music from the internet onto a rewritable cd for free or without using a credit card?

Re: how to take music off internet and record on to cd

: do you have to have a cd burner to burn off the net

Yes

Re: how to take music off internet and record on to cd

: do you have to have a cd burner to burn off the net

Re: how to take music off internet and record on to cd

i need help to take out my favorite spanish music to a dc and i don't know what to do (i do want to hear music) i think i need the portable device or i don't know 'and also one more thing do i have to pay????

breaking 1 long track into multiple tracks (dj mix cd with track

Hey all,

From 1 long track is there any software that allows you to insert a track mark throughout a cd without having to cut and paste each song into a new file? Something similar to track marks on minidiscs.

thanks

Ollie

Re: breaking 1 long track into multiple tracks (dj mix cd with t

Are you saying you want to rip a mixed CD or burn a mix CD? If ripping, the CD will already be divided into tracks even though you do not hear individual tracks, such is the nature of a mix CD. When ripped it should convert each CDA track to individual WAV/MP3 files. IF you have a WAV file you have mixed and want to put on CD as separate tracks but still as a mix CD with no silence gaps: find CD Wave Editor program on this site, it will divide a large WAV into tracks, then burn to CD in DAO (disk-at-once) mode.

: Hey all,

: From 1 long track is there any software that allows you to insert a track mark throughout a cd without having to cut and paste each song into a new file? Something similar to track marks on minidiscs.

: thanks

: Ollie

Looking for Musicware's Piano course 4

Can anyone help? Thanks

Have A Great Day ! ! !