At 11/10/07 02:09 PM, Slim-Shady-Soldier wrote:

At 11/10/07 12:25 PM, Jackotrades wrote: Is this where I can ask for certain songs to be made? Because I am new in this forum, and I like the Audio portal, it is just that I would like certain songs to be remade by Artists.

1) That's called being a lazy-ass. Make it yourself. There's lots of freeware to choose from.

You can't download the ability to write music. If you need to get somebody to do it for you, what's wrong with asking?

2)Those pieces of music can't be used here due to COPYRIGHT. It must be totally original

Not true. A lot (i.e. most) older video games around and before the 32 bit era have tracks covered by fair use - or their creators simply don't care.

Zelda has been covered to high heaven. So has mario. There are phantasy star and final fantasy tracks about too. The companies take advantage of your music as free advertising, and the tracks are treated as fan made derivative work, which nobody gives a shit about.

There are some debates though about what you can actually use. Normally with VG tracks, it's a big fat no on actually taking an audio recording and re-arranging it, but total covers are pretty much accepted as standard.

The audio portal is working.

Your MP3 file is broken. Make sure it is sampled at 44.1khz. Make sure it isn't variable bitrate. If both of those are OK, you will need to try another wav>mp3 converter.

Also apon examining your origonal post, you will also need Phono LR male to Phono LR male.

I have no idea where you got a female > male phono, the only purpose they would have is as an extension lead - In audio, all cables except XLRs are always male both ends.

You will need to buy an XLR > XLR for plugging the mic into the desk. These are inexpensive if you shop about.

The 'Chinch' cables (I've never heard them called that before, around here, we call them 'Phonos' are put into the output, then you plug the other end of that into your sound card.

You will need to get an XLR>XLR cable for a mic preamp. There are quite literally no microphone amplifiers in the world that have phono in. It's just totally the wrong plug application.

There is a karaoke version included on the CD.

Buy his CD.

At 11/10/07 11:04 PM, RigAudio wrote: They sell cables with a 1/8 inch connector on one end and a 1/4 inch one on the other. Are you plugging into a guitar amp? Make sure it's a MONO 1/4 inch connector.

Shouldn't need to. The left channel is the active one when you send stereo to mono, so as long as you tell the output source (i.e. the macbook) to output in mono, you should be able to use stereo to stereo.

Don't let me confuse you tho ugh.

It's one of those 'if nobody complains and you're not making money from it, it's awwright' sort of things.

There is a fair use law regarding how much you are legally allowed to sample from film and music, and it's a very low percentage like 5% (the amen break is covered AFAIK), but for non-commercial music, it's rare to see recording artists getting their panties in a twist.

Also double post.

You'll need an xlr>xlr cable.

It's rare to find phono mic amps, because mics rarely use phono plugs.

http://www.behringer.com/502/index.cfm?l ang=eng

59 euros.

At 11/9/07 07:50 AM, Dreamscaper wrote: This has a sort of Danny Elfman influence.

What, you mean that you got a load of orchestrator's to write it for you?

Buy both.

Cut in half.

Super glue two halves together.

I'm submitting 'Not Enough'

After all, triphop is sort of ambient. Sort of.

At 11/8/07 12:42 AM, Bad-Man-Incorporated wrote: NG doesn't accept songs where the bitrate is variable. Has to be constant bitrate rather than variable bitrate. Well at least that has been my experiences.

Eh? Most of my songs are variable bitrate, NG has never complained before.

The SM48 is essentially the same as the SM58, however the capsule inside is of poorer quality. For home-done vocal recording it's more than adequate.

Interesting fact, the 'PG' on the Shure PG series apparently stands for 'pretty good', and microphones in that series are just SM series microphone that aren't quite good enough to be sold as a SM series.

"Audio Gathering place for NG's audio artists. Discuss recording programs and techniques."

At 11/5/07 12:38 AM, DragonsGrief wrote: Good microphones use USB.
You can't plug in your guitar using a 1/4" jack.

So you didn't waste your money, the X-FI cards are the best you can get.

If you do want MIDI input, get the X-FI Platinum, it comes with a I/O drive for MIDI input and some other things, brilliant sound quality too.

EXCUSE ME SIR WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT

USB microphones are normally shitacular excuses for desktop mics for idiots who are do stupid to figure out what jack to use.

The X-fi series is rediciously overpriced for the money. Seriously, the quality difference between them and an audigy series card is marginal at best, and do not justify the cost at all. The only people I would recommend to get them would be AV nuts who have HD projectors and huge home cinema solutions where they have epic speakers to get maximum quality out of.

As for midi keyboards, you don't need a sound card to use one, USB are more than good enough, however, you will need a quality sound card to use ASIO - a very necessary system required to reduce latency (key press to sound coming out) to an absolute minimum. All creative audigy series cards have excellent ASIO support. There is also software ASIO available, known as ASIO 4 ALL, however, it's emulation system puts a huge strain on your memory and processors.

MIDI cables are starting to go out of fashion for computer use. USB lines can carry a whole load more data in comparison as well as powering the keyboard that they're connecting.

As for your issue, you wouldn't by any chance be using vista would you?

If you're still sane and using XP, go to Accessories>Entertainment>Volume control, click options>advanced, check the 'recording' radio button, make sure 'Line/Mic 1' is checked in the list, then hit OK and make sure that the 'select' checkbox below channel 'line/mic 1' is checked and at full volume.

Sounds like some sort of archaic nose flute.

At 10/21/07 05:35 PM, curruptedshadow wrote: if i upload this badass song onto newgrounds. and sum artist downloads it/copies the instrumental part and sings/raps over it and copy rights it afterwords. is there any way i can sew this mother f*ker?
lol.
and my songs not copy righted so i deleted it.but am i safe?

Yes they are. Your songs are automatically copyrighted to you as soon as you create them.

However, if you don't have the source file, it will be very, -very- difficult to challenge ownership. Then again, he will have the same problem.

My advice then is to file a DMCA request to whatever website hosts the audio. You don't need proof of ownership to send one, and the website must take down the material.

The person who uploaded it will need proof of ownership to challenge your request, so that's pretty much the best you can do.

not automated awards - The scores are far to close to make them viable or fair.

Rewards already sort of exist via front page.

At 11/1/07 10:49 PM, Bobthethurd wrote: I can't really get into the argument between Reason and FL Studio, because I've only used FL Studio, but here's my take on FL.

FL Studio allows a lot of newbie lee-way when creating simple stuff. It can get EXTREMELY good in the right hands, but still allows someone new to make rather good songs. The former seems to be what is causing people to label it as childish. I don't think so at all.

It's considered childish (from what I've heard around studios and industry related people) not simply because new people use it, but because it is publicised and released as a budget VST synthesizer for the younger generation, it spends a lot of effort attempting to make itself look pretty and due to it's sub-par collection of samples and VSTs out of the box, tracks tend to sound the same unless the person making the music has a lot of spare money for that kind of thing.

At 11/2/07 02:44 AM, ZENON wrote: Why do girls always think about things way too much, even if it's such a small issue? I hate it when girls drive themselves depressed and I gotta be there to tell em that I love em and everything'll be alright.

God damn.

You are not appreciating the sympathy sex?

You must be gay.

At 11/1/07 03:48 PM, Greeksta-69 wrote: Hip-Hop:
A culture and form of ground breaking music and self expression with elements that consisted of the elements of graffiti art, DJing, MCing, and breaking. Today Hip-Hop is considered to be dead in the mainstream because so-called mainstream Hip-Hop doesn't have the elements of hip-hop and have no meaning.

Extract from the worlds most biased dictionary.

I am also a huge hypocrite.

If your software doesn't have an export to wav/mp3 feature, you're pretty fucked, unless you live record it out of your sound card straight back in again.

At 10/30/07 12:20 PM, Bento-San wrote:

At 10/29/07 09:34 PM, KarbonX3 wrote:

Which is the best?

Fruity loops ftw, lifetime upgrades are nice on top of what everyone else has said. Reason users have had to fork out $ for reason 4 times over now to keep up to date, and although Fruity loops is up to v7 users have not had to repurchase it 7 times over. Reason rewired into Fruity loops is pretty damn powerfull if you can get it running stably too. But id say Fruity Loops wins just for the VST support alone (just save when loading them, they are known to cause FL to crash).

...if $70 for a full piece of software is expensive for something that is upgraded every two years, then you really need to get a better job.

If you want to use VSTs with reason, use cubase or logic, or something especially made for it. FL's rewire is notoriously unstable, and cubase just handles VSTs that much better.

That and considering most people here pirate the software anyway, which is a bit of a farce.

There's one linked to on the propeller heads site under downloads IIRC.

Protip: Don't use eJay. Ever.

The vast majority of working-class youths.

At 10/31/07 02:24 PM, Chronamut wrote: everyone ignored my pumpkin...

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Your pumpkin is awesome.

But wtf is up with pumpkins in canada. It's so round and tall... all our pumpkins are incredibly bumpy and stumpy, and about four times the size.

At 10/30/07 04:31 AM, DragonsGrief wrote: How sound works?

Not as in the vibration sense, but how your computer interprets electrical signals and how it's sent that your speakers or headphones can make vibrations out of it in perfect frequency for something as sloppy as electricity.

It's amazing.

It's less amazing when you know exactly how it does it and it's not much more than an elaborated digital telephone.

At 10/30/07 02:19 PM, SubKutz wrote: A beat. Then just rip tons of samples like all the pros.

Touché.