At 10/26/09 10:55 AM, joshhunsaker wrote: I'd also like to test. Nvidia FX 5200 so it's a decent card but nothing new or crazy. I have put off getting a computer for a while so CPU usage is a huge concern for me.

I believe you need an 8xxx or above to use CUDA apps. =\

OMG FINALLY A CUDA SYNTH

I volunteer to test. I have a GTX260 (WOOT) running at the same time as my Athlon 64x2 3800+ (EWW). So this is perfect :D

So, how much are you all paying for NG Premium? Oh wait.

Aka, you all take this shit for granted. Get over yourselves or get out if you don't like it.

Movies

I saw Capitalism: A Love Story over the weekend. Standard Michael Moore fare. It was basically the usual emotional scenes and some research/theories about what caused the economy's failure here in America.

Also, it had the greatest song ever in it: "The Cleveland Song". Once the DVD surfaces, I'm sure I'll be able to find a youtube link for you guys.

At 9/30/09 04:15 PM, Koriigahn wrote: Oh c'mon man, that's a bit far isn't it?

I wasn't the one who banned him, I just looked him up and that appeared to be the reason for the ban.

You were banned because you used a copyrighted monologue in your first song. :(

Album: Shpongle - Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost

Listen to it, now.

But really... You're in the same boat as a lot of us now. Welcome to the party.

At 9/16/09 01:37 AM, InGenius wrote: For instance, I was afraid to say anything bad about 3xOsc because it has such a strong following on this forum. I don't know how many times I cringed when someone suggested building all of your instruments in 3xOsc. If you like aliasing, noise, and errant note tuning below C2, then by all means, make all of your Bass sounds in 3xOsc. I, for one, only use 3x when I want that crunchy, detuned, ugly sound a la Benassi. But then again, as has been proven time and again, that sound is dated, unimaginative, and truly getting on my nerves.

3xOsc does have its good points, though. For example, its phase randomization feature is useful, and it has the most intuitive envelopes I have seen in a long time. But its sound sucks, especially in the highs where it lacks thickness of any kind.

While FL's rendering engine is fine (as proven), there are two common reasons why it is labeled as low quality:

1. The earlier plugins are actually quite terrible. If you take a look back through some of FL's plugins, such as 3xOsc, they alias terribly and sound bad. These plugins are bringing FL down, and are only included for backwards compatibility (at least according to gol, the lead dev).

2. A lot of people who are new to production use FL, simply because its workflow is the easiest for someone completely new to producing music to follow. I can say this through personal experience: FL was, by far, the easiest for me (as a noob) to understand. Because the new people use it, they pump out low quality tracks, and people begin to blame the software, not the person behind it, for the "lack of quality."

But thank you for this thread. I will now link people to it when they try to tell me some vague arguments against FL's "rendering engine."

At 9/4/09 06:58 PM, unowned wrote: yeah, its called zaibatsu

Yep, was waiting for this. When Japan decided to modernize during the Meiji Restoration, the government created groups of large and semi-privately owned businesses to try and revitalize the Japanese economy through exports.

These companies were designed to create a wide variety of goods in the majority of market sectors. They are still partially government-owned.

Yamaha is one of the top-level Zaibatsu companies.

Browsers

Firefox is the only one I use. I don't use IE for obvious reasons, and Chrome crashed often and would leave the selection I was hovering on when it crashed on my screen, above everything, for the next while.

I've never had issues with plain-jane Firefox. No bugs, no popups, rare crashes. Nothing too serious to make me want to use anything else.

Yep, nice stuff. It's basically the FutureNoize label mixed with the HU free downloads and an amazing Vagabond track at the end.

Approved, but really, keep your opinions about other peoples' music to yourself.

Summer

I spent most of it playing WoW and whining about my summer assignment for AP American.

Hiking

Do any of you do it? I just did one of the 46 high peaks in the Adirondacks, 3 miles and 3000 ft change in elevation... When I woke up the day after (today), I felt like someone had hit me with a pole right below my shoulders. Twas hard.

At 8/23/09 06:30 PM, boney-man wrote: layer it with a sub bass

^

Right answer.

Quite a nice tutorial, thanks for the shoutout to my PEQ tutorial :)

I liked the pictures, and I thought that it made sense.

I do have a little bit of constructive criticism/questions, though...

1. We're EQing the master in this tutorial, right? So, rather than saying "here's an issue spot, lets lower it," wouldn't it be more wise to lower the instruments themselves that are clashing so you avoid losing valuable information from other synths/samples?

2. I didn't quite understand how you knew that the peak at 850 Hz was a false peak. That could use a touch more explanation.

3. This is just personal opinion, but not sure if that part about bass was needed :P - people don't simply "gain" the bass, there's a specific level of bass that most people are trying to obtain: a genre-specific level. Just because it's higher than what you normally produce/listen to doesn't mean that it's too much. Also, some people might have just missed the mark a little bit ;)

Aside from that, it's quite a useful tutorial. Keep it up!

At 8/19/09 01:21 AM, SymbolCymbal wrote: i need to go to the next camp bisco, sadly i missed this year as well.:(

Screw that. I'm going to Orbfest out in the Adirondacks next year.

I really think that I should post something opinionated and useful here, but I can't think of what to post. I could put up some bullshit about maturity, but then I'd be called when people who knew me from 2 years back posted. I could put up some crap about not replying, but then it'd come across as bitching.

So, really, some of us are kinda stuck as to how to reply to this thread.

Instead, I'll just say that Bjra's links are cool.

It's not resampling interpolation, but sampler interpolation. In short terms, it determines how high quality the sound from your sampler channels in FL will be. If you're doing a test render, use 6-pt hermite or 64-pt sync. If it's your final render, use 512-pt sync. Most people wont notice or care about the difference.

If you all looked at the damn picture, it's in 32kHz, not whatever he's saying. Plus, mp3s cannot contain 32-bit audio, so the only solution is that the mp3 is in 16-bit but sampled at 32 kHz. The solution is to either use a higher mp3 bitrate (as the lower ones downsample) or to make sure that you're exporting at 44.1 kHz and not 32 kHz.

It has NOTHING to do with the frequencies present within the song, and filtering will NOT help at all.

At 8/9/09 09:32 PM, TheMonkee1337 wrote: See thats what I thought. I got the idea for it from the cartoon Waterman (search it) where its opening song is the opening of Reel Big Fish's "Give It Up." I thought I could do the same, but perhaps waterman had an agreement with Reel Big Fish...

Nope, he was probably just doing it illegally, and Reel Big Fish could sue if they decided to. However, he could also make a strong argument for fair use to avoid paying if they did choose to sue.

Ishkur's guide should not be taken literally. It's only a reference. You can choose to agree or disagree with his opinions on music.

I personally like Hard House/What He Calls NRG. He doesn't. So what? Also, some of it is just completely wrong and outdated, like the Hardcore section.

So take it with a grain of salt. Use it to learn, not to become opinionated.

Downsampling reduces the sampling rate, not the bit rate. The practical usage of bitrate is to have a lower noise floor and more headroom. Sampling rate determines the highest possible frequency that can be produced.

The CMT Bitcrusher is probably one of the best ones out there, and is free. If you want a lo-fi sound, use the downsampling slider there to reduce the highs and add more grit to the sound, and turn the drive up a bit too for a touch of distortion. Mess with the three types of distortion to find the one that you like best.

At 7/30/09 11:01 PM, ipodawesum wrote: im joinin this party.

WTF man, why'd you leave me out? :<

I am doing teh robot in the foreground.

At 7/30/09 03:32 PM, Jarvid wrote: I THINK NAV'S HARDRIVE DIED

HE LOST ABOUT A MILLION FLAC FILES AND SOME OC REESE SAMPLES I WOULD ASSUME.
This is bad.

First of all, yes, my storage (meaning music/samples HD) did die. However, (1) most of my music is in mp3, not FLAC. I did lose some, but nothing I couldn't easily re-rip as FLAC. (2) The samples I used I can also easily be reobtained, and (3), this gives me a chance to reorganize my collection of music/samples to be more efficient.

Plus it's still under warranty, so I can get it replaced for free. And also, I didn't lose any reese samples because I haven't produced straight drum n bass in a long time. Now please stop posting details of my daily life without my permission.

At 7/29/09 10:48 PM, JohnnyFrizz wrote: Mixing of course.

To expand on this, the most important thing I learned about mixing is that if the volume levels are right, then little else truly has to be done. Just little bits of tweaking here and there.

At 7/29/09 09:49 PM, Kaizerwolf wrote: The most important thing that i've learned is that a good song doesn't take a day: it can take as long as it needs to.

However, the best songs can come from flashes of inspiration and can complete themselves within a day: don't call a song crap just because it was made quickly.

Aside from the above...

If it's not good, don't be afraid to start over. If it's crap, throw it out. I read that from a tutorial made by one of the top freeform artists, and it's always stuck with me, just because of how simple it seems, but how tough it really is to do.

You are all quite silly people.

The Audio Portal is quite a complicated beast, but really the only songs that truly get exposure are the top 30/top 5, since they're convenient ways to find the highest rated stuff that Tuesday night at 11:59 PM.

So, if you like the AP, I suggest listening to random songs to try and find something you like. It will probably take a while, but once you find one song, you can find one artist, and from that artist you can find other similar artists and so on and so forth.

Also, liljim has to make an audio stats page like the flash stats one. Please?