off topic now a bit, but true.

At 11/9/09 10:04 AM, Box-Killa wrote: Yeah nathens music is fkn Awesome, im surprised his whole collection isnt all frontpage

Seconded, yep it should all be there.

At 11/8/09 01:50 AM, joshhunsaker wrote: a pre is about as much of an accessory for a recording setup as an engine is an accessory for a car.

For this answer you deserve cookies :)
Actually I tried an Avalon mic preamp and the sound was blowing me away compared with my Art Tube MP.

At 11/7/09 04:46 PM, loansindi wrote: That's great. This guy's looking at a $150 all in one solution.

And that we know from... ???
Anyway, Nathan is trying to help, why do you act so aggressive ? did you have too much coffee ?

Man, there are a lot of "competitions" like :
Tell us the color of pink.

Those are made more to make publicity of the product, they count on you googleing on their product, they count on you going to their official page to see the new engine, the new... stuff, and if you don't win at lest you'll consider to buy the product.
At a cost of several copies (downloadable, so no costs for CD, packaging or postal fees) they have publicity that they could buy for more money than the price of prizes they give ;)

But for the happy winner of that, this is not really important.

Free Mac Software

MacHeist is giving away 500,000 bundles so grab your free copy $154 worth.
http://www.macheist.com/

Stumbled upon this on Internuts, had to share with my dearest audiofags :)
To enter, all you need to do is answer the following simple question:
- What is the name of Garritan's new instrument engine?
Copetition's Official Page
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Hope that someone that needs that will get it.

At 11/6/09 03:48 PM, thecoreman wrote: I have absolutely no idea what a click track is, mate. Mind clearing that up for me please?

Metronome.
A track with clicks of the metronome or just fourth on a cowbell or rim shot.

Congrats for getting on radio.

When you have a bass and a guitar you can already send i to me for keys and brass section.
(put it on Mediafire or You Send It)

At 9/27/09 08:51 PM, W3sl3y wrote: this really sucks...

Apparently you were banned :(
Don't know why.

That's why you should turn always volume to half when you listen to NG music.
That should be the next developed habit of every musician that cares about hearing :)

Great to see that people still find this useful :)
If you search more in this thread, you'll find some more backing tracks to put your solos, some great metal ones by Bad Man, Metaljonus...etc, some funk also and a great track by Rig.
Digg in, there is a treasure ;)

At 11/3/09 01:14 PM, Rig wrote: Interesting explanation. That might be it, but why me? :P

Because:
1 - You made the mistake to go to school and learn how to read and write.
2 - You're young and restless, you look now to the future. Don't worry, when you'll be an old fart you'll pann everything to the left... you'll remember your youth with more pleasure than looking toward future...

F@#i%g human condition

It is different also for Jewish people, I mean the very traditional ones with strong cultural roots. They write from right to left. Probably that's why their music and dances seems so interesting to other cultures.

Also Japanese people, they write from up to down. Their whole art is very different, even if they try to imitate European or American forms of art. That explains their passion for European classical music and our fascination for their visual arts where those differences are more obvious.

At 11/3/09 12:54 AM, Rig wrote: Maybe it's a left-brain vs right-brain thing, I dunno.

Actually it is. I do the same and is not related to cables or speakers or ear wax, the reason for that is in our cultural environment.
When we write, we do it from left to right, because of that and some other mental reasons, when we see an image moving from left to right, that appears as moving "forward" and when an image is moving from right to left we think it as "backward".

This mind trick s used in theater (when the action is going, actors move slightly to the right, running is also usually from left to right...etc), movies (point of attention is not in the center, forward action is from left to right...etc), painting (point of maximum interest is slightly right-up corner).

Also look at piano and all keyed instruments, "up" is right, "down" is left.

For me as an ex orchestra member, it's normal to hear solos in the right (first violin, oboe, clarinet, flute, all usual soloing instruments are to right from the point of view of inside orchestra), however, keeping in mind that audience hear orchestra from the front, everything changes to vice versa.

Apparently you have problems with the plugins, try uninstal all the plugins, then install again Pro Tools.

Drum VSTi, tons of drums, percussions and samples, mostly free.

At 11/1/09 04:52 PM, xKore wrote: Independance Free comes with a few free good acoustic drum sets.

Posted in my link also... together with another 20 drum VSTi plugins, but apparently nobody checked my post...

Drums VSTi... that's why this should be a sticky ;)

tons of drums, FREE !!!

At 10/31/09 01:33 PM, thecoreman wrote: This is what I got so far -
Rhythm guitars - Me
Solo guitar 1 - Me
Solo guitar 2 - OPEN!
Bass guitar - OPEN!
Singing 1 - Me
Singing 2 - OPEN!
Drums - OPEN!
Trumpet - OPEN!
Effects (electronic only, very small part) - OPEN!

Well, you should ear that out more carefully. There is also :
Piano
Hammond organ
There is a quite big brass section (trombone, tenor sax, alto sax and trumpet, maybe two) not just trumpet.
There are also the backing voices (female choir in the beginning and male choir in the middle making "haum").

Depending of my free time I might try to make some keys (piano and Hammond) and if there are no sax & trombone players I can fake a brass section (DSK Saxophones VSTi, DVS saxophone VSTi, real trumpet and a trumpet pitched one octave down as trombone).

At 10/31/09 01:32 PM, nathanallenpinard wrote: Ska = fast reggae with horns? :P

With a punk feel (less shuffle, more straight divisions).

If you're talking of the program called "Real Guitar", then, yes, you can use it with FL. Runs as VSTi and DXi plugin.
It is also available as RTAS (for Pro Tools) and AU (for Logic).

Welcome to real/ virtual world.
Here we have Funk (James Brown, The Commodores...etc) which is called Funk, Jazz Funk (Herbie Hancock, Maceo Parker...etc) which is called Funk, Rock Funk ( Red Hot Chili Peppers, Living Colour, Prince, Primus) which is called Funk, and some techno "unce unce" with no relation to Funk, guess what, which is called Funk.

Congrats Maestro, the site looks so much better than the old version :)

The room is nearly finished, I still painting some of the furniture (black)... man, even my brain smells like paint.

This game looks AWESOME !!!
Here, some examples of how my works sound:
Epic

Good Morning America, by sorohanro Type: SongGenre: Classical

Mistery/ Detective story

Detective Jazz Loop 1, by sorohanro Type: LoopGenre: Jazz

Lion King feel/ African/ Ethnic

The Square of Life, by sorohanro Type: LoopGenre: Miscellaneous

Melodic Rock

Icarus - Freedom Cry, by sorohanro Type: SongGenre: Classical Rock

Aspirin, by sorohanro Type: SongGenre: General Rock

Electro

The Voice of Reason, by sorohanro Type: SongGenre: Ambient

Impressions from Vilnius, by sorohanro Type: SongGenre: Ambient

Genesis(loop), by sorohanro Type: SongGenre: Ambient

Funk

E-Funk new version, by sorohanro Type: SongGenre: Funk

Guitar Challenge-SorohanroSolo, by sorohanro Type: SongGenre: Funk

Taking same musical theme through different styles:

The Insanity - Orchestral vs, by sorohanro Type: SongGenre: Classical

The Insanity - Metal vs, by sorohanro Type: LoopGenre: Heavy Metal

The Insanity - Simple vs, by sorohanro Type: LoopGenre: Miscellaneous

But if you need really really awesome music I reccomend Maestro Rage or Nathan Allen Pinard.

At 10/24/09 05:56 PM, btriangle wrote: Very awesome Sorohanro, these are some nice songs man. When are we gonna compose a song eh? :D

Soon man, soon, after we'll finish with redecoration. Now all the house is upside down.

At 10/25/09 07:53 AM, Sialys wrote: Also, this is to Soro: Is there any limit to how low you can go? Like say, 430, 420, even 410?

Well, there is just the phisical limit of the instrument, but if you go way down you'll end just tuning one semitone or more down... not really a re-pitching of "A" but more a re-tuning to "G#" or lower.

As an interesting quest, try to find some Catholic or Lutheran old churches that have organs, if those are the original ones those might use a different pitch, not the standard 440.

Tuning and samplerate are not same thing, stop confusing them.

For this year's Halloween I'll first dress up like myself (I am from Transilvania) and we'll throw a party in our new renovated/ redecoraded room (red & black, my wife's idea).
As for Halloween themed tracks, I made two:
Halloween Special - Mysterious Church
Halloween Special - Frankenstein's Waltz
Maybe I'll make some more after this week (3 concerts, two tomorrow)...