you might try to put on the master bus Kjaerhus Master Limiter, it may help...

http://www.pettinhouse.com/html/download .html
Yamaha Kit and Brush Kit gives you the drums separately beside the Kontakt and Battery patch.

I checked the link, works just fine for me.

Actually I find annoying to see how many "DJ" and "Production" are around, with no tracks sometimes or with some very crappy... crap.
The most hilarious was when a guy with some name like **** Productions appeared on forum and asked "what programs can I make music with?"...

Hi guysez
I'm a big fan of free stuff (as you already know from threads like "Best Free VST Effects", "Free Trumpet Sample..." and "Drum VSTi").
So, browsing with that purpose in mind, I came across PettinHouse website that sell sample libraries for Kontakt.
That's cool... but the really cool thing is that they put all their libraries for free download in a "lite" format, so go there and knock yourselves out.

HERE IZ THA LINK

You can donate by PayPal.

Melodyne it's an amazing software but it's spicy pricey.
I usually put a G-Snap on voices (and sometimes on trumpets) and this do a good job, with a more natural sound than Antares Autotune. You can link it to a MIDI track and control every note that you want.

If you'll use a condenser to rap, you'd better stay not very close and use a pop stopper, other way you might damage the microphone.

Drums you can have for free. There are at least 80 free drum machines/ samplers, there are also some very quality drum samples of vintage famous drum sets (from Ludvig, Gretsch , Yamaha Custom, etc...).

If you have money to invest I would suggest getting some realistic strings.
DSK Brass would be fine for a while and for trumpets... there is a trumpet player here on NG that might help you with some real trumpets...

For something to die it should be alive in the first place.

Check this thread, I posted there several free plugins and resources.

this topic might be useful to people, so, bump.

soundbible.com

Now that's something.

Cubix
Cubix is a drumsynth/sampleplayer with an onboard arpeggiated bassline synth. Each drum section has it's own dual X-Fade sequencer section for beat mixing, as well as an Auto-Mix function. Designed with live operation in mind, Cubix can be used for making complex beats on the fly that can be randomized, mixed, matched and manipulated in a number of ways.

Windows only.

At 11/12/09 05:39 PM, IKONiC wrote: It's a skill and really, you can put any non-hiphop artist from NG to the challenge and they won't be able to sample properly. It's extremely difficult.

Sampling is an art, but it's not related only to hip-hop. There are TONS of non hip-hop artists here on NG that can make your jaws fall down with their skills.
For a non NG artist who used sampling in non hip-hop music, check Miles Davis late albums.

At 11/12/09 05:50 PM, ZStriefel wrote: I know this isn't what you were hoping to hear. But really, there are no safe ways to sample.

Well, actually it is. According to NG rules, you can sample all NG music if you properly credit the original author :) and put the resulting material under same license :)

You must get clearances from the copyright holder of the recording AND the
copyright holder of the song. Not getting them could cost even more (if you get sued).
There are no "2-seconds" or "4-Bars" rules. Obscuring a sample doesn't make it legal.

For the commercial products, you are completely right.

There are just two safe ways to sample things that you want to put on NG:
1 - You sample NG music, give proper credit to the original author and put your work under same license (that actually goes automatically here).
2 - Sample an instrument, sound by sound, make yourself the recording (as you get the samples in samplers/ romplers, to use within your DAW).

You can use here also my free trumpet samples and loops.

From the depth of randomness

3 years ago, Chinese calendar year of the cow... Mad Cow disease.
2 years ago, Chinese calendar year of the bird... Avian flu.
This year, Chinese calendar year of the pig... Swine flu.

Next year is the year of the cock...Anybody else worried?

At 11/11/09 05:31 AM, Quarl wrote: sorohano. If you don't know who this is, get to know him. He offers a pretty cool cd in the newgrounds store but he offers a lot of his work for free. You can take advantage of his freeness, or you can do the newgrounds audio community a huge favor and buy his album, then use a song or two from it in a toon of yours to help advertise him.

Thanx Quarl.
That was very nice of you.
The bad...well, not bad actually, but sad a bit, is that the album sold out here. I should order more from the record label but apparently there (back home in Romania) sold quite good too, so it's quite a challenge to get it now :)

As for the rest of the discussion, sometimes you can make money on NG, more than you can make on other sites (those for stock audio).

At 11/11/09 01:01 PM, thecoreman wrote:

At 11/10/09 02:06 PM, loansindi wrote:

At 11/10/09 02:03 PM, thecoreman wrote:

A couple questions before I get started though. What's the tempo,

I don't know the tempo, but it's the exact tempo of the song. So it's the same as the original song.

That say nothing to no one. Tempo should be expressed in exact numbers, other way would be very hard to put all the tracks together as they should.
Try to get an exact tempo, record the parts with a metronome, everybody get the same "click track" and at the end all the tracks will be played exactly on time.

and did you leave a full measure of silence at the start of the track? If so, that makes adding a click track really easy.

Nope I didn't, but feel free to add it. Don't forget though, drums start at the 4th beat before the guitar.

Well, without a metronome there is no 4th beat.

For future reference, audacity can generate a click track.

I know, I just couldn't get it precise.

Well, we should get one close to the original tempo and we all use it.

Thanx for sharing Nathan.

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 :)