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Originally posted by dk3nnyGlad to hear another entry. What made you decide on Reason?
Just sent in an entry there, just something i threw together this afternoon messing around with the midi keyboard and reason.
anyway, looking forward to hearing the other entries..
I use Cakewalk products, Sonar and Project 5. I got into Cakewalk
because my daughter went to Berkelee school of music in boston
and they gave it to all the kids there so I started using a student
version and then bought into upgrades till now I am only one behind
the top upgrade, sonar 5. I have sonar 4. I have issues with sonar,
however. The biggest issue is when I upgraded from sonar 2 to sonar
3, most of my projects which were several tracks bound together in
what is called a cakewalk project file became unglued and now I have
hundreds of split up files that are now just single files not associated
together like they used to be. Its not a serious problem because
they were not meant to be part of an official cd or demo, just
basically practice sessions getting to learn sonar. Have you had any
such issues with reason? Have you upgraded from one level to another
yet? Have you had any contact with sonar? For that matter has anyone
else here ever used sonar? Wonder if anyone else has had the same
problem. One thing I learned however, you need a separate HD for
audio files and the original HD for your OS, whatever that is, and
the workstation software, whatever you use, be it Sonar, Cube,
Pro-tools, Reason, whatever. They all need to have a separate
HD for the audio files. If you use only one HD, think about it,
It is really whacking when it has to access the OS, accessing the audio software, reason or whatever AND stuff all
the bits of the audio plus effects all onto the same hard drive.
It puts an unreasonable load on that poor overworked HD which can
eventually contribute to failure plus the chance it will miss a beat and
put pieces of files in the wrong place, maybe causing a system
crash. So separating the audio/visual files storage from the OS and
audio/visual software is not a luxury if you are serious about
HD recording.
Originally posted by sonhouseHey sonhouse,
Glad to hear another entry. What made you decide on Reason?
I use Cakewalk products, Sonar and Project 5. I got into Cakewalk
because my daughter went to Berkelee school of music in boston
and they gave it to all the kids there so I started using a student
version and then bought into upgrades till now I am only one behind
the top upgrade, sonar 5. I h ...[text shortened]... e from the OS and
audio/visual software is not a luxury if you are serious about
HD recording.
I can't say i've ever really used calkwalk myself but i presume its quite similar to cubase, pro tools etc..
Well, i used reason because i've only started messing around with it a few months ago but i always have a lot of fun trying to create something using it, also its got an excellent drum machine, decent synths and it quite easy to use.
I wouldn't recommend you use it for recording anything live, for that use cubase/pro tools/cakewalk (at least thats what they say in the sound eng course i'm doing)
As for the seperate HD, defiantly a good idea or you're looking at a defiantly bottleneck.
Originally posted by dk3nnyWhat possible reason would you not use reason for live stuff?
Hey sonhouse,
I can't say i've ever really used calkwalk myself but i presume its quite similar to cubase, pro tools etc..
Well, i used reason because i've only started messing around with it a few months ago but i always have a lot of fun trying to create something using it, also its got an excellent drum machine, decent synths and it quite easy to use. ...[text shortened]... As for the seperate HD, defiantly a good idea or you're looking at a defiantly bottleneck.
Sounds Unreasonalble to me🙂
Seriously, is there a speed problem with reason or something?
If it has latency issues that could be one reasonable reason for
not using reason! Unless its the wrong season for reason. Hehe,
you could go on all day in that vein! Why don't they recommend it
for live use? Latency is the only thing I can think of, that is to say
it may be too CPU intensive and not record in close to real time like
Sonar or Protools. What other issue could there be?
Originally posted by sonhouseWell, to be honest i just think its a design issue.
What possible reason would you not use reason for live stuff?
Sounds Unreasonalble to me🙂
Seriously, is there a speed problem with reason or something?
If it has latency issues that could be one reasonable reason for
not using reason! Unless its the wrong season for reason. Hehe,
you could go on all day in that vein! Why don't they recommend it
for ...[text shortened]... and not record in close to real time like
Sonar or Protools. What other issue could there be?
Reason afaik is just more about a software emulation of hardware synths/drum machines/samplers/effects units etc and cubase is more for live recording through a sound card or whatever and then processing/editing that sound..
Originally posted by dk3nnySo it doesn't record analog audio through a sound card. My set up
Well, to be honest i just think its a design issue.
Reason afaik is just more about a software emulation of hardware synths/drum machines/samplers/effects units etc and cubase is more for live recording through a sound card or whatever and then processing/editing that sound..
is a Mackie mixer to an RME Hammerfall digiface 8 channel in and
out analog and a bunch of digital ins and outs, never even used
the digital stuff, have no means to take advantage of that stuff,
my studio is basically analog feeding a fancy sound card to a
Dell computer, am thinking of upgrading the dell, the old one is
ok but at 1.7 GHz, is getting a little long in the tooth. It works fine
but during mixdown, sonar calls it 'export audio' it can take 5 minutes
to mix down a complex project to a two channel wave file so the
newest two cpu machines can do that job at least four times
faster. For now, its no big deal just to wait! Have some nice mikes,
some small bore panasonic close instrument mikes which sound great,
lots of kick, and a couple of large diameter condensers, a Rode
NT 1000 and a Studio Project C3, both great mikes at least for
the home studio. I suppose the big guys would snub their nose
at them with their 5 thousand dollar Neumanns but it sure works
great for me! I just got a full boom mike stand, its about 7 feet tall
and can direct a heavy mike anywhere in the room, I want at least
one more of those, they make my regular boom stands look like
toys! So I am making decent sounding recordings as you will here
when starmann starts linking all the entries.
Since I've had a number of computer-based entries, I've decided we're going to open the competition up for another category to fully present them on their own, instead of in the instrumental category. So, we'll have an instumental section and a computer section.
And anyone out there who's still toying with the idea, get your butts in gear and send me something.
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Originally posted by StarrmanThis just reminded me of a choon I made about 9 years ago with Rave Ejay when I was into happy hardcore. I'm going to enter it for the craic, even though I think the music style is horrendous now.
Since I've had a number of computer-based entries, I've decided we're going to open the competition up for another category to fully present them on their own, instead of in the instrumental category. So, we'll have an instumental section and a computer section.
And anyone out there who's still toying with the idea, get your butts in gear and send me something.
D
[EDIT] If I can get my sheet together in the next few days, I may enter something more in line with my current music tastes. Although a severe lack of knowledge of any current software and a bad case of laziness will probably mean that this doesn't happen.
Originally posted by RagnorakI didn't let my laziness and lack of knowlege of the software stop me!
This just reminded me of a choon I made about 9 years ago with Rave Ejay when I was into happy hardcore. I'm going to enter it for the craic, even though I think the music style is horrendous now.
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[EDIT] If I can get my sheet together in the next few days, I may enter something more in line with my current music tastes. Although a severe lack ...[text shortened]... f any current software and a bad case of laziness will probably mean that this doesn't happen.
BTW, I played over your game with GauravV, Evil, pure Evil! You
caught him flat footed with that bishop sac. I kept thinking you were
going to falter and lose it but you battered the snot out of him,
Good game!
Originally posted by sonhouseThanks. I nearly blundered it away with 22. Qxg7, but luckily I had him all over the place at that stage, and was able to press home the advantage elsewhere.
I didn't let my laziness and lack of knowlege of the software stop me!
BTW, I played over your game with GauravV, Evil, pure Evil! You
caught him flat footed with that bishop sac. I kept thinking you were
going to falter and lose it but you battered the snot out of him,
Good game!
Anyway, back on topic... ain't music great?
D
Originally posted by RagnorakFunny you should ask. I don't know if you know what a session is but
Thanks. I nearly blundered it away with 22. Qxg7, but luckily I had him all over the place at that stage, and was able to press home the advantage elsewhere.
Anyway, back on topic... ain't music great?
D
here I am stranger in town for a week or two in Toledo, Ohio and
looking for something to do, asked around and they pointed me to
Toledo.com and buried inside that site was a posting for an irish music
session at this pub called Mickey Finns. Irish music is pretty much the
only kind of music where there are get togethers in pubs usually with
like minded people and we play irish music for a few hours. The neat
part is being a stranger in town, we still had a ton of tunes we all knew
and we also knew some the others didn't so its a two way give and
take. I am an expert on guitar and mandolin so thats what I brought
as I drove the 500 miles from Allentown, Pa. I intensely dislike
airports anymore so will drive if its less than 10000 miles or so🙂
I don't mind airplanes, they are safer than cars, I just hate airports.
So after the session there were some music onstage. a girl named
Jill Jack and David Mosher, got their CD's, she is kind of
rockabilly and David was just her side man for this gig but I liked
his CD a LOT more than hers, he plays an upbeat virtuosic bluegrass,
he is an excellent fiddler, guitarist, mandolinist and banjo player.
His band was tight and he has a good voice.
His CD is called Sycamore, maybe you can google him in.
So a good time was had by all, not bad for scrounging up something
to do BESIDES watching a football game. I haven't turned on the
hotel TV since I have been here, had plenty other stuff to do,
change strings on my guitar, play these games here, listen to all
the new CD's. That took all day sunday and into the night till 3 am,
I was still practicing the guitar till the guards came and knocked on
my door! So I did not watch the game, probably one of 60 people
in the US that didn't! See you later oscillator. Don
Originally posted by VargI don't tend t work much with MIDI, but I believe you need to click on the pencil icon on the arrange screeen in line with the channel which refers to your drums. This will create a part which you can now double click to open the matrix edit window. Here you can draw triggers in, different drums up and down and length of trigger left to right. You can also vary all the midi commands here like pan, volume, modulation etc. Fill in your drum track et voila.
Anyone here use Logic and can help me out with it?
I need to add some drums somehow.
There are some inbuilt midi drums, I have a VST drum plug in but don't know how to actually input the drum triggers.
Any ideas?
I'm presuming you just tell the VST instrument to play this track, but I'm not entirely sure how to do this.