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 Newbie Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: 09-Oct 02 From: Cardiff-by-the-Sea - US Member No.: 8,341  |
Hi, new girl here with lots of questions about hardware and software.
I've read just about everything I can that is somewhat related to my situation but still have ???? I am a cellist and vocalist and want to make backing tracks to play with live and also make demo recordings on my computer. I come from the portastudio school of home recordings so the MIDI stuff is making me nuts! Here's what I have: imac running OS 9.2 DX7 Boss DRmkII Behringer Eurorack MOTU Fast Lane Metro 5 OMS 2.3.8 grrrrrrr..... cello with pickup (although I usually am miked for studio recording) guitars cables I've tried to keep the basic set up simple but am having problems with OMS I think. Metro doesn't seem to like to work with Free MIDI. I am also having problems playing back audio after recording a track, how am I supposed to hear what I've played to do over dubs? BTW, I downloaded Pro Tools Free to try it out and just can't get the thing to open (memory error 1,010) so I gave up and went with Metro instead because it was inexpensive to start. Thanks for any help, this is a great site! |
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 Senior Member  Group: Members Posts: 296 Joined: 10-Aug 02 From: Rimghobb - UA Member No.: 6,734 |
QUOTE (Tone @ Nov 24 2002, 05:43) I trust the MIDI comments and these two queries are approriate to the forum Definitely appriate to the forum, Tone (if you're operating in OS 9.x), but you might want to copy yer message and start it as a new thread since it wanders far afield from torchsong's woes that we're trying to get unknotted. (I'm not trying to do the moderators' job; just think you'd get more responses if you put your questions into a relevantly-titled thread of your own creation.) The short answer to getting better/more "real" sounds into your mixes is definitely "sampler" (or sample-playback unit, if you don't want to get into tweaking or creating sampled instruments). There are too many available options to list, both hardware and software. If you're on a tight budget, definitely check out the shareware VSamp software sampler; it works as a VST instrument or standalone, and also reads Soundfont and SampleCell format. There's a world of free Soundfonts out there to get you started, some of them damn good. The program CDXtract will give you accessibility to almost every sample format out there, and the ability to convert to almost any format you need. Hope that puts a spark in yer plug. 
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torchsong New With ??? About My Set Up Wed 20 Nov 2002, 03:17
Levon River Hi, torchsong. First step of trouble-shooting is t... Wed 20 Nov 2002, 03:57 torchsong Thanks for the reply
Yes to questions 1-4 and the ... Wed 20 Nov 2002, 07:56 Levon River Good on 1-4. But you earlier said: "...the MI... Wed 20 Nov 2002, 14:21 torchsong I went back to try and reasses where I was having ... Thu 21 Nov 2002, 20:05 Levon River Girl, you got more than MIDI problems. But I'v... Thu 21 Nov 2002, 23:00 Levon River Wait a minute! Did I just hear you say "N... Thu 21 Nov 2002, 23:07 Teiwaz The alternative to Norton Utilities is Tech Tool P... Fri 22 Nov 2002, 02:05 torchsong new day, same s**t...
Every application on my com... Fri 22 Nov 2002, 21:00 Levon River QUOTE (torchsong @ Nov 22 2002, 20:00)new day... Fri 22 Nov 2002, 22:42 torchsong Light candle and commence...
[QUOTE]Hmmm. Well, t... Sat 23 Nov 2002, 23:15 damann
hi torchsong,
nothing works "bes... Sun 24 Nov 2002, 04:53 Tone Greetings all
I read the comment by damann on MID... Sun 24 Nov 2002, 06:43 Levon River QUOTE (torchsong @ Nov 23 2002, 22:15)Free MI... Sun 24 Nov 2002, 17:12 Tone Levon
Thanks for the direction
I suspected Sound... Mon 25 Nov 2002, 02:11 Levon River QUOTE (Tone @ Nov 25 2002, 01:11)I suspected ... Mon 25 Nov 2002, 02:34 Levon River Ummmm, torchsong? Where'd you go?
Oh, well...... Sat 30 Nov 2002, 03:36 torchsong aah yeah, playing music the old fashioned way... w... Wed 4 Dec 2002, 07:51 kaboombahchuck Well hello!
Sorry I did not look at this one s... Wed 4 Dec 2002, 09:45 Levon River QUOTE (torchsong @ Dec 4 2002, 06:51)aah yeah... Fri 6 Dec 2002, 17:44 torchsong Thanks for your help Kaboombachuck and Levon. Unfo... Wed 11 Dec 2002, 08:14 kaboombahchuck Welcome back!
First things first... Are you ... Wed 11 Dec 2002, 10:02 BagHun Shall I jump in at this point? Yes!
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Levon River Well, torchsong, you've drawn a crowd and are ... Thu 12 Dec 2002, 09:18 |
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