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    Tip of the day

    in Music Making and Production/Industry

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    And yeah, people tend to make silly pictures to take away the attention of what is really the point of the topic :lol:

    Tip of the day:

     

    You can end any internet debate with just a grain of satire and some photoshop skillz. :lol:

     

    It's closing time soon, my clock reads 21:00. Only a few hours left untill we announce the tip of the day for today. :P

     

    K here's one:

     

    If you have a cat in your appartment/house, then wear your slippers in RAID-10 mode. You don't want to walk barefoot to the toilet just because your cat has hidden your slippers under the couch. ;)

    Tip of the day

    in Music Making and Production/Industry

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    w h a t e v e r ; ) you have heard about burn failures right? They look right on your current setup, but wont be read in any other setup? You have heard about USB sticks that can not be read in any other computer than yours? You have heard about fuck ups, right? You do not have to be rich, nor a tech freak to run a safe raid? It all depends on how much data you want to back up, does it not? Are you talking about 100gb or about 5 tb? Heck if it is about 10gb here, I would get myself 2 usb sticks and thats that... If we are talking about 500GB plus, I would not even take the risk to put them on DVDS without getting a 2nd backup. 500gb/4.7gbx2? ;) C O M M O N... thats around 150 Euros in just dvds, and the amount of time it would take ya? 500GB of HDD costs around 30-40 euros at the moment, 500gb x 5 = 200 Euros.... which do you prefer?! :lol:

     

    And how many USB sticks would that not take?

     

    It all depends of what you want to back up and HOW MUCH it is. If I had 20 gb of music, or if I had 500GB of music that I have done, I would consider my options.

     

    But hey, I am just a tech freak!

     

    Edit: How precious is your data to you!? :D

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    Tip of the day

    in Music Making and Production/Industry

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    What's so wrong about DVD's? You just need to keep them safe in place. Fuck, I've got DVD's that I've burned over 5 years ago and they're still 100% operational. No errors or anything. If I want to, I just re-burn all the data to another DVD, and there I have it, another few years of safe data (If I keep it safe). Unless you put your DVD's under the rain like you put your computers, you should be safe.. Compare the price (and the ammount of space) of a dvd failing to a hard drive failing and I hope you'll see my point here.

     

    Even USB stick's should be safe enough for quick project backups.

     

    I don't see the point of having 500 hard drives when all you do is waste power (increasing your electricity bill)?

     

    Not everyone is rich or a tech freak nemo, for the rest of use we use alternatives like DVD's and usb memmory.

    Tip of the day

    in Music Making and Production/Industry

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    What was it, a hard-drive failure?

     

    I buy a new hardrive every couple of years anyway - and a good one not some cheap crap. But if some boot sector gets messed up or windows messes up I'm smart enough to be able to fix it.

     

    As for some tips:

     

    Use multiple partitions people! At least a 100 Mb partition with a small linux on board with some basic hard drive tools like a partitioner and a cd/dvd burner. It will save your life (and your data) ;)

    Either that or just a stripped down version of winxp (tinyxp) on another partition. Also keep an empty partition of several gigabyte's where you can quickly copy data to in case something really bad messes up and you need to reformat the partition where your data is on. Also make sure you have a Bootable CD or DVD (or USB, or floppy, or whatever :)) of linux. I think there's a live version of Ubuntu aswell as any other major linux distro out there. Look it up on google.

     

    You should also burn all of your project files onto a DVD or a CD (or a USB, they've become pretty large in space size over the years) every month or so. Well it depends on just how active you are, but it's really handy if everything else fails. Remember there's only one thing worse then loosing 1 month work of production - A years work of production.

     

    As for hard drive failures that's a whole 'nother story, but I believe even they can be recovered. There's companies that can do that for you, altho for a pretty large ammount of money (last time I check was years ago so I might be wrong).

     

    Another tip:

     

    Save your projects often. Use either your own version numbering or auto-saving features of your DAW (Several major daws support this - saving your projects by versioning every x ammount of seconds/minutes, really handy). Don't overwrite the same file all the time because in the worst case scenario (say a power outage) you're file may end up corrupted. With no recent backups you could loose hours of work. I've literally got a couple of dozen different version of my every project, of course you might say that I don't need any other version then the latest but I can allways use these old versions to retrace my steps and see if I missed anything out.

    If you had to chose TWO instruments (software or hardware)

    in Music Making and Production/Industry

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    I like massive as it has the most wicked type of link-system I've seen. We'll nothing ground-breaking but it's very intuitive. It can do some nice quirks and sound fx, unfortunately I don't consider it that good for "big" sounds (leads, pads etc). Only used it for a few weeks tho, erm, that was last year :P.

     

    FM8 is great and needs alot of tweaking around to get that sound you're looking for. It's really an expert's synth imo. I still love FM7, made some crazy shit with that one, FM8 is more pretty to look at tho :D.

    What track do you listen to before you go to bed?

    in Other Electronica

    Posted

    I've realized that often I would have the need to listen to a good track before I'd go to bed. Nothing special, just that it's a track I favor and preferably ambient-style aswell. Makes it easy to go to sleep that way I guess. There's not a single track I use every day, but I usually select something from either CBL, Solar Fields or maybe even something off of vibrasphere's selected downbeats album (I'd like to add Pushmipulyu - Wake You is an excellent choice aswell). Ocasionally I'd go to sleep with something more psychedellic like x-dream, but I keep it ambiental usually.

     

    Tonight it's Ulrich Schnauss - Bluebird of Happiness (Ulrich Schnauss Remix). Perfect closing for the night. :)

     

    I did use to just pop in a whole mix of tracks to sleep over to. Back when I was in the army (here we go again.. :rolleyes::lol:) I had the excellent Paul Oakenfold - Essential Mix (1994) mix on my ipod. Waking up near a fire while this music was played in my ears is a true psychedellic experience hehehe. ^_^

     

    Edit: Nah, it's gonna be track Wake You for closing this night. I overplayed the bluebird track too much recently :P

    minimalnet.org

    in Other Electronica

    Posted

    Allready posted this link, well worth of a visit tho:

     

    http://www.thinner.cc - A great site filled with an extraordinary ammount of talnet. And all of the music is free.

     

    I've listened to pretty much all of their compilations (There's over 100 of them, some were unfortunately unavailable for download).

    So I figured why not give an extensive list of 'selected' tracks and releases worth listening to?

    I'll start with the first half of the releases today, and continue with my reviews tommorow (since it's very late at the moment).

     

    Here we go:

     

    [thn005] Rktic - Northern Lights // More of a dark minimal approach here, not bad at all.

          » tracks to check: #5

     

    [thn006] Nulleins - Cyclism // Very groovy minimal, lot's of expression in this release.

          » tracks to check: #1, #4

     

    [thn007] Benfray - Carbon // A little on the heavy side, nonetheless a great release by Benfray.

          » tracks to check: #1, #2, #3

     

    [thn008] Dolby - Dub Expo // Starts very gentle but energetic, progresses to more groovy dark minimal.

          » tracks to check: #1

     

    [thn010] VA - Thinnerism [Vol. 02] // A good VA, diverse tracks in this one. Definately worth a check.

          » tracks to check: #6

     

    [thn014] Digitalverein - Zu Hause 2 // A very diverse release from this artist. Starts dubbish and ends with an techy track.

          » tracks to check: #3, #7

     

    [thn015] Dolby - Midnight // This is a more progressive release. Starts with an almost psychedellic minimal track, ends with an atmospheric dubby track.

          » tracks to check: #3, #4

     

    [thn017] Zu Hause 2 Remixes // I've allready recommended the original Zu Hause 2 release. This is an excellent remix, if you liked the original you won't be dissapointed.

          » tracks to check: #1, #3, #4, #6

     

    [thn021] Falter - Taumelflug // If you're one of those people who like their minimal to sound 'big', then this is perfect for you. Plenty of atomsphere and big sounds, recommended.

          » tracks to check: #1, #3

     

    [thn022] Digitalis - Synergy // Excellent release. Very dynamic, energetic and groovy. Starts slow and dark, continues fast and energetic and ends with a smooth groovy track. Highly recommended.

          » tracks to check: #1, #3, #4

     

    [thn023] Selffish - Eenas // Music with alot of attitude. Contains alot of atmosphere, plenty of playful elements for a minimal release. Starts slow atmospheric but builds up. A great release.

          » tracks to check: #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7

     

    [thn026] Benfray - Bergflanke // Fast-paced minimal with a thumping beat and lots of treble. Starts with a very dynamic minimal/psychedellic track. A good release by Benfray again.

          » tracks to check: #1, #4

     

    [thn028] Niels Jensen - 77 // A mix of groovy and tech minimal tracks, very dynamic alltogether. Contains a few gems. Recommended release.

          » tracks to check: #2, #6, #7

     

    [thn037] Lufth - Tendenzen // A very psychedellic style on this release I must say. For the freaky/psychedellic-minimal lovers this will come great.

          » tracks to check: #3

     

    [thn040] Surphrase & Rktic - Norddeutsch // Very groovy/techy minimal release. Highly recommended.

          » tracks to check: #1, #3, #4

     

    [thn042] Eloi Brunelle - Montréal Night Grooves // Has a nice beat to it and an atmosphere. Worth checking out.

          » tracks to check: #2, #4

     

    [thn047] Marko F Crstenberg - Gesamtlaufzeit // Lots of atmosphere and very dance-able music. Contains something for everyone. An excellent release, highly recommended.

          » tracks to check: #1, #2, #5, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11

     

    [thn051] Deluge - Departure in affection and new noise // A very ambiental energetic release, you will love this one if you like your minimal to be gentle and atmospheric. This is minimal but borderline ambient. Very highly recommended if you dig this kind of material.

          » tracks to check: #1, #2, #4, #7, #9, #10

     

    [thn053] Holger Flinsch - The Watcher And The Tower // A mix of ambience and tech which delivers alot of atmosphere. It get's my recommendation.

          » tracks to check: #1, #3, #4

     

    [thn054] Benfray - One Touch Button Music // Atmosphere, ambience, the beat, the bass, the sounds.. this one has it all. A superb release by none other then Benfray. There are many gems which ultimately makes this a must have release!

          » tracks to check: #1, #4, #5, #6, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12

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