Feathers
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Glad to see the forum is back. Mars is the site owner, and must be allowed to impose the rules he wants. And I mean, is it really a big loss that people aren't allowed to make drug recommendations any more? I mean, come on now. If you like drugs that's your personal opinion, but you don't have to brag about it to others and push them to do the same. The rules look perfectly ok to me, maybe that "no critizising" thing is a little strict, but I guess that one isn't meant 100% seriously. There must be room for discussion, also about other boards.
And yeah, I would also like to know who's been banned. Give us some names mars.....
You have been banned for posting more than 10 posts in a two week period. I hope you will learn from this?
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"Unfortunately, in the mean time, some of you were considered as harmful to the forums peace and will not be allowed to return" - I didn't notice any big arguments/flaming. Psynews was full of flamers when I first arrived many years ago.
It wasn't possible to scratch your arse without someone responding with:
"you're an arsehole"
"you type too many words"
"boring"
Psynews has actually been more peaceful over the past couple of years or at least since the last big change.
Who is on the list of banned people?
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Is it ok to have a big argument about CD publishing in this thread?
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Full retail promos.
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Where are the sheep CD's?
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Tori Amos.
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I don't recommend wearing headphones for making music. What sounds good in your head (wearing headphones) will often sound shit through speakers. This is why studios use monitor speakers.
Headphones are great for listening to other people's music but not good for composing.
BTW. If you want amazing headphones for gaming then buy rumble/vibration headphones. They shake your head and give a true recreation of bass frequencies. They also sound amazing with music as well.
http://www.techwarelabs.com/reviews/audio/aopen_hp-590/
You will never want to use ordinary headphones again!
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Buy it from Kazaa or Winmx peer to peer. I hear both places have a special offer at the moment.
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I'm sure it has been left out... I've looked all through the manual and over the synth itself. No vocoder.
It's not really a big deal cos I have a real vocoder effect on one of my hardware synths.
I think it would have been better to release the Wavestation as a unique VSTi instead of linking it to the K-Station. That way people like me don't start complaining when features are left out!
If Novation are selling the V-Station as a soft version of K-Station then people are obviously going to make comparisons. Apart from the two missing features I described, I believe it's a pretty nice softsynth overall. It has excellent tonal quality with some nice bases. Good effects section and arpeggiator as well!
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Anyone tried the Novation softsynth yet? Just in case you didn't already know... Novation have made a VSTi of their K-Station.
Since it's supposed to be a recreation of the K-Station you'd naturally expect it to have all of the features. I suspected something was wrong last year when Novation first announced it. The specs given mentioned nothing about a vocoder or audio in - as oscillator (two features of the K-Station). I emailed the company to ask them if the V-Station would have those features and I got no reply. Of course they didn't reply because they knew they were leaving out those features!
What is the point of emulating a real synth and leaving out significant features?
Can you imagine Korg releasing a VSTi MS2000 or Microkorg and omitting the vocoder? I hear that Korg are planning to release some VSTi's but I'd be surprised if they left out features of the original.
Most virtual recreations of real synths actually add new features rather than removing them!
The V-Station sounds good but I think it's a crappy piece of work. Obviously the programmers decided it was too much trouble to recreate the vocoder and hoped no one would notice it had been left out.
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How about Adlib? Remember that? Anyone using Adlib for their PC music-making?
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It's just FM you know... Like the DX without keys... Or a case...
Anyone have a valve driven soundcard? You know those valves add warmth and character to the sound.
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Soundblaster 16?
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Well... Stop asking dumb questions and find out for yourself which soundcard suits you best!
I don't waste time asking people which synthesiser or which computer to buy! I do some research and decide for myself!
:-)
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An internal soundcard will always be susceptible to noise from the other devices inside a PC. Motors starting and stopping, heads moving across disk platters. A high-quality soundcard will have a lot of large capacitors and filters to remove as much noise as possible. The ideal situation is to drive a soundcard from it's own supply. The perfect supply is of course battery because it's very pure and relatively stable (apart from gradual voltage drop).
If an internal soundcard is properly filtered from the other devices then it should be pretty quiet. It also helps if the soundcard uses audio grade components and metal film resistors.
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They are heaving?
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Anyone own a Korg Wavestation that's broken or in need of repair?
Common problems include dead battery (loss of RAM sounds) and dim LCD backlight.
If you have a broken wavestation for sale then let me know.
Or...
If you want one fixed then let me know.
Feathers (UK).
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Yes, I agree with stuart to some degree. You have to want to learn for yourself and not expect bum wiping.
I think it's ok to ask about hardware or music software etc, but as for 'how do I make good psy music?' or 'how do I make a bassline line I heard in that track by wishy-washy?' - Well... You need to practice and also to think and feel for yourself. Perhaps it begins with a feeling? You have to feel your way through it...
Time to sleep.
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I'm sure there are... It wasn't a serious statement...
NY is a big place. There are sure to be at least 5 good musicians there.
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Why not use Kazaa and Winmx?
They're extremely popular and with a big user-base.
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!!!News!!! Physical modelling synthesis revealed as fake by scientists... !!!News!!!
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To date, I've never had a synth/workstation with audio input. I almost won an auction for K-Station and I reckon it's a pretty good synth. I curently have a Korg-Z1 and Gem S2 Turbo. The S2 is old but a very capable machine with nice multi-stage looped envelopes. The Z1 has awesome Oscillators and modulation. I will probably buy a Novation machine at some point.
Audio-input as oscillator (Novation machines) is a pretty neat effect. Perhaps you could feed the output from a sampler (korg Kaos pad even) to the input to create some interesting 'live' waves?
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Stylophone.
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That's good then. Why would you prefer to use win 98 for music? It's obsolete and will cause nothing but problems! Why stop at 98? Why don't you people go back to using win 95? :-)
I'm joking. I was serious about the AMD probs though. AMD is cheaper to buy and if they were as good or better than Intel then i'd certainly have one. They are cheap but they're awful at multitasking and will bring compatibility problems.
I have a cheap and nasty soundcard cos I don't need anything special just yet. What do you people think of the Terratec DMX-6 Fire?
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I know of a sound engineer who has an AMD system, windows 2000 and Cubase SX. It's apparently pretty stable. I don't know if Windows 2000 is more stable than XP. It has a lot of crap in it that you don't actually need.
It's a good idea to give SX it's own XP. Something else u can do...
Create a separate partition of 1gb and format in NTFS with 512 cluster size. Set XP's swap file to that new partition for max performance. If you have 512mb Ram or more then disable swap file completely.
Make sure you change to NTFS when you move to XP. FAT 32 is dog poo.
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You people need to quit with the kissy-arse stuff. No more lame speeches about how much you love the place whatever rule changes there may be.
My personal view is that this forum is for the people and the rules must be made by the moderator however unreasonable. We must give thanks.
If a few hundred people get banned then so what? Did we need those people?
So long as we have moderators and kissy-arse people then we should be happy.
On a more serious note... The rules listed in the rules section are pretty good actually.
(You may not lick my bottom, I am wearing wooden pants).