Feathers
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It's a good question, Spiral. Ozric Tentacles have made reference to mood altering properties of some of their tracks but I don't know if they've used binaural beats. Perhaps the thing to do is to analyze any track which seems to have an unusually strong relaxation/hypnotic effect.
I was listening to a Hallucinogen track (I think it was one of the 'live' sets) and at one section it started to make my head spin with the swirlyness of the sounds. I'm sure this was what Posford intended.
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Pancakes.
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I would guess that people using binaural would be trying to hypnotize the listener for various reasons, ie.. Relaxation, subliminal suggestion (for example: you could suggest that George W Bush is an honest and true leader (this would obviously be a lie!)).
I have used Binaural light and sound and the two together can be very relaxing. It can give you a sensation of lying on a beach (A politician will lie anywhere!) or of floating upwards on a bright and sunny day.
I used red light synced to the binaural tones but I'm going to use white light (white LED's) since these will create a more intense experience.
I would like to point out that certain rhythms can also be hypnotic. Anyone listened to a certain track by ozric tentacles (from Erpland?) that sounds Turkish. The rhythm is shifting in a very clever way which causes the listener to drift away. If you lock onto the rhythm you can also get carried away trying to decipher it.
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Blah blah blah! What I'm saying is that the quality of speech is bad... It's like Speak & Spell, it sounds like a robot. If you want robot (George W Bush) type voice effects in your song then it's good! Try getting any other commercial speech synth to speak at a certain musical pitch, you won't be able to do it. Fruity speech allows you to set the voice pitch in terms of musical notes. Does fruity speech use the microsoft speech engine? (I haven't checked) if this is the case, then you could easily expand it with AT&T natural voices! So, in summary, what I'm saying is that Fruity Speech is good for robot voices, not good if you want realistic voices.
Sheesh!
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Ahhh the quality! Yes, Reflekshun, I agree that the quality is not good! It sounds as bad as the very first speech synths! If anyone would like realistic sounding speech then you must buy the AT&T Natural voices.
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"The Speech engine is merely a fad, a gimmick" - If the Fruity Speech is merely a fad, then so are most of the audio effects in use these days. Simon Posford has made use of singing voice synthesisers on many of his tracks and so then the 'gimmick' or 'fad' isn't so much of a gimmick after all! It all depends how creative you are. There have been many musicians who have made use of 'speak and spell' voice synths in their music. New systems are being developed that are able to mimic the human voice very accurately. AT&T have natural voice synthesis modules that sound as natural as any human voice. Put the two together and you have an artificial voice that sounds very natural. It would be great for people who can't afford singers!
I have used the Fruity speech synth in my music and it sounds great! It really adds life and humour to music!
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Windows XP is a great operating system... To illustrate: Two of my friends have Saitek X35 stick and throttle controllers, both using windows ME. Both report that their controllers don't work properly. One of my friends was going to send his X35 back for repair. He let me test it on my windows XP system and it works perfectly! The problem is with Win-ME. (I had the same probs with win 98).
Re: Fruity speech engine. Some musicians are experimenting with artificial speech/singing in music. I recently was given access to one system developed by a university. You can get some interesting results with it. The Speech in fruity might seem like a joke, but it's actually a pretty good feature! Fruity certainly is innovative in many ways. It's just a shame it's so basic in other areas.
A note to anyone considering changing to windows xp: It's the most stable operating system available for PC. I would recommend that people also convert to NTFS if they're going to make the change. XP is perfect together with NTFS.
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You can run hardware synths from Fruity (it's more Reasonable than Reason) but I don't like the way it works with midi hardware. The midi sync hardly ever works (I gave up trying and used Cubase sx instead). The way Fruity works with midi hardware is extremely basic and irritating. It seems like a pain just to set up simple recording/playback of notes/controller from my synth. I'd only use Fruity for getting simple ideas or for the speech synth (v3.56). It's certainly not a serious tool compared to even Cakey Sonar.
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There is a secret law which states that 'the sound you intend to create will not sound as good as you planned, but... The sound that you created by accident will sound amazing!'. Very short sounds can often be as impressive as longer ones. Small sections removed from voice or sound effects can be very good. You could try recording some sounds from the television and taking small sections and looping them.
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No problem!
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How do you make it spin?
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I don't own one, but how about this?
http://www.geocities.com/briancauchi/rm1x.htm
or this forum:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rm1x/
or this?
http://www.markarber.freeserve.co.uk/tips.htm
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Good decision not to go for Mac.
Nothing wrong with having a dedicated computer if you can afford it. If you can't afford it then you can still have the same results by installing multiple copies of Windows XP. I have a second installation of XP that's just used for running cubase! This dedicated installation is much faster because it doesn't have a lot of junk in registry or system folder. I'd also consider changing to NTFS as well, because it's error free and much more efficient. If you have enough RAM then you can disable your swap file completely and this will allow your system to run at max speed!
The other thing you can do is create a 1gb partition and format in NTFS with 512 cluster size... Assign your swap file solely to this drive (for those that don't have enough ram to disable swap file!).
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Knowing me I'd end up charging myself more than the $2000 asked for the Eko!
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What's the point of using cubase sx and then loading Reason as a VSTi? Reason is unique in it's own right and capable of some great sounds. I certainly wouldn't go to the trouble of trying to control it from another sequencer though. I'd sooner make use of regular VSTi's in Cubase.
Cubase SX does everything I need anyway!
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It looks nice... I assume it doesn't actually exist at this time, since those images are as virtual as the VSTi's it will host.
Perhaps I will put my PC into a rackmount case and sell it to myself as a hybrid hard/soft synth?
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It is part of the western disease to endlessly debate without ever reaching a conclusion.
Hardware synths are great... Switches, knobs, dials, convenience, portability. Software synths are also great, low cost, great performance, zero size and weight and no parts to wear out. I use both.
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That's pretty good I reckon! I was going to buy a used K-Station on Ebay auction. I lost that one and ended up buying a Korg Z1 instead. There is no mention of Vocoder or Audio input as oscillator.. The K-Station has both features and that was my reason for choosing it in the first place. If the software version lacks these features then they might as well not have bothered in the first place. Does it have these features?
As far as I know... Access have either released or are releasing a VSTi virus.
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Doesn't your video have audio outputs? Mine has Phono. Do you have Scart connectors in that plastic country of yours? Scart also has audio in/out and so you'd just need to get the video closer to the computer or vice versa. You could use a portable recorder as the guy above me suggested. You could use a microcassette or minidisc. If yo video has audio out then simply connect it directly to the recording device!
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Ja, I have a good connection (most of the time). I suspect I'm going to search for this music today.
Have we installed windows XP yet?
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You know Ozric Tentacles?
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I was only able to download a few. I will have a better listen via winmx.
I will search for: strategies against architecture 2
I like the watertower idea... When I lived in Nederland, I had to visit a Watertower (watertoren?) about work. An employment agency had taken residence there. :-)
I saw the reference to the jet engine when I went to the bands website.
How long have they been around?
How many notes can you get from a jet engine. I'm guessing it must have had a portamento style of pitch change since the gas control is smooth/continuous and not stepped/geared!
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I'm being a smartass again.
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I downloaded some of their music. I will listen 2it shortly.
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I reckon it's not bad at all...
I think the bass was a bit flat on the first track... It could do with some fattening or expanding slightly from it's current position: mono-centre. Also perhaps a little confusion of buzzy type sounds and so a little thinning out of sounds might help. I liked the panning buzzy sounds and the overall design. I liked the 2nd and 3rd tracks the most.
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The 3rd track especially was interesting.
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Doh! :-)
How is it that the Germans are leading the way in music/sound synthesis? I don't think it's a bad thing... It's just that well... They're not exactly renowned for producing great music, are they?
It sounds like Access have a pretty good support team though, so hopefully your machine should be working soon!
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irritating computer problem when using XP and SX
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Well... I have some interesting facts... I'm running Cubase SX on an Intel Pentium 3 500Mhz with 192meg Ram. I have two installations of XP. One solely for SX and the other for general applications. Both installations of XP are very stable and cubase never crashes. The problem has more to do with the manufacturer of the CPU. AMD chips are useless at multitasking. They're great for games but Intel chips are much better at running serious applications. I have a friend with an AMD 800mhz Athlon. He's had it for two years+ and today is the first day it seems to be working properly. He still doesn't trust it but it's a major achievement for him to have installed windows XP and for it not to screw up. The problem isn't with XP, XP is a very fast and stable operating system and lightyears ahead of 98/ME.
I had another friend who bought the latest AMD XP 2.2ghz system with 512mb 2700 Ram. It could run only one program at a time otherwise it would flip out and crash, it was as unstable as George W Bush. He sold it within a few months and returned to Intel. These are true stories. Did you know that AMD is an anagram?
You could try upgrading the soundcard drivers until you're ready to buy an Intel system. What soundcard do you have?