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I'm a Pro Tools user attempting to make a couple of songs in the vein of old PC game MIDI music from the late 80s & early 90s. While I can emulate the "chiptune" sound of the 8-Bit music era with synthesis, I'm having a harder time trying to emulate that distinct MIDI sound from old AdLib, Wave...

I've been checking out Brian Lee White and Bobby Owsinki's tutorials on Lynda.com, which are really comprehensive and clear, but I'm a little perplexed by Bobby Owsinki's compression technique. He seems to employ what I think is referred to as the "safecracking" method of setting compression...

I just got my first expression pedal, a Yamaha FC7. I'm using it in conjunction with my Axiom 49. My problem is that while the pedal works fine physically (it's able to tilt to its minimum and maximum positions just fine) it's only capable of producing cc11 values between 64 and 127 in Pro...

I'm working on a project in which I'm emulating three musical genres that I haven't approached before, and while I'm confident in programming the drum parts with BFD2, I'm wondering if anyone has any advice regarding drum mixing tricks. First, I have to tackle a Beatles "Ticket To Ride" era...

Finished a remix last week for a Radiolab remixing contest. I created a kind of glitchy/sound-mosaic/dream pop kind of musical piece to accompany Jeffrey Tambor's ("Pop-Pop" from Arrested Development!) narration. I spent the vast majority of my many, many hours working on the remix in...

Hey people, I'm wondering if anyone knows why Soundcloud's transcoding process can occasionally mangle certain .wav files while leaving others undamaged (at least not noticeably). I'm working on a portfolio for my music, and while I've been lucky enough that Soundcloud hasn't distorted any of...

Hey People, I've been recording my elec. guitar into my M-Audio FW 410 interface for quite a few years now (still total n00b status though), and then sending that guitar signal into Amplitube or Guitar Rig. The problem I'm sick of at this point is the seemingly unavoidable noise whenever I...

Hey people, I've been plugging my ESP EC-1000 deluxe directly into my Firewire 410 and recording into Pro Tools with Amplitube 3. Amp3 is awesome, but my raw, unprocessed guitar tones are pretty anemic and unsatisfactory. My guitar input level is peaking in PT at about -10 dBfs, but I'm...