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    What if your a songwriter...

    hey, any tips if your a songwriter and not a performing artist? I love sitting down on the piano and composing songs or grabbing the guitar and singing away till the wee hours of the morning rather than practising the same songs over and over and over....anyways...and over...heh..so what i do...
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    Recording Acoustic Piano/Grand vs. Upright

    HI... Don't know where this goes. But this is "other" for sure...I want to make a room strictly for piano recording. Now, obviously I would love to shave a buck here and there. If I heard a recorded track of an upright piano vs. a grand piano would there be a remarkable difference...let me...
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    Recording Studio For Songwriters

    Hello, I'm a songwriter up in Canada. I have been rolling the idea of being a business owner. I would love to set up a studio specifically designed to provide services to songwriters and solo artists. Such as : demo's, scratch tracks, composition, full LP's (Radio Ready) possibly even get...
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    Record with acoustic and get electric sound?

    hey, Is there anyway to do lead guitar on an acoustic guitar and get it to sound more electric using cubase? otherwise I have to purchase a new guitar and amp and mic to get the electric sound? anyone been able to get around this? any info would be great. Thanks!
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    Roland GW7 Workstation Any Comments?

    I'm looking at picking up a Roland GW7 workstation. So far, out of all the work stations I've seen, it's the least expensive coming in at 700$(canadian), but the only problem i don't like is it has no onboard speakers. So it's not like a portable. But I really have no plans on porting it around...
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    Hope For The Hopeless(Courses Offered From Cubase)

    I live in Edmonton, Canada. There is a store offering a 7 week comprehensive course on basic home recording using Cubase. Basically it's once a week for 2 hours. That's 14 hours of tutorial on basic home recording and Cubase (not to shabby, considering my Pysch 104 course is 45 hours). The cost...
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    Can I Just By-Pass Midi and Use Keyboard?

    Hi there, hopefully people can help me out. Ok...I'm a songwriter. I write for myself. So my problem is, I know nothing about drums at least in a computer sense. Now, lets say I have Cubase, guitars, Edirol audio interface and a yamaha DX series keyboard. Since I'm a guitarist, I like to...
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    Song Publishing Question

    Hi, After I add the final touches to my CD. I'm getting it professionally reproduced, it'll be just great. But here's the thing...I'm going to have 100 cd's with 7 songs on them and nowhere for them to go. haha. ooh...i should have thought this out. Any idea's on how to get my song's...
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    Oi, Music or Lyrics First??

    When I collaborate, I often do it with people who don't play an instrument but they have these good lyrics, but no music. When I write songs I have always had music, then i wrap the song up with lyrics, like a blanket. Is this normal? I mean, I know this is an age old question, but any other...
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    Keyboard substitute for bass????

    hi there, does anyone use keyboard bass sounds to substitute for a real bass? I got a roland em 25 and it's got about 12 different bass guitar sounds. I'm not a bass player, but i always tease my bassist and say " if i wanted to master the bass i'd set aside an hour for it" haha. this is...
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