Recent content by Toddskins

Before you go posting your music online, there are a few things you are well advised to heed so you have no regrets. The experts tell you to not only copyright all your music, but also get yourself listed as the music publisher, because the more hats you wear, the more money you will get from...

To the OP, might I suggest watching and listening to this 5-minute excerpt from the classic movie "Cyrano". Trust me, it's relevant. Especially at the 4-minute mark to the end at 4:56. But watch the whole thing. There's much to learn from this. Background: Cyrano is Frenchman who is...

Ok. First off, that sound that sounds like high pitched strings is very easy to create using any synthesizer, or synthesizer plug-in (VSTi). If you have any musical background, you should be able to create that sound very easily. You do not need to sample it and then embed it. Just get a...

The list should be updated to include Cakewalk by Bandlab (formerly Sonar). Not sure why, but I clicked "other". For those who are lacking background and education on current DAW's, Cakewalk was maybe the very first DAW ever, going way back to DOS days in the 1980s. Then somewhere in the...

Hey guys (and gals), Reading music is one thing, but transcribing a composition of yours to score is quite another. I have faced the dilemma I'm in now, several times in the past years, and always end up working out the issues on my own, painstaking as they are. QUESTION: What might be the...

I'm wondering how to achieve the group, or gang sound, singing various lines of a song, coming from one person (1 mic) during a live performance. I do happen to own a Digitech Studio Vocalist that can add 4 additional voices over the original, but quite honestly have never used the equipment...

Everybody who listens to a sample, or raves about the sound of their Ivory II samples, or whatever electronic instrument, may not be experiencing sound assessment rightly. This post is about quality of sound, not music. If you don't invest in an awesome PA, you just don't know what you're...

Years ago, there was a website where you could recreate the Math curve for Kurzweil FUNs, and it was incredible. I lost the website. It was an exact replica of the FUN screen editor, except after selecting your input options (A and B), it would then show you the mathematical curve (or graph)...

I figured it out. They were GM Type 0 files. When I converted to Type 1, then all the labels I had edited for Track names got saved, whereas before, as Type 0 GM, the edited names were not being saved.

Yeah, I've decided.

Joe, Couple of questions, first. Did you get the Owner's Manuals when you bought it? Does the floppy drive still work fine? You may be right that the the latest OS for the K2500 is 2.8, but I thought it was higher. I know that in mine, the Boot Objects are 5.0 and 4.3 for some various...

Analog programming help needed. Here's what I have so far, without going into particulars on the actual patch (which sounds dead-on), I'm having problem with distortion when I play the octave in the Left hand, while also playing the right hand. But if I only play one of the two notes in the...

I had stated in another thread that I would upload my first ever MP3 to this site regarding a song I was entering in a contest. This began over a discussion about songwriting. Here's that thread to which I refer: https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=285663 And here' the link to my...

Hey guys, I'ts been a few years since I tampered with all this stuff, and I've forgotten some things. Help please? I want to start using Sonar III again, and have an Audiophile 2496 sitting side by side a Creative Labs Audigy in my Dell XPS tower. Back in 2004, I remember that I had to...

I penned some lyrics to a song a couple years ago, and named it "Wyle Coyote". Is this legal, doable? Can you reference a trademarked cartoon character and reference it or build a song around the character? Thanks in advance for any knowledgeable input.