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  1. jamtheguitarman

    How do you write music in a band situation?

    ok, lets get the brief history outta the way. Im in a band with three freinds. Three of us are pretty big Dream Theater (prog rock/metal) fans and have similar tastes, or at least used to, ill get to that later. The other guy (keys player) just joined. hes a brilliant player and hes ok with the...
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    Writing Music for Film, need more orchestral samples.

    im getting into writing music for film and composing using an orchestra. currently i have garritan personal orchestra which is good but its lacking some samples that i would like. choirs,percussion, certain string and brass techniques that are not in there, stuff like that. my budget is of...
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    how to get dell coupons in the UK

    im looking to buy a new dell inspiron 9300 laptop. i see all these sites with dell money off coupons but they only seem to be US sites. does anyone know where i can coupon codes for the UK? thanks
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    can anyone reccomend a cheap surrond sound/home theater system

    im looking for one under the 200 pound mark. can anyone reccomend anything? thanks jamie p.s i tried to post this in the dragon cave forum but it wont let post there for some reason.
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    anyone got a Korg Oasis yet?

    well im just wondering because ive been drooling over this thing for weeks. not that i could ever afford to spend 3000 pounds on a keyboard.( im not even a keys player really) im just wondering what its like.
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    how in the name of god do i get this damm Kick to stand out!!

    no matter what ive tried, i cant get the kick to actually stand out in this song(song in my signature) ive tried compressing and limiting, extreme EQing. The drums are done by Drumkit from hell superior by the way. at the moment im stuck to cubase built in plugs and some freebies(been using...
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    Is it possible to split a keyboard so you can have lead patches and rythem patches?

    im using Spectrasonics Atmosphere with my M audio e66(its called something like that anyway) and my question is. Could i assign one patch from atmposphere to say the lower couple of octaves and then another patch to the higher few octaves so that i could play ambient rythym with my left hand...
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    Should i rip all my cd's to OGG or MP3?

    Well im about to stick all my Cd's onto my new Samsung MP3 player( it kicks ass by the way, its the new one just released, i forget the model) which format gives the best sound quality\file size? i just did a quick test between a 128kbp mp3 and a 198kbp ogg file and the results were...
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    Its FINALY FINNISHED, 4 months of work, prog metal.

    So its finaly finnished. after getting all my recording stuff 4 or 5 months ago i have finaly finnished Smile its about 15 minutes and is all instrumental. i played all the guitar and keys,well i say i played all the keys, more like played and then edited the crap out of. Wink The drums were...
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    Help, my song is too long, where can i host

    well i just spent AGES setting up an account at soundclick.com only to find out that my song file is too large. its 15 minutes long, about 14mb. Is there anyway too get around this? someone else must have had this problem? thanks jamie
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    okay, ive finished mixing but im a little stuck?

    ive finished all my mixing and traking today but i am a little stuck. at various points during the song, the master output peaks occasionally, i cant hear any clipping but the meter still goes into the red momenterally. i am trying to get rid of this as i assume its bad news, is it problem? i...
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    popping appeared out of the blue!

    i fired up my computer today and started playback of my song. there is a ton of clicking\popping going on though and i cant work out why. the wierd thing is, it was fine yesterday and i havnt changed a thing between then and now. the output isnt clipping and the CPU performance in the VST...
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    VST Synth clipping problems

    help. im using Spectrasonics Atmosphere and im having trouble. basicly, when i set the level of it so that it fits well in to the mix, certain bits of the keyboard part start clipping. the problem is, if i reduce the volume on it, it is far to quiet and pretty hard to hear over the other...
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    jordan rudess, dream theater, prog rock,metal, synth sounds anybody?

    im looking for a collection of synth sounds to use for prog rock, metal. anybody know of anything that would suit me. soft synth or samples. thanks jamie
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    how to backup work?

    i tried the other day to backup my cubase work onto a cdrw. i used mix-mode cd, put the .cpr file on the data bit and the audio files on the audio bit. it then came up with an error saying that it could not copy the audio files onto cd. why is this? thanks Jamie
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    no mike signal in omni 1/0

    Hi everyone. i just purchased this omni studio and i have a very very annoying problem. ive already sent an email to m-audio but i was wondering if you guys could help me out as you always seem to. i realise that its quite long but i would great appreciate any help on the matter. when i plug my...
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    Wharfedale 8.2a Vs Tannoy Active Reveals

    I went down to my local sound control the other day to test out some monitors. i tried the wharfdale 8.2s and the Yamaha msp3's. now obviously the wharfs where alot better than the msp3's, the bass just wasnt there as you'd expect. But the sales guy said that the tannoy reveals where a whole...
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    Opinions on planet waves cables?

    Hi What are everyone's opinion's on these cables? How much of a difference is there between the 3 different types of cable?
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    A place to buy cables in the uk?

    All i want is a couple of speaker cables, an xlr and a trs 1\4. I have looked at dv247, dolphin music, red submarine and others and they all seem to have a poor selection. Dolphin seem to stock only Lynx cabling. Is it any good? Does anyone know any good cable shops? Thanks Jamie
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    Hey deepwater, do you ship to europe

    Hi Do you ship the 8.2 wharf's to europe at all? How much would it cost altogether? I can only find them for £250 over here in the UK.
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