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You'd think they'd have a 'SoundsNiceFromTheBox' setting, strings! Dear Jkhuelin et al. You'd think these libraries would have a 'Sounds Nice ALready!' setting (or two!) so you could just go on from there! I know the 'Sounds Like A Real Orchestra' string setting-up's a total bitch but I'm a...

Dear jkuehlin and anyone else who replies. That's exactly what I AM trying to do - make my current setup sound better. The problems I'm having with Garritan Strings are as follows - they've all got this vibrato in that you can't get rid of - or I can't - for love nor money. There's no ADSR...

Dear Anyone. I'm a wannabe basic New Age composer. You know - lead sound, pads/strings. Thing IS - I've found a bunch of wonderful threads here about mixing - but not about making the sounds sound good BEFORE you mix them! That's the bit I cant do. If I write a piano'n'strings track (think...

Dear Anyone. Depending on the answer to this, might be a follow-up question but for now - hear(!) goes! I'm just hoping this doesn't sound too vague, because I'm trying to wrap my head around all of this mixing stuff. OK, if you've got - say - a real bunch of 23 real violinists in your back...

Dear Anyone. I'm disabled so everything's MIDI and mouse for me. I use a notation program which I've MIDI Yoked to Ableton Live 8.1. I've only just got the package - legit, it's not cracked, just secondhand - and after a day's strugling managed to set up one multitimbral instrument with 4...

Dear Jimmys69. I told you which DAW - QSE Level 2!! The main plug-ins I use are EQium and MSE-X, which is a Cakewalk 'does-everything', Swiss army knife plug-in. I've also got many other effects plug-ins which I'll list if necessary. QSE Level 2 is made by Chris Sion of Sionsoft. Thanks...

Dear Anyone. OK, I'm a noob. Dunno if this should be in the new starters bit or here, feel free to move it. Got told to use Reverb as a send effect. So I set it up as a SEND - and immediately all the parts I'd carefully EQ'd out came back again! Checked the EQ, there was still little green...

Dear Chilli. Sorry for the 2 threads, I thought the MP3 forum was the only place you were allowed to post MP3s, you see, so I thought I had to put a thread there as well I'm abouit to try a limter on the main output (if that's what 'final buss' means, QSE doesn't use busses as far as I know.)...

Cant get things LOUD enough, part 2... Dear Anyone. Part One is on the Newbies forum, it's got virtually the same title, but I noticed I was allowed to post MP3s here so I decided to post one. And you'll probably notice its BIG problem straight off, which is what I need help with. Forget...

Dear Anyone. This applies to EVERY TRACK I've ever written, apart from one, and I dunno what the difference was with that one track! I'm using just MIDI, VSTs, entering every note with the mouse into QSE Level 2 because I can't play anything as I'm disabled. OK. So I write the track, mix it...

Because it's not as good as QSE by miles. Because it's not as good as QSE by miles. You have to input everything as quavers, then change the lengths afterwards, it's not easy to change velocity/volume as QSE is, basically the Sonar notation prog. feels like an unfinished afterthought whereas...

Dear Anyone. I'll keep this brief, but you can ask for any additional details you want. I've got a legal copy of Sonar X1 Producer, and a notation program, Quick Score Elite Level 2. I have to use the notation program because I'm disabled and can't play a keyboard phisically. OK. Quick...

Dear Setanta. Y'know, that's one of those lovely theories until you start looking at the actual facts and seeing the REASONS for the use of knock-offs. A piece of music software turns up on 4 DVDS in a box. No manual - it's a PDF on a DVD. Cost of 4 blank DVDs, retail - £1, Brit money. Cost of...

I didn't realise that! But it makes sense.... I didn't realise you could put the effects on the CHANNELS in Reaper! I'll have to look at it again bearing that well in mind. So can you change the instruments assigned to those channels and not have to change the effects unless you want to, as the...

Got several, struggling to understand any of them.... ....which is why I didn't name any definite one, incase they were all different! I've got Reaper, Adobe Audition 1.5 and 3, Cool Edit Pro, Cubase 5 and Ableton Live 8. As I said, I know more about nuclear physics than I do about really...

Dear Anyone. OK. I've got my mixing/midi package (can be anything so I'm not using names!) I've put my MIDI file into it. I've got my Wonderful Multitimbral Synth (if I have to use names because the technique's different on different synths just say, I'm just seeing if there's an overall...

Dear Anyone. Now I'm not a geek/gearhead, just a wannabe composer, so please keep the tech. talk baby-level! I'm working on the cheap, got a whole pile of lovely SF2s. BUT - I can't find an SF2 player that lets you control Volume AND Velocity via MIDI Controllers. Some of 'em have velocity...

Dear Everyone. OK. Here's what I've got, it's all legally bought, the only thing cracked around here is me. Quick Score Elite Level 2 Notation (main music input system - MIDI'n'Mouse, me!) Sampletank Free Player, Proteus VX, Edirol Orchestral, Kontakt, Reason 5, Ableton Live 8. And various...

Dear Anyone. I'm using Ozone 4 on a PC with Cubase 5. I've only just bought it, wanted to try it out. So I imported a soundfile into Cubase. Put Ozone 4 on the track as a plug-in. Chose a preset at random, just to see what it sounded like, pressed PLAY and got more pops'n'crackles than an...

Dear Bob. I've GOT SFXT and ALIVE, both of which are supposed to handle ARKED soundfiles. ALIVE tells me EVERY ONE of the ARKED soundfonts I've downloaded are invalid! SFXT turns the SFARK file into a .EXE file. It's when I double-click on the EXE version that nothing happens (save for the...