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Dear Anyone. So mixwise - gainstaging wise - my pieces come in 3 flavours. 1.) Pieces that sound the same as anyone elses volume-wise - till you drop them into something like Audacity and see they're clipping like a hairdresser on steroids! 2.) Pieces that sound too quiet - till you do...

Dear Anyone. Pretty basic piece, 2 instances of a piano (left and right hands kept separate) sparkly pad panned left, soundfont choir panned right masquerading as the top end of the sparkly pad. Idea is, piano sits nicely in middle of pad-and-choir masquerading as One Beautiful Backing New...

Dear Everyone. Firstly - thanks for all the great advice I've had here, you're wonderful. Secondly - I thought I understood reverb till I read three different descriptions of it that seemed to contradict eachother. Here goes. First. "Reverb is used to push sounds back in a mix." Fair...

Dear Anyone. I'm working in 32-bit because I've got disability software that never got updated so I have to watch out for memory usage, or the whole thing just crashes and burns and takes your work with it! Most modern VSTs seem to be monotimbral, dunno WHY, but that seems to be the case...

Dear Everyone. I'm writing solo piano tracks using a piano VST. It's Edirol Orchestral, it's a nice, clear sound but all the tips on filling up a mix with a solo instrument that I can find are all dependent on mike placement, room type etc. I can't find anything on mixing a piano if all you've...

Dear Anyone. Two things before I ask the question. First - if the question smells like bull, it's because I don't really know what I'm talking about. I'm basically not very well self-taught here so I'm kinda groping in the dark (did that sound bad!?!) Secondly - I know you can get things...

Dear Anyone. I use notation and MIDI for everything, am disabled, can't use anything else. Am trying to get the hang of mixing the New Age music I'm trying to write and I've hit a dichotomy (don't worry, am suing the guy who left it in the road!) I've read that in MIDI notation it should be...

Dear Anyone. I've got a bunch of free synths (high budget operator, me!) and I'm happy with the sounds for what I want to use them for, but they've all got the same problem. No CC controls, so how the heck are you supposed to control volume/velocity/panning etc? Is there any kind of plug-in...

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 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 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...

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 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 Anyone. When you've quite finished horse-laughing (I tried this thread on another forum and got flamed out of existence!) - I can't unARK ARKED soundfonts! I download the ARKed soundfont. Double-click on it. SFunARK kicks in and opens a little DOS window which says THIS SOUNDFONT HAS...

Dear Anyone who understands Quick Score Elite OR SIMILAR NOTATION SOFTWARE!. I'm hoping someone's had experience of notation software of some kind - I can't play keyboard because I'm disabled, have to use a mouse for everything. This might apply to other notation software too.... I use...