Introduction to me and my next "phase" ;-)

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Dick Dammit

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Hi. I'm Dick Dammit. I have been involved in computer music in my spare time for years now.

Here's a children's music piece I finished awhile ago: [song stripped away because I am a Newbie] [OK. Now able to post the song]

http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=3096747

I will have questions about moving what I do, which is all done with aging and dying outboard samplers. into the computer.

I work in a unique way (I think) I work with MIDI loops rather than .WAV loops. I want to continue with this system (because I need to specify all the chords myself) but am just too busy a person to load all the outboard stuff (ESI 4000, EMU piano, a couple old Yamaha sound modules etc.).

I also have always been unable to record the finished product into the same computer running my MIDI mixes. I get tiny stops and speed ups in the finished recordings. So I record to a reel-to-reel deck.

Anyways, I'll split all this out into seperate questions that I hope you guys will be willing to help me with in the near future.

Thanks. :drunk:
 
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are the stops and speed changes in the midi file? or is it your computers playback of said file? :confused::confused::confused:
 
Couldn't say if the MIDI jitters or if the program recording the final (analog) audio output does. But... the tiny little stops and starts in the music are permanent and unchanging anytime the final WAV or MP3 (whichever I was using) is re-played.
 
Dick "Damn It"...?

If that's your real name...damn...it must be awkward when you greet people for the first time. :D

;)
 
I use Jammer 5 Pro. Cakewalk Old (Pro Audio 8). When trying to record the results back into computer (instead of tape deck) Musicmatch/Audacity/Windows Media etc. etc. tried a lot of things.
Soundcard is M-audio Delta 2496.
 
A song of mine now posted in the OP- I will also like to have advice on why my mixes are so DULL sounding. I EQ for brightness - even put Sonic Maximizer on it - but it all comes out gray and flat anyways :-(
 
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Cakewalk is fine. Delta is fine. Midi is fine. None of these should be causing problems. If recording the audio is giving problems, then I would look at the computer itself. Although audio can be run on very basic machines, it is susceptible to interruptions. For example, virus checkers, screen savers, and other software (including viruses and malware) that are active in the background can mess up the audio.
 
I have done what I would call "naked" recording attempts - with all the things you mention turned off - and then some. It just never worked. This computer seems to have a processor that only has 2% or 100% usage (when I monitor it). I sometimes think there is just some basic flaw to this thing. But I will keep trying. Thanks for advice.
 
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