Toki987
Rock Steady
love it!! Its real clean and smooth!!
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Shaky Tee
Between being and nothing
Thanks, Toki!! I was kinda surprised how it came out, given the supposedly inferior sound quality this product is supposed to have.
Aphex, I sang on several tracks using a repeater function and a bright vocals function on the PS-02. I mixed them down, then sent the sound file to my laptop, where I used an app I downloaded to convert the sound file to a 16 Bit, 44.1 K wave file. After that, it was just a matter of normalizing the file, adding a Stereo Widening effect, and voila!!!
Aphex, I sang on several tracks using a repeater function and a bright vocals function on the PS-02. I mixed them down, then sent the sound file to my laptop, where I used an app I downloaded to convert the sound file to a 16 Bit, 44.1 K wave file. After that, it was just a matter of normalizing the file, adding a Stereo Widening effect, and voila!!!
dtb
Well-known member
damn sum-bitch keep buffin, but you be my kinda woman. I am bowing down to ya, as I type, and that ain't easy. I havn't seen any post about yo new toy, but you seem to have mastered it already. I'm listening again. Thanks.
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Shaky Tee
Between being and nothing
That good, eh?
Sounds like I'll have to do some more of this!
Sounds like I'll have to do some more of this!
dtb
Well-known member
AB--SO--LUTE--LY
Qwerty
New member
I love you and will be your bitch
On the strength of that first note alone, I love you.
Q.
On the strength of that first note alone, I love you.
Q.
dafduc
New member
Shaky Tee said:I got one of these:
IT came in the mail today. And I used it to put together this itty bitty ditty:
Shaky, I've been lusting after one of those - just whip it out when the inspiration hits ya. Talk about a boost to the creative process!!!
Sorry can't listen at work though. Maybe from dialupland later...
Daf
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Jim Soloway
New member
That sounds great. I was wondering about those small scale recorders. I'd love to hear both more music and more of your impressions about working with it.
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Shaky Tee
Between being and nothing
Thank you Qwerty!
I guess it's time for me to post some more of my pics, eh?
dafduc
Zoom has apparently discontinued making these, but they are still all over the place - and you can get one now for about 200 smackers (watch the price drop by another hundred.
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I gotta warn you tho'. I was REALLY taken aback by how TINY it is. It even fit the palm of MY hand. And I have a small hand.
Jim,
So far, I'm really impressed with this. It DOES require a bit of a learning curve, especially if you want to use the onboard rythym tracks (the drum and bass presets). I don't really intent to use them that often, since I already have a Palm Pilot with music software and a synth attached to it, and I intend to use that for my backing when working on this.
I also don't have an electric guitar, so I haven't been able to test the guitar modules that come with this, but this band (an internet collaboration) uses the Zoom PS-02 for their guitar sounds.
Here's their link:
http://www.1sound.com/blueunion
They actually inspired me to get the Zoom. I thought that what the guitarist did on it was pretty awesome!
I guess it's time for me to post some more of my pics, eh?
dafduc
Zoom has apparently discontinued making these, but they are still all over the place - and you can get one now for about 200 smackers (watch the price drop by another hundred.
).I gotta warn you tho'. I was REALLY taken aback by how TINY it is. It even fit the palm of MY hand. And I have a small hand.
Jim,
So far, I'm really impressed with this. It DOES require a bit of a learning curve, especially if you want to use the onboard rythym tracks (the drum and bass presets). I don't really intent to use them that often, since I already have a Palm Pilot with music software and a synth attached to it, and I intend to use that for my backing when working on this.
I also don't have an electric guitar, so I haven't been able to test the guitar modules that come with this, but this band (an internet collaboration) uses the Zoom PS-02 for their guitar sounds.
Here's their link:
http://www.1sound.com/blueunion
They actually inspired me to get the Zoom. I thought that what the guitarist did on it was pretty awesome!
AlChuck
Well-known member
Shakey, that was really cool!
I have one of these things too, and from my perspective it's less than thrilling.
The learning curve is steep, as you said -- it's almost completely non-intuitive. I really wanted it to be a great convenient sketchpad for capturing and tinkering with ideas. But unless you use it often enough, you have to haul out the manual every time you want to record a quick idea, and then your idea evaporates while you are trying to remember which buttons to push...
It has all these drum and bass sounds on board, but you can't sequence freely with them, you can only build songs from a standard set of patterns, which is very limiting, and also overly complicated to work with too.
Finally, you need a way to read the data disk into the computer. Not a big deal, but one more piece of gear you need and one more step to mess with.
All in all, I find I almost never use it. (Fortunately, I won it in a contest so I didn't spend any of my money on it... except to get a larger data disk and a card reader...). If I was willing to spend a couple of days with it learning it cold, and used it more often so I wouldn't forget how it works, maybe I'd use it more.
It also does make a reasonably decent guitar "modeler," though it's not as good as my POD so I rarely use it for that, even. (The ring modulator patch is really nasty and skronky, I'm sure to use that one of these days).
Tascam has a similar device that has a MIDI interface on it so you have a lot more flexibility -- you can use Standard MIDI files instead of a paltry set of drum and bass patterns. It also has a USB port. I haven't tried it, but its user interface could hardly be worse than the Zoom's.
I have one of these things too, and from my perspective it's less than thrilling.
The learning curve is steep, as you said -- it's almost completely non-intuitive. I really wanted it to be a great convenient sketchpad for capturing and tinkering with ideas. But unless you use it often enough, you have to haul out the manual every time you want to record a quick idea, and then your idea evaporates while you are trying to remember which buttons to push...
It has all these drum and bass sounds on board, but you can't sequence freely with them, you can only build songs from a standard set of patterns, which is very limiting, and also overly complicated to work with too.
Finally, you need a way to read the data disk into the computer. Not a big deal, but one more piece of gear you need and one more step to mess with.
All in all, I find I almost never use it. (Fortunately, I won it in a contest so I didn't spend any of my money on it... except to get a larger data disk and a card reader...). If I was willing to spend a couple of days with it learning it cold, and used it more often so I wouldn't forget how it works, maybe I'd use it more.
It also does make a reasonably decent guitar "modeler," though it's not as good as my POD so I rarely use it for that, even. (The ring modulator patch is really nasty and skronky, I'm sure to use that one of these days).
Tascam has a similar device that has a MIDI interface on it so you have a lot more flexibility -- you can use Standard MIDI files instead of a paltry set of drum and bass patterns. It also has a USB port. I haven't tried it, but its user interface could hardly be worse than the Zoom's.
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Shaky Tee
Between being and nothing
Hey Chuck!!! Thanks!!
I can understand that. I spent several hours playing with it yesterday, so, I was able to get something going with that. I was able to get the hang of it, tho'. Of course, reading the manual helped.
that's why I don't really plan on using them all that much. My palm pilot with the synth clip on (or the Yamaha MU-5 via a Mac Connector) IS my backup band.
If I were a guitarist, I'd take that advice too. As it stands, I've heard what other people did with it AS guitarists, and was impressed enough.
Well, I had a card reader already, so it wasn't that big a deal. I DID find a freeware program that allows me to convert the resident audio files to CD-quality wave files, so that was cool. I could hear a difference between that and the files I normally record on the laptop (24-bit, 48K resolution), but, for a machine like that, I thought it was pretty cool.
Yeah, the Pocketstudio 5. I was considering getting that, but, #1, I already have a sequencer on my palm pilot, from which I can transfer MIDI files to my laptop, and I can use two synths with it, so getting a pocketstudio, for me, would have been redundant.
#2, You can't really record MIDI files into it, from my understanding, even tho' it does have a midi in. You have to get your files from your computer, transform them into whatever format Pocketstudio uses, and THEN use them in the Pocketstudio.
So you're back to square one, anyway.
Besides, that thing is HUGE!!!
And I don't really have 400 bucks to throw around at the drop of a hat. Some Tascam's customers over at their site were complaing that the price dropped so quickly after the product was released. Kinda told me something....
I can understand that. I spent several hours playing with it yesterday, so, I was able to get something going with that. I was able to get the hang of it, tho'. Of course, reading the manual helped.
that's why I don't really plan on using them all that much. My palm pilot with the synth clip on (or the Yamaha MU-5 via a Mac Connector) IS my backup band.
If I were a guitarist, I'd take that advice too. As it stands, I've heard what other people did with it AS guitarists, and was impressed enough.
Well, I had a card reader already, so it wasn't that big a deal. I DID find a freeware program that allows me to convert the resident audio files to CD-quality wave files, so that was cool. I could hear a difference between that and the files I normally record on the laptop (24-bit, 48K resolution), but, for a machine like that, I thought it was pretty cool.
Yeah, the Pocketstudio 5. I was considering getting that, but, #1, I already have a sequencer on my palm pilot, from which I can transfer MIDI files to my laptop, and I can use two synths with it, so getting a pocketstudio, for me, would have been redundant.
#2, You can't really record MIDI files into it, from my understanding, even tho' it does have a midi in. You have to get your files from your computer, transform them into whatever format Pocketstudio uses, and THEN use them in the Pocketstudio.
So you're back to square one, anyway.
Besides, that thing is HUGE!!!
And I don't really have 400 bucks to throw around at the drop of a hat. Some Tascam's customers over at their site were complaing that the price dropped so quickly after the product was released. Kinda told me something....
B.SABBATH
New member
pretty cool.. the sound is not bad at all.. your voice reminds me a bit of Dido..
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Shaky Tee
Between being and nothing
Thanks, B.Sabbath!
boydrj
New member
Very cool effect and the recording sounds real clean.