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I have a KORG X5DR module, an 88-Key controller and a Tascam Portastudio 4-track.

My computer is an HP 128 MB, 30 gig, CD-RW drive, etc, with USB ports, etc.

I also have Cakewalk, Cubase, Logic Audio Platinum, Vegas and Cool Edit, among others.

I want to set up my gears to use for recording with Cakewalk/Cubase or Vegas. How do I set them up? I don't know how to make all the connections. I want to be able to use my portastudio somewhere in there too.

Thanks so much, everybody :)

Chan
 
Since you're a newbie...

I'm not going to give you a hard time.

But...

Since you have over $2000 dollars worth of software, I am assuming that its warez, and just wanted to let you know that warez folks usually get a pretty hard time on this forum.

Go to the music store and BUY a copy of cakewalk home studio, a small mixer, and a stereo to mono 1/8" to 1/4"(2) cable. 1/4" at the mixer, 1/* into the sound card. But of course how to hook this up is also in the manual.

Skip the protastudio, unless you want to use that as the mixer.
 
Re: Since you're a newbie...

schwa said:

Since you have over $2000 dollars worth of software, I am assuming that its warez, and just wanted to let you know that warez folks usually get a pretty hard time on this forum.
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I don't use cracks, mainly because I want the support from the company, and 2, because I want to support companies that make good products.

But why hassle people who do??
If people just want a toy to play w/ and don't make a profit, than why not use a crack?

Just my 2 cents, but I am interested as to why warez folks get such a hard time.
 
Dont worry about it, I use pirate software all the time and I play other peoples songs on stage and I use other peoples music for inspiration and ideas and I will quote other peoples words now and then, no big deal.
If your software is pirate what do you care what anyone here thinks, you certainly wont get a hard time from me.
The pirate software I use very selodomly has basically done nothing for my recording that I couldnt do with analog.
I got 4000.00 dollars worth and its basically junk.
 
Why WAREZ folks are given such a hard time....

...the general answer would be -- 'COS STEALING IS GENERALLY FROWNED UPON.................

The manufacturers invest a good deal of time and money into the development of the technology and they deserve to be paid for their efforts.... kiss technological advances goodbye if everyone steals their s/w, causing them to lose money, and therefore killing their possibility to invest in the development of further products.........

So damn right -- piss on anyone who is stealing s/w!

My opinion, of course... other's mileage may vary... (and usually does!)

Bruce
 
Ive had plenty of stuff stolen from me and I never run around whining about it, if anyone wants to use pirate software and you dont like it get off the soapbox and call the software police.
 
We shouldnt just assume that hes using cracked software....what happened to innocent until proven guilty?......
 
Stealing and accepting stolen goods for non profit are 2 different things. Its bootleging, and its not hurting anyone. I can't see Steinberg going out of business because less than 1% of all users of their software use cracks.
 
Gidge said:
We shouldnt just assume that hes using cracked software....what happened to innocent until proven guilty?......
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You gotta point, but come on...Who's gonna buy all that software that does the same stuff? I think it was a fair assumtion.
 
dragonworks said:
Ive had plenty of stuff stolen from me and I never run around whining about it, if anyone wants to use pirate software and you dont like it get off the soapbox and call the software police.
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OK! I will.... now what shall I tell them your address is DW?
:D :D

It's not a question of soapboxing.... I wouldn't be the one calling the s/w police. I would simply refuse to provide assistance to anyone who steals gear or software, then comes around here saying "I lost the manual... how do I....???" It seems a lot of people share that particular ethic...

Bruce
 
Doesn't anybody think this is pretty much the same issue as with Napster and peer to peer sharing?
Hmmmmm....It's available for free on the net...But if you buy it you get the fancy manual/packaging + support (in the case of software)....
Anyway it's there and since I'm pretty pro-Napster (and p2p in general) it should tell you where I stand....
As for moral issues, until I actually see someone from the RIAA or Steinberg or whoever on the street begging for money, I'll be sleeping alright at night.
 
OK... to throw the thread totally off-topic...

...I DON'T GET IT...

How can ANY musician be pro-Napster???? If I spend a year (or more!) in the studio with my band, and we work hard to produce an excellent CD, which we intend to sell... how the FUCK can anyone justify it being ok to make a copy of that CD, throw it up on Napster, and have it available for download without my or the band's permission!

So we're at a gig, and we announce that we have our CDs for sale, and someone comes up between sets - we ask if they're interested in our CD and they say - "...no thanks, I already got it from Napster -- great CD, by the way... when's the next one coming out??"

My response, thanks to the beauty of Napster, of course has to be "...when we make enough fuckin' money off this one to afford it!!!!!!! Which should be another 20 fuckin' years!"

See my point?

So now why is it any different for a "commercial artist." They did the work, and they deserve compensation for it...

Bruce
 
"Pirating software" is an imaginary term invented to give the impression that all humans are criminals because they temporarily utilize soon to be obsolete "intellectual property".

You have perfomed an illegal action and this program will shut down.
 
I didnt steal the software it was given to me, someone else did all the dirty work. If anyone would like to call the software police my Address is 49 Farm Road,
Copake, NY, send em on over.
I give my music away free all the time, anyone who wants a copy of my CD can send me a blank cd to burn it to and pay for the postage and my music is free. You can download some of it for free from my website.
I never assumed anyone was using pirate software, its just if they do, a few goody two shoes shouldnt scare them away from this site.
 
I have access to cracked versions of tons of multitrackers and I use N-Track...go figure...and Yes I have the 24 bit REGISTERED version....

As far as Napster, its about damn time someone ripped off the record companies....theyve been screwing the musicians for decades.....
 
hixmix said:
"Pirating software" is an imaginary term invented to give the impression that all humans are criminals because they temporarily utilize soon to be obsolete "intellectual property".

That couldn't have been said better.

My freinds and I have been dubbing eachothers music from eachother since we were 10 years old along with the rest of the world. All Nabster did was put it on a larger scale. These record companies don't care about ethics or right from wrong, they care about money bottomline. Greed and fear are there only qualities. I would feel bad about Nabster if musicians had control over their music, but we don't, wether we like it or not.

Before Nabster came I prayed for something to come and slay the totalitarian beast so that we can have our own industry, based on music and innovation instead of greed and fear.
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Re: OK... to throw the thread totally off-topic...

Blue Bear Sound said:
...I DON'T GET IT...

How can ANY musician be pro-Napster????
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On Nabster people steal your music because they enjoy your art, and most I know will go out and buy your CD if they like what your doing.

Record companies pimp our music for money....So who's the vilian???
 
Bear understands, its really quite simple.

I had no idea this thread would prompt such a lively discussion. But, as I posted in a differenct thread...

This (pirated software) hurts me in at least two ways:
1- The folks that write the software work hard for a long time to sell a relatively small amount of software (a lot more people buy office than ProTools). This means that every copy they don't sell (due to piracy) means that they will be be less able to produce new updates, and support their legitimate users.

In the end, the software is less good and more expensive.

2 - When the companies see that their software is being illegally copied, they need to beef up their copy protection. This has the doubly ill effect of distracting the programmers from making great music software, and the copy protection makes it a pain in the ass for legitimate owners to use the software.


I know I can't stop people from illegally copying software, but I don't need to encourage or support it either.



On the Napster front, I'm not sure where I sit. I don't use it, but must agree with those folks who are rebelling against the record companies' unfair and outdated pricing and distrbution model.
 
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