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Digital Audio Computer Music-Making and MIDI XG
Now more than 15 years old - and it shows!
This site was originally for users of the good ol' General MIDI (GM) and Yamaha's superior XG MIDI standard; specifically, the SYXG-50 and SYXG100 softsynths, now discontinued.
Now it's also for musicians using the computer for making music in the digital audio realm, too.
You can still find the comprehensive MIDI XG guide on how to interpret and use XG's specialised commandset to tap into its hidden power.
Mixing music is another area now covered with lots of articles, interviews and tutorials including the popular 10 essential mixing tips.
There's also an overview (plus many reviews) of popular computer music products, including keyboards and midi and recording equipment.
Oh the list just goes on, including the ever-popular online music calculators - just get stuck in and discover, learn, tell your friends and enjoy!
Kicking-off with 10 digestible nuggets of sound mixing essentials you should be practicing when shaping sounds and balancing the mix.
You might know all, or some of these tips already - cool. However, they've been chosen precisely because they are ones we most-often let slide from our thoughts when dancing with the fairies in laa-laa-land (Note: I'm talking about you here - I've personally never been to laa-laa-land, preferring STRICTLY HETERO nightclubs instead, HTH).
Mixing audio sounds in music is generally regarded as a baffling science by most ordinary folk - being musicians then, we're clearly knackered before we even start!
You've got all those buttons, dials, and faders, just WTF are you supposed to do with them all?!
Well, fortunately for you TheWhippinpost summoned pro-sound engineer to the stars, Rick Snoman, to be questioned for what we're calling: a mixing tutorial.
This Cubase SX tutorial is your remedy for discovering Steinberg's powerful MIDI and audio software package studio.
With its power and flexibility, come questions. This tutorial aims to guide you through the FAQ's and get you writing tunes fast. TheWhippinpost has more Cubase SX tutorials to read around the site so get 'em bookmarked!
On the sleeve-notes to one of Brian Eno's albums, Ambient 4: On Land, I remember reading how he came across an easy trick to achieve an "all-round ambient-type" sound from a stereo recording by wiring a third rear speaker into a stereo amplifier. Brian Eno, for those who don't know, is regarded as the grandfather of ambient sound...
It's been a while since I last read a good ol' warez debate on the forums.
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Think of any popular brand in software - Cubase, Reason, FruityLoops, Photoshop - and you see a brand owing at least some of its success to the "freedom-fighters" of the web: the software crackers.
A side to the software piracy debate often overlooked is the $millions it can potentially be worth to the right company with the right software. I'm gonna show you how this works...
Making music has just become a little easier with TheWhippinpost's latest new section, simply called: Answers.
That's right, my knowledge-thirsty music-freaks with no lives, after several hours of programming, using Yahoo's once freely available Answers API service, TheWhippinpost fired hundreds of music-making questions at it and gathered all the answers submitted by Yahoo's community into one place, here.
The new Windows Vista operating system from Microsoft is basically upon us now. So I've spent a fair number of hours trawling through a small mass of Microsoft techno-babble (around 2 years worth FFS!!) to get a grasp of what goodness - if any - is in store for us computer-musicians... 'cos let's face it, sooner or later, most of us will be confirmed "Vistarians"!
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