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(19 replies, posted in Other Hardware)

If there's a tape deck in there it will probably be connected to some sort of mainboard. Should be an audio input to solder there shuld it have one.
The volume pot is the volume control, use brain.

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(16 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)

it'd be nice to hear the voice synth on it's own.  Im slowly learning to use SAM myself, still a massive MASSIVE c64 noob. Too many toys, not enough time.

131

(29 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I think it's good to invest some time in learning some engineering and production techniques if you're gonna go the gear way.

132

(19 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Im sorry if my 2 year old masterpiece sounds like it was made in 10 minutes. Really sorry.

http://chipmusic.org/cmdr/music/three

cant believe you're selling that beast sad

Does anyone have this book?
There is some interesting information on the demoscene and mod culture in it that I would love to get a scan of for a dissertation iam doing on tracker music.

Also: does anyone know of any other books that document things like this?

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(32 replies, posted in Audio Production)

bleo wrote:

I have a buddy who recently paid top dollar to have his album mixed by the guy who does all Jason Mraz's (yeah)  stuff.  He said when he went into the studio to hear the final mix, he took a look at the Pro Tools session and said the dude had gone nuts hand drawing the the track volume automation to make sure each syllable was just right.  I'm not saying this is good or bad, just throwing it out there as technique used by modern industry professionals.

aka 'ride the faders'

also: not too tricky if you have a good workflow, stuff like this is all about learning to be speedy with your program. No doubt this producer used motorized faders to do rough vocal mixes then hand draws the fine detail.

version number should be on the kickstart screen:

If you can get a bootable version of it I can transfer it to floppy for you, along with workbench (will need your rom version) and anything else you want (octamed, protracker, blah blah).
All I require is postage costs covered and you can have the disks for free smile

Anyone know how i can get this thing going? want to have some fun with it at some point.
A mate of mine found it in a skip and i'm getting it this evening.
It's an Amstrad PCW 8256.
Either way, ill sell it to some obscure collector on ebay at some point, but it'd be interesting to see what there is to offer.

139

(7 replies, posted in Trading Post)

maybe in a month or so if you still have it Ill take it off your hands, but for now I'm skint sad

141

(5 replies, posted in Audio Production)

Here's a solution to the pesky 'CC to Knob' problem with Ableton that I wrote for Pulselooper in regards to midines that should technically work, to set up an instrument within Ableton to control Midines, Arduinoboy or Mssiah,

Controller->Ableton->Device

The sad thing is that it's a certain part of ableton that doesn't exist.
You just simply cannot map a CC to a midi control to route out of ableton.

All you need to do is set up a an instrument rack in a midi channel with this plugin in the rack.
Map each individual CC out in the plugin, ie CC1 becomes CC7, CC2 becomes CC9 etc.
Then press the triangle next to the on/off button of the plugin and then configure.
Move each slider or knob in the plugin while in configure mode and it creates a slider in the instrument rack you can use to assign a midi controller to.

If you want to limit the amount of data sent i.e. 1-20 instead of 1-127 then it gets a bit trickier.
Click the button below the on/off button and it opens the macro editor, hit map mode, then map each macro knob the the control knob of the plugin.
In the top left where the midi mappings normally are should be a macro mapper with a min and max value which is shown as 0.0 to 1.0, which is the percentage.
Now work out what each value is in percent, like you want 1-16 out of 127, you need to work out what that is in a percent value.
This will limit each CC to just those values and when you turn your knob on your controller it will be more natural, instead of overshooting a value.
You can also name each macro so that when you are editing you wont get confused at which one is which.

To complete all of this you need to route that channel into a separate midi channel, as you only want to affect the control change data in the clip.
The second channel then gets routed to Midines!

http://www.bluecataudio.com/Products/Pr … teControl/

Specifically, this: http://www.bluecataudio.com//Vault/Prod … ntrols.png

minimoog + talkbox with bass guitar underneath
'follower controlling a band pass filter ' would give a similar result, but the effect in the song is so irregular and natural it must be a talkbox.

143

(7 replies, posted in Trading Post)

What are the other two units in the rack? Reverb and ...?
I'd take it off your hands if it wasn't an enormous amount to ship to UK, really love these samplers.

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(11 replies, posted in Other Hardware)

you were using cubase in the video?
stick to it meng, fruity loops is wank!