Music Megathread

[Nal]

Does anyone even use cubase anymore

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[Robin Ihoodl]

Thanks.

It helps that I finally figured out how to flippin' master my tracks, lol.

Couple months ago i had no idea what mastering was. lol. I love it when you get that sense of really discovering something big about how to make your creations sound better

[ShadowsfeaR]

Does anyone even use cubase anymore

Yes. Misha Mansoor of Periphery uses it when demoing for the band or recording for his own personal use. I actually think it looks a lot cleaner than a whole lot of other DAWs.

[BluetoothBoy]

So glad this topic's alive again. :)

Have you seen REAPER? It's pretty clean, but it also gives you the bare minimum to work with, unlike Ableton, Logic, Reason, FL Studio, etc.

[Robin Ihoodl]

It seems to be a generic thing to say now but i'm seriously looking forward to bitwig

[BluetoothBoy]

It seems to be a generic thing to say now but i'm seriously looking forward to bitwig

What's that? Also, do you think this is high enough quality for a potential demo to Audioland?

http://soundcloud.com/lloid-1/the-tides

It got good reviews here on the forums...

[Robin Ihoodl]

What's that? Also, do you think this is high enough quality for a potential demo to Audioland?

http://soundcloud.com/lloid-1/the-tides

It got good reviews here on the forums...

definitely, that's beautiful <3

bitwig is like ultimate daw, realtime working with others on tracks and stuff, you should check it out but yeah, definitely send that to AL, i'll put a good word in for you

[BluetoothBoy]

definitely, that's beautiful <3

bitwig is like ultimate daw, realtime working with others on tracks and stuff, you should check it out but yeah, definitely send that to AL, i'll put a good word in for you

That'd be awesome, thanks! I'll see about sending that one and my new EP their way after it's done. And I think I've heard of Bitwig or at least some other DAW that allows real-time collabs. That would be so epic. :o

Speaking of the EP, here's what I hope to be the final revision of "Wreckless". I don't want to release this EP if it sounds like crap to other people, so can you music junkies give it a listen and give me some feedback? This is probably the longest I've worked on a piece, and I think it paid off. I hope to get "Caves" finished up tomorrow.

Also, how's the art? Done 100% by hand by me. :)

[Brickman]

Does anybody else here struggle with serious midi latency from a USB connection? I have my microkorg connected to my laptop via a USB 2.0 to MIDI-in/out cable (M-Audio Uno) and there's like a 500ms delay from when I press a key to when it registers in Ableton, or when I send MIDI information from Ableton to the Microkorg to record the audio.
It's really annoying.

Ideally I would like to save up for a decent desktop build with a firewire port and a legit MIDI interface, but right now I've got this.

[BluetoothBoy]

Does anybody else here struggle with serious midi latency from a USB connection? I have my microkorg connected to my laptop via a USB 2.0 to MIDI-in/out cable (M-Audio Uno) and there's like a 500ms delay from when I press a key to when it registers in Ableton, or when I send MIDI information from Ableton to the Microkorg to record the audio.
It's really annoying.

Ideally I would like to save up for a decent desktop build with a firewire port and a legit MIDI interface, but right now I've got this.

Nah, I've got a nanoKEY, using a computer from 2008, no lag.

[A.P.X.]

Does anybody else here struggle with serious midi latency from a USB connection? I have my microkorg connected to my laptop via a USB 2.0 to MIDI-in/out cable (M-Audio Uno) and there's like a 500ms delay from when I press a key to when it registers in Ableton, or when I send MIDI information from Ableton to the Microkorg to record the audio.
It's really annoying.

Ideally I would like to save up for a decent desktop build with a firewire port and a legit MIDI interface, but right now I've got this.

Could be sound driver latency, FL Studio uses a program called ASIO4All to get feedback directly from the sound driver, avoiding useless processes.
When using default speaker output, i get about 500ms delay, but ASIO4All fixes it. Select ASIO4All as your output for Ableton.
Here

[Plastiware]

I discovered OpenMPT recently and have found it's an extremely useful tool for making SNES-style music.

https://soundcloud.com/plastiware/painful-gulch-snes-arrange

I have also fallen in love with the .it file format.

[Ghille]

Could be sound driver latency, FL Studio uses a program called ASIO4All to get feedback directly from the sound driver, avoiding useless processes.
When using default speaker output, i get about 500ms delay, but ASIO4All fixes it. Select ASIO4All as your output for Ableton.
Here

I don't like ASIO4All because it seems to cut the low ends of my sound.

[Brickman]

I don't like ASIO4All because it seems to cut the low ends of my sound.

You and A.P.X. have such similar avatars at first glance that I was confused why you were replying to yourself with a contradictory opinion lol

Anyways, thanks for the suggestion APX, but I'm using an external sound card as my input/output for audio already. I'm not sure if using ASIO4All would do anything/is possible to use on top of it

not to mention most of the latency is from the midi channels anyways

[BluetoothBoy]

That'd be awesome, thanks! I'll see about sending that one and my new EP their way after it's done. And I think I've heard of Bitwig or at least some other DAW that allows real-time collabs. That would be so epic. :o

Speaking of the EP, here's what I hope to be the final revision of "Wreckless". I don't want to release this EP if it sounds like crap to other people, so can you music junkies give it a listen and give me some feedback? This is probably the longest I've worked on a piece, and I think it paid off. I hope to get "Caves" finished up tomorrow.

Also, how's the art? Done 100% by hand by me. :)

Guys, seriously, I need feedback. I don't wanna release this if it sounds like crap. ;-;