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One of my other passions, besides drawing, is creating music. Has been for many years. One of my latest pleasures has been rediscovering and converting some of my earliest experiments with creating music on my earlier computers to something more modern. ^_^ Granted, some of the synthesizers I'm working with now aren't that much newer than the systems I was using backat that time (I do love hardware synths, regardless of the trend toward software DAW'S) but at least now my creations are in MIDI format! I was dinking around with music-making before there was MIDI, on 8-bit Atari's, Commodore 64's and Vic-20's, TI-99/4a's, IBM XT's... *wheeze* Yes, I'm old. ^_^ This piece is from that era, cobbled and converted from a DIY setup using most of the hardware I just mentioned and run through my (slightly) newer hardware synth lineup. It is rife with "pop" sensibilities so be warned... if you shy away from bouncy upbeat stuff, click thee not upon this! It's in WAV format because (so far) all the MP3 converters I've tried seem to degrade sound quality. Enjoy (I hope *^_^*)
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that was different. 8D It kinda reminded me of the background music to a movie they'd show in school... like with science experiments going on, or observing some kind of microscopic life-form or something odd. D: I guess that's an oddly specific reference too...
I use Audacity and WMConverter to get things in MP3 format and they don't sound bad to me. (: But maybe I don't have that ear for music and specific sounds... though, this sounded a little fuzzy to me too. :B
Either way, I haven't heard your music before, so that was a neat first. :B
I use Audacity and WMConverter to get things in MP3 format and they don't sound bad to me. (: But maybe I don't have that ear for music and specific sounds... though, this sounded a little fuzzy to me too. :B
Either way, I haven't heard your music before, so that was a neat first. :B
Hehehe, that's cool! x3 Sounds like it could be part of a soundtrack to a game or a movie or somethin'! :D
It's definatly well-made. :O Though I have to say, it don't sound quite as negative as the title might lead one to beleive. x3 It's actually kind of up-beat.
Course, I listen to contemporary rock, so it's possible my views are a bit daft. XD
It's definatly well-made. :O Though I have to say, it don't sound quite as negative as the title might lead one to beleive. x3 It's actually kind of up-beat.
Course, I listen to contemporary rock, so it's possible my views are a bit daft. XD
Well, in checking the stats, Gene did 176 kbps bit rate, but only an 11 kHz sample rate. That accounts for why the high-frequencies are off. At first blush, those settings seem correct: 11,000 samples/sec at 16 bits/sample would be 176 kbps. But when using wave or MP3, the system compresses the data stream. You can get a much faster sampling rate for the same bit rate. This could easily be sampled at 22 kHz. Handling a 2:1 compression in wave file format is simple, as it normally compresses the data stream at least 5x or more.
As for the MP3 compression, most free MP3 converters don't handle anything faster than 128 kbps bit rate. For CD quality MP3's, you'll need a bit rate of at least twice that, or 256 kbps, and a sample rate of 44.1 kHz. It's preferred that the bit rate really be about 320 kbps, to give you some overhead.
Now, after all that technical talk, I must say me likes the song!
As for the MP3 compression, most free MP3 converters don't handle anything faster than 128 kbps bit rate. For CD quality MP3's, you'll need a bit rate of at least twice that, or 256 kbps, and a sample rate of 44.1 kHz. It's preferred that the bit rate really be about 320 kbps, to give you some overhead.
Now, after all that technical talk, I must say me likes the song!
Anytime, Gene. I just gave Max Goof a short primer on bit rates and sample rates. He was having similar problems trying to post here and on FuMP. You might want to look that over: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/233...../#cid:17097811
Any other questions, please feel free to ask! This reminds me of my early synthesizer days with my lovely TRS-80 Model III and the Orchestra-90 3-voice synthesizer card that was made for it. Those were fun times.
Any other questions, please feel free to ask! This reminds me of my early synthesizer days with my lovely TRS-80 Model III and the Orchestra-90 3-voice synthesizer card that was made for it. Those were fun times.
I actually have quite a bit like this one already created! But everything it took to create the tune was programmed into a different computer, using its own proprietary music program, and all of them were synched together by an elaborate jury-rigging of DIY cables and system subroutines. (Waaaay before MIDI existed!) Now that I know I can bring these tunes back to life, i plan to do more. :)
This is beautiful! And a great archive of the past too. I have a friend who used to make great tracks assembled from tape splices on his old Revox reel-to-reel. Nowadays, you can do that kind of work in minutes with software, but I think to good old hardware added something special. It's music with a soul.
As much as I like computers - and I've been doing things with them since I was in junior high school (I took FORTRAN programming!) I still haven't gone in for DAW's and such. I like telling the device what to do in order to make music. With a lot of this new software, it's the machine actually doing it. I don't slam anyone who can use the new stuff effectively, but I'll stick to my homebrew setup. :)
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