7/8 and 13/16

So metuhl

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Fuuk yeah, homie! I think there's a 19/16 somewhere in there as well. ;P

This dude's got a breakdown in 19/16.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldtCby9pjLQ&t=01m10s

Fack.

I'll have to listen in a little bit. I'm rendering all these bitches which should take another half hour or so. lol

Take your time bro, it's kinda worth it.

Fuck yeah, man, that's awesome.

I love the odd times signatures that, at a glance look completely insane, like 13/16 or 11/8 or 15/16, but when you play them, they almost sound normal, like there isn't anything funky going on with the metre.

Yeah man, I'm all about odd metres. And also, agreeing with what you said, it really isn't that hard.

Just counting... a little differently.

It's fun.

YAY ACID

lol It may not be the best audio program, but at least it isn't Mixcraft! ;P

It's actually the only DAW I've ever used, and I LOVE it.

I tried a lot of them before I settled with Acid Pro. Reaper, Audition, Cubase, and I can't even remember the rest. lol None of them could do what I wanted except Acid Pro. lol

The best thing is that, even though I've been using it for years, I'm still learning things about it. There's so much to it! :D

I know, right? There's always something new to figure out!

Seriously, considering how I'm always ranting about how education is just awesome, the fact that I'm always learning shit from this program makes me so happy. lol

Take a look at Reaper sometime. It's free to try and costs 60 bucks to buy if you have teh scratch (though really poor folk won't notice). it's in active development and is always being improved and finetuned, and the license is good for this version (3) and one more major release as well (4). Works with all VSTs and comes with a fukton of effects vsts as well. And if you have a dual or quad core, you don't even need to do track renders -- you can do a master mixdown and allll the synths just render away at speed.

Nah, I've used it before and I can't stand it. The user interface is nowhere near what Acid Pro has and it takes up SO much more RAM and CPU usage than Acid Pro.

I can easily just set it to render all of the tracks at whatever speed it feels is necessary, and all at once, but I am absolutely obsessive about having absolutely no problems with my music. If there's a single glitch in the sound at any point, I restart the render. When I tried using Reaper, I got those glitches and clips constantly. On top of that, there was a HUGE delay between when a MIDI track would start and when a VST track would start if they were supposed to play simultaneously.

Ah! I had that problem once myself. It's called Latency and you can correct for it by telling the program how much exists in your soundcard. My laptop has something like half a second latency, so by setting that in the audio section in reaper, everything I record gets nudged forward in time by the same amount of time. Thus what I record is exactly in sync with what I heard as I multitracked.

Course, moving to a true ASIO pcie soundcard eliminated all the latency to begin with. That's on the big system in the garage though, where I do all my work. The laptop has it because I never know what I'll be asked to do for a talent show or puppet show at a con, so I keep some firepower at hand for strange sound problems in the field. But most of my recording is with Reaper and lots and lots of VSTs. Remember, he who dies with the most instruments, wins :)

A good soundcard with true ASIO (not emulated) eliminates all the latency problems. As for clicks and pops, the only time I had that was when I had the buffers for audio set too low. Lots of buffer means lots of latency but no pop --and maddening delays from the time you hit a note til the time the softsynth is audible. Little buffer means little latency but pops on playback when you listen to your work. This is primarily an issue with non-pcie soundcards -- pcie moves so much data so fast that you can get away with smaller buffers without pops. This is a routine problem with home recording and happens no matter what program you use -- Acid probably increases the interupt priority for the audio and automatically sets the buffer sizes for you.

I considered Acid when I started out. But it's by Sony, and after sony's hacking of people's computers via music CDs, I will never permit any actual god-knows-what-it-does software to run on any of my computers. I'm glad Acid is working for you. I've heard lots of folks love it.

I know about latency, homie. lol I was working with a computer that didn't have a full sound card, only a sound chip for over a year. The computer I have now has a full Realtek sound card and I don't have to worry about that latency anymore.

And once again, going back to the interface, I haven't found any that are as spectacular as Acid Pro. I seriously recommend it to everyone just because of the interface, let alone how awesome I can make everything sound with it. Granted the plugins that come with it aren't all that awesome, but there are thousands of free plugins and VSTi's you can get that are professional quality.

To be honest, I actually have all of the VST's and VSTi's from Mixcraft that I use for all of my strings and keyboards and all of my reverb as well. But, even though I'm using those from a different program, I can still use them more effectively in Acid Pro than I ever could with Mixcraft.

cool beans. Not meaning to insult -- I have no idea what you know and don't. But I've had many a person new to computer music complain about pops and slowly responding soft synths. thus I automatically go into share mode until they show me they already ate the same dirt I've eaten :)

Me, I have a creative XB X-fi. 24 bits on a PCIx bus. Latency? What's that? Heheheh

Oddly enough my current fave vst is called Messiah. It's a model of the Prophet 5 with a few improvements. It's got some serious personality.

I use Messiah in almost every song. lol

As for "new" - Man, I'm working on my third album. I'm not green in any sense of the word. ;P