Tuesday, December 18, 2007

vsti/dxi software 2 get

The Clone Ensemble family of innovative, low cost DirectX and VST plugins
GSnap - Pitch-correction.
MultiInspectorFree
Blue Cat's FreqAnalyst


go here and look at pluggin’s DXi and VSTi. Be sure to click on windows and free to see only those types. There are a lot of really good VSTi’s in this list.


UB Composer converts human singing or humming (TA-TA-TA) or a recorded melody into timbres of any MIDI instruments.
BestPractice a musician's practice tool, to slow down or speed up music, either from an MP3 file or directly from a CD

LoopBe1 is an internal MIDI device for transferring MIDI data between computer programs. Basically LoopBe1 is an "invisible cable" to connect a MIDI outport of an application to any other application´s MIDI inport.
All MIDI data sent to the program´s output is channeled to the receiving applications in realtime.
You may connect up to 8 applications to LoopBe's inport and up to 8 applications to the outport, all sending and receiving at the same time.


 Index - from http://www.musicradar.com/ 
Sampling
Audio editing
Drum machines
Real instruments/ROMplers
Synthesizers
Effects
Sequencers
Miscellaneous


KTDrumTrigger  is a VST plugin with custom editor that triggers MIDI notes based on the sound level of the incoming audio stream in different frequency bands. It allows you to "detect" occurrences of percussive sounds in an audio stream and send out a MIDI event whenever that happens.


Sampling is supposed to be fun


Prior to shortcircuit  it wasn't as fun as it could be.


VST Central  Gersichttp://www.kvraudio.com/ 


Friday, December 14, 2007

singing lessons

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powertracks real drums hint

from
http://www.pgmusic.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=141580&an=0&page=0#Post141580


Lets say you have a few audio tracks and you decide on what 'real drums" style you want to use.
Before you load up real drums, go to the chord chart as the song plays. Even though there aren't any chords there (you don't need them cause there isn't any midi stuff going on here), you can click on the bar numbers to make a bar read 1a or 1b or 2a or 2b ... you know, like in BIAB.
I would change the bars from "a" to "b" when there was some change or break in the song. Then when loading in the "real drum" track, you hear some really nice drum changes.
NOW the icing on the cake! I then "redo" my changes on the chord diagram again this time alternating between the "a" and "b" bar parts every 4 bars, then every 2 bars, then every bar. I would do this for a while and let it generate another drum track (on a different track) which includes LOADS of drum changes , ... i use the same style for both but of course you don't have to.
Between these two tracks of drum beats, i have many straight rhythms and drum changes to keep the song very vibrant. Naturally some songs don't need all these changes, but this method is great if you do. I then select the parts i want via cut and paste and create a brand new track which consists of the choice parts I decided to use.
I am sure some of you may know this already ... but for those who didn't .. this is a great way to get some really nice changes quickly without having to think them up! For me this way is easier because i am not a drum programmer. Its hard! i just let the "real drums" experts do their thing and i pick out what i want.Kristen

Friday, November 30, 2007

put chords symbols in MIDI files, so that arranger keyboards can recognize them?

from thethe mighty mac @ pg forums

http://www.pgmusic.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=154865&an=0&page=0&gonew=1#UNREAD


This may work, but I can't guarantee it because there are so many different arranger keyboards and such out there, sometimes things vary from model to model of the same brand, but give it a try
(BIAB does not output Midi Chords in the same format as these keyboards use to my knowledge, which may be wrong, dunno):

*Inside BIAB, hit Prefs->Output Ch, button and set the thing to Output Chords with the checkbox. (You may have to experiment with which channel to put them on, too. Unfortunately there are 15 channel possiblities if you exclude the drum track. )

*Then, use File->Make a Standard Midi File (F6) and in the window that opens, check "Include forced Meta Event". also UNcheck export of RealDrums but make sure export of Midi Drums is checked.

*Back in the first Midi Export window, use the dropdown box to change the default from Type 1 to Type 0. You may or may not have to do this step, depending on your keyboard, try it both ways. It may work both ways or only one.

*Proceed to save it as a Midi file onto your drive somewhere. Good idea to not use a long filename here, in case the keyboard can't use long filenames. Seven to Nine characters total in the filename prefix, depending upon the keyboard and what it is designed to use. Always safer to use short filenames when testing things. See if the file you created does the job. Or not.


NOTE: keyboards break chords up so mac's caution about chanels is importand also some keyboards use chanels for extra precussion