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Great - thanks for the replies. I will definitely check out those two sites, and let you know how it goes. And it's true, I haven't compared an SK-1 sample pitch-shifted in the PC vs one shifted by the Casio itself, but I think they'd be different. For one thing, the obscene noise floor doesn't get ...

Hey PC guys, I've been looking at M-Tron recently, and it got me to wondering the best way to make my own virtual instrument. I like the idea of M-tron, where each note is an actual sample, not a picth-shift of the nearest C or whatever. I've got some synths that I would like to be able to play "in ...

I'll second the PSP plugins. Definitely worth the money. Also, check out DFX plugins: http://www.smartelectronix.com/~destroyfx/ Not for every mix by any means, but some really cool effects, especially for electronic stuff, and they're free. The buffer override is great, and the skidder is a lot of ...

I'll second House of Leaves . I read that this winter - what a fascinating book. The original harback edition had a seemingly random pattern of numbers and letters embossed in the cover. If you were keen enough to notice that that they were hex characters, and then decided to enter them into your co...

The documentary Home Movie, http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:242004 , shows five interesting houses and the people who live in them. It was done a couple years back by the guy who did American Movie. Anyway, one of the couples interviwed lives in an old undeground missile facility like...

It's not too late to buy one...

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I don't know if it will never work with digital effects... I did this little project - http://www.carrionsound.com/gallery/schems/in_the_lab/in_the_lab_3.htm - which is basically adding I/O jacks and switches to a Radio Shack digital sampling board. The project also has you add a variable resistor i...

and from doing a zine and working at print shops, 20 pages will cost him $1.60, tops, if he doesn't shop around. If he makes it digest size, double sided, it's about 40 cents. Postage won't be more than 60 cents. And last time I checked the overhead for emailng a PDF or Word document was about $0.0...

I used a cassette 4-track for five years or so, and then got into PC based recording. I found that when i had four tracks of tape, I had to spend a lot of time making sure that my sound going I was as good as I could get it. Once it was down, it was down. When I first got into the PC, it became very...

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Oh man. This is probably old news for a lot of you, but I just got a fancy new cellphone this weekend and discovered downloadable ringtones. :shock: I cannot overstate my delight at hearing Nintendoesque MIDI renditions of So Says I, When the Levee Breaks, I Wanna be Adored, Fascination Street, Tran...

The one that always amazes me is Carnival cruise line using Iggy Pop's Lust for life and cutting it off right before the lyric goes "...and beatin my brain, with liquer and drugs." Yes! Which would be so apropos for such a booze cruise. That reminds me of when Microsoft paid the Stones millions to ...

And then there's that cover of "Big Yellow Taxi".......Eewwwww... That song blows my mind. You know that dozens of people (music industry professionals!) must have listened to that before it was released. Did it not occur to even one person to say: "Uh, gee guys, I listened to the song, and well, d...

Weird. I adjusted all the clocks last night, went to bed at a reasonable hour, felt fine. Got to work almost exactly an hour late this morning, no good explanation other than my body doing its own thing. :roll: That said, I like the "extra" hour of sunshine. I tend to gripe more when we "lose" it in...

Whoooooah! Stop this thread. It was a joke. I tried to retaliate against the 'take over the general forum' foolishness with some foolishness of my own, insterting a few 'serious' threads in off topic . Even invited a friend along (Hugh) as a foil, to try to make it a bit more obvious, as nobody was ...