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Opus2000 11 April 2001

Hey everyone...
Wanted to say howdy and roll out the Welcome carpet to anyone having questions regarding their setups and any issues that one may be having.
Please when stating your issues try to give as much information about your system and anything you have done to solve the problem first hand..
Also let's keep this a friendly environment and not bash anyone just for the sake of having fun..this will be a great forum if we keep it at that level..
Again, I welcome all of you to this new and exciting forum and hope to make the best of it!

Let's start by talking about everyone's system and some tweaks that you think are useful to others on optimzing for audio..whetehr it be for mac or pc let's get down to business shall we?

Opus :D

Comments

anonymous Wed, 04/11/2001 - 16:18

Hi Gary,
Um, I tried hooking my guitar up to my floppy disk so that when I recorded it into my modem I would get that rotating speaker effect, but it didn't work. What did I do wrong? My computer is white, I optimized it for audio by putting it equadistant from my stereo speakers. I record with Windows recorder, is there a better way?
HA! Hi Gary, can't get enough of this stuff, I see...Good to see ya here!

llornkcor Thu, 05/24/2001 - 14:44

Originally posted by doctordale:
Hi Gary,
Um, I tried hooking my guitar up to my floppy disk so that when I recorded it into my modem I would get that rotating speaker effect, but it didn't work. What did I do wrong? My computer is white, I optimized it for audio by putting it equadistant from my stereo speakers. I record with Windows recorder, is there a better way?
HA! Hi Gary, can't get enough of this stuff, I see...Good to see ya here!

The included audio recorder is the _best_ way to record on a windows platform. After all, Microsoft wrote the OS, they wouldn't slack on any included software,... right? Who needs to record more than 60 seconds anyway?!?!?

:D
ljp

Opus2000 Thu, 05/24/2001 - 15:07

Gee...I cant escape you guys huh?!!!
The floppy recording is a great leslie emulation trick I learned years ago!!
Cooking hasnt happened "yet"..if there were leftovers I'd be amazed...no food goes uneaten with me around!! Woo woo woo..just watched a 3 stooges movie..nyuck..nyuck..nyuck
Hey Moe, Larry...cheese..no limburger
Opus :D

anonymous Fri, 06/08/2001 - 12:39

Unless you have a 56k modem your gtr sound will suck (no midrange)
:(
..better to just tape the floppy to your chest for that "full range sound"

Make sure that you adequately "toast" your floppy...'bout the same as a bagel in most machines..your mileage may vary.

Hehe

Opus...thanks for yer post over on DP

anonymous Sat, 06/09/2001 - 05:03

Hey Opus,

Be kind to your fruit colored friends,
Cause a Mac might be somebody's brother.
And the blueberry garden he tends
Could grow flowers like no other.

Glad to see you here. Are you familiar with the Roland VS series of "Studio Workstations"?
Several months ago, our band did some tracks on one of our brothers' VS1680 (I think that's the model). The recording sounds great, but this machine is incredibly complex when it comes to doing something like tweaking the bass on one track, or playing back all the stuff you've done into a stereo mix.

It seems you have to twirl a wheel, punch buttons, backtrack, fronttrack and often sidetrack.

I'd love to be able to get some of these takes into Cubase and mix it thru a Tascam US 428, but I understand that Roland has made this machine with some kinda proprietary language that would make digital transfer like trying to use a jetski to drag race a Mustang on an offroad trail.

It seems that there would be at least two dreaded D/A A/D conversions, not to mention any timing problems beyond stereo.

One of the reasons we never finished these sessions was the late night drawn out mixing time that I could see going much faster thru a DAW setup.

In reference to the previous discussion on this thread, here's my suggestion:
If I had a B3, I'd use a circular saw to dip cut a slot for a diskette, in the vicinity of where it is on a Clavinova. If you get a little heavy handed with the saw and the slot looks too big for a 3.5 floppy, you can maybe use some 5.25's that surely lurk in the closet. I once tried bolting an old Garrard turntable to our local college's Steinway, but was descended upon by rabid music majors and their instructors. After that, the only Hammond they permitted me to approach was a folding music stand that they threatened to insert in some uncomfortable place.

Opus2000 Sat, 06/09/2001 - 08:10

Ha ha ha ha!!! That's funny!!
Yeah...I've taken the digital out of a VS880 into Nuendo before without any problems..took me a little bit to get the sync working properly but I got it..cant remember what the settings were but it did work no problem...I believe Cubase is the issue with sync timing and getting the VS to clock properly if I'm right. Basically you should send MTC to the VS and take two tracks at a time..if they drift just slide the tracks a little bit and they will allign up!
Opus

anonymous Tue, 06/12/2001 - 09:45

OFF TOPIC POST ALERT!!!!
Message from Gary's "Old World"

Hey Gary,
We recovered your vaccuum cleaner from the loving embrace of whoever that was that passed out in the coat closet. It wasn't too soiled...heh heh.

My computer misses you. :(
I haven't broken anything yet, but I'll let you know when I do!
Everyone says Hi and they hate you for moving somewhere cool.

Opus2000 Wed, 06/13/2001 - 06:40

Ang....by moving somewhere cool he means moving from boring Indiana(and I mean borrrrriiiiinnnng!!) to the west coast where it is sunny and warm all the time!!!!
No Doc...no quakes "yet"!!!! I aint going to go running away from one either...I look forward to my first experience!
You guys are funny!!
Opus

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