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Originally posted by Shari: **Day: you are correct in your assumption. One of the many drawbacks of MIDI is that it sounds different on another computer. I'm trying to find a way to easily convert my MIDI diles to something wave based, myself.
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An easy way to do exactly what it is you are suggesting is to use iTunes to convert your midi files to mp3-they're small, and they sound like the original. Check out (url="http://"http://www.mp3.com/evan_williams")www.mp3.com/evan_williams(/url) to see what i mean
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Originally posted by sanehatter: **Those are nice, Shari.
Oh, and before I forget... WOOHOO! Four-Hundreth post!
OK, anyways...
Coldstone will play Quicktime-readable files. This means that if you can drag and drop it on Quicktime player to play, Coldstone should be able to play it too. This includes MP3, MP2, AIFF, AIFC, etc.
for Cheap MIDI with a built-in sampler, check out Melody Assistant ( http://www.myriad-on....com/melody.htm ). It's $15 bucks and you get a really good bang for your buck. Its bigger brother Harmony Assistant has some neat features too.
If you're going to go the loop route (I, personally, find this to be utterly lacking in craft, but whatever), then you should know that there is no Mac version of Acid (and it is precisely for this reason that it is not endorsed by Nine Inch Nails...), but there is an equivalent: Phrazer by Bitheadz ( http://www.bitheadz.com ). It pretty much does everything Acid does, including reading/writing ACID-formatted files. It's a couple-hundred bucks, tho.
Anyone who wants a free digital 8-track recorder should check out Pro Tools Free ( http://www.digidesign.com ). Pro Tools is good stuff, and the limited version can still do quite a bit. You should also keep in mind that the Beatles made Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on two four-tracks, which is just as limiting. I know that Beck and Nine Inch Nails swear by the more fully-featured versions.
My multi-tracking MIDI/Audio program of choice is Logic Audio ( http://www.emagic.de ). While Pro Tools is geared towards recording studios, Logic is geared towards artists. I know that Radiohead and Jamaraquoi use Logic.
I've used Cubase ( http://www.steinberg.net ) a little, but in my experience it's a buggy piece of crap with a poor user-interface.
Just wanted to say thanks for all the links to recording/mixing software, i've greatly expanded my recording capabilities by visiting this post and checking out a link. BTW, what was the las version of cubase you used? I downloaded the newest version, and i haven't had a single error, and i find it user-friendly. Check it out again, it really is excellent.
Originally posted by musicman: BTW, what was the las version of cubase you used? I downloaded the newest version, and i haven't had a single error, and i find it user-friendly. Check it out again, it really is excellent.
Hehe, it was 4.something.
I'm too entrenched in Logic and Max/MSP to even consider switching sequencing environs. Just as I know Photoshop so well that even if something better did came along, it would have to be really special to give me incentive to switch...
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