That’s why practice outside of the context of songs is important. Those of us who started our musical journeys in school or with lessons have spent a ton of time playing or singing exercises out of method books, which helps to develop technique and an ear for pitch. I disagree with this. Exercises ...

While you guys were busy arguing about a particularly low-effort and non-constructive review post, I listened to the songs. I tried commenting on different aspects of each song, to the extent I could think of something. Reviews do not cover the lyrics, I added a few token comments about them for the...

Until 2 Dec, UVI is discounting Falcon 2 and most other things by 30% (Falcon 2: $/€349 -> $/€244). Falcon 2 is one of the most flexible modular synths that I'm aware of, including a pretty powerful sampler. If you want to get into sound design and you like maximum flexibility at the cost of a steep...

Until 3 Dec, fxpansion offers 50% off on their core products, e.g. BFD3, their drum sampler.

The best way to handle important financial decisions is to flip a coin. Obviously.

Until 2 Dec, Celemony is offering Melodyne 5 Essential for 50% off (€49 instead of €99), and the upgrade from Essential to Assistant (which has all features except the polyphonic ones) for 33% off (€99 instead of €149).

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Tue Nov 17, 2020 1:04 pm

I thought it was, "Please don't suck." Or maybe I was the only one that got that greeting?

It used to be the more common greeting, but I guess we're trying to be slightly less negative now...

Can't believe anyone posted this yet... in these modern days, there are tools to split/remove e.g. vocals from a finished mix that don't sound completely terrible. You get 4-5 separate tracks out of them (think bass/drums/vocals/misc), and/or a set of faders to re-balance these parts of the audio. O...

I don't know how Jast's template works. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It saves a local copy of the markup from songfight.org at the time the fight is downloaded. If the markup was wrong at that point in time, then the links my template contains are wrong, too. If it was correct, the links will be correct, too. (I did ...

Until 3 November, IK Multimedia are selling their biggest bundle (Total Studio 2 MAX) for 75% off. Normally $/€999.99, currently $/€249.99. Includes their symphonic orchestra, the guitar amp stuff and various other instruments. Full list of the major products: AmpliTube 4 MAX, T-RackS 5 MAX (masteri...

Johnny Nash.

On the topic of video editors: DaVinci Resolve has a free version that can do almost anything you'd ever need (if you're not a pro).

Weird... the channel (#songfight!) has been up for a very long time.

no idea what the heck the Max the Cat entry is. Unfortunately, whatever the Max the Cat one was, I can't find any tools that can make heads or tails of it. Looking at a hex dump it looks like a project file for some DAW (Apple, presumably, so maybe Garageband?) with ID3 tags tacked on... there are ...

Does software count? I dropped some money on yet another pack of virtual instruments I'll never use because I never have time, but they're insanely cool. It's a bunch of virtual brass instruments from Samplemodeling. The unique thing about them is that there are no pre-recorded articulations - you c...

For floating point engines it only matters if the DAW clips the signal coming out of a plugin, or the plugin does it (floating point can go above 0 dB). In any other case it doesn't matter. That said, if you want to make extra sure not to do it, just trim everything by 10 dB before you set up any pl...

I've been home for about 10h now. Sleep next. After that I'll see about writing something.

Looks like I'll be busy with work stuff for the entire weekend, in preparation for next week's vacation. This is the only time I had available for writing and recording a song.
I think I'll be very late.

You guys are so lucky. In Germany the only option is GEMA and if you sign up with them, it's an exclusive deal (they automatically get to do the collecting for everything you've ever made). I recall an event where GEMA charged an artist for putting up his own songs on his own website...

I've re-lyriced lots of (parts of) songs to make them about Raving Rabbids... because of reasons.

True. I just checked the archives and the time for CoT has never been less than 14 days - the longest was about 5 weeks.

24/44.1 for the last 10 years or so. To explain the terms a bit more: sample rate determines up to which frequency you can capture sounds - and nothing else. The theoretical limit is half the sampling rate, but for technical reasons (to prevent aliasing) a low-pass filter needs to be applied interna...