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Konichiwa Songfighters!!!

Hey everyone. Hope your Xmas was a blast. I had a good one full of great food, cool presents and one awesome family. A good time had by all. Now, it's back to the humdrum 9 to 5.

QotD:
What's your favorite music software program?

As I said yesterday, I have a great new laptop. And I plan to use it to do music. So, I'm just wondering what kind of cool programs my fellow SF'ers are using lately.

At the moment my new softwares are a drum program called Guru, this is all over my recent SF entries. It's got sampler and arranger in the same program, and can run as VSTi. Also getting good use out of Massive, a pretty fantastic softsynth. Both of these were on PoP's 501.
-bill

Why is it called Boxing Day?

QotD: Adobe Audition is the only program I've used since the computer with N-Track on it crashed. Rare is the occasion I find myself wanting to do something it can't.

Tired and it was busy earlier this morning with everyone returning to work after many days off.

Quited down though.

qotd: Sonic Foundy's Sound Forge is my favorite just based on it's abilities. I like Gold Wave for ONE THING (pretty much one thing only) and thats it's 'noise reduction / clipboard noise print' feature.

For me, would be Digital Performer. But I need a faster machine now. One of those Intel MacPros would do nicely. They're silent, too. I run one at work but at home i'm still on an old G4 Quicksilver. It does the job though. Everything I've ever recorded for SF was in Digital Performer or Cubase SX. Except for my first songfight.

qotd: Seconded for Audition, I don't know why most people don't consider this good DAW software. The newest version (3.0) even finally includes VSTi and MIDI.

Personally, I've only used two programs for the computer when it comes to music - GarageBand and Audacity. I guess my vote goes to GarageBand. I've sort of used ProTools before. It was cool, but I don't understand it, so I can't really say it's my favorite.

Märk wrote:qotd: Seconded for Audition, I don't know why most people don't consider this good DAW software. The newest version (3.0) even finally includes VSTi and MIDI.

Hell, you were the one who recommended it to me in the first place. One 'a-these days I'll upgrade. Didn't know they were on 3.0 already. I'm still using 1.5.

pro tools and garageband.

going snowboarding tomorrow in tahoe and i'm getting more fired up by the minute. i found this old video clip me and my friend mark (brody's sometimes drummer) shot in 2003 at boreal, the ski area where i'm going tomorrow. it's kind of a fun clip to watch if you're bored and have highspeed, mostly because at times it really feels like you're on the board with us, in a mini IMAX sort of way. if you check it out, i'm the guy in purple and mark's the guy in blue, and we take turns shooting each other and the general experience. i can remember a couple times mark holding the camera down low to the snow and i thought "man, that's bill's camera and he's gonna be pissed if it gets messed up...."

anyways, link to me and mark snowboarding at boreal in 2003.

I've only used Cubase LE, so I don't really have anything that I can compare it to except my old analog equipment. So compared to my old reel to reel 8 track teac and 8 track Fostex mixing board, I prefer my 48 track Cubase LE.

As far as VST plug ins I've used. Now this is an area I can comment on with tried and tested results. I've come to the conclusion that I love the "kjaerhus classic series" VSTs and the "Antress Modern" VSTs. Both companies have pretty much everything I need and they are very good at what they do. I love the Antress equipment because it has all classic vue meters and knobs. Plus they have a full line of analogue FX, pre amps and amps, as well as all the popular EQs and FX. The kjaerhus classic compressor is the best I've ever used, ever. It can be so fine tuned, that even guys that over compress can use it and dial it in perfect.

Generic wrote:I'm still using 1.5.

That's still my favorite, too. So simple to use. So non-CPU intensive. Just pure multitrack audio recording elegance.

News: First day back at work in 7 days. I can't believe I have had a week off. Hardly feels like it.

QOTD: Favourite? I only use two. Audacity to mess with equalisation and stuff, and the archaic ModPlugTracker to build the songs (you know, make the beat, lay in the bass and whatnot). I could possibly try a new program, but I fear that I will lose some of the unique quirks that mark my stuff as uniquely sausage boy.

QOTD:

I use Logic 8, though I liked version 7 a lot better. I spend more time wrestling with 8's "time-saving" features than how long it took me to do the same thing without them in 7. I guess the main reason I upgraded to 8 was because I was strongarmed into it anyway, since I made the mistake of upgrading to the latest GarageBand which then "upgraded" a lot of my samples into Apple's new loop format which offers nothing useful (okay so it can record like a year's worth of continuous audio but HOW IS THAT NECESSARY) but isn't readable by version 7. Fucking Apple.

So basically, Logic 7.