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MIDI XG and Digital Audio Computer Music-Making
This site was originally for users of the good 'ole General MIDI (GM) and Yamaha's superior XG MIDI standard - Specifically, the SYXG-50 and SYXG100 softsynths, now discontinued.
Now it's also for any musician that uses the computer for making music in the digital audio music realm too.
But TheWhippinipost hasn't abandoned you GM and XG MIDI users - We still have the comprehensive MIDI XG guide on how to interpret and use XG's specialised commandset to tap into its hidden power.
Mixing is another area we have covered with lots of articles, tutorials and interviews etc...
There's also an overview (plus many reviews) of the popular computer music products available, including keyboards and midi and recording equipment. Each item has been selected specifically for computer-musicians who may be researching what to buy.
There's also a lot more such as the ever-popular online music calculators and a growing bank of online video tutorials for musicians - Just look around, discover, learn, tell your friends, enjoy!
Ah yes... there's no better way to learn than by watching a step-by-step video tutorial!
If you thought TheWhippinpost had been pretty quiet this week... for good reason my friend, for good reason!
The new Windows Vista operating system from Microsoft is basically upon us now. So I've spent a fair number of hours trawling through a small mass of Microsoft techno-babble (around 2 years worth FFS!!) to get a grasp of what goodness - if any - there is in store for us computer-musicians... 'cos let's face it, sooner or later, most of us will be confirmed "Vistarians"!
Making music has just become a little easier with TheWhippinpost's latest new section, simply called; Answers.
That's right my knowledge-thirsty music-freaks with no lives; after several hours of programming, and with the help of Yahoo's freely available 'Answers' API service, TheWhippinpost fired hundreds of music-making questions at it, and gathered together all the answers - as submitted by Yahoo's community - into one place.
Kicking-off with 10 digestible nuggets of sound mixing essentials you should be practicing when either shaping sounds or balancing the mix.
You might know all, or some of these tips already - cool - They've been chosen however, because they are the ones we most-often let slide from our realm of thoughts when dancing-with-the-fairies in laa-laa-land (Note: I'm talking about you here - I've personally never been to laa-laa-land, preferring STRICTLY HETERO nightclubs instead, HTH).
Mixing audio sounds in music is generally regarded as a baffling science by most ordinary folk... So as musicians, we're clearly knackered before we even start!
You've got all those buttons, dials, faders etc... Just WTF are you supposed to do with them all?!
Well, fortunately for you, TheWhippinpost summoned pro-sound engineer to the stars, Rick Snoman, to be questioned for what we're calling: a mixing tutorial.
This Cubase SX tutorial is your remedy for discovering Steinberg's powerful MIDI and audio software package studio.
With its power and flexibility, comes questions. This tutorial aims to guide you through the FAQ's and get you writing tunes fast. TheWhippinpost has more Cubase SX tutorials to read around the site and there are more planned soon so check them out and get 'em bookmarked!
90 per cent. of musicians are not millionaires—they earn about £15,000 a year from their royalties.
Michael Connarty - Labour MP, Falkirk East.
40,000 musicians and 3,500 record labels (that number seems large, to me) have apparently signed a petition to increase the length of time copyright exists on their art... and by extension, of course, the duration over which royalties are paid.
Here's a list of Windows Vista-compatible sound cards, as compiled by the good folks at IeXwiki, with comments where appropriate. I've also included what they list as incompatible - but workable - and the just plain incompatible.
On the sleeve-notes to one of Brian Eno's albums (sorry, can't remember which one), I remember reading how he came across an easy trick to achieve an "all-round ambient-type" sound from a stereo recording (and amplifier) by wiring a third rear speaker into a stereo amplifier - Brian Eno, for those that don't know, is regarded as the grandfather of ambient sound.
Noneric - AKA Hans - of Digitalmusician.net and his team have been working very hard on their online collaboration software - The Digital Musician Recorder (DM-Recorder) - over the last few months which, I have to say, just looks awesome.
