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Your preferred sequencer software - the POLL

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exosculate said:
All I need to do now then is learn how to use it. When I have tinkered about with it - it did not seem very easy to use.

p.s. Whats a separate wave editor and fruity loops?:o
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It's easy once you've got your head around the basics. There's loads of books and stuff out there, or if you've got any specific questions post 'em up here :)

Oh and a wave editor is a program for chopping up audio, which you don't really need if you've got cubase (it's nice, but cubase has a perfectly functional editor built in) and fruityloops is an all in one synth/sequencer program, a bit like reason. You don't need this either)
 
exosculate said:
When I have tinkered about with it - it did not seem very easy to use.
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Yeah, based on Cubase so not all that intuitive. There are LOADS of Cubase-relevant tutorials and tips and stuff on the net, though.

exosculate said:
p.s. Whats a separate wave editor and fruity loops?:o
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Fruity loops is, very basically, a 'drum machine' program, and wave editors are great for playing with the sounds you're messing with, adding effects, chopping them up, taming any screwy frequencies etc.
 
8ball said:
What, it would seem like someone else is doing it?

Surely that would be a good thing. ;)
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Well it would seem like a drunken 16 year old doing me when I was 17.

Good then, but not now;)
 
MC5 said:
Used mainly for for mastering.
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Really?

Well, there you go. Not how my mate uses it but then his is a ripped copy and his record company pay for the mastering (whatever that is :o ).
 
8ball said:
Really?

Well, there you go. Not how my mate uses it but then his is a ripped copy and his record company pay for the mastering (whatever that is :o ).
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Nuendo is double the price of Cubase for apparently these reasons:

While Nuendo always contains all features from Cubase SX, additional features are included serving the needs of the further markets that Nuendo was created for. These are mainly features needed in post-production and sound design for film and television but also functionalities that underline Nuendo´s claim to be one of the best surround production tools available today. For example the extended surround formats up to 10.2 and the availability of additional surround encoders to name but a few. Due to the extensive feature set of Nuendo, customization is also taken further than in Cubase SX to allow users to set up the system according to their individual needs in respect to the project they are working on.
http://www.steinbergcanada.com/products/nuendo/nuendo_faq.htm
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Righty ho. I wasn't disputing your correctness - I plan to make use of this forum more as a n00b than a 'knowledgeable dispenser of wisdom'.

Next paycheque is going towards the remaining bits and pieces I need to get a basic home studio set up. :cool:
 
I use reason, but I've yet to figure out how to get really fancy shit from the drum machine on it, which annoys me. Ableton is ok but the interface seems overcomplicated and it has an annoying tendency to eat my meticulously constructed keyboard parts when I'm not looking- before looking at me with big, innocent eyes and saying "what keyboard part?". Fruityloops is just rubbish. Logic is right over my head.

To be honest, I'm happier with me trusty old telecaster, a primitive four-track and a bewildering pile of leads, roughly 40% of which actually work.
 
beesonthewhatnow said:
Nuendo - A lot of what makes it useful (control room, improved mix engine etc) are now features of Cubase 4.

Just shame that inital reports of 4 are that it's an unstable heap of shite :D

There will almost certainly be a new version of Nuendo on the way, lets hope they don't fuck that up as well....
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With Nuendo 3.2 I've got to a point where I never think, "I wish I could do that" - basically its the end of the road as far as sequencers are conscerned. The only thing that would make me look again is if the managed to improve the sound in the internal desks/internal eq's. The little additional things they keep adding to updates of Logic+Cubase just dont apply to my little home studio set up -more for proffesional stuidos.

I think in a couple of years it could just be that we finally reach a point that you will never need a bigger cpu or more ram or whatnot - the top of the range then should do you for anything you might ever want to do for home studio music. Although more harddisk space seems to be ever on the up - some sample based virtual instruments have sound library up to 4gig - No doubt there will be some killer orchestral unit across 5DVDS taking up 20gig or somthing coming out one day...
 
niksativa said:
The only thing that would make me look again is if the managed to improve the sound in the internal desks/internal eq's.
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The new EQ/FX in Cubase 4 are supposed to be a vast improvement...
 
I used to love Studio Vision Pro - excellent package designed specifically for doing music to TV, sadly Opcode don't make it any more - and I don't know if Opcode exist any more either.

It was the most user-friendly and powerful sequencing software I had come across when I first started doing music in the mid 90s, it was way better than Cubase and Logic were at the time. Logic seems to have overtaken that particular section of the market since Studio Vision Pro died a death ....

Now I just fiddle around with Garageband :D :o - am planning to get Reason at some point though...
 
Han, do you do music for TV as well then?

You might be interested to learn that Reason has a sister program called "Revision", which syncs perfectly your Quicktime files with the Reason playback, for frame accurate audio tracking, or Foley editing if you prefer.

It is a very exquisite and beautiful thing to behold.

http://www.grantedsw.com/revision/
 
pk said:
Han, do you do music for TV as well then?
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I did a bit round about '95-7, a couple of documentaries etc.. Didn't work hard enough to make more contacts though....it's a competitive world out there, innit! And I'm not exactly a born networker! And my music technology knowledge is very out of date now. Nice work if you can get it though! :)

The only bloke I know who makes a really good living from it, his dad is the top producer for BBC wildlife. Go figure.

Are you doing alot of music for TV these days?

pk said:
You might be interested to learn that Reason has a sister program called "Revision", which syncs perfectly your Quicktime files with the Reason playback, for frame accurate audio tracking, or Foley editing if you prefer.

It is a very exquisite and beautiful thing to behold.

http://www.grantedsw.com/revision/
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That sounds good - ta for that, will look into it. So do producers tend to provide you with timecoded Quicktime files that you can sync to the sequencer then? In my day it was timecoded digital beta tapes :eek: :D
 
han said:
Are you doing a lot of music for TV these days?

Yeah, quite a bit - though I'm producing docs myself now, as well as other ventures like podcasts and movie trailers so I know who I prefer to use if I need to commission a soundtrack. ;)

So do producers tend to provide you with timecoded Quicktime files that you can sync to the sequencer then? In my day it was timecoded digital beta tapes :eek: :D
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I provide me with QT files, yes.

Though I do have SMPTE sync readers/writers if I ever needed to work with tape... Opcode and Midiman units do the trick.

But I prefer to work with Revision from QT because I get to work from home
 
pk said:
IYeah, quite a bit - though I'm producing docs myself now, as well as other ventures like podcasts and movie trailers so I know who I prefer to use if I need to commission a soundtrack.
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That's handy ;)
 
han said:
Oh, and - is this a popular choice for TV/film composers these days?

Or does Logic allow you to do similar stuff?
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Anything that runs in sync with SMPTE is useable - I would expect Logic to have a video monitor but I don't know.

ProTools might be better because of the links with Avid but I just don't use it.

The Revision thing is just straightforward and easy if you use Reason as your platform. Most audio soundtracks I record as 48k files then edit them into the video as and when needed, far more accurate and quicker too.
 
pk said:
At a glance - it looks to be capable of rudimentary sequencing... manual patching and on/off signals, maybe some Sysex possibilities.

In other words - no.

:)
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Well, it's not really my thing but an old mate of mine who teaches composition mentioned Pure Data in quite favourable terms. It came out of IRCAM in Paris and it's apparently quite hot stuff with the 'plink, plonk, silence, horrible weird noise' composer / multimedia crowd.
 
8ball said:
Righty ho. I wasn't disputing your correctness - I plan to make use of this forum more as a n00b than a 'knowledgeable dispenser of wisdom'.

Next paycheque is going towards the remaining bits and pieces I need to get a basic home studio set up. :cool:
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I'd guessed your 'n00b' status. ;) As you are a 'n00b', I thought you should avoid Nuendo until you're ready for it. :)

What set-up have you got so far?
 
Cakewalk Sonar for me.

I treat it basically like a suped up multitrack recorder. As aposed to sample sequencer or anything like that. Most of my stuff's done the old fashioned way. Although I copy and paste more. :D
 
i use the one that came with the pc, its more of a toy really

which is fine for the sort of rough (very rough) demos im working on at the mo, and i havnt got a scooby how to use eq and mixing and suchlike
 
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