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How to Create Original Drum Tracks Fast and Furious
The MIDI Drum Tips page 2 page 1 2 Write Original Drum Tracks Fast and Furious in a MIDI Sequencer by Rich the Tweak Here's how to write drum tracks really fast on a midi sequencer. Don't let the simplicity of my approach fool you into thinking this is an article for beginners. OK, lots of pros know…
READ GUIDE →Make Your Studio Drum Tracks Come Alive, an article by Rich the TweakMeister
page 1 2 MIDI Drum Traps 'n Tips How to make your Drum tracks Come Alive by the TweakMeister Roland TD20SX V-Pro Electronic Drum Set More: Electronic Drum Sets Problems Its been long said that to get authentic sounding drum tracks in your midi compositions you have to "think like a drummer". This is…
READ GUIDE →Tweaking Hip Hop Drums
Tweaking Hip Hop Drum Sounds --page 3 Hip Hop series page 1 2 3 The Basics of the Hip Hop Drum Kit Drum sounds used in hip hop cover a huge spectrum. Hip Hop has a wider universe of drum sounds than any other genre of music, from squeaky clean studio quality kits to total train wrecks of effects. Dr…
READ GUIDE →Instantly Downloadable SoundFonts from the Mystik Garage Drum Kits
The Mystik Drum SoundFont Drum Font from the Mystik Garage Is available for instant download from for $9.95 No shipping, no waiting, download and use them right now! Go to Voice Crystal's SoundFont Delivery System to Order and Download The Mystik Window has one goal, to blast through a mix with a dr…
READ GUIDE →Review of StormDrum by Quantum Leap
Review of Quantum Leap's StormDrum by Tweak OK, you eventually do find a reason to leave the studio. If for anything, to appease the significant other who says "Honey, we need to go out more". "Ok, dear", you smile, "lets go to a movie". Of course you are thinking 'I'll see anything they want as lon…
READ GUIDE →Review of Superior Drummer 2 by SoundCravers Lab
Review of Superior Drummer 2.0 Toontrack brings new realism to Plugin Drumkit Imagine your are in the control room of one of the world's greatest drum studios. When you raise the fader on the overheads you hear this fantastic room come into play. You hear shadings of famous drum mixes you heard on s…
READ GUIDE →SoundCravers · How to Buy A Microphone For Your Home Studio, Microphones For Recording Drums, Microphones For Recording Instruments, And The Best Microphones For Recording Vocals
Guides Reviews Catalog zZounds Links - Guitar Bass Keyboard Recording Computers Live Drums DJ Accessories Blowouts Microphones For The Home Studio Mar 27 — By The Tweak Contents ↓ Basics of a Home Studio Mic Cabinet Setting up Microphones Ambient and Close Mics Matching the Microphone to the job. Wh…
READ GUIDE →Clock Sync, SMPTE, MTC and MMC
MIDI Clock Sync, SMPTE, MTC and MMC How machines stay in sync by Tweak The problem Audio and music happens in time. Many of your machines have an internal clock keeping track of what time it is supposed to do something. These clocks, unless made to receive code from an external clock, will be totall…
READ GUIDE →Midi and Audio Equipment at SoundCravers Lab
Gear at SoundCravers Lab Computer Network Current Machines 1. Mac Pro 8 core 266ghz 3 1TB internal drives, 2TB USB Backup 16GB memory 4 video displays, inclu Apple 30" Cinema Display Parallels 5.0 running Windows 7 Logic 9, Cubase 5, Live 6, Reason 4 MOTU 896MK3+828mk2+ADA8000 Aggregate driver 2. Ma…
READ GUIDE →Review of Guru
Review of Guru The Ultimate Software Drum Machine? For those that dabble in the arts of electronica, and who experiment with what used to be called drum sounds, Guru fills several fundamental needs. Lets get down to business. Doing hip hop, trance, drum N Bass, house, world? You need a huge variety…
READ GUIDE →Review of Motu's BPM Beat Production Machine
Review of Motu's BPM Beat Production Machine by SoundCravers Lab Get a Price on MOTU's Beat Production Software (BPM) Just got it. And I want to tell you, its great . You don't need an MPC to do all the cool stuff you can do with one-- if you have this software and an MPD or suitable pad controller.…
READ GUIDE →Review of the Proteus 2000
Review of the Proteus 2000 And Free Patches and Resources by Rich the TweakMeister Pros 128 Voice polyphony Multiple outs 32 MIDI channels 3 expansion slots Hip, clean sounds Cons Pianos and Strings not as good as other synths (can be expanded with better roms though) Not GM Compatible I think I was…
READ GUIDE →Review of the World Expedition Rom by Emu Systems
Review of the Planet Earth Module E-MU's sound designers have gathered an amazing collection of authentic rhythms and traditional instruments from the four corners of the globe to give you Planet Earth, the most realistic ethnic sound module in the world. And Planet Earth's powerful synthesis engine…
READ GUIDE →The Concise History of the Home Studio
The Concise History of the Home Studio How we used to do it, how we do it today By Rich the TweakMeister Hey, this is not the definitive history of home recording but a quick timeline to give you the gist of what happened before you got here. This is the timeline you have to know to make sense of de…
READ GUIDE →The Making of a Sample CD Rom Page 1
Sound Development Journal of Rich the TweakMeister while Making the Post-Industrial CybrSound Depot by Tweak October 10,2000 to March 18, 20001 ( more info on this cd rom) 10-10-00 I've decided to do it and make an EOS only version of my Emu format sample CD Rom " Ice Kold Tekno ". I am already a we…
READ GUIDE →A Recipe for Song Construction Page 2
A Recipe for Song Construction By Tweak Page 2 Listen to the song at this point I muted the piano then copied the sequences to another track and assigned a low whistle from Absynth. When I added the Celtic Hammered Dulcimer I started feeling the song. But the song is far from finished, its just a dr…
READ GUIDE →Effects! Using Effects in the Home, Project or Pro Studio
Using Effects in the Recording Studio How to Tweak Up Special Effects that will Transform your Audio by Rich the TweakMeister E ffects are everywhere in our gear. We have effects plugins of almost limitless possibility, rack mount effects units at nearly every price range, synthesizers with "built i…
READ GUIDE →Hip Hop Beat Construction Made Easy
Hip Hop Beat Construction Made Easy The Elements of a Beat, plus Arranging, Orchestrating, Sound Creation and Production Tips for Hip Hop by Tweak give feedback here --page 1 Hip Hop series page 1 2 3 Hip hop has been with us for over 20 years. It has diversified greatly during this course of time a…
READ GUIDE →Ice Kold Tekno CD ROM of MS20 Sounds for EMU Samplers
Ice Kold Tekno Emu Sample CD Rom of Tekno-Industrial Sounds from the Korg MS-20 V. 3.0 and better than ever Order by PayPal CD-ROM for ALL Hardware Emu Samplers includes "Native" Master banks for ESi 3.0x, ESi 2.1 and Emulator IV (EOS) including ULTRAs (sounds great in 4.7) There are also banks that…
READ GUIDE →Presets and Samples to Post Indie
Presets and Samples to Post Indie Preset and Sample List Post Industrial CybrSound Depot 3/11/01 V1.0 Final Release Version PRESETS 0. Master Synth 1. The Muse Unknown 2. Your Majesty 3. The Heart Afire 4. Observatory One 5. kit: CyBR KiT 1 6. Morrocco 7. The Lab at Night 8. Play my Knobs 9. Istanbu…
READ GUIDE →Review and History of the Roland Fantom G
Review and History of the Roland Fantom G The History of the Fantom Line zZounds Fantom Department Expand your Fantom S/X/XR or XV synth with Roland SRX Expansion boards Demo the SRX boards Roland V-SynthGT Synthesizer Keyboard workstations have been around a while. While definitions will vary, I de…
READ GUIDE →Review of Battery 3 by Native Instruments
Review of Battery 3 by Native Instruments Add quality sampled drums in the virtual domain of your sequencer by the Tweak Original Battery interface Note the huge number of cells now available in the Battery 3 interface Pros Easy to use Multiple Outs (with appropriate audio driver and interface) Soun…
READ GUIDE →Review of the Emu XL1
Review of the Emu Xtreme Lead 1 by Tweak Emu XL-1 Extreme Lead 64 Voice Module Its not on my short list anymore. I bought it! Phat sounding analog timbres with knobs. Advanced arpeggiation--up to 16 at once! SuperBeats Mode. Get the idea? Its loops and arpeggios synced within presets so you can latc…
READ GUIDE →Secrets of Making Great Sounding Samples
The Secrets of Great Sounding Samples Give your home made samples professional quality by Rich the TweakMeister 1. A Hardware or Software Sampler. If it's hardware, then the sampler should be well endowed with memory. 32 Megs or better is good. Any of the Emus Ultras and Esi series are up to the tas…
READ GUIDE →Sequencing with Reason (and Logic)
Sequencing with Reason (and Logic) A page devoted to making products work together by Rich the Tweakmeister Go directly to Reason/Logic Tips Being someone who has been sequencing back to the early days when analog synths were all we had, I was prepared to be unimpressed when the first signs of Reaso…
READ GUIDE →Sound Development Journal of Rich the TweakMeister, Page 2
Sound Development Journal of Rich the TweakMeister while Making the Post-Industrial CybrSound Depot Part 2 Back to Page 1 1-5-01 We are in Overtime, folks. I added a few more DnB style snares--rim shots with select frequencies removed and the kits just blow me away. I am planning to make one more su…
READ GUIDE →SoundCravers Lab's Index of Resources for the Modern Home and Project Studio
Your Webmaster Rich the TweakMeister Web Traffic on SoundCravers Audio Interfaces and Soundcards Article Index New products from Namm 2010 Getting into Pro Tools 8.1 New: Subscribe to Tweak's Blogspot New Should we Upgrade to Win 7? NEW Polls Best Mid price Firewire Interface Best $1000 synth New Gu…
READ GUIDE →SoundCravers · The Perfect Mix, Notes on Mastering, Post-Production Audio, and The Final Touches
Guides Reviews Catalog zZounds Links - Guitar Bass Keyboard Recording Computers Live Drums DJ Accessories Blowouts The Perfect Mix Mar 26 — By The Tweak Contents ↓ The Mix Process The Mix itself The Role of Compression at Mixdown The Role of the Software/Hardware Mastering processor Software Masteri…
READ GUIDE →The Mystik Garage Emu Sample CD Rom
The Mystik Garage This Emu format CD Rom disk was made on an ESi Sampler. Loads perfectly into the Esi 32, Esi4000/2000, E4, E-Synth , E64, E6400 (and all the Ultras) and even the EIII add $5.00 Shipping Version 2.2 Now Available! $39.99 Not in stock-special order only. Send a private message to Twe…
READ GUIDE →What are Software Samplers?
What are Software Samplers? How to Choose the Right one for your Studio by Tweak The process of "sampling" audio is everywhere in the modern studio. Sampling is just another word for recording sound on digital media. We find this process of sampling audio in our sequencers, multi track recorders, CD…
READ GUIDE →Logic, VST, Cakewalk: Which Sequencer? Page 2
Logic, Cubase, Sonar: Which Sequencer is Best? Comparing the Top 3 PC Sequencers Page 2 Revision 5 Page 1 2 3 Go the the conclusion Screen Shots of Sequencers Creating Web Audio Oct 99: My Ranking, Cakewalk way ahead, others way behind. All three programs will mix down to a stereo .WAV file suitable…
READ GUIDE →How to Get Audio into your Computer by SoundCravers Lab
How to Set Up Digital Audio in your Home Studio Ways to get audio into your computer for your creative projects by Tweak Audio 101 1. Learn the different ways to get audio into a computer 2. Understand digital audio 3. Learn Basics of the recording process and the Mix So, then how do we get our soun…
READ GUIDE →Recipes for Song Construction with MIDI Sequencers and Synthesizers
How to Write a Song with Music Software by Tweak Newbs, you've come this far. (Tweak smiles, holding two fingers about 1 inch apart.). Its finally time to START making your music! If you master this page you will be this far along (Tweak hold his fingers about 1 foot apart.) This page is important a…
READ GUIDE →Review of Sonar by SoundCravers Lab
Review of Sonar 8.5 More improvements, a better look, hardware integration Sonar 8.5 screenshot Sonar is impressive. Let there be no doubt amongst the staunch believers of other sequencer religions. Sonar has been up to serious speed since Version 4. Its not only functional, but it looks great too,…
READ GUIDE →Samples and Presets of Ice Kold Tekno
Samples and Presets of Ice Kold Tekno Rich's MIDI and Audio Lab Sounds of the MS20 CD ROM For EMU Samplers "Ice Kold Tekno" SAMPLE LIST to view the Online Manual click here For a printable .TXT file of the Sample/Program list click here Note how meticulously the samples are organized into groups, ju…
READ GUIDE →Sequencer City Page 2
Sequencer City--Page 2 back to page 1 An old pic of Cakewalk Pro 3 see more on the Vintage Sequencers Page 11/22/02 Logic 5.5 released with the NEW EXS24mk2 code inside. If you already have the EXS24, download 5.5 and you now have the EXS24mk2 for free. Cubase SX Now available Sonar 2.1 is a free do…
READ GUIDE →SoundCravers Guide Index
Guide Index Browse the restored SoundCravers archive by topic. Getting Started Assembling 6 different types of Home Studios Essential Concepts for putting together a Home Studio Guide Index How to make money in your home studio How to Set Up Digital Audio in your Home Studio Pic of Basic Setup Podca…
READ GUIDE →Build A remix Studio
Build A DJ/ReMix Studio Tips on Building a remix station to Create or Remix Hot Dance music by Tweak Stanton SCS3 System DJ Controller Package TIME OUT! What is a ReMix? Speaking classically, a remix is where a producer takes the original multi track tape of a commercial piece and remixes a new mast…
READ GUIDE →Defining Custom Bank Select Methods
Defining Custom Bank Select Methods Using Logic 8 I am going to show you how you get patchnames into Logic from your hardware synth. I am going to use the V-Synth GT as an example. Those of you who own the V-synth GT will find everything you need here to get your V-synth patchnames into Logic. If yo…
READ GUIDE →HipHop Production and Mixing
Hip Hop Production and Mixing Tips Tools of the Trade: Sequencers and Rewire Devices --page 2 Hip Hop series page 1 2 3 Production vs. Post-Production The Production phase of a studio project is where the musicians are in the studio making tracks. That is, it is when music is being produced, created…
READ GUIDE →Resources for E-mu Samplers on the Internet
Resources for E-mu Samplers Cool Stuff A New Emu EOS editor is born called ZeoOS by Zuonics . Demo available. Looking for emu EOS manuals and tons more? Check out http://www.emusonacid.co.uk Our member Uncle Colin's Sample Source Page (e4b banks for EOS 4.7) What is the quietest drive for your emu?…
READ GUIDE →Secrets of Making of a Large SoundFont
How to Build a Bank of SoundFonts Build you Own Custom Virtual Synth by Tweak Building a good SoundFont is the same process as building a sample based synthesizer from scratch. You can use any sample and tweak it with a wide range of envelopes, filter and resonance settings and effects just like you…
READ GUIDE →Using Logic's EXS-24 Software Sampler
Using the EXS-24 Software Sampler Tips on the EXS and a Guide to developing your Custom Sample Library Revised for Logic 8 in 2008 by Tweak W hen I first got the EXS sampler, my thought was I'd just use it to spice up a few tracks in each song when my 2 other samplers, and esi32 and an e5000, got ma…
READ GUIDE →What's New and Cool Page 2
page 1 page 2 page 3 page 4 page 5 page 6 What's New and Cool page 2 Tweak : Motu's BPM (Beat Production Machine) is a great piece of software. But can this software and an MPD controller really do everything a hardware MPC can do? Check out my review. Akai MPD32 USB/MIDI Pad Controller Great price…
READ GUIDE →All about Studio Compressors
What they are, and when, where and why we use them By Tweak Close up of the DBX 1066 , a full featured dual compressor/limiter/gate. Note the sections "expander/gate", "compressor" "output gain" and "limiter" for each channel. Not all compressors have gates or limiters You have no doubt heard people…
READ GUIDE →Choosing a Multi Track Recorder for your Home Studio
Choosing a Multi Track Recorder for your home studio What you need to watch out for when buying an MTR by Rich the TweakMeister The Alesis ADAT HD24 is a 24 track digital recorder. This kind of multi track requires that you buy a separate mixer. They are good for home studios that are called on to r…
READ GUIDE →Doing it with Digital: How to write music only in the digital domain
The Basic Process of Recording Tracks on a Computer Keep your tracks in the digital domain and get a better mix for less money by Tweak The home studio now has the ability to create music totally in the digital domain, thanks to the emergence of affordable digital gear, the evolution of midi/audio s…
READ GUIDE →MIDI 101 by SoundCravers Lab
MIDI Basics What it is, how it works, why it's important and how to hook it up in your home studio by Rich the TweakMeister MIDI 101 1. Understand MIDI data 2. How to setup a keyboard and sequencer 3. Configuring Ports, Channels, Tracks and Instruments Ok, professional mixologists, filter-heads, LFO…
READ GUIDE →Post Industrial CybrSound Depot-Manual
Post Industrial CybrSound Depot-Manual The Post-Industrial CybrDepot SUPPORT PAGE Thanks for purchasing this disk. This is the page where you will find support files and information on how to best use your disk. Mini Manual Important: Loading this Disk You probably don't have anything like Post Indi…
READ GUIDE →Review of Cakewalk Project 5
Review of Cakewalk's Project 5 by Rich the Tweak Cakewalk calls it's Project 5 "a complete software synthesizer workstation". providing everything they need to experiment, create, and perform music using integrated sequencers, software synths, samplers, audio and MIDI effects, and audio looping tool…
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