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10 days remain to submit entries for Mixit 62.
We have some excellent samples to choose from this round.
Get out there and MIXIT!
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02/19/08
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sAMsKi
*prepares to hang head in shame again* too much shizzle going down at the mo......
02/19/08
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kidko
Ah, something to do in the hotel room during GDC!
02/19/08
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sAMsKi
ooh lala. what you doing a GDC kidko?
02/19/08
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Leo
I wish I could participate. Software troubles will prevent me from being involved this time 'round. Read my blog for more information.
02/19/08
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bodo
I'm all up for it, though it starts to get tempting to add some additional synth sounds 
Lately I'm going through a lot of past mixit samples to make some new tracks, it's just amazing how you build up such a huge library in no-time.
Love it!
02/19/08
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bodo
what's a GDC by the way?
02/20/08
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sAMsKi
hey bodo...I assumed he meant this GDC : link
02/20/08
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sAMsKi
sorry...*hands blog back to mulletballet*
02/20/08
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dimka
Out of curiousity, which DAW's are you guys using for this? I've just realized that I can't afford to upgrade to full Ableton Live this month and the idea of cutting and pasting in SONAR is rather daunting. I could always blow the dust off of my ACID 3.0 but what are you guys using?
02/20/08
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celibacyclub
live 7
ive used fl a lot in the past
02/22/08
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Leo
Cubase 4. I've used FL Studio in the past. As far as cut and paste in a DAW, I prefer not to work that way. Generally I will begin by cutting up the samples into something usable using Audacity. After they are mostly serviceable, and in mono, I'll open up Kontakt and create instruments. I find that by defining what instruments I have first, I spend a little less time tweaking the sound while I get the composition done. The composition is the longest part of the process for me, and I find that the more I focus on the notes, lengths, keys, and such the faster it goes. After I have my instruments defined in Kontakt, I boot up Cubase. Where I start with composition depends on the samples and subsequently the instruments I've made from them. Most of the time I start with either a bass line or a beat. This is all done with MIDI rather than slicing and copying and such in the DAW itself. This way, I can easily edit the composition, independent of the sound itself. Again, this is because I have the hardest time with the composition itself, and this helps me focus on the music rather than the sound of the instruments. Once I have my composition finished, and I'm happy with all the different sections, I'll start filling in the gaps with samples that are cut up, pasted, processed, and otherwise altered in a linear fashion inside the DAW itself. These add some texture, and generally work as audible and (hopefully) interesting dither. After I'm happy with the gap filling, and feel like it is finished as a composition, I mix. I always mix separate to the composition. I've learned that doing both at the same time results in never finishing anything. I'll get two bars into it, and start tweaking an EQ or adding compression. I recommend mixing after the composition is finished. After I have mixed it, I throw a spectrum analyzer or other scope on the master bus, after EQ and limiting. I see if I have an excess of low-end, see if things are relatively flat, and make sure the levels are consistent. After that, I bounce to a CD. I take the CD into the living room, throw it into the player, and light up a cigarette. If I notice anything technical, or something sticks out too much, or there is a part that is annoying, I finish the cigarette, go back into my studio, and revisit that. Generally, I bounce back from living room to studio 6-8 times before I'm completely satisfied. After satisfaction has been achieved, I will clean up any silence at the end of the track, make sure the start and end samples of the wave are at zero, and may or may not do a final limiting/mastering procedure. Then, once it is in a stereo .wav file, I will convert it to MP3. I will listen side by side with the .wav, and if the compression really affected something, I'll try a different encoder. If not, I upload to the forum, and await the tasty mixes of my mixit companions.
PS- I love the Mixit.
02/22/08
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license
Renoise. Pretty much 100%, even the editing. I'd like to use hardware sometime but I'm so lazy these days it's enough of a feat for me to get something done in software.
If you make stuff in the demo and need someone to render it for ya, I'd be game.
02/22/08
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Squeal
cubase with shortcircuit (now freeware!) for the cut up smaps. I do occasionally put actual audio tracks in the session, but the structure of the song is generally midi tracks->shortcircuit instances->some effects maybe.
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