Archive for the ‘songwriting’ Category
Recording with Samson G-Track
Hello
This question came in:
Hello, I have a problem with my cakewalk sonar le, When I playback the audio I have to? unplug the mike in order to hear it on my computer speakers and when the headphones are in it is really quiet playback PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!
If you are using the G-track, and the output is assigned to the mic, which is an interface within itself, it’s trying to playback through the mic
You could plug your speakers into the output of the mic and play back, because the output will be better than through the standard computer sound card.
Danny
www.dannyjoneline.com
Cakewalk Sonar-Fading
Quesiton:
How do you fade out a song when finishing .
Answer:
One way to fade out a song mix:
If you have each track output assigned to the Master Bus at the bottom of
your screen in the bus section. If they are not, or are assigned to something else,
but all on the same one, simply fade the mix creating a volume envelope on that bus track, make your nodes on that volume envelope and fade as you wish.
You can also group all the tracks involved and fade all the volume envelopes at the same time
Danny
Cakewalk Sonar question
Question:
Samson G Track
Thanx
_Josh
Answer:
Here are a couple of things to try:
Select Options-Audio, click the Advanced tab, and try different values in the I/O Buffer Size textbox until you find a value that works well for your particular hard disk:
The default value is 64. Try reducing this value, to 32, then 16. After each change, close the dialog box (click “OK”) and re-test your project’s recording/playback behavior.
If problem(s) persist, try increasing this value, to 128, then 256, then 512. Again, close the dialog box and re-try your project after each change.
If you have an older, slower computer or an older, slower hard disk, you should try increasing the buffer size; decreasing is not advised on slower hardware. However, increasing this setting uses more of your computer’s RAM. If you have a smaller amount of RAM in your computer, increasing the buffer size may not help.
If problem(s) persist, restore this value to its default and continue with the next step.
Try higher latency settings:
Select Options-Audio, and click the General tab. Move the Mixing Latency Buffer Size slider control to the right in small increments until you see the value to the right of the slider increase; close the dialog (click “OK”) and re-test your project after each increment.
If problem(s) continue, move the slider control back to its original position, and try increasing the number in the Buffers in Playback Queue textbox. (This value starts out at 4; try increasing it to 5, 6, 7, or 8). Close the dialog (click “OK”) and re-test your project after each such change.
The total effective latency is displayed below the slider; it is determined by multiplying the per-buffer latency time (in msec) by the number of buffers in the playback queue.
If problem(s) continue, click the Advanced tab in this dialog, and turn off the WavePipe Accelerator checkbox. Click OK to close the dialog and re-test your project.
If problem(s) persist, turn the WavePipe Accelerator checkbox back on, and continue.
Mixing latency may be set too low
New laptop song on youtube
Hey guys, I just posted a song I wrote with Freddy Weller of Paul Revere and the Raiders, and Rick Holt of Nashville. Check it out at http://www.youtube.com/user/cdig2000
Yak soon
Questions about…
If anybody has any computer recording or audio questions, please post them here. This could be equipment, software, anything. If I don’t have the answer, maybe someone else will
Thanks!
Danny Jones
Laser printer for CD duplicators
May 13th, 2008
Hello again everybody!
I have been trying to print inserts for some CDs, and my old Konica 2400w is dying. I decided to just replace it rather than try to repair it, so I started looking around for an inexpensive laser printer.
After looking around on the net for a while, I went to Circuit City and saw the Samsung CLP-300. It was on sale at the clearance price of 167.00, which is almost half of what I had seen it for on the web…I purchased it and guess what…I rang up at $127.00!!!! I got home, hooked it up in minutes, and it works like a champ! So, if you need inexpensive laser printing for your bands CDs, this could be an option for you. Yak later!
Happy New Year!
Hello!
I hope everyone had a great Christmas, Chanukah, etc, and I hope you all have a terrific and properous 2009! There are lots of new audio products, pluggins, and software out there to explore this year.
At Kwiksounds/Creative Digital, we hope to be carrying the Samson product line in a few weeks. Samson has been on the cutting edge of making USB mics and mixers for musicians, singers, and voice talents. They have some great products that make recording to your computer simple and cost effective.
As soon as this occurs , we will be able to give you some great package deals on our music library CDs, bundled with microphones, mixers,speakers etc. If you’re interested, come back to this blog for further details.
Until then, Happy New Year from Kwiksounds!
Danny Jones
Hello Everybody
May 13th, 2008
My name is Danny Jones, and I am a music producer here in the Atlanta, Ga. area, and have been for the last 30+ years. This is my first post here. I write and produce jingles (www.creative-digital.net), corporate songs, score corporate films, write children’s music (www.kidsvaluepack.com), production music (www.kwiksounds.com) , record voice-overs for on-line training, and record song demos for up-and-coming writers.(as well as any other project involving audio or music)
If you have anything you want to share, please do so! That’s the way we all learn.
I will be trying to share info and give you guys some free stuff along the way.
See ya soon!
Danny Jones
Hosting Company Problems
May 14th, 2008
Hello everybody
This isn’t really a music/audio thing, but I gotta spread this around for all you musicians out there with websites.
I have about 10-15 websites hosted by Hostony. I havent’ really had a problem in the past 5 or 6 years until today.
I was out of the office until about 3 PM this afternoon, came in, turned on my computer, and tried to access my sites via FTP.
I couldn’t get in….the loggin failed.
To make a long story short, the support form told me that I had sent out 200 emails in the last hour, and had been reported as spam, so they suspended my account.
Well, I knew I didn’t do it, but they had a log with the spam email selling a fake Rolex watch, which I didn’t send, but the return address was postmaster@lazertrax.com, which is my site.
I couldn’t even retrieve the files on the server….and it appeared that they wouldn’t even respond to me. I emailed a supervisor, sent multiple text messages, etc and got no response.
I then found a guy on the web that had the same thing happen, and it turned out to be hackers in the Ukraine that use your email address to send spam. I sent his post to the support guy, and heard nothing
Finally, they said they would turn the site back on .
I then responded if there was a way to keep this from happening in the future, and he said not to send more than 150 email messages in 1 hr…still thinking I was the spammer!
So, the bottom line is, don’t host with Hostony. They don’t care about their customers, and will shut you off in a heartbeat…guilty and convicted…with no argument!
Yak later
Hello Everybody!
Just thought I’d let you know what’s going on over at Creative Digital here in Atlanta., and also give you an idea of what you go through in the corporate music world.
You know those songs about Waffle House on the jukebox? Well we’ve been writing and recording them for about 27 years now here at Creative Digital, and we’re in the process of recording a new one right now, called “I’ll Be Waiting For You at the Waffle House” . It’s going through the approval process right now, so we don’t know if it will actually be used or not. It has to go all the way to the owner, Joe Rogers, to get approval, and he doesn’t hear it until it’s finished, or almost finished. We just finished 2 other songs that didn’t get approved, even though the idea came from an emplyee that is in charge of such things…
We usually start out with a song idea that our contact approves of, then my partner Jerry Buckner, writes lyrics. By the way, Jerry Buckner is of the Buckner and Garcia fame…they wrote a song in the early 80’s called “Pac Man Fever”, which sold over a million copies. (another one-hit-wonder)
Any way, after the song lyrics are approved, we decide on a style, and write the song, which is usually in the style of some hit song….they seem to get approved easier that just coming up with something
totally original….
At this point, it’s a process of finding the right singer…I usually sing the demo myself, and go from there. Waffle House has to approve of the singer, and we keep submitting the song as it progresses for approval. It’s really quite a long process…sometimes 8 or 9 months or more before it actually gets on the jukebox.
If you’re interested in hearing past songs, just go in any Waffle House and look for the songs on the
Waffle House label…usually in yellow…
Well, I hope this gives you a little insite into the corporate music world. You have to be totally unemotional and not attached to your music, because it can get shot down in an instant by someone
in the company that just doesn’t like that type of music, and they don’ t have any musical background
in the least.
Well, that’s it for now. Hope you have gotten a little knowledge out of this.
See ya next time…oh by the way, if you want to hear the WH song in it’s final stages but not finished(the singer isn’t even approved yet) go here: http://www.creative-digital.net/WaffleHouseSong.htm
Danny Jones
www.creative-digita.net
www.lazertrax.com
www.kwiksounds.com
www.kidsvaluepack.com