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Cool! I always wanted a Minimoog, and there it is! Not having all the extra stuff doesn’t bother me very much – this will be great for those classic bass and lead sounds.

@CymaticCreation wrote:

what should I do to finish off this track?

The so called “Mastering” is nothing but the artificial establishment of the alleged “industry”, and therefore it applies only to those, whose goals are commercial and profit driven.
And this has nothing to do with objective quality ( the loudness wars for an example ) and art in general. Quite the contrary. [-X

That sums it up nicely.

In the days of vinyl records you needed a bit of mastering so as not to exceed the limited dynamic range of an LP. In the days of digitally recorded music, mastering only serves the purpose of processing away most of the dynamics so that a song will sound as loud as possible on the radio, sucking the life out of the music in the process.

The recording sounds finished to me. You have talent and a good ear. That’s all you need.

@German Fafian wrote:

@Infinitoar wrote:

Meh oh well. I’m still going to use it. Maybe I’ll start reading some coding books of my own and hopefully one day if I have the inspiration to do it make my own updates :P[Or gets my friends to see what they can do since they are programmers themselves, who knows 😛 ]

Hmmmm!

The code in Podium is intelectual property and not open sourced and doing any changes or adding to it without Fritz permission is illegal.

Just pointing out 😉

Well, not really illegal if he only changes it for his own use. But that point is moot, since to be able to make any changes to the program he’d have to have access to the source code, which I doubt Frits will supply him with.

No matter how good a programmer you are, you won’t be able to add any features to a program when you only have access to the binary executable.

For some reason I managed to post this in another thread instead of here. Now I post it here where it belongs:
The open source sound editor Audacity can do timestretch (they call it “Change Tempo”) and many other things, like noise removal, compression, etc.

The open source sound editor Audacity can do timestretch (they call it “Change Tempo”) and many other things, like noise removal, compression, etc.

Create a separate track with the device set to MIDI IN on the same instance of the VSTi, i.e., don’t put MIDI data on any of the separate out tracks.

Assume you have only one instance of SomeSynth running. This instance will show up as “SomeSynth #1” in the devices list. Now assume that you have four separate outputs from this instance assigned to tracks 1-4. You should then create a new track which uses the device “SomeSynth #1 MIDI IN 1”, and put all MIDI data on this track.

EDIT: Oh, and the thing about instances. If VST instruments were hardware instruments, an instance would be one hardware instrument. Every time you put SomeSynth on a track, an instance is created. This would be the real world equivalent of pulling out a hardware synth and connecting it to the mixer in a studio. If you put SomeSynth on another track, this becomes a new instance – the equivalent of pulling out yet another, identical, hardware synth and connecting it to the mixer.