Free Portable Music Studio (v3)

futures_untold · Post by **futures_untold** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 11:01 pm

eLBe wrote:Future mate, another quality post. the hardest part of freeware is sifting through it all, but you have done it for us too cool for school

Ha ha, no worries. this thread is ooollllld now hehe

I hope you guys find it useful and inspiring!

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 11:03 pm

shortcircuit - the ultimate freeware sampler

elbe · Post by **elbe** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 11:03 pm

futures_untold wrote:
eLBe wrote:Future mate, another quality post. the hardest part of freeware is sifting through it all, but you have done it for us too cool for school
Ha ha, no worries. this thread is ooollllld now hehe

oh yeah, shit, ah well. statement stands, not a great fan of reaper myself but the VST(i)s are sweet

futures_untold · Post by **futures_untold** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 11:05 pm

Deadly Habit wrote:shortcircuit - the ultimate freeware sampler

Functionality-wise yes, but the GUI is fugly & confusing....

Vember Audio would do well to pimp it so it is easier to work with (imo)

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@ eLBe

Yes, Reaper is not for everyone, but it shits on the freeware* competition

*(Reaper isn't actually freeware, but an unrestricted evaluationware until you decide to buy a license for it)

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 11:10 pm

futures_untold wrote:
Deadly Habit wrote:shortcircuit - the ultimate freeware sampler
Functionality-wise maybe, but the GUI is fugly & confusing....

rtfm

i'll take quality functionality over eye candy any day
prolly why i love trackers still

shift · Post by **shift** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 11:13 pm

thanks for the wicked list man, also check out hgf synthesiser stuff they make some wicked freeware http://www.hgf-synthesizer.de/

futures_untold · Post by **futures_untold** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 11:13 pm

Deadly Habit wrote:
futures_untold wrote:
Deadly Habit wrote:shortcircuit - the ultimate freeware sampler
Functionality-wise maybe, but the GUI is fugly & confusing....
rtfm
i'll take quality functionality over eye candy any day
prolly why i love trackers still

So you'd marry a bint who serves and services you daily over some fresh totty? Each to their own.

But yes, if you can stand using a tracker then Shortcircuit is for you!

For the rest of us, (or those just getting into music production), the easier the gui the better.

Ultimately, this pack is provided as is and is a collection of software I personally find useful and easy to use. What could be done is to take some of it and use it with other more prefered software in your arsenal!

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 11:17 pm

fairplay

boomstix · Post by **boomstix** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:24 am

great work fella!!

i'm linking to this from my blog

(unless that bothers you, pm me if it does)

futures_untold · Post by **futures_untold** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 9:37 am

Good stuff!

dj tinman · Post by **dj tinman** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 10:52 am

Installed this on my laptop about a month ago and its quality!!!

It was good learning a new Sequencer and Reaper is very good and didn't rape my CPU!

Can't rate this highly enough, good work man!!!

Thanks.

misk · Post by **misk** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 3:35 pm

bump! this is definitely a great bundle! gotta say that renoise has all this too. it's not free, but you can load it off a thumb drive and it works on windows, os x, and linux. good shit though man.

megaladon · Post by **megaladon** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:15 pm

I'm finding myself being pretty clumsy using reaper, I've made some really nice sounds but don't really know what I'm doing and it's a bit hard to visualise what you're playing. Are there shortcut keys to the sequencer you're using, the piano roll and what's the deal with recording automation?

futures_untold · Post by **futures_untold** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:38 pm

DJ TINMAN wrote:Installed this on my laptop about a month ago and its quality!!!

It was good learning a new Sequencer and Reaper is very good and didn't rape my CPU!

Can't rate this highly enough, good work man!!!

Thanks.

Good stuff!

Misk wrote:bump! this is definitely a great bundle! gotta say that renoise has all this too. it's not free, but you can load it off a thumb drive and it works on windows, os x, and linux. good shit though man.

Yeah man, Renoise seems to be fairly popular around here.

Watched a link of some French dude doing some mad glitch stuff with it.

I remember the very first computer music program I saw was on my pals Atari. It was also a tracker, and thinking about it now, it was sort of like watching the 'green digital rain' effect from the Matrix!

Megaladon wrote:I'm finding myself being pretty clumsy using reaper, I've made some really nice sounds but don't really know what I'm doing and it's a bit hard to visualise what you're playing. Are there shortcut keys to the sequencer you're using, the piano roll and what's the deal with recording automation?

Being clumsy - Try switching off snapping?!! to turn it on or off, left click on the button in the top left corner next to the 'padlock' button. Right click on the same button for snapping & quantise options etc.

Piano Roll - Go to the 'Insert' menu, next choose 'new midi item'. Double click on the block that comes up to bring up the piano roll.

Visualising - Go to 'view' menu and click 'show navigator'

Automation can be done in two ways. The first is deep and I don't really know how its done. the second is easy and works like this. On every sequencer track, just to the left of the 'FX' button, there is a button called 'ENV'. This brings up the automation options for that track. Click on an option, then draw in the automation directly on the sequancer lane.

You can get the Reaper manual in PDF format from here. Check out the Reaper forums here.

Hope that helps!

megaladon · Post by **megaladon** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:58 pm

Thanks very much.

dj arehouse · Post by **dj arehouse** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 3:43 pm

hey i have a question i just downloaded this pack and i'm trying to use arachnid and i can figured it out. can u give a little help with that?

thanks though its fantastic

higgzbozon · Post by **higgzbozon** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 4:27 pm

Not sure if i'm gonna use thi but i'll give them all a try. Always looking for some nice free vst's.

Big up for the searching and posting bro!!

futures_untold · Post by **futures_untold** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 4:33 pm

Dj AreHouse wrote:hey i have a question i just downloaded this pack and i'm trying to use arachnid and i can figured it out. can u give a little help with that?

Cetainly!

I presume your having difficulty loading up samples?

To load samples, first click on a number (which will be highlighted in red), then click on the 'folder' icon just to the left of where it says 'No Sample'. No live preview which sucks, but you can preview the sample by clicking on the numbered slot.

To trigger sample slot '1', hit C3 on your midi keyboard. (although this can be changed to create multi layered samples

Hope that answers your questions...!

You may want to check out the official website here ---> http://17hex.net/?page_id=123

I'd also recommend reading the manual which can be found in the folder you installed the VSTi .dll file. (It creates itself after the first time you've run Arachnid in a VST capable host ie, Reaper)

megaladon · Post by **megaladon** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 11:37 pm

I'm still finding Reaper a bit awkward (not dissing the package you've put together). I'm still getting some nice sounds but obviously need to use it for a while, does anyone use this as their main bit of software? Or anyone used it for a long time?

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