I found this on Google:
http://www.ganymede.hemscott.net/tutorial.htm

Try this tutorial for some more info. I am interested in following this up as I would like to find a way to record house sets on my PC too.

Also try http://www.digido.com

I suspect the main issue you are having is the way that analogue to digital data is processed in a PC operating environment. But that's all I can suggest as there is software that enables a digital copy from CD and totally bypasses the sound card which will always produce a glitch in every single recording.

Sound Sculptor 2 is very compact, memory-efficient, and nice. It fits on a floppy diskette, but has 4 to eight tracks and good help and effects.

For serious advancement, though, a program with VST and DirectX capabilities and MIDI is going to be a real advantage.

Anything by Steinberg or Digidesign will do well for you. Cubas{e/is} or ProTools is what I'm talking about until they come out with Nuendo, or whatever.

Having virtual instruments is nice too. When you want to expand, there are lots of modules to download for free online, and most of them are really small, so the downloading is fast and easy. Some VST downloads are as small as about 33K. The MIDI BPM settings are more precise in both of these environments, also. Some VST instruments let you load up and play audio files as MIDI instruments, so remix and drum machine possibilities are expansive.

These are pretty cool because they both work on Macs and PCs. ProTools has a free version available on a CD-Rom in the mail, and I think even Cubasis is now free somewhere.

Even if you use other programs, these two programs I have recently decided pretty much eat up the competition in terms of collective and future advantages.

I would have thought that observing the time between the samples of professional sample CD's, AND the relative volume of the samples in relation to each other.

I think the second point is very relative as if you are sampling from a CD and you find many of the samples require you adjust the input level of the sampler, you may think that it wasn't very professionally put together.

The content, I think, should be varied and not too effected which will leave the user the option of adding and changing the sound from it's raw beginnings.

Cya

SteveR

If you have a mac, use Sound sculptor II. It is very small, shareware, and if you pay, it's only about 25 bucks. The most current version has 8 tracks with built-in delay panning, which is an unusually nice extra feature, but the whole thing is totally easy to learn. There is online help for every single command and window and button. The program doesn't seem to have any bugs at all, and even works on really old macintoshs. The entire program can fit on a floppy diskette, which is nice too.

If you have a PC, I would suggest Cubasis which is still very cheap and comes with WaveLab Lite also. I don't recommend installing Master Unit which comes on the CD-Rom also, but it's there if you need it. I think the whole disk is something like 30 to 50 dollars. The nice thing about the store-bought version is that the printed manual comes in a nice book that is pretty easy to read.

Cubasis is a better deal, but it might be too much to learn at once. There is are really cute program for PC called MakingWaves which is super easy to use and has great pattern sequencing capabilities.

I don't spend that much time answering questions. Maybe 5 minutes per question. I usually answer a bunch of questions at the same time by keeping open separate windows of my browser for each question. Then I open up some more windows for running search engine queries, almost always on <b>Google.com</b>. For more interesting questions, I'll spend maybe up to 15 minutes on it, but it's actually less time, since I respond to one question while thinking about others.

This is one of my favorite sites, though. And, I type pretty fast; 45-50 wpm, maybe higher, when I type what I'm thinking directly.

I know some answers because I have been studying electronic music and recording and related technologies since 1987 as a hobby. I have also taken some college-level courses in computer science and sound engineering.

I'm currently in the process of deciding whether or not I want to officially get into computer programming for audio or just focus on making music. Since I only work part time, I have extra time on my hands, and it's good mental exercise for me to keep thinking about these issues.

Most of the questions asked here, though, are variations on the same kinds of questions the folks at Electronic Musician, Mix, EQ, Keyboard, and Sound On Sound magazines have been answering for years. In the nineties I used to read a lot of those kinds of magazines and books regularly. Coincidentally, the nineties is when most digital audio innovations really took off full blast, as did the internet.

I also read various on-line and print articles by hackers and system administrators and technical support people, even when I'm just browsing stuff I might not buy or download.

The lamest thing about all of this, is that I still don't use any of my previous knowledge or skills for any jobs yet. I do have many other interests, though.

When I get tired of computer junk, I think about psychology and philosphy and politics and sociology. Information theory is especially cool. I like to study the overlapping parts of different topics. A lot of this digital audio junk hype is really more interesting from a sociological standpoint, or a business marketing standpoint.

When it comes down to it, though, somebody out there is waiting for me to admit that I spend too much time here. Yeah, they're maybe right some days. But while other people are thinking about who is going to win the Olympics or what Enron is going to deny or what songs Ludakriss will come up with next, I'm wondering what's the most time, money, and resource-efficient digital composition and recording set-up.

Pretty geeky, huh?

It won't run on XP...go to <www.gvox.com> for info on Encore and other Passport products. While shopping recently for a new PC, it was suggested to me that it would be necessary to either partion the hard drive on a computer with XP or add a second hard drive and instal Windows 95 or 98 on which to run older programs such as your Encore. I opted for Windows ME installed on our new PC and my Passport music program seems to run fine on it.

Don

: I am working with encore for a long time, and I was very satisfied about it.
: Now I have a new computer with Windows XP on it. Encore doesn't run on it.

: Do you have a solution for this problem?

: gr. frans sueters

You don't get stuff like that here.

Bugger off

SteveR

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I got VS880 but the hardidsk is absolutely disfunction, I can't use it any more. But I couldn't find a small size like 1 or 2G harddisk. So what can I do now?

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