: Hi, I'm wondering if you can help me, I am in the middle of doing a web site for my friends band and they would like some music on the web site but I have no idea how to get some music on there, they can give me a cd but do you know how I can transfer the music onto the web page?
: I would appreciate a reply so I can try and make this happen, I look forward to hearing from you.
: Thanks a lot
: Kat

I personally don't know how to do it to personal web pages as I don't have one (well... ;0).

I would contact your Internet Service Provider and check it out with them.. It's probably more a Web design thing therefore, check out some web designers forums as well.

SteveR

I would love it if you were an audio software designer. You have a beautiful knack for ergonomics and simplicity.

Sounds like you want a hardware sampler to me. Otherwise, you'll probably need something a little bit more involved than just the spacebar.

Maybe there is a combination of devices that used together could accomplish this. Samplers excell at looping, but computers excell at multitracking/overdubbing.

Since you like simplicity, I would recommend buying a more sophisticated sampler if you are about to be spending. Then you can record into your computer multitrack.

Since I assume that you are already using a computer workstation, I think you should basically use what's available as software.

I used to run loops in SoundForge XP, using the region/marker tools to add them on the fly. Typing the "m" key created a marker. I could be playing back from SoundForge XP while recording using WaveLab Lite. Both of these programs have recently upgraded their qualities.

Still, I can't help thinking that you should just use a nice program like DDClip Pro that lets you do overdubs really easily and quickly. It takes some time to configure it the first day, but after that it works very very well with audio blocks. It's like working with legos. All you have to do is copy and paste (for looping). Actually, "looping" is really a limited way of thinking about it. Actually, what you want is repetition. Copy/Paste is what you can do most easily if you're willing to try. "Looping" is really a term relegated to DJing and old-fashioned RAM-limited sampling. In a multitrack, you could copy and paste till you have your 20 minutes of repetition, then overdub over it.

Ahh! I just realized that perhaps you are seeking a way to perform LIVE audio sequencing!!! Brilliant. Forgive me for not following your genius at first!!

Still, you'd probably want to examine the problem from a hardware standpoint. Consider using a a feed from the improv musician going into your hardware mixer. Another feed would come from your sampler. One output would go TO your sampler's input, and when you'd record, it would get sampled. This would require a sampler with <b>resampling</b> capabilities. Maybe you could use two separate and inexpensive samplers to accomplish this.

I used to create live loops using a minidisc recorder deck. Once recording, I'd just press a button to create a new end/beginning. A few quick buttons and the loop would play. To create a sequence, I could program the minidisc tracks like a CD player program list. It worked well at home, and live (with a sampler, mixer, and CD-player). The only concern from a performance standpoint is to always have the seams muted, and to always have something going. This is why DJ's have started with 2 turntables and a microphone. It's nice to have at least 2 turntables, so that if one is stopped, the other goes. This logic is called <b>double-buffering</b> in computer science. Basically, you drain one bucket while you fill the other one. If you have three music-making devices, then you can do it more stylistically.

If you are using MIDI hardware devices, then you can keep them linked together in time. If you need to change drum patterns, the synthesizer keeps going. If you need to change synthesizer patches, the drum machine keeps going. Meanwhile, you could have other things going on through the mixer like CD tracks or live stuff.

Really, your issue is not so much about the gear, but about creating a seemingly seam-less performance. Sampling somebody live is always an option if you connect the dots correctly. Having control over it is a bit tricker, and usually requires hiding a "seam" of where you cut out of the "loop".

Here's a tip: In the past many performers merely used a digital delay effect with an infinite repeat mode (digitech S-100, ASR-10 keyboard).

A keyboard sampler is always an advantage for performance issues because you can assign so many samples to so many keys. Even a computer sampling program that uses a keyboard will be helpful for live triggering. I'd look into broadcasting devices too. TV and Radio people often use devices to trigger from a huge palette of live samples to "fly in" to the live mix.

No, but you can download Logic Fun for free from germany using a dialup modem at night. It is in the educational section of the website, and the download is only available from the German part of the web site, but still runs in English.

Logic Fun works with both OMS and MIDI Manager and the SoundManager. It even works with no MIDI. It can import AIFF files, and saves to SDII files. It is very stable, but requires lots of memory. Virtual memory should be turned off to run it, but it can be left on for experimentation. Tracks can be bounced, and built-in chorus/reverb can be deactivated for more RAM.

Logic Fun works on a 4400 PPC mac running system 8.1

Curious if any of you have had any success with any of the GVOX updates of MusicTime. The Mac OS9 is buggy in several places and extremely unstable. OS X is better until you print and the output is awful. It is hard to believe that they commercially released this software in the condiction that it was. So is it true? GVOX went under? Any update (and software updates) would be GREATLY appreciated.

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