: When I try to start up Gigasampler I get a message:
: 'The procedure entry point SUnMapLS_IP_EBP_16 could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll' I'm using Windows 2000 does that have anything to do with it. Can anyone help me urgent please......!

I haven't yet used Windows XP, but I would guess that Gigasampler
might be choking on it. Gigasampler came out while Windows98SE was
en vogue, so GIgasampler might run better on Windows98SE, maybe even
a patch-fixed Windows95. Still, Gigasampler requires lots of RAM, so
it could have to do with your RAM and disk cache and virtual memory
settings. Other than those, I would guess that maybe your System files
are a wee bit corrupted. Some Virus/Spyware Bots also have a nasty way
of implanting themselves in those uberimportant files such as KERNEL32.DLL
and RUNDLL.EXE At least XP has a really nice scandisk, I hear. Just make
sure that the ScanDisk.INI file is set up correctly. You can view it with
a plain text editor such as EDIT.COM or whatever. This could be important
because some errors can only be properly fixed by running ScanDisk in pure
DOS mode. However, in DOS mode, ScanDisk uses it's .INI file for directions.
Unless you manually edit this file, it's settings could very well be wrong.
This was an issue back with Windows98SE, so I'm guessing it still applies to
your system. Windows 2000 and ME and NT are oranges to these apples, but who
knows... were dealing with Micro$oft, the king of bugs and tedious functions.

p.s. = I can always know if a Micro$oft program has been installed on my mac,
because my system folder is suddenly flooded with shared library files, otherwise
knows as dynamically linked libraries (DLL's). Another tell-tale sign is a busload
of new system subfolders and strange additions to the Internet settings. Basically,
Microsoft IS A VIRUS. Look up the definition of a computer virus, and then think of
all those bug-prone, privacy-invading, system-crashing, system flooding, programs you've
been dealing with from the big software companies. I can guarantee you, these programs
are at least trojan horses or worms, if not full blown, socially-accepted computer viruses.

Old macs used to Run on 512K of RAM. Not much is really needed for a program on a computer.
Keep this in mind whenever you are downloading a big
new nasty commercial file. The best programs in life can fit on a 800K floppy diskette.
If you don't believe me, just look in you WINDOWS\COMMAND folder.

BPM adjustments these days are done with either a time stretch based audio program like Acid or Live, a seperated time stretching application or within an editor. Most of them let you set the tempo and they will attempt to change the tempo without changing the pitch. Usually quite successfully.

SteveR

There was a A/D convertor being sold during the late eighties that would use a VCR (might have only been a Beta cassette though) as a two track digital mastering machine. I used one in a studio in London around that time and it was as good as anything available at the time. Big tape, Digital... nice..

Might be worth a look out for one. I doubt it will cost a lot although it should be tough to find. If I remember the name of it, I will let you know..

Regards

SteveR

Maybe i'm missing something but it sounds like all you need to do is create a midi chain from one midi output and daisy chain Midi Out from the sequencer to Midi in on the first students midi device and then Midi Thru to the next one, and so on.

If the midi devices are receiving different midi channels (1-4 then) you should be able to send them any information from the host sequencer just by changing the midi channel.

Am I missing something??

SteveR

What instrument? Midi, Audio?

Some people use compression on the outputs of their DAW's and this would create this situation. Other than that, it's more than likely a case of other instruments occupying the same frequencies at it and essentially damping them out.

Lots of full range instruments in the same passage can cause problems. I could play you some tracks with guitars that have been high pass filtered so much, that they sound naff on their own. Put in the rest of the instruments the high pass filtering gave room for and the song sounds great.

SteveR

Compression is not the way to level a recording. I personally use compression sensibly and often although it's through understanding the technology that gets you the results you want.

If your recorded tracks are too quiet, then the person that recorded them didn't know what they were doing with their gain structures.

Simplest way is to Normalise the tracks. If it's a commercial recording, it will have been carefully (although not desirably necessarily) mastered by a professional. Compression on a properly mastered track is missing the point. If it's your own music, then normalising will get you out of the situation your in and compressing the normalised track may give you the desired punchiness if set correctly.

SteveR

I've been off working for some time and haven't managed many visits here recently. I would say that it looks a little less hijacked at first viewing.

Not to be awkward, but this forum will only get seriously better when the type of forum board is changed. It's too easy to abuse a board like this.

Good efforts though. Thx!

SteveR