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Re: Senior seeks simple software

Posted by Mark Lemna on Thu, 06/10/1999 - 21:37.

: I am a nursing home volunteer seeking software for one
: of my ladies who was a professional singer and
: wants to try music composition.
: She has the use of only one hand, so the best possible
: thing would allow her to type musical letters onto the
: keyboard and display them as sheet music. Also,
: the computer I donated is Windows 3.1. Any ideas?
: Perhaps something for children?

: Thanks so much.

You might like to take a look at software from PG Music Inc. Band-in-a-Box allows the user to enter chord progressions via a regular computer QWERTY keyboard and then applies a selected style to that chord progression. It wil generate a 3 to 5 part rhythm section in the style you choose.

Re: Senior seeks simple software

Posted by Phage on Sun, 05/16/1999 - 03:23.

: Thanks so much.

See my reply to "NEED a "sequencer reccomend" for old 486(WIN'95)"
Why not try to find a cheap MIDI controller keyboard as well? (Perhaps in a second hand shop?)
Quite modest keyboards can be found with MIDI these days.
That would be an ideal input device for your lady.
I can't think of any software that works in the way you describe... anyway, if she aspires to something
more than a melody of a few notes, a sequencer like Evolution MIDI that works like a 'piano roll' is easily learned and can produce
very rewarding results.

Re: Senior seeks simple software

Posted by Stacy Puckett on Sat, 05/15/1999 - 22:32.

As far as software programs that might work under
windows 3.1 I can only think of a few. I know there is a good shareware sequencer called "Winjammer" you could type that into a search engine and I'm sure you'd find it easily. Another approach you may take are DOS programs such as the music "trackers", these allow you create songs by looping actual samples of sounds together at different pitches (I'm quite addicted to it myself) you could find some of these programs at
http://www.united-trackers.org

Hope this helps you, all of the programs I listed are completely free too if that's of issue.

I need Cakewalk 8 Manual

Posted by Kristian on Fri, 05/14/1999 - 05:09.

Please if you know where i can download it i will
appreciate very much, thank's

DSP-FX Supports Winamp

Posted by Mark Kaplan on Thu, 05/13/1999 - 20:15.

Hello,

We are happy to announce the immediate availability
of DSP-FX Version 6.1 which adds direct support for
Nullsoft's popular PC audio player, Winamp.

By using the Winamp and DSP-FX combination, Winamp
users are able to greatly improve the sound quality
when playing MP3 files and files using Microsoft
Windows Media 4.0 audio compression software.

Robert Lord, Director of Online Strategies at Nullsoft
said, "We are very excited that our users are able to
enhance their Nullsoft Winamp listening experience with
Power Technology's pro quality DSP processing."

Greg Carpenter, Windows Media Technology Group Program
Manager, Microsoft Corp. said, "We're excited that a
company with the professional audio capabilities of
Power Technology is developing products that complement
Windows Media 4.0"

The DSP-FX Winamp support is available as a free upgrade
for all existing DSP-FX Virtual Pack customers.

For information, please visit our website:
http://www.dspfx.com

Thanks,
Mark Kaplan
Power Technology
http://www.dspfx.com
Phone: 415-467-7886

record real audio/video

Posted by phoenix on Thu, 05/13/1999 - 17:06.

does anyone know a tool which allows you to record real audio and real video streams?

thanx
phoenix

Re: record real audio/video

Posted by Geoff @ Hitsquad on Thu, 05/13/1999 - 23:59.

Hey there,

You could always buy the product off Real.com or you can check out <a href="http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/musicsoftstore/VirtualAudioCable/">The Virtual Audio Cable for Windows 95, 98, NT, 3.1</a>. It digitally records the audio output from one or more programs, even if they don't let you save wave files.

Cheers

Geoff

: does anyone know a tool which allows you to record real audio and real video streams?

: thanx
: phoenix

Re: record real audio/video

Posted by Jacob Marley on Mon, 09/22/2003 - 16:42.

I use Total Recall to record all sound from my PC.
It's about the cheapest one that I've found, I spend ages looking for a free one but could not find one. It's easy to use but has plenty of features.

It can record from Mic, all sounds, or any other input you choose and the recording length is unlimited. It will also record any streaming audio from the web.

http://www.relaxingsoftware.com/othersoftware.htm

: Hey there,

: You could always buy the product off Real.com or you can check out <a href="http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/musicsoftstore/VirtualAudioCable/">The Virtual Audio Cable for Windows 95, 98, NT, 3.1</a>. It digitally records the audio output from one or more programs, even if they don't let you save wave files.

: Cheers

: Geoff

: : does anyone know a tool which allows you to record real audio and real video streams?

: : thanx
: : phoenix

Re: record real audio/video

Posted by ad on Tue, 12/04/2001 - 05:06.

yes its a prog called streambox vcr.
it records both ra and win media streams.
mail me if u want it ill mail the prog to you.

burnit@rediffmail.com

Re: record real audio/video

Posted by Michael on Wed, 03/14/2001 - 17:35.

I've been looking for one myself. There's lots of audio rippers, but I'm looking for one to record music video streams: With my slow connection, there's too much buffering... a recorded file would be smooth as day.

Software for Cleaning up Vinyl/Tapes for CD Recording

Posted by Ken on Thu, 05/13/1999 - 15:50.

I have heard of many packages, Cooledit, Goldwave, Cubase, Cakewalk, Soundforge, ect. I know most/all these packages support much more than I want to do but what do you experienced people recomend for the best results for my purposes. Cleaning up old out of print records and live tapes so I can put my collection onto CD.

Re: Software for Cleaning up Vinyl/Tapes for CD Recording

Posted by Essesix on Fri, 05/14/1999 - 06:41.

I have bought Steinberg Clean.
This prog does an amazing job
for vinyl restauration.
It's also a CD-recording tool.
It's not too expensive and I think it's
THE tool you need.

Info at Steinberg:

Re: Software for Cleaning up Vinyl/Tapes for CD Recording

Posted by effjay the deejay on Fri, 05/14/1999 - 05:41.

: I have heard of many packages, Cooledit, Goldwave, Cubase, Cakewalk, Soundforge, ect. I know most/all these packages support much more than I want to do but what do you experienced people recomend for the best results for my purposes. Cleaning up old out of print records and live tapes so I can put my collection onto CD.

you could also try popfix at:
http://www.newave.net.au/~voskulen/popfix/popfix.html

Looking for User of 'Song To Style Converter for Roland'

Posted by Ben on Thu, 05/13/1999 - 10:31.

Hi,

I'm looking for someone which using 'Song To Style Converter for Roland', I'm Technics user and would like to discuss about those programs.

Ben (benjembut@usa.net)

midi manual

Posted by luckey on Thu, 05/13/1999 - 05:48.

looking for a copy of a midi manual

CUBASE CUBASE CUBASE CUBASE CUBASE

Posted by nice person on Thu, 05/13/1999 - 05:40.

Where can I get a lovely, low cost download of cubase
for PC!! Please help all those nice friendly ravers
and netheads so i can get started on some new music
for your ears to dance to.

Re: CUBASE CUBASE CUBASE CUBASE CUBASE

Posted by p.herrmann on Thu, 05/13/1999 - 17:35.

: Where can I get a lovely, low cost download of cubase
: for PC!! Please help all those nice friendly ravers
: and netheads so i can get started on some new music
: for your ears to dance to.

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Steinberg, Steinberg, Steinberg, Steinberg, Steinberg,

Posted by CCS on Fri, 05/14/1999 - 08:22.

: : Where can I get a lovely, low cost download of cubase
: : for PC!! Please help all those nice friendly ravers
: : and netheads so i can get started on some new music
: : for your ears to dance to.

pleaser help me

Posted by erno on Thu, 05/13/1999 - 04:01.

thank for your collaboration

research paper on music software and hardware

Posted by lunarc on Thu, 05/13/1999 - 01:40.

anyone know of or where i could go to find out more about music hardware and software including MP3 software and others that are relevent
thx
lunarc=

Kareoke Software

Posted by Justice on Wed, 05/12/1999 - 20:18.

Does anyone know if there's some software out there that can turn your computer into a kareoke machine so that i can take a track on a CD and run this software on it and just have the instrumental? Or something taht does this to Mp3's or any other format?

Thx.

Re: Kareoke Software

Posted by carlos gabriel on Wed, 02/21/2001 - 07:27.

: Does anyone know if there's some software out there that can turn your computer into a kareoke machine so that i can take a track on a CD and run this software on it and just have the instrumental? Or something taht does this to Mp3's or dkg encore

: Thx.

Re: Kareoke Software

Posted by David Villanueva on Tue, 08/10/1999 - 02:01.

: Thx.

Re: Kareoke Software

Posted by Adam on Thu, 08/16/2001 - 11:08.

Exactly, if you find it, PLEASE LET ME KNOW !
*********************************************

Adam - adams@alphalink.com.au

Re: Kareoke Software

Posted by Geo on Wed, 05/12/1999 - 23:10.

: Thx.

Analog X make a directX plugin which can be remarkably effective for removing vocals from stereo .wav files. it can be found at:
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download

Re: Kareoke Software

Posted by luis quirola on Fri, 10/06/2000 - 21:30.

: : : : Does anyone know if there's some software out there that can turn your computer into a kareoke machine so that i can take a track on a CD and run this software on it and just have the instrumental? Or something taht does this to Mp3's or any other format?

: : : : Thx.

: : :
: : : Analog X make a directX plugin which can be remarkably effective for removing vocals from stereo .wav files. it can be found at:
: : : http://www.analogx.com/contents/download

: : THX ALOT

Re: Kareoke Software

Posted by Ernesto Jack Parra on Fri, 08/25/2000 - 19:38.

: : : : Thx.

: : :
: : : Analog X make a directX plugin which can be remarkably effective for removing vocals from stereo .wav files. it can be found at:
: : : http://www.analogx.com/contents/download

: : THX ALOT

Re: Kareoke Software

Posted by Justice on Thu, 05/13/1999 - 23:52.

: : Does anyone know if there's some software out there that can turn your computer into a kareoke machine so that i can take a track on a CD and run this software on it and just have the instrumental? Or something taht does this to Mp3's or any other format?

: : Thx.

:
: Analog X make a directX plugin which can be remarkably effective for removing vocals from stereo .wav files. it can be found at:
: http://www.analogx.com/contents/download

THX ALOT

Re: Kareoke Software

Posted by man on Mon, 12/13/1999 - 02:16.

: : : Does anyone know if there's some software out there that can turn your computer into a kareoke machine so that i can take a track on a CD and run this software on it and just have the instrumental? Or something taht does this to Mp3's or any other format?

: : : Thx.

: :
: : Analog X make a directX plugin which can be remarkably effective for removing vocals from stereo .wav files. it can be found at:
: : http://www.analogx.com/contents/download

: THX ALOT

:man
:

: I need a plugin that permits me to record a normal song to a kereoke song

Re: Kareoke Software/ I need the same info. Help

Posted by Reneee on Mon, 04/30/2001 - 01:41.

: : : : Thx.

: : :
: : : Analog X make a directX plugin which can be remarkably effective for removing vocals from stereo .wav files. it can be found at:
: : : http://www.analogx.com/contents/download

: : THX ALOT

: :man
: :

: : I need a plugin that permits me to record a normal song to a kereoke song

How do I make a kareoke machine out of my computer?

Posted by Jeanette on Sat, 08/31/2002 - 23:17.

: : : : : Does anyone know if there's some software out there that can turn your computer into a kareoke machine so that i can take a track on a CD and run this software on it and just have the instrumental? Or something taht does this to Mp3's or any other format?

: : : : : Thx.

: : : :
: : : : Analog X make a directX plugin which can be remarkably effective for removing vocals from stereo .wav files. it can be found at:
: : : : http://www.analogx.com/contents/download

: : : THX ALOT

: : :man
: : :

: : : I need a plugin that permits me to record a normal song to a kereoke song

Illegal operation in Cool Pro

Posted by Gabriella on Wed, 05/12/1999 - 19:57.

Everytime I try to use some fancy features in Cool Pro, like chorus, reverb, equalizer, I get an error that the program caused an illegal operation and will be shut down, then my computer freezes. Can anybody give me an advise about how to fix this problem?
(My system has 128 Ram and 10 GB hardrive)

Re: Illegal operation in Cool Pro

Posted by Mike on Thu, 05/13/1999 - 00:40.

: Everytime I try to use some fancy features in Cool Pro, like chorus, reverb, equalizer, I get an error that the program caused an illegal operation and will be shut down, then my computer freezes. Can anybody give me an advise about how to fix this problem?
: (My system has 128 Ram and 10 GB hardrive)

Sounds like a pretty serious problem - it would be best to contact Syntrillium's support for this one at <a href="http://support.syntrillium.com/">support.syntrillium.com</a>

Re: Illegal operation in Cool Pro

Posted by MalcomX on Sun, 06/06/1999 - 14:53.

: : Everytime I try to use some fancy features in Cool Pro, like chorus, reverb, equalizer, I get an error that the program caused an illegal operation and will be shut down, then my computer freezes. Can anybody give me an advise about how to fix this problem?
: : (My system has 128 Ram and 10 GB hardrive)

: Sounds like a pretty serious problem - it would be best to contact Syntrillium's support for this one at <a href="http://support.syntrillium.com/">support.syntrillium.com</a>

Hey Mike what version of Cool edit do ya use? I know that the CEP 1.0 has got any bugs, that let breakdown your system anytime...
if u 've got any problems mail to me...

awe64 gold pitches up a full note, now and then, with midi

Posted by Prewien Shankar on Wed, 05/12/1999 - 19:44.

When I record something, using Cubase or Evolution, the sound on some channels is sometimes shifted up a full note ! I compensate by transposing the channel down by 2, however, after a few play/stop trials, or clicking on a few notes, the sound is back to normal again, so I set the transpose back to 0. It's a very strange thing. Sometimes, halfway of playing a track, the sound gets back normal... anyone ever experienced something similar ? (am using win98 with latest drivers from internet)

awe64 pitches up a full note, now and then, with midi

Posted by Prewien Shankar on Wed, 05/12/1999 - 19:44.

Re: awe64 pitches up a full note, now and then, with midi

Posted by leon on Sat, 02/12/2000 - 18:24.

: When I record something, using Cubase or Evolution, the sound on some channels is sometimes shifted up a full note ! I compensate by transposing the channel down by 2, however, after a few play/stop trials, or clicking on a few notes, the sound is back to normal again, so I set the transpose back to 0. It's a very strange thing. Sometimes, halfway of playing a track, the sound gets back normal... anyone ever experienced something similar ? (am using win98 with latest drivers from internet)
I have also experienced similar problems when recording on awe-64 via my PC-200. I woul appreciate any assistance in solving this pitch shift problem.
Leon

Re: awe64 pitches up a full note, now and then, with midi

Posted by Roger on Wed, 05/19/1999 - 16:56.

I had the same problem. In my case it was my masterkeyboard (Roland PC-200 MK-II). What caused the problem. I had to send my AWE64 back to CreativeLabs and they fixed the problem.

Re: awe64 pitches up a full note, now and then, with midi

Posted by Prewien Shankar on Tue, 05/25/1999 - 20:51.

: I had the same problem. In my case it was my masterkeyboard (Roland PC-200 MK-II). What caused the problem. I had to send my AWE64 back to CreativeLabs and they fixed the problem.

hmm.. I just "upgraded" to a soundblaster live! and i thought it was alright, but I seem to have the same problem now.. didn't call creative just yet though. Any idea what they did ? Are we really the only 2 persons to have noticed this.. hummm.. why me :)

How do I convert wav 2 mid!

Posted by Franky on Wed, 05/12/1999 - 18:39.

Hi Guys,
Is there anybody who can help converting a wav file obtained from a CD which high stereo quality to some midi one without losing to much quality?
This will help me then transforming the midi file to some score with Sibelius software!
Thanks for your advises.
Franck
:0)

Re: How do I convert wav 2 mid!

Posted by David Channon on Wed, 05/12/1999 - 19:50.

Unfortunatly the simple answer to your question is no....as is the complicated answer....

midi and *.wav files are not the same thing at all and are not intechangeable.

*.wav files contain actual data that is used to recreate a waveform, midi files contain only general instructions for reproducing music.

The only real option you have is to listen to the CD and transcribe it, or play it into your comp using a midi instrument.

Music programs at present can only convert monophonic *.wav files to midi, and even then there are not that good at it......

The reason there is no software to do this as yet is because there is no method none for doing it, research is currently underway into designing models to electronically recreate the Cocktail effect that we implement with our own ears. The cocktail effect is basically the ability to distinguish between background noise and a source that you want to listen to. The research is no where near complete, and is at the very very basic stages. ( I am a student at the ISVR, they are world leaders with most things to do with acoustics ).

I suggest that you don`t hold you breath wating for this to happen, to be honset there is not much use for a piece of software that does this, it sounds nice and impressive but it don`t actually do much.

So if you can`t play any instruments then I suggest you buy the score of the music and get clicking and dragging those notes........ :)
I expect some nice person will put a URL for a detailed explanation of *.wav and midi, I think there is one on this site somewhere.

Sorry I could not give you a more usefull answer, but that is the wya things are at the moment...

dc397
David Channon
david@channond.freeserve.co.uk
monkeywrench@monkeywrench.screaming.net
dc397@yahoo.com
ICQ No: 34885463

" This land is mine this land is free. I'll do what I want but
irresponsible"

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Re: How do I convert wav 2 mid!

Posted by daremoid on Sat, 07/15/2000 - 18:10.

check out http://www.midi.ru/AudioToMidi/

Re: How do I convert wav 2 mid!

Posted by scot on Tue, 09/07/1999 - 04:21.

Try this....

http://www.chat.ru/~wav2mid/

: Unfortunatly the simple answer to your question is no....as is the complicated answer....

: midi and *.wav files are not the same thing at all and are not intechangeable.

: *.wav files contain actual data that is used to recreate a waveform, midi files contain only general instructions for reproducing music.

: The only real option you have is to listen to the CD and transcribe it, or play it into your comp using a midi instrument.

: Music programs at present can only convert monophonic *.wav files to midi, and even then there are not that good at it......

: The reason there is no software to do this as yet is because there is no method none for doing it, research is currently underway into designing models to electronically recreate the Cocktail effect that we implement with our own ears. The cocktail effect is basically the ability to distinguish between background noise and a source that you want to listen to. The research is no where near complete, and is at the very very basic stages. ( I am a student at the ISVR, they are world leaders with most things to do with acoustics ).

: I suggest that you don`t hold you breath wating for this to happen, to be honset there is not much use for a piece of software that does this, it sounds nice and impressive but it don`t actually do much.

: So if you can`t play any instruments then I suggest you buy the score of the music and get clicking and dragging those notes........ :)
: I expect some nice person will put a URL for a detailed explanation of *.wav and midi, I think there is one on this site somewhere.

: Sorry I could not give you a more usefull answer, but that is the wya things are at the moment...

: dc397
: David Channon
: david@channond.freeserve.co.uk
: monkeywrench@monkeywrench.screaming.net
: dc397@yahoo.com
: ICQ No: 34885463

: " This land is mine this land is free. I'll do what I want but
: irresponsible"

: " Keep on Rocking in the free world "

:
:

Re: How do I convert wav 2 mid!

Posted by idan silberberstein on Fri, 06/04/1999 - 22:45.