I made a couple loops in FL and I screwed it up and did not record it at the right level. I made it in to a wav file and now when I go to use it in Cubase its way to quiet, what can I do to make it louder with out distorting it...

Hope everyone is enjoying their holidays, here's some effects
to check out as a possible companion or cheaper replacement
for the soundtoys stuff. So far seem pretty cool.

beta demo:

http://www.u-he.com/UhbikMacInstall_081208.zip (VST + AU)
http://www.u-he.com/UhbikWinstaller_091208.zip (VST)


http://www.u-he.com/Uhbik_Guide.pdf


Intro price right now at 99$, should be double that soon.

http://www.shareit.com/product.html?productid=300279563

Just thought I'd post this up here; an email i got from Goldbaby-

-----Original Message-----
From: info@goldbaby.co.nz [mailto:info@goldbaby.co.nz]
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 3:54 PM

I hope my samples have helped in your music making endeavours.

I wish you a merry Christmas and happy new year.... and here is a present!

This pack contains drum samples of the uTonic drum machine recorded to tape.

Check out the uTonic here: http://www.soniccharge.com/mtonic

Download the free sample pack here: http://goldbabysamples.blogspot.com/

Kind Regards
Hugo Tichborne
Goldbaby Productions
http://www.goldbaby.co.nz

Just wondering who on here also DJs...

Where and how often?

Whats your local scene like?

Anyone getting out of town bookings?

Anything upcoming you are super excited for? Care to share/brag/post flyers?

Im considering starting to switch over from 7...

Does anyone know if they fixed the midi learn functions?

Anything else I should know?

Just need some white noise run through a couple of settings, if anyone can help let me know.

Thanks

I haven't been in this industry for very long (producing), so can't say if this is a trend or not...but what is with the *possible* trend of the "virtual instrument"?

For example, rather than have a sample pack of say, the Darbuka, they make it into a virtual instrument, which basically does the same thing as your host....so call it a 'mini-host'. I've tried some of these and really end up hating them. (although the samples may be good). I've seen them for about everything, even FX. Ueberschall has one called 'Elastik', which is basically an interface that controls a filter, tempo, direction and panning of the samples. It honestly does little more than that. So what's the point in packaging it up like that? (marketing I guess) And the damn thing often crashes in my host.

The one I was looking at that started me thinking about this:

http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1300.html

Ok, that one has some timing effects that may be useful...but still think most hosts can do all of those things.

So why are these things so popular? (I'm assuming they are b/c companies are apparently continuing to make them) Who are they useful to?

I've said it before and I'll say it again...There is SO much opportunity in remix competitions these days!

This one is put on by remix magazine.

http://www.imeem.com/maroon5fans/blogs/2...ix_contest

Fuck thats a good prize!

Waiting to hear confirmation but looks like they'll be released very soon.

Next time you're wanting some analog stuff to make your mixes better just think of these words, this is the kind of thinking that really got my digital mixing skills much better:


Paul Frindle / Gearslutz:

"I have been part of many discussion about this and posted several explanations of why digital mixing needs to be done with care and how it can mess up without you really being aware.

I have a lot of sympathy with the emotions people have about ITB mixing. But having designed stuff on both sides of the camp (and in between, like large digital consoles) I have become convinced that this is caused by a mixture of insufficient apps (both mixers and plug-ins), misrepresentation of what's going on in your mix from metering - and the biggest and most crucial of all, loss of immediacy during the artistic mixing process. It's just dramatically more tedious and less involving to be fiddling around with a mouse and a screen (or with loosely coupled add on controllers) than it is to have the whole thing right in front of you, responding immediately to the minute adjustments you make almost subconsciously to get your sound. Overcoming this lack of immediacy takes time, effort and the wrong kind of concentration - and the dividends in digital of more integration, better accuracy and predictability - and all the other stuff you can do more easily - does not fully compensate for the artistic 'disconnection' we feel?

But some myths still prevail that may confuse people even more? For instance none of the analogue stuff I have ever designed for SSL or others had significant distortion or saturation. Saturating these would require running at least at +24dB above operating levels!!

The analogue summing stages were just like somewhat noisier versions of a digital summing process - there is no obvious technical difference as far as the sound goes. Adding signals together is something that digital processors can do essentially perfectly.

It is a fallacy that outboard effects are necessarily of a higher quality than plug-ins (even reverbs). In fact it may be the reverse, as (even host) plugs may have access to more processing power than many expensive boxes - and may be running on more highly developed processors.

If you are avoiding inter sample overs by running at -6dB or less and using good quality plug-ins, the performance you are getting is way beyond any analogue system is capable of.

But the inconvenience of the interface might be undoing all that good, as far as user involvement is concerned."