here are some tips for protools - how to cram more into your session, and a few shortcuts that i use
the first thing is to use a lot of busses.
I usually group all my drum tracks together then fling an aux after it, and route all the outputs of the audio tracks from the drums to the aux chan. that way i can place individual eq on each drum track…
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well, ive been ranting on about socail networking this and that recently, and ive almost cracked it. almost.
there are a couple of problems with all these social networking things - the first is that you sign up to 50 of them.
the second is that you have to put your profile info in 50 times - but its essentially the same information. the next is that you have to upload a …
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well, i got rid of the ajax, and went on a kind of useability spree - ive made all the links the same color (except two which i am fixing now) they are all a mad yellow / gold colour, which i might change. but at least you can see all the links now.
ive also changed the boxes from square to rounded corners, at least for the main pages, i…
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this one might seem a little easy for some people, but it essential that everyone knows it - what is a compressor, and how to use it correctly.
basically a compressor takes the incoming audio and squeezes it, making the louder bits quieter and the quieter bits louder. you have control over how much compression you add to incoming audio. there are four main controls on a compressor - threshold, compression…
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well, i AJAXed this site, ive now got music that doesnt get interrupted as you browse the site, it also stays on while you post comments and things like that.
so the features that ive added are:
inline loading of all pages, except external links and the RSS feed
the pictures page is broken just now, i need to fix that.
there are a few bugs, like this one…
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ive added a few coolthings to my site -
firstly i upgraded the wordpress and all the plugins, which went really smoothly, for once..
then i re-designed the header so that the rss feed is in the to left, and i added my last.fm radio player thingy, i need to do a bit of hacking to get it to not re-load the player every time you go to a new page, i also need to fix the front page a bit - its becoming a bit stale, also the tutorials page looks crap, i need to re-design it so that all the tutorials are displayed in the boxes at the bottom, and not all the random entries from the categories - that should only take a few minutes to do, the radio player thing will take longer.
im not to keen on the position of the search bar thingy, it could be neater.
also i need to make the searcher use google search cos its better, and i can get some money for the searches that you lot do on my site.
i found that all my feeds were crap. my hosting provider had added a bit of code to count the pageviews, but i dont use my hosting providers stats, i use google stats, so i had to remove their code, which was added at run time, it was a hidden option in their control panel that took me ages to find !
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if your like me, then you love using abelton, but you also love making drum beats with reason.
you can use your reason drumbeats (and anything else you have) inside abelton.
its an easy process once you know how to do it, and you can save the setup as a template, so that when you open abelton its already wired for use with reason.
so fire up abelton and lets get going.
basically im going to show you with pictures how to :
1) create new audiotracks
2) set the input to reason
3) wire up reason so that the individual drum sounds have a channel inside abelton
4) save the setup as a template
5) record the drums from reason inside abelton
so, on with part 1
make a few audio tracks (ctrl+t)
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ok, so i have a lot of contacts, they are all in different places.
all i really want is to have one list of names, email addresses and phone numbers.
i want this list in my phone and on all the services that i use.
never gonna happen.
but at least i can be a bit more organised.
i use outlook to manage my contacts - all my contacts are synced to my phone -…
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man, this one is hard to do.
i think i might just make a crude little app that bruteforces its way to do it, but i dont really have the time.
though with all the API’s out there i could sell it for a fiver a time and make a fortune.
all i want to do is to save time.
i upload my foto’s to flickr. end of.
facebook, myspace and bebo all have photo…
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well, i have accounts on all three, but i organise all my stuff from outlook, always have, always will, but im trying to work on a way that when i update one service that it updates all of them, like uploading photo’s to my flickr account and having it automatically upload the same photos to bebo, myspace and facebook. also calendars would be cool, i have a calendar of all…
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