The extremely embarrasing basic question thread

[deepbreakfast]

i have a 2004-ish microkorg that i have running to my macbook pro via midi to usb. sometimes when i use the keyboard i have to hit a key twice to get it to play the note, is this a latency issue? or is my keyboard just old and not 100%. would an audo interface help out? thinking of grabbing a saphire 6 of audio kontrol 1. ive been using headphones plugged into the aux on my comp. ( i think i should grab an interface anyway to help me sample vinyl with the maschine and improve overall audio quality)

[symmetricalsounds]

can you plug it in through midi to check if the issue still happens that way?

[deepbreakfast]

dont have midi inputs but when i play it on its own, headphones straight into the korg, it works just fine

[The Riot Act]

When people refer to an EQ as being really "transparent" what exactly do they mean?
Do they just mean that it's really good at picking up the frequencies?

[symmetricalsounds]

dont have midi inputs but when i play it on its own, headphones straight into the korg, it works just fine

that does suggest a problem with the midi to usb cable, think it was FSTZ on another thread talked about a similar problem. get yourself a proper interface, something you need to do anyways and then just hook it upto the midi input on there.

When people refer to an EQ as being really "transparent" what exactly do they mean?
Do they just mean that it's really good at picking up the frequencies?

means that you can make the eq adjustments without adding audible artifacts to the sound.

[deepbreakfast]

thanks for the advice symmetrical. just got NI Komplete audio 6 and a new midi cable, going to setup and test it out tomorrow

[symmetricalsounds]

looks like a decent interface.

[deepbreakfast]

up and running, sounding clean. midi keyboard working well. only downside to the Komplete audio 6 seems to be the routing options.

[travis_baker]

in ableton samplers and variouse other effects, there is a setting called voices, what does it do and is it an assential part of production?

[symmetricalsounds]

from the section in manual about simpler

The Voices parameter sets the maximum number of voices that Simpler can play simultane-
ously. If more voices are needed than have been allocated by the Voices chooser, voice
stealing will take place, in which the oldest voice(s) will be dropped in favor of those that
are new. For example, if your Voices parameter is set to 8, and ten voices are all vying to
be played, the two oldest voices will be dropped. (Simpler does try to make voice stealing
as subtle as possible.)

from the section about operator

The maximum number of Operator voices (notes) playing simultaneously can be adjusted
with the Voices parameter in the global display. Ideally, one would want to leave this setting
high enough so that no voices would be turned off while playing, however a setting between
6 and 12 is usually more realistic when considering CPU power.
Tip: Some sounds should play monophonically by nature, which means that they should
only use a single voice. (A flute is a good example.) In these cases, you can set Voices to 1.
If Voices is set to 1, another effect occurs: Overlapping voices will be played legato, which
means that the envelopes will not be retriggered from voice to voice, and only pitch will
change.

questions like this really are best answered by the people who made the devices, don't be afraid of the manual it's one of the most well-written manuals i've ever read.

[mikeyp]

quick question about left & right channels

so, when you're sitting at your computer or wearing a pair of headphones, the left channel is obviously your left ear and the right is on your right.

just wanting to clarify, is this reversed at a venue? is the left channel now on your right (the audience's left) and vice versa? i'm assuming so but i really wanted to make sure

will the left always correspond to the primary listener's left?

[wub]

quick question about left & right channels

so, when you're sitting at your computer or wearing a pair of headphones, the left channel is obviously your left ear and the right is on your right.

just wanting to clarify, is this reversed at a venue? is the left channel now on your right (the audience's left) and vice versa? i'm assuming so but i really wanted to make sure

will the left always correspond to the primary listener's left?

Entirely depends on how the venue has been wired up.

[mikeyp]

quick question about left & right channels

so, when you're sitting at your computer or wearing a pair of headphones, the left channel is obviously your left ear and the right is on your right.

just wanting to clarify, is this reversed at a venue? is the left channel now on your right (the audience's left) and vice versa? i'm assuming so but i really wanted to make sure

will the left always correspond to the primary listener's left?

Entirely depends on how the venue has been wired up.

hm. okay, thanks.

just wondering because the way i pan my sweeps i like to have them fade left to right, so downsweeps seem bigger on the left, and upsweeps seem bigger on the right, kind of making a cool effect and i like them that way because i feel like they move forward with the track laterally and if the channels were reversed i think it'd give a different feel.

[wub]

quick question about left & right channels

so, when you're sitting at your computer or wearing a pair of headphones, the left channel is obviously your left ear and the right is on your right.

just wanting to clarify, is this reversed at a venue? is the left channel now on your right (the audience's left) and vice versa? i'm assuming so but i really wanted to make sure

will the left always correspond to the primary listener's left?

Entirely depends on how the venue has been wired up.

hm. okay, thanks.

just wondering because the way i pan my sweeps i like to have them fade left to right, so downsweeps seem bigger on the left, and upsweeps seem bigger on the right, kind of making a cool effect and i like them that way because i feel like they move forward with the track laterally and if the channels were reversed i think it'd give a different feel.

Would the effect be the same though, regardless of whether it goes l-to-r or r-to-l?

[mikeyp]

quick question about left & right channels

so, when you're sitting at your computer or wearing a pair of headphones, the left channel is obviously your left ear and the right is on your right.

just wanting to clarify, is this reversed at a venue? is the left channel now on your right (the audience's left) and vice versa? i'm assuming so but i really wanted to make sure

will the left always correspond to the primary listener's left?

Entirely depends on how the venue has been wired up.

hm. okay, thanks.

just wondering because the way i pan my sweeps i like to have them fade left to right, so downsweeps seem bigger on the left, and upsweeps seem bigger on the right, kind of making a cool effect and i like them that way because i feel like they move forward with the track laterally and if the channels were reversed i think it'd give a different feel.

Would the effect be the same though, regardless of whether it goes l-to-r or r-to-l?

most likely for a listener yeah, i guess so. but i'm weird and always visualize music as moving from left to right, just from watching waveforms and things on my computer that's just how i do it so i feel like an upsweep moving right to left would be going backwards, but that's just probably in my cooky head

[wub]

quick question about left & right channels

so, when you're sitting at your computer or wearing a pair of headphones, the left channel is obviously your left ear and the right is on your right.

just wanting to clarify, is this reversed at a venue? is the left channel now on your right (the audience's left) and vice versa? i'm assuming so but i really wanted to make sure

will the left always correspond to the primary listener's left?

Entirely depends on how the venue has been wired up.

hm. okay, thanks.

just wondering because the way i pan my sweeps i like to have them fade left to right, so downsweeps seem bigger on the left, and upsweeps seem bigger on the right, kind of making a cool effect and i like them that way because i feel like they move forward with the track laterally and if the channels were reversed i think it'd give a different feel.

Would the effect be the same though, regardless of whether it goes l-to-r or r-to-l?

most likely for a listener yeah, i guess so. but i'm weird and always visualize music as moving from left to right, just from watching waveforms and things on my computer that's just how i do it so i feel like an upsweep moving right to left would be going backwards, but that's just probably in my cooky head

As long as you're visualising the music during the production stage on your setup, then when the tune is played on a club system any effects you have made in terms of panning etc will still be in effect, they may just be reversed.

[mikeyp]

all right, cool.
thanks wub

[kstan8]

what is mixing and mastering?

[jrisreal]

^^ obvious troll is pretty friggin obvious

[Phase Down]

what is mixing and mastering?

Getting the volumes balanced and optimizing sound quality to the highest of each sound while making sure the sounds do not interfere with each other.