May 14

 

 


Do you think this is nuts? I’m going to try to review all of the major DAWs, in other words all of the music editing software, music mixing software, music making software, recording music software, audio production software, whatever you want to call it. While each one has acquired it’s own fanbase, not many musicians would be tempted to trash an investment that can sometimes have a very long tedious learning curve to make the switch to another program, or would you? Another case in point is that the biggest, most popular programs have already reached a higher level of growth. But on the other hand,  I don’t believe that if any or all of them vanished overnight leaving only one, would it be that terrible? They all work well and you’d still be able to make great music! (assuming that you make great music:).

It’s nice to be able to compare/review each product because they all have different strenghts and weaknesses. Hopefully this will help you with your decision making as to what audio production software would work the best for you and your budget constraints (if any exist). The nice thing about some of these programs is that they have a less expensive version available that while not quite as fancy as the full fledged version, will still get the job done quite nicely.

So what about that learning curve? Don’t bury your head in the sand here. There will always be a learning curve. Like most programs available now, they are becoming more and more in tune with either Mac or Windows operating systems, which helps to lesson that fabled learning curve. Not to mention that these music editing software programs tend to borrow from the competition, hence making it easier to learn them and if you stay with the same company, but upgrade you’ve got even less of a learning curve. So you can relax it shouldn’t be that hard.

Sometime down the line you may want to switch. Like every thing else in this world nothing is static or stays the same, including recording music software programs. At some point you may want to try another product, it might have some feature in it that the program that you’re currently using is missing and you know that you just can’t live without. Personally I love technology and want every new gadget out there. If you’re anything like me I’m sure that eventually you are gonna want to try something new.

With that said I need to remind you that again nothing is static here. These music making software programs are constantly being changed and updated. Which on the one hand is great, but on the other hand can be frustrating. It’s the nature of the beast or anything electronic nowadays. Repeat after me, there will always be upgrades and improvements. Some you will love, others you will hate. Get use to it.

Next up, support. Well we all know what support can be like. Some audio production software companies do a pretty good job with support, others not so hot. I would suggest that you first check out any FAQ’s and second if they have a forum go there. Forums can oftentimes be the best place to find answers to your questions or problems. Most of these music making software companies are not set up for unlimited support. Use it wisely.


 

Technorati Tags: , , , ,

Mar 11

Outright proves that subliminal messages do exist in songs.

(P.S. You can reverse music with the freeware audio editing program Audacity. Get it here: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/ )

Duration : 0:3:37

Read the rest of this entry »

Technorati Tags: , , , , , , ,

Mar 6

I need to know of an easy to use music editing software with good vocal effects.

Sonic Producer has the music editing software, very easy interface and professional sound results, I created all my music using their software, highly recommended!

http://ee5d2ayc1f2qjq6nzmqbvgyl6t.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=SONIC

Mar 4

I need to edit several songs to put together gymnastics floor music…what music editing software should I use?

Sonic Producer has the music editing software, very easy interface and professional sound results, I created all my music using their software, highly recommended!

http://ee5d2ayc1f2qjq6nzmqbvgyl6t.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=SONIC

Mar 1

Choosing a smartphone is never an easy task. You cannot change your cell phone every month that’s why you have to think in a long term perspective, being aware that a qwerty phone you buy will serve you for at least a year or more.

First step in finding the best qwerty phone for you would be to determine the budget and decide if you would buy an unlocked phone or one tied up with a contract.

Applying for an 18-month contract, there is a chance you will get a free qwerty cell phone and a monthly data package or a hefty rebate from the selling price. It is the easiest option, however, nothing comes for free - you’re just getting your phone on split payments over the next 18 months. In most cases you will find that you pay less for minutes, texts and data if you are not on a subsidized contract, i.e. you buy an unlocked phone and pay the full price.

It all depends on your budget. If you have free money now, buy an unlocked phone and shop around for the best monthly price plan. If you decide to go for unlocked qwerty cell phone models, you have to allocate around $200. That starter sum of money can buy you an unlocked Palm Treo 680 or a Pantech Duo. The top-end qwerty cell phones will cost over $400 - an unlocked BlackBerry Bold World phone can cost you around $650. If this doesn’t sound like the right option, visit your wireless carrier for the free subsidized phone offers.

Operational System

It is easy to sort qwerty cell phone models by the (OS) operational systems they use. OS is a software environment that makes your cell phone run, managing calls, contacts, games, applications and all other functions.

The most obvious choice for majority of people would be a Windows Mobile OS, as it gives you a familiar interface similar to a PC, easy synchronization (data transfer between a mobile phone and a PC) and crash-free operation. The most popular qwerty cell phone models using Windows Mobile OS are HTC 620 (aka HTC Dash), HTC S740 and Palm Treo W edition.

Those who enjoy using hand-helds like Palm Pilot and other pocket organizers running Palm OS will probably want to follow their passion and stick with Palm. The most popular cell phones of this kind are Palm Treo models. There are different ones - check with your provider if the Treo model you like can be supported by your country network. For example, you will find it difficult to use Palm Treo 680 in USA because it does’t run on CDMA networks.

Another popular choice is Symbian OS used by Nokia smartphones. Some people feel that Symbian is becoming old and outdated in comparison with Windows, especially when it comes to editing Office documents. However, Symbian is an open-source program, which means that any programmer can develop apps and features for the OS. If you are keen on upgrading you basic cell phone with new apps and games, Symbian is the one to choose. With new open-source OS solutions like Android (the first qwerty cell phone using Android OS is Google G1 phone) taking on strength, it is possible that Symbian may fade away in next couple of years.

Another popular OS is BlackBerry - it is a light-weight Java based OS exclusively used by BlackBerry qwerty cell phones. BlackBerry gadgets are a good choice for business users but they are still to struggle in order to knock Windows Mobile from its pedestal of Number One smartphone software in the world.

Features and Entertainment

There are many different criteria for comparing qwerty cell phone models. You have to decide which features are the most important for you.

If you are keen on music and streaming video, you might find that Windows Media Player for Mobile suits your needs best. A phone with Windows Media Player will replace your MP3 player and your video player.

It is also preferable that a qwerty phone has a digital camera integrated. You need at least 1.3 or 2.0 Megapixels for quality images. Be aware that Palm Treo 680 has a 0.3 Megapixels camera and BlackBerry 7 has no camera at all.

A very important factor is the quality of the keyboard. I still think that the majority of people make their choice according to their thumb size. It is better to pop into a mobile shop and thest the keys of different qwerty cell phone models. The most tactile buttons are on HTC 620 and Nokia N71 - that’s why people with large hands usually pick these models or choose a slide-out qwerty cell phone (like HTC S740 or Google G1) where the keyboard is even bigger.

There is no such thing as the best qwerty phone in the world. All the major qwerty phone makers have spent restless months or even years and millions of dollars developing smartphone models and you shouldn’t really experience much trouble with any gadget. This is probably the case when you need to let your heart (or should I say thumbs) rule your head.

Walter Lanigan
http://www.articlesbase.com/computers-articles/choosing-the-best-qwerty-phone-670071.html

Feb 27

I want to edited some music and save it as a mp3 so i can sync it onto my Samsung Impression and use it as a ringtone any help?

You can try Audacity. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Feb 26

The Kodak EasyShare system is designed to streamline the process of taking pictures, transferring them to your computer, and sharing them over the internet. In brief, a picture is taken with an EasyShare-compatible camera. The camera is placed in a docking station, where the photos are transferred to the computer with the touch of a button. Finally, the EasyShare software on the computer allows you to organize, digitally modify, print, or share the photos over the internet quickly and easily.

Kodak’s wide range of EasyShare-compatible digital cameras runs the spectrum from simple, cheap point-and-shoot cameras to more expensive, feature-rich cameras for the amateur photography enthusiast. All cameras include high-quality lenses and Kodak’s Color Science Technology.

Similarly, Kodak offers a range of EasyShare docking stations. Simpler, less expensive models do only the very basics of transferring the pictures to a computer and recharging the camera’s battery. Other, more advanced models, are integrated with photo printers, putting all the equipment you need in one small, compact package.

The EasyShare software is robust, versatile, and free. It provides a range of different photography tools all in one package. First, it acts as a storage and organization tool for all your pictures. Considering the number of photos you take can quickly grow into the hundreds in just a few months, this feature is more important and useful than many digital photography beginners realize. EasyShare lets you label your pictures in two ways. First, you can add Tags, such as “Christmas 07″ or “Summer Vacation”. Second, you can give each picture a star rating, awarding it from one to five stars. You can then organize your photos by tag, star rating, or date. You can also search your collection of photos by tag or star rating, enabling you to find the picture you’re looking for quickly out of the hundreds you’ve taken and stored.

The EasyShare software also includes digital editing software. Although not as fully featured as, say, Adobe Photoshop, it does everything an amateur family photographer could ask of it, and makes it easy. With just one click, “red eye” can be removed from photographs, the contrast can be optimized, text added to a photo, or an electronic face-lift applied thought the Facial Retouch feature. A set of “Creative Project” tools allow you easily integrate your photos into thank you cards, invitations, holiday cards, and calendars, to name just a few. A few clicks will take you to the Kodak Gallery, where you can order your photo places on coffee mugs, playing cards, etc., and delivered to you. Finally, if you camera can record video, the EasyShare software comes equipped with a basic set of video editing tools, allowing you to trim, splice, rotate, and add music to videos. Best of all, with just one click, you can upload the video to YouTube.

Finally, the EasyShare software has a set of tools to make sharing your photos easy. It can automatically resize and optimize the photo for emailing, and send it out as an attachment. Or, if you don’t like cluttering up your outbox with dozens of picture attachments, you can set up and online photo album through EasyShare, then only send your friends a link to the album. Friends and family can print the photos from the online gallery, too. Finally, one click can transfer the pictures to a memory card, so you can take them with you and transfer them to other computers or electronic devices.

The Kodak EasyShare system’s main strength is integrating all the aspects of digital photography into one streamlined package. Although professional photographer may find the EasyShare systems to rigid and limited, for the average family photographer, the EasyShare system does everything they could want and more, and makes it fast and simple.

Ed Terran
http://www.articlesbase.com/computers-articles/the-kodak-easyshare-system-677236.html

Feb 25

how i edit my audio in imovie 09

Duration : 0:7:6

Read the rest of this entry »

Technorati Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Feb 23

An important aspect of website design is to reduce web page load time to the lowest possible. A slim trim website design is in some ways like an attractive athletic woman, so let us call this article “A website weight loss programmer” that will help you make your web pages load much faster.
Why is it so important to reduce website load time?
A website has global reach but Internet connection speeds in various countries are not the same. A lot of dial-ups and slow broadband connections still exist. Recently published research has revealed that unless massive amounts are spent on improving Internet infrastructure, the average global connection speed may show a dip by 2010. Even for those who do have high-speed connections, the total number of relevant websites on the Internet is growing fast for the help www.video-web-wizards.com. This directly translates into less time spent by the viewer per web page. Generally speaking, patience is a rare commodity in today’s world of reducing resource-to-consumption ratios. Do you want to neglect a large proportion of potential worldwide customers just because your web page load time is slow? If not, then follow the steps below to reduce website load time.
Women usually work on trimming the hips, shaping legs and removing cellulites in various places. Similarly, I have classified below “website weight loss programme” into three ‘broad’ categories: Graphics, Code and Other Factors. Please note that you should meticulously follow as many steps as you can to take the redundant fat out of your website design and reduce “website loading time” to a bare minimum.
WEBSITE WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAMME
A. TRIM the Graphics (Slim hips:-)
1. Avoid Graphic Heavy or Complicated Web Design
Website designs that use many images (especially those with special effects) generally take a long time to load. What if a good looking website keeps loosing valuable visitors just because its web pages take too much loading time? Try to be discrete and use less number of images / graphics while maintaining the look and impact of the website design. Remember that text links are easily read by search engines and load faster than graphic buttons. Sometimes it is also possible to move large images from an important page to a section like “Gallery” to reduce web page load time.
2. Use Only Optimized Images
Optimize each image in editing software like Photoshop. There are different image formats like GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF etc., so try to save images in the appropriate format. As a rule-of-thumb, GIF is more suitable for uniform color images and JPEG for real world scenes. GIF saved at 256 colors should be reduced (as much as possible) to 128, 64 or 32 colors without comprising image quality. To reduce website load time JPEGs should be saved in the lowest quality possible without spoiling picture impact. You can also use PNG if you are sure that your users are using newer browsers.
3. Specify Image Dimensions
While inserting images in HTML always mention height and width attributes. This helps the web browser to know the image size before loading it. The browser will then reserve the area for the images while rest of the web page design continues to load, thereby reducing website loading time. Do not use the height and width tags for image size reduction.
4. Pre-load Your Images
You can pre-load some heavy images of the next pages (that can be reached by clicking on links within the current page) by defining them at the footer of the current web page. For example, img src=”nextimage” height =”1″ width=”1″ inserts a 1×1 pixel image in the footer that is read by the browser when the code above it has been read. Thereafter, while your visitor is viewing your main page, images of the next page will continue to download to the viewer’s PC in the background and will reduce subsequent web page load times. This is not recommended for direct Adwords landing pages because Google has recently announced that high web page load time will negatively impact the landing page quality score.
5. Optimize Flash Files
Animating important stuff can make an impact on the visitor. If possible, avoid animated GIF images in website designs; instead use Flash with discretion. Always use optimized flash files. There are so many ways to reduce Flash loading time that I will be covering this in a separate article.
B. TRIM the Code (Shapely legs ;-)
1. Remove Useless Code:
While using an HTML generator, some extra or empty tags get inserted in the code, for e.g. breaking spaces, block quotes, unnecessary extra space, blank lines etc. Even if you hand-code HTML, always manually check your website design code and remove the empty or unnecessary HTML tags for the help www.web-audios-plus.com. Use appropriate DOCTYPE and close all HTML markup elements. The browser will then have less work to do matching elements. Clean coding of a web page will not only reduce website load time but also increases your text-to-code ratio and search engine spiders do not have to spend time deciphering irrelevant stuff.
2. Use of Shorthand External CSS
CSS helps make your website design code compact as well as clean and its proper usage helps reduce website loading time. Define common font styles, images etc. (used in a set of web pages) in one single external CSS. By doing this, you will not have to insert the same tags again and again on different pages - just call the CSS and apply that particular class. With all your repetitive stuff defined in the CSS file, the browser won’t have to read each single tag all over again. Always use External CSS file and remember to remove extra, unused styles from it.
Use smaller class names and shorthand CSS instead of putting each CSS attribute in its own line.
For example:
“body{
background: url(”image.jpg”);
background-color: #cccccc;
background-repeat: repeat-x;
}”
Above code can be written as below when using shorthand CSS:
“body {
background: #cccccc url(’image.jpg’) repeat-x;
}”
A properly created small external CSS file will substantially reduce website load time.
3. Use External JavaScript
If you must use JavaScript, merge small common JavaScript files into a single external file and then (for newer browsers) you may compress it. This will reduce website loading time and you don’t have to write the script on each web page - the web browser has this file in its cache and won’t have to download it each time another web page loads.
4. For Table Based Website Design
Avoid unnecessary nested and full-page tables. If you insert a table inside another table, it increases web page load time because the browser has to read the content located in the innermost table. Avoid unnecessary nested tables, instead divide your page into different sections like header, body, footer etc. according to your layout and use a different table for each section. Your browser will be able to load your web page a bit faster.
5. Use Table-less Website Designs
Every time when a website is opened, the browser has to first scan tables and then load the content of the page which increases the website loading time. Using CSS and DIV tags you can avoid tables altogether and reduce website loading time substantially.
C. OTHER factors that reduce website load time (remove the cellulites:-)
1. Host on a high-end server with fast connectivity to decrease website loading time.
2. If you have a database driven website, it is faster and more secure to place your content on one server and your database on another. Consider SSI for common page elements, AJAX for page refreshes and Jar compressed files that load faster into the temp.
3. Avoid background music files and if it is very necessary to use them then use highly compressed music file formats. Avoid having much stuff on your website loading from other websites and reduce the number of HTTP requests.
4. Adding a slash at the end of a link like domain.com/contact informs the server that this is a directory page and it does not have to waste time working out what kind of file exists at that address.
5. Using fewer redirects, Iframes, PhP and database queries also helps reduce website loading time.

Deepak
http://www.articlesbase.com/web-hosting-articles/do-you-want-to-neglect-a-large-proportion-of-potential-worldwide-customers-just-because-your-web-page-load-time-is-slow-726659.html

Feb 22

More specifically, I need to find a program that I can load an an mp3 or midi file onto and make the file sound orchestrated.
Well I don’t have any midi files to work with, but I know a lot of other music softwares only take midi files. And orchestrated basically means that it sounds more realistic. Another good word would be symphonic.
Edit: I do have Audicity, but how do you make orchestrated music on there?

Neither Audacity or Wavepad are midi compatible.
You would need to find a converter for midi to mp3.

« Previous Entries