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| Is guitar tone sharing possible? | 2 months ago |
| I think it is possible it all depends on the ampsim you are using. I use GuitarRig and that should have some sharing options | |
| Led Zeppelin's 'Celebration Day' Movie | 7 months ago |
The thing is it will show up on youtube b4 yo can say merry xmas. |
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| No bass in Mixcraft: Can it be done? | 7 months ago |
| there is nothing that is impossible, just improvise is all. I am making a song with only bass loops and a few drum ones too. |
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| One Of The COOLEST Guitars I've Ever Seen | 8 months ago |
| It looks like a biblical harp. Must sound good too. |
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| Rhythm Guitar - what is it? | 8 months ago |
| In my book the song ain't got a chance if the guy playing rhythm guitar don't hold it together. So let the shiny thing in front make all the noise the real money is in the back half of the stage. |
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| A Thank You... | 10 months ago |
| He is Awesome, Awesome I tell you! Go Chris, Go! Oh and just in case I did not mention it, Chris is a marvelous kind of guy! |
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| DAW Computers: Buy or Build Your Own? | 11 months ago |
| I would build a Hackintosh or a PC but never really buy unless you find some amazing deal. They usually get you on the cheaper power-supply or lesser motherboard. So I built an I-7 with 8g Ram and a 1.5Gig Video Card with SSD drive, 1tb HD and a DVD RW for 800$ |
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| I got scammed! Notice to icomps and FB friends | 11 months ago |
| PPL will always try to scam, it is up to us to know the difference. But I do understand your frustration and anger, these scammers are getting much better these days. |
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| Contact Me if You Need a Record Label | 11 months ago |
| what about synthetic digital music? | |
| protect your artwork | 11 months ago |
| If it was just for personal use to practice, to learn and what not but darn, to out-right send it in to contests and sell t-shirts with her design. | |
| What would be worse? | 1 year ago |
| Life is frustrating, I can't find the cure. As for music I like to think one could have a b it of both and be happy. Now if I wanted to make a living with music only , I would lock myself up with whatever instrument I chose and practice 16hrs a day until my hands take the same shape as the instrument. |
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| Your Music | 1 year ago |
| Almost never, except for one or tunes that hit closer to home. I am very critical of everything I do so the more I listen to it the more I find flaws and so on and the more I just want to tear down this profile and wipe out my hard drive and all the music I made with it. |
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| The Chain Collab (mass artist collab, one by one) | 1 year ago |
| Who, who let the files out! |
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| Word Association game | 1 year ago |
| Galliano and good drink choice hiphopmoses |
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| Word Association game | 1 year ago |
| reactive | |
| What Are You Listening To The Present Day? | 1 year ago |
| T-Bone Walker - T-Bone Blues in the feature box. http://www.mp3ye.eu/1113623_blues-masters-vol-01-urban-blues-15-t-bone-walker-t-bone-blues-mp3-download.html |
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| Apparently im the second resident self-declared genius :D | 1 year ago |
| LOL, hey its freedom personified. |
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| Wow..... response to a track someone tried to steal...... | 1 year ago |
| Wow, some people really do all up over themselves, who is this dude to take your work and just do as he pleases without getting your permission and giving you credit. What an arse. |
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| Constructive Criticism, Please | 1 year ago |
| who ever said it was not a scratch my back, I scratch yours kind of world? ) Oh well, there are so many songs on this site and so little time to listen to them all. |
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| What's your Blues name ? | 1 year ago |
| Big chief joe mulligan on account of MOJO hand is already taken | |
| Throw away your guitars | 1 year ago |
| the cutest thing I ever did see, she is a keeper. |
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| Word Association game | 1 year ago |
| 1999 | |
| Word Association game | 1 year ago |
| Buttermilk sky | |
| Everyone is too nice | 1 year ago |
| My ears will be defective one day and I will have to rely on the vibration of the Bass and Drums and then and only then will I really feel the beat. | |
| Word Association game | 1 year ago |
| Cast | |
| Word Association game | 1 year ago |
| Cast | |
| Dumb questions about using loops | 1 year ago |
| @hiphopmoses, its all good and I actually am heading on over to his page to check out some of his music and how he incorporates the use of loops into his final product. In the end as you said we are all made of mostly water and carbon, so how and what kind of music we create is all upto us. Now back to the original message in this thread. |
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| Dumb questions about using loops | 1 year ago |
| @TvRicky, Thank you my friend for acknowledging what we loopers do, I totally agree though that playing an instrument and playing it well is a skill that takes time and patience. I just never liked the idea that some have that using loops is as simple as cut and paste, that is where it burns me a little but in all fairness there should be room for all of us at this table. Lets all make some great music together. |
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| Dumb questions about using loops | 1 year ago |
| @hiphopmoses, I certainly would never diss anybody for playing an instrument or creating something original,its just from past experience. I was simply trying to give him a heads up that there are some out there that do not like the idea of using loops to create anything more than a filler of sorts. I find it still stands true to some extent but at least here at IComps there are many talented artists that can look beyond the simple loops and see that they are a medium onto themselves. That being said I always will and always have said that there are no loops if nobody plays the instruments to begin with, that is a given. So more power to all the fabulous musicians of this world and hopefully there will be room for those who cannot play them but have an ear for using that which is provided. AngeloA |
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| Dumb questions about using loops | 1 year ago |
| Ok here is the short and skinny of it, you need to feel the music as you put it together, most of my songs and collabs use extensive amounts of loops if not only loops. I use a program called MixCraft on the PC and it is a low-end entry level DAW but still does a great job of it if you ask me. Some people out there will crucify you for using loops and others will accept that it is another medium for self-expression. So really the idea is to experiment and get the sound you like, you can even use virtual instruments you can play off your computer keyboard to add more notes to the music. Don't let anything or anyone set you back with stories of how they hate loops or loops should be banned etc..etc.. Just take the time to find the right beat as your baseline and then add the melodic bits to it. Just look for song structures and break them down into Verse, Chorus, Bridge and Coda. But most of all have fun. |
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| Vocalist Looking to Collaborate | 1 year ago |
| Hiya Sierra, sounds like some fun to be had in the near future. |
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| ASIO and Win 7 or Mac for that Matter | 1 year ago |
| Well I decided to build myself a new machine from scratch, pick up a new ASUS MB and a CoreI3 had to reinstall Windows as my previous drive crashed so I lost all my music files. Time to start fresh, I also picked up Logic Express and am trying to figure out how to get the input setup for my guitar to play back. One thing at a time I guess... |
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| Just a poll | 1 year ago |
| Giving is like being at the casino, whatever money you walked in with is no longer yours until you step out the door. | |
| Buhuu.... Nobody likes me... | 1 year ago |
| I rarely use facebook anymore. |
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| ASIO and Win 7 or Mac for that Matter | 1 year ago |
| @MH2010 , actually I am using Creative Sound Blaster THX USB external card and have disabled the onboard interface. So I plug my guitar into the Line In on the external interface. I am going to check on the computer optimization but this is an older p4 3.2 ghz rig with 2gig of DDR1 ram. It runs pretty good but is a bit slow compared to a dual core, those Intel CPU's run hot that is for sure so when I reach about 24 tracks with some intense filters and effects it starts to bog down. I might get an I5 or I7 box or a Mac but I dont like the MINI it just doesnt seem all that powerful from afar. Angelo |
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| ASIO and Win 7 or Mac for that Matter | 1 year ago |
| @MH2010 I am using Mixcraft 5 I am using ASIO4ALL or ASIO2KS I downloaded the Demo of Guitar Rig 5 and use it as a VST plug-in or standalone. |
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| ASIO and Win 7 or Mac for that Matter | 1 year ago |
| I installed ASIO drivers on my WIN7 so I could use Guitar rig to process my guitar signal on the fly as opposed to being only a VST plug-in. The problem I am having is that I cannot playback any other sounds except my DAW and my Guitar, so I find it annoying as all heck. I can't believe that in this day and age, we still have to go through loops to get things to work smoothly. And I am thinking on getting a Mac again, so I might well look at mac DAW wares. |
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| A Message with Meaning by a 21st century Prophet | 1 year ago |
| @guitardogcar, thank you so very much for the kind words. I do what I can with my few humble words. | |
| A Message with Meaning by a 21st century Prophet | 1 year ago |
| @JackFancy, that is the spirit. LOL |
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| A Message with Meaning by a 21st century Prophet | 1 year ago |
| Ok I will go out on a limb here and share a little something with you. All mine of course but still... Be Creative And then your ideas, thoughts and energy will find their way into the cosmic melting pot of humanity. You might well find yourself influencing others well beyond any point or depth that you ever anticipated let alone thought at all possible. Be Engaged Engage those who would have your silence, in all forms and eventually they will either help you or propel you to new heights. Be Tireless And all things will come to be within your reasoning..... Be Yourself Give credit where credit is due and don’t be afraid to claim that which is rightfully yours. Only through respect of self and others can one truly gain a right and proper understanding of what it is to be both humble and human in a day and age where disingenuity and forgery are ripe amongst the masses. How does this apply to the discussion... Well lets see the way I figure if you sit there and worry too much about what others are doing or listening to or even ignoring then you will simply be one of them. Do your thing and let the world be, that is all I can say. Angelo |
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| How big is your library? | 1 year ago |
| I don't know how many tunes I have because it is just too much to think about. I know for sure I have over 1 terrabyte of songs on my hard drive and lord only knows how many 45's and 33's and I am fond of the 78rpm stuff too. I guess in a way its like going through phases, I had so many Vinyl Albums but when the basement flooded they were all ruined and I switched to digital music formats. I downloaded all the albums I used to own and then bought hundreds of CD's to finally switch to digital download. As foor loop samples and libraries... The Sky is the Limit. I am the kind of guy who still has Windows 95 on Floppy disks. |
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| My First Computer Was... | 1 year ago |
| Macs back in the early days had a big advantage over the Clone PC's but I did pay my first PC just under 5k with a 20meg hd and 300bps modem. But I had the Atari before that and also the Amiga and the C64 and Vic 20 as well as the Timex Sinclair and a TI-99 at one point. |
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| why, the why? | 1 year ago |
| Hi Retro, I need to come visit your page more often and yes I agree with Gary we get easily sidetracked. The thing though is if we do not use the same rigs and software can we achieve the same quality results. I am a hobbyist at best but I will say that I always start with the percussion and drums and then layer in the bass. Now when I can I squeeze in a small loop of myself on guitar as I am horrible for now on that instrument. But I am not all that anyways so what does it really matter. Angelo |
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| My First Computer Was... | 1 year ago |
| Well I will have to go with an Atari 800xl | |
| why, the why? | 1 year ago |
| Oh why, Oh why ... Why did I lose my DOS 3.0 diskettes, I could be so virus free today. |
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| What Are You Listening To The Present Day? | 2 years ago |
| RL Burnsides a grand master of the blues. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um5a8-ERuvU&feature=related |
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| Just don't think it is right... | 2 years ago |
| You know sometimes I wonder but in the end there will come a time when what we do or where we are will be utterly meaningless. I say let them do what they want, sure they can focus the ads, give you targetted content and so and so forth. Heck they could even run a check on your whereabouts during an Amber Alert or another murder occurs. For me in the end its no different than Intel giving each CPU a unique identifier that can be tracked. Life is a virus these days. |
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| iComp is Ace | 2 years ago |
| This place is the gateway to .... Or was it the Stairway to .... But please not the studio version, I cannot sit and listen to it one more time. Yes indeed, I do love my Icomps. |
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| please help your fellow icompers :) | 2 years ago |
| on my way... |
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| Microsoft acquires iCompositions | 2 years ago |
| Windows 7 right? LOL I am still waiting for my refund for all the duplicated code base I paid for between Windows 95 and Windows Me. |
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| iCompositions: The Movie -- COMING SOON! | 2 years ago |
| I would cast MechaGodzilla as me, since I am all virtual even the instruments (well almost). |
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| my songs are now all open for collab. | 2 years ago |
| That is a generous thing to do, who knows maybe one of these days. |
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| Which is the best Guitar Amp Sim? | 2 years ago |
| For now I am testing things out with Guitar Rig and find it to be quite the thing, I am filtering vocals and what not through there so I can get these very distinct and unique flavors to the loops. It is amazing what we can do these days with a little technology and a bit of patience. Now if only I could learn to play that guitar better, but each day is a new day right? |
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| Garageband on iPad 2 | 2 years ago |
| All Hail the Tech Gods! |
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| For Guitar Noobs like me | 2 years ago |
| Man I don't know if I will ever nail down reading standard notation as I prefer Tab by a mile but eventually I can see Standard Notation being so much better. Any tips from some of you more seasoned artists out there on how to nail down the reading standard notation thing? |
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| New service experimentation-assist required if possible | 2 years ago |
| Whenever is see an Apache type config file, I start going into convulsions and it instantly brings me back to the days of RedHat 5. I used to use the IBM http server along with DB2 as a backend db but I gave up on all that fun stuff and decided to go back to IIS on a Windows platform. I will say though that the Mac is a great platform to on. |
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| New Zealand iCompers | 2 years ago |
| lummie, yes that is true and to be quite honest I find myself engrossed in making some sense out of musical loops and trying to learn to play a few simple chords on the guitar as well as driving 1 or 2 hours in traffic each way. So I guess life would continue to go fast just no news is all. But I am glad to hear some of our friends were not directly impacted by the earth quake. |
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| New Zealand iCompers | 2 years ago |
| The world just seems so much more scary these days, I wonder if its just the availability of news or is the world just moving faster? | |
| Why do my songs get so few plays? | 2 years ago |
| It's a world of give and take out here, I know it might sound corny but when you really think of it... I will come round and give a listen or two, I am pretty eclectic so I am open to pretty much anything. Hope you get many listens after this. |
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| SO, How Do You Peeps Establish -0- VU Levels When Recording? | 2 years ago |
| there is so much to learn, sometimes I wonder if one lifetime will ever be enough. |
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| Songwriting Competition/ Exciting News! | 2 years ago |
| Look forward to adding my click on the like button. |
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| What Are You Listening To The Present Day? | 2 years ago |
| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97LL7WuXFk8&feature=player_embedded#at=116 Pink Floyd - The gunner's dream (The final cut 1/4) |
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| Dubstep on the horizon | 2 years ago |
| But in the end its music right? I mean music is music no matter how you dress it up or devolve it. Hmm.. devolve, sort of like devolution. ) |
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| Dubstep on the horizon | 2 years ago |
| I am so eclectic when it comes to music, and as I tend to enjoy almost any style, it stands to reason that dubstep and dirty Electro would appeal to me as well. | |
| New artist name needed! | 2 years ago |
| Here are a few more ... for kicks and giggles. DJ Dirty Zee Freak Biz Mack Sir Knuckles Slick Trigga DJ Tenacious Double Hood DJ Hammer etc..etc.. ) |
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| New artist name needed! | 2 years ago |
| Logan Stone Krazy T. Freestyle Z. General Sparkz MC Jam New Jack Z. Black Sparkz DJ XL Amongst others ... |
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| Volume | 2 years ago |
| This is an excellent thread, I find myself using my sequencer/daw (Mixcraft) and often enough I forget to listen to the tracks using outside speakers instead of headphones and wouldn't you know it allot of them are too bass heavy and not pleasing to the ear unless you are using headphones. So I am still trying to set-down a definitive how-to that is adapted to the kind of sounds I like to put together. Thanks for the excellent thread. |
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| Cool Garageband YouTube Channel!!! Check it out! | 2 years ago |
| Why don't we have an Icomps Channel on Youtube? | |
| Which is the best Guitar Amp Sim? | 2 years ago |
| hiya fuzzy, its just force of habit but yes I do actually use wav files as well. | |
| Which is the best Guitar Amp Sim? | 2 years ago |
| @BentAxis, thanks for all that info, I will be checking it out as I often tend to go beyond 25 tracks but what I have been doing lately is creating layers using 5 or 6 tracks and them burning that to an MP3 and then bringing that into a master project file, so I could have much more than 25 or 30 tracks and not have the CPU issues. Currently I am using a PC with Intel P4 3ghz with Multi-Threading so not a dual core and 2 gigs of ram. Mixcraft does bog down when too many effects on the tracks are being processed but that latency fixer sounds awesome, I hope it works on a Pc and not only Mac. |
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| Which is the best Guitar Amp Sim? | 2 years ago |
| @fuzzynormal , Don't get me wrong, I am not dissing the mac itself as a computer actually it is a very nice system and a joy to use. The thing is I had bough a ImacG4 with the Super drive and if I remember you could not upgrade it beyond the 10.4 and I could not get Snow Leapord loaded on it so I gave up on modernizing the box and sold it to someone who wanted to browse the web and just plain have a computer at home. As for the Amps, I will check out Amplitube as well seems like a pretty popular choice, wonder what the price point is for that software. |
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| Which is the best Guitar Amp Sim? | 2 years ago |
| @BentiAxis, do you need any special SoundCard to be able to process the guitar signal and still record the output on an audio track in your DAW? I tried a demo of one of the programs but I could not record and process the guitar at the same time. @Eidolonia , I am working with PC'S at the moment, I gave up on Macs when I found I could not upgrade the OS without buying a new box, that is a No-No in my book! I sold my IMacG4 I paid 3K for like 150$ and it was fully loaded too. So I will stick to PC's and if I go back to a Mac system I want to be certain it is expandable and not an ornament on my desk after two years. |
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| Which is the best Guitar Amp Sim? | 2 years ago |
| Hi folks, Well I finally bought my first electric guitar, so I was wondering which is the better Guitar Amp Sim? I just like using the computer especialy with all the different settings you can use. I was checking out the Waves GTR3 but not sure if it is really all that good. So any feedback would be great. Thanks |
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| That thing called dull life kicked in | 2 years ago |
| A beautiful pdf document going over that entire principle. http://www.samhallas.co.uk/repository/documents/gec_subscribers_telephones.pdf |
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| Impossible | 2 years ago |
| Of course you know if you have certain attributes that have nothing to do with music then well it seems to me that you can go up a few notches until such time as the masses get bored and you become old news. |
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| That thing called dull life kicked in | 2 years ago |
| You know when it comes to microphones, my first microphone was actually my Earphones. I can't remember which ear piece though, left or right but if you plug in your earphones into the your mic input you can record your vocals as though a mic. |
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| Impossible | 2 years ago |
| One must give in order to partake. Best of luck but yes there might well be many sites and not just music based that are no more than hollow shells. |
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| The Future Of MIDI Music – In 1986! | 2 years ago |
| I mean yes back thing things looked crazy hard, I remember drawing my BBS's front page using ANSI ART by hand. |
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| The Future Of MIDI Music – In 1986! | 2 years ago |
FourOFour wrote: Great post! Where can I get a "Hayes-compatible 1200 baud modem" ??? You know the funny thing is that way back then, I was running one of the few BBS'S in Montreal to have a 9600 Baud connection, if I remember properly I had paid 2800$ for that modem and was running the board on my PC AT running at 7.4 MHZ which I had paid well over 5,000$ for back then. So yeah, all in all I would say things have improved. LOL I mean think on it, I do remember paying 3K for an IBM Thinkpad with a 12" display and a 300 Meg hard drive which was like WOW for back then. |
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| is anyone else having probs? | 2 years ago |
| might just be the servers are getting busy or the database back end could be swamped. I just take it in stride, click and wait I suppose. |
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| NFL Theme Music Contest - Winner gets published/ money | 2 years ago |
| Well I am going to enter the Ace of Base remix contest just for kicks and giggles. |
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| What Pros think. | 2 years ago |
| It is a Noble idea, but music is subjective and I really wonder if the Pro's would be willing to come out into a forum like that and dish out free advice. |
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| What Are You Listening To The Present Day? | 2 years ago |
| anything I can make out this cute tool: http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/music/piano/index.htm Another way to throw time at something and have a bit of reward out of it. |
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| Decent Price - EWQLSO | 2 years ago |
| Holy Crap, what will they invent next???? VOCALOID2 series, virtual singers that sound pretty damn decent, unfreaking believable. |
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| Decent Price - EWQLSO | 2 years ago |
| I can understand the USB dongle thing, so people can't just download the thing or borrow it so to speak. |
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| Decent Price - EWQLSO | 2 years ago |
| which one Trevs,t hey ave tons of Gold Editions. | |
| does anyone... | 2 years ago |
| This is an interesting thread, I will check back in later as I have seen and been an avid gamer for the longest time. |
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| Decent Price - EWQLSO | 2 years ago |
| There are some pretty darn cool libraries in there, for the moment I limit my prices to under 100$ but I can tell you the production on these is intense! |
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| What Are You Listening To The Present Day? | 2 years ago |
| Ore D'amore, one of my favorite Italian Songs... covered by many including Sinatra (The world we knew ). http://italiasempre.com/verita/oredamore1.htm |
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| In The Dead Centre Of England, Something Stirred... | 2 years ago |
| I want my Bodington's .... |
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| Surprise Apple Announcement - Let the Speculation Begin | 2 years ago |
| Its all about the Money Baby! When will it be about the humanity of it all? But wait a moment, no music is bad music so anymusic is fine by me, even one people would be inclined to pay for. |
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| Are We A Closed Society, Here On iComp? | 2 years ago |
| artneuro, you must certainly know about BOTS right? Email verification is a nice BOT BLOCKER, not perfect but still helps in that respect. | |
| Are We A Closed Society, Here On iComp? | 2 years ago |
| @AnEnglishState , amen to that! |
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| Public Apology to Vixen | 2 years ago |
| It is does take a measure of courage to step up to the plate and admit you are wrong, I am glad that nothing serious comes of this as both of you are excellent artists. Life is too short for all the B.S. just learn to smile and be happy my friends. |
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| Are We A Closed Society, Here On iComp? | 2 years ago |
| hey you know how it is an artist is an artist right? Wether they have 10000000000 fans or nobody could be bothered with them. In the end it is what it is but I am afraid the server would crash if she came on board. |
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| Are We A Closed Society, Here On iComp? | 2 years ago |
| Luna and zallaz, both of you are so right. Zallaz, I would never pick up a guitar and play it in front of a crowd, I mean just how long could you stand someone playing simple open strings? And besides, I was a regular at an Irish Pub in Phoenix Arizona and we knew the bands really well, turned out most of them had the hots for a certain lady (my wife) but that did not really bother me. Just know that it is important to get sounds out of our systems and to share in the common human condition. Luna, I am the same as yourself, you know there are some who have been producing music for ages and know all the subtle things to look for, while I am just a generalist, a hobbyist at best for now. I just really find Icomps to be a wonderful and most of the time supportive place. |
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| Are We A Closed Society, Here On iComp? | 2 years ago |
| Wow, I am so pleased to see a good and clean yet hearty debate on this thread. |
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| I Want To Murder - words for music | 2 years ago |
| Yankman, I hope you find someone to collab with you, it just seems so morbid but in the end we watch murder mysteries don't we? | |
| bonified - open lyrics collab | 2 years ago |
| I had some ideas running around in my head, sort of hearing a chorus with several voices singing this, now it is just a blurb and the first inkling of the idea and this time I would love to collab with someone on completing it if it has merrit of course. "Super hero Warmongering child Putrefied skinned alive Who's going to kick it when I'm bonified so you like to play games hidden under your wireless pad mercenary for these modern times building virtual empires tell me who's going to kick it when I'm bonified are you really just a child!" AngeloA(awnnabepoet) And there you have it. |
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| Are We A Closed Society, Here On iComp? | 2 years ago |
| See, we are an open society and in reality it seems some of us remember the old saying "If you cant say anything good, then ..." It is a hobby after all and I have been around social sites for the longest time, I used to run a BBS on my Atari 800xl with two phone lines no less. So to me not seeing outright flame wars and an open dialogue and overly supportive peeps is actually quite nice. I find so much talent here, some of you guys really bring it and well others just mess around but that is where the fun is at really, no fear, just creativity. Excellent feedback on this thread, brought a smile here. |
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