Mornats

I'm not sure of my approach just yet! Any time I've chosen a picture to use I've always gone for one that I've taken myself and it took me a while to find one that wasn't of my girlfriend's dog! I didn't know which one I'd choose until I uploaded it to Basschat so I've had just the same amount of time to think about this one as everyone else Fun fact: other than the composition challenge pics from others, all of the pics on the tracks on my SoundCloud were taken by me.

I'm disappointed you didn't link the ten hour version of that Nyan cat song Loving your lyrics so far Akio. I'm glad the image had proved inspirational! It was taken in one of the old World War 2 shelter tunnels in Cardiff Castle.

Thanks all! It's an honour to have been selected from such a great bunch of tunes. Well done everyone. I'll hunt out a picture as soon as I can.

The show's not over until the fat lady sings!

Tough to choose between these! I managed to pick out three favourites eventually. Well done to everyone though, top work all round.

I'm away at the Hay Festival right now but looking forward to listening later on this week.

I use a Native Instruments S61 keyboard over USB and haven't once noticed latency to be an issue. Latency is affected by many things (how much you've got going on in your DAW, your CPU power etc.) but on my Focusrite Forte I set it to recording mode with a sample rate of 128 and I can record fine with no noticeable lag with a fair bit going on (i7 4790k at 4.5ghz). I'm also quite active over at VI-control - a forum for composers using virtual instruments (where their PC specs include 64GB RAM and above due to the size of their virtual instrument templates) and there's never any mention of going via midi rather than midi over USB so I'd quite confidently say this is a non issue unless you're using a soundcard not designed for audio production.

Thanks I've got a few versions of Ethera. The vocal phrases are sublime and this one, plus the Ethera Soundscapes one have a lot of synth, soundscape, ambient texture type stuff that's really good quality. I use them quite a lot in my tracks.

Here's mine. Had a nice opportunity to test drive the appropriately-named Temple Drums from Soundiron and the new Ethera EVI vocal/synth library. Also in here are some amazing instruments from Sound Dust - Cloud Cello, Cloud Bass and Plastic Ghost Piano (which is mixed with a sprinkling of The Giant piano which you may remember from some of my earlier tracks). I went for the story that I saw in the picture - the German U-boat docking next to a mysterious temple as part of Hitler's obsession with the occult. The lone figure gets drawn deeper into the temple's mysteries and never comes back out.

I've got Windows drivers working fine on Win 10 (and previously on Win 7) for my Focusrite Forte. The only problem I had was that the free anti-virus programs (Avast and AVG) mess your latency up but swap to another anti-virus and it'll be fine. I started out with a simple audio interface just to record myself playing so I could listen back and work out how I could improve. It grew out of that and now I record with a whole bunch of software synths, virtual instruments (including entire orchestras) and I'm loving it. You can go as basic or as advanced as you like and you'll get plenty of help from people here in this forum too.

Ha, I didn't even notice that 😀

Oh, nice and creepy! I like it 😁

Well done Rikki, congrats!

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Thanks for the advice folks! I'm still deciding between doing it myself or trusting it to a pro just for convenience. Will let you know what I decide!

Mine seemed to have vanished! Possibly due to me renaming it...

Yeah, shame they don't mention that on the strings at all!

Yeah, and as it's my fault for putting fat-donkey strings on it without checking the nut size I don't mind forking out for a new one. How easy is it to remove this and fit a new one yourself? Or is it something I'm better off paying a luthier for? I'm crap at DIY although I can do fret levelling, dressing and polishing ok.

Damn, put this one down to bad luck / lack of knowledge then.

I decided a short while ago to string my Yamaha TRBX 504 with Rotosound Tru-Bass 88 strings to give it a nice, different range of sounds to my P and J. I found time to put them on today but as soon as I tightened the E string it broke the end off the nut! See pics below. So I'm gutted and rather annoyed. Surely this is a manufacturing defect in the nut? Reckon I'll have any joy getting Yamaha to replace the nut or should I just fork our for a new (possibly brass) one myself?

Will iTunes open up the FLAC files or do they just stick to their propriety ALAC format? If so, I'm sure you can burn an audio CD from there although it's been a long time since I allowed iTunes on my PC.

That'll be a job for my M50x cans and Sonarworks then

I usually start my high pass filter at around 40hz so wondered the same.

I liked the goose cotton talk in that thread.

I have a few hours to myself tonight so managed to come up with this. I'd struggled with inspiration all week and thought I'd load up some lutes (which I never made it to*) to try and get some ideas. The ideas came, bizarrely, from Valhalla Room reverb on a charango. So there you go. * turns out that a charango is an Andean lute so that's me proved wrong right away.