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Propellerheads Rebirth Reborn
Over the last few weeks my time has been redirected, that is to say my mind has been turned away from the more pc based music creation software to hardware.
An old QY10 that I ‘found’ dragged up old memories of Roland 303′s and Yamaha RM1x’s.
It was while I was looking for at 303′s on yout tube that my slothlike memory pulled out a fractured memory of a peice of software that I’d forgotten about.
In 1997 about the time I first touched a PC, the software, Propellerheads, the company that now brings you ‘Reason’ and ‘Record’ – released ‘RebirthRB 338′ an emulation of the Roland 303.
Now the good news, it’s ‘free’.
How cool is that?
You’ll need to register with The Rebirth Museum
Then you’ll have to download an .ISO image and burn that to CD.
It’s a bit of a rigmarole but you need the cd in order for the software to work.
The software also takes a little getting used to.
I’m not going to write a tutorial just yet. I’m trying to figure out how to use the rewire function.
Problems with vista also – this was fixed by installing as normal then copying the demo file to the desktop and opening that instead.
Navigate to your propellerhead folder and find Rebirth copy the demo song file and paste it on your desktop.
How close the emulation is to the Roland 303 is not my main interest with this software.
I’m a hardware geek so that little monkey will have to be indulged with a visit to Fleabay.
That said ‘Rebirth’ is cool once you get your head into it. Throw some headphones on and get programming.
I’ll be throwing a few tutorials up on how to get the most from this very cool piece of software.
Be cool.
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Creating Music: Free Multitracking Software
Audacity is a great little software program that primarily operates as an editing program.
But delve under the hood for a second and you’ll find a multitrack recordig system.
Doesn’t support midi but hey it’s free.
It looks a lot like a basic version of Cool Edit the pre-Audition mulltitracking software.
Does take a lot of setting up, ie the vst needs and extra component installing as does VST support and LADSPA plugins.
They’re all available from the Audacity site anyway.
Download for free Audacity
MU.LAB
MU.LAB comes in 2 flavors: MU.LAB Free and MU.LAB Unlimited.
MU.LAB Free (which is free to everyone!) has a 6 track limit, can only mixdown in 16 Bit and only supports 1 mono out for ReWired devices. But be sure: a creative soul can do A LOT with that!
MU.LAB Unlimited on the other hand can do unlimited tracks, can also mixdown in 32 Bit for more extensive musical productions, and supports all available audio outputs for ReWired devices!
Reaper
The daddy of shareware music creation software, no limits uncrippled and probably the bargain software that pretty much sells itself.
It’s in this list because of it’s rare state of treating it’s users and potential customers as adults.
You get to try it out in full for an unlimited period, it’s then down to your conscience wether or not to buy it.
Brilliant software which is constantly updated and has a very loyal and helpful following who frequent the forums.
Lot’s of musicians these days are making the transition over to reaper and for good reason.
Great sound card and midi support, VST and VSTi supported also.
It’s a breeze to set up and use. Honestly if you’ve used this kind of software before you’ll love it.
And as a bonus there is reamote an add on that allows you to connect to a nother laptop via lan to share processing power, your fx and reaper have to installed on the second machine though.
Add to that rewire and you can’t go wrong.
Try it out and then if you dig it, buy it. It’s only fair.
Download for free here
Creating Mp3s using Audacity or Wavosaur
If you are trying to use Audacity or Wavosaur to create Mp3s you will need the file below,
It’s a simple task really, if you have both software programs installed unzip the above file into Wavosaurs folder:
C:\program files\wavosaur
If you only have Wavosaur then do as above
If you only have Audacity installed then unzip to:
C:\program files\audacity
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Install MP3 for Wavosaur.
If you try and export from wav to mp3 using Wavosaur a message will appear,
Unable to export to mp3. Make sure the lame encoder is installed.
As stated above unzip the lame_enc.dll into the Wavaosaur folder on your PC/Laptop, see above for possible location.
Restart Wavosaur and try it again, you will now be able to export to MP3 and Bob will be your uncle, Bob’s nice – he don’t take advantage like Tom, Dick or Harry.
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Install MP3 for Audacity.
Slightly different but the same outcome.
Unzip the above file into Audacity folder or if you have Wavosaur extract there instead as above.
Now start Audacity, open a file and try to export to MP3.
A pop up will appear stating that Audacity does not export mp3 files directly yada yada yada.
At the bottom of this box it asks, ‘Would you like to locate the lame_enc.dll?’
Press ‘Yes’ and navigate to where you extracted you lame_enc.dll.
Once located click ‘ok’ and Bob is once again your mothers brother or indeed brother in law or if you’re from Blackburn, both.
Have fun.
Wavosaur – Setting up VST Rack
Using VST fx in Wavosaur is pretty simple, although it does seem like a bit more work than other Audio Editors.
Find VST: Rack and click the button,
You’ve now got the screen below,
Here we can load our vst.
If you’ve got this far and you don’t know where your VST folder is then have a look in either:
C:\VST Plugins
C:\program files\steinberg\vst plugins
C:\program files\vst plugins
If you can’t find it in any of those then you’ll need to do a search.
Once you’ve located your VST – (it’s usually a .dll file) – click on it to load.
You need to do 2 things now, to view VST click view shown in picture below,
In the picture below you can see a box with a tick in it next to the word ‘Processing‘
Make sure that box is ticked, now when you change any parameters on your VST effect you’ll here it applied to the file.
To commit the effect click the ‘Apply‘ button.
VST Fx can be controlled without seeing the GUI.
You can control them within the VST Rack Box:
1. The Slider circled controls the level of the parameter.
2. Choose the parameter to be altered.
Finally to scan all your VSTs you need to change the path.
Goto Options – Editor configuration
Change the Vst path to wherever your VST effects are.
A search or the locations I’ve mentioned before will be needed.
Go back to VST rack and press VST scan,
If you’re sure click ‘OK’ and wait.
If succesful a box will come up saying X plugs detected in x:\vstfolder.
Click ok.
VST list dropdown list in VST rack will now be updated with your VSTs.
Have fun.
Batch process – Wavosaur
The batch process facility in Wavosaur is one of my favourite processes – much simpler to perform than Audition or Wavelab.
If you are unfamiliar with what a batch process is let me explain.
If you need to convert a lot of wav files to mp3 format batch process will automate this for you and save you lots of time.
Batch processing though can be used for a variety of processing tasks like normalisation, conversion of bit rate etc.
To bring up Batch processing in wavosaur you can either
Use shortcut – press ‘B‘ on keyboard or navigate to Tools – Batch processor as seen in the screen shot.
This will bring up a box,
If you take a squizz at the box you can see four elements that have an effect on what we do.
‘Source‘ – this is the folder where all the files you want converting reside – be warned ALL files in that folder will be converted.
Tip 1: Create a folder and copy your files into that – that way you have a backup in case anything goes wrong.
‘Destination‘ – this is the folder where you converted files will be saved – be aware if you choose the same folder as ‘Source‘ your original files will be replaced.
Tip 2: Create a subfolder within ‘source’ folder that way no mistakes – that way you’ve got two sets of backup – it’s up to you but best to play safe.
Remember backup twice and backup again – better safe than sorry.
‘Function‘ – This is the choice of conversion or process you wish to perform.
‘Run‘ – Press this when you’ve made your first three choices – the batch process will then be performed.