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01/05/07 |
VST Folders Test: Next project
to be iPod Shuffle specific. Have reviewed mags for current "best in
class" to decide if upgrade to Cubase4 advised. Is not, due poss
incomp issues with Waves, etc. Have established E-MU 0404|USB as
replacement for RME and Apogee interfaces which have ceased
functioning. Using E-MU and $29 dollar Radio Shack headset mic for
American Road Cycling audio snippets as test. All's well. |
Dancing piece fully restored. Moved Halion, etc. to M60 alt
disk, named it E: drive due copy protections. Using Cubase SX and
current plug-ins. Still unclear on VST folders and files handling in
Cubase. Established new VST folder on the M60 alt disk, copying VST
dll's and testing if may move Project and VST files around, and
still retain settings such as Reverb for Tune. |
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12/18/06 |
A/B PROBS REMINDER: Had Mary
listen to uncompressed Cubase version of Dancing, she noticed
that the ear-buds sound significantly different when she presses
them into her ear slightly. |
I told her of the first time I was made aware of that during the
Janakananda project, and related it to why I was so good at helping
her work through the
impossible task of reproducing her work. |
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12/17/06 |
VOX RECORDER SELECTED, PLUS 1st CUT
RESTORED: Technical issue of residual noise in voice
recording for
American Road Cycling resolved. Selected ZOOM PS-02 instead of
direct to M60 via internal microphone, or alt phone headphone. Much
quieter, respectable sound. Significant confusion resolved
regarding the PS-02 which has been in a box for several years. This
time careful notes were taken. That little box is not very
intuitive. But the problem was the battery. In the process,
downloaded ZOOM's transfer to WAV utility. |
Even less intuitive is the Cubase SX use of VST plug-ins. Finally
restored all sound effects and VST instruments for the first cut.
Will consolidate files as best can be done, then write my own doc.
Earliest music file found for this Dancing piece is a SEQ+ SNG
dated 10/18/93. Been working on this for 13 years. Of course, mostly it
has just been dealing with technical considerations, and other
distractions. The musical performances have not been touched in 12 years. |
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12/15/06 |
SCANNED ORIGINAL TRACK SHEETS FOR FACTORY
PRESET: Finished scans of original tracking sheets for
SEQ+, Both mixers (StudioMaster 16x8x2, StudioMaster 8x2), and
effects boxes. |
Included sheet for settings for final transfer from Otari 50/50 to Sony
501 digital recorder. Scanned sheets with -15 darker setting to
assure enough information available for readability. |
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12/13/06 |
CANNOT DOWNLOAD AAC:
An
AAC (Advanced Audio Compression) file has DRM (Digital Rights
Management) which (at least on a MS-IIS web site) disallows download via standard Right Click/Save
Target As... However, this can be circumvented by renaming the
.m4a file as .txt then, then naming it back to .m4a once downloaded.
For fugettsound this is probably not useful, because this
process would require the person downloading to know how to view
file suffixes for renaming. |
Fewer and fewer people will have this knowledge, plus future versions of
ACC may either plug this hole, or allow downloading as normal. Therefore,
MP3 has been selected as the format of choice even though the file size is
slightly larger.
Since anybody can easily RIP their own MP3's
off a CD, the DRM of AAC seems hardly worth the effort, especially
if it disallows publication of one's own music. The format was a
good idea and nice try, in any case. |
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02/08/06 |
iPOD SHUFFLE: Purchased an
iPod shuffle for testing best format and translation software to
post Factory Preset audio files online. iTunes software
does a great job of making transfers to compressed formats easy,
plus the sound of a stock iPod with earphones is surprisingly good. |
Next project will focus on iPod playback. It is predictable, and now
portable and cheap enough to be widely distributed.
That little iPod Shuffle clip-on may be the most accessible, repeatable, and
useful music format ever.
We'll see... |
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01/01/04 |
MP3 QUALITY:
Highest quality MP3 files are more or less indistinguishable in
quality from full size WAV files, also from original CD versions of
music transferred to the format. Unfortunately, those MP3 file sizes
are also the same, about 10 meg per minute of play, as an
uncompressed WAV file. People who have only heard strongly
compressed MP3's assume the format is far inferior to other formats.
In any case, a typical MP3 compressed at 192 kbps is quite
adequate for playback using widely available playback systems. |
This is not to say that
better formats, played on extreme audiophile playback systems, are not worth the effort; it
is merely that, musically, a lot can be communicated in the MP3 format
targeted for consumer systems. Thanks to Nava Levinson for asking
permission to transfer her copy of the Factory Preset CD to her
iPod, and to Abigail Shriber for pointing out to me in Barnes & Noble,
"Look a CD player. I didn't know they even made these things anymore." |
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Thanks to Nava Levinson for asking permission to transfer her copy
of the Factory Preset CD to her iPod, and to Abigail Shriber
for pointing out to me in Barnes & Noble, "Look a CD player. I
didn't know they even made these things anymore." |
