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- Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:12 pm
- Forum: Tips and Tricks
- Topic: Mixcraft vocal trick of the trade
- Replies: 5
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Mixcraft vocal trick of the trade
If you have a guitar or vocal track and it just doesn't seem to sound outfront or smooth like it should, here's a long time secret from the analog days. I have found a way to do it with digital recording apps. It's simple so don't expect some miracle knob or something. Say your vocal track is track ...
- Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:10 pm
- Forum: Tips and Tricks
- Topic: Quick way to set up triplets
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Quick way to set up triplets
To quickly set up a pattern editor track for triplets -- right-click on an instrument row in the Pattern Editor and choose "Set Selected Steps..." then "All 8th note triplets" or "All 16th note triplets."
(Originally postyed by Acoustica Greg)
(Originally postyed by Acoustica Greg)
- Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:09 pm
- Forum: Tips and Tricks
- Topic: Hi Hat open/close
- Replies: 2
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Hi Hat open/close
To get that quick open/close sound from a hi hat sample, simply place a hit on the track, then place another one after it but set the volume to zero and click the "choke previous sounds" tick box.
- Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:08 pm
- Forum: Tips and Tricks
- Topic: Compact display mode
- Replies: 0
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Compact display mode
If you've got lots of instruments in your drum kit and you get tired of scrolling up and down in the pattern editor, you can toggle "Compact Display Mode." Click on the Compact Display Mode button that appears at the top of the pattern editor, or right-click on your pattern editor tracks a...
- Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:07 pm
- Forum: Tips and Tricks
- Topic: Saving your beat as mp3, wave, ogg, wma
- Replies: 0
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Saving your beat as mp3, wave, ogg, wma
When you've got your Beatcraft project the way you want it, click on the File Menu and select "Render Pattern" for a single pattern or "Render Sequence" for the entire project. You'll have the choice of saving your pattern or sequence in one of the following audio formats: WAV, M...
- Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:06 pm
- Forum: Tips and Tricks
- Topic: Human feel
- Replies: 18
- Views: 18869
Human feel
To give your beat a human feel, remember that no human can keep a perfect time. So to rememdy this "perfect timing" thing, I set my beats per measure very high, like 32, 64. Leaving room for me to purposfully make some of the hits a click or two out of time, but still keep a decent drummer...
- Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:05 pm
- Forum: Tips and Tricks
- Topic: Pattern Tweaks
- Replies: 0
- Views: 7195
Pattern Tweaks
After creating the drum track to an entire sond, I sometimes find that maybe a floor tom or something is not loud enough in the mix. By going back into beatcraft and raising the level of that floor tom, it effects the entire song, which make it very easy to adjust these levels without doing it beat ...
- Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:04 pm
- Forum: Tips and Tricks
- Topic: Trimming sounds for use with Beatcraft
- Replies: 0
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Trimming sounds for use with Beatcraft
I have created another tutorial on how to trim the silence off the front and back of sounds for use with Beatcraft. If you don't trim the silence off the front, then the sound will be "out of time" when used.
See it here
See it here