Und noch ein Geburtstag wird gefeiert: Steinberg ist einer der führenden Produzenten von DAW-Software für Hersteller von Audiohardware. Neben Cubase AI für Yamaha stellt Steinberg auch das populäre Cubase LE 4 für Partner wie Zoom, Tascam und viele andere zur Verfügung. Jetzt bietet Steinberg das Upgrade auf Cubase Studio 5 zu einem besonderen Preis anlässlich ihres 25jährigen Jubiläums. Das reguläre Cubase Studio 5 Upgrade wird auf 199 EUR reduziert! Das Angebot gilt ab dem 9. November 2009 bis zum 31. Januar 2010.

Cubase Studio 5 ist eine umfangreiche Workstation, die perfekt auf die Ansprüche von Projektstudios zugeschnitten ist und massenhaft neue Tools für kreative Musiker bietet. Cubase Studio 5 basiert auf der gleichen Technologie wie Steinbergs High-End Studiosoftware Cubase 5 und beinhaltet professionelle Funktionen für Komposition, Recording, Editing und Mixing – zu einem besonders attraktiven Preis.

Der richtige Moment ist jetzt gekommen. Preiswerter wird es das Upgrade für den Endnutzer wohl nicht geben. Also schlagen Sie zu und sichern Sie sich in unserem Webshop ein Upgrade zur voll funktionstüchtige Profiversion der Software Cubase Studio 5.

Und noch ein Geburtstag wird gefeiert: Steinberg ist einer der führenden Produzenten von DAW-Software für Hersteller von Audiohardware. Neben Cubase AI für Yamaha stellt Steinberg auch das populäre Cubase LE 4 für Partner wie Zoom, Tascam und viele andere zur Verfügung. Jetzt bietet Steinberg das Upgrade auf Cubase Studio 5 zu einem besonderen Preis anlässlich ihres 25jährigen Jubiläums. Das reguläre Cubase Studio 5 Upgrade wird auf 199 EUR reduziert! Das Angebot gilt ab dem 9. November 2009 bis zum 31. Januar 2010.

Cubase Studio 5 ist eine umfangreiche Workstation, die perfekt auf die Ansprüche von Projektstudios zugeschnitten ist und massenhaft neue Tools für kreative Musiker bietet. Cubase Studio 5 basiert auf der gleichen Technologie wie Steinbergs High-End Studiosoftware Cubase 5 und beinhaltet professionelle Funktionen für Komposition, Recording, Editing und Mixing – zu einem besonders attraktiven Preis.

Der richtige Moment ist jetzt gekommen. Preiswerter wird es das Upgrade für den Endnutzer wohl nicht geben. Also schlagen Sie zu und sichern Sie sich in unserem Webshop ein Upgrade zur voll funktionstüchtige Profiversion der Software Cubase Studio 5.

Und noch ein Geburtstag wird gefeiert: Steinberg ist einer der führenden Produzenten von DAW-Software für Hersteller von Audiohardware. Neben Cubase AI für Yamaha stellt Steinberg auch das populäre Cubase LE 4 für Partner wie Zoom, Tascam und viele andere zur Verfügung. Jetzt bietet Steinberg das Upgrade auf Cubase Studio 5 zu einem besonderen Preis anlässlich ihres 25jährigen Jubiläums. Das reguläre Cubase Studio 5 Upgrade wird auf 199 EUR reduziert! Das Angebot gilt ab dem 9. November 2009 bis zum 31. Januar 2010.

Cubase Studio 5 ist eine umfangreiche Workstation, die perfekt auf die Ansprüche von Projektstudios zugeschnitten ist und massenhaft neue Tools für kreative Musiker bietet. Cubase Studio 5 basiert auf der gleichen Technologie wie Steinbergs High-End Studiosoftware Cubase 5 und beinhaltet professionelle Funktionen für Komposition, Recording, Editing und Mixing – zu einem besonders attraktiven Preis.

Der richtige Moment ist jetzt gekommen. Preiswerter wird es das Upgrade für den Endnutzer wohl nicht geben. Also schlagen Sie zu und sichern Sie sich in unserem Webshop ein Upgrade zur voll funktionstüchtige Profiversion der Software Cubase Studio 5.

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Getting the sounds that you want when writing drum and bass tracks, is often a daunting thing to do. I have learnt a lot from watching tutorials, from different drum and bass producers, all over the web. Not to say that you should just copy them, but there is a lot of information to be passed down, and worth taking in, as it can be just the influence you need.

I have posted a couple of videos by Sub Focus on the newly inserted VodPod in the sidebar. Enjoy, and hope they are of some influence, n matter what genre you are creating.( I sometimes look at house and commercial dance tutorials, despite my distaste for these genres, as it can give you different  ideas for production techniques)

The Recording Studio Dream Being Realized

Haven’t named the studio yet, but it will be representative of the location or the people behind it.  I have so many ideas running through my head as to how to finance the finishing touches of the recording studio.  It should be fun.  Maybe we might make a compilation CD of the neighborhood talent; I have some new musicians and producers lined up to assist me, being I admittedly find myself ole school, which is not a bad thing as ole school is new school in today’s market.

But this project really is not about the next series of hits or about me, as I will not accept a salary as President and CEO, until the organization develops into something extraordinary.  Sure people will get paid for their services if they are earners, but I am not in this one for the money or should I say immediate gratification.

The idea of a non profit organization with a recording studio located at the headquarters, making it a non profit recording studio, does not mean it cannot turn a buck, it only means people will not get rich off of the labor of others unless they actually participate, there will be no stock holders.  All the money goes to neighborhood related causes and the staff and labor, therefore the artist should make a higher percentage of the money made due to their talents and pay less to record, because at the end of the fiscal years all the money has to be spent. 

If it was about money the saying would be true that we are as good as our last hit record, because every year we will start from scratch so to speak but not absolutely, because this thing of ours will build through reinvestments until we have a top quality studio.  They say a true religion starts in a storefront; it looks like we will be much more fortunate than that as we will start in a commercial building, as the Community Network and Coalition brings the community together.

People who I never thought would care are showing interest, I guess a good idea is a good thing.  I think this is a winner!  The DAW makes this all possible in the new millennium.

The Recording Studio Dream Being Realized

Haven’t named the studio yet, but it will be representative of the location or the people behind it.  I have so many ideas running through my head as to how to finance the finishing touches of the recording studio.  It should be fun.  Maybe we might make a compilation CD of the neighborhood talent; I have some new musicians and producers lined up to assist me, being I admittedly find myself ole school, which is not a bad thing as ole school is new school in today’s market.

But this project really is not about the next series of hits or about me, as I will not accept a salary as President and CEO, until the organization develops into something extraordinary.  Sure people will get paid for their services if they are earners, but I am not in this one for the money or should I say immediate gratification.

The idea of a non profit organization with a recording studio located at the headquarters, making it a non profit recording studio, does not mean it cannot turn a buck, it only means people will not get rich off of the labor of others unless they actually participate, there will be no stock holders.  All the money goes to neighborhood related causes and the staff and labor, therefore the artist should make a higher percentage of the money made due to their talents and pay less to record, because at the end of the fiscal years all the money has to be spent. 

If it was about money the saying would be true that we are as good as our last hit record, because every year we will start from scratch so to speak but not absolutely, because this thing of ours will build through reinvestments until we have a top quality studio.  They say a true religion starts in a storefront; it looks like we will be much more fortunate than that as we will start in a commercial building, as the Community Network and Coalition brings the community together.

People who I never thought would care are showing interest, I guess a good idea is a good thing.  I think this is a winner!  The DAW makes this all possible in the new millennium.

BTW  originally In this post I was going to use the EA concert a basis for commenting on what Electronic Artists have to do  to keep the audience engaged, and the “Ethics” of charging Fans for personal meet and greets (I don’t have a problem with it BTW). But it turned into a Concert review. So sue me I love EA mmkaay?

I went to the Emilie Autumn concert on Saturday Oct 17th in Orlando and I must say it was a GREAT show.  While I normally have a very dim view of  Track Dates, (shows where a singer performs to a backing track or in the case of Britney et al. Lip synchs YUCK!)  This show was an exception. Why?  Well this was NOT your typical “sing the pop songs and bail”.  Emilie is a one woman act, She writes, creates, and performs all her own work. From choosing/designing the sounds to rosin-ing up the bow of her Violins, Emilie is “The Real Deal”.  Electronic music is difficult to do live while keeping the audience interested (as guy who stands behind a laptop and synths for gigs I really understand).  So She has her backup “dancers” the  ”Bloody Crumpets”,  Naughty Veronica (a Kissing Bandit) , Aprella (Sniper), Captain Maggot (Pirate), and the Bloody Contessa (Cannibal), inhabiting the “Asylum” onstage with her. However to call them “Backup Dancers” is really a disservice to them as they are more than mere dancers. They are an integral part of the show which is more like a Broadway Musical, in the vein of Sweeny Todd, or a demented Vaudeville/burlesque show.  From Captain’s  Spinning Hoop act to Contessa’s Cirque du Soleil style aerialist shenanigans the show was more like a three-ring circus. In many ways it reminded me of a Butthole Surfers concert but with out the Porno movies. However there is A LOT of Girl kissing, Girl-piles, as well as poisoned Tea parties, Baked goods for the audience, simulated torture and fake blood but its not Grand Guignol like GWAR or Skinny Puppy. It’s dare I say it?  Tastefully done.

 As for performance of the music, yes she sings (and screeches and growls and coos) to a backing track for many of the songs, (“Dead is the New Alive” woud be the bees knees with a full band) but Emilie does have a Yamaha controller keyboard onstage she uses for her harpsichord parts thats she blazes on (The Tempo of song “Shallot” live is twice as fast as the album and you can tell she is really playing). But Emilie really shines when she whips out her fiddle and starts shredding on “Liar”, “Unlaced”, “Face the Wall” and her amazing cover of “Bohemian Rhapsody” (OMG)  All the Crumpets are doing all sorts of things on stage involving stilts, ribbons,hoops, knives, meat cleavers and shotguns. Look you just have to see it OK?

Now the crowd was interesting too, it was an all ages show with lots of young EA fans (man I felt old and out-of-place).While in line I spoke with a mom in line with her daughter and we laughed at how we were when we were “that age” all dressed up in our finest regalia ready to go see our favorite artists (Cure, Depeche Mode, Skinny Puppy, Cocteau Twins etc).   Some of the parental units looked like they walked  straight out of Central Casting for “Plump Midwestern Soccer Moms with Sensible Shoes”.  They were standing next to their Raven or Scarlet-haired daughters in full Goth-loli kit and just hanging out (While the kids did their best to pretend they were not there). Then there were a few old guys like me, not sure if they were there for Emilie or to glom onto young hipsters but whatevah. I’m sure I looked like a Chester. I know, I know.. I have the leering Molester look in my Photo-op with Emilie. But in my defence I had already downed 4 Captain Morgan and Cokes  so getting into the spirit was easy (Fun not Molester mmkaay?).  TBH I don’t know what those parents thought of the show or the music but I will tell you this:   When Emilie started singing “Bohemian Rhapsody”   I looked around and everybody and I mean EVERYBODY, from the Bar-Backs to the “Plump Midwestern Moms in Sensible Shoes” were singing along every word, bellowing out “BISMILLAH” with such gusto, it was as if we were all in some kind of Rock and Roll seance attempting to channel the spirit of Freddie Mercury himself. All the while Emilie was singing and prancing onstage and Tearing up the Brian May guitar solos on her Violin like a Corsetted, Mad Woman on Speed.    There really was only one word to describe it.

EPIC 

Post Show:

I had paid for a VIP meet and greet @ end of show With Emilie who met us with all the graciousness and theatrical aplomb of a “Great Lady of the Theatre”, she really does know how to give good fanservice (I just learned that term).  I couldn’t help but be amused that here I was in Orlando waiting to see the “Princess” much like my daughters wait at Disney world when we take them. But it was really neat, the reading about leeches and the acoustic set and sing along, (and you really MUST sing along with her you wouldn’t want to break her heart). The Photo and Autograph signing part was well organized & Emilie was awesome and really knows how to relate to her “muffins” (fans) young or old. Hey look, she gave me kiss and called me a handsome man, now I’m all grown up and I know  its just fanservice but man was my heart racing, I really could have walked on clouds.  I felt real lucky to have scored the VIP tix.  But it got even better! As a cool bonus I got to have a nice chat with Inkydust (Emilie Autumn’s engineer), earlier at the sound booth. Now how cool is that? I mean meeting and chatting with the guy that helped put together one your favorite Albums! For a Techie thats a definite highlight. (Emilie and Inky=OMGWTFBBQWINSAUCE!) I learned that Inky had switched to Reaper from CuBase for the new material. I was kind of surprised since I know Emilie is huge Mac fan with CuBase and changing up your DAW (Digital Audio Worksation) is a big deal. We also discussed the “Holy wars” (Mac vs PC vs Apple) and how silly it can get and other Music geek stuff.  When Inky mentioned that the Switched over to Reaper for the new material my Drunken Ears perked up! “New Material?” as in New Album?? did he just let me in on something?  I did not press him though, he might have talking about the post Opheliac EP’s so don’t get your hopes up on my say so.

Later after the show and meet & greet, while waiting for my friends to show up @ another club I see Inky walking down the street past me and we have another quick chat, I offer to buy him a beer and he lets me know he’s going to eat across the street after he fetches a mate and to meet him there. Schweeet!  Well it would have been, I guess I’ll have to find out another time. Unfortunately I could not get a hold of my friends to tell them I would meet them later (I was staying with them at their house and they were my ride home) who showed up right about the same time as I needed to be in the restaurant and I wasn’t about to ditch them abruptly because thats just rude. Of course they would have understood (they know me) but also I didn’t want to appear like some Crazed Stalker Fan so I missed my chance. Hey Inky I owe you drink next time your in SoFla!

Was habe ich mich am letzten Wochenende geärgert! Nachdem ich ein neues Freeware-Plugin getestet habe bzw. einen kleinen Track in Cubase damit erstellt habe, speichere ich wie gewohnt das Projekt ab und schließe das ganze Programm.

Später als ich Cubase wieder öffne und an einem anderen Stück weiterarbeiten will, hör’ ich auf einmal keinen Sound mehr aus meinen Boxen!!

Die Boxen waren richtig angeschlossen, das wusste ich, da ich einige Sekunden vorher noch Musik am PC gehört habe. In den Geräteeinstellungen und in den VST-Verbindungen in Cubase war auch alles wie gewohnt hinterlegt.
Auch die Mixer-Einstellungen waren alle ok, und die Lautstärke war richtig eingestellt.

Hier war nix!

Als nächstes habe ich die Audio-Einstellungen in Windows kontrolliert. Auch hier konnte ich nichts ungewöhnliches feststellen.

Mein nächster Einfall war die Neuinstallation von Cubase und des Soundkarten-Treibers. Nach mehreren Neustarts und erfolgreicher Installation war ich nun schon ziemlich gespannt!

Doch ich wurde leider wieder enttäuscht, denn der Ton war immer noch nicht da!

Meine nächste Anlaufstelle war die Knowledge Base von Steinberg. Als ich mir die Tipps zur Problembehebung so durchlas, dachte ich mir zwar dass es sich niemals um so etwas simples handeln kann, doch ich wurde eines besseren belehrt.

Als erstes löschte ich die Cubase-Einstellungen die unter den Anwendungsdaten im persönlichen Windows-Profil automatisch beim ersten Start der Software angelegt werden. Nach einem Neustart von Cubase (und der Initialisierung von gefühlten tausend Plugins) der nächste Test. Leider wieder nicht erfolgreich!

Der nächste Tipp der Knowledge Base war, dass man den Plugin-Ordner versteckt. Also unter den PlugIn-Informationen nochmal nach dem korrekten Pfad geschaut, den entsprechenden Ordner umbenannt und einen gleichnamigen leeren Ordner erstellt.

Cubase erneut gestartet und siehe da, es funktionierte wieder! Nun konnte ich das Problem auf jeden Fall einschränken. Es musste sich hier um das neue Freeware-Plugin handeln, dass ich als letztes getestet habe. Also habe ich das Plugin entfernt, meinen alten Plugin-Ordner wieder “aktiviert” und da war er wieder, der gute alte Ton!

Hier war's!

Ich kann euch sagen, ich stand echt kurz vor dem Verzweifeln! Deswegen habe ich auch diesen Artikel gepostet um anderen diesen Ärger zu ersparen!!

Pošto sam imao pogrdne komentare na temu gdje sam čisto u kratkim crtama dao svoje impresije vezano za Cubase na osnovu drugih sekvencera evo da i obrazložim.

Cubase bundle mi se svidio iz tog razloga što nakon instalacije dvd-a stvarno dobijamo dosta dobrog sadržaja:

• halion one
• groove agent
• loopmash
  
• lm-7
• itd..
• itd…

Preslušavajući presete bio sam zadovoljan, pa rekoh, imam toliko drum kitova po računaru a sada imamo u halionu ili groove agentu interesantne kitove koji su totalno iskoristivi. Nema više potrebe držati gigabajte na računaru, kada i sa ovim možemo biti zadovoljni te od njih čuda napraviti.

Isto je i sa ostalim stvarima, instrumentima, sada imaju nove synth plugine koji su ekstra, pored standardnog embracera, a-1, itd… Totalno iskoristive stvari.

Što se tiče testiranja, eksperimentisao sam sa raznim stvarima i opcijama – koje ja stalno koristim, uključujući i neke nove, čisto da vidim kako fercera korisničko okruženje i jako sam zadovoljan u odnosu na druge sekvencere… znaju napraviti dobru stvar to je definitivno. Za home korisnika ovo je top. Dubiozna testiranja, eksperimente i analize nisam vršio !

Ne možemo upoređivati Logic, ProTools, Nuendo, Cubase, Samplitude itd… niti stavljati sve ovo u isti koš, ali za home korisnika sa jednom prosječnom zvučnom karticom ovo je i više nego dobro.

Vrlo često pitanje … vrlo puno odgovora… svako neku svoju politiku vodi i priča, pa evo i brzog i jednostavnog odgovora

Ako uzmemo u obzir ozbiljnije sekvencere:

• Logic Pro
• Pro Tools
• Cubase
• Nuendo
• Studio One
• Sonar
• Ableton Live
• Magix Samplitude

U principu svi oni zvuče isto, i kvaka je samo do Vaše zvučne kartice. Sve ostalo je placebo efekat
Mnogi kažu, ali pro tools zvuči baš pro ! Pa jeste ali Pro Tools koristi specifični hardware (zvučne kartice) te ga nemožete pokrenuti na običnoj zvučnoj kartici – u tome je kvaka. Oni su se dobro osigurali. Za pokretanje jednog PT LE potrebna Vam je DIGI002 ili 003 kartica koja košta od 500 – 1200 EUR, pa sad skontajte zašto zvuči tako PROOOOOO !!!

Specifični (bundled) programi kao što su:

• FL Studio
• Reason
• Magix Music Maker

imaju za nijansu drugačiji zvuk (specifičan) zato što su osmišljeni da sve dobijate u paketu i da ne mislite previše o njegovom finalnom produktu – songu koji napravite, tako da već kod izlaza po defaultu koriste kompresore, limitere i slično te stoga zvuče drugačije. Po meni su ovo dummy programi, znači drag’n'drop & play…

Savjet: ne prihvatajte sve zdravo za gotovo po razno raznim forumima, jer mnogi ljudi kažu da ako hoćeš da praviš dobru muziku treba da koristiš programe kao što su E-Jay ili Magix Music Maker i slično…

Vrlo interesantan uradak

Hmm. I haven’t updated for four days. Feels like forever.
Normally, this would be a long post, but it’s nearly six a.m. and I’m tired so I won’t make it too long.
The MDR EX-500’s are still sounding really sweet, though I’m not enjoying them as much as I did the Skullcandy Smokin’ Buds.

Firstly, they came free because I had a Kondor voucher with my then-new phone. Secondly, I had pure unadulterated fun with those – I would blast music as loud as I wanted without a care in the world. I had great times and I had bad times, but sticking those in my ears and playing some good music always made me feel great.

I don’t get that with the Sony pair. I’m being careful not to break them or damage them. I’m worrying about how much slack there is on the wire and whether it’s in a position in which it could get damage. Sound leakage is pretty bad too, especially compared to the Skullcandy, so I have to consider the people around me.
Is this a sign that I’m growing up?

University has been a fairly hot topic over the last few days. The way it seems is that I’ll be staying in Birmingham, still living with my parents. Exactly what I didn’t want. I want to learn to be independent – to know how to survive when I know there’s nobody around. I proposed a compromise – living in student accommodation, but stay in Birmingham. That way I’m not far away but I still have the independence I want so much. My sisters both said the obvious: “It’s a complete waste of money”. I mentioned it to mum and she didn’t say much, other than one sister is moving out, she’ll get the next one married off, my brother and his family will move out and she and dad will go to another country – then I’ll get my independence and experience of living alone.
I’ll take that as a no then, shall I?

My room should start coming along soon. My sister’s new house is well under way so in a week a two, my bed will be moved into her new spare room. I’ve decided I’m not going to replace it as beds take up too much unnecessary space, and proved my point by sleeping on the floor this whole week. Dad has agreed to letting me do that. That means that all I need for my room is a wardrobe, computer desk and a soft corner.

College is still a bit of a joke, but it’s slowly getting better. I think most of my resentment towards the place is now just residue from the appalling first few weeks, which is occasionally added to by something stupid. I finished the website design and put it live onto my host. I hate it when free web hosts handicap the service by doing stuff like restricting .htaccess/.htpasswd, and only enable it for a fee. It means that I can’t provide basic password protection on the site. My old hosting account at 110mb.com is still active from when I used to use it to host my MySearchFunds/MyHPF cheat bot (an auto-searcher for a paid-to-search website). 110mb.com, at the moment, only offer 110mb worth of web space with 10gb of bandwidth. Yes, sounds logical, after all, the name is 110mb.com. But when I registered, it was 5gb of web space and 30gb of bandwidth. I logged in…I still have it Unfortunately, that is one of the sites that cripple htaccess.
I’m using Awardspace to host my assignment. Nothing special about it, but it’s really annoying that it hijacks error pages with it’s own bullshit for free users. That alone might convince me to go back to 110mb, provided that they don’t do it too. Or I could just borrow some web space from dad’s hosting account – that’s paid hosting so I get what I want.

Ayesha invited me to a birthday party of some sort. Her boyfriend is arranging it and she doesn’t know the details so she’s told me to ask him. Part of me doesn’t want to go. Every time I think of her, I think of how I feel felt about her. But she’s still a really good friend and I miss her.
I don’t know whether to go or not. Depends on whether I can even make it.

Why is it that whenever there’s a girl I might like, there’s always a caveat? I don’t know how to play for fun so I play for keeps. Playing for keeps means I have to take a bunch of things into consideration, but so far, the only girls I’ve been interested in have all had something that’s made me pull back. Some were taken, some were too far away, some were just incompatible and some were just skin deep.
It does wonders to the self-esteem when you’re nearly 18 and your greatest achievement with the opposite gender was holding hands, which took nearly two years to get to.

But it’s okay, this is just a passing phase. I’ll wake up in the morning to the sound of my niece whining and I’ll remember exactly why I’ll avoid getting married; to avoid having kids. Having kids puts me at risk of asking the question “Why should I have to take the kids to counselling? I’m not even the one who loves them.”. I am pretty heartless. She was doing my head in while I was trying to fix my brothers laptop, asking for a duck video (some sort of nursery rhyme video my brother had) and wouldn’t shut up, so I told her the duck is dead.

Speaking of my brothers laptop, he put the new 320gb hard drive in it. It’s a Dell Inspiron 9300 – quite old; the BIOS is dated 2005. Yeah, an old BIOS. Doesn’t make for good compatibility with new hard drives.
Apparently, this BIOS isn’t 48-bit LBA compatible, so it would only see 137gb of the hard drive. I managed to get it working though. Created a 100gb partition and installed XP on it. Then tweaked the registry; adding a EnableBigLba key to it. Reboot, load up Acronis Disk Director and create a new partition on the 200gb that just showed up.

Alexandra Burke’s new album, Overcome, will be out on Monday. I’ve listened to it and found a few tracks I like. Bad Boyz, which is the A-side I guess, annoys the hell out of me. The song itself is okay, but there’s a line at 0:30; I think she says “It feels my heart’s divided”, is exactly like another song. I mean completely identical in tune – just change the lyrics to match the other song and it’ll be almost an exact copy of it.
But I can’t figure out what song it is. It’s one I like, but it reminds me of bad times at school, meaning I probably deleted it when I wiped half my collection a while back. Oh, and the “Uay, uah” in the song is just a piss take. Which deaf idiot thought that was a good idea?
The other songs I like are The Silence, Dumb and Gotta Go.
Gotta Go and The Silence make me think of Ayesha. =/

Oh, I was told today that Syncrosoft’s copy protection was finally broken by AiR. It’s the copy protection used in Steinberg software like Cubase and Nuendo, and has until now, been uncrackable. I know wannabe DJ I used to be friends with at school who would have wet dreams about getting Cubase. He’s been trying to add me on facebook for a few months and I kept denying him because I still hate him for some of the stuff he said to me. I was so tempted to add him on facebook just to rub it in his nose that I can get it and he can’t.
Kudos to AiR though – epic skills there. It makes me think though, imagine if the cracking teams were on the other side, creating the copy protection software. It’d actually be pretty cool to see what sort of stuff these guys can come up with. Microsoft should hire them :p

So much for a short post.

Digital Music Doctor has released a new analysis which compares seven of the most popular Digital Audio Workstation software products from DigiDesign, Steinberg, Cakewalk, MOTU, Apple, Ableton and Image Line. This analysis is an update of an ongoing study and now includes ratings for the recently released Apple Logic Pro 9. The analysis measures these products based on two ratings, an overall functional rating and a value ratio that measures which products provide the most value for the money. Logic Pro has improved both of its ratings with the addition of new audio warping and time stretching functions in Version 9.

PRODUCT RANK (FUNCTIONAL RATING)
1 – Cubase 5 (4.6)
2 – Sonar 8 (4.3)
3 – Logic Pro 9 (4.1)
4 – Digital Performer 6 (4.0)
5 – Pro Tools 8 (3.6)
6 – Live 8 (3.0)
7 – FL Studio 8 (2.8)

PRODUCT RANK (VALUE RATIO)
1 – Pro Tools 8 (1.45)
2 – FL Studio 8 (1.41)
3 – Cubase 5 (0.92)
4 – Sonar 8 (0.86)
5 – Logic Pro 9 (0.82)
6 – Digital Performer 6 (0.81)
7 – Live 8 (0.67)

The functional rating evaluates 130 different factors on a scale of 0-5 (5 being best) which are combined to arrive at an overall rating. The second metric of the analysis is the value ratio which is the ratio of the overall functional rating divided by the representative dealer price. Each main category of the functional rating has several subcategories which provide overall ratings for such functions as Mixing & Mastering, MIDI Editors, and Loops & Remix. The analysis also includes an explanation for each rating as well as a description of what a particular function is and why it is important.

This analysis is based on the materials used in the video training courses produced by Digital Music Doctor for DigiDesign Pro Tools, Cakewalk Sonar, Steinberg Cubase, MOTU Digital Performer, Apple Logic Pro, Image Line FL Studio and Ableton Live. The complete analysis is available at the Digital Music Doctor web site: http://www.digitalmusicdoctor.com/shootout/shootout_summary.htm

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