Please note: You can easily log in to MPN using your Facebook account!
Songwriting and Composition
Here's the place to find out how to get out of creative ruts, analyze what makes a great song, discover inspirations for writing, and maybe even meet an online collaborator.
Subforums
-
- 66
- posts
-
- Folk music
- By Ivan May,
753 topics in this forum
-
- 0 replies
- 830 views
-
- 1 reply
- 612 views
-
- 0 replies
- 1k views
-
- 0 replies
- 805 views
-
- 1 reply
- 852 views
-
- 0 replies
- 1.4k views
-
- 9 replies
- 3.1k views
-
- 1 reply
- 1.2k views
-
- 9 replies
- 3.3k views
-
- 0 replies
- 969 views
-
- 28 replies
- 5.4k views
-
- 5 replies
- 2.3k views
-
- 2 replies
- 741 views
-
- 2 replies
- 872 views
-
- 4 replies
- 1.2k views
-
- 8 replies
- 1.6k views
-
- 9 replies
- 1.1k views
-
- 0 replies
- 910 views
-
- 0 replies
- 729 views
-
- 2 replies
- 930 views
-
- 0 replies
- 828 views
-
- 1 reply
- 838 views
-
- 2 replies
- 731 views
-
- 12 replies
- 1.7k views
-
- 2 replies
- 2.1k views
-
- 1 reply
- 659 views
-
- 1 reply
- 687 views
-
- 0 replies
- 1.1k views
-
- 6 replies
- 815 views
-
- 0 replies
- 1.3k views
-
- 0 replies
- 1.3k views
-
- 8 replies
- 1.2k views
-
- 4 replies
- 727 views
-
- 4 replies
- 1.1k views
-
- 4 replies
- 568 views
-
- 6 replies
- 644 views
-
- 13 replies
- 1.2k views
-
- 55 replies
- 17.9k views
-
- 10 replies
- 2.5k views
-
- 0 replies
- 680 views
-
Trending posts on MPN
-
According to this guy, three teams tried to move into the top 10 so they could grab Penix: Seahawks, Saints, and Raiders. https://www.fieldgulls.com/2024/4/25/24141110/report-seattle-seahawks-tried-to-trade-up-michael-penix-jr-nfl-news There must be something that coaches and scouts just love. As for me - a Seahawks fan - I'm very happy with their ultimate choice of Byron Murphy II. -
By Dannyalcatraz · Posted
I’m glad to hear they’re still making moves! Ditto the Linda Lindas!😜 -
By Dannyalcatraz · Posted
I’m a Creole (of VERY mixed ancestry) from NOLA myself, and I’m saddened by the newfound license to express their hate bigoted people are enjoying right now. But I’m most disappointed by the ones in my own family. I’ve been involved in pushing back against that BS, with some positive results. But some of it- especially in some of my younger cousins- seems rooted impossibly deeply. -
By GovernorSilver · Posted
Part of the fun for me in watching the draft on TV is when the surprises happen, starting with the Falcons draft choice. Looks like they are not counting on Cousins being able to stay healthy for all 3 of his contract years, coming off of serious injury in 2023. On the one hand the Falcons are being bashed for not taking a different position player. OTOH, they didn't have a succession plan for 3 years from now, and now they do... and they didn't have to trade up or anything to go grab Cousins' eventual successor. Chiefs trading up so they could pick the fastest player in the 2024 class was a surprise. Reid knows what he's doing though. He traded up to draft Patrick Mahomes and oh boy did that not suck. -
By Lou Gehrig Charles · Posted
I bought an Electro-Harmonix Nano Stone phaser pedal. We have a song that needs a really prominent phaser effect in it and this seems to do it just fine.
-
-
In MPN’s GEARLAB
-
By charliepersol · Posted
I just bought one used two days ago. I had in the past (a very past) the original ARP Odissey and an Avatar (the guitar version of the Odissey). They sounded quite differenti, and now I understand why: two different version of the filter. A friend of mine still have the all black one with coloured sliders, which Is again different, maybe two poles filter? Anyway the Behringer sounds good but a bit differenti too. My ARP had a ring modulator I used to build fabolous bell like sounds: metallic, full of harmonics. The kind of sound you can hear on Japan Tin Drum or Oil on Canvas albums. Until now I couldn't recreate this sound. Neither the Avatar did. Just my ARP Odissey I sold for little Money :( -
In V.A.S.T., be it the original V.A.S.T. or the newer vaster V.A.S.T. with Cascade and Dynamic, there are several ways you can use internal DSP sources with Samples: 1. Samples only 2. Internal DSP Oscillators only without any Sample 3. Samples mixed with internal DSP Oscillators In the new V.A.S.T., you can certainly use a multi-sampled Keymap, alongside an internal anti-aliased DSP Osc, e.g. a 2-block SINE+ for a single Layer, or even an aliased one like the old SAW+. For larger AA DSP Oscs, e.g. the 4-block SAW, you'd need to use Cascade Mode, a passthrough signal and a Mixer ALG. So these aren't mutually exclusive. Instead, what the manual seems to indicate is that if you want to do a traditional analogue subtractive synth, then you'd rather not use a Keymap, which makes sense since analogue subtractive synths don't use them at all. You can still use a Keymap's sample Envelope if it is set to Natural, even if the Sample itself isn't sounding via the Layer, say, if you have simply a 4-block AA DSP SAW. That SAW block effectively cuts off any of the Sample signal. However, as the AMPENV mode is set to Natural, it is the factory AMPENV for that multi-Sampled Keymap that is applied to the Layer. The Natural envelopes have more details than can be produced with a User AMPENV. The thing that happens with setting the Keymap to Silence is that it sets each key's amplitude to the same maximum amplitude. Maybe that's what you need in a certain program, but sometimes, if you are doing an emulative program, you could be better off actually referencing the emulation's Keymaps Sample although the latter isn't heard, with the corresponding Natural Envelope, or of course, you could just go into User Mode and make your own envelope. Hope this helps. -
Sweetwater might accept to deliver to Canada, but you will be charged transport accordingly and as anything going USA to Canada your item will go through customs and it is always possible to end up with extra fees - sometimes very expensive. I personally had a very bad experience about 10 years ago and promised myself to never import again from the USA unless the seller confirms on paper he pays for all possible customs and duties extra fees. Buying Kurzweil products in Canada has always been complicated. In the 1990s a few stores in the province kept a couple of them, but if you wanted something they didn't have you had to order sight unseen and wait months to get your purchase. That is how I bought my MIDIboard, K1200 and finally, around 2000, a PC2X. I hated the Fatar action on the PC2X from day one and swore to never buy a keyboard sight unseen ever again.
-
-
Come join MPN’s Clubs!
-
Kitchen Music
Open Club · 28 members
-
Surround Recordings and Remixes
Open Club · 8 members
-
Vinyl Record Fans
Open Club · 21 members
-
-
Blog Entries
-
