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How Kids Learn To Cooperate In Video Games -- A Guide for Parents and Teachers
A great many parents are concerned that the electronic games their kids play are teaching the kids “negative” messages such as aggression, violence, and isolation from real people. I want to illustrate here how computer and video game playing,...
Ten Tips For Beating Depression
A woman was suffering from depression, so her concerned husband took her to a psychiatrist. The doctor listened to the couple talk about their relationship, and then he said, "The treatment I prescribe is really quite simple." With that, he went...
Rick Day Ribs Recipe & Cooking Hints
Pork ribs are purchased in SLABS, consisting of about 15 bones in each slab. A RACK is a SLAB cut in half (6-8 bones). Ribs come in four categories, defined by the location on the hogs rib cage they are cut from: COUNTRY STYLE...these are more...
The Most Precious Gift to Give our Children
As a proud mother of a two-year old daughter and an eleven month old son, I already see them growing too quickly before my eyes. It makes me wonder if I am being the best parent that I can be and if I will have regrets after they have grown up of...
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Digital Music; Home Studio Music Recording
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Written By:
Brian Beshore
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Home recording has come a long way in the last few decades. Many people do not realize that much of what they hear on T.V. and in commercials is electric.
Many people still have a negative connotation about how electric music sounds. They think that it must always have a cheesy sound.
Part of this stigma is the confusion over midi. and wav. sound files. Simply put, midi is a signal that is sent to a sound card and triggers a note on a preset instrument sound. Therefore, the sound you get from a midi. sound file will only be as good as the sound card you are using.
Even if you record a midi file with a good sound card, if someone else plays it back using an inferior sound card, the result will be inferior sounds.
Now there are very excellent sound cards available and also software synthesizers. The thing to do is to convert your midi. file to wav. The way to do this is to play your midi file through the desired sound card and record it at the same time, using the recording application that comes with your sound card.
For windows PC, I like the SoundBlaster cards, such as the Sound Blaster 16 PCI 4.1
There are many excellent software programs for recording on windows PCs. One I like in particular is Cakewalks Plasma - continued below ...
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recording program. You can record multiple tracks, just like a professional studio. Plasma has software synthesizers and will also mix down your midi tracks to wav.
Once you have converted your midi to wav., it is a simple matter to burn it to CD. You will want to use the 44100hz setting in the audio tools for this.
To create midi tracks, you can put the musical notes on a staff with the mouse, if you know music theory, or you can connect an electric keyboard to your PC and play the tracks, setting each track with the sound of the desired instrument.
Of course, these programs also allow you to record a wav. track(s) directly, singing or playing an instrument into a microphone. Recording wav. Requires a lot of memory and a fast PC, but most new PCs are more than up to the task.
If you’ve ever had a song you wished you could record, you might want to check-out these reasonably priced software programs. It’s a whole lot of fun!
Brian Beshore is a graduate of the Peabody School of Music in Baltimore. He has played in many groups and many well known venues, such as the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano, where his group opened for Hunter S. Thompson. Contact Brian at dizzyobrian@excite.com and visit his website at http://www.dizzyobrian.com
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Let's explore the cosmetic options:
Braces.
While you may have worn braces as a child, braces are now a treatment option for adults as well although realignment may take longer for an adult. In some cases an adult will require...
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