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Roland 49 keyboard, QuNeo, Midi Fighter Twister,

basura — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 14:36:08 +0800

All prices can nego, clearance sale!

Roland A-49 Key Midi Keyboard
SOLD
https://carousell.com/p/43318510/

QuNeo 3D Pad Midi Controller **Imported**
RM850 nego
https://carousell.com/p/43318660/

Midi Fighter Twister
RM600 nego
https://carousell.com/p/43318754/

Pedaltrain Volto **Rare**
RM1200 nego
https://carousell.com/p/43318902/

Patchblocks Programmable Synths
RM350 nego
https://carousell.com/p/43319567/

Looking for Graphic Designers, Photographers, ...

basura — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 16:16:45 +0800

SideQuest

Ever wanted to join the freelance community, work whenever you want, and choose your clients? Ever wanted to reach out to a wider audience and showcase your skills?

SideQuest is basically a platform to showcase your talents and get connected with clients and likeminded people.
(see here for examples: http://www.sidequest.me/designer)

You can sign up as a photographer, musician, graphic designer, and much more!
http://www.sidequest.me/signup

For more information, visit: www.sidequest.me

We are soon coming out with an app. Picking jobs will be as easy as swiping left and right!
Grow your reputation with a review and feedback system.
Our payment systems go through a secure layer so that your money won't go anywhere until the job is done.

If you have any questions, feel free to PM me or email us at hello@sidequest.me

Find Local Graphic Designers

basura — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 16:07:42 +0800

Looking for interesting designers for your startup tshirts or posters?
Check out these local curated designers at http://www.sidequest.me/designer.

SideQuest is basically a platform to showcase your talents and get connected with clients and likeminded people.

You can also sign up for logo design, poster design, and even custom artwork.
http://www.sidequest.me/signup

For more information, visit: www.sidequest.me

Follow us at: Facebook.com/letSideQuest

If you have any questions just PM me, or email us at hello@sidequest.me

Spotify

basura — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:59:45 +0800

Anyone have Spotify Free invites?

Concerning private trackers

basura — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 01:42:46 +0800

It's just ridiculously difficult to get an invite to these private trackers! (what.cd, st, waffles.fm)
And its ridiculously difficult to get through their interview process!

Can anybody help this Malaysian brother out?
(secret WTB message ahem ahem)

Recording tips and tricks

basura — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 04:21:07 +0800

How do you musicians like to experiment with sounds?

For recordings, I really love to record white noise cause sometimes you just get that perfect atmosphere when you mix it in. Or slicing up white noise and looping can always be fun.
Panning is another cool effect. In one song I had two of the same track play at the same time. What I did was I phased them at individual phases to create this kind of wave-like motion in the music. It gives off this really cool dreamy hypnotic-like effect. (You can check out the song "Hypnagogia" where I used this effect in my Myspace link below)

But vocals are always a pain for me. Because 1. I can't really sing and 2. I can't really sing. It sucks sometimes haha, and I never figured out how to autotune correctly. Adding reverb helps mask out some of the bad singing, but it just muddies out the song. Any tips guys?
Mixing is an artform, just as important as writing the song itself (if not even moreso). I view mixing as creating an illusion for the ear sometimes, where you manipulate sounds so that it sounds a certain way. Filters, compressors, equalizers all help in this part.

Share some of the cool stuff you guys have figured out while recording. Tips and tricks Don't be afraid to show us what you've learnt.

If anyone's interested, here's my Myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/translogicnoise
Some of the tracks may be a bit on the experimental side.

[addedon]January 3, 2011, 4:55 am[/addedon]For any newbies out there (well aren't we all haha), recording goes to the concept of "its how you use it not how big it is". By big I'm referring to expensive equipment. Music is about creativity, and nothing can limit that glass ceiling. I repeat, it's about how you use things not how good your equipment is.
Ok, I digress, to a certain level it is about how good your equipment is. But unless you're at that level (where you can quit your day job to just record music) there isn't an excuse not to do what you love (this is assuming you love making music of course).
I used to record all my stuff using my Macbook mics. Now again, Macbooks may be expensive but the mics are HORRIBLE. But it got me through, gave me a bit of experience on things.
I only have a cheap set of twin condenser mics with me right now. I don't have stands for them, so you can imagine how tangled up with wires my studio (aka bedroom) is.
Don't have an amp? If you happen to have a few pedals lying around, it might have a USB feature where you can connect it to your laptop and record off it. When I first discovered this feature on my ZOOM G2.1, I went crazy!
Forget about MIDI Keyboards. Most software have their own notation system, or even better, a function that lets you use your own computer keyboard to input. It's tiring sometimes, but it works. Also, if you guys want some sounds go to www.freesounds.org they have alot of user submitted (and thus copyright free!) loops and midi sounds for your using pleasure.

On to software, you can create great sounding stuff on freeware like Audacity. If its a layering program, you're good to go. I'm pretty sure you guys know how to work your way around the internet to get sophisticated software for free. I personally use Logic Pro, but Garageband is more than sufficient to get you started (actually used that for awhile). I'm not too familiar with the Windows scene though.
Getting yourself familiar with your software is key to recording good original songs. My friend can do some crazy stuff on Fruity Loops that I can't even wrap my head around. Same is true when ordinary people (who don't record music lol) look at my Logic Pro workspace. All they see is a mess of tracks here and there. All I see is a beautifully arranged score. Learn your software, it's the first step.

I hope this can start this thread up abit. Feel free to contribute your share of knowledge.
I know loads of people who want to record music but put it off endlessly as they are intimidated by the concept. Once you learn your way around it, it's not hard at all. It's quite simple really. Recording equipment, software, and some musical ability and you're good to go.

You guys members any private trackers?

basura — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:35:49 +0800

Sad to say, I'm quite noob only got Demonoid account
I heard people pay thousands to get into HDBits and other private trackers.

I'm looking for What.cd or Waffles.fm invites! If someone can help a friend out here I can give you Demonoid invites!
PM if interested

After Effects

basura — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:41:28 +0800

Hey guys, just got into playing around with Adobe After Effects.
Here's an example of what i did.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma5EH_Ie5j0

The songs original btw
The particles don't react too well and are a bit too floaty because of probably my faulty expressions. I can't tweak the physics much anyways, cause i cant render the particles at real time to see what happens >_<
comment thanx

How to know if I got Streamyx 4mbs coverage?

basura — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:26:34 +0800

I checked their website to see if Shah Alam Seksyen 13 had 4mbs coverage, I saw only one road which had. Thing is, the road is in my neighbourhood (Laman Seri), like only jalan-jalan 2 minute to get there. Its a new area, I'm actually quite surprised that got coverage (on that road). So if that road (or maybe even house) got coverage, is there any chance my road should have? And i haven't called 100, its 2.30AM

hd4850 or 9800gtx+

basura — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:31:01 +0800

now ive read that in the hd4850 vs 9800gtx+ that the 4850 actually performs better.
now heres the dilemma, the 4850 also heats like crazy! 80 degrees WALLAU!
i mean, in air-con room all ok la. but problem is, im bringing this comp to my boarding skool, hide it inside a cabinet! i had my 8500 in there once, not much prob tho.
so guys, which one will be the graphic card which is suitable for my current situation. will i lose out alot if i take the weaker card?

Playstation Store question

basura — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:50:13 +0800

Hi, i know that ps store varies from acc to acc... im downloading loads of stuff from the ps store, but theres still not enough... my acc is registered as singapore acc(closest to malaysia, had a sing address with me) so im guessing im in the asian store... few questions:

how many different stores are there? (ie JP, US and EU) and whether certain countries share stores(i think sgp and hk share the same store)
How are the stores different? (price, different content?)
Is the email for the acc important? can i share an email with another acc? if so, if i just type in a random email will it work?
do i create a new main or can i create a sub? what are subs for anyways?

anyhow, im setting up a US acc soon as i bet theres more content there. can anyone please give me an address(or even just the postal code) for the US... help is very much appreciated

oh, last question regarding MGO... the konami id asks for a postal code, will that filter out the people that you meet in the game according to the country?

oh, and please dont link me to the other guides as i already read through them... I just want a deeper understanding...

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Bittorrent problems

basura — Sat, 05 May 2007 01:12:20 +0800

this just happened recently to me, my utorrent just started acting up and wont dl... it only downloads after midnight or like that, is this the work of TMNet? this happened to any of u?

i need my naruto now man!

should i get a ndsl now?

basura — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:13:54 +0800

i mean, if i buy it now, in 2 more years there might be a new handheld since the ds is old now...

new built PC....

basura — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 17:50:08 +0800

i want to say tht this is my first time building a PC, just to clear things up...

i built it up an AMD sempron 3000+ AM2, 80 gig + 40 gig hdd, dvd-rom and cd-rom, 512mb RAM and Nvidia7600... wasnt hard to build, just very confusing, i was left with a small grey wire, with two blackheads at each end...

after i booted it up, it works just fine, cd/dvd-rom works, i can hear the processor running and the hdd loading up, but theres just one problem... my moniter is left blank, as if my computer wasnt booted up(it was connected)... and my usb mouse and keyboard wernt working neither...

uhh, i explained it the best i can but i cant take pics or anything...

question for people who bought their flashed DS

basura — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:07:17 +0800

i heard tht flashing your DS is so tht you dont need to use stuffs like PassMe tht goes into the DS catridge slot...

so, how do i play homebrew games on my NDS? do i need to buy an extra gadget like M3 Lite by my own or wat? im just asking cause a flashed NDS Lite is still 2 months of allowance away and finding out tht i havta buy extra stuffs to play homebrew games just makes this hole in my wallet worse... actually, i dont mind the money wasting since im just still a kid(no need to worry about other stuffs ), but i havta wait for the money to come to me and during tht period sure ada distraction(Wii lagi, PS3 lagi)

thanx

Speaker problem...

basura — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 15:48:36 +0800

he LYN,

i dunno where this question is supposed to go(since the lack of variety in forums)...

my tv is a mono tv, so when i plug in my HiFi stereo system, only one speaker plays... this annoys me and all i want to find out is, how to overcome this problem? is there some sort of cable to convert mono to stereo or something?

thanx

command prompt/cmd.exe errors

basura — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:11:17 +0800

hi, everytime i use a command prompt type of program(like the flv batch converter), cmd automaticly closes itself... this can be rather annoying as the ONLY flv converter uses it(i think)....

pls help me...