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Author: Oboe Craig
Date: 2012-05-03 23:55
Just a casual survey.
I've spent a few days learning some newer things about what is available in the web-wold today.
Funny, after nearly 25 years in corporate IT work, as programmer, manager, etc., it is really easy to lose track of all the neat tricks and sometimes free tricks current technology offers.
My question to fellow bboarders is how are you able to deal with it?
Please respond to the following with yes/no:
1) I can use a recording systems or freeware such as Audacity.
Audacity records or allows you to apply an mp3 file and play it back at pitch with slower or faster tempo settings.
2) I can take a youtube video and rip out just the audio into an mp3 file.
Freeware supported on Firefox and Chrome provide this ability.
3) I can play a midi file and control it to my satisfaction.
I can change tempo, assign instruments, etc.
4) I still need access to a source where I can find audio for play-back and in differing tempos to support learning w/o rushing.
5) I would prefer to get up to speed and learn to do this for myself.
Fun world, great time to be alive with the technology...
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-Craig
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Author: Loree BF51
Date: 2012-05-04 00:45
It looks like your 4) is different than 1). I hope to get my new Audio-Video computer in 19" rack mount case, finished, over this coming weekend and then after installing one of my Audigy cards, I'll try to see what you're talking about (for the first time, software wise). Possibly, by the end of this Millenium, I'll be able to answer with confidence (yeah right!). At least, I'll try. Regards.
R. Still former student
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Author: OboeCraig
Date: 2012-05-04 01:47
http://youtubemp3.tv/
This works on Mozilla Firefox and Chrome browsers.
Do be careful to only take freely shared music though.
Its a tough world in terms of copyright now and it'll be a while before it gets sorted out.
Personally, I think like Mark's site here, I am headed for a world of free with a donate option.
Fortunately, there is a wealth of freely shared music and other resources.
-Craig
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Author: WoodwindOz
Date: 2012-05-04 02:56
Pretty confident with all of that, and some.
If I didn't know, I'd be able to figure it out fairly promptly (I do have magic Google fingers as well. :P Forums are a wonderful thing!)
Rachel
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Author: GoodWinds ★2017
Date: 2012-05-04 05:21
...I simply prefer to visit with people in the same room, where I can see their face and hear the timbre of their voice...
Maybe it's the 9 years I lived in 'developing countries', but I somehow manage to do without TV and the technology that drives our business and lives today.
I DO appreciate the internet exchanges though, more than I can e-say.
GoodWinds
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Author: DrewSorensenMusic
Date: 2012-05-04 13:04
Myself: 28 years old, Semi-professional theatre musician, resume includes cruise ships, community theatre, High School and College pit filler.
1) I can use Garageband or Protools. Have used audacity to take lead vocals out of tracks. Still doesn't work well cause the reverb is still present.
2) Have used a program that I forget the name of right now.
3) Eh, maybe.
4) No, but Audiolobe is a good program for it.
5) N/A
I guess the reason I posted is I don't really see the novelty in Midi. The sounds are terrible, and midi replaces my job on frequent occasion. Actually I despise Midi, I don't expect you to have the same opinion. Nothing beats good real musicians. I realize when people don't have the money to afford this, midi is getting better. But those that make millions in the music business should use live musicians to make their music the best it can sound. I don't know how classical performers can use midi. I can understand how producers use it. You can use the timecode to control lighting rigs. That seems useful.
Drew S.
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Author: Old Oboe
Date: 2012-05-04 13:07
I can't do any of that. I'm trying to make a DVD of a concert I played and can't do that either. Frustration level high.
Linda
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Author: mjfoboe
Date: 2012-05-04 18:08
Linda,
Tell us your problem:
The program you use, your camera, etc ............. maybe we can help you with the video project.
Most programs are pretty straight forward in the steps needed to complete a DVD project.
Mark
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Author: JRC
Date: 2012-05-04 18:35
I gave up using DVD a long time ago. AVI or MP video files are automatically created by cameras. Put them into USB thumb dive is the way to go I think. USB memory sticks are cheaper, higher in capacity (if you chose to), and no need to fool with DVD disk, DVD player/recorder software, which is a pain and there seems to no standard.
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Author: Loree BF51
Date: 2012-05-04 19:46
I think you may have left the word, "nuts" out, after the word, "lives", in the second paragraph. Regards.
R. Still former student
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Author: Old Oboe
Date: 2012-05-04 22:06
Mark and all, I live in a small town and play with a mostly over 50 group. Some don't even have e-mail. My husband's Lumix camera took a beautiful high definition video in the .mts format. He can view it on his PC and he converted it to .wmv and put it on a DVD which no one else can play on their PCs and which doesn't play in a home TV DVD player. (Two people got the video to play from the DVD but one doesn't know how because it didn't play the first time she tried and the other isn't in the band. They all insist that Windows Explorer is up to date. Of course it plays consistently and beautifully on the HP laptop we have.) Enter the MAC. My MAC doesn't support .mts in iMovie or iDvd. So I got a conversion program, iVI, to convert the .mts file to .m4v so I could make a TV friendly DVD. I took the .mts from a flash drive supplied by my long suffering husband. Now I have a .m4v video that I can watch but where the music starts several seconds before the conductor gives the downbeat. The players would love to have a DVD that plays on their TV. Most of their computers are old and can't play the disk we made. I despair.
Linda
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Author: Oboe Craig
Date: 2012-05-04 23:14
There is a fairly cheap, under $40 software called Flip4Mac that has resolved all file format challenges so far for me.
But you might also import the video from the camera straight into iMovie... then make a movie and use it in iDvd.
Good luck with it.
It is worth the learning curve. Hang in...
Also almost every technical challenge i face has an answer on youtube vids folks post out of kindness.
Sometimes not the greatest production, or syntax, but the goal is learning the one thing you need that eludes... It usually works for me.
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Author: Old Oboe
Date: 2012-05-05 03:30
Thanks Craig. Unfortunately Mac doesn't support .mts so it couldn't go to imovie hence the need for conversion - and it's now in imovie as.m4v but out of sync. My conversion process went horribly wrong. I'm waiting for villagers to show up with torches.
Linda
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Author: GoodWinds ★2017
Date: 2012-05-05 04:34
PLEEEZE don't despair. There's Life without Gadgetry, really.
GoodWinds
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Author: johnt
Date: 2012-05-05 14:45
Well, now, there was a time when nobody understood fire either, doncha know.
Best,
john
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Author: GoodWinds ★2017
Date: 2012-05-05 16:24
I still find fire quite mysterious... as I do certain aspects of reed-making.
GoodWinds
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