/musicprod/ - Music Production

Neat.

also all the infographics i just dumped where all from the /mu/ sticky website from halfchan. you know, the actual website that contains pretty much all the /mu/ related stuff,

Link to THAT here

http://4chanmusic.wikia.com/wiki/Sticky

Despite being related to halfchan, this DOES have a mountain of tremendously valuable information in it.

>>533

>100% OF THE TIME.

Recording music is often better done on a laptop because of less noise.

>>541

not true. "noise" is signal noise, of which there is more on a laptop. additionally unlike a laptop, on a PC you can have a dedicated soundcard, and DAC (Digital/Analog Converter), Not to mention on a computer using VSTs there is zero signal noise regardless of platform. any distortion is 100% a result of buffer size and bit depth, of which, a laptop will be garaunteed to have less of.

>>541

Unless you are talking about noise with a microphone, that is the time at which you have a valid point. it is also the ONLY time you have a valid point. Recording through a microphone is the ONLY time, because laptops are themselves LITERALLY quieter, unless you have a liquid cooling setup for your desktop.

of course you can solve THAT problem simply with a long cable and recording in a different room.

Not to mention if you're recording with actual instruments, you should, if able, record in a studio with sound-proofing, at which point you're going from instrument/mic into a mixer, into a computer or analog recording, which is in a different room.

>>541

but in regards to my post >>545

on the use of a microphone…

That entire post is about making ELECTRONIC MUSIC, not a studio recording with live instruments. Those synths aren't outputting audio out of speakers and then into microphones, they're plugged directly into the mixer. they CAN output sound, but for recording, the output from the speaker isn't what gets recorded. the dry signal is. at which point if you're recording with a laptop, you're getting less of a clean signal, than with a desktop, or a halfway decent DAC.

>>546

If you exclude every possibility of recording audio as part of your electronic music production, then yes, anything but a stationary PC is retarded. Or it better be one expensive ass laptop, and I don't see the point. You can get more power cheaper with a stationary.

>>550

as I said, Even if you're recording an acoustic guitar with a microphone and a vocal track, you should be recording in a different room from the computer. Wireless mics, and long mic cables are things that exist. you only really need like 10-15 feet to get a good distance from the computer, and if you put up a soundproofed wall between you? yeah, way better.

and if you're doing anything else, you should be recording on one piece of dedicated recording hardware and import it to your mixer, analog OR digital.

that doesn't exclude "every possibility of recording audio" it just excludes the possibility of "Sitting directly in front of the computer while you are doing the recording" at which point holy shit what are you doing.

How do I soundcard? I have a novation Ultra Nova but to use it, I have to plug shitty headphones into it and produce with them while using the ultra nova. I can't use my speakers which are connected to the desktop PC.

>>580

> novation Ultra Nova

Reading about this thing, you don't need to.

There's at least 2 audio outputs on this thing.

One of them is a headphone jack, which you can use a male to male cable to plug directly into your microphone jack, but this is inadvisable because unless you have a good PC setup you'll get some signal noise. admittedly this is easy to remove, but you already have a better solution.

The ultranova has a 2nd audio output, as exporting/streaming digital audio rather than analog. It's USB to USB.

Basically, Sit down and read the manual, it will tell you what to do. when you plug it in with USB to your computer, then launch your DAW, and check all your sound options it SHOULD be detecting both midi in and audio in from this device. you might need a driver update, and you might need to set something up on the ultranova, but all this information will be in the manual.

I don't have anything like this, but from what I saw on their website http://global.novationmusic.com/synths/ultranova#

it seems to be this simple.

Because it's digital audio there won't be signal loss, which is why it's an improvement from regular line-in.

When it comes to doing line in when I need to I have this shitty M-Audio USB dongle thing that has line in and line out. it converts the line in and line out to digital audio and has some small amount of processing in it, and it's out of the computer so there's less/no signal noise. it's cheap, and it works for me, but I'm not an "Industry professional", and am fully aware that there are better alternatives.

but seriously

TL:DR RTFM, you have digital output and line out.

>>580

also i'm gonna say in regards to my other post >>533

stuff like this is the time that it's okay to use a laptop as well, because your sound generation and most of your effects are all in that synth, rather than on the laptop.

So out of curiosity, how do you like the thing? would you recommend it? what do you use it for?

>>529

>not very suitable for fingerstyle

Tell that to the guy from Dire Straits

>>752

Scarlett 2i2