Questions about Music Creator 5

Re: RE: Questions about Music Creator 5 (57Gregy)

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:14:34 GMT

Right. Playing the Studio Instrument Drums onscreen drum set does nothing but allow you to preview the drum sounds.
You need to either record the MIDI data in a MIDI track with a MIDI keyboard or controller or MIDI drum machine that has drum pads you can hit, or enter MIDI data (notes) in the Staff view or Piano Roll view (PRV) with your mouse.
Try recording your guitar into a track that doesn't have Ampltube inserted (not a "Guitar Track"). The right-click in that track's effects bin and insert the Amplitube. See if it works that way.

"I've tried to run my guitar through my Vox Tonelab Le into Music Creator but the playback is phased."

What is the sampling rate and bit depth of MC? What is the sampling rate and bit depth of the Vox? Whatever they are, they have to be the same.

Re: RE: Questions about Music Creator 5 (Guitarhacker)

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:12:48 GMT

Again...please use a new posting thread... it's easier to keep it all in one thread specifically for your question and the answers.....

You are trying top record a drum track.... first...is it AUDIO or is it MIDI... that matters... big time in how we proceed in helping you.

I will assume it's NOT audio.

Recording midi drums. Go to my website www.herbhartley.com .... look in the music section on recording, and search down the pages on MC4/5 for creating a drum track in MC....

Unless you have a midi keyboard or drum box, sending MIDI data in to a synth set up to play drum sounds.... hitting the record button is totally useless and nothing will happen.

I used to use the STAFF VIEW to write my drum tracks... one beat at a time... create a measure..... copy it and paste it as far as needed..... edit the measures between the verses and choruses for the rolls and stuff.... and in an hour or less, I'd have a drum track.

That's the hard way.

The easy way is to learn the tools.... I believe MC5 comes with some drum loops built in... I don't use it so I don't know what the name of it is, or where exactly it is located.... I do see it in my plug in options, so I know it's there. I think it's a matter of copy and paste....

I use Jamstix... see my web site for more on JS2. others here use other drum programs. Almost no one I know of writes tracks with a point and click method. For a small amount of money (relatively speaking) you can get a drum program that save tons of time and work, and sounds so much better not only in the complexity of the beats, but also in the actual sound of the kits.

On a tight budget, it is possible to write your own drum tracks in staff view, and by learning a few shortcuts, having a decent drum track in 10 to 15 minutes, and a polished track, depending on your skills, in an hour or two. It is possible that the drums included in MC5 will play the track for you...and that will sound much better than using TTS like I describe in my web page tutorial. I need to check that out and update my page if it is so.

Have fun... more questions...start a new thread topic.

Re: RE: Questions about Music Creator 5 (honestabe)

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:19:30 GMT

Please help! I am having trouble with Music Creator 5. I open the software and a dialogue box states that I am missing a plug-in for AmplitubeXGear? Now I can't use the amplitube software to record my guitar. I've tried to run my guitar through my Vox Tonelab Le into Music Creator but the playback is phased.

Secondly, I tried to add a drum track but it won't take; I can hear the drums just fine but it won't record. I have the "record" button engaged on the drum track but to no avail.

I have a Dell Inspiron i537 with a Celeron processor w/4Gb of RAM.

Someone please help me before I kick my computer AND return this software.

P.S.

Would a D.I. box fix my phasing problems? I've tried reinstalling the software but I'm still missing the Amplitube plug-in.

Re: RE: Questions about Music Creator 5 (Beagle)

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:38:41 GMT

Guitarhacker

I just read down the posts...came to mine..read it ... and said "WHAT?"

that's why I always check the dates before I start reading!

Re: RE: Questions about Music Creator 5 (Guitarhacker)

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:29:31 GMT

I just read down the posts...came to mine..read it ... and said "WHAT?"

Re: RE: Questions about Music Creator 5 (Beagle)

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:55:24 GMT

that shouldn't happen. can you send us the file by email (the mp3)?

my email is beagle@beaglesound.com

Re: RE: Questions about Music Creator 5 (rolnickj)

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:21:03 GMT

Hi Gregy,

thanks again for your help. so, ok I purchased a track from an online music site in mp3 format. That track sounds great in itunes and wmp as well as on cd format. I dragged the same file into cakewalk. the file appears in my project but the tops and bottoms of the wave are clipped off. When I play the file through my speakers it sounds crackly, but only when I am using cakewalk to play the song. Are there any settings I can adjust within the program to avoid having the tops and bottoms of the wave cut off? Is there a default setting in place (and do you know what it might be called in the cakewalk drop down menu) that I can adjust to alter when the program will clip the peaks out of a file?

thanks, hopefully I made it clearer instead of more confusing

Re: RE: Questions about Music Creator 5 (57Gregy)

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:00:27 GMT

Good question, Beagle.
Jen, can you see that the wave in the track is clipped, or it just sounds distorted?
I assume you know what clipping looks like, but I'll explain anyway.
It's called 'clipping' because the tops (and bottoms) of the peaks in an audio waveform look like they've been clipped off, leaving a plateau instead of a nice, sharp peak. Is that what you see?
If it merely sounds distorted, that's something that may be able to be fixed, depending on the settings of your sound card, etc.
And try importing the mp3 instead of drag and drop. Maybe that could make a difference, although it shouldn't.
File>Import Audio, navigate to the folder where the mp3 is; double-click it.

Re: RE: Questions about Music Creator 5 (Beagle)

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:39:20 GMT

what do you mean by "a bigger wave size"?

Re: RE: Questions about Music Creator 5 (57Gregy)

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:27:01 GMT

I don't think so. MC will import the audio as is, so if it's already distorted, that's what you get. You can't retroactively remove clipping.
If you purchased these songs from an online source, you can complain loudly to the vendor that their product sounds bad and try to re-download them.
Where did you get the mp3s?
And you don't necessarily need MC to make a CD from the music on your computer, Windows Media Player does that very well for me. What MC can do is fade-outs and -ins between songs. Other programs can do that, too.

Re: RE: Questions about Music Creator 5 (rolnickj)

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:50:27 GMT

hi greg,

thanks for the advice. These are actually tracks I bought and would like to mix together into 1 cd. Are there settings in music Creator 5 that I can adjust to allow in a bigger wave size or not really?

thank you so much for the help
jen

Re: RE: Questions about Music Creator 5 (57Gregy)

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:55:57 GMT

Welcome to the forum.
To start a new thread, click the Post New Thread button in the upper left.
I can't say anything about your mp3s being clipped on import, unless they were already clipping.
Record some audio with your keyboard, guitar or mike at non-clipping levels, export it to My Music or other file, then re-import it into MC and see if that is clipped.

Re: RE: Questions about Music Creator 5 (rolnickj)

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:39:47 GMT

Hello

I am new to this forum and music creator 5. not sure how to create a new thread as this seems to be a different issue. I drag n dropped mp3 audio files into a music creator 5 project and the files played fine, but they were clipped (I guess they are too loud/big for the current project settings). Is there any way to adjust the program settings to accomodate or do I need to reduce the sound/size of the clips I am dragging into the program?

thank you for the help :)

Re: RE: Questions about Music Creator 5 (milk)

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:00:41 GMT

Thanks for your reply. I 've just posted my issues.

Re: RE: Questions about Music Creator 5 (Nutty)

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:38:22 GMT

Hi milk and welcome to the forum.

Here is a link to the main page.

At the top left, about 1/3 of the way down, you should see a tab for "post a thread" (or something similar).

Annette

Re: RE: Questions about Music Creator 5 (milk)

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:58:41 GMT

Would You please tell me how I post a thread ?

Re: RE: Questions about Music Creator 5 (milk)

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:38:32 GMT

Thanks for replying. I am a new comer and I don't know how to sail on these waters.
I have tried to select my interface as both recording and play back, the thing doesn't work at all. There's a message about tascam , I click on " use it anyway " but this thing doesn't work.

Re: RE: Questions about Music Creator 5 (Robomusic)

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:59:17 GMT

First off welcome to the forum, but you should always start your own thread it is easier and folks will pay more attention to it.

The tascam should be setup as both the playback and recording timing master in MC5 and should be listed as the sound card in control panel under sound devices.

Re: RE: Questions about Music Creator 5 (milk)

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:37:46 GMT

I am having an audio driver error message whenever I try to include Tascam US 144 interface into my home studio ( Music Creator 5 ).
3 are the available drivers : pc / interface/monitors
Which one should I set in Panel Control for audio and voice (both
play back + recording ) and Music Creator 5 ( audio = options ) ?
I am not familiar with names, so, please give me a detalied explanation

Re: RE: Questions about Music Creator 5 (corinne)

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:23:59 GMT

Hey - that's a thought. Thanks Rob

Re: RE: Questions about Music Creator 5 (Robomusic)

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:46:59 GMT

Go buy a cheap USB hard drive empty case, i have about three of them, and when ever a system crashes and i upgrade i keep the old drives and format them for extra storage, but first if you pop them in a drive case and plug them into the USB port you can many times acess the data and move it over.

Here is a case that is reasonable priced http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=GRN-35U2-IDE-SATA&cat=CSE

Always do a virus scan on that drive first though.

Re: RE: Questions about Music Creator 5 (corinne)

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:08:34 GMT

You can never have too much Beatle :)
Thanks everyone

No, guitarhacker, the old computer doesn't work :(

RE: Questions about Music Creator 5 (Guitarhacker)

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:26:43 GMT

If the old computer works...and has a CD burner or a USB port or is networkable...... you don't have to swap the HD.

RE: Questions about Music Creator 5 (Beagle)

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:50:59 GMT

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RE: Questions about Music Creator 5 (Robomusic)

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:20:03 GMT

B-i-n-g-o B-i-n-g-o B-i-n-g-o and Bingo was his name-o

RE: Questions about Music Creator 5 (gamblerschoice)

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:03:19 GMT

Yeah, ole bingo the beatle answered all of the questions complete and consice, took all the fun out of it for us.

Later
Albert

RE: Questions about Music Creator 5 (Robomusic)

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:24:54 GMT

John, Paul, George or Bingo!

RE: Questions about Music Creator 5 (corinne)

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:09:44 GMT

Thanks so much Beatle - You've been very helpful :)

RE: Questions about Music Creator 5 (Beagle)

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:46:06 GMT

MC5 works fine with vista 32. it is not vista 64 compliant, but you can get it to work on vista 64 in "XP compatibility mode."

MC3 was not designed to work on any version of vista and there have been many people report that they cannot get all functions (some including audio output!) to work in vista even in "xp compatibility mode"

yes,you can get an external soundcard check my website for some soundcard recommendations. an external soundcard will resolve a lot of issues, but nothing to do with vista.

yes, if you put your old hard drive in your new computer you can access all of the data files on it IF the hard drive was not the reason that your old computer went "kaput"! " /> if your old computer went "kaput" because of the hard drive then it's VERY difficult and sometimes impossible to access files from it (I know - I've had a hard drive with music files on it go "kaput"!!)

you can even open all of your MC3 projects from that hard drive (as long as the hard drive is OK) from MC5!

Questions about Music Creator 5 (corinne)

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:51:10 GMT

Hi everyone
I had Music Creator 3 on my old computer that has gone kaput (It had Windows Millenium). Now I have a Dell with their crummy soundcard already installed.

My questions are:

1. Music Creator 5 - I think I read somewhere here that Vista is problematic when it comes to MC5. Is that so? What will I need to do once I get the new software?

2. I still have the disk for MC3 - Can I use it with the Vista, or would that be too much of a headache?

3. Can I get an external sound card? Will that solve any issues I might encounter with MC5?

4. If I have someone take the hard drive out of the old computer and have it installed in the new computer, will I be able to access my MC3 Cakewalk files? I mean the recordings, not the program.

I would be so grateful if I could get some answers to my questions. Thanks guys