On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:41:28 -0000, "Gill Smith"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>too excited!
>
>'new' (i.e. used) sound card arrives tomorrow
>
>probably no sleep the nights after, trying to figure out why everything
>doesn't sound soooooooo much better (it's the music. stupid.....)

I'm like that wheneverI have a new piece of kit on the way. Its like
meeting a new girlfiend/boyfriend!!...yeah even at my age!! You know
what I mean though...these are the tools of our trade and its great
when we have something new to work with.

I hope the new soundcard is good....Do let us know....LL

Gill Smith a écrit :
> "lancelightning" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:41:28 -0000, "Gill Smith"
>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>> too excited!
>>>
>>> 'new' (i.e. used) sound card arrives tomorrow

Hi Gill,

I noticed you put a few tunes on iTunes for sale.
Could you briefly give us the things to know in order to do the same?
Why you are happy and why you are less happy? Are there any tricsk (like
if you don't sell anything you have to give your house to Apple in
return for the exposure they gave you) ;-)

I always thought it was a waste of time to put music on sale on
something like iTunes when you were not "famous" (well you kniow what I
mean). But I might be wrong. And most of all: I don't think I realised
that one *could* sell music on iTunes without being famous.
Have you sold copies of your work yet? (please don't answer to this
last question if you think it's indiscrete).


Thx.

I'm following your m-audio adventures ;-)
Like others already said, the biggest progress you will notice is the
latency when you use the ASIO driver. It will allow you to play VSTi
like it wasnot possible at all with you old card. Provided you have
powerfull enough a computer (is that a correct sentence?).

Huey

Gill Smith a écrit :

>> Have you sold copies of your work yet? (please don't answer to this last
>> question if you think it's indiscrete).
>
> I make about 10 US dollars a year!
-
Yeah!
Do you know how much I made with cell phone ringing, last year? (hold
your breath): 0.66 euro.
But I was quite happy about this, because it meant that someonehad
actually looked out to buy my music.
-
>
> I use Tunecore to upload my stuff
>
> http://www.tunecore.com/
>
> it costs 10 US dollars for a single
>
> for an album (2 or more tracks), costs depend on how many tracks you want to
> uplload
>
> and how many digital stores (iTunes. Napster etc.) you upload to
>
>
-
Thanks. These precisions introduce me to the way it is done.
There is a third party involved, actually.
-
>
> *********************remember********************* *****
>
> if you do cover versions (Summertime, the Beatles....), you'll need a Harry
> Fox licence
>
> and *you* will pay Harry Fox (10/15/20 cents) every time someone buys a 1
> cent track via Napster!
>
> so best sell those on iTunes/Amazon *only*, where a minimum price ensures
> you will cover your costs
-
Thanks for the heads up. I live in France and I think I would have to
deal with local mechabnical rights managements
But it is exactly the same issue
Anyway, I was aiming at presenting more original stuff than covers.
>
>
>
>> I'm following your m-audio adventures ;-)
(...)
>
> but I rarely/never used VSt anyway - I found the sounds much inferior to
> MIDI
-
This last sentence shows us that you still have a hard time dissociating
midi from "sound producing".
Again: Midi makes no sound. Midi is a set of instructions that could
activate a wheel barrow if the wheel barrow was midified. The wheel
barrow would not make music but it would be a midi one.

What VSTi have you tried?

Anyway, enjoy your new car and thanks for the infos about iTunes &stuff.
Very helpfull.


Huey