Subject:Real Audio

Posted by: sojourn

Date:3/6/1999 9:32:41 AM

I've been using ACID DJ for about a month now, and it is a
great program. Aside from changing my audio and CD drivers,
I have nad no problems (still looking for a good DVD driver,
though).

My question: How can I encode my songs for Real Audio?
Encoding an entire song as a .wav makes a huge file, too big
to send electronically. Thanx in advance - I'm just looking
for an efficient way to send out my work in a format that I
know other people can use to listen to it.

Dustin
huberdn@email.uc.edu
magneto@disinfo.net

Subject:Re: loops

Reply by: studio

Date:3/6/1999 5:55:41 AM

make them!


MCLIQUID22 wrote in message
news:4E50QVAa#GA.264@logan...
>Im gettingsick of the same loops where do i get more

Subject:Re: Real Audio

Reply by: Michelle

Date:3/7/1999 6:25:12 AM

Dustin Huber wrote:
>>I've been using ACID DJ for about a month now, and it is a
>>great program. Aside from changing my audio and CD drivers,
>>I have nad no problems (still looking for a good DVD driver,
>>though).
>>
>>My question: How can I encode my songs for Real Audio?
>>Encoding an entire song as a .wav makes a huge file, too big
>>to send electronically. Thanx in advance - I'm just looking
>>for an efficient way to send out my work in a format that I
>>know other people can use to listen to it.

You can do this one of two ways: with Sound Forge or Sound
Forge XP, or just with RealEncoder which is a free product
you can download at http://www.real.com/ .

Sound Forge XP is a cheap program which actually has a very
nice subset of its big brother's functionality. Since when
you mix an ACID track as a mono .WAV you get a little more
volume than your original .ACD project, using SFXP's
"Normalize" function to pull the sound out of the red zone
is a good thing. Stereo .WAVs made in ACID tend to be a
little lower in volume than your original .ACD project...go
figure. Again, "Normalize" is your friend.

The help files that come with SFXP have a whole procedure on
how to prep a .WAV for RealMedia encoding. Follow that
procedure, then you can encode one of two ways:

1.) Save the finished .WAV file, exit SFXP, then use
RealEncoder to make the .RM file. RealEncoder has a wizard
that will hold you by the hand all through the process.

2.) Make the .RM file in SFXP itself. I think you "Save As"
RealMedia. However, I am not sure where you add the
copyright information and so forth, as I always use
Procedure 1.

To put your file up for HTTP streaming, you need to create a
little text file called a .RAM file. The .RAM file consists
of only one line: the URL of the .RM file you want to
stream. For instance:

http://msgeek.simplenet.com/acd/industrious.rm

That's all that a .RAM file consists of. Save the .RAM file
as text in your Word Processor, or use Notepad to write it.

Then, you finally publish your link:

http://msgeek.simplenet.com/acd/industrious.ram

using the simple link anchor tag on your page. When a person
who has RealMedia Player goes to your site, they can click
on the .RAM link, and up pops the RealMedia Player and they
can hear your tune.

Please let me know when your file is up, so I can add your
link to the ACID Casualties Division Gallery. It's at:

http://msgeek.simplenet.com/acd/gallery.html

At this point, I have a few examples of my own ACID
compositions there. Enjoy!

Take care,
--.\\<-H--
Listmama/Webkeeper, .ACD
http://msgeek.simplenet.com/acd/

Subject:Re: loops

Reply by:

Date:3/12/1999 1:59:01 AM

Make your own loops from anything you can think of...


MCLIQUID22 wrote:

> Im gettingsick of the same loops where do i get more

Subject:Re: Real Audio

Reply by:

Date:3/12/1999 2:06:57 AM

You can also try the MP3 format. It compresses the heck out of audio
without loss of sound quality. Search the web for Audiograbber or
something like it. The audiograbber site has a free mp3 encoder.
There
are also lots of other encoders for mp3 also.

Good luck.



sojourn wrote:

> I've been using ACID DJ for about a month now, and it is a
> great program. Aside from changing my audio and CD drivers,
> I have nad no problems (still looking for a good DVD driver,
> though).
>
> My question: How can I encode my songs for Real Audio?
> Encoding an entire song as a .wav makes a huge file, too big
> to send electronically. Thanx in advance - I'm just looking
> for an efficient way to send out my work in a format that I
> know other people can use to listen to it.
>
> Dustin
> huberdn@email.uc.edu
> magneto@disinfo.net

Subject:Re: loops

Reply by: Stu

Date:3/23/1999 8:39:36 AM

"Make your own loops from anything you can think of ..."

Use the MIDI send in Acid Pro (if you have it) to sync to a
sequencer running to a synthesizer. This way you can
record that amazing line you've been working on with any
patch. This is the essence of sequenced music. I admit,
this is more for the "Pro" user rather than the amateur or
hobbyist. I record all of my non-drum lines this way.
Pianos, strings, pads, bass-lines, etc. It works
incredibly well, and if the Acid development team
implements my Auto-Crop idea, things will be incredibly
easy!

Regards,

-=[Stu]=-