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Macintosh computers have been involved in music and audio since their introduction. The creation of Farallon MacRecorder Iin 1987 brought recording to mainstream users, and the Macintosh never looked back.
ProTools Free is also a great choice for users with newer Power Macs running Mac OS 8.6 and up. While it supports only 8 tracks of audio, it features an integrated MIDI sequencer and better compatibility with newer ProTools versions. It also supports a limited number of real-time audio effects plug-ins.
Deck II offers more features than ProTools without extra NuBus or PCI cards. 6800 Macs with CD-quality audio I/O (such as the Quadra 660av and 840av) are supported, as well as most Power Macs. (Most Power Macs come with CD-quality sound built in)
Cubase provides an integrated multitrack audio and MIDI environment. MIDI editing is accomplished using a built-in MIDI sequencer. As inventor of the VST and ASIO plugin standards, Steinberg has included strong support for these technologies in Cubase.
Cubase has been around since the early 1990s, so there are many versions to choose from. Earlier versions support 6800-based Macs but predate VST plugin technology and so do not support realtime audio effects. Newer versions support much the same feature set as Deck/Metro on Power Macintosh computers.
SoundEdit 16 by Macromedia is practically a legend. Its first version was bundled with MacRecorder. The last version, SoundEdit 16 version 2, is fairly easy to find on the used market; not only was it sold alone, but it was included in the Macromedia Director Multimedia Bundle.
It also supports industry-standard VST plug-ins, such as the famous (free) MDA series. SonicWorx also supports all the basic operations such as cut/copy/paste and waveform enveloping. Highly recommended! Check out for more information
Cubase was another excellent commercial-software MIDI sequencer for Macs back to the Plus. It has since evolved into Cubase VST, Nuendo, and other Steinberg products. If a used copy is available that supports your vintage Mac, Cubase is an excellent choice.
Early Macs (such as the IIci and SE/30) lack sound recording hardware. Buying a Farallon MacRecorder is the obvious solution, but that might be easier said than done. It might be fun to try to build your own by downloading these plans (sound-input-device.hqx). The SID-II is compatible with the downloadable MacRecorder driver.
There are many ways for vintage Macs to help record, edit, and produce music. A Macintosh SE with Performer makes a great MIDI controller. A Blue & White G3 running ProTools Free and SonicWorx PowerBundle is practically a whole studio in a box.
Inside Out is the third studio album released by the German Eurodance group Culture Beat. The record was released in 1995, and there were four singles released from the album in total. The "Inside Out" album is also the last album to be released with the Jay Supreme & Tania Evans line up. This is also the first album not to be produced by Torsten Fenslau, who died in 1993 while promoting Culture Beat's music.
Vintage gear like a Minimoog, Oberheim Xpander and Sequential Prophet VS were probably a part of it. But I also remember seeing studio pictures and screenshots of monitors with DAW tracks that were labeled with every virtual-analog that was out at the time: Nord Lead, Waldorf Microwave, Novation Nova, Roland JP-8080, etc.
If you're looking for something to imitate those sounds, one of those late-90s VAs I mentioned would be a good place to start (and the cheapest). But it's not all about what synth you use. I'd bet that 99% of the sounds on that record were ran through some heavy effects too.
kryszt: Ahh ok, well I need to work fast. The next synth I'm buying will have to be good for live play/programming, cuz that is what has the most priority for me My goal to my synthesizing is to be able to play everything I put in the music live aswell. But still not make the synth boring. I dont like when a sampler/computer plays what a man can play Kills the whole experience and reputation for the synth imo.
Don't get whatever Trent had just because he had it. All the things he used there are now in more advanced incarnations at this point. As someone mentioned, the Nord Wave is a lot like a Lead or Lead 2 only it samples and can apply FM to the samples. The only example I can think of that was definitely a great incarnation (since discontinued) was the Nord Modular, but as you said the programming depth was not for you.
Lately, on the last tours they did I heard Reznor was pretty much in love with the Mono Evolver Keyboard, a monophonic analog/digital synth with all the waveforms from the Prophet VS (legendarily used in NIN's music up through The Fragile).
Try a lot of stuff though man. Find your own sound(s), program as much as possible, find a synth that makes sense TO YOU. Fuck everyone else, forget influences, it's your music. The Fragile, though a great record, is ancient history. You aren't going to go pick up a 1ghz computer with 512k of RAM and chain eight different 1gig hard drives together are you? Of course not, but hey that's pretty much what The Fragile was recorded on.
I think I might sell my sh-201, save some money and then buy a nord lead 2x(the wave is tempting aswell but don't know if it is worth the extra 1k in money, and it doesn't seem to be able to stack 4 sound on each other as the Lead is capable of). And NOT just because Trent used it, because it sounds fucking neat and has all of my demands fullfilled with what a good synthesizer is
You might want to try not co-opting both sound and image. If your art doesn't work on it's own strength then find a way to make it work, otherwise it isn't really your art..... now is it? Your singer sounds like he's trying very, very hard to sound like Manson at times.
my mistake. when you commented on "your singer sounds like he's trying to sound like manson" I thought you were referring to reznor as his singer like he was a fan... didn't see the link to his own bands page.
sausagefoot: Yeah, I know the pictures are quite alike. But we happend to like the theme. And we do not state anywhere else that we like NIN expect from here on this forum. xD Many bands also have taken pictures at a beach you know. You wouldn't have thought of it if I haven't told you that we like NIN. And tbh we do not sound like NIN. Maybe our singer sounds abit like manson. But he is not trying to sound like him. His voice is that way xD Give some criticism on the songs instead of our marketing
Prior to its release, the single The Day The World Went Away came out on July 20; following The Fragile, We're In This Together was released in three parts on December 14. A collection featuring several remixes and new material from The Fragile was released as Things Falling Apart on November 21, 2000. The album was produced by Alan Moulder, though it was originally going to be produced by Rick Rubin.[1]
The track list for the double cassette releases of The Fragile follow the CD track list, save for the insertion of "+Appendage" onto the end of "Please" on US and some other countries' copies. The first tape splits between "Just Like You Imagined" and "Even Deeper," while the second tape splits between either "Please (+Appendage)" and "Starfuckers, Inc." or "Starfuckers, Inc." and "Complication".
"+Appendage" is included on all US cassettes and on several other countries', such as Thailand and Poland. "+Appendage" is listed, but not actually included, in the tracklistings of some countries' cassettes, such as Europe and South Korea. Other countries' cassette releases, such as the Philippines, Malaysia, and Mexico, omit "+Appendage" entirely, from both the tracklisting and the tape.
The Fragile Instrumental was made available on June 30th, 2015 exclusively via Apple Music. It contained instrumentals of every track, with some also being alternate versions (see the remixes page for details.) It also contained three previously unheard tracks: "The March" (instrumental), "Hello, Everything Is Not OK" (instrumental) (a demo of "10 Miles High"), and "Can I Stay Here?" (instrumental). It is also notable that it contains the first non-cassette version of "+Appendage". It was released along with With Teeth Instrumental.
When The Fragile ended up being a double album, Trent Reznor struggled with the sequencing and sought outside help. He ended up using Pink Floyd producer Bob Ezrin, but had also initially considered Brian Eno.[2]
Note that whilst "Anomaly" has been confirmed to be the working title of "The Way Out Is Through", the final titles for "Rotation" and "Stained" have not been revealed; "Underneath It All" may be the final title for the latter, based on its prominent lyrical use of the word. Stated in an interview with the Nailed Podcast, Charlie Clouser believes that "Rotation" is an early iteration of "The Big Come Down", but could not say for certain.
My job was to take all of this work and reorganize it to more practically and effectively tell the story that originally generated all these bits. Sort of like editing a film. Trent had "shot" more than he needed and it wasn't hanging together the way he wanted. But he was also tied to the other studios recording and mixing while this was going on so he needed someone he trusted to come in and take over the "editing" process and help his "film" hang together better.
And it was a totally thrilling process. We had SO much stuff and so much to say but we needed to tighten it up and review the pacing etc. So we were literally working round the clock for what turned out to be weeks until we finally nailed it and I was able to go home.
A photo uploaded to nin.com during The Fragile era hinted at a collection of unused songs called "The Lost Fragile Tracks". No other information was given besides this title for the in-studio CD-R.
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