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I'm a robot, but you've probably never heard of me.

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Mar 28	comment	Connect Line Level To Mic Level Unless, of course, the objective is to introduce loss.
Mar 20	comment	Connect a 6.3mm microphone to USB You microphone is also mono, so that isn't really a big deal.
Mar 19	comment	Why does my NI Komplete Audio 6 have very low input volume? This seems like a good question for NI tech support.
Mar 17	comment	Free (or great) VST panner with haas effect This is a good starting point for creating the Haas effect in your DAW of choice. If the DAW supports sending audio to arbitrary audio processing tracks or channels then you could do that rather than making a copy of the track. This is particularly beneficial if you are working with a CPU-heavy plugin or making use of stochastic elements in your synth or processing.
Mar 11	comment	Fl Studio replacement @le_garry if you could expand that comment with some information about additional FLStudio learning resources, it could be a good answer on its own.
Mar 8	comment	How to record several instruments with a Mac using minimal equipment Just go to the M-Audio website or a pro-audio retailer like B&H or Sweetwater and look at the interfaces that have the number of inputs you need and fit within your budget. Specific recommendations are outside the scope of AVP.
Mar 7	comment	how accurate frequency does a PC speaker produce Back in the '80s, there was a file floating around that, when executed, would speak "help, somebody! I'm trapped inside this computer" through the PC speaker.
Mar 7	comment	how accurate frequency does a PC speaker produce Keep in mind that your built-in sound card probably generates audio at 44KHz. That means that a 22KHz sinewave will come out as a square wave. But it won't be that bad because your speaker can't move that fast, so it will be a somewhat rounded square wave. At 16KHz, you are still getting a much rougher approximation of a sine wave than you would at 1khz.
Mar 3	comment	Audacity: Exporting time track to csv This may be a better question / bug to address directly at Audacity. As far as I can tell, the export feature doesn't actually work for time tracks. It just exports a wav or aiff file, which isn't useful. My guess is that the feature is either not implemented or the current behavior is a regression.
Mar 2	comment	How can I make a video such that the quality degrades if someone tries to record it using screen recording software? @filzilla I think you just invented the new Instagram for video...
Mar 1	comment	removing hammering noise behind speech Glad to hear the other suggestions helped. You might want to un-accept both of my answers, though. Although I think they are solid answers, there may be other people at AVP with better ideas. I like to wait a few days before I accept an answer.
Mar 1	comment	removing electrical artefact background sounds behind speech Thanks, but no need to rush to accept my answer.
Mar 1	comment	Free (or great) VST panner with haas effect Logic has a thing called the Environment which is a sort of awkward modular system for MIDI processing. If you already understand it well, it may be easy to use it to create a haas panner with the built in delay units. If not, then it will probably be a nightmare.
Mar 1	comment	Free (or great) VST panner with haas effect What DAW are you using? It is pretty easy to set something like this up in Ableton using racks and one of the included delays. Alternately, it is easy to build a haas panner in something like PureData or Max/MSP. I suspect it is also easy in Logic's environment, if you can grok that :)
Feb 25	comment	Triggering a drum module from recorded tracks What makes one drum module better than another, to you? Both my old Roland TR-626 and Elektron Machindrum are great values for what they do, and the thing that each does has a particular use.
Feb 25	comment	How can I make a video such that the quality degrades if someone tries to record it using screen recording software? yes - you really need to evaluate your situation to ensure that adding a copy protection scheme makes sense. At the end of the day, you are probably just putting money in Rovi's pocket and making life a bit harder for the people that produce your final output. There is also the small issue that music videos are usually intended to promote your band. You might need your head examined if you want to prevent people from seeing them!
Feb 22	comment	How do I fix clipping distortion in my audio recording? Nice drawings! I suspect that a fractal approach would yield better results than cubic splines. Create a catalog of wavelet shapes, and then do affine transformations on them until you find the best match for the clipped wave and apply that. Compute intensive, though.
Feb 22	comment	Are there “professional” single input external sound cards? Yeah, Sweetwater is nice too. But it is easier to get a direct flight from Haifa to NYC for some gear shopping :)
Feb 21	comment	How do you organise and manage a project when re-sampling audio to achieve unique sound design? I'm not sure this question can be saved, as it is better served by a discussion of possible solutions. There isn't one "best" way to manage this workflow, and each solution is likely to leave its fingerprint on the final creative product.
Feb 10	comment	running two different versions of the same VST instrument at the same time Can your collaborator upgrade to the latest version of Massive and FM8? Usually NI does not charge for minor updates. So if the collaborator has Massive 1.1.5, 1.3 should be a free update.