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General Discussion => Music Talk and Showcase => Music Showcase => Topic started by: agent84 on December 22, 2009, 11:11:52 am

Title: Agent84's Christmas Song
Post by: agent84 on December 22, 2009, 11:11:52 am
In time for the holiday season, I made a short holiday-themed song.  Enjoy :)

Title: Re: Christmas Song
Post by: JCW on December 22, 2009, 12:28:24 pm
Nice.
Title: Re: Christmas Song
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 22, 2009, 07:05:45 pm
nice ^^

I really wish you could hook your keyboard to your PC for sound quality
Title: Re: Christmas Song
Post by: agent84 on December 23, 2009, 10:17:12 pm
thanks for the feedback :)

About the PC hook-up; my keyboard didn't come with a USB cable, so I don't know how to hook it up right now (i could always just order the cable online, but i'm too lazy :p).
I'll see how much it costs, and I might look into it, but with the holiday spending and stuff, I just don't have much money right now.
Title: Re: Christmas Song
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 24, 2009, 01:22:24 am
What I usually do is take a simple 3.5 mm to 3.5 mm cable with both ends like headphones cable end, connects it to the sound source's headphones jack and the other end to my computer microphone jack (audio in/line in also does the job), then I use a software like Audacity to record. With some devices, it might have poorer sound quality, though.

(http://www.oriongadgets.com/images/3.5mm-audio-extender-male-to-male-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Christmas Song
Post by: TIfanx1999 on December 24, 2009, 02:41:06 am
nice ^^

I really wish you could hook your keyboard to your PC for sound quality

You can, but you have to have the software and a sound card that supports it. =D
Title: Re: Christmas Song
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 24, 2009, 02:44:13 am
not necessarly. As written above, anything that can output audio through a headphone port can be connected to a computer where you record the music. You can even record the music on some tape recorders this way.
Title: Re: Christmas Song
Post by: TIfanx1999 on December 24, 2009, 02:52:04 am
Yea, I know. Some stuff works fine that way, but some stuff has a noticeable drop in quality, and some thing get additional strange noise or distortion added in >_>. I've played around with this a bit myself when trying to record from different sources.
Title: Re: Christmas Song
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 24, 2009, 02:52:39 am
yeah true, especially from a TV. Sound even becomes mono. But hey at least it does the job for cheap :P
Title: Re: Christmas Song
Post by: TIfanx1999 on December 24, 2009, 02:59:11 am
Very true! =)
Title: Re: Christmas Song
Post by: Eeems on December 24, 2009, 03:20:59 am
It also depends on what input Jack you use. Never use the mic Jack, horrible quality :(
Title: Re: Christmas Song
Post by: ztrumpet on December 24, 2009, 11:16:11 am
What I usually do is take a simple 3.5 mm to 3.5 mm cable with both ends like headphones cable end, connects it to the sound source's headphones jack and the other end to my computer microphone jack (audio in/line in also does the job), then I use a software like Audacity to record. With some devices, it might have poorer sound quality, though.
Genius! I've been looking for something to do this, and it looks like this will work. Plus, the cable you mentioned it the same cable you use to connect two calcs.
Title: Re: Christmas Song
Post by: Eeems on December 24, 2009, 12:34:08 pm
Actually no, the calc cable is too small. You need one with two ends like on a pair of earbuds.
Title: Re: Christmas Song
Post by: ztrumpet on December 24, 2009, 01:23:11 pm
Oh, yeah, I forgot. The calc cable is 2.5 mm. :(
I forgot to think before posting...
Title: Re: Christmas Song
Post by: Builderboy on December 24, 2009, 01:24:15 pm
Ha! DJ thats exactly what i do to get the copywrite off songs i download from iTunes so i can use them in my Movies! XD
Title: Re: Christmas Song
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 24, 2009, 03:16:03 pm
yeah same, or if I want to send a itune song to a device/console that can't play itunes files.