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i would like to make mp3´s of my stuff someday but i don´t know how to get the original music in the background. how do i do that?
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I used Dart Karaoke Author with a karaoke MP3 to record my "Are you drinking tonight" parody - it's very simple to use, but not very versatile when compared with something like N-Track.

Dart has devocalisation routines, too (i.e. turn an original bit of music into a karaoke backing track), but that nearly always destroys the music, too - I tried it with "Allergic to cats" and it sounded dreadful, and that was before I started singing  ;-)

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i would like to make mp3´s of my stuff someday but i don´t know how to get the original music in the background. how do i do that?
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I always looks for the instrumental of the song on the net.  usually I get it from winmx and kazaa.  audiogalaxy had a lot of them, but ya know:(

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I used Dart Karaoke Author with a karaoke MP3 to record my "Are you drinking tonight" parody - it's very simple to use, but not very versatile when compared with something like N-Track.

Dart has devocalisation routines, too (i.e. turn an original bit of music into a karaoke backing track), but that nearly always destroys the music, too - I tried it with "Allergic to cats" and it sounded dreadful, and that was before I started singing  ;-)

Phil
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 But the best way to perform a parody is to have a live band,
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I agree, if you have a live band to hand; OTOH, playing live with an audience is great if you have suitable recording kit.  I've tried recording when I've been played, but the quality's never been good enough.  I bought myself a minidisc recorder, and although the reproduction is fair, you don't get digital out, only digital in - i.e. to get the sound off the minidisc you either play it back analogue ( :-( ) or buy a £5k minidisc data drive; the new USB devices look better, but are still quite expensive over here.

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I agree, if you have a live band to hand; OTOH, playing live with an audience is great if you have suitable recording kit.  I've tried recording when I've been played, but the quality's never been good enough.  I bought myself a minidisc recorder, and although the reproduction is fair, you don't get digital out, only digital in - i.e. to get the sound off the minidisc you either play it back analogue ( :-( ) or buy a £5k minidisc data drive; the new USB devices look better, but are still quite expensive over here.

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...you use that for burning, right?  ;-)

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Phil, how popular is the minidisc format in the UK?  It seems to be very poorly promoted here in the U.S., and I was able to buy my minidisc recorders for less than $200 each, with the blank media selling for as low as $2 each.
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IMO, minidiscs are seriously undersold, when you consider how good the idea is: digital quality storage and playback on cheap media (I got a very good price: ten blank minidiscs for £7, say $10, but they're usually a bit more than that), the cheapest portable recorders are round about the £100 mark, but it's about triple that amount for the Sony "net"xx range of minidisc recorders which have USB digital transfer at approximately 5x playback speed: it gets a lot more usable once you can play around with audio like that, rather than having to record from the minidisc at 1:1 playback speed.

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...you use that for burning, right?  ;-)

Actually, although both Audio Cleaning Lab and Cakewalk Pyro have CD burning capabilities, unfortunately neither program was compatible with the external CD burner that I had, so I'm stuck  burning CD's with Adaptec 4.0 (now Roxio 5.0).   The MP3 making capabilities of these programs is limited, so I used another Magix product, MP3 Maker for converting WAVs to MP3
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I find analog audio transfer via minidisc to be the most convenient, because my computer is not located near most of my audio equipment.  Even though I own a laptop, lugging all the necessary cables and  the audio interface box over there is damned inconvenient.  It's a lot easier to just bring the portable minidisc to the computer desk and plug it in there.  Of course, I can only record and do analog audio transfers in 1:1 realtime.   I've collected over 2,000 MIDI files, and I at one time made some minidisc recordings of my favorites, but I think I'm going to try a software conversion program which bypasses the sound card and directly converts MIDI into WAV.

Having owned all kinds of tape recorders since the late 60's, I think minidisc recorders are a fantastic and affordable advance in technology.  Sony's Web-savvy design may yet save the minidisc here in the U.S.

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IMO, minidiscs are seriously undersold, when you consider how good the idea is: digital quality storage and playback on cheap media (I got a very good price: ten blank minidiscs for £7, say $10, but they're usually a bit more than that), the cheapest portable recorders are round about the £100 mark, but it's about triple that amount for the Sony "net"xx range of minidisc recorders which have USB digital transfer at approximately 5x playback speed: it gets a lot more usable once you can play around with audio like that, rather than having to record from the minidisc at 1:1 playback speed.


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IMO, minidiscs are seriously undersold, when you consider how good the idea is: digital quality storage and playback on cheap media (I got a very good price: ten blank minidiscs for £7, say $10, but they're usually a bit more than that), the cheapest portable recorders are round about the £100 mark, but it's about triple that amount for the Sony "net"xx range of minidisc recorders which have USB digital transfer at approximately 5x playback speed: it gets a lot more usable once you can play around with audio like that, rather than having to record from the minidisc at 1:1 playback speed.


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