Well buh.
So Mr. Reznor, being the awesome guy that he is, released all the parts of The Hand that Feeds to the masses in GarageBand form. Fuck yes, we all say, remixes galore. It's supposed to be for GB2, I have GB1, thought I'd still give it a shot. It loaded up just fine. So I picked out a song to mix it with, and screwed with that song for several hours, counting the beats, deciding exactly where I would put everything, etc, and then decided to tackle combining this song (one of NIN's other songs) with THTF stuff. So immediately I come to a problem.... though I can easily slow down the 128 bpm THTF stuff to the 80 bpm of the song I chose, it sounds like shit. So I decided to change it to 90 bpm. the vocals sounded a lot better, but the song itself did not change. So I ask people on ev3, hey, how do I get it to change, no one was quite sure. It appears, in GB2, one can convert the song file to a GB file and change it freely. but that did not work in GB1. SO I took the file into sound studio and sped it up to what felt like 90 bpm. Then I dragged this into GB, and tried to line up the vocals with it, but it just wasnt quite sounding on time... then I realized that GB was playing the file in the original 80 bpm. So I delete that, bring the 90 bmp file into GB again, but no, GB is still playing it at 80 bpm. so I create a new GB file, and open my 90 bpm song in it.. STILL PLAYING IT AT 80 BPM.
I do not understand why.
It is making me extremely upset, especially because it doesnt make any sense at all. No sense.
So I guess I have to trash this project until a time comes where I can get GB2.
Goddamnit I'm dissapointed. I had a vision. you know? I had it in my mind how I wanted to to sound (this entry title is what I was going to call it), and it is very frustrating to not be able to get technology to do what I want. This seems to happen to me a lot when dealing with technology, photoshop and terragen, I have a vision and the programs just cant do it.
Oh well.
Hope you guys are all doing okay.
<3
Edit: or as the case may be, I just have no fucking clue *how* to do it. Brian said he'd look into it for me. I just feel ill.
Posted by Jshei at April 16, 2005 10:06 PMI have to deal with poorly designed technology every damn day. I have several PCs running windows. ;) Yeah, it's very frustrating. I'm having a particularly hard time right now with my server at the moment. It keeps crashing and dropping file transfers, and as such, I need to install a new OS on it. Perhaps the hard drives overheated. I don't know. I'm surrounded by faulty hardware and faulty operating systems. Blech. Much <3 to you, Jshei.
Posted by: Kanerix Wolfe at April 16, 2005 10:17 PMmuch <3
Posted by: Kelly at April 16, 2005 10:19 PMAnd this is why I'm a CS major. I want to make programs suck less :) (and especially be more intuitive to use)
Posted by: Catfish_Man at April 17, 2005 04:32 PMI looked around, and i didn't see anyone bitching about tempo issues.
I'm looking into hooking you up with garageband 2.
CFM, Good luck!
Brian, <3<3