Meteo Xavier

Is there a reason I can't get both?

How much are you trying to raise?

Because casual/hardcore affixes to genre names easily, and not all puzzle games are mindbending. I see more casual players play puzzle games than usually anything else.

YES! That was definitely intentional and I'm glad to see someone caught on it! You just made my whole day, CHIPP, and that day included 5 hours of doing receipts for work.

I don't mean to keep incessantly bumping my topic here, but can anyone who has iTunes or Zune or on Napster help me find it on those websites? I looked today and Amazon.com has it listed for $7.92, and likely because there are 8 MP3s at $0.99 each. I don't really approve of that and I want to see if the other sites are charging more than $5.99, but I'm having trouble finding them. Thank you.

I don't have cancer if thats what you're asking. It's a long, weird story and I don't really want to go into it here, I just still gots to make up the hole in my bank account where that surprise bill dug through.

This guy knows how to design a website and Myspace page. Damn, those are attractive.

I respect that. Its part of the progressive influence plus I get bored with song titles. I like them long and weird.

A couple people (family members) have told me the site isn't working for them or they're having trouble purchasing it. It works fine for me, but is anyone else who was interesting in purchasing having trouble? I have my own MP3 set set up if anyone would prefer bypassing CDbaby entirely.

Oh, forgot to mention. To those purchasing on CDbaby please be sure to leave as much contact info as you can. CDbaby allows me to see who purchased what, and I want to be able to know who I can send additional incentives (customer appreciation!) and replace any lost/broken copies for free. That's all. Need to edit the first post.

Man, you'd freak if you knew some of the things me and Zircon had to do to get these tracks working as well as they do. Some of the OCR people might remember me whining and posting some demo tracks in WIP Original and it just got more and more difficult from there. FUN FACTS! - At one point I worked for 6 hours straight on Tritochiark. I sat back in my chair and started floating up into the ceiling and from a third person perspective saw my body jump up and reach to pull me back down. Yep. Out of body experience. Didn't think they were real. - I lost my original computer setup back in January to a huge computer crash, so if I had to rework tracks, I was screwed. And I did. Ornamekias was missing instruments I had in AFTER Zircon mastered it. I had to synthesize a new synth bell and thank God Zircon had a copy of Colossus to fill in the missing Duduks. - Amenen...umm... Track 3, tried to commit suicide when I opened it in FL Studio to extract. Track 3 was the hardest track to pull off and I felt it would really break the album without it. I had to extractevery channel as a .WAV, and there were 60 channels at nearly 8 minutes long. I had to make SUPERCHANNELS out of 10 channels each and then combine them into a MASTER CHANNEL. Then Zircon mastered them and again it was missing half the instruments, which was entirely my fault. Thankfully, again, re-recording certain instruments was not a problem because they were either z3ta or soundfont. We got it working and I quit having strokes as a result. - Saelmeth is based off a really old track from several years ago and one of the first I was able to finish so it sounded like a real track. - The flute melody in Icidina wasn't sounding right and I couldn't get a better flute sample in there yet, so Zircon worked with me again to add some supplement layers to the melody. I wish I could've done better there, but we got it working ok. I'd like to redo Icidina personally and get it so it isn't so bare. - I had to go back in post-production and add some stuff to Maria Le Pitruzelluca so it would sound better. Bells and crashes mostly. There was also a considerable issue with the gap between the sections and Zircon was VERY accommodating about that. - Navi Whisperwilde was based off a track I got posted on Platonist's Reunion website. I was trying to do a Kraftwerk style German 70's ambient thing but it wasn't working out. "Waterdream Tones" I believe it was called. I've actually found some pirate websites letting people download it. Freaky. - The piano work on Sagetellah took 2 weeks to compose. It took 6 weeks to find a piano player. I got turned down by 20+ piano people before I got to talk to Michael Huang who works with Piano Squall. That was actually the same day I got back from my cancer operation in November, which I had at the exact same time my MOM had her big cancer operation about 5-6 miles away, unrelatedly, and the same day I completed another remix for a project. Story actually gets weirder from there, but let's just say it was a pretty big day. Michael got the work done ON budget and in only a week. Few changes had to be made. He fucking NAILED it. That was one of the brightest spots during the whole production. And there you have it. Does that give you an image how much effort went into it? It was an extraordinarily difficult project, but it was totally worth it, and I'm very thankful to have had help from around (and above, seemingly) to get it finished.

Isn't it in the new Kontakt? I can't remember if I was able to confirm that or not.

Anything you create is copyrighted the moment you create it. You can send the Facebook link around so your friends can hear it (those previews on CDbaby are horrible and don't do any justice to the tracks) and I'm pretty sure thats what you meant in the first place, but please don't pass off my work for free, I still got a cancer operation bill to pay off.

UPDATE 12/15/12: For those who may be interested - Espers has been officially remastered and re-released on Dope Records for the digital price of $8. If you're wondering why it's being released again just 18 months after I first made this post - the truth is that it wasn't fully released in the first place. When I made this post, it was going to be released through Aardvark Records back in March 2010, we took steps to get it out there... and then it was just quit halfway through. For a variety of reasons, none of which were bad-blooded but detrimental to release all the same, the previous label was unable to fulfill their contract to me, so I found a new label, the IDM and experimental Dope Records in Israel and today it gets a fully label-supported, full release. This version sports new artwork by Fariz Suleiman and new mastering by Russian Composer and IDM/Industrial artist Tokee. Zircon's previous and miraculous work still exists here, we just gave it an update for better volume, bass presence and clarity. About the album: Espers is a loose concept album that I started April of 2009 just to get something done. Most of what I had were ambient/new-age instruments and samples, so I went along with that and worked endlessly to try to make one of the most unusual and unique ambient/new-age albums around. It was an extremely difficult production, but it was totally worth every step of it. I was inspired by a lot of Peter Gabriel, Metroid Prime, Chrono Cross and Steve Hackett and I about destroyed my computer trying to honor those influences. TRACK LISTING 1. Tritochiark - Vestigial Dreamcatcher for the Heavenly Integer [8:07] 2. Ornamekias - A Slight Wave From the Hill Above [6:51] 3. Amenemhetopelzai - Ancient King Lost In Memories [7:43] 4. Saelmeth - The Rusted Voice of a Forgotten Godwraith [6:28] 5. Icidina - Royal Highshiva of the Glacierplains [7:04] 6. Maria Le Pitruzelluca Celeste XVII - The Sound of God's Love Made Flesh [7:43] 7. Navi Whisperwilde - The Forest Sprite and the Mana Spirit in Eternal Recurrence [7:04] 8. Sagetellah - The One Who Waits for the Life to Come (Featuring Michael Huang) [9:57] TOTAL TIME: 60:53 minutes. CREDITS: * All tracks composed by Meteo Xavier. * Piano Performance and re-interpretation by Michael Huang of www.sonic-expression.com. * Post-mixing work and initial master by Andrew Aversa of www.zirconmusic.com. * Final master by Anatoly Grinberg (Tokee). * Computer and samples provided by Brad Burr. * Artwork and digital sleeve design by Fariz Suleiman of http://doperec.com. And let me know if I forgot to thank anyone. Credit goes where credit is due. Please support this album not for my sake, but for Dope Records. After 4-5 years of insanity and hardship from a variety of other music people, game companies, commissioners, and so forth, the guys at Dope Records are my karmic reward for enduring all of it. These guys have been nothing short of fantastic and supportive to me from day 1 of meeting them and I humbly ask this community to share some support back. And thank you once again, Ocremix, for supporting me on this venture. I hope you enjoy it.

Oh, it was before that. And I love the way you phrased this just now.

I'm the undisputed dark knight of having trouble with things and I haven't had that much trouble with PLAY at all.

I have never, or will ever, say this about a Gollgagh post again, but THIS.

People were saying Final Fantasy was milked to death before 7 ever came out, I recall quite vividly. As far as current-gen graphics go, this is bad why? I'd like to see some more concrete evidence to support this over far, fast-forwarding to events that are still largely hypothetical. (Although, if you wanted to play the card that there have been several doujin attempts to remaster the FF7 soundtrack and none have been even close to good - that would actually be a half-decent, if still somewhat irrelevant, example).

Happy Birthday Met...... Happy Birthday Snappleman! 29? Good lord. I admire your resilience. I keep thinking if I turn 29 on a video game site, its time to dig my own grave, but I'm kinda weird, so don't mind me. Happy birthday all the same.

I'm really not digging the MM10 soundtrack personally. Too me it comes across like the composers are trying too hard to make it sound like Mega Man..... 5.... I'm not going to go further on that criticism but obviously a lot of other people like it and I'm fine with that.

The point was that he could get KONTAKT, and third party samples and sets for KONTAKT that could replace samples that weren't up to shit. Harps not good enough? You could find much better samples for $29 for just Kontakt. Want better violins or trumpets? You can find them.

I'm told that deal has come around before, but it'll probably be a little while before it comes around again. Yes, I'm sure there are other deals out there with as good or better quality stuff, but that's been the one a lot of people, myself included, have gone too, so if you're looking to start there, Its as safe a bet as any other. I switched out Goliath for Ministry of Rock. I haven't had loads of time with it, but, baring the fact there aren't great guitar leads on it, it sounds like it gets the "half-man's Sixto Sounds" job done ok. EDIT: Have you looked at KOMPLETE 6 at all? It's not as good quality as the Composer's Collection, but it seems to be a lot friendlier for composers in our level of professionalism and it comes pretty highly recommended from a number of people. Go check that out on Native Instrument's site.