Meteo Xavier

I was recommended multiple times for Kontakt 4 for orchestral needs (and otherwise), but even though I've made up my mind to get it, I'm still not loving those samples too much. Unless there's just something I don't know about.

Oh, you better. You better fucking do it!

Ooh, someone's got good taste. Umm, for the first track you should look into Yoko Shimomura what she did on the Parasite Eve OST. That's kinda what that sounds like. You can also look for Susumu Hirasawa. That guy seems to jack it to opera and vocal samples over wild electronic beats and he's damn good at it (See Paprika OST and Paranoia Agent OST). Additionally, and this will help too for your Xenosaga searching, get basically anything by Yuki Kaijura (I think I spelled her name right). Her style kinda gets old after a bit, but she's really consistent and provides the best vocal harmonious lines in any J-composer I've ever heard, not to mention some great and consistent orchestral work. The Sonic 3D track I'm not quite sure on... Big Giant Circles does some of that as well as Skrypnyk. Zircon does a lot of that too. Hit them up on Google or Myspace. If they have albums you can buy, I suggest you do it. That money will not be spent in vain I guarantee you.

You do know Square-Enix has a thing about people playing their musics live, right? Last time I checked, they demanded royalties.

Which begs the next question: Exactly how much then are you paying for a commercial program without the presets? How much do the presets figure in, and why would you not use them since you're paying for it? Thats kinda my attitude on it. I paid for these presets, they were designed to be used, I'm going to use them.

Well, now that people are seeing pedophiles in their sleep, I just say exercise caution or don't do it all. I tried celebrating Halloween last year and all I got were very discriminating looks - I wasn't even dressed up or trick or treating or anything. Best part was when I got thrown out of the Community Center Halloween Party because I didn't have a kid with me. Never said anything on the flyers that single people were not welcome to come, but the fucking guy grabbed me by the collar and forced me out anyway. Come Monday, I had some words with him and the manager. He called me a pedophile right to my face. I tried to explain that I was an autistic adult and I just liked Halloween, he thought that was an excuse to be hanging around children like a creepy-ass. It was so surreal. I was mortified and for a while I didn't believe this was really happening until they revoked my membership ($120 down the drain) and had security lead me out again. A month later they had the balls to call me up and ask for donations. Moral of the Story: Don't ever celebrate Halloween.

But that would've left the circle open. You can't do that! Making music is not for the lazy. You think Akira Yamaoka uses a lazy function? Doubtful at best. I bet he takes maybe dozens or hundreds of samples and pads and layers those sumbitches until they create waves of rust and decay made audio for minutes on end. If you want to it right, you have to invest in it. Time, energy, money or all. You're not required to, but results count on them. Its all about what you're looking for and what you're willing to do to get them.

Meteo also remembers the days when he used to go looking for certain sounds that sounded like certain sounds and were recommended free products that had little if anything to do with the sounds he was looking for in the first place, thus wasting his time and delaying progress ever so much further. Then, years later, he found out he was actually fucking SITTING on them the whole time. I answer for accuracy. Silent Hill pads and sounds don't always come cheap. They are complex sounding and it would take some real skill to get them that way. My guess, since the topic creator doesn't know that free programs can, allegedly, do that, he might not have the skill it takes to do it. Therefore Omnisphere with the caveat its not cheap. I also suggested Kompakt, which, if you can find it, can be a really great place to start. Mine was $80 or something and its actually fairly generous for a commercial VST in terms of processing. I did and am doing a really cool Silent Hill style track for my upcoming album using the pad presets and drums in it. Now, let me finish the great circlejerk of this argument with an appropriate display of immaturity and curt omnianti-benevolence: PWNED.

Aren't you people a bit old to be dressing up for Halloween, or you just can't think of a more festive way for the whole community and soon the county office to recognize you as a sex offender?

So what was that file that you download in the receipt page? My .vundo virus started acting up again after I downloaded it.

Did it bother anyone else how old the Mario Brothers were on that show? I mean, I never really could figure out what an appropriate age for Mario and Luigi would be, but they seemed like they were over a decade older than one might expect. Not that's a problem, I just wondered if anyone else thought that too. That photoshop was horrible, btw.

Emotional britility is no excuse for theft. I'm not suggesting something that could push a boy over the mortal coil, but definitely this should not go scott-free/unpunished. Problem is, how do you fight plagiarism when what you've done kinda borders on it in the first place and is definitely not copyrighted? Plus, the douchebag can just delete any messages we leave on his boards about his thievery. What is this Dream Studio label thing? Is that his too?

Either way should work. Thats just the email address I got a Response code with.

At least you get people ripping you off. I wouldn't know what to do if someone actually enjoyed anything I did long enough to call it his own. I might have a party. Now THAT's self esteem issues, Jimmy. Anyway, he hasn't been to his Myspace page since August and Youtube's a crapshoot. Skrypnyk's my best friend or something. I vote EXAMPLE. I want to roast his ass too. Now to just find a legal, decent way to do this.

The email address, btw, is support@applied-acoustics.com

http://www.youtube.com/t/dmca_policy

You have to email them anyway to get your "response code" so it's properly registered.

Here's a little demo I'm practicing with with the program. Good to give you a listen what kind of stuff you'll actually probably do with it as opposed to a demo that's been professionally mixed, mastered and arranged and so forth. http://www.zshare.net/audio/6701610251780ea8/

Wait, what?

Edit: Nevermind, I didn't see that they sent it in the email. What did I just download then?

Dammit, Zircon. That money was going to my first cheap whore! *buys* I hope she takes food stamps. Or Penicillin. Oh, hell, I might want to get those anyway...