Meteo Xavier

Search for anything Cotmm or Children of the Monkey Machine and see if you can make something work out of that.

I think if you really want cohesiveness in each track, all projects should come with mandatory mastering on behalf of the project coordinators. Well balanced sound beats well balanced style any day.

I support this just for the possibility of seeing ZELDA ON A HEINEKIN BOTTLE live.

Big text doesn't make music sound any better, Justin.

Ocremix gives me my first tangible social outlet in several years. The coveted Ocremixer title under my name is certainly an internet prize too.

She's 8 feet tall, smells like Chrysanthemums and calls me something I can't begin to pronounce. I have named her Ugina (yoo-gie-nuh). Can you do better at Mag? Nope! Didn't think so.

I am not on this disc, therefore it is irrelevant!!!!! > Goodluc w/your dsc dood. If its got big text like that, its got to be awesome!

Yeah, Neblix, if you're going to post anything at all, post something useful. Little blurbs like that are not only unhelpful, they are extremely annoying as it brings up hope for some real advice only to get them crushed by useless text. I'm not a jazz freak, nor could I listen to the intro for some computer thing, so I skipped ahead and G.M. Chrysler this is some GREAT stuff. I don't impress easily, so take that with some great consideration. The judges are tough but fair, and if the whole material is this good, I'm could guess they would let it slide in favor in legendary musician work. My recommendation? Get this sum bitch some good mastering - improve the audio work and maybe find a good spot to fade out or cut it somehow and you could be a fucking LEGEND here. I would recommend my friend Tweex for mastering - his prices are, IMO, extremely favorable for the quality you get. Search Tweex here or go to tweexmusic.com. Its a worthy investment to really get killer material like this out there. Honest to my Lord and Savior Jesus, I am really impressed here.

If you're really desperate, you can get an NES emulator, the ROMs and just play through them until you see the credits. With speed and save files, it should be much easier (probably quicker) than searching online.

I don't remember submitting this to Reunion....

Hey, go shave your ass, buddy. Take up a collection if you want me to go so bad - otherwise I'll be toasting New Years with a can of pepsi and that sex mannequin that FINALLY came in from Xiao-Lao province.

You mean you left for a while and came back with a different name? Reason I ask is I think alts accounts can get you in trouble here - not really my area of research so I don't know. Pretty pretentious to arrive newly formed and announce the party's here, but your dance music is actually pretty awesome, especially that Hank III deal and Blooddrunk. Are you here looking for artists to join up your label or just here to broadcast your tunes? Typically, Community broadcast is reserved IIRC for Ocremixers only and this topic will likely be moved to something like Workshop: Original.

Ooh, finally. What kind of camera do you use to record yourself playing? I've been looking for a digital camera like that that has good sound pickup in it so I can record piano renditions too.

Didn't you have a different name? I could swear I've seen your picture here before along with "extreme dance music"... I'd call it Viking Power Trance...

Its already sort of a trademark/bad habit of mine, but its a good and clever idea none the less...

And how is that done exactly? I know it needs to sound human, I don't know how it needs to be edited to make it simulate a human doing so. I understand I need to do it like I would on a piano, but that doesn't create a proper frame of reference. A picture of a velocity edit that sounds roughly human would be a start.

Getting this project back ON TRACK, I might be interested. Send me a PM when/if this project gets to a serious stage (which might be next year, realistically, which would be great for me) and I'll see what I can do for you.

I imagine the time and cost of going factors in somewhere too. Thats why I'm reluctant to go to something like MAGfest. It probably cost me $500+ to walk around for 3-4 days and be of no interest to anyone after the first five minutes.

Air Melody Part 22 is some of my best work. It doesn't need any more mixing to it. It is also largely synthetic. I mean something that uses more pianos and natural instruments.

YES. I wanted to talk to you. I just heard your damn Sonic 3 remix and I will be studying it. I enjoyed it immensely. And I know Zircon's tutorials, but changing velocities for my instruments just makes it mechanical at different velocities. The automatic clips I'm experimenting with seem to help somewhat. I'm wondering if its just a mastering issue. I've never had any of my songs mastered, but I don't want to pay someone to fix my mistakes every time I come up with a track.

I think if I could go over this, a huge boost in my music making would be had. I've tried and tried about everything I can think of, but all my tracks still come off mechanical sounding and making my tracks seem stiff. Rozovian mentioned something on linking velocity to attack, which sounds like a great idea, but I don't have a clue on how to do that with NI Kompakt or Eastwest Colossus or the FL soundfonts. I've tried humanizing, I've edited velocities to my hearts content to little if any success. If you need some examples, you can find some on my Youtube page www.youtube.com/meteoxavier. It really shouldn't be this hard, I hear all kinds of amateur music that doesn't have the obstacles my tracks do. I want to figure out what I'm doing wrong once and for all so I can get to work.

I was more looking for indepth stories concerning art projects or something that came after success was had or something. I'm just checking up here, i'll post some stories of my own later.

Life is failure punctuated with brief bits of success here and there. You know it. I know it. Everyone knows it, but few really take it to heart. Fewer still reconcile. Some of us succeed much more openly than others. Others succeed in ways they don't even know or have the balls to appreciate. On Ocremix, it can sometimes be sort of a sobering experience to see major names across the board go on and go on to great success. Months of hard work meaningless. Projects that go on for years without any discernable end. Careers slashed and buried. Many come to dream, few realize it. It is a fact of life. You will fail. And fail hard. For everyone to see. But so what? Everyone fails. Failure is a part of life! Do you think these people just woke up one day, sat on a success suppository and flew on to great things? Hell no. Luck may be a lady, but hard work and accepting your failures is what true greatness is all about! And with that, I would like to invite the community to share stories where they didn't succeed. I invite everyone from HoboKa to Zircon and Mazedude and BGC and Anso and anyone to show us their human side - projects failed, songs that sucked hard, things they spent loads of time and money on that burned out, dreams crushed, etc. Don't be shy and don't be hiding anything. This would be a great motivational tool for newbies and frustrated up-and-comers or burnt out veterans to remember that no one gets or has gotten anywhere without a road paved in tears and sweat. If this topic gains some interest, I'll share many of my stories too. And if not.... oh well, that was the whole point.

Well now I'm just a simple country boy from Sout' the Mason-Dixon line, but I do rek-o-lek someone comma that name buildin' the first few Sonics in the first place.