Meteo Xavier

what exactly did you have an issue with that couldn't be changed?

Does ANYONE want to critique the song?

Fair enough, but thats why I put a question mark on it. I'm sure as hell not speeding it up another 40 BPM. I want this remix to work and I already know it won't at that speed.

Sadly, this is not the first time I've heard that sentence. Probably not the last either. At least this time we're talking about music....

It bothers me that no one else seems to care about this song, so I've been working on to remix it. This is the blueprint: http://www.zshare.net/audio/522492011b4b7d8f/ This is the version I'm working on: http://www.zshare.net/audio/5224922790cb57c7/ I'm not trying to do it as a straight and simple techno or trance song, just a decently electronic one. I'm aware of several problems already, but any feedback or direction you can lead me into is fine. Mostly I'm concerned its not energetic or radiant enough and that the instrumentation is stiff.

I'm sorry, but I'm going to tear this quote apart. What the hell makes someone stupid for their choice of preference? Or, alternate phrasing, what the hell makes someone's preference of music stupid? I don't claim to be the most omniscient man around, but I think if there were a set of guidelines that clearly established who was an idiot (or poser or any other derogatory term you guys come up with to pretentiously differentiate yourselves from people who like music you don't) based upon certain names, genres, dates and what the fuck ever, I would've heard about it by now. Such guidelines do not exist and I'm up to my ass sick of hearing it. Not everyone is a diehard music fan. A lot of people only listen to whatever's on the radio because thats all they really have an enticement to do. If they like it with some extra cash lying aorund, they go out and buy it and enjoy it some more until they have their fill. They are not required to take it any further if there is no enticement to do so. They paid for their music and they can use as a fucking fashion statement, if they want to. Who are you to tell them otherwise? I'm going off here because the whole subject is insane and not many are saying much about it (that I know of). People have been bitching about Modern Pop and the mainstream casual listeners forever. These arguments, infantile as they are, are probably over 100 years old. People were saying this modern music is shit and destroying America since JAZZ, always favoring the older days since 20-30 years ago - a "Golden Age" of music that didn't actually exist because the same fucking criticisms existed back then. Now I'm going to dive right off the *** **** deep end and say that if Music is just fashion for those stupid people, then Music is just culture for you guys. Its just a channel for your alternatives to the disgusting and awful and deceitful and pure fucking evil Popular Cultures. Its propaganda for your politics and atheism. Its an experiment to see how far "art" can go on little merit, training or any real credibility. Its an exercise to see how much you can spend on some bitch because she's "not Britney Spears". Its a chance for every miserable outcast 20 miles around to gather, smoke pot, and crawl one-by-one up the collective ass and orgasm over and over again about how much fun it is to be in this awful secret little club that shits in the face of mainstream culture and waves its middle finger with a rebel yell screaming MORE! MORE! MORE! So when it is EVER about the fucking music? Hell, until I started coming to Ocremix, I had no idea people my age ever thought about chord structures, or melodies, or production values. People who actually cared about the music for the sake of the music itself, not what genre it is or who listens to it. Music is just organized noise. Its not life, its not love, its not fashion, its not culture, its not anything but a series of sonic vibrations that people have overgratified into a religion onto itself. It is NOTHING by itself. It's just music. It's a tool that you bought and are free to use however you want to use it. Same for everyone else too. Bottom Line: If you cannot respect a culture, you do not deserve one of your own. End. (I'm going to regret submitting this, but whatever. Post).

I don't actually know what he's building right now, he only showed me a short demo. Obviously we can go back to JRPGs and the Zeldas to look at those puzzles, but I thought there might've been some sort of logical process to BUILDING those kinds of puzzles. I just wondered if there were any 1up.com articles or something on it that kind of showed you what kind of process the masters go through when they design puzzles.

My brother is building a little shareware game thats I guess some sort of platforming adventure/puzzle game and I want to do anything I can to help him make it worth his time to do it, so I'm asking if there are any sort of guides floating around the web that give you the basics and logic of puzzle building. I doubt he'll turn out something that would make Lufia II look like a TCAP test, but it'd be great if he could get a decent start. Any ideas?

The Years are in fact moving at the same speed they've always moved, its just that, as we grow up we tend to put our efforts into things we've already been doing as opposed to brand new exciting things like we did when we were young, and we typically space out how long something feels between memories. We don't typically remember all the many nights we spend videogaming and remixing and doing what we've always done. I'm just saying that so no one (else) gets depressed over the passage of time and takes it to heart.

Doesn't seem like a year ago that was to me. That boy was my age, about as dead center in the "prime of life" as one can get, though my experience so far doesn't resemble anything like that. Time is such a bizarre element. It doesn't exist, yet everything we do revolves around it and depends on it. Some are taken, many remain. Some age much quicker like me, others decide to use their youth to better purposes, like Reuben Kee. He was good at what he did, and made this shallow life on a shallow planet worth getting up in the morning. He was a great example as a musician, and a great example as someone who loves to live an otherwise confusing existence. I really wanted to learn a lot from him - I guess I still could. Don't get bored up in heaven, Reuben, buddy. We'll join you up there soon.

Pardonnez-moi, Monsieur Hot Shit, I didn't know you had a giant compilation on the first post of the thread and I didn't know the thread had reached a point where it absolutely needed a format to keep things from blowing the hell out of proportion when all that really needed to be known about the sale was posted already. I'm sorry for the minutes of inconvenience this has caused you.

I have a new list of games I want to sell, in addition to my vastly unpopular first list. Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes: $15 Pocket Fighter (PS1): $12. Comes in the generic case and instructions I bought it in. Resident Evil: Code Veronica (PS2): $8 Kirby's Dreamland 3: $17 Illusion of Gaia: $12 Shadowrun: $15 Yoshi's Island: $17 Tetris 2: $10 Mr. Bones (sega Saturn): Make me an offer. Game should work though the casing is a mess. Doom Collection for PC: $10. Also, if you're purchasing, I have DOOM II, Hexen and Wolfenstein 3D for PC I can throw into orders for free, since it's not really worth paying the few bucks through this for them. SNES games are cart only and worked the last time I played them. Shipping and handling included though I'll try to find the best option available. Prices are negotiable, but I prefer to negotiate if you're purchasing several. I ship from TN around the US. Thank you.

I accidently learned how to play Guile's theme on piano and you don't hear me bragging about it. Until now. btw, That song's in C Minor. I already thought C# Minor.

Kinda makes you wonder why anyone would ever want to pay for music.

It could just be the drums. The only major problem I'm having with this mix is the throbbing kick drum track. Start at 0:50 it sounds like the program's stuck and clipping the rhythm like crazy. The triplet heavy kick is also distracting. Other than that, my natural intuition tells me this track works for what it is, so just fix the kick drums and triplets and you could be fine.

its email'd edit: Wait, it won't let me do it. I'll do it here soon.

I'll bite. I don't really have any MIDIs of anything I do with a synth lead in it, so what do you need and when can you do it?

.... Not a bad idea.... but for some reason the idea of giving away music with the purchase of merchandise that was created based on your music in the first place puts a strange image in my head. An Ouroburous circle jerking. Still, its creative. Try it and see if it works.

You probably already know what you need to tweak and fix. I'd take that high string down in volume quite a bit. Its leading but its also pretty loud. The beginning's a bit empty too until Magus comes in. Reverbed harps maybe?

I think you'll get better criticism when you get a better WIP. Its a decent start, but there's so little to write about for this version, it will really be something to get a real appraisal at all.

Thats why you don't see a lot of band recording video game cover material. Zircon's post presented an interesting idea that you may not like, but might work out for you. Perhaps you guys can take this album, break into 3 parts, like 4 songs each, and do original material around it? It might not sell as well with only a 1/3 material people actually want, but in the realm of artistic marketing, its all FUBAR anyway and you might get lucky.

Ok, so I'm scrapping the club mix for now. I've decided to wholly strip it down and do a simple, TO FAR AWAY TIMES version of it. http://www.zshare.net/audio/50902904aba64a9a/ My only concern is when it changes just before the 2 minute mark, thats when I normally reserved it for near the end of the song and I wonder if it comes up too quick. Of course, by now, I really don't give a shit and I really need to shave off whole minutes anyway. Anything I can fix to make this more "spacey, emotional" credit music?

Real content for the topic.

The wingless isn't funny. On topic, I've been experiencing a similar issue over the summer. I've been a lifelong gamer and although I want to stay in today's scene, I really have way too many videogames already and cannot afford time and money to buy new. Eventually, and with much irrational pain, I decided to sell a whole bunch I didn't plan on playing and pretty much sticking to what I have from now on, with some exceptions along the way. Ultimately it just comes down to what you're comfortable with. I'm comfortable with what I've always been playing and don't want to feel pressured to play more than I can realistically handle. If you're comfortable buying, beating and then selling a game right back, go ahead and do it. They're just games after all.

Is it now? I thought it was just a marketplace. Anyway, I couldn't ever find my value guide so I just went with Amazon marketplace as an idea how much they're worth (sell for). Mine are actually cheaper than what I saw.