Meteo Xavier

I always wondered what a serious topic on Ocremix at 4 in the morning would be like. I should've just kept wondering.

Also, when I check both the pages views on my WIP and the downloads on my savefile account, the rate is back to normal which leads to me to believe the mass download came from a single source.

Thats what I thought at first, but it had the bandwidth to match it and its still there Thats news to me, I thought savefile accounts were pretty isolated from each other. I haven't explored much of the site but there isn't anything that tells me its pretty open. And even still, It had only been up for about 23-26 hours by the time I checked it, and I doubt a work in progress by a no-name-nobody such as myself could justify that kind of number. My biggest fear is its a bot or some kind of hacker thats trying to drive my bandwidth out of control or gain access to something through it.

1800 downloads in 60 page views? Thats not something to be proud of, thats something to be suspicious of, and I've never heard of any kind of anomally like that before so if someone knows something about it, I'd sure like to be informed to.

Bullshit. And I don't think the problem is savefile. I've used it for a while and I've never heard of this before.

A couple days ago, probably yesterday actually, I posted a WIP for an oc remix I'm working on (with a possible collaborator) to very humbling success and I chose savefile.com as my MP3 host. Well, I get on savefile today and my download count fucking skyrocketed. There have only been about 60 views to my WIP thread and the download count for that file is close to 1800. Eighteen HUNDRED. And I checked it again when I got home to make sure it wasn't a mistake and sure enough, it wasn't. So what the hell happened? Did I get hit by a bot or something? I find it difficult to believe that each person who stopped in to look downloaded it 30-40 fucking times. Any ideas? Thanks.

So uh... checked my song on savefile today.. and despite having only 55 views for this topic, I seem to have amassed 1800 downloads. WTF!?

I think the bass is just fine with the strings supplementing it. There are only two main chord parts used, the major and minor and its not too hard to get what kind of feeling they're going for. The drums you might be right about, but I wouldn't know what else to do with them and screwing with whats already there might just create more problems, if history is any teacher. I'd be willing to take some minor imperfections to just get this piece workable as opposed to upsetting it to fix something small. Thats a fair point, but my last remix submission was rejected because it didn't "interpret" the source material, whatever the hell thats supposed to mean. I figured this would more interpretive. Apart from the obvious holes in the melody, I'm satisfied with the way it turned out. Its not an obvious redo nor does not resemble the original in any. My biggest concerns are the sound quality and arrangement (like being too short or whatever). As far as collaborating, yes it is a Fruity Loop and I wouldn't mind, but have you done any successful remixing before? Also, thanks for being the first person to give helpful criticism on this board. Now I have some hope to work with.

Since my Super Castlevania IV WIP failed temporarily, I'm going to try my hand at this one. This is a remix of Pufifia and Ending Motif done in an emotional, ending-style tribute (at least thats what I was going for) with trumpets and electric piano leading. As I listen to it, I'm pleased with it, but I'm not sure I got the sound or arrangement correct. I tried writing some more stuff before the electric piano (the meat and potatoes so to speak) kick in, but it just sounded plodding and weak. I thought it would be better to just get right to the point. Let me know what you think and please be specific (not complicated, specific) in your criticisms. EDIT: Forgot to mention, this is not done yet, obviously. There are a lot of holes in the melody and still straightening up to do. The ending definitely needs work. http://www.savefile.com/files/786409

last ditch effort to try and get some feedback. No more bumps after this.

This movie goes to some dizzying heights. I really liked that it didn't sell out to be assured it would break box office records. It was challenging, demanding, extremely intense - I really thought David Lynch got in on this at some point. The way the characters interact and change with each other was awesome. This movie is exactly what I want to see in an epic trilogy.

I have a new version available. This one is much more concise and cuts down on the redundancy. The ending still needs work and I'm sure the sound quality could still be a lot better as well. http://www.savefile.com/files/744121

I appreciate that, but an imperfect remix will get GRILLED by the judges, and I can't afford perfection so I need some serious feedback. Encouragement, however, is something I didn't have my last try, so thanks!

I am here to post a remix to Level 2 and Simon's Theme from Super Castlevania IV. This is done is an electronic rock style and my most promising remix attempt to date. My biggest concerns are with sound quality, phrasing, and instrument choice. I don't have just loads of top quality stuff to work with in terms of instruments or mixing capabilities. Its quite heavy, with the distortion guitar, distorted trance instruments, and LOUD bass piano and cymbals and while I think it gives it a lot of energy, I can see that it might be too much. My lead guitar is not great, but its the best lead instrument I could use on this song. Additionally, I'm concerned that it goes for too long and may be too redundant, especially with the guitar melodies. I'm planning on reworking the guitar parts so it sounds less redundant, I just want to know if it works as it is. This song is about as good as I can do given my current capability. If you have any criticisms please: A: Address them without unnecessary sarcasm and cynicism, just tell whats wrong with it and I'll fix it and B: Please don't give me vague comments like: "It needs to sound more COMPACT" or "It needs to flow better". Yeah, great, but how do I make it do that? Please be specific in your criticisms so that when I go back to fix it, I'll know what to do. Thanks! http://www.savefile.com/files/737286

I don't care what anyone says - I'm putting a $500 down payment on that FFIV remake.

My biggest complaint with N64 soundtracks is that they sound like glorified MIDIs (Star Fox 64 and Zelda come to mind), I think thats more the instrument choice than anything. Super Mario 64, Turok, Castlevania and Mystical Ninja had great soundtracks, so it was possible.

I think thats fair to say, Ed Edd n Eddy was pretty poor to begin with and it took a while before it got good - but damn..... once it got over that hill.....

I was under the impression it was just the last episode of the season, but I haven't been able to watch the Eds in a year and I haven't been able to find any official pressing on it.

Ok, I'll try to do something else with it then.

Is anyone going to try the Title song? If not, I'd like to make an attempt: http://www.savefile.com/files/529475 This is what I have so far.

Kompakt is the first professional VST I own and I didn't buy it with any other libraries. Got any suggestions for places to find NKIs, Akais, EXS and whatnot - or is there another topic around here that addresses that?

Are there any additional instruments or refills or whatever I can get with KOMPAKT? I like what it has, but it has a rather small number of instruments to play with.

I seem to have gotten it with Fruity Wrapper. But I would dump them into the folder which I could activate from VST function under CHANNELS, and I would click to open, oh say, CHIMERA.DLL and it would give me an error saying it could not be found and to try again.

Ok, I'm a fucking idiot. For some reason, I cannot EVER seem to add a VST plugin to Fruity Loops correctly. I just got NI KOMPAKT and I can't get it to load. In fact, there are about a dozen VSTs I've tried to put in the right folder that do not load in Fruity Loops because it says it can't find it, even though the .dll is very evidently there. What am I persistantly doing wrong? What specific folder or item is supposed to go where?

I don't know if I've asked this question before, but I need to know a few things: 1. How to change tempo 2. How to slowly fade in or fade out the entire song or individual instruments. 3. Why all my MIDI creations export in piano only.