Meteo Xavier

It likely won't be finished this week or for a few weeks to go still, but it's definitely on it's last minutes and it could be done anytime now. I'm hearing a WIP is ready for one of the tracks, so that's some hope right there.

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Well, when you get older, you will most likely have to one way or another.

I've kinda layered reverb at times, no more than two at once, but seven seems pretty wild. I frankly don't believe it until I remember how layered Secret of Evermore's soundtrack was and its clever use of the 'verb.

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I thought that contingency was sort of self-contained and fairly explanatory (thank you Coen brothers), but, yes, that is a well-enough used factor that I should say "fair enough then". In general purchasing, education and other unique discounts excluded, of course you can use legit VSTs in commercial products. That's what they're made for, you wouldn't be expected to pay that much for high quality sounds just to play around with it and not make any money back.

I just want time to actually play the games I have this year. I have new games I bought in 2012 I haven't even opened yet. :S

It seems the forum software only posted half of your sentence there, Neblix. Clarify please.

Of course you can use most of them in commercial productions - why would you pay $200-$500+ for them to not use them when you really want to?

Apart from some of the SNES soundfonts, which, last time I heard on, was still kind of a legal gray area, how would anyone even know you were ripping them and using them illegally? I think the chances of someone of antagonistic interest finding that out and prosecuting you for it are so, so, so tiny you might not have to worry about it. I'm not supporting piracy by saying that, I'm just saying the wages of sin there are probably too light to worry about it, like we all have photocopied parts of books without publisher's written and expressed permission, or taped football games or cartoons or whatever.

I just want to say I will be checking this out at some point Timaeus, I had a last minute Health Insurance/Obamacare messup that's eating my New Year's Eve alive and I need to check it out later. I didn't want you thinking I was ignoring it or didn't care.

That's insanely generous of you. I'd say I don't need something that time-intensive from you, but you sound like you've already done it. If you haven't, we probably don't need to go to that level on it, but if you have, I'd be an asshole not to accept something that generous. And I did render a new version. Here it is: http://tindeck.com/listen/evjx

I would if I could find some decent ones. A lot of the tutorials I saw on there were really... not quite what I was expecting if I'm to be generous. All I've found so far were using Fl Slayer and Fast Distortion or EWQL MOR just by itself. I was looking for something that taught me more how metal tracks are generally composed and produced on computer.

I wanted to post an update here but I didn't get to export it in enough time. It's becoming less metal and more... metal/electronica guitar driven aggressor. The mixing is becoming difficult, but it's coming along. I plan to get professional mastering for it when all is said and done, so I just need to get it good enough to master. The drums are narrow sounding because I hit a setting on it for "Mono (Sum)" which makes it narrow. Certainly fixes the problem of it being too wide. I will likely just use other drum .wav samples to fill it out and fake a wideness. Let me ask this - are there textbooks on making metal tracks properly on the computer? I have one on dance music, one on orchestral, but I wanted to know if someone has made a tutorial book that talks about how to make metal tracks with samples and such.

Short of owning a program that is designed to handle acoustic drums properly? No. You'd be hard pressed to find something better than Steve Slate that's less expensive.

Does this catch your ears? http://www.bigfishaudio.com/detail.html?1;16;1:115:::511988::::::G511988;A115::514785

Why does it need to have a personal mentoring system? You can ask questions largely to your heart's desire right here: http://ocremix.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=12 I've scoured around and OCR's community help there is among the best in the internet. Everywhere else, you get arrogant blowhards giving you unhelpful advice and laughing at your spelling mistakes (KVR).

And we're still better than 95% of the other countries in the world. Go enjoy the fine cuisine you can get in any other nation with the cost equivalent of a McRib and let's how much you complain THEN! >

I guess it's too late to finish the track I started for this compilation then?

The ivory wind wasn't quite as good as I expected. Maybe I just need to practice with it some more. I'm not used to using "True Legato" anything, so trying to make it do celtic flourishes and bends and such are difficult. Others have been able to do it, but I haven't figured it out yet. The Tin Whistle I haven't gotten yet.

I was already done with it. Back on track here, I've been hunting for quality celtic flute instruments and I found some that, while really on sale or anything, are still a hell of a deal. http://www.embertone.com/instruments/ivorywind.php - $10 for the low whistle. http://www.embertone.com/instruments/shirewhistle.php - $20 for the tin whistle. Both are pretty high quality as well. I'm definitely picking one of these up tomorrow after festivities.

Well then I ask who would need to round out a collection unless they were experienced enough to get a pretty big gig that required that level of specification, or if they were going for a commercial album to that specific degree. Actually, no, I'll just stop there, because I know I'm just being obsessively argumentative at this point. I think we both agree on something for your main points anyway. More on topic, go check out Bigfishaudio.com in their instrument sections, they seem to actually have some good prices on things right now. "Q" particularly.

I think you may be oversimplifying my comments there . I'm saying if you already have, like, East West Composers Collection, Komplete, ISW stuff, and a bunch of other professional collections or individual high quality Kontakt stuff, it's not really worth it pursuing Best Services' deal to get them. If you HAVEN'T spent $1,500+ worth of that already, than absolutely get his stuff. In addition, get them from somewhere like Bigfishaudio.com. After I posted earlier, I happened to look through there and found Eduardo libraries for under $300. Best Service lists similar numbers in EURO, which, again IIRC, is almost 1.5x American currency. BigFish has some really good stuff nowadays at a decent-looking price. If I'm wrong in this, please by all means correct me. I'm just doing my self-appointed service of helping other musicians not compulsively sink their whole life-savings into the addiction of VST buying.

That Best Service would be good if I didn't already have a lot of things similar to Eduardo's libraries already. I wanted that Forest Kingdom thing for a LONG time, but the price kept going up, and I found just getting individual harp, frame drum, celtic whistle, etc. samples would do the trick just as well. I'd probably recommend his stuff to someone who doesn't already have a lot of stuff already. Also, IIRC, isn't Best Services' VST software as difficult and potentially buggy as PLAY? I've heard that a few times, not sure how true it is. I don't know, Best Service has some good stuff, but even with a 2for1 deal, it still seems a lot more expensive than it should be. :S