Meteo Xavier

Why would anyone want to play this game on an extreme difficulty? It was already pretty hard and set up in a way to discourage grinding and getting stronger on a reasonable basis. Do people just psychologically enjoy getting beat down and wasting time or what is it?

Probably just a miscommunication of actual terms. I guess I mean the "tracks" in the playlist. When I used to scroll through the tracks, the track I was on in the playlist would be highlighted with a lighter colored bar across the name and sequencer. Basically, if you go to the Pattern number box at the top next to the Tempo box, grab it and scroll up and down in the playlist, you'll see a light colored bar go up and down too. Without this, I feel like I get more confused which track I'm actually on. Guess I'll need to try that. That's another weird thing that seems changed for no real reason. Yes indeed, this works. I can't figure out why they would do it this way, but at least I can still do that. Thanks again Kris

Man, this is going to be a baptism by fire. New questions. 1. I notice FL Studio no longer highlights the channel I'm on in the sequencer playlist. Is that something I can turn back on? 2. What the... why can't I copy whole channels like I used to? I used to just be able to right-click the channel in the playlist and have it make a copy that I could tweak for chords and fills and whatnot. Where did that go? 3. Why do I have to keep reminding FL 11 to switch from letters to keys? That's quite annoying. I haven't been able to find a fix for that either. Thank you for putting up with my griping and helping me out!

Yeah but that doesn't really do the job for me, it only lets me see up to 46 blocks by itself, even with that General Projects setting. I did find a way around it by putting a blank block way out there and stretching the horizontal bar that way, but I still miss the box itself and it seems like an unnecessary change. Yes indeed, but I'll get used to it. Awesome, thank you Kris

Alright, I have FL Studio 11 installed on here and yessir, this is going to be a painful transition. I expected as much, but why the hell did they get rid of the horizontal scrolling box? I NEEDED that. I don't want to only be able to see the first 45 bars, I need to be able to see 6 minutes of sequencing on screen! Found a way around it, but still, breaking that habit is going to be horrid. That blocks thing was not what I expected either. ASIO is still a bitch about Firefox. Haven't tried the bridging yet. Only have Zebra 2 re-installed. Plus side is those new "basic" drum samples it starts with are pretty kickin'. Zebra 2.6 has several much better presets to start with in there. Haven't tried much of the new effects, but Effector is... interesting. Might have some use there. Just some basic experiments so far, but I'm kinda scared to think the synths and such are taking up the same amount of CPU on my new i7 Quadcore that it did on my 4-year-old dual core. Is that something I need to look into and fix? Something about multi-threading?

Thank you Krist, I'll have a look at that later. Yeah, I think I mean the legacy blocks. I've just always had it that way and I want to keep it as close to how I had it as possible (it took me 9 f'n years to get it where I wanted it, I don't have that time to re-do it!). 11 will most definitely have things I want to use, like that bridging option so I'm not limited to 2GB-3GB RAM like before, but I still need to be careful how I do it.

My home internet is back, I am slightly more sane and competent than the last topic I posted on here, and I have a new damn computer with 10GB RAM, Quad i7 processor running Windows 7, and I need to start getting my music setup back in order. This includes Fl Studio. Unfortunately, I can no longer find an installer for Fl Studio 9.5, the last one I was using out of stubborn aspie preference and comfort (unless some Samaritan might have one handy?), so it looks like I am to upgrade to Fl Studio 11 against my wishes. As part of my growing list of bizarre weaknesses on things no one else would have trouble on (and that I have no decent excuse for), upgrading software and diving in to get to know things again is not my strong suit, so I wanted to get some questions out while I still look around on the internet. 1. How well does FL Studio 11 stack up from 9.5 or so? Just general opinions I guess, if you remember 9.5 or earlier than 10. I'm looking around on reviews at the same time too, but I'm not going to be using it during performances or anything, I'm just composing via samples and synths. I guess it doesn't really matter since I can't go back to 9.5 anyway, but helpful all the same. 2. Can I still get my sequencer lined up in grids instead of sound clips? Truth be told, I don't have a logical reason to prefer the old style of grid painting versus the sound clips. It's an aspie thing I guess, but its still important to me all the same. I remember FL Studio 10 had the option somewhere, but I forget how it was supposed to be done. 3. How do I use the "bridging" option to get more RAM into FL Studio 11? One thing I am looking forward to in the new version is going beyond 2GB-3GB limits and use more EWCC and Omnisphere in my tracks. How would I access this in FL11? 4. ...I just forgot my question here, but I'll edit this again when I remember it. And yes, now that my internet is back, I am Googling and researching at the same time as well. It's still not as available as before because I still have a shit-ton to do to put out the fires of two-three weeks ago, but I'm trying to get a variety of info in before I jump in. Thank you!

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is whats really dragging down gaming today. I don't mean to put you on the spot or anything, Liquid, but this is as good an example as I can find. It's not just weird business practices or tired franchises or mainstream VS non-mainstream or indie vs whatever, a major section of whats wrong with the gaming industry today are the gamers. Some of you as old as me can remember back in the 8bit and 16bit days of gaming - what was your whole approach to gaming? Did you over-fucking-analyze every single console and controller and title and company legacy to death before it was even released, or did you see a game on the video rental shelf that you never played before and said "hey, I haven't played that one yet, let me try it." You know why games used to be "good" 20 years ago? Because you didn't go into each and every one of them with a fucking volume of gaming history and precedent and expectations before playing it, you just played it because you were CURIOUS. That's it. Now 20 years later, you spend more time debating company practices, technology, current trends, franchise fatigue with other gamers than you do any actual gaming. Every gamer today thinks they're an industry expert. What, you suddenly know what EA and Square-Enix and Nintendo and Microsoft should be doing just because you read a bunch of articles on the internet? Well, why aren't you fixing the industry already then? If the next generation of gaming is not exciting, you mostly have yourselves to blame for it. I don't doubt there is some shady stuff, stupid ideas and lack of gameplay focused titles out there, but thats been true since before Mario even existed. That was going on WHEN games were what you remember as "good" and you still enjoyed the hell out of them anyway, didn't you? Bottom line: throw out your ridiculous expectations and open your minds again. Remember you're a gamer to enjoy games for what they are, not debate the industry with other self-proclaimed experts on the interweb.

So, I've had two really, REALLY, fucking bad weeks back to back. Computer blew up, tree fell on the house, holes punched in the wall from some drunk douchebag, family health issues, my own copy of SD3 blowing up for no reason... my GOD I would've preferred to not survive this month. But, I did, somehow. What did I miss or who do I owe people what?

When did "typical JRPG" go from meaning "Dragon Quest clone" to "FFXII clone"? Xenoblade and FFXII are nothing like a "typical" JRPG. If you want a decent idea why its considered better than FFXII without being much different, remember that the Final Fantasy fanbase and its significance in gaming is pretty fucked up right now. Like every other Final Fantasy that came out after VI, FFXII was not FFVI. Gamers wanted XII to be VI, but it wasn't. FFXII was therefore a disappointment because it did not live up to bullshit standards. Xenoblade did have enormous hype, but not for the same reason. If you were going to compare it to anything, it was going to be FFXII, which, of course, was a disappointment. Therefore, having a huge Final Fantasy sized RPG exclusively on the Wii was going to be quite a breath of fresh air, even if history doesn't actually validate it. I haven't played much of Xenoblade yet, only about 10 hours or so, but I see why people wanted it over here so badly. It doesn't matter if its basically FFXII on the Wii, it matters if it's still just fun to play, and Xenoblade lives up to that hype (so far as I know).

It is Wednesday and I have brief OCR access again. First, a gripe: **sus. I don't mean to come off angry, rude or ungrateful, but it's pretty frustrating to see people talking to you without actually reading or listening to what you're saying and still leaving you with nothing useful. I don't HAVE the availability to check each manufacturer right now, otherwise I would. I barely have access to OCR and my other stuff right now. Now see, THIS is useful. This is the kind of information I was needing help with. z3ta's no loss, I got that for $50 and I'm sure I couldn't sell it for that much now. Can I still resell Komplete 6 with a transfer license whatever to someone? What about T-racks?

Well I wouldn't be selling EWQL, I'm only interested in selling those three. I know Komplete 6 is outdated, but you'd be surprised what some people want. And I know its program dependent, but my internet access right now is limited and I don't have the availability to look up what all I need to do there. After I get done at work here today, I won't have OCR until Wednesday. Yes, I'm sort of asking people to do my work for me in this regard. I don't feel good about it, but I'm in a small bind at the moment and thats what this help thread is for, I should hope.

Howdy. I've had quite the shit week last week. Main computer blew up, pet died for no reason, birthday present that was the only thing decent of the day since my wife's dad died on that day burned up, and then a ***damn tree fell on the house with the insurance company leaving me to pay out of pocket. In this context, I am temporarily even less competent and coherently thinking than usual and one of my probably useless ideas to recover some of the money I've lost is to try to re-sell some of my music software. This would include Komplete 6, T-racks 3, and maybe rcg:audio's Z3ta+ (before Cakewalk took it over). As I'm without my main computer, internet access isn't great for me, and I don't have the availability to look up all the feasibility of trying to sell that stuff on Amazon or Ebay or such. If anyone with experience in this can help me, awesome, if its as dumb an idea as I think it is, do not hesitate to state such. Thank you. Sorry for the dumb topic.

There's that snobbish elitism I was talking about. It's very clear Xbox One won't be good for everyone, but by the simple basic rules of reality, it will have its reasonable fanbase.

And I asked why you care. People can support whatever they want if they can afford it. If you need to be worried about anything in the future of gaming, it's this palpable wave of pretentious crapola turning gamers into self-confirmed industry experts and elitist snobs who took all the real fun out of gaming that's been building for the next two months. Edit: My posts here may or may not be highly influenced by getting totally sick of the debate turning video games into something resembling a crusade for human rights.

Why are you concerned with what other people want to do with their money?

PS4 seems to be the only system people aren't bitching about right now, so thats probably going to be your best bet.

I don't have great access to videos until my new computer comes in - is the soundtrack going to be 8 hours of every composer in Japan like Brawl had? That comes off more cynical than I mean for it to.

I was going to post my usual doom and gloom on trying to make a "career" out of art these days, but I'm sure Dan covered it perfectly in terms of realism without cynicism. Only thing I want to add is, yes, don't give up your day job and, in fact, don't be one of those guys whose mindset is "Man, I don't want to work! I'm an ARTIST, I just want to create things and have people praise me all day for them!" No. That's a bunch of pretentious, egotistical bullocks. You have a better than 99% chance of having to work for a living for much the rest of your life - better get used to it and accept it (which has the added benefit of making said grind much easier to tolerate in practice). In the general subject, I'd also recommend against advertising yourself as a freelance EVERYTHING. It's like that one guy who used to be here (can't remember his name) who was a freelance composer, writer, actor, voice actor, model, singer, producer, teacher, etc. etc. yet had very little actual credits to his name. It just makes someone look desperate to get THAT BIG BREAK AND BECOME A STAR instead of actually committing themselves to quality work for clients.

My C and M drives somehow miraculously survived completely in tact. Just need to get them in a new computer, reinstall all my old music shit, and POSITIVE is good to go.

And to make my weekend all the more pissy and ironic, my Secret of Mana 2 cart, a birthday present I got as the only decent thing to come out of the day my father-in-law died, also blew up this weekend. Ill omen I hope it was not.

Update from me. My computer, after 4.5 years, died and I have ordered a new one. Super pissed about that, particularly as I didn't get a WAV out of my new version of POSITIVE yet. Good news is that my C drive might still be ok and I think I have the .flp file safe, just a matter of re-installing my shit back on it. If not, I may need to open back up POSITIVE and LONG GOODBYE, as the old files I have on there really aren't that great and need to be done properly.

I personally thought it's probably just some easy fixes that could be made in mastering. No, your track isn't the best on there, but if it really sucked we wouldn't have taken it. Don't worry about it.

Why? Your track is largely fine, it just needs a little reverb wetness, or whatever fixes it from being a bit muddy and scratchy. I didn't hear anything in your track that really merits fixing up to a degree even close to it. Edit: Wait, did you give us a WAV or MP3? I could probably see the merit in it if all we have is the MP3, but in a .WAV I don't see the need for it.

I hope this topic doesn't become wholly centered on the gender aspects of the game development like so many other topics in the last while have, because the game itself actually does sound intriguing and I'd like it if discussion focused on that (seeing as how I won't be able to play it anyways).