Meteo Xavier

Not a slight towards Zircon or anything, but I get confused about comments like these. Why would he not be human? Why would he not be free of error? Music isn't a godly talent, no matter what example may be shown, its work or hobby like most other things. Even the best have drawbacks of some kind in the very genre they are godlike towards. I have to wonder if thats where some of the topic question comes from - this idea of an artform transcending abilities of most people. Why would one be scared to perform a skill? It's just like any other action. Backlash from the public? You'd be amazed how many people will be supportive of your little ditty no matter how shitty it is. Ironically, it's when it IS good that people judge it the harshest. Music is a human skill and if I can learn it, literally every fucking biped orbiting Sol can, and when you get down to it, music can be just as much work as, well, work is, if you do it seriously.

It doesn't really matter how, as long as it gets done right in the final version. I'm borderline tone-deaf and it doesn't stop me much from going on (hinderence though).

I'm not afraid to WRITE music, I'm afraid to professionally mix/arrange it...

One of the few people I used to call a best friend in middle school ended up, a couple years after we separated into different high schools and graduated, in jail for having bomb materials at his house and threatening something. It's a very haunting feeling.

I have something I wish to express on the Colorado Tragedy. I joked, as far back as 2 years ago, facetiously off and on that the only way the Dark Knight Rises could top the emotionally heavy and bittersweet experience that surrounded The Dark Knight was if The Joker returned after all - with Heath Ledger reprising his role and his death being a major hoax to build an epic twist no one could see coming. Then I read about the Colorado Tragedy, and the minute I heard the gunman was calling himself "The Joker", there was a very pitch-black irony to my joke that reared itself like an angry horse out of the stable - The Joker DID show up for The Dark Knight Rises... and his presence was something no one saw coming. The reality, of course, is that my joke had nothing to do with it and I shouldn't feel guilty for saying it years before it even happened, but that unique irony remains, and one with my emotional makeup can't help but feel even the slightest bit responsible for it, as irrational as that is. It actually reminds me of the guilt I felt for my paternal grandfather. On two separate occasions, when I was younger, and we visited them in the summer, I wished on the first occasion that we could spend one more day with them out in Branson... and that wish came true when he fell down, broke his hip, and badly injured himself. We stayed another day alright. Then next summer I wanted to see them again instead of go to Atlanta for our summer trip - we did end up flying out there the next day... for his funeral. He died before we even left the city. Today's been a really, really bad day for me for a number of reasons, so I'm not representing myself with a rational mind, but I can't help but feel guilt for this bizarre talent I have for having innocent comments turn into real-life nightmares thousands of miles away. I don't really have a point here, I'm just kinda pouring myself out.

Yay - blaming media for violence and gun control bullshit in a Batman topic not 6 posts in. Awesome. We need to be more respectful than that right now.

There is a lot of truth to that, but it doesn't make going cross-country to meet them face-to-face any more feasible to do.

I could just reinstall them, couldn't I?

EDIT: What used to be a post here immediately dissolved into a 4-page, unbroken, caps locked, ribalderous cacophony of profanity, pornographic ranting and shrieking, violent illusions of "incestuous" HTML and logistics, militant feminism and something about using raw chicken to power an "8-cylinder motherfucker", whatever THAT is... Instead, here are some pictures of puppies to post as a more reasonable response. ...or there would be if I wasn't at work right now...

Well what do you expect - He does 28 CDs of game music a year. He's always been a quantitative musician. Play a drinking game where you take a shot every time you listen to a track he did in E Minor and you'll die of kidney failure halfway through Valkyrie Profile.

More specifically, I want to learn how to cleanly delete many of the factory instruments and samples from Kontakt 4-5 and Battery 3. I don't use much of them at all and they're just taking up space on my hard drives, but I'm not a tech person and I really don't know how to delete them off all together without going through a lot of effort and leaving remnants behind. Is there a way to cleanly delete them that I'm not seeing, or do I have to do it the complicated way? Thank you!

Today I downloaded that free musical box sample set from Sonic Couture and I'm going to use it to redo my remix for the last track on the OST. I can't find the piano giga sample I used for my other one, so I may not be able to redo that one - shame, but I had more issue with this other one anyway, and I think I can redo it whenever I get time to (and it's looking like fall at the earliest right now).

Remixing itself is as laborous as doing something original - you're trying to DO something original with already made material, itself an art form sophisticated enough to warrant compensation as long as the legal end checks out. Apart from that legal end, this philosophy makes no sense. It's art and its difficult, and if the paperwork lines up for it, the artist could be compensated for what he did for it.

Erased the chronological error on my part, but my point still stands.

And who might that be? Do you have proof to back it up?

Use the access money to start whatever it is that's an interest-bearing bank account for nonprofit entities to go towards site maintenance and so forth.

They didn't do that before, why would they do that now?

? I was posting it because it's an extremely triumphant composition. I don't know where you're getting the churchly/religious affiliation from.

The Final Fantasy IV Prologue! Seriously, I defy any man to find something even close to as appropriate - the only other one that comes close to me is "To Good Friends" from Chrono Trigger.

Zyko's track came in and it kicks ASS. Mark it finished, dude. I'll send you the .WAV here soon.

Contact Ghetto Lee Lewis. He's the best pianist I know.

I spoke to Zyko the other day, and Left Handed Wolf is going to be finished very soon. It's basically finished now, just needs the accompaniment brought up and thats it. He said he'd have it in a few days.

I hate to be "that" guy and bluntly point things out in a more negative fashion than I really mean, but how did you get hired to compose music for a film if you're not even really sure about the dynamics of doing it? Or a better question - if you're not sure about the differences between them, why did you agree to take the job to do it? Video action is a lot different than video game action - VGA is actually quite static and nothing really "moves" unless you move it, and because of that, the focus on what's going on is quite different and music can take a more dominating force in the medium, complete with strong melodies and borderline prog-rock structures in some. In film and video, the action moves by itself and is dominated by the actors and scenarios, therefore music cannot take a dominating force unless a musical is going on. You have to compose BEHIND it and hold it up. Not trying to be an asshole here, really, I'm not, but do you really know what you're getting into?

Hey, you ain't whistlin' Dixie there, those flutes are NICE. Bookmarked for my instrument list.

How would you not like it?