Patrick Burns

Audacity will do that to me sometimes. I just have to wait about 10 - 20 secs and the menus will become active again.

What you've got now is a major pentatonic scale now plus the major 7th scale degree. C D E - G A - C sound pretty consonant together, and the 7th gives the chimes a bit more melodic feel. The 4th would make it sound a little too full for most people's taste. If they were mine, I would change the C chime to an F and the G chime to a D. That would give you: D E F - A B C D ...a nice Dorian sound. Just playing it on the piano makes me want to try it myself. EDIT: That is, change the lower C to a F.

thx

I don't have a budget which allows me to be too concerned with acoustic treatment. That said, when my sister moved to college last year, I set up my studio in her room and tried to take it into consideration. I think I did an OK job. Her room is large and still pretty full of stuff (big bed w/ canopy, bookshelves, heavy curtains over windows) and directly behind me is her bed and an open doorway, so I don't think I have to worry so much about standing waves. I have one problem, though, that can't be addressed by merely repositioning my monitors or mic: the walls are such that somewhere around 130hz (not sure exactly; I'm not on my music computer to check) they resonate and give me about 10-15db boost. I've observed this my whole remixing career but up until several months ago always thought it was just some problem with certain samples. I loaded up a sine wave and played up through the freqs until I found the perpetrator. You can even put your hand on the wall and feel it resonate very strongly. So, I brought up my parametric EQ and made a preset to combat it. I apply this to the output whenever I'm on the monitors and bypass it when I use headphones. It helps enough for me to get by now. However, it isn't all that precise, and I don't like having to apply such an aggresive (non linear-phase D: ) EQ to everything I record. What can I do?

Is your studio all on one power strip, or is it on multiple outlets? I'm not very experienced at all with this side of things, but my first guess is a ground loop.

The Quicktime synth object is a little strange. Garageband and Logic don't treat it as a software instrument but an external synth object. Thus, you need to send a program change message to it in order change samples. I'm more of a Logic guy so I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think Garageband can send program change messages by itself. If you have a keyboard connected to your computer that supports program change messages, you can use it. I was able to load up Garageband, select the Quicktime Synthesizer, and change instruments via the program change message sender on my keyboard.

I haven't been writing any originals lately, but I've found that planning out my rearrangements before hand, with just a pencil and some notebook paper, really eliminates all the depressing hours of just sitting in front of the screen browsing through samples and patches looking for inspiration. I finally decided to start working on a resub of sorts for my Raindance in the Ruins remix. Forcing myself to plan it out has made the process so much more enjoyable for me, as I've accomplished more in one month of off and on work than I usually do in two or three. Of course, this is just considering the arrangement process - style, form, texture, groove, instrumentation, etc. To write a song (the notes) in your head away from an instrument, you've got to have a well-developed ear. Otherwise, you have no palette to work from. Hope you emerge from the slump you've found yourself in. Perhaps it isn't so much a sudden lack of creativity as it is a (temporary?) loss of enthusiasm for the genre you work in.

Aww, man... that played during the original Splinter Cell credits. It's takin' me back. [/randomness]

Could someone do me a BIG favor and download the Bolland Brass Section soundfont from this page , decompress it from sfArk to a simple sf2, and email it to me? The Mac version of the sfArk decompressor does not support older files like this one. Thankyou in advance! EDIT: Taken care of... thanks, people.

Glad to see you're getting SOME rest. Tired ears don't help.

Not that this hasn't been discussed, but with the immediate purpose in mind: I have to to say, I think Nobuo's compositions are somewhat underappreciated. Before I realized who wrote which songs, I named Silent Light and Tyrann Castle my two favorite songs of the game (both by Nobuo). As far as I can tell, neither of those were selected for the project, but I don't blame y'all. They aren't very popular.

Harmony, what kind of setup do you use to record your guitar?

This is just a little note to tell you that RotC carried me through an all-night marathon of trig homework. Perceived by Cold Intelligence just sorta puts the arithmetic section of my cerebrum into overdrive.

There are certain guidelines that apply to "tonal" music and "atonal" music alike. This doesn't follow any of those guidelines which is what makes it so great. It follows those crazy Tanaka rules that we all associate with Earthbound. To me, association is EVERYTHING in music. Most people (myself included) would say that they have an aversion to a lot of so-called atonal music the 20th century has produced, but IMO it is because we have nothing to associate it with. Just listen to John Williams work on Star Wars. Bits of the music on Tatooine delves into the realm of atonality (e.g. the Jawa themes) but, although it is a bit unusual, we have little aversion to it because of the strong associations we have with it. This is 100% Earthbound. Great work

This was only Kirby's Adventure on the NES. It wasn't meant to be all Kirby games.

three cheers for ds and the gang! hip hip...

I love light mixes that seem as though they were expeditiously conceived and laid down. of course, for all I know you could have spent hundreds of hours on this sucker... but it doesn't sound that way, and that's what matters. sweet

Very nice work, Harmony... I can't really add to the list of praises, though. the only thing teeny tiny thing I could nit pick about is that you're guitar sorta bleeds into the rest of the instrumentation. bravo

not suggesting that anyone's mix would be added to the project... i just want more people to try this stuff out for themselves. btw, rayza. im getting a 404 on your remix of vega's theme

for heaven's sake, people... this we-need-a-project-to-remix-this-track mentality is really annoying me. if there are some tracks you want hear arranged, then step up to the plate and take a crack at it! all you need is some interest (which im assuming you have seeing as though you are here) some software (there is plenty of free stuff on the net) and a little bit of help (found right here at ocr). i guess there are any number of reasons why some one would start a project, but the primary reason is to encourage everyone (and not just those who happened to be in right place at the right time and "claimed" their track) to remix a soundtrack that isn't getting much attention. actually being on a project, particularly one of this caliber, makes little difference... other than getting your track posted on a web site that is only going to be seen by ocr goers anyway

ds, you had some sweet sig a few months back advertising the then untitled kirby project... what was the source material for that?

or, how about you just leave it on one channel, and turn the volume up... wakka wakka wa ...or not no really, good tip

great work, people. i never played sonic 2, but i enjoyed everyone's music all the same. btw, since this thread is kinda turning into a feedback thread, do you think you should lock this one into a history thread and create a new feedback thread?

what exactly is left to get done before the release? cover art should be trivial, and im guessing ds is coming up with some sort of site design and that there is some behind the scenes communication with Trenthian... what else? it just seems like there's a little hiccup in the momentum

was going on a marathon sample search and came across this: http://www.musicbootcamp.com/audio_sample_library.shtml probably been posted already, but it's a very helpful place