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This was done for a rapper from this site, but it's been in existence for over a year with little progress from him. Not going to name and shame, but I don't want this song to wither on the vine. I'm not sure it's interesting enough to release as just a beat, I would prefer some vox on top. It could be from Kratos' POV, or not. Instrumental is still a WIP, but developed enough to be fairly well along. Anyone interested? http://www.alchemysticaudio.com/gow_wip.mp3

a "modern" soundtrack I would like to remix is Kirby's Epic Yarn. The production quality is high, but the songs have catchy melodies.

Most of it doesn't appeal to me at all for remixes.

Something that interests me is easier ways to create MIDI chords than drawing them manually. I've been experimenting with custom actions that will take a root note and finish the chord. This makes a major chord. You can make a variant for a minor chord, or any other flavor. The first action is important to make sure that the edit cursor is the right place. What you would do is first draw the root note, then run this action, repeat. I'm thinking key commands might be the quickest. What you can't do with this action is select a group of root notes and automatically chord them all. I'm thinking it would take more work than a custom action can provide, perhaps ReaScript. If you have played around with chord actions and have your own ideas, let me know!

The Melda free EQ is my go-to EQ, by far one of the best/most customizable EQs I've ever used. The resize ability of Melda plugs is great.

Wait.... what?

Most of the time I don't bother to give a breakdown because I think it's pretty obvious. For my metroid prime 2 track I sent one, because of the confusion from the my first prime mix, I didn't want a repeat of that.

Yep! The semitone actions respect the scale settings.

Some more useful MIDI editor actions, since I tend to find keyboard commands more useful than mouse editing. Edit: move notes up one octave Edit: move notes up one semitone Edit: move notes down one octave Edit: move notes down one semitone Does exactly what you think they would do. I find it useful to have keyboard shortcuts for transposing notes on the fly.

You may be saying, "Argle, that trick to audition drum slices is all well and good, but can I do it with my MIDI drums? I'm not a caveman." Well in fact you can, and it doesn't even require a custom action. The MIDI editor actions in question are Navigation: select next note and Navigation: select previous note Using these you can step through MIDI notes to audition them, or just for easier editing.

Ever thought about NOT having every tourney be a grueling, grinding marathon that interest drops off halfway though? You could have a smaller tourney, would be over quicker, another one could be held sooner with fresh people. Not singling you out in particular, it's just every compo seems to be one off like PRC, or a marathon. Nothing in between.

Yeah, you generally can and should compress the living hell out of live bass. I have found very few exceptions in my experience where I want to keep the dynamics of live bass.

Hahahahahaha. I'm not a big fan of that guy, but that is probably the funniest thing I've seen him do. Oh, yes, happy birfday to ya Flexstyle. Now throw your cake on the ground.

Bass is booming quite noticeably, on certain notes more than others. If it's live it needs stronger compression. Then maybe it needs a few dB off the low end to make it blend better.

It definitely needs a B section, something that sounds different from what you have. The ominous chords at the end sounds pretty weird, tbh I would have ended it before that.

I like it when it gets going at 1:30. The arrangement starts to sound natural then. The mixing definitely seems off. Staccato parts are quite mechanical. More reverb, please.

You may have some items. I'm thinking specifically of Rex loops or other sliced up drums. You might want to audition each slice one at a time. With this wee custom action that dream can become a reality. It goes without saying that you can create an action with the reverse commands for playing the previous slice.

Haha, thanks. I don't really expect comments on this stuff, unless people have specific questions (or they want to post their own tips!). I'm just layin a bunch of crap out here, hopefully some of it will be useful to people.

God. Two FF legend compos and and I failed to enter either. 'scuse me while I hang my head in shame.

One of my absolute favorite things I like about Reaper over Sonar is batch rendering, which Sonar lacks. Some DAWs can do it, but not all. Any kind of audio based job where you need to export a bunch of files, is a job for batch rendering. So it's an absolute necessity for sound design and album mastering, among other things. The first way is to use the Render dialogue box. Here's an example. This is better for rendering across tracks than rendering multiple items within a single track. Remember to select Stems (selected tracks) in the top box. Note: this gif example would not properly create renders of the items only, it would render the entire project length. To make it work correctly in this example, you would first create regions for each item, then set the Render Bounds to region. For item-based rendering you want to use the Batch file/item converter. Here it is in action. So yeah, batch rendering, good times.

If this was exploitive, you would think these world famous musicians very expensive managers and PR people would have cautioned them against doing it. And yet there they are every year.

I thought hard about working on a crappy track. I thought too hard though and went to sleep.

Exploding items. It's not as exciting as it sounds, but somewhat related to the previous and forthcoming posts. You may have a track of items and want each on a separate track, and wish you didn't have to tediously move them by hand. Well, you don't. There are various other explode actions for other purposes, so have a look at them. btw, if you're wondering what the reverse action of this is, it is called Item: Implode items across tracks tracks into items on one track.

I've been doing some research into this problem only I seem to care about, and the following link will give you a feed from the OCR channel with only talkback episodes. http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/ocremix/uploads?q=talkback You can add it to a podcast app and it's a legit feed and everything. It's an imperfect solution though, since the feed items still have to be streamed in youtube rather than be downloadable audio.

I got a bunch of these to catch up on. If only there was a podcast feed.