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Pokemon? In my tactical RPG? I may actually have to play this. Here's hoping it also has a good soundtrack.

I just woke up but off the top of my head, no there aren't. Done. Yeah, that's why it wasn't possible to realistically organize a FULL roster of songs, so really, just seeing exactly how much can be done in a short time. Will definitely be interesting to see how it all turns out!

OverClocked ReMix and Darkside Translations present Rosenkreuzstilette Re-Vamped! Description of Project Overclocked ReMix has been approached by Darkside Translations to take the original soundtrack to the Japanese Doujin game Rosekreuzstilette and overhaul the original tracks, taking inspiration from numerous video game franchises. This project, which is being jointly run by Leif Landevag (aka. TDOMMX) and Level 99, is aiming to get as many tracks upgraded in appropriate style before the final deadline. Leif explains the gist of the project: Sources and Specfications Official Rosenkreuzstilette game page at Darkside Translations' site Extensive writeup on Rosenkreuzstilette Rosenkreuzstilette game review at the Rockman Perfect Memories site To summarize, what the localizers are looking for is more of an upgrade as opposed to full re-arrangement for most of the songs, and have compiled an extensive list of instructions for people who are interested in taking a track. There are genre and style limitations for every track, because most of these tracks are inspired by other video game music. Note that while a song is listed as to what arrangement style or video game song to model it after, do NOT include the inspiration song as part of the arrangement. I encourage anyone interested to download the whole soundtrack bundle and check out the notes for any tracks that catch your ear: Here is the whole soundtrack bundle for RKS, including tracknotes - contact Leif of Darkside Translations at TDOMMX at gmail dot com if you want to discuss arrangement ideas with him. The tracks are meant to be replacing these so please do your best to make them somewhat loopable. Each track and its mixing instructions can be accessed separately at http://www.darksidetranslations.com/rks-bgm/, and any notes about them will be updated over time there (NOT in the RAR archive). One person may claim one track at a time. If they get that finished to the satisfaction of the organizers and have time to tackle more, they're more than welcome to. If you want to arrange a track that has already been claimed, you are still welcome to make a short WIP to pitch your version to the project runners. We may decide to go with your version of the existing claim for time and style reasons. The album can have multiple versions of a song, but the game will only use one. The game itself is Japanese-only and does cost a small bit, but the English localization patch has been and will continue to be free, and it's those people that do the patch that are requesting this musical treatment. Timeline and Deadlines You should send your WIPS to both project leaders via email. When you have a WIP, email it with the subject line containing "Rosenkreuzstilette Project", your remixer name, and your source track name. The recipients should be: level99remixteam [AT] gmail [DOT] com TDOMMX [AT] gmail [DOT] com Previously, the project had an endgoal of mid-June. After further discussion, the final deadline has been extended and a new timeline has been created. See below: 1st Deadline: June 18th, 2012 Requirements: Rough WIP showcasing track ideas and progress 2nd Deadline: August 27th, 2012 Requirements: Full-length WIP 3rd Deadline: October 22nd, 2012 Requirements: Pre-Final track, only minor tweaks or feedback needed FINAL DEADLINE: December 15th, 2012 Requirements: Absolutely final track Note: you may get your final track in as early as you wish, and if you are looking to claim multiple tracks, you must get your final for one song in before claiming another. Tracklist and Claims Legend: normal = unclaimed red = claimed purple = WIP'd blue = FINAL 01 - Arima's Music No. 13 - Claimed by Calum 02 - AM Fight No. 1 03 - Dancing Snowflakes -Turning Everything White- 04 - Human Heart, Divine Might 05 - The Ground Which Can Shine 06 - Arima's Music No. 07 07 - Arima's Music No. 03 - Claimed by mak 08 - Snow White Soil - Claimed by Dj Mokram 09 - March on the Haunts of the Wicked - Claimed by theshaggyfreak 10 - Stage Start - WIP'd by Metal Man 11 - Pegasus 12 - Arima's Music No. 22 13 - Stardust Love Letter 14 - Red Pollution 15 - Sinner 16 - Arima's Music No. 28 17 - Untitled 18 - Outnumbered 19 - Arima's Music No. 26 - Claimed by Level 99 20 - Arima's Music No. 11 21 - Deep Purple Moonlight - Claimed by Dj Mokram 22 - Deep Purple Moon -The Rebirth of Death- 23 - Crash Man 24 - Flame in the Night 25 - Arima's Music No. 30 26 - Dear 27 - Arima's Music No. 33 28 - A Little Mischief - WIP'd by Moomba 29 - Untitled 30 - Arima's Music No. 14 31 - Untitled 32 - The Fabricated Truth 33 - Arima's Music No. 10 34 - Meteor Strike 35 - Arima's Music No. 15 36 - Party of Ghost 37 - Cathedral -Second Movement- 38 - Fighting Eternally 39 - Sovereign's Oath 40 - Untitled 41 - Shining Man 42 - Winter Breath 43 - Arima's Music No. 18 44 - Closing Venue 45 - Head Serpent 46 - Pray to Muse for 47 - The Final Confrontation 48 - The Devil Loves a Fallen Angel 49 - Last Battle -Requiem for Myself- 50 - Untitled 51 - Mirror in the Sky 52 - The Winner 53 - First Love - Claimed by Rexy 54 - Untitled 55 - Vampire Revolution 56 - Fighting Spirit - WIP'd by MeteoXavier 57 - Kingdom of the Last Elf

Are you trying to run the actual address of the IRC server in a browser window, or are you saying your computer can't access the java applet that is hosted for connection to the OCR IRC? If its the former, that's likely not going to work in any browser. You need a client, like mIRC or XChat2 or even Pidgin, to connect to an IRC server and then select a channel or channels to talk in. If it is the latter, not sure but maybe your ISP is blocking the protocol. That probably sounds like technological mumbo-jumbo, but the bottom line is if you can't connect through the applet in the browser, you need to get a client program and connect through that. There's a few guides on the web for connecting to IRC, depending on the program you use. I recommend using XChat 2, which has a free Windows port and a pretty good setup guide. When I started coming here I did in-fact know some stuff about music. I initially got started arranging VGM over at a site called VGMix 2, which has been defunct for a while. There's a lot of history between VGMix and OCR that I really don't want to get into in this thread as its not on topic, but suffice it to say I was not coming at this with zero experience. I've been playing guitar from an early age and been self-teaching instruments and music creation for a long time. I was in a bunch of punk bands in high school and college, but only started making music in a DAW at around 2002/2003. I didn't use any MIDI sequencing besides crappy drums until something like 2007, and my main setup was a POD 2.0 direct-in, a Casio keyboard, and a Hohner acoustic recording into a $15 Radioshack microphone. I started trying to submit to OCR in 2004-ish, I think. Compared to what people come here knowing at the get-go today, I was about as bottom of the barrel as you could get when it comes to knowing things that would get me up to OCR standards The whole five years thing is just an example of an outer maximum of time to achieve the level of quality demanded by the site standards, not an average or aproximate for anyone. I included it to let people know that just because you don't get a song passed within a month, or six months, or a year, or two years, that there's something wrong. People learn and grow at different rates, and that you shouldn't feel that any amount of time is too long to become posted. Basically, don't give up arbitrarily because you've spent X amount of time and not achieved success, as that's not a valid excuse if you really want to achieve something. As for your MIDI import question, that's less a matter of what program to use (outside of personal preference for program workflow) as long as it does have MIDI import. Its more about using samples. tweaking samples, mixing, and mastering. FL Studio, Reaper, Sonar, Logic, Cubase, Reason, whatever can take MIDI and use some kind of VST or sample plugins is a valid base for upping the production on MIDI stuff. You'll have to look up information in the manuals for how to import MIDI, but there should also be information scattered around about the best way to humanize and tighten MIDI data, and how to use sampling effectively. Hope that answers your question!

Get that crap out of my thread, Brandon. This is a newbies guide, not a TEEN AGENT guide. Also Darangen hit the nail on the head too. Everyone had such useful feedback. Though Larry still says all my mixes suck in staffchat. All day. Every day.

I personally thought that each and every mix and mashup that came out on Sunday, let along nearly all the vocal mixes on the site, are of high quality. So you're "universally bad" statement should rather be phrased "bad to me, its my opinion and I don't like them". You don't speak for the universe

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Those people that don't have to try very hard to get there already either have been doing things to get to that point, or are just naturally very gifted folks. You want my honest answer to what you're asking? First, let me just make sure I'm understanding what you're saying. You think that the system we have in place for getting the skills and advertising your work isn't at the point where it can be the only thing to do in order to increase presence/musical ability/etc., so you want to know what else needs to be done for people to start getting that leg up that other folks around here who are more "established" (i really hate that word, i would just call them familiar faces) seem to have. Just tell me if that's the gist of what you're asking. Because if that is, then I can say from my experience the best thing to do is to start conversations with folks who do give you feedback, or chat around in the ocremix IRC and start making some friends and contacts there. Most of the folks I consider to be friends from this site started either as collaborators on mixes or as people who I sought to give feedback on my stuff. You may have noticed that there's a somewhat disproportionate ratio of creators/listeners in both the workshop area and the ReMix area. generally you will find more people creating the work and seeking feedback than giving feedback on created works. Its unfortunate that due to more people exercising their creativity and talent that as a result, it seems less people take the time to listen to others and to comment. If you're posting things and people are glossing them over, go out and seek the feedback from folks. There's usually a few people around the IRC who are willing to listen to whatever, or even just make general chit-chat. Start talking to people and make social ties, you'll find the people who are willing to give you feedback on the side will increase. It's impossible to rely entirely on the workshop area. It has a purpose and it does serve as a good tool but it definitely shouldn't and, in all likelihood, can't serve as the only source of critiquing. Post on youtube, newgrounds, irc like i said, wherever you can find people who will listen, go there. And I said five years because sometimes people take a long time to learn or make those ties to start building a system of feedback in order to improve. The way you worded your post, I can tell there's a lot of frustration there. If I may give some advice that contradicts your position, I would say look at the limitations not as a source of frustration but as a challenge to overcome. Look at what the limitations of the sound chip for the NES has resulted in: creativity flourishes where hardware and software restrain. There's a huge amount of free things available and while there is definitely a distinct advantage to having expensive samples and synths, its not the be-all end-all of making music. Its sort-of the difference between using a regular screwdriver and a power tool: they both can be used to the same ends, one just takes longer with more effort to put into it to get there. Also it is most definitely not proven that more "established" mixers get preferred posting for obscurer tunes. OCR celebrates all VGM, from the most well-known to the most obscure regardless of who's making it. If its a good VGM arrangement, its a good VGM arrangement. Finally, I do get your frustration. I completely understand where you're coming from. I was there, as I mentioned previously, for five years. That's a long time to be potentially frustrated. The way you're phrasing things is that you're voicing what others have experience and are possibly saying. You asked where you're going to get help for this, and I can only say that beyond what's already available and what I've already said, turn to your peers. People come to OC ReMix in waves, so finding other people who are at your skill level or more and starting a dialog or connection for critiquing is probably one of the best ways that you AND others can grow musically. I hope I have not further frustrated you with my response, and I hope what you're feeling now passes quickly and you can get back to making arrangements of obscure vgm

http://level99.thestuffoflegends.net/Stuff/vcremix_bundle_mp3.zip There, that's the bundle of all the tracks from yesterday. Enjoy, folks! Octopus Lime is...well, I don't know who it is. I know Orgasmic Alliance is a pseudoname for a group of people, not really definitive members, but they normally do joke mixes. Block Party is zircon, Jillian Aversa, Palpable, diotrans, and myself.

Had absolutely nothing to do with that, sir.

In all seriousness, OCR Staff is working on getting this ready for release. There is no definitive date, or even a rough date, but it is coming at some point.

I'm really surprised that was what some people latched on to, considering that its not even close to the highest quality mashup from what we did. Regardless, glad you liked it! Edit: o_o destructoid posted the slamjam surfin mix on their website? what? http://www.destructoid.com/overclocked-remix-prank-brings-the-gift-of-space-jam-224922.phtml I had it originally mashed up at the normal pitch/bpm, but the source track is just so fucking boring that I had to do something make it more...different? Also just FYI the Homestar/Homsar/Senor Cardgage voices were me, and Strong Bad was Brushfire.

I hate facebook likes so i unliked it for this album. antiinternets.

OverClocked ReMix Officially Changes to VocalClocked ReMix April 1st, 2012 Contact: press@ocremix.org FAIRFAX, VA--OverClocked ReMix announced this morning that, due to tremendous outside pressure and incentives from the music industry, it is officially changing names and formats. As of this morning, OverClocked ReMix is now known as "VocalClocked ReMix," a site dedicated to the appreciation and promotion of vocal video game arrangements and mashups. Community Manager Larry Oji explained that "As it turns out, VGM is just a bunch of bleeps and bloops - true emotionality, soul, and expression all require the addition of the human voice." As a result of this change, the site's policy on acceptable material has been radically altered. All tracks hosted on the site are required to have vocals. Naturally, this means revisiting the massive back catalog of tracks to either remove or alter the songs to conform with the new policy. It will take some time to go through all of them, but the staff is already hard at work getting underway and working with some outside help to make it happen in a tasteful and appropriate manner. The first track to get such treatment is the beloved Dale North song "Merry Little Christmas", from Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams. The song, while beautiful, had a distinct lack of vocals. Using VCR's extensive rolodex of contacts, some fine characters from the Homestar Runner universe have offered to bring the song up to the new standards. While that is happening, the site will continue to be accepting video game arrangements in the normal manner as long as they meet the new standards. To commemorate this, we're posting two new VCReMixes to showcase what people can expect from the new direction of the site. The first is from established ReMixer Level 99, who sings a beautiful and introspective ballad about Streets of Rage 2 over an arrangement from the game's ending. The second is from Russia's answer to the supergroup The Scuba Divers: Block Party. Getting off to a fantastic start, their song "...Tetris Play You" tells the true stories of those little blocks that people so carelessly fail to realize have feelings. Finally, in order to make it easier for people who can't sing for crap, VCR will now be accepting mashups of video game music and other popular songs. Today, VCR is releasing six of them to highlight the newfound versatility of this policy, facilitated by the collaboration with musicians in the professional non-VGM music industry: VCR's staff is positive that these changes will be well-received by fans, who have been clamoring for more vocal material and the including of copyrighted materials on the site since it first came into existence. About VocalClocked ReMix Founded in 1999 as OverClocked ReMix, VocalClocked ReMix is an organization dedicated to the appreciation and promotion of vocal video game arrangements and mashups. Its primary focus is a website featuring millions of free fan arrangements of questionable quality, information on composers and video game celebrities supplemented by juicy gossip, resources for aspiring "artists", and a thriving community of video game music fans.

We have a 512 limit on our server now. Build a twice-tree OCAD has been successfully upgraded to 1.2.4 on a fresh OS installation with Essentials and Dynmap currently working. More plugins to come, but there's a 30 person cap and 512 height cap right now. To view dynmap go here: OCADolution dynmap You can chat on the dynmap but only if you've logged into our server before and it recognizes your IP

Good, because Episode 95 - Filthy Kitkat into a Sock of Skittles HORRAY, erotic fanfiction and a discussion of what intellectual properties should be made into pornos with Akumu/Audi/Audun/FilthyKitkat

Then why are you directing another?

I like pretending (fixed it)

Man this thing hasn't been updated in ages. There's been a whole slew of episodes since MAGFest. So You Want To Be a Developer (Part 1) So You Want To Be a Developer (Part 2) Western & Japanese RPGs (part 1) Western & Japanese RPGs (part 2) Western & Japanese RPGs (part 3) Mass Effect 3 DLC

Episode 93 - Gay Robot Pride Parade Episode 94 - Slamsational Episode 93 contains a FANFIC reading (how awful). Hogwarts and a Giant Squid. Yes, Hogwarts. The school. Not the people inside the school, but the building itself as a separate entity. Episode 94 has Sephfire from Extra Credits join us for more ramblings again. Also, just FYI, Episode 93 was up on the OCAD homepage last week but I neglected to update the thread here. We have our awesome friend, Logan, updating the website whenever an episode is released. So check that website FIRST before checking here for new episodes, since there is always a slight-to-lengthy delay between when its up over there and when its pushed out here.

We do use vanilla and its gonna stay that way until Bukkit gets their act in gear, for sure. And yes, we are up-to-date at 1.2.4 as of right now. Just tested the server and its great. Also the OCAD server just got another boost in specs. Its running on an overclocked Core i3 with faster DDR3 ram now. So go us. YAY.

The Sansa players I believe, as long as you have the drivers, are drag-n-drop. As I mentioned in my post, a rockbox'd device or an android device, with drivers, can connect just as a USB drive. I haven't had experience with any others but I think that Zune and iOS devices are the only ones that require a proprietary software to transfer media to and from the device.

I use my old Samsung Captivate as a dedicated movie/music media device now, but I would have three recommendations for people looking for a new media device: 1) Pay-as-you-go Android Phone or Android Media Player For the gentleperson who wants flexibility, multiple methods of acquiring music, one of the largest amounts of common file support available, and easy storage transfer/upgrade If you can find one of those pay-as-you-go Android phones that takes MicroSD cards, like the LG Optimus V ($79.99 at Best Buy) or LG Thrive ($129.99 at Best Buy), or a dedicated Android media decive like the Samsung Galaxy Player, I would recommend this to the music lover who's somewhat computer savvy and is looking for the most versatile listening experience available. Android music player stock plays nearly every common audio file format that is used today. mp3, mp4/m4a, flac, ogg, wav, and even midi. The filetype support increases even more with applications like winamp, which supports more streaming and filetypes. And for the video game music lovers out there, applications like Droidsound, Rockbox, and Modoplayer allow for a very large amount of chiptunes formats to be played (droidsound supports the most out of box, and has zipfile support. As a result, I have the entire NES, GB, Genesis, SNES, and Master System/Game Gear chiptunes collections all on my phone taking up a grand total of 1.85gb ). Even more than that, applications like MX Video Player add support for a huge amount of video files to play. You can get music on these babies a large amount of ways. If you're on WIFI, you can go to the Android Market and buy it, you can download the Amazon MP3 app and buy/download music that way, you can go to websites and buy/download directly as long as the web browser plays nice, and so on. You can also use either a usb cable or a microsd card adapter to transfer files to/from your computer like you would a regular thumbstick. And since the memory is removable, you can just buy a few microsd cards and switch things out if you want different music. The only downsides are potentially battery life, which is dependant on the device and what you're doing with it, and that if you want to really super-duper take advantage of the technology there, you'll eventually have to root the thing and make sure you can sideload apps (ie. load applications that aren't on the marketplace). You're also not getting as much potential space from the get-go as you would something like an iPod since the device's memory is removable. 2) iPod touch with either jailbreak or Modizer software Either general no-brainer consumer or jailbreaker iPods are by no means bad devices. The hardware in them is quite impressive, which is unfortunate because these babies are locked down tighter than a chastity belt. Starting with the drawbacks, iPod touches out of box support Apple's proprietary audio formats like the protected AAC files & Apple Lossless, but they also support mp3 and wav. Same deal for video: Apple's proprietary video formats and then mp4/h264 and some very select avi files. No love for native flac or ogg support here, and even worse the most supported way for transfering files onto the thing is either downloading directly using the music store on-device or using iTunes interface on the computer to transfer files. Mind you, if your files are unsupported you either have to convert them using a 3rd party converter (because the iTunes one is just horrible), or just not have them on your device. Luckily enough, anyone with an iPod touch has access to two things: the ability to jailbreak*, and the most versatile chiptunes software outside of a computer: Modizer. jailbreaking allows some other apps to be loaded using cydia that potentially allow for downloading music directly from the web, FTP-ing into the device to transfer files, and support for FLAC and OGG using other media players. Its not great support but its there for those who want to try it. For anyone looking to play chiptunes though, Modizer is bar-none the best there is. It supports as many file formats as OCR's own Chipamp bundle does, if not more. It also has a built in FTP client if you're on WIFI so that you can transfer chiptunes files to-from the device. You can even browse and search some online chiptunes databases within Modizer, and download files directly. I'll just put it this way: Modizer supports over 400 file formats. If you're looking for an MP3 player and listen at all to any music from videogames that have chiptunes formats, you stand to save a lot of space if you utilize something like this. Battery life is usually pretty high for these players, which is the only consistent plus in my perspective besides being able to run Modizer. *some iPod touches and iPhones can't be jailbroken, and jailbreaking isn't for the squeamish! 3) Older iPod or supported device running Rockbox firmware For the budget-conscious music goer who doesn't afraid of aftermarket firmware This was my go-to until my dino-pod kicked the bucket. Rockbox, besides being an app for android, is also an alternative firmware for a number of devices such as older iPods, Cowon media players, verious Sandisk players, and more. See here for the supported audio codecs on which devices: http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/SoundCodecs#Current_status If you're running an older iPod that can be Rockbox'd with full support, I highly recommend you do so. It allows more file formats to be played, allows for custom UI themes, has certain chiptunes support, and best of all, allows you to transfer files without having to use iTunes. ------------------------- There. You made a thread about preferred mp3 players, and now you've gotten a recommendation guide. I swear I didn't plan on writing this when I started the post

I think a lot of people are going to have the same trouble you're having right now in the near future. The market is getting seriously saturated with some really good music, and out of those there's some fantastic ones that will spread like wildfire. Some are going to be somewhat overlooked, and definitely doing a name-your-price option will likely get the most exposure if not the most amount of revenue for your work. Hopefully you start getting the hits this album deserves.

EDT = Eastern DST Time, I believe. Its Eastern Standard Time, basically. If you're in QC, you're in the same timezone as US East Coast for the most-part. It's 12:40 PM right now where I am.