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Shadix

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  1. "I also want to stress that you cannot collaborate with people who are not on your team. This obviously means no collaborations with other teams, but it also includes people not involved with the competition, i.e. you can't get your sister to play drums for you, and you can't get your boyfriend to throw some vocals down either."

    After discussing with a friend regarding my track last week and wanting to get live sax on my track, I want to express that making this a rule is actually detrimental to any benefit this contest is supposed to give, and is poor producer work ethic for those who have the resources to do this type of work.

    When you use a sample library, you are collaborating with musicians that were strenuously recorded for use with your project. By claiming this to be a rule you are essentially saying using anything that isn't explicitly a synth is against the rules.

    If the reason for the rule is because it puts individuals at an unfair advantage due to the expressive nature of live recording, I want to stress that the process of arranging for players and recording is a complicated, work intensive process, with a lot of variables both before and after recording that more than make up for the lack of sample tweaking and humanization to make your samples expressive.

    Also, if the reason behind the rule is "samples only". What if I made my own samples of other people I want to use? If they just happen to play the same chord progress or melodic figure in my song, its still a sample.

    In addition, if the point of this contest is arrangement and you are going to outlaw session musicians you should outlaw sample libraries altogether, because the guy that happens to own well recorded, expensive sample libraries like Komplete, EWQL, LASS, etc are already at a disproportionate advantage to the dude still scraping by on poorly recorded soundfonts and stock plugins. In addition sample libraries are pre-mixed and mastered, so if anything, pre-manufactured samples are cheating in a sense.

    Now, I can see if you are concerned if external people are collaborating on the arrangement, but if you are doing the principle writing bringing in session players is exactly the same as loading up a patch in Kontakt, and thus shouldn't be an issue. I ask for you to reconsider your stance on this for future competitions. :)

  2. Man this would be cool if it weren't limited to just Disney-Capcom themes, like including the Genesis Disney-esque game tunes like Castle of Illusion or later games like Kingdom Hearts, or even games from companies that are now part of the Disney machine, like the old Marvel games like Silver Surfer. ;) (Tim Fallin ftw)

    I dunno, I was kind of expecting the twist to be something still in the ball park of Megaman like intro stages and auxiliary themes or hell, even a Megaman X or Megaman Zero theme. This is rather unexpected. I'm fine with it because I transcribe by ear anyways but I'm not gonna lie that it sapped some of my initial excitement for this event.

    For the sake of keeping the contest momentum up might I suggest not sticking to the Capcom-Disney theme after this week\round and pulling a random game out of the hat each week? I like the idea of the unexpectedness and this is a cool theme but I really think the contest is going to stagnate fast if we keep to this theme. You could justify this as a "Disney Takes Over the World" type of approach and acquire a new franchise each week.

  3. Not as their #1, but KingTiger has it as his #2, and his #1 is Gravity Man, which a couple people have as their #1. This draft is going to be sooooo messed up lol :-P That is a bitchin' theme though. Good luck!

    I can't wait to see how the Gravity Man toss up goes. Though my #2, Wave Man I saw a few people with too.

  4. There's competition over Gravity Man. I'm fairly certain that's a sign that this is the Mega Man compo to end all Mega Man compos.

    DANG IT. You have no idea how much I love that song, and the source is long so there's a lot to work with it and its proggy.

    PS: Team Name revised: "Robot Museum" or "Night at the Robot Museum". I know it has robots but its a reference now. :D

  5. I really hate having to do this at this point, especially after having mah boi MainFinger have to arrange such a complicated piece, but I'm going to have to drop out. Things got really crazy this week and I simply haven't had enough time to devote to this competition (tis the way things always are. >_>) My track simply isn't done and I'm out of time to work on it.

    Twas fun and I wish everyone the best of luck going forward! I am truly sorry I have to do this.

    I'll be sure to show you guys the track when it eventually gets finished.

  6. Whats with all the FL10 hate? It added the one feature I had desperately desired for years. (A way to merge patterns together), better delay compensation, etc. I remember the days of 7, constantly having projects corrupt, think I'd rather stick to the current version.

    Edit: I'm apparently the idiot who missed the trolling queue. >_>

  7. :shock: WHOA STOP!!! I think we're at capacity now... Shadix did PM me earlier today inquiring about joining. That means there is technically one spot left. Geeky Stoner said he was going to join awhile ago, but I haven't heard back from him. So the final spot will be between him and Main Finger, if they indeed both want to join.

    THEY MUST FIGHT TO THE DEATH!

    :-? I sure hope #4 & #5 aren't needed... And Chemical Plant is Sonic 2 FYI.

    you got 2 slots left I think.

    Edit: I'm being stupid and can't read. Ignore me.

  8. Ok

    1) Chaos Angel (Sonic Advance 3)

    2) Asteroid Coaster (Sonic Colors)

    3) Wild Canyon (Sonic Adventure 2, yeah I went there)

    4) Rusty Ruins Zone (Sonic 3D Blast GENESIS)

    5) Route 99 (Sonic Advance 3)

    I honestly had a hard time picking a number one between Asteroid Coaster and Chaos Angel.

    I am looking forward to the challenge Chaos Angel brings but Asteroid Coaster might by my favorite Sonic song ever. Also, I'm glad to see other people are willing to experiment with more obscure songs. :D

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