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If only you were born in the 60s, you could have been in van halen or some shizz. Shamelessly retro. I don't know whether to vote yes or slap you for that solo. YES

Good to see some Diddy love. This is almost what you'd expect from a modern dkr racing if they made one. Same silly feel but with better production. I feel there's enough to differentiate the two but the style mash can be a little jarring. You're not sure if it's meant to be carnival or like a salsa, then you have orchestral elements and a trance lead. It's a bit all over the place stylistically but it sounds okay and kept me interested enough throughout. It's over the bar but not by a lot, so keep goin and step it up. YES

Hah, I totally remember that conversation. Neko was looking for a someone to play some super-fast lead bits (that I couldn't do either) and by lols I had an incomplete remix of the same thing. They were so similar in some aspects (the breakdown in particular) but so different at the same time. Not really much to add to the other votes. Definitely above bar but the ending is a little disappointing. YES

Amazing to see people still pumping out new and interesting versions of this track. Definitely better then the original version you showed me and I'm glad you've gone back and improved everything. YES

Picks Main pick is a Red Bear "lil' jazzer". Absolutely beautiful picks. $20 each but they just don't wear out at all. Been using mine for 6 months now and it's still perfectly bevelled. It's about 1.6mm. I've ordered a few more (the guy takes ages to make them) in slightly thinner sizes. I also use Jazz III's (not XL), and I try to use generic shitty plastic ones from time to time 'cause they're useful for recording. Hella scratchy but mega attack noise can be useful. I've also got a few v-picks in the mail. $4 little acrylic things, but people keep favourably comparing them to jazz III's so thought I'd give them a bash. Strings I did a strings shootout recently between: Ernie ball Rotosound D'addario Elixir Rotosound Yellows 10-46 won by a country mile for electric despite being fairly low-price. If you currently play ernie balls give them a go, similar feel but just feel better/last longer. Elixir won for acoustic.

Got it, check yo messages.

I'm all for graphical updates but srsly... 6, 7, 8 and 9 need one more. It's like they're intentionally fucking with us this point. The fans clearly want a 7 remake, and they've done like half a dozen ignoring the biggest request. (NB I'm not that interested in a 7 remake, it's just beyond belief they can't realize the fan demand.)

Short answer is yes, Brandon . I haven't had my own computer for a bit for irritating reasons. I can check this stuff every day now. Two new joiners today including old school returner Main Finger. Plus sir knight of the round picked up something new. Final deadline is January 12th. Caught a skype meeting with the staff for once (3am in the morning, amurika bias) and this is definitely the earliest eval slot. I will be pming/emailing this just to make sure. Once I've sorted a few track confusions up there will be an updated list this weekend. Also I'll be redoing a track now that I have me Uni facilities back again. My previous bedroom recorded with shitty samson mic track with Andy P will be professional studio standard now, woo!

The computer I work on, the mp3s in my pocket, even the phone I use is a rip-off of apple innovation. I'm sure I'm not the only person who will continue to be affected by the things he's done or inspired for many years to come. RIP dood.

I'll see what I have but it feels a bit redundant given there will be a trailer. If I can find one or two tracks where 30 seconds out of context are epic without ruining too many surprises we'll see. Apologies for the delayed deadline pms/emails, moved back into University this week. Should be with you shortly.

And yet it moves Aquaria Atom Zombie Smasher Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Borderlands Braid Call of Duty 4: Modern warfare Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 The Cat and the Coup Chime CoD: World at War Cogs Counter-Strike: Source Crayon Physics Deluxe Dragon Age: Origins F1 2011 Fallout 3 Fallout: New Vegas Football Manager 2010 Frozen Synapse Garry's Mod Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Gratuitous Space Battles Half-Life 2 Half-Life 2: Episode One Half-Life 2: Episode Two Half-Life 2: Lost Coast Hammerfight The Last Remnant Left 4 Dead Left 4 Dead 2 Machinarium The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee Osmos Peggle Deluxe Portal Portal 2 Puzzle Agent Revenge of the Titans Rome: Total War Gold Edition STALKER: Clear Sky The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition Sniper Elite Sniper: Ghost Warrior Steel Storm: Burning Retribution Super Laser Racer Super Meat Boy Team Fortress 2 Top Spin 2 VVVVVV Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War II World in Conflict World in Conflict: Soviet Assault I mean I have completed all of them at some point... but all I play is MW2, ololololol. Here's my top 3 apparently: Modern Warfare 2 Multiplayer: 225hrs Fallout 3: 74hrs Left 4 Dead: 56hrs So yeah... Fallout 3 holds my steam single player record, but I mostly use it for playing multiplayer games with my buds. Of all those MW hours, I have never played it by myself. I skype my friends and use it to help stay in touch with them. I reckon my Final Fantasy totals alone exceed all of those though.

That intro to Great Gig in the Sky gave me goosebumps. Ridiculously good arrange album!

Need to do my rounds first to say for a sure on a few tracks buddy. Let me know what you're interested in anyway by pm.

honestly it's super simple to build one. 1. Oscillator of frequency a 2. Oscillator of frequency a mutiplied by selectable modulation index (any integer between 1 and 20 are all useful harmonic sounds) Oscillator 2 modulates Oscillator 1 like a regular vibrato. Instant Sega Genesis.

Ah the scoop went missing. I've spoke to the staff dudes the other day to work out when we can realistically expect the current project queue to die down, and it's hopefully early 2012. I'll probably be setting a final deadline somewhere near new year so that we can be ready and evaluated in time for that, which is a good few months for all you busy people to polish up. When I say final deadline, I'm not going to be thwarted by the project queue undermining my efforts this time . We're totally in the queue for reals finally.

Well the makers of FM synths probably just want you to muck about with it and see what fun sounds you can get, and figure out how it works like that, rather then why it works. As soon as you start blathering on about maths in the manual only people like me will care. The only reason I know this is cause I programmed an FM synth for funsies in Max MSP.

The maths behind FM are not too complicated. FM is basically a super vibrato where the rate of vibrato is linked by (what can be a very simple) equation to the frequency of the note you're trying to play. So you have a fundamental sine wave frequency oscillator that produces a sine tone. Then you have another oscillator that varies the frequency of your first tone like vibrato. At a modulation frequency of below the audible spectrum, (a vibrato of 20Hz or so) it sounds like anything from slight to very silly vibrato. Above a vibrato frequency of 20Hz though, strange things start to happen. Instead of vibrato you start to get additional frequencies related to the fundamental appearing that change the timbre instead of the pitch. What they are depends on the relationship between the fundamental frequency, and the modulation frequency. This relationship is called the modulation index. So if you have a modulation index of 2, that means the mod frequency is always twice that of the fundamental. So when you play a note at 440Hz A on your keyboard, that would be being varied with a vibrato of 880Hz, which is ridiculous, but sounds awesome. In fact if you go through and try out all the basic mod indexes of 1, 2 3.... up to 10, you've basically heard all the sounds a Sega Genesis makes cause of it's simple FM synths . Just try and keep all your modulation indexes integer numbers and the sounds will always be fairly harmonic. FM tends to produce spectra that only contain frequencies that are multiples of the fundamental, rather then standard harmonic series components. That's why the majority of first order FM sounds are similar in timbre to bells and chimes. Obviously you can muck things about with FM8 and such by starting with a square wave instead of a sine wave. Or modulating the mod frequency with another oscillator. Try building a simple uber vibrato in Reactor if you have it. It really helps you understand whats happening.

Looks like it's all OA's fault. Can't see no fix in the thread. I can send him an angry letter or a horse's head if you like.

We actually have the artwork for the album pretty much finished already but thank you for the offer. If anything else comes up I'll remember your offer.

I might mosey over to my playstation now...

I gave up remixing anything from a game I haven't played a fair time ago. My nights/dkc/megaman/xenogears mixes are all aight but they don't really mean anything to me at their core, only as musical challenges. In otherwords, prepare to suffer an onslaught of shameless final fantasy prog.

Possibly. Like I say I'll try and talk to everyone tomorrow and see what's left and what the priorities are.

Hey guys, My sincerest apologies for my recent absences, having a tricky couple of months and haven't been online nearly enough. I'll be shortly sending out update requests from everyone and make sure we're moving. At last check I had 22 wavs so we're definitely moving along. Unfortunately the project queue does look quite long, and there's nothing I can really do about that. Nonetheless we shall endevour to get this done in epic style. They're probably be the usual trailer but much closer to the release time.