Fishy

Sure thang. Probably zip 'em by disc.

Sorry but I'm not having a wav vs flac debate here. The release will be wav and mp3.

Yeah no point in doing that twice. I know pokemon left out the wavless tracks but it just confused people who thought they had missing(no) tracks.

Don't use the adaptive limiter either. Really random output levels. Useless thing.

Cool. Send me an mp3 if you can for the time being. I'd like to hear how it turned out.

Oh Brandon, must you always assume I'm not thinking this through. Just because I haven't posted what I want doesn't mean I'm not privately asking people who could do it. Also huuuurrrrr can you send me the link again. It's missing from my folder. I just formatted my PC, obviously didn't catch all of the wavs. Everything on the front page is what I have.

But that would be giving the game away Brandon. Bass-excretion I may be but you don't create an effect by telling everyone what it is first!

He was yeah, but I'm trying to get something quite specific done with it. He gave it a go but it requires some pretty fancy samples to pull off properly I think. I have the same ones he has and can't get it working. @Calum: You're quite right, my bad.

Very pleased to get a surprise wip from kate today! Another from sephfire too. Excellent stuff . EDIT: I updated the tracklist finally, removed a few reds that have been there way too long. 20 wavs and counting. I am still hoping to get the following tracks done still at least: Song of Memories (with vocalist) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCYn1Bx6pnk Cid's Theme http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUXzMKJkxUY Kuja's Theme

The black has officially been enhanced. Congrats.

Bear in mind that everything *is* squished together by default from properly positioned speakers. Maximum 30 degrees left or right is pretty squished. Go as wide as you like, just make sure there isn't a gap in the middle. Standard orchestral recording technique is the Decca Tree, and that sounds pretty damn wide on headphones, and it should! The 1st violins should have direct sound covering a fair portion of the left side, but should include some direct sound from hardest left.

There are basically no 'rules' for anything but orchestral layouts. Just copy what you hear if you like it. Steely Dan/Donal Fagan do very hard panning for funky stuff. Most things are hard panned either left or right: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVN9q-GQau8&feature=related Muse have also done some unconventional rock stuff. Check this out, bass is panned right, guitar is panned left: You can get away with some extreme stuff like above just but some people don't like it. Pretty much the only rule is keep the main vocals, kick and snare central for pretty much everything. Although the beatles would disagree with me apparently. They've been known to pan vocals and even entire drumkits hard left right, not uncommon from early stereo records asyou'll hear: TL;DR The Beatles did wtf they want, you can too!

Wow... Fileserve... It's like they're trying to simultaneously give me a heart attack and a seizure. Nice samples yo!

I tend to sketch my arrangements out in simple semi-produced forms (enough to know it will eventually sound epic) and then go back over elements one by one. The sketches probably takes a day or two depending on the complexity/length. The rest can take hours to a few days, depends how much of a ridiculous balancing act I've given myself. It does take longer then most people by the sounds of it but I think it pays of for the way I work. It's definitely the best way to piece together a long arrangement and make sure it has contour and direction imo. I often start simultaneously from the start and the middle or end, and work outwards to connect them.

I dunno what your Father is trying to tell you but 16-bit is professional quality of bit-depth. Every regular CD in every CD store is 16-bit. They might record albums at 24 but it's always released at 16. The quality of the original sound that was sampled and the way you use it is the only thing that should affect how 'good' it sounds. The last thing I would complain about for the sample you just posted is it's bit-depth. The problem is it sounds pretty robotic. The dynamics and timing are a bit everywhere also.

Been trying to persuade my friend to buy this for a while now. Looks awesome!

My song doesn't split. It is one whole piece.

Installing ram on an imac is very easy. You don't have to take anything apart (or void your warranty). Tiny little flap under the screen open it up and slot it in. Video: It's also pretty easy on macbook pros, just search for a video like that. Crucial's website will sell you the exact same ram, just enter what model you bought and when you bought it.

If you're in education definitely call them up and order over the phone. Great discounts for basically no reason! And always buy ram from crucial <3.

I won't argue with people who suggest that upgrading your mac is outrageously expensive but you can enter the mac market with excellent specs for way way way less then that. Your figures are absolute worst case scenarios and misleading. I just bought (last week) an iMac with an i5 2.5GHz quad core and 12 gb ram (came with 4, bought 8 from crucial) for under £1000/$1600. PLUS it's covered for 3 years for any hardware failures. If you buy the basic one and upgrade, it's really not such a bad deal considering the build quality and design factors. Also Logic is a great all rounder imo. I would always buy a mac for it as a composing station. It's a real genre chameleon. The studio package is incredible value for money given the library it comes with and the price.

I'm also gonna put my voice here in favour or raising the file limit. If my vote that's happening right now continues in my favour then it proves you can have 10 min+ arrangements of ONE main source that fit the OCR bill - who might be judged down ONLY because of the encoding quality. That it balls. All it needs it to keep out the stupid mega mix medleys is a comment in the standards and some common sense in the inbox handling. "If you're going to submit a long arrangement, the quality and variation in the arrangement should justify the length. If you have several sources one after another in movements, please consider chopping your arrangement into parts. We may request this at the inbox or judging stage if it seems appropriate." If that is handled properly I see no reason why there can't be a size limit of more like 12 or 14mb. Yes the limit does encourage a cohesive and non-rambling arrangement but by limting it you're making it not even possible to have those qualities in an epic longer arrangement. I feel like my arrangement, which I put a lot of work into making cohesive as a whole individual movement, has been disadvantaged by the sizelimit, and as soon as that happens once it should be reconsidered imo. Thank you plz for listen.

I think triforce majeure is a pretty cool remix, he sounds ballin' and doesn't afraid of anyone!

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Ah that's lame. If that's the only option guess we have to. Send it over.

Yeah got your two, cheers dude. Sounding awesome! Those were 3 more from today.