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The samples are only up for a couple more days, but the submission deadline isn't until April 12th.

Tim and Geoff Follin did the music. No wonder it's so awesome.

If none of that works, boot from a Linux live CD and delete the files in Linux.

If there's a university with a music department in the area, call the piano professor and ask if he/she has any students who give or would be willing to give lessons. It's common for university-level piano students to do this, and the prices are likely to be lower.

EQ and compression are probably the best places to start, and there's a lot of stuff available online about it. The good thing is that the principles involved aren't software-specific, so any two EQ units will basically work the same way. Googling will turn up more on the subjects, but these two articles give general overviews of EQ and compression.

Don't rely on rumors. Go over your recent paychecks thoroughly to make sure you know exactly what you're being paid. If you are getting TL pay, then problem solved. If you're not, then ask management about it.

They'd say, "Sweet! If we get zerged, this guy'll know what to do!"

Even if it is just a Brawl clone, it will be a resounding win if it has proper online play.

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Add it to the end of the address, like so: http://images.google.com/images?q=gustav+mahler&um=1&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS259&sa=G&imgsz=huge

The Beetle Adventure Racing ad was interesting in that it was almost entirely game footage. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVnlcajcRKk

Since 2007. But Notepad 2009 isn't free, so the official site probably isn't distributing Notepad 2008 anymore. You may have to hunt around.

Independence Free says it has all the "Independence software features" except audio import. Independence Pro can host VSTs. The question: does this mean Independence Free can host VSTs, since VST hosting wouldn't be covered under audio import? (The answer: no, it can't host VSTs because apparently they were comparing Free to Independence Basic, not Pro)

They might mean Independence Free has all the features of Independence Basic (not Pro) except for audio import, and Basic can't host VSTs. From the description for Basic: "Beside the option to load also 3rd party VST effects and VST instruments - which is not enabled in Independence Basic - you have access to the same powerful software features of Independence 2." Sounds like only the Pro version can host VSTs.

If you have Reason 3.0 or earlier, you can't do either. If you have Reason 4, you can. I don't have 4, so I can't say how it's done, but a Google search would probably turn up a help file.

I guess the problem is that while what it does is impressive on some level, from a musical perspective it's still so basic that it's only useful to those without much musical knowledge.

There was a thread about this in ReMixing back when the program was in alpha. Both Bluefox and Nicholestien posted in it. It was fun. http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=15595

Sounds like normalization could be your friend. I'm not sure if iTunes can do it, but any audio editor (like Audacity) can do it. Save your music from Garageband so that it isn't distorted, then open the AIFF file in the audio editor and select normalize (it will probably be in one of the menus somewhere). This will boost the volume up to the highest it can be without distortion.

The emotional implications of the keys in the eighteenth century have been reduced by the fact everyone now tunes in equal temperament. Any given semitone for us covers exactly the same distance, whereas this was not true in older tuning systems. In the eigthteen century, C major and E-flat major sounded different not only because they were in different ranges but because the intervals used to construct them were slightly different due to the tuning systems that were used. To quote the Wikigods --

I really don't need to be spending money right now, and I really don't need another game to play ... but $5 for Bioshock ...

For scary atmospheric music, at least, you can really just do whatever you like. Long dissonances = good. You may not even need to concern yourself with key. People all the time compose horror-film music that many people wouldn't like if it were concert music. A E F (notes in one chord, not a progression) is cool because it contains both an open fifth and a close dissonance -- it'd work really well for creepy atmosphere music. For another take on this, try A C E F G-sharp. A C C-sharp E (A chord with both the major and minor third in it) might also be useful. As far as key is concerned, I'd say it doesn't really matter beyond the major/minor distinction. Now that we're on equal-temperament, A minor isn't much different from E minor unless it puts your instruments in a better range (or unless you have perfect pitch). (Or unless you associate sharps and flats with different musical purposes, but let's not get into that.) Okay, maybe it does make something of a difference, but it's going to be one of personal preference, so I wouldn't worry too much about specifically which key to use unless there's one you particularly like. Also consider modes (dorian, lydian, etc.), either as "keys" on their own or mixed in with your key to spice it up. IMO, orchestration and melody/accompaniment-writing are generally more important to establishing the mood of a piece than chord progression, but that's not to say there aren't cool things to be done by starting with a chord progression. A jazz trick for developing chord progressions, for example, is to "ii-V" a chord -- to approach a chord by treating it as a temporary key-center. For example, if you have a C F G C chord progression (I IV V I in C maj), you could expand it like: C (Gmin C) F (Amin D) G C I (ii/IV V/IV) IV (ii/V V/V) V I Another fun thing to do is jump from a major chord to another major chord a major third below it (e.g. C to A-flat). It has a disorienting quality to it, so this might help you if you need mysterious music or something. You could maybe expand it into something like C A-flat D-flat-min F-sharp Bmin G C. TL;DR version: GUYS, MUSIC IS FUN!!!

I'm not terribly familiar with 5.1 headphones. They have a plug for front, a plug for rear, and a plug for subwoofer, right? You might be able to take a couple these or something similar and splice the stereo out from the EMU into the headphone signal along with the FX II. Anything you get will be stereo, though, and not surround, because the 0404 can't produce surround sound.

57m I've actually figured out how to run effectively. It's only a matter of time before I break 100m.

This does not surprise me at all. I haven't played GH:WT yet, but the song creator always sounded like a marketing gimmick to me. ("Look! We have something that Rock Band doesn't!")