Nutritious

Very cool idea. Looking forward to your progress and updates. Sorry to derail a bit further, but I think a big part of it is that you lose about 90% efficiency when you raise livestock for the purpose of food consumption, rather than farmland. In other words, you could feed 100 people with planted crops. But feed those crops (or grazing, I guess) to the cattle, and you end up feeding 10 people with the same amount of resources. It's much more efficient/environmentally friendly to go vegetarian in that sense.

Man, really loving the rock/synth combo here. :59 is pure win when the theme kicks in. I haven't even finished the song yet cause I keep rewinding back to it. I've had the pleasure of hearing a lot of your not-yet released stuff as well, so I can say there's a ton of great music coming soon. Great job, man.

Proph, you can remove Master of Orion for my wants. Got it for Christmas.

For those of you who were unable to attend Magfest to see this live, here is a web version of the FF4 Project audio preview: http://ff4.oceansend.com/uploads/magfest-video.html Click on Cecil to start the music.

Dang, just sold my xbox copy. Sorry proph. Reminds me that I need to update my post.

Wow, that was a pretty fast 7 pages. Congrats, guys!

Congrats, man! Trust me, it'll be a blast.

Oh man, I actually beat it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVT_jjaDbfw Almost fell quite a few times - once at 90M. I kinda messed up the jump at the end too, but no big deal.

This game had my wife and I cracking up when we first played. Just got up to 44.2, which is by far the furthest I've gone so far.

Pretty cool intro build with some cool lo-fi synth blips. Things fill out nicely when the beat comes in, soundscape-wise. Off-beat snares seem to clash a bit with some of the patterns, which causes it to feel a little awkward at points. Interesting sound choices for leads and fillers have DJP written all over them. Ending is pretty abrupt, but not too bad. It's a mix you can enjoy and not have to take too seriously.

Lol, OA sums it up well here. Guantlet references aside, this comes across as a lot of focus on backing elements without much melodic content. Square-ish lead does enter later, but doesn't do much to lift the track up IMO. On the positive side, you can tell a lot of effort was put into integrating different sound effects and getting some contrast out of them to support the mix.

Taking a listen, here goes: I'd say an overarching crit here is that this song is very simple. For nearly the whole track, you've basically got a drum loop (changing occasionally) and a couple synths covering melody/counterpoint. On top of that, the synths playing the melody basically do it verbatum from the source. For OCR, you've got to bring more to the table than drum loops on top of exact source melody. Loops on their own sound great, but (and I'm assuming you're dropping in premade drum loops) there's little variation. If you're dead set on using loops, slice them up and rearrange them with fills, offbeats, anything new to break up the same repeating pattern. Try to take the source in new directions: break it down away from the original pattern, play with some new notes, change the chord progression to throw the listener for a loop. As Roz mentioned, a lot of basic elements that make up a song are missing here. Keep listening to more music and keep working on more material. When I was first starting I tended to get locked into working on a single song, where I was trying to make it work, but not developing as an artist. I'd recommend you leave this one alone for now and experiment with some new material and new ideas.

Great tradition to keep going. I didn't participate last year (meant to), but I'll try and knock out some reviews soon.

Alright, finally got everything setup in my home studio here. Pics: Keyboard is a Korg N1 88-key fully weighted Samson CO1U Mic 32" LCD TV I just bought that I'm doubling as a monitor Basic Creative 5.1 speakers (not for mixing, I use headphones) Off-color table top is Nebraska Furniture Mart's fault :/, correct color won't arrive till April

Easy Way: Click Search -> Type in Deus Ex as key words -> Change drop down to Search thread titles only -> Change forum search to Judges Decisions -> Click Search Looks like 7 results.

Exactly. Though I do think my friends and I actually finished an Axis & Allies game once many years ago.

My "Now Isn't the Time" mix isn't on there, though it may also be a bonus track since it's from ToS2.

Hey guys, We just bought a new TV in preparation for the digital TV cutover coming in Feb. Because of it, we're getting quite a few new "digital" channels that we hadn't before via our antenna (no cable at home). Thing is, frequently the picture and/or sound is freezing up or sometimes pixellating while viewing digital channels. Old analog channels work fine, as well as the DVD player - it's just the digital ones. I'm assuming it's a problem with the signal or something, but I'd really like to get it fixed before the cutover occurs. Is it because of our somewhat-old antenna can't handle the signal efficiently enough? Is there something else I need to be concerned about?

New WIP on the forums. Check it!

Took a quick listen to your preview: Drums could use some variations and fills. Same pattern over and over can get repetative. Also, that quick double kick to match the guitar sounds a bit weird, but I guess it's workable. Kick feels a bit "thuddy", heavy on the low range. Up to you if you like how it is though. Things are coming through pretty clearly overall though. One crit, though: I can hear a bass-line type thing, but it's pretty buried. It could even be some sort of acoustic guitar or even piano or something, but it's pretty far back so I can't tell. Might need to clear a bit of room in the mix for a more solid bass line.

Because that's where remix albums go to die

Started on this one today. Just getting to the main melody, but didn't have enough time to push further: http://nutritious4.googlepages.com/CT-Magus.mp3 Yeah, I know this OST's been overdone. I was actually working on a different song when the Magus theme popped in my head. Hopefully I'll have time to progress it further at some point.

So, Deliverance isn't considered a derivative work from the original? Added vocals and all? This specific song came to mind when reading the Square Enix Fundraiser album discussion.

Not quite sure what you're trying to do exactly? Slice out a vocal sample from a wav? Or create a loop within FL? If it's the former, just drag the wav file from windows and drop it into FL's playlist. Then use the razor tool to trim it out. Or, you could use Edison to load in the wav file, trim it down, and make it loopable; or whatever you're trying to do.

Hmm, I haven't used it in quite a while, so bear with me. But if I remember right, you could just double click the sf2pack file and it would automatically extract the sf2 file to the same directory. Alternatively, you could start the utility, then open the sfpack file and extract it. This may also extract to the same directory. Unfortunately, I don't have it in front of me to check and make sure.