Tuned Logic

DAYUM this is awesome! It's not too long at all... In fact, the only complaint I have is that the song ends. Please finish (actually sounds finished already...) Excellent work!

Ah, the memories of this tune... I think it sounds great except that the background synth sounds off in some places and needs to be lowered in volume. Please finish this; it's really great!

Took your advice and changed the intro a bit: http://www.sendspace.com/file/ywj67h Still much work to be done: 1. Level out high decibel noises 2. Mess w/ panning and volume of certain tracks 3. Extend (maybe I'll try doing a battle scene in space -- if done correctly, I think it could be neat)

I did this on a whim; I suddenly had the crazy yet undeniably awesome idea to try and incorporate blasting off into space with one of my favorite source tunes (and one of the few I can actually play right now ). It's less than 2 minutes long; I just want a taste of what others think before I proceed any further. http://www.sendspace.com/file/29euvc Thanks in advance for feedback. Mike

One thing I know would spruce up my mix is a tempo change, but I'm still kind of in the dark as to how to do it without messing the whole thing up. In FL you can change the tempo actively, but I can't do that while I'm playing. And if I wanted to, say, do a gradual tempo increase, that wouldn't work that way. Really, what's limiting me is ignorance.

Hm, didn't know about the limit. Thanks. Anyway, I definitely know what you mean, and I would love to add some pizazz, but my PC doesn't cooperate like it used to. Somewhere along the line I'll attempt to revamp this a little.

Well, I'm really bringing this one back from the dead... Anyway, I finally found time to have at it with my computer, and, after lowering some of the sound levels on my tracks, most of the crackling went away, so I was able to polish it up a bit. I'm not sure how much longer I"m going to work on this, since it sounds pretty damn good to me, but what do I know? Next round: http://feinstein.mike.googlepages.com/TimesMemoriesFinal1.mp3

I can't do much in the way of advice, but let me just say this is ****ing awesome Keep up the good work!

Oh, gotcha. That's a great way to do it. I'm backing up my original, though, just in case Thanks a bunch.

That's a good idea. So how do you save each individual track as a .flp?

I get what you're trying to say, but the song won't play back fully, even with the speakers off. If I stop the song every ten seconds and start it, it's playable, but still really poor. It's not a speaker issue, the CPU overloads because the sound card uses so much of it. I have an average 85% CPU usage when the song is not playing ( I have 1GB RAM and a Pentium4 2.6ghz HT). It's pretty bad. Although I probably put too many tracks/effects in, because the card isn't nearly as bad as on any other, smaller file. I have about 5 or 6 instances of 3 synths that take up a lot of CPU. In addition, when I try to clone my drum track to seperate the snare so I can turn the dang thing down, I get an error. Let's just say I'm at a multi road block.

I'm not sure what my peak is since I can't even play back my song (sound card goes berserk with crackling and setting the latency higher doesn't help). Pretty sure it's below -5dB. I didn't know you could edit individual notes for anything!! That's awesome. Thanks for your continued support, avaris. Also, how do you set the peak dB? Can you do it with a setting?

Thanks for reminding me.... How the HECK do you do ping pong panning? I have always wanted to know. Also, my dB value for the whole song is pretty low, like -15dB. It wasn't bad before, now the crackling makes editing unbearable. And I have no idea how to use the Compressor. What exactly does it do? I did a few of the things you suggested in a later update, but that mix is too distorted... Thanks for the sound card advice, though? Do you think that's the problem?

Okay, I have absolutely no idea if I'm heading in the right direction with this, but my sound card is acting weird lately (I get crackling IN the rendered mp3... how is that possible? Too many effects on?) It usually only happens while playing back in FL Studio. I take it this is a sound card issue (Audigy 2) and not memory. So I played with the panning/EQ a bit. Improvement, or not? I probably need to buy a new sound card before going further... grrrrr. (BTW, should I go for the X-Fi Elite for the 0% CPU Load?) http://feinstein.mike.googlepages.com/SOTMOG411.mp3 (A little static in this, but nothing compared to what I'm getting now)

I might sound stupid asking this, but what exactly do you mean by mastering? Sonic separation? I'd be glad to master my mix if I knew what was involved.

You mean 192 kbps isn't high enough? I'll be sure to increase the bitrate when I pump out my next update.

Thanks for the continued commentary. I probably won't have a chance to work on this again till next week (my spring break), so I'll hopefully have some time.

Well, I've really been working in this in the last few days, and I made some major updates. Any opinions appreciated. http://feinstein.mike.googlepages.com/TimesMemories.mp3

Wow, thanks a lot for the comments! So how exactly does one execute stereo seperation (EDIT: Never mind. Found it ? Also, what EQ effects unsharpen the lo-fi? Thanks again. Mike

This is a remix of "Memories of Green" from Chrono Trigger and "Scars of Time" from Chrono Cross. I'm fairly new with this, and this is my first public release, so criticism is welcome. Btw, feel free to check out my other Chrono WIP on the site, but it's farther from finished (Counting the Minutes). http://feinstein.mike.googlepages.com/ Yeah, I'm a Chrono nut. Anyway, thanks for your time.