Sengin

The only games I remember him liking are Psyconauts (which is two bucks, TWO BUCKS on steam through thursday), Painkiller (which is probably my favorite of his reviews, I laugh so damn hard every time I watch it), and Batman: Arkham Asyulum.

I actually think this is fine, if not perfect, as it is with piano + sax, and I think a key change might change the overall mood of the piece, although it's tough to say if a change to a different minor would hurt. Personally, though I've commented on perhaps changing a bit here and there, I think it's wonderful the way it is, and any changes made should be small ones. If you do change something though, please don't change the ending (2:43 onward). It's perfect.

I was kinda hoping it would be from the perspective of a block falling...

Taucer, how much are the tickets?

Hmmm.....I will try to get back to you.

Man, I can't believe it's December again... and like I've said every year thus far: Don't forget to give the WIP forum a visit in between reviewing submitted tracks. While it's good to review finished works, it's definitely good to review/critique works in progress.

I saw "prophet" and "saxophone" and I was interested. I'm downloading now.

Basically, the community decided that Brawl wasn't all that much fun in regular form, and actually decided to do something about it rather than bitch bitch bitch. So they did. And Brawl+ is the result. I stopped playing brawl a while ago. I started using the time I spent playing brawl and played melee more. I'm having more fun. And hosting tournaments for all of NC and for anyone who wants to drive here.

Ahahaha, that was quite amazing. I'm gonna have the limerick form in my head the rest of the day now.

Oh yeah. Bring back the style of Sonic 3 & Knuckles please. Drossin? Hooooo yes please.

While this didn't happen to me, it happened to a friend of mine a couple years ago. We were hanging out at his place playing Super Smash Brothers Melee, and at one point he went walking through a door frame. He did kind of a jump forward thing but tried to stay on the ground. He stopped for minute perplexed as to why he did this. Then he said "You know, I just tried to wavedash."

Oh man, I remember when you first put this in the wip boards. I didn't see any updates for a while and I wondered if you'd worked on it any. I'm glad you did! Also, I agree completely with the name of this album - it's perfect.

My first mix: http://www.box.net/shared/9h4htc2gf6 While some parts aren't that great, I still love the hell out of the section of hydrocity with flamenco guitar, piano, and saxophone (complete with latin-style drums!). I may make a mix of hydrocity using this section as a base.

If you guys happen to be looking to play the descent games: Descent I + II for $5.99: http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/descent_1_descent_2 Descent III + EXpansion for $5.99: http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/descent_3_expansion

I have to say I definitely love listening to this! Also: nice! (about the sheet music)

You know, when I saw that you started a thread and the title began with "new video!", I immediately thought "Fuck yes!" Seriously though, I am always in wait of your next video. Keep up the good work!

I've actually been quite disappointed in the soundtracks of games I have played somewhat recently (note that I am not saying all games that have come out recently, just that I haven't played any that has surprised me). I miss the memorable music from games... from the recent games, I remember not a single track whereas old games that I haven't played in years I can recall. I have found that with the increase use of the orchestra, most games are starting to not only sound the same, but also really boring and completely forgettable (probably something to do with "hey, he used an orchestra - I can do that too!"). The only exception I've found is (gasp!) Sonic Unleashed, which had some interesting tracks (though some forgettable as well). It still pales in comparison to say, Sonic 3&K or Sonic 2, but I definitely thought it was better than other modern games. Hell, I remember ONE track from FFXII. I remember too many to count from FFVI and FFVII. I'm not saying the orchestra can't be memorable or exciting, but from what I've played, composers need to start stepping it up. Or just focusing on other instruments (yes, we get it, the orchestra has brass in it) and melodies to create interesting tracks instead of just background sound.

The data isn't useless as it can be used for info about EQ and other effects you can add to a song. I was wondering if the FFT data for various percussive instruments was already out there. I've found some snare spectra, but that's it already (the people were comparing different snare batter heads and seeing what the spectra looked like). Hmmm..I've heard of Csound, but I didn't think it could do that. I should look into this. Thanks!

I would need to do an FFT for each note to get information about what harmonics are there are how loud they are, not for ADSR. Sorry, I should have been more clear. Yoozer: I'm looking to create a simple program to create songs from scratch, and as such I won't be using another program. I just want to be able to add something to my resume that I enjoy working on (plus I'd like to create a few songs this way). Analoq: I know the reason SHARC doesn't have any percussive instruments, and I know that percussive instruments do not have harmonics and are mostly just noise in various ranges of frequencies with a fast attack and quick decay (for the most part). I know that it is a long shot to try to recreate percussive instruments, but I'd like to give it a shot, even though it won't sound exactly like the real deal (obviously).

I've certainly thought about trying to do it myself and by ear (and had planned on it if I couldn't find any info), but it would be helpful and would save much time if I had the data before hand. This way, I wouldn't have to find a sample in wave format, perform an FFT to get the frequency data and try to replicate it from there. Sure, that doesn't sound so bad, but it takes a little to set up and graph the FFT as well as having to do it for every note/hit that I want (e.g. 88 times on a piano, different spots on a cymbal, etc...) - and that's even if I can find the samples I want. I was just wondering if anyone had any information so I wouldn't have to do an insane amount of work.

I'm writing a program to generate sounds from sine waves, and I have information for the harmonics, amplitude, and phase of the main orchestral instruments (tuba, trumpet, flute, oboe, etc...). I have been successful in creating a way to use the ADSR envelope in the generation of the sounds, but I am lacking information on the actual ADSR values of the instruments. I have tried searching around in various places without many results. Does anyone have this information or know where I could get some? I'm also looking for information on the spectra and ADSR of common percussive instruments (bass drum, snare, tom, cymbals, etc...) as well because I plan on attempting to generate some percussive sounding sine waves and I need some frequency data to try to replicate (though that's going to be difficult and probably not sound too much like it). If anyone has information on this I would appreciate it as well as results are even less than the instruments ADSR envelopes I've been searching for. Thanks.

Musimathics (Volume I): The mathematical foundations of music by Gareth Loy. It's pretty awesome. So far, it's talked about physical properties of sound, the ear, how circles can be used to provide insight/math into simple harmonic motion and sound, psychoacoustics, the beginning of the interval and scales, and a whole lot more. I look forward to Volume II when I finish Volume I (I am maybe 1/3 the way in) as it has more to do with digital signal processing and other things.

How about we celebrate Tetris by playing a better clone(ish), Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine (which I think was a clone of something else, but I have forgotten)? Tetris is only fun for so long, but Dr. R's MBM stays fun all night long. Edit: Ah! I remembered that it's puyo pop that MBM is a clone of.

I'm actually in College Park, MD for an internship at the Goddard Space Flight Center, so I may be able to make it. The only thing is that on the 28th, as part of the internship, we are going to Sudbury, Ontario (Canada), so I may not be able to make this. However, living where I do, I've had been this close to one of these concerts. I am definitely considering just going and not caring if I'm tired the next day because this sounds awesome.

I found Velvet Assassin much better than his other recent reviews....but my favorite is still Painkiller.