Flexstyle

Don't get all Nutz in the Head, mate! This album is sure to drop soon. We just have some Unfinished Business to attend to before we can send it out. I would say you should Bash the Bastards who are in charge of these Shenanigans Bananigans, but I'm one of them! Just Winter the storm and Let It Beat--the team is under K'ReMispheric Pressure to release it soon, and they'd be very Vext by a Banana Revolution against the site. We don't want a Post-Apocalyptic Society up in here. Besides, you Can't Boss Us Around and before you know it, you'll see that the Party's Over There!

That'd be because the writer is grasping at straws, just trying to find something to be offended by. Sheesh. No reason to ruin a great movie like this with a self-righteous crusade, like that hack is doing.

Awww heck yes! This was one of my very favorite songs heard in the WCRG2011 (even if you did steal my "_____ This" thunder ), so I'm really happy to see it getting front page time now! Not much more to say, just cos I love it so much.

Tom's Hardware just published their first-ever Android Web Browser Grand Prix. Dolphin gets the crown, but the article is quite worth reading: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/android-web-browser-recommendation,3316.html

Dude, I'm just doing the groovy head-nodding dance in my chair right now. I love this! I'd say you should probably go ahead and submit it.

Sounds a lot better than the previous version. Still a bit overcompressed, but I betcha one more pass would really make this thing shine. I feel like you might be overloading the stereo field--don't be afraid to use the center of the mix!

I've used Looperman in the past. There are a few sites out there, but that's the only one I can remember the name of right away.

I endorse this album. Quite a good one!

I've decided to start idling in this channel a lot more. Ping me if you want workshop feedback, and I'll try and help if possible!

I would like to endorse this remix.

Soundtrack? Free download code? Excellent! Grabbed the first code you posted.

I'm still trying to scrape together the money for a plane ticket and hotel, but circumstances (read: my car's steering going out and me having to replace that) have conspired against me to where I'm quite broke at this point in the year. Still got a lot of work to get paid for yet this year, and there's always Christmas money, but y'never know.

Careful, the "What program is the best?" question tends to open a can of worms. There are a LOT out there, but you can download demos of Reason, FL Studio, Sony ACID, Reaper, or a bunch of others that should get you started. The effects you named are usually included in spades with any given suite, and there are tons of freeware plugins out there as well! As far as drum samples go, there are loads of freebies out on the internet. Just make sure whatever you grab is legal to use.

Brandon, where did you find Waldo? I've been looking for him for two decades!

Aww snap, Drac got mixposted! Congratulations, man!

Download your favorite OCR artists' work from Bandcamp! Lots of us live there. *cough* http://flexstyle.bandcamp.com/

Oh, and to answer the OP's question, you can start off nicely with free samples, instruments, software, and the like. It may take a bit of extra effort, but the skills you learn in dealing with freeware will stand you in good stead for the rest of your life as a producer.

I started off as a very Eurotrance-esque artist. After that, I moved into drum'n'bass, mostly of the aggressive, bassline-heavy variety. Once I'd gotten a handle on DnB, I switched things up a little bit, and went to atmospheric downtempo/chillout music. The atmosphere in that genre coincided nicely with my trance background, but I added a healthy dose of hip-hop inspired drums and such instead of the more electronic drums in my previous work. From there, I've kinda evolved into someone who can literally tackle any electronic genre and a few types of hip hop, rock, and even jazz. Everything tends to borrow elements from each other, so by just changing one element at a time in your music, you'll eventually have a really extensive sonic arsenal.

Without saying it quite so, er, bluntly, this is pretty true. Your ability to avoid heavy amounts of buffering will be reliant, for the most part, on your CPU, and a very low-end AMD laptop chip is going to really, REALLY hurt you. An external soundcard will be a waste of money if all you're looking for is buffer relief. It's not a bad investment, but it's definitely not going to solve that particular problem.

If I do dress up, I'm gonna go as a cheesy pickup line. .... Get a bunch of toy pickup trucks, glue them in a line on my shirt, and put cheese in 'em.

I'm being a college student swamped in homework. Oh, wait. ...srsly though, my teacher is a cruel man who gives us a REALLY IMPORTANT test the day AFTER Halloween. >.>

Crap, they're on to me!

This. So much of this. I haven't yet had any truly good experiences with an M-Audio USB audio device (FastTrack series, MobilePre, etc.), but my Delta 1010LT PCI device is still going strong after five or so years now, and it's had a LOT of heat-related abuse in some past computer builds.

My name is Flexstyle, and I endorse this product or service.

Emunator and I may be looking for another guy or two to share our room. Haven't checked with him to confirm, though. We'll probably be a much more chilled area, so if you wanna party like it's 1999 you'll probably wanna look somewhere else.