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Little known fact: my brothers-in-law developed PSP Rhythm. They also have made a couple iPhone apps: http://www.pureprofitcorp.com

Why do you incline towards Linux? If you are attracted to a Unix environment then OSX is your best option as far as music is concerned. Using Windows software under Linux is indeed going to be a bunch of headaches. Other than that, it is the software that is probably most important. The platform is secondary. Apple makes very good products but if you want to use Reason and you already have a PC then just save yourself the trouble and stick with that. cheers.

Bah humbug. Militant atheists need more secular holidays for inspiration.

I noticed it was offline the other day, it's still down? Maybe he's on vacation. But yeah as long as you've got Thunderx4 Cats there's no problem, hurrr

oops, for some reason I thought I'd be up in time to vote today. My apologies for not helping to discriminate the entries. Regardless, my sincerest appreciation to all of you who entered. As grand a theme it is, it is difficult to approach from a remixer's perspective; there's no melodic hook to latch onto. Nonetheless you guys managed to elicit some rearrangement potential, so good on ya mates. cheers.

My Youtube profile is mentioned in the video description, but that's all. It's my own fault, he asked for permission beforehand and I didn't ask him to link to anything specific. It's just for that trailer, though; I believe they already have someone scoring the actual film.

I thought this was kinda cool, an Australian indie film trailer using my track from this project: Good use of the source and looks fairly professional so I thought I'd pass it along.

http://commanderkeen.ytmnd.com/ (ocremix) http://dougandyoshi.ytmnd.com/ (olremix) http://thund0rcats.ytmnd.com/ (animeremix)

I've said unnecessarily harsh things on the panel before. And I've duly received PMs from indignant remixers. My response to them? I sincerely apologized and promised to be more mindful about it in the future. And I tried to keep those promises. Most judges are probably open to this sort of criticism so long as it's done privately. It's a bit harder to take threads like this seriously.

Shame there wasn't more interest this round, I thought it was a good tune. On the plus side, this was the easiest PRC win ever for me.

a) ...that beginners can't find, so they ask a question in their noobish threads. see above. and below. ... That's not even a reponse. It doesn't appear that you've followed my points, much less refuted them. I'm not going to repeat myself, though. So I will merely wish you best of luck with your ambitions. cheers.

I, for one, am not discouraging it. I recommended Rozovian proceed with his FAQ project. I just want him/her to be realistic about its impact. It'd be great if we had a definitive resource but that's a pipe dream. There are other sites better suited to that sort of thing. OCR can't really compete in that space, but we can certainly inform people about these resources. Now that's a joke. Guides can help people get started, learn tips and solve problems but better music only comes about from skill and experience. Most all of the good remixers were good musicians on their own before they ever heard of OCR. Suggesting anything more than a cursory relationship between the guides and the quality of the music on the site is pure head-in-the-clouds fantasy.

Facetiousness aside, it goes both ways. If someone's trying but still needs help, let's help them. If someone's obviously not trying and just waiting to be spoon-fed they should be ridiculed and berated like they would be in real life. We don't need moderation. We need irate people like Snappleman. We don't need stickies. We need people with good advice like BGC. We don't need guides. We need knowledgeable people like Yoozer. The community is the best thing we have to offer here. Everything else is redundant. cheers.

And I already addressed this. The "How do I remix?" threads are here to stay. People thought the stickies would make them go away, so we got stickies. The threads persisted. People thought the Guides would make them go away, so we got the Guides subforum. The threads persisted. All the stickies, guides, FAQs in the world will not make a difference. This is a forum. People come here to ask for help because they: a) Can't help themselves. So we give them the answer. Don't know how to help themselves. So we direct them to resources. And yes, option #b is a fine solution. So Rozovian, if you'd like to maintain a FAQ and link people to it when appropriate then by all means go for it. Just understand that: a) There are already good resources out there for beginners that you can give to people. No amount of visibility will help your FAQ cut down on noobish threads. cheers.

There are good resources already out there that anyone willing may exploit. For example, if someone asks "How do I synth?" I'll link them to the related Sound On Sound articles. Here's what I had to say in a recent thread of similar ambition:

You do realize only 2 of those 5 connectors are used for MIDI, right? And control voltage / gate signals will always be faster than MIDI. But does it matter? USB works just fine for MIDI. If the you're experiencing noticeable lag then you have driver problems, latency problems with your audio device, or too many USB devices on a single bus, or some kind of compatibility issue with your DAW.. etc. cheers.

very sweet. RDJ should hire this guy for his live shows.

It's been brought up before. There are sites better suited to that sort of thing. Also, you're probably wrong about it helping cut down on beginner threads. We have plenty of guides and stickies to help beginners but we still get threads that equate to "how do I remix?" The guides, stickies, wikis etc.. aren't as useful as you'd think: People come to a forum for a 2 way channel of communication. Help that is suited to the individual. And that's the best thing we can offer.

Costs $50. Mac version is not Intel compatible. No Mac version. If nothing else, GarageBand can be used as an AU host so cheap/free looping plug-ins are well worth looking into. But still, no, not a lot of options in general.

If you're on PC and your mouse-clicking skills usurp your keyboard/instrument-playing skills then FL is your best bet.

That narrows down your options to just about nothing. But let's see... what software do you currently have at your disposal?

And that's a perfectly fine reason. Compare and contrast that with "I only want to use my computer because I'm like.. a scientest!!" and see that is a stupid reason well deserving of my belittlement. Regardless, if it's just a stint are you even wiling to invest the hundreds of dollars into Live or other software solution?

You're not a Computer Scientist, you're an Obstinate Adolescent. A more productive philosophy is to use the right tool for the job. The aforementioned loop stations work very well for live performance. I've tried to do loop recording in Ableton; it's possible, but I found the solutions cumbersome. There are threads dedicated to this subject on Ableton's forums, check them to get an idea of workflow possibilities. I have seen a program specifically for this purpose but it was windows only.

Any fast modulation from a saw/square LFO will give you that rough side-band (broken) sound. I don't have a synth or even monitors handy, but for this particular example: I think it is pulse-width modulation rather than pitch modulation. No keytracking needed, either. cheers.

Even now, a decade later, this is still one of the most revolting things I've ever seen. Fat Man and Little Boy just wasn't enough...