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Stop right there, that's where you're not making sense. You're misusing the terminology. MIDI is not a "method", it is a spec'd protocol. Just because music is sequenced does not make it MIDI. Console games have proprietary protocols for representing music sequences, they do not use MIDI. Again I think you understand the concept but you can't seem to articulate it properly. I've done plenty of hex editing, it's not specific to ROM hacking. Sure, if you understand the data format you certainly can use a hex editor to extract the sample data from a USF file, but you're not really hex "editing" it because you're not modifying the file. Misuse of MIDI and hex editing = making no sense.

Sorry if this sounds rude but: what the hell are you on about? There's nothing in that sentence that even remotely makes sense.

If you're a professional musician then you're already ahead of the game. Most remixers are helpless without software. The DAW itself is their instrument. So you've got a lot to build upon. The people who really know this stuff never have that attitude. When I see software I don't understand, I take that as a challenge. I work with it and use whatever learning resources are available until I can make something with it. I never stopped to ask how to get started - instead I just got started. To answer your survey: All of the above. cheers.

It'd be the same thing I said in the Blackberry app thread: Maintaining software is a chore, so there'd have to be substantial demand from iPhone/Touch users to make something like that worthwhile. edit: cheers.

The timbre of the guitar doesn't really sound awkward to me. I think it is just mixed in too loud or occupies too much of the spectrum. Tweaking the levels and EQ should make it work. The rhythmic parts do seem a bit off, though. Like it was recorded with too much latency, or maybe your takes just were dragging. So my opinion is that there's no certain effect that will help, it's just a matter of proper mixing and recording. But feel free to seek out other opinions. cheers.

I could rattle off some effects that would make your guitar sound more electronic, but "electronic" covers a wide range of sounds, many of which you probably don't want. Can you post some examples of the kind of guitar sound you're looking for? I'm not very familiar with Postal Service, but their one song I've heard doesn't have any unusual effects on the guitar -- it's just mixed in modestly. By comparison, most rock will have the guitars mixed front-and-center, wide-and-full, etc. Alternatively, post an example of what sounds 'wrong' and maybe we can offer suggestions to make it better.

I'm not in the SDK beta program but unfortunately I believe the upcoming media library access is read-only. Apps can pull music from your library but they can't add music to it, not directly at least. You could make a mobile OCR app that downloads/plays music, displays writeups, lets you contribute reviews etc.. but the music downloaded would be "native" to the app; the remixes wouldn't show up in the main media library or sync back to iTunes on your desktop.

I've made that observation regarding material without a strong melody being unpopular here before - that's fairly obvious. So failing my more contentious hypothesis, after reviewing your submission I would agree that observation applies here.

I have this hypothesis that when one produces material specifically for ORC it tends to be an uninspired piece of work and is thusly uninspiring to remix. I read your post lamenting a lack of interest and thought to see if my theory applies here - it appears not. I've not actually listened to it, so I'll assume it was painfully obvious that it was not put together quickly and that I've embarrassed myself by bothering to ask. cheers.

just curious Gario, was the source material written for this compo? Or was it from your existing body of work?

I wouldn't quite go that far. There's a variety of kit that people (myself included) are willing to pay thru the nose for because they do one thing particularly well and/or has a convenient form factor. The design and form factor are definitely cool but it's hard to say what this thing would do particularly well considering they're being secretive about its features. I generally don't complain about prices, so when I have the impulse to do so it seems like something is missing. I'd guess OLEDs are exorbitant even at that size.

No problemo. Nice tidbit about the target price, though. $800+ puts it in a niche. My iPhone is more portable and I have a variety of music making apps to choose from with unique graphical interfaces. If I didn't already have a laptop, for $800 I could buy a used macbook/cheap laptop pc to do more sophisticated jamming on the go. If I want a small form factor synth+sequencer, mfb synth2 is cheaper and it's analog. I realize all of those examples represent personal preference, but I just keep seeing this OP1 thing on the blogs and I continue to not understand the hype.

And that explains the puzzling Web 2.0 comparison...? Or did you just quote the wrong person?

Embedded YouTube videos do not begin streaming until you hit 'play'.

I can understand that in the sense that this thing will be in beta for the next 10-12 months. Beyond that, some explanation would help.

To some people, maybe. But I think it is disingenuous to put Renoise in the same category as other music production software that uses the more common Event list / Piano roll interface for sequencing. When I think tracker I don't think capability, I think interface. Patterns, Playlists, and an editor grid bound by the smallest subdivision. When I think sequencer I think of what it does: define a sequence of control information. It could be n-step analog sequencer, onboard workstation sequencer, software MIDI sequencer. I don't imagine a particular interface. When I think DAW I think of a computer with a particular (and often proprietary) hardware and software configuration for making music. In conclusion, I pretty much hate everyone who doesn't think exactly the same way I do. cheers.

I believe Fishy was discriminating between "typical DAWs" and "non-typical DAWs". Renoise is a tracker, so I think it would fit into the latter category. On a related note, the way people use the term DAW around here was always a misnomer to me. Traditionally DAWs referred to software and hardware packages, like ProTools TDM. I think zircon was the first person I met to use DAW to describe any recording/sequencing software. Suffice to say, I never got used to it.

While I don't think I'd have much use for it, the research is definitely interesting. The was especially cool.And to update on my own endeavors, here's a video demonstrating and experimenting with visualizing chords on my monome sonome adaption: cheers.

Wrong, there is nothing to stop you from voting for yourself in a private message. Whether your vote gets counted or not is an entirely different issue. Compo admins can disregard votes and they ultimately control the scoring. Either way, you can vote for yourself but the person running the compo decides if and how your vote gets counted.

C 0 0 L indeed, haha. polyphony was a bitch for me, too.

Nothing stops you from voting for yourself in a private message, but why would you do that if it's against the rules? The compo site works on the same principle. I could add validation against voting for oneself, I just never thought to; nobody has ever made this particular mistake until now.

The thing is, that's not a guitar. It's an analog synth run thru some guitar pedals. Trying to get a solo like that from a regular guitar will be an uphill battle.

I've confessed my sins, what is my penance?

If one listened to all my remixes they would notice this one standing out as a stylistic anomaly. There is a reason for this and it's not a reason I'm proud of. After my first submission to OCR was form-letter rejected, I felt as though I had something to prove. So I watched the Judges Decisions threads closely and observed the panel (in my opinion at the time) was easily swooned by orchestral arrangements... need I explain more? There are some clever things going on musically here, so I don't regard it as merely superficial pandering or an exercise in "beating the system". But I do hold contempt for the sort of vapid "Hollywood" orchestral sound that crops up in this mix, which is why I never revisited this style. Plus, I still haven't invested in decent orchestral samples cheers.

very good news; the group seemed like it was dead.