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Okay Prophetic, I'll join your posse. I'll have my five picks up shortly. Interesting idea - no elimination this time around.

Er... I can't access that file. You should make the download public or use a public sharing site if you want feedback on the track.

Awesomeness. Happy birthday, you guys!

He had a thread with it some time ago. Actually, I'm surprised that you didn't submit this track to OCR, Derek. I understand that you wanted to make a few changes to it, but since you now can't it's kind of a shame to leave it to be forgotten. It really is an awesome track, in it's own right. Also, excited to hear the newest Cantata! EDIT: I let your player just run through some tracks. Just saying that your FF8 arrangement was very well done, as well. I likes it. EDIT2: Also your FFVII arrangement. Fucking damn, man, I love your Cantata arrangement, but you're seriously holding out on us. This stuff is amazing.

Yahoo news has these two articles side by side, atm... "Steve Jobs: The Last Great Tyrant" "Where to find jobs in the near future" Ha...

The portamento and ghost synth are one and the same, yeah, I like him as it is. And yeah, it's the lower mid range I'm talking about (I normally speak in low, mid and high, so 'mid' covers an unfortunately large range). Mmm... well, large and dominant is one route to go. Complex and interesting is another route. The drums themselves just don't support the instruments you have, here - it sets a beat, but Filling the frequency space mentioned earlier would help. The harpsichord texture doesn't quite lend to filling the soundscape behind the melody and bass enough, to me, so another instrument, perhaps? It's hard to comment on it, since there's nothing technically wrong with what you have, here. It just sounds like it's not finished, to my ears, for some reason. Yeah, I understand - it's not a bad track by any stretch, don't get me wrong. I just wanted to give you feedback on it from an OCR point of view and list why I didn't think it would be worth it to submit, since you asked.

For a live, spontaneous recording, I'd say the performance was pretty damn good. No, not perfect, but I wouldn't expect perfection from even the best live performances - this is about as good as a spontaneous performance gets. It's very soothing, and it really gets the chrono vibe well (no pun intended - I would've said the chrono 'MARIMBA' if I wanted to make a pun with that *SNORT*). Thanks for sharing - it was very soothing to listen to.

Ooo, I was hoping to hear someone remix this song. Very nice. I wouldn't submit it in the state it's in, though - the synths and samples used are just too thin. The soundscape is incredibly hollow, and I don't think with the style you have going here that would be acceptable. You need some midrange instruments, and some thicker sounds (save for that 'ghost' synth - that'd lose all of it's flavor if you did anything to it ). The track is pretty conservative for OCR. There are some neat breakdowns and very natural improvisations, though, so I think the arrangement could be passable. It is pretty short, though. The drums are pretty weak. Not just the repetitive nature of them, the set itself doesn't have enough to really push the song forward. The snare is barely noticeable, and the bass just doesn't add any flavor to the track. The drums can really make or break a track, so set some stronger, more distinctive samples to use, here. Especially if you're going the 'untz untz' route, you need to have the bass break my balls, here, and this one just isn't cutting it. All that being said, I actually like the instrument combination (just need some more sound, overall), and that ghost instrument is pretty awesome. I just don't think it's ready for submission, as it stands.

Woa, hey... Shit, I just heard about him resigning due to health reasons. That happened pretty damn quickly. Not an apple person today, but it's what I grew up on. R.I.P., my man.

Man, I want that SNES cake. I mean, er, happy birthday, folks!

That should be more like on a dance pad... WITHOUT USING YOUR HANDS!!

Well, 8:30 East Coast is like 4:30 for me. I'd be game - this Thursday, then? I wanna try this program and see if it's any good.

It gets all dry and dusty, leaving your skin to dry out and break up when it stays in contact for too long. It's quite unpleasant, actually. Glad you liked it for what it was.

... Oh, what the hell. I was pumped to do a Concrete Man mix, myself, but completely lost all inspiration for it and dropped it a day after I started. May as well let you all see where it was going, anyway - chilled 12/8 groove of the track. Enjoy it for what it is - I'm not planning on finishing this song. I just don't feel it past what it is. Concrete Man, Unmixed (OHO! You see what I did there!?) Have fun with it

Huh, that has some funny little cards in it. Then again, I haven't seen a card post M7, so... yeah, I suppose there will be some new things that I don't know about.

Alright everyone, it's time for a new WIP date - Dec. 10th! There are plenty of tracks out there that sound pretty close to completion, so let's see if we can get some more blues out there with this date (and thanks to everyone that's submit a final wav already)! That's more than two months away, so let's see some progress on those WIPs!

I think all games should include: Beat the game... ON A DANCE PAD!

Silver Surfer - Beat Silver Surfer. Have fun getting your X-box Live achievement points now, folks!

What is that free MTG site you speak of? Man, it's been ages (I mean, back in high school ages - the last edition to be included in my deck was Planescape) since I played that game seriously. Oh what the hell, for old times sake, count me in for a couple of rounds EDIT: Nevermind, I just found the whole 'Cockatrice' comment on the first post. It might just take away the main problem I had with the original game - card cost. Let's see if I can dust off my old skills, here...

Oh yeah, happy brothel day. I tried to be clever and combine 'bro' & 'birthday' together and that's what came out (no clue where the 'e' & 'l' came from...). Enjoy your brothel day while it lasts.

Ooo, it's your birthday. Shit, well I'll just have to join the compo to celebrate.

I hear ya, man. It's sounding pretty good, so far - it'll be great to hear the finished product from you, for sure. I suppose I can start looking through the tracks we have right now and figure out what a good compilation would be made up of. While I agree that the best is probably still to come, there are still some really great stand-out tracks that are on this project. Yeah, I think I'll try to compile a little preview for y'all pretty soon, here. Maybe within the next few weeks? Stay tuned!

Something awesome.