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2 Days remaining for the Weekly Orchestral Competition! If you wish to improve your writing skills, by all means join. If you have a suggestion for a theme/competition objective please send me a PM.
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I went to vegas once. I am happy I did. But i'm ready for a new vacation destination. Nerdapalooza
in July. I don't think a final date has been set yet.
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Due to the holidays, the last compo did not take off. I almost forgot about it but John St. John himself was curious why the last one did not take off...
Theme :
One of the most memorable pieces of orchestral music is Beethoven's 5th. The 4 note motif is simple and memorable.
Create an orchestral piece that revolves around a simple motif.
Rules :
Only orchestral instruments are allowed. No synthesizers.
some free orchestral vst's can be found here ...
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=207623
Compo Link :
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One of my favorite things was this ...
Captured on my alesis field recorder.
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I think after Magfest, i'm going to be so pumped to go to Nerdapalooza. Last year there was the whole OCR Vegas meetup. We should all just meetup at Nerdapalooza this year for a nice summer vacation.
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I have created a new competition for the purpose of improving orchestral writing.
http://www.solidcomposer.com/arena/compete/126/
Shrack and I were discussing how it is difficult to do orchestral work within a One Hour Compo. The discussion led to having a competition that is solely related to orchestral music.
Goal : Improve a composer's skill at writing music for Orchestra.
Rules : No synthesizers. Only use orchestral libraries, soundfonts, or orchestral vsts. There is no limitation on what programs you can use to write the music. General Midi instruments are acceptable (but if you can find something better, please do!)
Themes: Competitions will be based on thematic ideas, orchestration techniques, or composition techniques.
Time : After Magfest, I plan to start the competition at 5PM on Friday and let it run until 9 PM on Sunday night. This will provide ample time to create an idea and expand upon it.
Until then, I am going to start the compo on Friday and make it run until Tuesday at 9 PM. (For this week some time is cut short.)
I got some advice from Jeff Ball on where to start learning orchestral music and techniques for writing it.
The book on writing for orchestral instruments
Score Study :
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I love the opening sleigh bells. The ambiance of the opening feels very warm. Then you have those slick arps with the bass.
I had never heard vocals in a Level 99 mix before so I was really surprised by it. The vocals sound pretty awesome. I can tell you are enjoying playing with your new vocal plugin!
The synth solo is extremely festive.
Love the multi- layered vocals at the end. I hope to hear more vocal mixes from you Stevo!
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I did a bunch of moving an I haven't finished this one yet. I will finish this one.
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I got an Energy Tank mug from Ash and Neko today. I filled it with Mountain Dew.
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For those coming on Thursday afternoon - who wants to go take a trip to the Dogfish Head Alehouse that evening?
I'm totally up for that on thursday evening. I love Beer!
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Add me to the list of rooms to split cost. I currently just have myself in the room. I require my own bed but don't care if others are willing to share or sleep on the floor.
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Thanks for the kind words Borgman. It really brightened my day! Don't worry, I will keep working on this track. I plan on making this one good enough to submit.
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Thank you to everyone who has provided feedback on this so far. I plan to work on this during the month of December and keep making improvements. WillRock, Reverend, Jewbei, I will take what you have said and consider how to move forward. I'll provide a download link next time too.
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So one day OCRE was showing me his piano arrangements and I HAD to make a trance remix out of this one...
Please provide feedback and any arrangement ideas would be nice. It's kind of bare bones right now and I'm trying to figure out where to take this.
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I like Free Node for a few reasons...
#ubuntu is on it and constantly has over 1000 users. It is highly reliable.
as discussed before ...
Unlike ETG, you can have MULTIPLE connections to the same network.
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I dig espernet. I hated ETG this summer. I got hit by a spam bot and then ETG was using a bunch of different services that said i was a spam bot. It took forever to get let on again after fixing the issue. The other issue I had was I had 2 devices on the network. By default ETG only allows 3 devices or they just straight up ban you and you have to sit there and wait for a mod to be there so you can be unbanned. I would get banned when my internet crapped out and i reconnected. Since the old connection didn't timeout, i would get banned.
I doubt this move will ever take place Draconiator. Why are you still banned? Have you asked the Mods to get let back on?
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Here's a Sonic 2 remix.
I need a guitar solo or some kind of instrument solo between 1:30 and 2:02 if anyone wants to collab. Arrangement wise i'm where I want to be.
Let me know why you think so far and provide feedback.
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There are a crap load of FL users here. There are a few of us Reason and Reason and Record users.
To each their own. The DAW is just the tool you use to make the music. I could write in a different DAW and still find ways to be productive. However I prefer Reason because of its logical sequencer and the fact that everything is modeled as a hardware device.
Also, search for older posts at the bottom of this reason forum. There's a bunch of older stuff that disappears due to no activity.
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I got some new toys (Tube Pre-amp and Sonic Maximizer Pedal) and recorded with the perk me up sample. I posted one last night in IRC but this sounds much better.
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awesome stuff. can't wait for more!
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There are 2 options I can think of.
One is to create an automation lane for each track. Draw your mixer fades and copy it to both tracks.
The other is to map a fader from your midi controller to 2 different faders.
There is probably another way that has to do with mapping cv's. I haven't figured it out yet.
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I am looking forward to buying these and playing bass along with them. It'll be like I'm jamming with Jimmy Hinson. Totally awsesome.
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Count me in for this. Will send PM.
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I have recently done some more mixing with this track to improve it. I made the sounds sound thicker and EQed some of the sounds that were interfering with each other.
Please give me your feedback on how things sound.
Weekly Orchestral Competition
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Anyone can join. Just get yourself an account at solid composer and submit your music! Welcome and I look forward to hearing your entry.