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    Musical Backgrounds

    in General Discussion

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    I'm currently in a different college working on an associates in Audio/Video Production. From your post, I think this might be something you might want to look into. Basically, it's technical training in all the workings of film production (camera operating, lighting, editing, directing, etc.) and audio equipment (studio recording, mixing, live production, etc.) It's like an all-in-one package for learning the technical side of being creative. If you go to a small community or technical school, you'll more than likely get to learn a lot of this stuff hands on instead of wasting time on most of the garbage universities make you take. As for myself, I'm REALLY enjoying it so far. I can't recommend it enough.

    Thanks, I really appreciate it, and I'll look into it! :mrgreen:

    These backgrounds are very impressive, everybody!

    Musical Backgrounds

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    Posted

    Hey everyone,

    I've been thinking / being forced to think about college decisions. I was considering tech schools as one option, more specifically schools strong in music and music engineering / tech.

    ANYWAY...

    I was just curious about the musical backgrounds of all the other fans / remixers on this site (it seems everyone has at least some musical background.)

    Whether it's: I played piano since I was three months old.

    or: I studied music in college for 10 years and became rich and famous.

    Feel free to brag.

    My story: High School; regrets to have discovered his passion for music at such late an age; drums 5+ years; piano ~1 year.

    Role of music in video games understated?

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    Sorry, but I tend to disagree with that statement. Corruption's music was ok, but I think that it was the fact that the connection to previous games wasn't made the most of that hurt it the most. Music referential to the previous MP games also felt at least mindly off in terms of overall feel (except for music that was blatant copy-and-paste, of course). That aside, the general music itself just never felt Metroid-ish enough for me (at least for the most part), which is why I liked the overall soundtrack much less than I did Prime or Prime 2: Echoes.

    Oh, sorry I had a typo

    Metroid Corruption had good music - the problem wasn't the music it was the lack of connection the music had to older games.

    Funny how caught up I get when using negative terms in writing - I was trying to say MP3 didn't have connections to older games . ' . it's not as good.

    Role of music in video games understated?

    in General Discussion

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    Metroid Corruption had good music - the problem wasn't the music it was the lack of connection the music had to older games.

    Why do we like music from old games? - Nostalgia

    Why do we like music from newer games? - We can tie musical connections to earlier games.

    Of course unless a game originally had bad music, but I think the nostalgia factor is big on 'liking' and 'preferring' the music to other good, non-video game music.

    Laptop or PC?

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    What exactly does he have other than a Pentium 4?

    2Gig Ram, 160GB hard drive, 7800 GTX graphics, windows XP

    Though, Im gonna dumb down the non-necesities and keep the necesities for a new computer and see what I come up with probably.

    Laptop or PC?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Just build a new rig

    You can easily build something that will kill whatever he has for $750.

    Tried it - $1200 and that is possible for me, but I just don't want to spend that much (that was w/2g ram, good graphics card, core 2 duo, 250g hard drive)

    However, I may reconsider the build my own thing because I will be making some money this summer...

    Laptop or PC?

    in General Discussion

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    So what I'm getting out of this is - Get a good comp with high memory and good sound card (which is what my friends computer has) + a cheap laptop.

    He offered me his comp + a cheap-ass 4+ year old Dell laptop for $750 with all his good specs but without a monitor which I will spend prolly $200 dollars for a 22 inch.

    So the new question is

    $950 for a good comp + laptop = good deal?

    (The P4 processor is the only thing that sets me back on the comp, but do I really need more than that as long as I have good memory?)

    Laptop or PC?

    in General Discussion

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    Hey everyone,

    This summer I plan on getting a new computer / laptop so I can take my music and work more seriously. After messing around with the FL demo on this current comp, I can see it is something that I want (need) to explore more.

    In everyone's opinion should I get a laptop (I will need one for college this time next year anyway) with pretty good specs...or...I could get a used comp for $700 from my friend - specs are very nice - but it is a P4 processor that is two years old.

    Or should I have my friend build me a new computer completely?

    Lets say budget is $1200 for the comp or laptop (doesn't include programs and other fun stuff)

    So just vote - Laptop, New PC, or Used PC

    Nintendo Wii

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    The wii would be perfect if it had PixelJunk - Monsters on it. That game is awesome and there is another one that is about to come out - it involves optical illusions and a little block figure walking through obstacles, it looks really cool.

    Other than that, TP and Brawl automatically make wii the better console.

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