Grayburg

New revision posted. This should finally be close to finished. Added a second half of content, with a little bit of cleaning up.

Thanks for the replies. ^^ It's still pretty tough to sequence a convincing lead guitar.. probably impossible until I learn about what is actually involved with playing an actual guitar. Yeah, the lead guitar was a bit quiet. I'll bump it up a bit. I've been stuck for a while thinking of different structure for the song. I'll try to post something soon.

Update with a few sound quality improvements. Primarily the strings.

Ah, nice. Thanks, bros. ^^

Kind of simple inquiry. I'm just getting lazy with pasting small changes all the time to the other channels. I've just been settling for a decent sound from a single "string ensemble" soundfont, but now I'm trying to get a fuller sound.

I've always been fond of this song (particularly the "windmill, windmill" part), and this sounds pretty hot. Even being mixed from headphones, the sound quality's better than what I can attain. :3

v1 http://tindeck.com/listen/svdc v2 http://www.tindeck.com/listen/emib latest http://tindeck.com/listen/mlsn

Short loop inspired by shmups and mecha in general. Feedback is welcome. ^^ http://tindeck.com/listen/bmfx

I do have an mp3 player with earphones, but I always listen to it so quietly, I can only make out the main tune. I'm not fond of them. It does sound like I mix that way, though, so, maybe I unconsciously crave the earphones. lol I guess it's just in my head. Thanks for the replies.

All right. I lowered the volumes a bit, because they're pretty high without Fruity Parametric EQ 2. I use a little bit of Soundgoodizer on the drums, but I don't use any multiband compressor on the master. Only thing on there atm was EQ 2. It's like.. I could leave on the original while gaming all day, but when I'm listening to my own, something's just going to get to my ears. and lol at hearing it un eq'd again. lost touch with some of the sounds with dat eqing.

example: http://tindeck.com/listen/fluv no eq: http://tindeck.com/listen/ltne I don't listen with the volume high. I've been using EQ to slice off really low, and really high freqs. I'm not even really that fond of subwoofer-level freqs, so I cut my kicks and bass pretty hard. Practically neutered. I don't boost my hats and crashes up top. The hats are quieter than I like them. Does that mean I'm clumping everything in the 200-1000 range too much?

Source: Download: Tindeck I finally got myself a midi controller (shitty 25key m-audio, but I <3 it). This isn't even really a remix, I just wanted to mess around with the keyboard, and I've been playing some of dat SF4, so.. this. Can't wait to work on something bigger.

I could have only FL open, and FL won't hear my piano. Yeah, I'm not trying to send MIDI information. Just trying to get sound now. When I plug in the piano, it did show the little pop up, also when I disconnect it, it says it's dc'd, etc. Also, I noticed in my computer's Sound and Audio Devices Properties > Voice tab > Voice Recording's > Volume.. The different volume levels shown are Recording, Line Volume, Microphone, and Stereo Mix. My Recording volume is normal, but the other 3 are greyed out.

I have an e.piano, a fat line-in wire, and a thing that takes one of the fat ends, and converts it into a tip that can fit into the computer. I connect the piano to the fat wire, and plug that into the thing that asdfs, then stick that into my computer's front pink (also tried the back's blue, which sounds better). I mash, and I can hear my piano just fine. When I open up FL Studio, it doesn't notice it at all. When I open up the Mixer to select an input for a channel, the options show: ASIO4ALL v2 - stereo Not Connected 1 - Not Connected 2 ASIO4ALL v2 - mono Not Connected 1 Not Connected 2 So, I checked the ASIO panel, and in the Advanced view, I see that the "In: 2x 8-96kHz, 16Bits" has the icon for Unavailable. I RTFM, and it said to check MIDI settings, and replug, reopen, blahblah. It doesn't work. Help, plz?

Sample: http://tindeck.com/listen/txew Just wanted to know if the sound quality is acceptable. Particularly the bass. It's cut pretty heavily at the bottom, and maybe it's too high in the freqs, but I'm trying to avoid the headache-inducing bass that every rock song has. I do want it to have a similar sound to them, though. Also, why does everything sound kind of empty? It's as though I'm listening to it with my EQ set to cut mids, but I didn't mix the instruments like that at all.

Sorry to support noobism, but you could just transpose your instrument to the white keys, assuming you don't have grubby fingers that will hit the black keys. Such as: I want to improvise over mm2 - wily stage 1, but it's in C# minor! lol i'm not touchin black keyz evr. You would transpose your solo instrument 400 cents up, which will move the white keys from playing A minor up to C# minor. This lets you use any of the normal modes, Phrygian, Aeolian, Dorian, whatever, but probably not the harmonic and melodic minor, because learning to play with black keys is silly.

That didn't work out. It's still flashing randomly several times a second. Idle, it keeps sending FL messages, but inside of MIDI-OX, it only shows the pitch bends being sent while pressing keys.

I have an M-Audio Uno and a very old electric piano (YPT-300). After setting it up, FL does recognize my keyboard, but it recognizes it too much. I downloaded MIDI-OX, and mashed around a bit to find.. http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/4531/midiox.jpg That's from pressing the lowest C and D over and over. Is there a way to make FL ignore the constant pitch bend events? Right now, the activity light on FL constantly blinks on and off from my MIDI keyboard. If I try to even play the song, it'll pause almost immediately because of whatever is being sent to FL. Maybe I'll actually be able to record after I figure out this bs. Also, I've already rtfm. The MIDI connection section is tiny, and searching for the word 'pitch' brought up the transpose feature.

Hilarious plug, zircon. lol Thanks, guys. Guess I'll find a soundfont with these things, and go copy some more melodies.

I don't have a way to record a guitar, and I can't play one. So, I want to learn some ways to simulate the quirks that make a guitar sound real. Clip of what I've gotten to: Link The 3 things I know how to do are the sliding attack, vibrato and the thing where the player ends a note with a really sharp slide to the very low end. Sliding attack by doing a ~-200 cent pitch bend up to 0 in a short bit like a 16th step. For vibrato, there's the event edit, and also the piano roll. I tried both. How big of a range is vibrato allowed to go? I only trilled between +50 ~ -50 cents. More than that sounded bad. That last technique I'm not sure if I'm even simming it correctly. I can't tell if guitarists are sliding sharply downward, or if they're just gliding their hand above it, and then landing at the deep end. For that, I planted some notes a couple octaves below. As for the chord players, I've seen even less vids of 'em. I'm guessing it's a mix of muted and normal strums. I don't even know what muting a guitar means. I'm tired of trying to get a better tone, so I'm just working on the "actual playing" part now.

Tindeck: Link Made some small changes and added a section that goes into phrygian for a bit.

Source: Remix: Link Finally came back to this tune after ages. Trying out a completely different genre for this arrangement. I had my parent's old rock music in mind. I didn't do much EQ work because I'm always doing it wrong, so I let the instruments sound pretty dry. Well, with a little comp and verb. Arrangement Qs: Am I missing out on anything important if I can't work in anything besides C major or A minor (lol white keys)? I hardly ever use notes outside of the scale, and when I do, it's just for some glissando parts. Transpose features on FL and my keyboard spoil me. I've been having trouble writing syncopated rhythms. When I put on a random chord progression in the background and go off to my keyboard and mash on some white keys, I always play melodies on beat. For this song's piano, I wanted to play some embellishments off beat, but I usually couldn't find a good off beat note. Same problem with the organ section in the middle. Am I just boring, or what?

Thanks, guys. I definitely still don't know what I'm doing. I must be doing something wrong. how to eq? From lowest to highest Hz, the instruments should basically be going.. Bass > Kick > Guitar > Harmony > Lead > Hats > Crashes in general, right? Kick: + 100 and 3k, and - pretty much the rest. Bass: most is sitting around 90 to 300, but it's still cut a lot at the bottom. Nothing above that. I was getting a head ache after a while, so I cut it down a lot. Kick and bass values are supposed to be personal or goal-specific, right? I wanted the bass to be on bottom. Hats: + 3k; + a bit at 10k; cut a bit inbetween; everything below gone Crash: + 2k; + 10k; It's okay to get low as 2k with crash cymbals, right? Guitar: + 600 to 1200; cut everywhere else Piano: + 2k and above; cut below I thought having it cover lower freqs along with the guitar would be making them fight each other, would they not? There's always a ton of things down in those freqs below 1k Hz, too. Bass's upper, guitar, piano, snare, toms, pads, leads, and whatever. Pretty much everything. Vocals: sitting throughout 600-6k -- They're pretty much a single track centered dead on. So it's just from how poor the dry file is. I tried putting in a ton of random plugins to try to help, but I guess not enough. I actually took out a ton of reverb because I have this piano-roll written delay effect, so I thought it'd be sufficient. Didn't want to get "too much reverb", but I guess .. The vocals follow the source note-for-note, but I should've changed it in the build section. Bad habit of getting lazy on a lot parts. The bass is a common victim. Whenever I try to do a short string of notes at the very end, it sounds pretty odd, and I just quickly run back to straight roots. I should probably give up on electric guitars. I've been trying to get it sounding good.. got this soundfont of a clean les paul, and tried messing with random plugins for it. The chord-playing guitar doesn't sound bad usually, and I could get away with it in a less rock style song, but the lead guitar always sounds pretty bad, though. It's just source once through, random solo, then some ending. It's like that because I've still been afraid to move passed the source song structure. A couple days ago, I had a mini revelation, and I finally understand a bit about variation. I always give up on projects (this one included), which is usually why my posts usually end after the op, because they never seem worth working on further. It always ends up while I'm working on a project, I learned a ton more (since my current skill level is so low. lolol), so if I were to go back and keep working on the same tune, I'd basically be reworking everything. which brings: why work on the same song ground up when I could just do something new? Random Q: Why are the 1, 6 and 7 chords so popular? The last three songs I studied used them like crazy. I thought 1, 4 and 5 were supposed to be, but I actually rarely see them. Am I listening to basic music, or what?

Source: Download: Link First remix I've ever done where I didn't steal the midi notes from VGMusic! Also just tried out Megpoid. It sounds terrible. I definitely know. I tried maxing out the velocity and dynamics on it and whatever, but it still fails to pronounce some syllables clearly, or it randomly insists on putting no emphasis on consonants. I don't think any of you guys bother with Vocaloids, so I'll just find some Vocaloid forum or something to find out more about it. So I'm just asking for the usual OCR help. I feel pretty good about the quality. Probably not the lead guitar that comes in occasionally, but in general I'm liking it. I think the song sounds better without the Vocaloid, but I needed to try it out with something.

Wow. Incredible difference when switching over to asio4all. That pretty much fixed everything. It's a dual core. Thanks.