Nabeel Ansari

Or you could be like bLiNd and mix both blind and deaf, putting your face to the monitor to feel the waveforms washing over you.

Grid?

You do realize that buying stuff from Native Instruments's website is wallet suicide? I'll save you the trouble, Meteo. Yes let's talk about synthesizers. Also, my comment still stands. There is no Komplete 8 yet. And there isn't. Sept. 1 is a long time from now.

The way I see it Zebra can cover a lot of synthesis styles. So get the big guy that does it all well and then when you need something more specific because it has a specific feature that you want, get a more specialized synth. For instance, if you want dubstep bass, everyone would recommend Massive. Massive is expensive and you can get great, PHAT dubstep basses on Image-Line's Harmless (built-in FL plugin) which is only $80 in comparison. Harmless does a lot of phat sounds really well, but it doesn't offer the number of magic waveforms that Massive does. I urge the higher-up guys reading this thread to try Harmless if they haven't already, because with only one posted mix (another on the horizon!) I'm not sure my opinion of an FL synth can be validated unless it's by someone more experienced like PrototypeRaptor or something. Here is a remix using only Zebra 2, Harmless, and 3xOSC. The dubstep break is indeed Harmless. There are also sounds from Kontakt. (one of the synths is layered with something from Kontakt) and the string sections are Kontakt VSL. Komplete 7 is $500 and there is no higher version yet. >_> And there is no "Komplete Ultimate". Where the !@#$ are you getting your information from? Yahoo Answers?

I didn't expect to win this year, but being a semi-finalist was a nice surprise. When you discover what he is planning you will no longer be sad.

You do realize you just made him more confused about what to get, right?

Of course you can fit 50 tracks in a preview. Just have each track appear for 2 seconds.

You can do anything with it. Like. Anything. It has so many modules you can implement, fully customizable wave tables and tons of cool effects for your oscillators. It's also Hans Zimmer's favorite as I hear it. And it's pretty easy to learn how to use, just watch Zircon's tutorials.

Shariq is at Otakon.

$200? Zebra 2.

I can download them just fine.

Import the MIDI into FL Studio. It doesn't sound like you did that, because you say the "step sequencer comes up blank." And just for some clarification, the step sequencer isn't where you edit MIDI information. You edit MIDI information in the PIANO ROLL. Go to the Piano Roll in FL Studio on the MIDI channel that you want and hit alt+Q. Select a template.

I think part of the problem is they're running out of ideas. How many little creatures after 1000 or so do you expect people to be able to come up with?

I think the part of the problem in that, Meteo, is all of the string sustains sound exactly the same in articulation. EXACTLY the same. It's not bad by any means and I don't even think OCR judges would bite on that if it were in a remix submission. It's the kind of thing that's fake if you look into it but real enough so that you shouldn't care.

Well there's your problem. There's no reason in the world you should be leaving a remainder. If you want a seamless ending where everything goes silent then just highlight the entire track with a bar of nothingness after it and render cut remainder. Leave remainder just tacks on 3 minutes of silence to the end of your track for no reason.

Maybe if they register on Club Nintendo or something they can trace the serial number?

The template uses a program extension that you can't get anymore. I don't know why Nutri still has it in the template since no one can get it anymore. xD

All sound is sine waves. *headdesk*

Happy Borkday!

You guys are asking for things that don't really exist. Context is everything, and there's too many variables to make a frequency chart of human emotion for every context. A simpler example is that a major chord will sound happy by itself but sad if used in another chord progression. You may argue that it always sounds happy regardless of context, but that's subjective. Emotion is subjective, and you're asking for a concrete mathematical approach to it. Your best bet, Meteo, is to just copy what you hear in other music that you like to capture the feeling without being too obvious about it. That's the answer I gave you before about the string tremolos. I literally copied it down into English from something I heard before because that's what worked. There's no big chart of this stuff. The chart is whatever music you can find. All of us copy from other music, it's impossible not to.

I can answer your tl;dr version, but not the real thing. (it's not really a tl;dr version because they're not asking the same thing) They're trained to perform the samples really flawlessly. They learn the samples inside and out and push themselves to get it right because they're paid to. As far as humanization goes, a MIDI keyboard is probably what they're using to help with that. As for the long paragraphs of other question, I don't think that's an easy answer for anyone. Music is a mathematical language but there is no mathematical approach to emotion. And feeling, which is what you're asking about, counts more in what the instrument is playing rather than its dynamics. Dynamics are very important, but since you're the composer, you decide the dynamics. There are more general things I could tell you, like loud tremolos in string instruments after a quieter previous section give the listener a bit of unease,(but again, depends on what it's playing. I haven't heard much tango but I'm pretty sure it starts off switching between loud and soft rapidly and that's what sparks your fire to dance, like adrenaline), while loud tremolos after a similarly loud previous section won't invoke the jumping as much. Is that the kind of thing you're looking for? There's no formula for this kind of thing without copying straight off of what you hear in what you describe as more professional works.

Batman & Sun?

Why in the world would anyone on OCR want such a list? :/

I sense a marketing battle brewing... zirc, you better brush up on your Guile.

I told him not to worry about MIDI tracks yet because it doesn't seem like he's wrapped his head around the concept of MIDI yet. I didn't wanna further confuse him before he understood the basics of how he can record MIDI.