Nabeel Ansari   Members

Because of the Algorithmic Synthesis System, of course. They would never *twitch* betray us.

Every 485 views I am entitled to a free bump.

Looks like I be posted before I 15 after all.

Yeah I'd leave the remixing to the Remixanator, if I were you, bro.

You make me sound so evil. T.T

Because channels are not assigned to specific patterns, the step sequencer shows the channels for the entire project file. Just leave the channels be. Trust me I had the SAME exact problem when I was 10 (or 11) and my bro let me use FL Studio for the first time about 3-4 years ago.

Not that it's bad, it just sounds exposed. Try some EQ, Reverb, Compression, slight delay, or any combination of them to make your kick sound less dry and blend in more with your soundscape.

In my opinion, getting posted on OCR means you know what you're doing and now the community knows too. Sure it might've been a fluke, but you can look at the fluke, see what made it a fluke and then make other flukes until they're not even flukes; they're the real deal. Next thing you know shell out a few bucks for new equipment and get recruited onto some soundtrack development for an iPod Touch game... Anyways the point is getting posted on OCR is a good goal for getting your music from crappy to great. But once you get posted, your music's great, but it's not the best. Then you just aim to be like Zircon or bLiNd and give it 7-8 years more of experience then you get yourself into a respectable position. http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00943/ First thing that comes to mind.

I dunno, dude. You sent me a project file because I said I would help you out... That's called "collabing". No I haven't gotten to it, yet, but if you make any changes to the piano parts then let me know.

Alright, I was more specifically referring to the fact that you had 1 year of experience before getting posted. I have more experience than you did then, but you still got a posted remix (as opposed to me). But then again, you have to factor in that I like to watch shows about a justice-driven con artist team and a government spy fugitive trying to recover his job. And I have homework to do. (Hm, don't have a part time job and I started high school 7-8 months ago). Anyone can understand why you ARE better than me now, because you have 6 years on you and I have 2-3 years. But it might take more info to understand why, when you had one year, you were still better than what I am NOW. Does being posted mean you were better? OH WAIT: I THINK WHAT WE'RE MISSING AS A FACTOR HERE IS THAT OCR STANDARDS ARE INCREASING AND THE SPEED AT WHICH A PERSON COULD GET POSTED BACK THEN COULD BE VERY DIFFERENT FROM NOW (and yes, my caps lock key is broken. No, I don't know why it's suddenly fixed. Maybe I "broke" it to draw some attention to the statement.) I can make music that's better than some of the posted OCRemixes here, or that would've been easily posted back then (based on the quality of said remixes). My music is not meeting current standards, but it could've back then. This theory won't really work if you don't take into account that standards were lower back then.

Good point, I'm just saying it sounds like you guys are saying Nintendo's the only company who has issues with their handheld console upgrades.

In which case I wish you luck, sir. I just hate theories because they start generalizing and setting standards for people to meet. Everyone has their own pace.

Last time I checked it was a thread about Nintendo's new hand held console temporarily named the "3DS".

Just occurred to me unless someone has mentioned this before, but if we're complaining about DS > DS Lite > DSi > DSi XL why are we not complaining about PSP 1000 > PSP 2000 > PSP 3000 > PSP Go ???

That theory makes more sense, what bothered me was your original "it takes 5 years of musical experience to get posted" theory. In that you need to include an "age factor" and also a factor for how "gifted" someone is. If you picked up some kid at my school and gave him the same amount of experience an education as me at the same age, there's still going to be some differences in the way our brains work.

I think he meant it's the first he produced. I hardly believe anyone can compose something like this right off the bat.

Sorry, say that again? Which is why people like Blue Magic who've had the same amount of experience as me still manage to be 5x better AT AN OLDER AGE? The reason I think this whole "theory" of yours is because it's basing the abilities of humans on the "studies". Just accept that everyone's different and call it a day. :/ You keep saying "this person being an exception" and eventually you have too many exceptions to call them exceptions any more, in which case the other people following your theory are called exceptions; at that point in time your theory is a theory for exceptions and there is no theory for the previous "exceptions" who are exceptions to your theory but outnumber the current "exceptions". This makes the new people not "exceptions" any more. They're just a group of people who follow your theory.

Everyone has to start somewhere. I used to be exactly like you and had the same kind of complaints, but there's a huge age difference. My big gripe with people in general is that people think your age is a factor. I'll say it once right now. Age has nothing to do with it. If you live longer, sure you might have more experience, but your experience just depends on when you started. Not how old you are. I have maybe 2-3 years of experience with sequencing AND music production, and I'm 14. I'm not as good as guys like Zircon and bLiNd who have lived longer with more experience, but I'm also better off than some people with a lot less experience I see on the WIP forum who are also older than me. I didn't even learn anything formally; it's all just practice and self teaching. Also, getting higher ups to show you how they sequence things is a good way to learn. I learn a lot just by peeking into project files of people like bLiNd, Zircon, Darkesword, etc. Also, in response to your keyboard playing theory: Willrock doesn't have a keyboard. His solo's are, in my opinion, better than 70-80% of solo's I have heard in remixes on this website, posted or not posted.

I'ma find you, and when I do I'ma prove you wrong, son...

Said I wasn't sure, oka? I said "I think" that means "I'm not sure" xD Regardless of if they worked on Mac I gave him links to them, didn't I? xD

Ahah this stuff is cool

Avoid posting more than once before someone else replies; I usually just edit my most recent post to avoid looking like I'm trying to bump the thread. It's also awfully annoying because your sig image also breaks the image size rules for signatures, I'm not sure exactly what the rule are or where to find them EDIT: I think it's 500 X 250 ? but yours is way too big, so please one post at a time. Anyways, I would suggest upgrading your software. I'm not sure if Garageband is good enough software to produce OCR music at the level you're at (I'm basing that off of this remix which may or may not be better than your other stuff) but there are free and reasonably priced DAW's out there. May I recommend: http://www.apple.com/logicstudio/ <- Has notation features NOT SURE IF that's the only one that works if you have a mac, but: http://www.steinberg.net/en/products/musicproduction.html/<- Works on Mac http://flstudio.image-line.com/ <- This is what I use. It's also what Zircon, Darkesword, and lots of other great remixers use. http://www.cockos.com/reaper/ <- Works on Mac http://www.ableton.com/<- Works on Mac http://www.propellerheads.se/products/reason/<- Works on Mac http://www.cakewalk.com/products/homestudio/english/default.asp If you prefer modern musical notation: www.sibelius.com/www.finalemusic.com/

The second half is more in the style of Smooth Criminal itself, so even if it's not FUNKEH it's still fitting. GeckoYamori did a great job with his remixes and I wish he did something funky in round 4 too.

Wow this is one of the weirdest crits I've ever read because none of this is true at all. 0_o Why would he be discouraged? He's a posted remixer and this mix is absolutely stellar. I can think of ten people. You need to listen to some more OCRemixes. Anyways, what really got to me was the way that drum beat made it's way into the song. It was kinda like a driving chase song you'd find in some movie about the future that takes place in an F-Zero kind of setting.