Nabeel Ansari

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.

Bass drum is as Rozo said. Bass is kinda bland. Something bothers me about the arps, might be fighting for dominance in their section of the FREQ spectrum. Or they might be hard panned. I would get new drum samples.

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About 2-3 years or so of getting tips from more talented people. (and a year before that when I started) Started out when I was around 10, borrowed my bro's laptop and messed around with an old version of FL Studio in my warm, sweaty room. (the kind where it's not pleasant to have a burning hot laptop around) I think some of you guys who've been WIP forum regulars can remember some of my first remixes... (Jeez louise that's real hell on anyone's speakers.) My first learning experience was when my brother taught me how to do drum beats in FL Studio because I wanted him to teach me music. This ended up becoming a jazz-ish kind of song using some of my drumbeats and a flute chord solo I wrote (he taught me how to do chords, but I never remembered them and relearned them last year in 8th grade) I never really did anything until I got my own computer around 2-3 years ago, and I sucked because I barely remembered anything he taught me, all I knew was the piano roll, channels, and step sequencing. It just evolved from a horrible techno-y Megaman 7 intro stage cover into a Megaman Zero 3 remix where I got a bit rude on my WIP forum (and was heavily flamed for it). I got depressed and deleted all of my stuff, and then a week or so later I came back. I posted up a Serenade of Water/Requiem of Spirit tribal/techno remix on the WIP forum. My bro then gave me a very interesting lesson on rhythm, and I made a Metroid Prime Remix. I learned more about how to make good arrangement structure, and then I just made more remixes, each one a new lesson on how to make OCR material music. Not quite there yet, but I talk to some talented OCR guys now who give me more in depth production tips and such. But it doesn't take THAT many years, it's more of a dedication and ability to apply what you learn and how quickly you learn it.

I don't suppose they would happen until this compo is done, I would wait a little.

The piano is very mechanical, and everything in the soundscape doesn't fit each other. Your lead's are a bit bland, the drums sound muffled, and there isn't much balance between your leads and background. I would suggest: Humanizing the piano Find more interested leads Get higher quality drum sounds Balancing the general production Find sounds that fit the general soundscape (your instrumentation sounds a bit random) Have a nice day.

I don't think there is any such thing as "current" video game music because a lot of "current" video game music comes in almost any style of music.

It's not like I'm making another thread... some people might not check the community forum and it pertains to this compo so I don't see a reason not to post it here.

Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal (GeckoYamori Mashup)

Didn't really take much effort, as Mike knows how to dance in rhythm and the songs are all at the same tempo anyway. I just figured out went to start and stop and did some tricky slicing to cut out the parts where it shows him clearly singing.

I made a video this morning taking the Smooth Criminal dance of Michael Jackson and I mashed it up with two of GeckoYamori's remixes from the Grand Robot Master Remix Battle. "Botany Was A Crime in 1989" (Ground Man & Plant Man, defeated Sixto) "Flash The Funk" (Ground Man & Flash Man, defeated WillRock)

I noticed not many comments about the production. Come on guys. Then you haven't even tried looking. (^.^) No, I'm not trying to be rude, I'm just saying there's lots of free stuff out there. Here's some stuff I use:Free KORE and Kontakt player here: www.native-instruments.com Soundfonts recommended by Darkesword: http://soundfonts.darkesword.com You also need to learn more about humanization. Not every note is the same velocity. For arpeggio or fast notes, the first is loud but the following are quieter. Use the "(none)" feature to freely place the notes and offset them so the timing is not exact (but not too offset that it sounds like bad playing) Hand me the MIDI of your song and I'll show you what I mean. (Or just the FL Studio project, because I work in FL Studio 9 Producer so I should be able to load your song)

http://ocremix.org/forums/showpost.php?p=624438&postcount=1

There's a difference between OCR music and music you hear in the world. Then there's good music that everyone likes. But yeah I found a bit of an issue with repetition in this remix. Also, the composition of it was a bit empty... it wasn't empty, but I didn't get as much "full" sound I wanted from it. But nice gated synth. I wish it could've been changed up a bit.

It's also buggy. My pattern editor became frozen and I couldn't change anything after looping. I personally think the "sequncing" part is weird, but other than that it's an okay program for low budget musicians. HOWEVER It's no subsitute for something like Logic, Reason, Reaper, FL Studio, etc.

Happy birthday

Might be blind, but I also don't see what DOES class this new device as another DS update.Why would you say it is? All you have to base that on is the fact that it has backwards compatibility and the name (which the letter said was temporary). Did I miss something in this thread, or is it valid to claim that this "3DS" is just "another DS iteration" based on the fact that it has backwards compatibility with DS games? Then the Wii would be a gamecube iteration, correct? Where in the world did you get this information from? I didn't see anything about hardware or game cartridge formats.

I personally use FL Studio myself, which the interface I personally think is more preferable and superior to Reaper. Also, I don't plan to switch DAW's. And this is not a "best DAW" thread. This is a thread about DarkWave Studio, I wanted to get some opinions about it so that people looking for free music software would stumble upon this thread and decide if it's right for them. If reaper was free, you could argue that it's better than DarkWave, but since it's not free, it's not relevant to the topic. Back on topic: I found the modular thing cool, but one thing that bugs me is why you even have to connect wires in the first place. Plus the process of creating patterns is very confusing.

Actually, I wasn't comfortable with the pattern editor. It was buggy and unresponsive for me. I tried the bass, and I kept getting super hi freq in the octave of middle C. 0_0 Back to FL Studio, the one program that has an interface I am comfortable with.