Nabeel Ansari

Eff you, mang, eff you. xD I'm still trying to figure out how to use Galaxy Man and Slash Man together... I'm not sure about you but I'm not just gonna slap the other theme on there. xD I'm pretty jealous you found a way to put Galaxy Man in your mix, cuz I'm still trying to analyze Slash Man and see what's similar between them.

You're a god of rock, dude. You don't count. Anyways, like I said it's not a race... I got a rough arrangement and a decent instrumentation set up today... I still have a whole week to COMPOSE the actual song. You can go ahead and do it in one day, Luke, but the whole week you're not doing it and I am, I have a better chance at winnin'.

I think the post looks better without the picture. xD But I will tell people. Great jorb, Anshrou!

You can tell in every one of Shariq's remixes that it's a "DARKESWORD REMIX" and he's got 23 of them in different genres. We all keep our own style regardless of what genre we transition into. xD

If they know what the robot masters are and they know what styles the competitiors compose in, I think it would be easy to tell who made which.

Just so you know, Peach, I wasn't hammering you for sound quality. I was hammering James for saying you should rely only on your keyboard. So I went into detail about why you shouldn't. Because, James, that is the worst sound production advice I have ever heard next to putting a multiband compressor on a master track. If you want to make good sound, never and I mean NEVER rely on just samples from a keyboard playing a MIDI. If you're intentionally going for an older sound, it's perfectly fine to avoid humanizing.

There's no way you already found a way to perfectly mix galaxy man and slash man, write an arrangement, and record all guitars in one day. No way. NO WAY LUKE. NO WAY DAMN IT. But as I am taking my time, it's not a race. I just have to have it by the end of this week, and I'll take more time to ensure better quality because I intend to drop you in a gravity ball... I mean, win. OKAY NEW RULE NO ROBOT MASTER PUNS FOR THE SAKE OF THE AUDIENCE

No he's not. xD

But then I would use up more sig room than I am allowed.

There's a difference between picking something others can't mix and picking something you yourself can't mix. xD

Not in the TV series for that movie, she wasn't.

The problem is you're not striving to make your sound the best it can be. You're actually using the fact that it's game music to be lazy about your sound, even if you don't think you are. That's kinda harsh, but sorry, that's what I think. There's a difference between N64 sounds and sequenced sound. N64 may have had bad humanization, but the level was already low enough with the quality of the instruments, so it was balanced between quality and humanization. You have high quality instruments with low humanization. There's no balance, no compromise. If you're going for an older Zelda game sound, then don't use high quality stuff (or if you want the high quality stuff, don't be lazy about humanization), because it won't work that way. Also, I am not using "lazy" in the sense that you're a couch potato, I'm referring to the fact that you are not humanizing because you think it's okay just because it's designed for N64/Gamecube/Whatever. Think of it like this: You can't have good BAD music (good low quality N64 type stuff) if parts of it are good (high quality and some humanization). It has to be all bad (low quality and some humanization) to get that real "nostalgic N64 sound chip" feel.

...Thanks, Luke. Real encouraging. You know I'm overly nervous about this competition... a lot of people here who didn't want to be on my project for time constraints and being busy appear to have time and NOT be busy if they can write a remix every two weeks...:tomatoface: Maybe they just don't trust me enough to think my project will succeed. Meh. Whatever. But anyways, I'm gonna start the remix now.

The fact of getting a head start is unfair. Shariq does not make things unfair, unless I'm wrong about that.

If anyone would have it, it'd be the artists. It's better to ask them, rather than ask the whole community that DIDN'T make the song. xD In this case, PM "Sixto" and "Cerrax" and see where that gets you.

This is still in Disney movies today, like in Emperor's new groove. Pacha's wife? In the house, cooking and cleaning the entire movie. Even in the TV series of this movie she sits in her house and she actually homeschools Kuzco when he's sick of going to school. She makes him hate it, but this promotes the idea of women being housewives and better educators than men. :tomatoface:

I'm assuming you mean "hours". xD Anyways, it's not fair if you start, because some of us (like me) can't just build our own parts and then slap on the other theme when the match-ups are revealed.

Go back and read Gario's post. Anyways, you're turning this into a game? "2-1"? How childish. From a guy who got offended when people told him to get higher quality samples (and also pretty much ignored everyone who gave you honest crits that had a problem with your mix), I hardly think you have any say when it comes to thinking samples "sound good." I used to think bad samples sounded good too, but over time and with experience, you'll realize what sounds good and what doesn't. And you're missing my point. The main point is not that it's a MIDI, but the fact that it LACKS humanization and a realistic sound. It does NOT add diversity. It adds a lot of people being lazy about their sound to the community. Sequencing without humanizing and adding reverb and etc. is called taking the easy way out. Some people may like it, but others don't like listening to something they know was done on a keyboard. There's such a thing as "too mechanical", and it's actually pretty easy to reach.

The problem is you cannot control your samples as far as instrument tweaking goes. There are special things VST's like EWQLSO offers for tweaking with their instruments that you can't do using default effect plug-ins from programs like Cakewalk. There is a free version of EWQLSO, grab it while you can. Seriously, I recommend talking to "Nutritious" about your sounds. That guy knows his stuff when it comes to making virtual orchestras with entirely free plug-ins.

I was going to but I was afraid someone would make fun of me for trying to be funny...

The percussion may have reverb, but it doesn't have enough reverb. Compared to everything else, it sounds like you put the drums inside of a tube made of sound absorbing foam. There's a difference between samples and how you use them. You need to tweak samples and humanize them, which is much easier a software interface rather than on a keyboard screen interface, because not all instruments have the same humanization techniques as a piano. Some would argue that humanization is easier on a keyboard, and they're right in most points of view. However, there's not nearly as much control for instrument tweaking AS ON A software library. What I'm saying is, if I wanted more control, I would buy EWQLSO rather than a keyboard. If you already have a keyboard, I'd recommend buying EWQLSO and channeling through software using your keyboard as a MIDI controller. Lots of room for tweaking the instruments, and if you have the MIDI you can also edit the MIDI in a DAW/Tracker (like Fruityloops, Reason, or Logic) to fix some of the timing issues you may have in the future. (Missed a snare hit by a half step? No problem, go into the MIDI and move the snare hit back a half step)

A lot of your samples sound dry and low quality. :/ Especially the percussion: has no reverb at all. The composition is nice, but you need better samples. "Without having to resort"? Keyboards are INFERIOR to sample quality of stuff like EWQLSO, especially since you can tweak EWQLSO samples better than on a keyboard. Also, you don't even need Quantum Leap. You can get a better sounding orchestra using FREE plug-ins than on a keyboard. Don't believe me? http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01911/

Yeah, the jazz theme when you were in the night city as the Rookie was phenomenal, but the field themes were good too.

Pax Zircona?

Archaon, that is one of the funniest things I have ever read. I LOL'd. :nicework: