Nabeel Ansari

Why are the forums not like they were? It says vBulletin at the top and everything is all... NOT OCR forums.

Well, I just wanted to throw the idea out there in case you've forgotten or you never thought about it before. Thanks for the answer.

You guys should hold a voting session every weekend or something... I mean not every one of you is out every saturday/sunday so just maybe a half hour to an hour voting session, can get voting done a lot faster.

This has been said earlier by BGC that it took him an hour and a half. But why does it take so much time to judge? No, I don't mean how they have lives and stuff, but when they are actually listening to a remix, BGC said it took him such a long time to cast a vote. Why? When I ask Shariq for advice on MY music he immediately tells me if it's subworthy or not. In, like, less than a minute.

Tech-noir does not exist as a MUSICAL genre so it's Garionica. xD

Pretty much everything has been said. I never formally learned music theory or even FL itself, I just kinda toyed around with it (and i have an older brother that's a real good composer). Pretty much what I would do is find a really good remixer/composer on this site or somewhere and ask them for updates on something they're working on. Question EVERY CHANGE AND EVERY ADDITION. Why did you do "dadadadada"? How come "this and that"? How do I do "blah blah blah"? That's how I learned; Shariq never taught me, it was mostly just me coming into his room uninvited while he was doing something with Fruityloops and askin him what the hell he was doing. (Well maybe not that bluntly, but the meaning is all the same) That's how I learned theory; by watching what the composer did and asking why he did it. Everything he showed (not taught) me I've tried applying into my own music (most of them successful attempts) and it worked, and I built from that. I just try something myself and master it.

That forum post was before my PM. XDDDDDD

http://neblixsaber.googlepages.com/mapletreesunderthestars.mp3 This has already been subbed, but you can have it here if you like it.

Meh... then I just have bad taste in stories. xD

You know I'm really glad I got punished for plagiarism I never actually did (I just used a lot of similar words and my teacher though I was plagiarizing because I'm smart enough to sound epic when I write summaries about books) I never told her that I didn't plagiarize, I was too shocked to say anything and I was already in detention anyway. (This happened 3 years ago) Oh, and if she even looked at the back of the book I was reading she would know in an instant I didn't steal any of it. Even though I got punished for something I didn't do, at least I get bragging rights to "I've never plagiarized in my entire life." Because if I get punished for NOT plagiarizing, I'm def not gonna plagiarize. We should pray this happens to everyone when they're in 6th grade, so they'll learn to not plagiarize and they won't even have to learn it the hard way (by hard I mean the flamed-by-guys-twice-your-age expelled from college way)

The story may seem cliche, but it's actually good. I'd read that text if I were you.

Great to hear some more Garionica! Kudos to you, mang. I hope it gets past the judges!

Episode 7 is an hour long.

See the main problem here is you're using a rhythm guitar for a really fast arpeggiated single note melody. It's actually okay in the beginning, but when other stuff is playing it's just a plain annoying screeching noise in the background. around when 1:12 hits, why don't you just make the electric guitar mimc the main piano in the main melody? Try using a solo guitar instead; otherwise keep your old guitar sound and use this electric guitar sound for chords. But yes take out the echo.

Haha, I love Episode 8 (which just came out on New Grounds) I love Fire Sonic. It just doesn't feel the same with the hand drawn close ups... it really defeats the purpose of a sprite show. And the story... well... there's no point in critiquing the story, guys. It's supposed to be a DBZ parody. And the sprite animations are top notch in this episode. So fluid and quick, I was practically laughing with excitement. When Stuffwell said "Do a barrel roll!!!" I practically screamed "AWESOME!!!" (you can ask Shariq as an ear witness)

Rhythm, rhythm, rhythm! It's still not clear. What program are you using? You need to know when measures start and stop, because I can't even tell. Your program should have lines indicting where a measure starts and stops, and I don't think you're paying much attention to them. In this version, I can only see four patterns. The first pattern over and over, it ends. Then the second pattern over and over, it ends. Then the third pattern over and over, it ends. Then the fourth pattern over and over, it ends. Develop a lot of patterns, fit them together (RHYTHMICALLY) and create an ARRANGEMENT, not random stuff. Please don't take this harshly but I think you need to learn some music theory. Try talking to some of the higher ups here, or find some essays composers write about how to create rhythmically sound music.

This is just project I'm doing. For some reason, my CPU overloads on all of my projects now... upgrading to FL 9 controlled it a little, but I have to work under very limited, tough conditions to use FL. So I'm just gonna start up a bunch of cool ideas and actually finish them once I can find awesome free synth samples that are not intensive on my processor, or, in four years, get a new computer. So here's what ya came for: http://neblixsaber.darkesword.com/bucketofBolts.mp3

Yeah, the cymbal is fine now. It was horrible before, but it's okay now. I do say that the horns sound fake-ish, you might want better samples.

Halc you listened to his first version. xD I can tell because his more recent version has 192 KBPS. Skip around to the more recent posts, he has a new version.

Well you have the right notes... but when you hit the THIRD NOTE the whole melody jumps up an octave.

No THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT AT ALL. I meant use the notes from the game... you're not using the notes from the game. It's fine if you want to keep it your way, I'm just saying I would prefer you use the original notes because I think it would have more impact. And a lot of people here are adults. Most adults have real life to deal with, so you're not gonna see every single OCRemixer posting on every single WIP board. Just give it some time...

SWEET! I completely forgot about this source tune... I couldn't remember it when I heard the name, so I actually went back to listen to the source before I downloaded this mix.

Looking around for FREE samples can be quite rewarding. Expensive samples don't make the music; the arrangement does. But your samples can drag you down, which is why I again suggest looking around on the internet for free high quality samples. Everything i wanna say has been said already; Lack of reverb, samples a little low quality, etc. Everything just sounds real dry-ish.

Be sure to give other people enough time to listen, too. Even though it would flatter me, listening to JUST ME isn't gonna get your mix posted. It's a variety of opinions that help. But my next opinion: Sounds good, but at the main melody (around 1:12) I really would enjoy this more if you used the actual notes from the game. It just doesn't have the same impact as the game version when the melody goes up higher in the notes.