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SoulinEther

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  1. I wouldn't say it loses it's luster; it's just that you gotta go somewhere from here. A build can be good/liked, but that doesn't make a whole work good. It is a bit long, yeah, but you'll figure it out... just keep working on it. I have a ton of wips I am.. lazy about, lol. Mostly it's because I don't know where I want to go and what I want to say with the music - if you have those ideas in mind, it might help.

  2. you have a long buildup... I really don't mind it - the bass line has a simple entrancing effect. but you gotta explore the theme a bit once you do finally build up. You can try weaving it into the boss theme and then weaving back, see if the themes work together as countermelodies, try a new or modified melody on new the bass / rhythm, do an a/b section thing, etc.

    The guitar sounds fake and mechanical - try to work on the timings and the velocities to give it a more human sound.. and probably find a new sample. Ideally, you'd want to find someone to play it for you. Things also get pretty muddy with the reverb. Maybe try playing the melody an octave higher (sounds like it should be within the range of the guitar) to give it some space in the mix, though this would probably be fixed by working on the reverb, humanization and stuff.

    I forgot how much I enjoyed this piece from Zelda II.

  3. She does what she does well. I've heard some of her piano stuff before and I respect her for her work. If she's a sellout, well, her albums are called "The Fame" and "The Fame Monster" for a reason. Sort of justifies/invalidates it in a sense.

    Once I stopped trying to ignore her, I could actually enjoy her work and realize that she's just artistically diverse. And sure, the rah-rah-ah-ah-ah is pretty simple, but I bet once you heard it you could never forget it.

  4. The problem with MM2 GB is that the sounds are just... horrible. The melodies themselves are quite awesome. Transfer the same melodies to better hardware and you've got some sweet tracks.

    yeah.....i'll have to get on that... ...

    link? (you really didn't think i'd put that kind of effort into it?)

  5. I don't know what film you're involved in (though I do wish you the best of luck in your endeavor (aka link plz)), but i love the vibrant colors in those - the greens of the grass and the red of that sofa.

  6. Mega Man 2 for game boy.. wow. real eye opener (I mean, ear closer/deafness-wishes-inducer). I wonder if anybody has ever tried to submit remixes for of those songs - my next question is could there even be an acceptable remix from that game?.

    The only thing that could grab my attention melodically was the Crash Man theme... but it still stunk.

  7. The string (cello I think) at 1:37 sticks out; its vibrato is unrealistic. if you can control the vibrato manually, try to humanize it a little more - it should probably progressively attain a more subtle, slightly random (but even... if that makes sense) vibrato - almost like a tail at the end of the note. compare it to Fallen Dragoon by AeroZ - granted, that's a real cello performance (several layers really), but you can get an idea of what kind of vibrato you're looking for around ~0:18.

    sorry, i have been ....... somewhat busy. somewhat scattered. should have responded earlier. when i was discussing "legato" i just meant that successive notes played by certain instruments didn't bleed into each other sufficiently to sound smooth/natural, but I'm noticing some of that's been cleared up. I'm really rusty on my orchestral sounds (i've yet to seriously dabble in them myself), but the tuba/brass/thing at ex. 1:50 sounds much improved from how I remember it... though its timbre is a little off - it doesn't sound...completely real. I don't know what it is.

  8. Figured that if I'd post this in the offtop art thread might as well post it in the community photography thread:

    http://img714.imageshack.us/g/img1130z.jpg/

    Pictures I took on a roadtrip in my friend's jeep. Not many were taken at a full stop, gotta say I love his power shot, but this makes me yearn for a digital version of my rebel 2000.

    I recommend you try another photo hosting service. Imageshack doesn't make medium-size copies server-side after you upload them, so browsing through your album means downloading the full-size, ~3mb original JPEGs for everything I want to look at (unless I just go by the thumbnails). At least for future ones.

    I like the rear view mirror shot with the hanging stuffed animal, perhaps because it appeals to my darker side. And the blur in the second photo makes me feel like I'm in some sort of nightmare: a nightmare in which I'm running scared from Bambi wielding a butcher knife.

    edit: and i dusted off an old canon ae-1. bought it a battery so it could work, too, lol. managed to break the 28mm lens already (in my defense it was kind of coming apart already) but there's still the 50mm. if I ever churn out a gem, and get around to scanning it... i know where to go to share it :D

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