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    Jazz appreciation thread anyone?

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    If I were to put my finger on it:

    Tenor sax has this narrow confine between tone and squeal that soloists feel that they must use the squeal as the peak of their riff. Maybe it's cliched or maybe it's simply unpleasant to listen to.

    Trumpets can be awesome if they are played softly. But that is not the point of a solo, apparently. That is probably another problem with the tenor sax and the alto sax.

    Baritone and bass sax solos can be quite okay. Many of those soloists don't use the cliches of the tenor and alto sax, using the reedy harmonics of the lower notes to really carry their solos.

    Trombones rarely get solos and maybe that is a good thing.

    See, the cool thing about horns are their wide timbral spectrum. The variety of tones allows for an incredibly expressive performance; it's why we often have horn leads. Synthesizer leads generally strive for the same kind of effect - heck even guitarists go for a squeal at the peak of their solo.

    Not that this text is going to change your mind or anything.

    Super Smash Bros. 4

    in General Discussion

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    Smash Run is going to be amazing.

    The sheer amount of time Nabeel and I sunk into City Trial back during the hey-day of Kirby Air Ride is absurd. The City Trial gameplay style is so fun and quick. So happy to see it being revived in Smash.

    Same with my brother and me.

    Shit, that's brought it all back, that was such a good game mode.

    The Nintendo Stock Slide

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    I think Wii is great but it has 1 flaw... where you could, even today, get a PS2 and hook it up to a TV to watch DVDs or listen to music, if you wanted to do that with a Wii you would need to bring the sensor bar and the motion controls.
    No, you'd softmod it.

    Chiptune Basics

    in Music Composition & Production

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    Bumping this thread for a question:

    I've used NES VST and Magical 8 bit some, and they're a heck of a lot easier than Famitracker, but I'm a little anal about my plugins. How much would I gain in getting Plogue Chipsounds over using some of the free plugins out there? Is it worth the cash? Cuz I got cash and a need for excellently sampled chips.

    Yeah, it's probably the best VST chip solution, pretty convincing.

    Computer Music Textbooks

    in Music Composition & Production

    Posted · Edited by PROTO·DOME

    It really depends on what you learned first. I learned to read staff music at the age of 8 and I never saw a piano roll until I was in my 20s. No matter what, I always feel a lot more comfortable working with notation compared to the piano roll.
    I know, but I really don't think it's necessary (at all) for understanding music theory. There's a lot of symbology and needless formality to trawl through when learning theory through score alone. I've done the royal school of music grade system; it's bloated by historical practices and traditions.

    Computer Music Textbooks

    in Music Composition & Production

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    Music Theory is the most intuitive when the concepts are demonstrated on the staff. The piano roll displays things in raw pitches (I can make another post detailing all the things you will miss out on by learning it this way, if you'd like); intervals are not as obvious for example, and harmonic analysis, which is really important for understanding key modulations and accidentals, the real meat of writing interesting music, becomes way harder. In my personal opinion, learning music theory as its own discipline instead of as something directly connected to what you're doing in the DAW makes learning it much easier.
    Score is basically musical shorthand and can be a needless confusion if you're just after learning practical music theory. The piano roll makes intervals obvious and identifying keys, chords and patterns much simpler, thanks to its intuitive, visual format.

    Try modulating a semitone from C to C# on score and modulating a semitone in MIDI and tell me which is easier.

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