liquid wind

I have to agree with OC that in general it's more rewarding to create your own sounds, but there's nothing wrong with using presets, they're simply instruments, you don't see people complaining saying "piano? this is SO trite! ugh", so I don't totally understand where the complaints of lack of originality come from. from what I can gather of the original post, the topic creator isn't experienced in sound design and is probably more looking for samples or presets, in which case absynth would be a good place to start as its presets tend to be geared towards those kinds of esoteric sounds. but if he is interested in learning to synthesize his own sounds, there are probably better options. personally for a commercial synth I'd recommend zebra, from everything I've tried it seems to have the best ease of use to options ratio and it's cheaper than absynth or omnisphere too. for free stuff I'll second the recommendation for STS-33, it's great and I've used it in like half of my songs since I downloaded it(although I'm still using STS-11...). even if you're not a sound designer, as OC said, it has lazy buttons that can randomly generate some good sounds for you. texture http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1002.html is another good freebie that can do some unusual sounds. I find I get a lot of good strange results from FM and RM synthesis but I'm not sure what really exists as far as that goes for free plugins, I use Sytrus a lot which I DO NOT recommend as it's interface is something of an abortion, I'm just too cheap to buy new stuff :/ plus I like using internal FL stuff where possible because of the per note controls that you don't get with anything MIDI(VST) related, it's only really surpassed by samples in trackers in that regard and yeah, just being creative, use effects in unusual ways or mangle up samples or even use totally unconventional sound sources. http://www.kvraudio.com/get/2189.html is pretty good for turning like anything into creepyness.

I don't see a reason to switch back yet myself but I'd agree that the program seems to be developing regressively now. if it gets worse(for instance phasing out patterns entirely) I might switch to renoise or something, kind of want to get back into tracking anyway but I'd need an excuse to force myself to learn a new program again

I didn't like it as much as the past few weeks, but still tons of fun now the worst part of the week, 6 days remain

http://dod.vgmix.com/past/may05/goat-CV-Scourge-DoD.mp3 edit: I might have had the wrong one? this is 12 minutes...

It focused more on artist development by reviewing and giving feedback, employing an RPG like system to give incentive to do so(how it was supposed to work), had an integrated WIP section, and was generally awesome. It was hacked and taken offline in 2006. It also had different guidelines than OCR so a lot of stuff(like 8+ minute mixes) that would have a difficult time making it here with the 6mb limit were uploaded there. Given the shortcomings of VGMix2 though and what had been planned for 3, what would be the point of recoding 2 from the ground up? Wouldn't just...making VGMix3 be a more pragmatic option?(sorry if it's a stupid question I know nothing of website design)

oh well I tried, understandable why most people have moved on though

yeah, melee is definitely better, I has no one to play with though =/ still though, even discounting brawl+, the texture hacks and stuff like no tripping and unlimited replay codes are good, I'm too lazy to hack but it has benefits

yeah I've felt that way a lot myself, I still play it a pretty good amount because I have nothing better to do though, no other internet games I play right now(grrr wii, can't afford a PS3 or 360, not much of a PC gamer...)

*walks into dead thread* so does anyone still play at all? I want to play some of you if anyone still does

I've always pronounced it mic-vah-fee I feel stupid

there's actually no harp in the original song, the flute sample used is just really bad and used in such a way that it sounds a lot like it, this is the sample ripped from the game http://www.sendspace.com/file/3e3032 anyway, there's a good harp soundfont on darkeswords site here you should get http://soundfonts.darkesword.com/

I made a stone tower remix a few years ago http://remix.thasauce.net/song/RTS0192/ nothing from this game ever gets touched other than stone tower lol, it does have some other good tracks that are very overlooked

most of fatty acid's stuff was on vgmix, I uploaded a zip of all of his stuff that wasn't from OCR that I have http://www.sendspace.com/file/zyl11e there might be more, I think there was an archive of old vgmix stuff somewhere but idk where or if it's still up

YES, I really like a lot of how late 90s/early2000s this sounds, I've always thought that things limited by technology as such had a special charm and were not necessarily inferior to higher fidelity successors(for instance the current generation of gaming is probably my least favorite in a long time if not ever, only a few games really impressed me lately, some of which have been games like cave story or MM9...) this is all really good stuff, a lot of good melodies in these songs. some interesting stuff that is less typical of your style that I liked a lot too(under the surface is unusual and great, and I love the filtering on the drums in the queen attacks).

I want to see someone submit something at 32kbps, quality is overrated

I've been lurking about since 2002 or so IIRC, someone linked to terra in black on another forum I visit I miss the blue, entirely white websites are hell on your eyes when you're tired wait OCR is trying to make me sleep more by making the internet painful for me when I should be in bed...thanks?

very interpretive and unique remix, this instantly became one of my favorite LTTP remixes. I love the minimal approach in this, it helps create a sense of melancholy isolation that you'd expect of a dark world that is mostly absent from more ornate versions of this theme including the original. the ending is a little awkward to my tastes, not really finishing the phrase, but a pretty minor gripe for an otherwise amazing remix, I love it

shouldn't matter if you bought it online, did you try downloading a new reg key? I had to get a new reg key to unlock it. I too am annoyed at the lack of swap panels but I don't use clips much so I can just close that section entirely, it's mostly disappointing because of the reasoning behind it(reflex said on IL's forums that they did it because they basically intend to phase out patterns entirely, which is a horribly counter intuitive idea that makes no sense to me)