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11 minutes ago, ShadowRaz said:
i would need more hard drive space for these and most likely another SSD to have tolerable speeds on loading them.. i'm guessing i would need hundreds of gigabytes of space on it for fitting everything i would need from those vst's..
Are they how heavy on CPU and RAM? I suppose Ram wouldn't be a problem for me unless i would make monster compositions but even though i have Intel I7 as a processor, my CPU is running kind of.. well adequate.
HDD space definitely. I use a 1TB external HDD for my sample drive and it seems to work just fine. Samples aren't instant but I can wait a few extra seconds if it saves me 200 bucks. You can pick one up on amazon or wal mart for about $50. Most of them are fairly heavy on system resources but probably not to the extent that newer sample libraries are. Excluding the Hollywood series and Ghost Writer, a lot of these libraries were put on the market back when many people were still working with a 4gb ram limit.
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Haven't been able to complete Solo Violin. It keeps getting stuck at 98% for no apparent reason. :/ Symphonic Choirs though is awesome and Stormdrum 3 is 80gb of nothing but amazing hits. I also DL'ed Gypsy that comes with a fantastic sampled violin. Extremely happy with the CC so far but it has done a number on my social life over the past few weeks.
Has anyone used The Dark Side for ANYTHING? It seems to be a lot of rehashed samples from other libraries with a little bit of distortion applied to them with inflexible results. If you were going for a darker soundscape just about anything would work better than The Dark Side. This is why i'm glad they did the CC because i probably would have been won over by the marketing choices and reviews of the library before getting a chance to use it.
So far that's been the only dud.
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This is the greatest. thing. ever.
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Can't hear what type of noise issue you have since i'm at work right now but what type of cable do you have and how long is it? If the cable isn't shielded and is fairly long you are going to pick up radio transmissions and all the crap that is floating through the air these days. A halfway decent cable should cancel noise on it's own. you may also need to clean the input jack if you haven't used it a whole lot.
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2 hours ago, The Legendary Zoltan said:
Those are cool videos you guys posted. Thanks. I didn't expect that kind of answer. Interesting. . . OK. I got it! ACTUAL Baby Metal. That is, Japanese children's song death metalized! It's genius! MWAAA HAA HAA HAAAAAAAA!
Metal opera of Momotaro! it needs to be done! "kiiiiBIIIDANNNNNNNNNNNGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! ...'s are tasty"
I've been wondering about the MAG selection process for awhile and also have an interest in doing a live show at some point after i get an album or two out. What factors do they consider when booking people? Is it all youtube subs? I've seen some people get promoted from the smaller "stages" (the out of the way conference rooms that no one can seem to find) to the main stage the following year and at the same time i've seen some great acts get demoted from the main stage to the smaller rooms and eventually to not being given anything.
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Sent ya a PM.
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Is there a reason for the lack of a call for bassists?
Do you have a full section? I use both bow styles (french and german) but prefer german for orchestral playing. If there's an opening I would be interested as long as the drive isn't a killer.
Where will it be located?
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On 3/23/2016 at 11:01 AM, Winning900 said:
My rich friend bought East West for me.
That's some friend.
On 3/23/2016 at 11:01 AM, Winning900 said:Now that I have East West Symphonic Orchestra, how do I use it?
What version do you have? Silver gold or platinum? If you are looking to use the library in other non-orchestral genres you really need Platinum so you can control the amount of reverb on each patch. ...but that's getting waaaaaaaaaay ahead here. Whatever you do, don't import a static midi think you can let the samples do the rest. You are going to spend hours detailing midi clips to get as much realism as you can out of it. For starters if you don't understand the accenting differences in a down-down-up bow pattern vs a down-up-down bow pattern you are going to produce less than stellar results.
What makes EWQLSO great is it's ability to let you construct your own ensembles. Compared to inflexible ensemble oriented collections like Symphobia, which take care of most of the work for you, it's going to take a lot of time to learn to use EWQLSO and you'll be better off for it but that's assuming you put in the time to learn everything there is to learn.
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Your cousin would love some of the late 90's work by Capcom's Akari Kaida and Takayuki Iwai. Be sure to check out Cyberbots and Star Gladiator's ost's.
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Congrats to some of the most dedicated people in the community!
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I picked up Omnisphere over a year ago and used it with a 2.66ghz quad core with 4gb of ram for awhile. I could only run 2 instances of the lesser resource intensive presets before i ran into problems or run only one of the Multi presets which got up closer to a Gb in patch size. If you get Omnisphere with your machine you should expect to be freezing whatever else you're working on in order to JUST run Omnisphere alone, which can be very time consuming but certainly doable.
Komplete is much more diverse and you'll get a ton of tools of varying resource requirements. There might be some things you can run and others you can't run at all or only get some limited function out of. For that reason Komplete and Omnisphere don't really compare in this context. Did you want an awesome but power hungry sample based synth and put up with an increase in total time spent on a project? Or did you want EVERYTHING from NI and hope that you can get as close to 100% function as possible? I only purchased a Komplete 7 Elements package awhile ago and while it had a lot of stuff on it some of what was in there was too cumbersome to use with my machine or would glitch in some way or another.
You may want to rethink how you are using your money and try to go with a new pc/mac instead if you want to use resource intensive samplers and sample based synths. Otherwise if you want to keep your machine, and you don't already have Massive, you could always go with that since it is extremely versatile and runs far lighter than Omnisphere.
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Soundsonline just knocked off an extra hundred bucks for people who are upgrading from EWQLSO Gold (PLAY)to Platinum (PLAY). Was $250 plus shipping it's now $150 plus shipping. DVD version only.
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There really are no secrets to making "good" dubstep. You just need to buy the right vst that was specifically made for the genre. I would recommend this one from Slate Digital.
- shadowpsyc, Jorito, AngelCityOutlaw and 1 other
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To be fair, it's likely that one of the directors on the team wanted a track similar to PM5000's song and pushed the person who worked on it to near complete plagiarism. A similar case happened with john williams when doing the first star wars movie. Lucas wanted to use Holst's The Planets so badly in his movie that williams had to create something as close to that as he could just to get an original score for the film. Of course williams handled it much better.
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PC's built and i am thinking of picking up CC next week.
Does anyone have any experience or opinions on EW's pro drummer series? I can't find my activation code for my older SSD EX library so right now i'm stuck with Addictive Drums 2 which came with my DAW. Are the samples in Pro Drummer comparable to SSD or at the very least better than AD2? If not, I may end up eschewing the composer cloud to buy SSD4.
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1 hour ago, Bowlerhat said:
In this big band project we did for school we had to make a big band piece inspired by our musical 'roots'. A Columbian girl made a piece derived from latin american music, a Korean girl made an arrangement from some Arrirangs, another composer who listened to a lot of classical music when he was young made an arrangement of the Lacrimosa, from Mozart's Requiem. And I made an arrangement of the Angel Island zone, because my youth solely existed of playing Sonic 3.
This guy....
This guy gets it.
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When i first found OCR in 2005 I thought EVERYONE on the site was a successful recording engineer/musician with their own professional studios and they opted to do free work for the love of the games they played because recording and editing knowledge didn't get passed around back then like it does now.
As far as the repetition goes. if you don't come full circle and bring back the A section before you end the remix, you didn't remix it right.
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Currently watching Yona of the Dawn which is very well done though some screening might be necessary.
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2 hours ago, Neblix said:
I can tell you from experience, you are chasing a methodology that doesn't work.
If you can not employ good composition, the mix will not sound good. An unbalanced and/or empty composition is an unbalanced and/or empty production. Trying to mix a poor composition is an ineffective way to learn how to mix. You can not just put effects on things and expect them to fill the gaps the composition left open. If you omit bass, you are omitting the rhythmic harmonic foundation of the composition. You're also leaving an entire flank of the frequency spectrum empty.
Furthermore, an ideally recorded performance doesn't actually need any mixing, just some touching up and enhancements to taste. The recording quality of your parts is very, very messy. As others have noted, there are a lot of room reflections and there's no clarity. You don't have to have other people play your parts, but you do need to record the parts properly. Minimize reflections, and place the mics where the tone of the instrument is maximized. You can look up tips for each instrument online.
If you want to just improve your mixing without worrying about composition, you should use pre-existing recordings. You can download unmixed, multi-track sessions (zip with wave files) from here. There are many genres to choose from.
echoing for truth.
I support the way you think as long as you keep in mind that music's digital revolution dramatically upped the standards that people expect from the art. You can either make an effort to do it right and learn from it or ignore the warnings and end up wasting your time.
On the other hand if you make an effort to demonstrate your interest in composition and use it to get to know your teachers better it WILL most likely benefit you academically and socially as well as give you access to experience you would have to painfully learn yourself. Not saying that you can't learn it all yourself but if you choose to go that route it will take more time to learn the same things.
Mixing comes last after correct calls have been made earlier in the chain. It's called post-production for a reason. It doesn't fix anything but it does make an arrangement more of what it already is. To "practice" mixing with incomplete poorly recorded music that's missing parts of the spectrum is not really going to benefit you in any way.
Just to talk about your bass concerns, we're not talking about changing the instrumentation you have. Just adding what is obviously missing. A bass part doesn't have to be an independent part. It can be used to give depth to the instruments that you designate to dominate the lower mid range such as a piano or guitar. The way you are going you are neglecting a solid 1/5th of the audible sound spectrum(and the glue between rhythm and harmony) which is not a great call arrangement wise. Also note that 80hz-280hz is the BASS range. It's called the Bass range and not the CELLO range for a reason. Bass frequencies are filled by bass lines. Bass lines are played by basses, not cellos. Cellos play lines but they are called cello lines. Don't make the same mistake that many do.
have fun while being a music major and use the time well!
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so flippin' glad that Tri Ace is coming back to this franchise.
Excite. So excite.
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If you are currently at a conservatory that's great because you'll have access to the people you need for free (don't even offer to pay them, it sounds cruel but everyone should be jumping to have as many experiences as possible. If they try to ask for money ditch them immediately and go with someone else)
First off, take your arrangement to your theory teacher, orchestra director, or a teacher with professional composing experience. They were all trained in proper orchestration and will give you some ideas on how to fill out your arrangement with instruments that fit what you are trying to accomplish.
Conservatory pianos can vary a lot in tuning.
Where I went we only kept the grand on stage in any sort of performance or recording ready tuning, the class room grands were the next option which weren't tuned as quite as often, then we had the practice room pianos which were (ALLEGEDLY)tuned once a year (though that was debatable) and were usually way off since they received the most play. If you are going to do something like this with live players it would help a lot to get everyone to tune to the same piano you used before recording their parts, or see if you can get everyone together to use the stage and its grand when it's open. The latter would be the preferred option if you can get everyone together at once for a large block of recording time. If everyone knows there parts well enough you could even ask the recording students to volunteer and help mic and record the hall and get it all done in one go. Keep in mind that before you take this step your arrangement must be a complete idea and the players must know their parts otherwise you are just going to annoy the people who spent considerable amounts of time setting everything up for you.
Two things you could do to help the players would be to use your DAW and come up with a transcription of what you want that you could play for them. you could also replace (temporarily) the hand percussion track with samples if you have access to them and give that to your players to record against. Really, just about anything to get them to focus and play with each other(and have it sound that way on tape) at this point would be good because the wip is all over the place performance wise.
Arrangement wise, outside of it being a minute long with an abrupt ending, there is no bass part. sooo that would be the first issue to fix then go from there.
Hope this helps!
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42 minutes ago, ShadowRaz said:
Man this would seem like really cool addition to sound libraries for compositions. Too expensive though as it is kind of an "rent" for those libraries. But then again about paying rent.. living on an apartment (in which i am currently living) costs 400€ a month for rent and i will never get those back. But i could keep the audio compositions safe that i had composed from renting that for merely 25€ a month, compared to the fact that i will never "obtain" this apartment even though if i had payed forever this rent month by month. And i couldn't compose with an computer if i didn't even have a bloody place to use this computer and a source of electricity would i now? Ugh.. I should at least try out the 10-day free limited trial with 3 of the products of my choosing. I would go with some sort of Brass ensemble library and if there were any good vocal choirs (with working wordbuilder stuff that would give opportunity to build words sang by choirs virtually) i definitely would choose that
It's replacing their Complete Composer Collection, so really you are getting more than what you used to get and at 30/mo ($7.50/wk) it would take 3 years to cover the lowest cost of CCC which was 7 libraries at around $1000. I'm not a fan of subscription services for the same reasons you listed but this is still a great deal with no need to spend it all up front.
I'm planning on upgrading my EWQLSO to platinum for $275 then getting the Cloud for everything else. Once I get my new pc built, people won't be seeing me for a loooooooooong time.
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I wouldn't want to see SE sued over it but I would like to see it get taken out of the game now that people are aware of it.
Remember, there was a plagiarism lawsuit between Satriani and Coldplay that was settled out of court and that was not nearly as opaque of a case as this. Granted that there is a lot less money involved so legal action probably wont be an issue.
Touhou-ish ZUN music? (Also piano improv but mostly the ZUN)
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It's a fairly common term in the health field. It's your nervous systems ability to adapt to new stimuli. As you get older it gets tougher to learn how to do things efficiently and it takes more time to learn something someone younger would understand quicker. When I went on clinicals at various hospitals I had a chance to work with the elderly and the neurologically impaired and saw how much longer it took them to learn relatively simple tasks.
Also toxin and toxicity are not synonyms.
BUT to stay on topic here, To do Touhou music properly it's really all in the note velocity settings. It's EXTREMELY important that the velocity is set to 99 for EVERY note and under no circumstances should you allow it to change. As long as you stick to that you should be good.