mickomoo
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God damn it, you know I'm tired of these arbitrary laws that give government and cooperations more power. I mean crap, I could see something like this making it casually easy for ISPs to just sell our information to Google if they haven't done so already. I am really tired of private interests meditating crap through government...
And way to cut your nose of to spite your face congress. Next thing you know there'll be a bill proposing we lock up every single citizen until they prove themselves to be a productive citizen.
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I can see what you mean. When I first saw the commercial, I was like, "what?" I mean, you'd think Sonic would work in a car insurance commercial, but...Sonic doesn't need cars anyway. How dare Flo try to make Sonic stop running.
He apparently needs to buy insurance for all the vehicles he is frequently forced to destroy when running.
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It's pissing me off that the opponents don't even acknolwedge that Cotex, random fashion and pharmaceutical, chemical-industrial, farming, christian orgs, and consumer product companies are supporting this crap. Again, really they're concerned with piracy? And then everyone has the audacity to slap job creator or job protecting on anything bill with big money. I'm tired of the phrases "job creator" and "job" being used rather arbitrary. Theoretically anything can create jobs, violence would produce a need for more cops and doctors, war more technology and people, prostitution could stimulate the economy by giving more women the power to buy their cotex and clothing rather than downloading it illegally apparently, I could go on ad nasium... so apparently we do or should live in a world where nothing is prohibited and everything is a commodity.
Or, crap maybe we're already almost there. So remember guys beat up as many people as you can today. You'll be a job creator! Then you can get bills to support your interests too!
(ps is it me or is society becoming more... totalitarian?)
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Question... I have reason because my dad just has it. Would it make sense to use reason for recording then move to the midi another daw for mixing and mastering, is that the best way to use reason?
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I've noticed that when I play by ear my remixes or attempts anyway, tend to be more conservative. Anyone else encounter that?
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Yeah I made the midi, I had really no intention of submitting to OCR the source is too short and there's not much I can do with it. Personally, I merely wanted to have an instrumental of this song. There exists no midi so I was considering after some work of submitting it to VGmusic.com My major reason for posting this here was to get feedback on the arrangement, I played the melody and bass by ear and I then composed the rest. I could have just had only a melody and bass in this song but were's the fun in that.
The trumpet and bass are the melody and bass respectively, and I admit the velocities especially for the bass need to be reworked. But in terms of the instrumentation what specifically isn't working? I noticed I am having trouble panning, I'm trying to find a method of giving each sound it's space. In terms of mixing it isn't mixed, but I specifically wanted to see precisely how did people go about mixing brass.
This is essentially my practice, I'm testing my composition and looking for mixing tips. I know I'm far off from OCR standards, I've posted on this board before I more than understand that I'm just looking for general feedback. I was asking if the song was obscure because I've not seen it anywhere... hell I barely found one video of it on youtube no where did I use that to justify my arrangement it was merely a question of curiosity
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I'm writing a apocalyptic future novel and so I've been trying to write a theme to either aid me or just assign to it if I ever make a movie... it's not done and yeah I'm trying to learn how to mix and compose so any feedback you have would be good
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I wanted to finish this before my break I really love this song as its from the first game I ever played and apparently no where on the internet is there so much as a cover , I put half of it down in my DAW and realized that I'm pretty much out of time... I hope to finish this later, it's a short cute little song and I only need like 15 seconds of recording, besides I always hated that last part of the song lol
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Remastering:
How's the composition, I added additional parts so I wanna see how well they match. Any tips for increasing this performance? I'm still learning how to mix (and yeah the tracks aren't mixed yet
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This isn't specifically meant to be a help topic (but I do 2 questions), but out of curiosity what process do you use to decide what to remix and how to approach the song. Do you use existing midi or play by ear? Do you by hand plan all the transitions, wing it, or something in between?
Though I've just started writing I had mostly just used midi to learn parts, but today I tried something different... well I had to, one of my favorite songs (from the first game I've ever owned) was never touched by anyone as far as I know. Though I played it by ear I had to slow parts of the song to get the best rhythm and note accuracy. Though I in no way know the time signature of the song nor anything else for that matter, are these things necessary to make a good remix? Is it bad to use a midi to more quickly familiarize yourself with a song? ...and other than those two questions how do you yourself remix?
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The best thing to do to pratice composing in a Daw is to do covers or remixes of songs that you know, that way you get familar with your equipment
With regards to equipment you have a computer all you need is a DAW (digital audio workstation). If you own a mac, they should come with garageband right? if not there's a "freeware" windows equivalent called mixcraft. Mixcraft is literally plug and play, it's what I've been using, though to mix mp3s after 2 weeks you'll probably wanna buy it it's only $80 which is fairly cheap for DAWs, and honestly I don't know any free ones... er Fruity Loops and Reaper are rather cheap if I recall. The thing is of course when you get your feet wet and you're well grounded, you'll probably wanna move on to a better DAW, logic cubase, hell even pro tools if you're feeling confident. DAWs run Vsts or virtual instruments which are either synths (sounds very commonly found in modern/pop music) or sampled (actually recorded from an instrument that has a player). I'm bringing this up because you can actually buy libraries of virtual instruments, and a good DAW should be able to run ones outside of the program's initial library (mixcraft can, but fyi it can get laggy depending on your comp, more powerful DAWs have no problem usually).
In addition to a DAW you'll probably want a midi keyboard/controler. If you're family has any electric pianos or keyboards they should plug up to your computer. If not, keyboards can be fairly cheap especially if you're just starting out. If you're really bold though you could just use a computer mouse and computer keyboard. It's best to look up some digital audio workstations and see which one looks good for you. In addition to those you might need some virtual instruments which there exist free ones but the really high quality ones are expensive
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no it was guitar, I was being vague cus I wanted to see if anyone wanted to offer voicing tips for other instruments that might have been hard to emulate with a keyboard. I got a book on midi composition hopefully it will start to address my concerns...
add to that glissandos. Glisandos in general, but especially with piano/harp emulation (I can use the pitch bend for traditional string instruments right? and maybe trills for wind instruments
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is there any any plug in that can make midi notes appear "strummed" or in general does any have any midi voicing tips for someone using a midi keyboard?
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I know this is probably overwhelming for you so I'll try and keep this simple. If your brother plays piano I assume he's versed in reading music. If he favors composing (especially sheet music), you can get a notation software like printmusic or silibus. You cannot really create "sounds" with these software but you can create scores. There is a playback functionality but you cannot control the quality of the sound, it's usually standard midi so to get the full breadth of your music you'd need players or someone who can digitally compose.
If your brother is into making "sounds" this is, quite literally actually making songs of whatever genre the the DAW will appeal to him. It's a lot of work making music digitally though and mastering one DAW does not give you the skills you need to work in another. Ask your brother this question, does he wanna actually make music, or just compose scores. There are DAWs that probably allow you to do both, but the best of each are usually kept separate. If he wants DAWs though he might need better computer hardware, unless he's going to use garageband or mixcraft or something. I know Reason is self-contained so it's easy on the memory, and FL allows you to maximize memory usage.
At the very least though he will definitely need a keyboard that supports midi. That is either a keyboard that you can hook up to your computer. Or even better a keyboard midi controller, which is essentially a keyboard that on its own has no playback functionality of its own but on its surface has modules that control midi data. This is usually what most digital composers use to make music. You basically hook it to a computer and when you enter a program it plays the sounds based off of what you have loaded in that program.
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Anyone think the learning pack is a good buy? I already play piano but I can't sight read, has anyone of a similar skill level found it useful?
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Exactly. I morph the idea, but can't get the original idea back
It's likely that once you start recording a crap version, the "best version" will start to stabilize in your head. It happens for me at least lol, I just don't have the skills to produce it yet.
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Oooh I got owned... apparently I almost nearly got into an argument with someone who says that SOPA is vital >_<
Yeah man the economy can't function without it man, why aren't you guys supporting it
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would this help
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They won't do anything to the internet that would prevent them from downloading Dexter
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You'd think they'd find a way to be more subtle about it
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yeah because people totally don't learn in school or anything
Americans don't...
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Not to jump on this newly started bandwagon but I thought SOPA was explicitly about copyright, IIRC most of the defenses of the bill explicitly state SOPA is designed to "protect creativity," which ultimately explicit means the defense of intellectual property and even the rights of "copyright holders." Seriously google the bill and the words intellectual property will come up. (Of course because the bill was produced from lobbying this merely means coperations who, by this government in several other instances in the past decade, were deemed to be individuals are going to be protected. And because the defense of creativity is so broad it simply amounts to removing whatever these "individuals" deem to be harmful to their creativity).
But while the bill was explicitly stated to be about copyright, I think that's not getting the big picture, it has to be about more... well, there definitely is more at stake for us. Information itself will no longer be free, once information becomes thoroughly made into a commodity, individual empowerment and even knowledge itself will begin to disappear. But again, this is about money; nothing can be free and everything must be owned. If the internet has content that can be claimed by individuals, then they will continue this process, they have both time and money on their side.
And surely cooperations do lose out when information is free, in fact in this system, information is naturally asymmetric. The internet if it begins to be taken seriously, could possibly mitigate if not help liberate us from the disadvantages of asymmetric information. People were asking earlier why consumer products, cosmetics, pharmaceutical, and other random groups are supporting this bill? It's obvious, to me, and maybe I'm going on a limb but I think the less people know about these companies and their products and services, hell the less people know period, is of any company's interest. Uniformed consumers, ignorant consumers are any company's dream you could sell them anything, convince them of whatever you want. Information is heavily processed through advertising and through media conglomerates; outside of the internet, information is already a commodity. Once we get rid of the internet, information will be nearly rendered to private interests.
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How exactly do you find these coupons? I feel like a noob asking this but yeah... >_<
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Problem is, I get ideas when I can't put them down, or I an unable to return to a certain inspiration later on. (Maybe this is a help thread?)
Hum it or whistle it. But be aware that reguardless of whatever you do the sounds in your head a very likely to morph into something different (or disappear and reappear years later), unless you have perfect pitch and can record stuff instantly. And it's not that this is bad, it's just that you might almost always lose whatever original thing that was floating in your head.
At the end of the day I usually go to a piano room to practice or play around. The piano is a very good instrument to practice or get melodies from.
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If you bought a game through Steam and the game isn't showing up it sounds like you should contact Steam support. For an issue like that I'm sure they can help, and when you get games you get confirmation emails and such so you should be fine. Sounds like a weird issue, but Steam keeps randomly breaking due to this holiday thing so I'm not surprised >>
You try restarting Steam? That's a simple solution that solves a fair amount of issues.
Yeah. My download got interrupted several times which is making me think it wasn't stored properly on my computer. It seems like actual game components are missing or something. I've already posted on the help desk and forums so I'll see...
From Piracy to Privacy - a new piece of legislation as threatening as SOPA
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Wait... we can vote? I thought the politicians were purchased, like someone goes to the store, buys them and installs them into office. Democracy is a commodity after all anyways, and money is free speech.