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Ok. I really want a Switch now. Breath of the wild had put it on my 'to buy when I find it at a good deal, probably secondhand.' Now with the announcement of Metroid Prime 4, a core pokemon game, Yoshi, Kirby, and a better look at Super Mario Oddyssey it has moved up to my 'save up and buy it at full price if you have to.' list.

got two builds for OCR folks incoming, one of whom isn't listed in the thread. looking forward to getting the parts and playing with more tech =)

I'm just impressed this went unnoticed

I caved and bought a Switch last night. I traded in any prospect of getting any of the Roland SRX cards or synths to record with (since it's evident I still need a LOT more practice recording from hardware) for this system at $299.00 at the Sevierville Walmart at 11:51PM.
I feel proud, weak and guilty all at the same time. :S

Hey folks sorry for the delays but music and voting for the past three rounds are FINALLY up.
Just want to note a couple of things though, regarding filenames:
Team names are Team Knight and Team Robot, not Team Knights and Team Robots vs. should have a period Your source should come first in the (Source vs. Source) section. Make sure you’re submitting 16bit, 44.1KHz WAVs. I had to convert some WAV files last night. Please PM me your links on the forums, not on Discord. Thanks!

I still can't believe the Switch will have CARTRIDGES! 
A home console having CARTRIDGES! 
THAT HASN'T HAPPENED SINCE 2000! 

Hey folks. I've decided to continue on with the compo. I'll be posting Round 3 match-ups tonight, and Round 1 and Round 2 music together tomorrow night for voting. For those wondering about my family emergency, my mom passed away last week while visiting India. While I certainly appreciate any condolences you have to offer, please do not post them in this thread; I'd like to keep the thread on-topic. A "like" on this post would be fine, though.
Thanks for understanding! I'm looking forward to everyone's entries moving forward.

tonight

Folks, here's some advice related to combining two sources together that I wrote in a different thread.
 

I'm going to maintain this list of resources for game audio for everyone's use.  In order to prevent the thread from becoming de-railed over time, please don't respond here.  Instead, if you know of a resource that I should add, please PM me and I will add it to this post.
 
Qualifications for being listed here:
 
-Books (including edited collections) must be dedicated to game audio specifically (generic game studies don't qualify, as there are so many that we would lose focus on our specialty).  They should be written by either a scholar with a degree in some field of music or an industry professional with credits on multiple video games.  
 
-Conferences must have a reasonable percentage of papers dedicated to game audio.  Just because there happens to be a game audio panel at AMS this year doesn't mean that the AMS writ large is focused on game audio, for example.  On the flip side, NYU's Music and the Moving Image features a significant number of game papers every year -- certainly enough that attending would be worth your while if all you care about is games.
 
With that aside, here's the list!  Again, PM me to have something added.
 
Books (In order of publication)
 
The Complete Guide to Game Audio by Aaron Marks, published 2001.
 
The Fat Man on Game Audio: Tasty Morsels of Sonic Goodness by George Alistair Sanger, published 2004.
  Game Sound by Karen Collins, published 2008.   From Pac-Man to Pop Music: Interactive Audio in Games and New Media.  Edited by Karen Collins, published 2008.   Playing Along: Digital Games, YouTube, and Virtual Performance by Kiri Miller, published 2012.   Playing With Sound: A Theory of Interacting with Sound and Music in Video Games by Karen Collins, published 2013.   Sound Play by William Cheng, published 2014.   Music in Video Games: Studying Play.  Edited by K.J. Donnelly, William Gibbons, and Neil Lerner, published 2014.   A Composer's Guide to Game Music by Winifred Phillips, published 2014.   Composing Music for Games: The Art, Technology and Business of Video Game Scoring by Chance Thomas, published 2015.   Koji Kondo's Super Mario Bros. Soundtrack (33 1/3) by Andrew Schartmann, published 2015.   Ludomusicology: Approaches to Video Game Music.  Edited by Michiel Kemp, Tim Summers, and Mark Sweeney, published 2016   Understanding Video Game Music. Tim Summers, published 2016.    
Conferences
 
Ludomusicology, held annually at a travelling location in Europe.
 
North American Conference on Video Game Music, held annually at a travelling location in the United States.
 
Music and the Moving Image, held annually at New York University.

My shovels have been steeled.

I'm not sure that it's actually possible to break a Game Boy

you're not talking about different things, you're just wrong

"I don't think that [one game] is worth the whole console" is a surprisingly common sentence in discussions about a video game console that will, in fact, have multiple video games
like have you people just been buying one game for one console and then putting it away forever

Yes. Haven't you?
You buy the console, usually at launch, and then pick up only one game for it.
As the console gets more games for it, you stick to that one launch title and use it strictly as a metric for the quality of games, even ones that come out years later. This provides you an unalterable opinion about the entire industry based upon said one game on said one system, giving you the right you to comment on everything video game discussion, including stuff you have never even so much as looked at, let alone played.
That's how it works, bleck. You should know this by now.

I think you forgot about Splatoon 2.

I think you forgot about Splatoon 2.

There's a presentation for the Switch tomorrow.

I'm just going to point out that the bass range listed (E3 to C4) is smaller than, and is even inside of the given tenor range (C3 to G4). I assume you meant the E below the C of the bass clef (E2-C4)?
 
And if I were to join I'd be a bass singer (on bad days the E2 won't happen), although I can also hit the Tenor range.

Hey, sorry. Stuff is busy on my end. I think we're going to get this started in January after MAGFest.

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Uses Bootstrap 3 More visual layout YouTube playlists! Emphasis on artist links is front and center, including support links for patreon, oc records, etc. Definitely a work-in-progress, but since it was better than what we HAD, we're going live now and will iterate Other pages will be updated to kinda-sorta match, as time allows This pushes us further towards an overall site redesign by getting pages laid out in Bootstrap, semi-responsive, etc. in a piecemeal fashion Feedback welcome

here's a bump. i did a build for a member of ocr who said i could post pictures! so here's a few =) this was a small form-factor build with a really reasonable price point considering the hardware in there. it's got something wonky with the in-Windows temp sensor so the BIOS reports it correctly but hwmonitor doesn't, but it appears to be idling at 24c (75F, in a 67F room) and under max CPU load and heat stress stays below 40c. really incredible machine, considering how quiet it is. just doing the burn-in and then it's ready to ship.
the specs:
cpu: i5-6600 graphics card: gtx 1060 mobo: ga-h170n-wifi ram: g.skill 1x8gb ddr4 2400 ssd: kingston 240gb hdd: wd blue 1tb psu: corsair cx600 cpu cooler: h60 odd: asus dvd-rw case: corsair obsidian 250d os: W10
can i take a few minutes and talk about this case? this case is incredible for the price (85$). it's so well thought-out. so much room for wire routing, so many little nooks to stash stuff, and the fans it comes with are easily 30$ worth up front. i mean, look at how open this is! for a mini-itx case, having this much room to work with is fantastic. it also is well designed to keep each major component in its own thermal zone. the psu draws and vents directly outside the case with no internal air used. the gfx card can do that as well with an EE-type card, but even this one mostly draws and vents directly outside the case. and that little notch in the ODD tray? that's to allow for gfx card power plugs to fit in there easily, so you don't have to pull the ODD tray to take out a long card. so simple, so effective. another QOL thing - there's a notch by the P4 connector to allow you to route that cable behind the motherboard easier, so you don't have a big stray cable right there. the front panel cords are 3x as long as they need to be to allow for routing as well. and - probably the coolest part of the design - it's made so that the psu and hdd bays are externally accessible, so you don't need to climb into the case to access either. so nice for the price, easily the most fun working on this case that i've ever done. and it fits in the tiny case form factor!

here it is with the cpu cooler in the wrong spot. i had some issues getting that in there along with the ODD - i wanted the pipes to go up, but they interfere with the ODD, and then i wanted them like this, but it blocks both RAM slots then. i wound up with them down, which creates the possibility of air bubbles within the pipes, but this should be fine. these close-loop systems rarely have issues with air and i couldn't hear bubbles after several minutes listening with a stethoscope for cavitation. note the size of the gfx card, up for comparison. it's almost the exact length of the inside of the case

here's a pic with everything in. look at how clean the sight lines are for the center of the case. there's one cable - the USB3 cable, which i couldn't hide thanks to the mobo design - and that's it. also note the gfx power (yellow/black on bottom right) in that slot. really nice design there.

a final shot of it all buttoned up. again, look at those sight lines. a nice psu (or one with individually sleeved cables) and some cold cathodes and this design is a work of art, hiding all the junk but leaving a ton of view space.

a size comparison. i have a fairly small wallet. this case is really freaking tiny.

hanging out with my gaming system, server, and music pc. i swear those cords are normally hidden.

Nintendo's announced their new console, the Nintendo Switch (formerly known as "NX"). Looks like a home/portable console hybrid! Very cool!
Press release:
 

Hey. Would have loved to do this but I am currently at the tail end of my honours degree and have barely enough time for my own stuff. Sorry!