Esperado
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This might be a good excuse to learn how to use soundfonts
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does anyone know if magfest is the same date every year?
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well, if Shadow Cyclone is Esperado's side account, then I'd say he's already posted his too. If not, then we're going to have three bonus mixes this round.
nope. Pretty sure its just this one, my remix isnt even halfway yet.
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How the hell are you supposed to do a conservative remix of a vocal song without using vox??
Just make a very expressive instrumental version. So basically everything else is relatively the same but with a flute lead or something!
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Well since I failed to get a bonus mix for the last compo, I'm gonna get it done for this round. It probably helps that I'm more familiar with the game and source.
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Just posted my bonus mix. I forgot to mention in the description that 1:58 isn't an ending, but a 'transition' for a bigger segment, so yeah the rest isn't empty space lol.
I challenge you to a bonus mix off
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Well I meant more just that you could use samplers to manipulate the sounds . Either way this sounds interesting
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Soundfont sounds best. I thought it would be fun to try making music using a single wav file that is manipulated via various sources. But I think originals might be easier , since there's no active originals compo, plus it's easier to just improvise and go with the flow
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Results
esperado got 1st place with 14 points
Trism got 2nd with 13 points
Anorax got 3rd place with 10 points
Despite not voting, esperado still scraped by with 1 extra point over Trism
esperado please pick the source tune for round 10
I miss read the voting deadline to be next week. Sorry guys
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For me it's that I'm still unskilled enough that I use midis . Most modern games have few midis . Otherwise some of it is that many games have very cinematic or ambient soundtracks that are harder to remix
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You could have fooled me, dude.
Both you and Trism had really great (and really different) mixes and I'm embarrassed for uploading the half-assed accelerando midi rip now
Thanks! It's good that you participated anyways. Practice is really what these are about
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just under the wire! it was a good round and i had alot of fun with this, its not entirely complete, but im sure youll still enjoy it!
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So I've been using the same old tired cymbal crashes with effects layered on them to keep them interesting, for quite a while. Occasionally i use white noise with a slow decay and some reverb and maybe some other effects. but Its something that i think i could really improve on to spice up my mixes. does anyone have a good guide or resource for improving transitionary elements such as cymbals? I know you can use other things besides cymbals, right? also, does anyone know of a good cymbal sound library, i dont care if its just WAV files.
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seems like such a long time ago that this started, and now our boy is all grown up.
I should probably stop procrastinating and update that nyan mix!
Anyways, Great job Eino and Tuberz! and to everyone else for that matter. hope to see this one again next year!
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i voted for swift horse by koh ohtani
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I dont normally leave reviews, but just wanna say Sterling, nice improvement since your last compo entry!
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this is such a funky source. but then again, i think i say that every time. perhaps there shall be a mix this week
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Happy Birthday Nathan! may this year provide you with extra Clintons.
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i do genuinely hope they can float the ship again. the world really does need more JRPG games that dont suck. I mean actually good games, and not something aimed at otakus who want cliche'd characters and tired gameplay. As much as people like to poke fun to square, they were pretty much THE people to go to for interesting role playing games in the 90s. in fact most things made before that ENIX merger were good.
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no clever birthday pun
but i hope you have a stylin birthday!
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Here's another article on what the Super Bowl appearance might do for Bruno Mars earnings
But who decided we would even frame the question as though Bruno Mars was working for the NFL? Why isn't the NFL working for Bruno Mars in this situation? Bruno already had a tour set up and will have to foot a bill of ~$100,000 on each stop of the tour just to turn the lights on. Suddenly he gets to kick off that tour with a pre-sold-out stadium, world-class production, 100+ million watching on TV, and tons of press -- all without having to pay for it. Why aren't we asking why Bruno Mars isn't paying the NFL or CBS? Because we select a couple facts about the situation -- Bruno playing for no money -- and project our personal struggles on to it.
Nobody is 'working' for anyone here. They're independent entities entering into voluntary, mutually beneficial agreements. I know this is going to sound borderline fascist, but I can't stand this subjugated, working man mentality of us immediately identifying with the musician and assuming he's working for the man. We're better than that. I think it's insulting to view musicians like pack animals that should be paid because they work really hard. When people like your stuff -- whether that's record execs, preteen girls, music critics, radio program directors, or art foundations -- you'll get paid when you can communicate with those people and get on a platform in front of them.
When I was in school I mixed live sound for bands at a bar on campus. We had a bunch of different acts come through. I did sound for this one band who had been traveling all over the US for years playing dinky venues. I watched them play for a crowd of sometimes just 4 or 5 people (and still getting into it just as much). I even saw them ask for donations through their mailing list when their van got broken into and their instruments were stolen. After a couple home-recorded albums they sold out of a suitcase at their shows, they got out a more professionally recorded EP. A year or two later and that EP spawned
, they performed at the Grammy's, and they're touring the world. Of course, all the other bands I mixed for are still puttering around local venues or disbanded.Employees sign up, show up, and do what they're told. They have a living wage, and this safety net comes with a ceiling. That mindset doesn't work with art. Art needs risk -- Prometheus and Icarus . . .
Well spoken! I never saw it that way.
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Dang! I thought voting closed later tonight
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I think Will and Pete pretty much nailed it here. A musician performing on stage is not promoting. He is working.
So yeah, in my books, the promotion that you get from performing at a concert or whatnot should be considered a side-effect, and not the main objective of it.
EXACTLY. no sane person would ask the NFL to make the game for free because they might sell more team merch. you wouldnt ask for free groceries under the premise that youll spread the word about how good the food is. Performance is work, and as such it requires direct compensation. period.
i would also like to see someone argue why it is that the nfl can continue to break boundaries of greediness. lets not forget the biggest issue aside from the already ridiculous tax issue, which is the stadium issue. I make less than 20000 a year, and i pay my taxes like anyone else. where do my taxes go? among other places, to a new VIKINGS STADIUM. guess who didnt pay for it? the NFL. guess who didnt pay for it in tax money? the NFL. Guess who doesnt pay its musicians and makes up excuses for why?( which everyone defends) the NFL. theres a pattern here, and it has nothing to do with politics or small print. its called GREED.
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Are we talking the major celebrities like Bruno Mars, Madonna, etc.?
Because if anything, Janet Jackson got a LOT of exposure, and SHE'S the one who paid for it, iirc.
well yes, but regardless of how famous they are or whether they volunteer, or even pay to be at halftime, it doesnt matter. as someone said, it sends the wrong message about how to treat artists. the company rakes in so much money from doing pretty much nothing that it could easily, and should, pay artists at least SOMETHING.
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it was brought to my attention that the NFL doesnt pay performers during halftime, saying that it compensates them in exposure. who else is utterly disgusted by this, and is there anything that can be done about it?
i think that if the musicians are exempt from pay, so are the players, and all nfl employees for the duration of the superbowl. surely the exposure compensates all the costs right?
To salt the wound, theyre tax exempt.
not sure if this is community or off topic since it does involve music.
ReMixing With the Stars: Season 2, Episode 5: Pacifism
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Sign me up as my usual wishy washy star/novice combo. Novice but a star if needed.