Esperado

I agree with mirby on the monthly compo highlight. highlight a few of the winning tracks from various competitions that month and play them like a radio set on youtube live or something. another idea would be a monthly wrapup of the various ongoings and projects of the site. although, that isnt specific to vgm. oh and you could maybe do vgm composer spotlights. just a quick bio on the composers of various game osts.

well, 3/4 is awkward for me. I havent been able to successfully compose in 3/4.

Spot on! I think a big part of pad controllerism revolves around sampling loops and phrases and using them in a composition. Pad controllerism is in some part, integral to the workflow of a number of hip hop musicians. when you combine swing with a sampled phrase, sometimes you can get a nice groove that would be harder to do in a daw.

at first glance, i think this matchup will be really fun! seems like the two would make an interesting matchup. as i get into mixing though, ill have to see. If i beat hoboka, that would mean i beat a posted ReMixer in direct competition.

Argle likes awkward time signatures

pixietricks uses an old garageband loop in her "dreaming still" remix, and they work amazingly. I feel like loops are cheating only if you use them as a crutch, and only because youre cheating yourself out of learning how to make good drum grooves or something. This sentiment holds true to synth patches too, sooner or later you have to learn to program a synth. that said theyre tools just as any other tool a musician uses. sometimes they provide good inspiration or just as a way to thicken up something.

the first song the really captivated me was scars of time from chrono cross, but i didnt play the game until years later, so i would say might and magic 7, worlds of xeen , and heroes of might and magic. I would play specific areas of the game just to hear the music and not do what i was supposed to. might and magic games have vastly under appreciated music.

im sure there are plenty of people who would enjoy this.

Being that its almost the holidays and i promised myself a mic, im only grabbing one of these (30 bucks? why not) i cant tell, is the "stick breakers: taiko edition" a sample pack or a loop pack? im pretty sure the "beat aesthetic" taiko drum one is just loops. Edit: I just decided to go for stick breakers anyways. im sure that regardless of whether its loops or samples, ill find a way to make it worth the 24$

Without you, thered be no PRC! and we can all agree that would be a big bag of sadness. Happy birthday bundeslang! edit: i cant find a cool cake that isnt monstrously large in pixel size so heres some puppies.

Noooo! Don't let us win by default! That's no fun! You've got five days to whip up a doozy

we make wishlists? As long as its cool ill enjoy it. homemade art, a mix cd, old games. if its from a mystery OCR member, ill probably think its rad.

seconded. I really want some taiko sounds.

three days! i think you can make it. you have until weds for the RWTS entry, so you could just power through that monday-weds after this compo. it doesnt have to be good, but i bet you could come up with something, even if you only learn ONE thing out of this compo, its still good practice. I felt that way about the wily castle gauntlet. I made a (shitty) remix the night before the end of my first round, and i at the very least learned a tiny bit about key signatures. Its worth a shot

So just to clarify, if you have two novices, you could theoretically both remix and then just decide whos remix sounds the best between you and then submit that? Otherwise how do you determine whos the star? edit: we already started our own remixes, so we arent horribly behind, but im just curious.

OneUp, one upped! great round guys! and thanks for the slick feedback!

i personallly havent used staff paper or notation software, but i can definitely see the advantages when writing sketches for something. i think that it forces you to think differently/longer than the "just put something there to fill the gap until i decide on something better" mode people do with daws. with most art, the more you prepare, and the less you wing it, the better the end product.

the time signature has been throwing me off. i really think this would make a good orchestral latin inspired trip hop track or something, but i just cant seem to get around that time signature and im out of time. So i think ill just wait till next round! good luck guys!

subbed! good source choice!

wrong thread i think! but thanks for the extension!

i dont do much ebay, but as a point of curiousity, what do you think of those mics? i hear mixed reviews of them, but the price seems nice.

on it! sign me up!

happiest of birthdays timaeus! thanks for all you do in the community! also congrats on the post!