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I'm not entirely evaluating S1-3 like that, I'm just commenting on the piano roll. And yeah, I'm aware it's S1-2.

With BitTorrent, you can disable certain ReMixes that you don't want to redownload (under the Files tab, left click and highlight tracks, right click > Don't Download), but I too recommend just getting all of them.

Not to mention, if you watch the S1-2 piano roll video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASnbvqItIaA), besides the ghost-note-in-chosen-instruments thing, FL can do the two main things that are repeatedly performed in the video: - 0:00:29 - The note was drawn and then extended. In FL, you can hold shift and do the same thing with left click + drag. If you hold Alt+Shift, you can temp-disable quantization. - 0:00:43 - Duplicate note. Simple, just Shift+Left-click + drag. And all without switching from the pencil tool. *shrug* (Not to ding S1-3 or anything, but I still think it has room for improvement in the piano roll department)

Well, it's obviously not mine, but zircon made something hilarious. https://soundcloud.com/zeb-ro/hashtag It's a satire of house music, of course! Some things to look for: - Terrible drums - Cheesy buildups - Uber-delayed vocals and a cheering crowd - One groove synth - A fakeout build that doesn't really build to anything! - It's LOOPED, because YOLO?

Yeah, I'd second Mike here on saving up money for Kontakt; so many possibilities from there. I think that you should also find out what reverb you would like to use, too, if the samples you get don't come with built-in reverb for some reason, or you want to use them for non-traditional purposes too.

Yeah, but you'll need Kontakt 5.3+ for either version.

Man, I almost forgot about this moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-QIOmjt0So&t=1m42s I stole the hammer item FROM the opponent and used it against him.

Some various things I like most about the FL piano roll (FL 11 ): - Right-click-drag to edit multiple velocities at once along an interconnected slope. Similarly, you can do that with event edits (from left to right) and in the step sequencer. Helps with buildup patterns and note velocity "swells", when I don't want to adjust multiple velocities individually. - Resize two connected notes by holding shift and click-dragging between them (Alt+Shift to temp-disable quantization). I often use this to adjust voice movement in my chords. - Scale velocities using a specific multiplier setting with Alt+X (Scale Levels), or rescale velocities with Alt+Mouse-wheel-roll. - Octave and semitone shifts with Ctrl+Up/Down and Shift+Up/Down respectively (might/should be common to other DAWs, but I think it helps you to not have to drag some notes manually and count half steps *as you're dragging* and hear the pitch change every step of the way). - Ctrl+B to copy and paste chunks of previously-highlighted notes (haven't used it much but it can be helpful if you're writing repetitive patterns and you just want to hold down two keys to rapid-C+P) - Ghost Notes (though I haven't really *needed* to use this feature as much these days)

Oh yeah, speaking of glitches... I did a few back in the day: MegaMan Battle Network 6: Time Freeze Deadly Collision! MegaMan Zero 4: Heat Genblem's Broken AI! Sonic Advance 2: Fell into the floor?! WHAT?

What? I haven't put mine here yet? o.o Okay... I do have a lot of Mega Man Zero 2, 3, and 4 speedrun videos on youtube, but my hardest and best stage runs, I think, were these three: Shuttle Factory (Zero 2) By far, the most risky stage I've done, IMO. Power Room (Zero 2) The boss is Phoenix Magnion. If you know who he is, you know it's crazy hard! (Cyril The Wolf has also done an OC ReMix of this stage BGM!) Energy Facility (Zero 3, Hard Mode) Such a long stage... two minievents, one miniboss, one boss. Had some cool dash-spring-jumps in there! The boss gave me a run for my money! Particle Beam Generator (Zero 4, Hard Mode) This was like, virtual ninja mode. Went as fast as I could!

Well, there's sfz by Cakewalk and there's sforzando by Plogue. I'm guessing you're using the one by Plogue. I would try sfz instead. I just tried that on FL 11 and it worked with FluidR3 on PR32 mode. It's also a very simple interface. Load a patch, set the sound quality (Draft, Good, etc), and that's basically it. You don't get an ADSR envelope though, unlike with FL's soundfont player.

Kinda reminds me of Kirby Dreamland OSTs. Would have liked a snare with a slightly longer sustain though; it feels brittle to me, in what I viewed as a chiptune / drum & bass ReMix. Otherwise good stuff! Submit more!

More people need to check this out!

I don't usually like hip hop / rap, and I would have liked a more elaborate accompaniment, but this was pretty well done! The slightly choppy musical vocals (with pitched notes) were a nice touch. (imagine speaking choppy vocals on purpose for more robotic vocoding; that's what I mean)

o_o Too awesome.

The OCR standards were still improving from 1999 to 2007 or so; the production is more consistent from 2007-on.

Aha! A DPed trance mix! What now, genre bias peeps? That said, this is a pretty bumpin' track! Although the supersaws were pretty generic, I liked the tweak made to the second iteration of the main melody (EX: 1:16 - 1:26) to make it sound more uplifting each time it would have normally repeated for a total of two runthroughs.

Nice and big drums! A little too repetitive for me, but I can see others liking this more than the common dubstep out there.

The Grados actually are adjustable to your head size, and you can also bend the earpieces in and out to loosen or tighten the fit on your ears. I have glasses too as you could tell from looking at my artist profile, so yeah.

This is so awesome. Now go duel Sir J.

Well, they're actually quite similar. At 1:58 - 2:33, the only difference as far as I can tell is one note (0:15 in the original, 2:08 in yours) and the rhythm overall (I don't count the arpeggiated sustains as different to the note without the arpeggiation). Even the fast run at 2:31 - 2:33 is pretty much the same note-for-note. I have to sort of agree with the reviewer, though he may have been too serious; that "solo" is 17.4% of the whole song, and it isn't a major contribution. Anyone else have a view on this?

I often recommend the Grado SR-60i (32 ohm) for about $80 MSRP to people who want to spend less than $100 for good headphones. Yeah, they're discontinued, but some people are still selling them. They were actually my very previous pair, and while my most recent pair (Beyerdynamic DT-880, 250 ohm) is great for bass mixing, it was hard to hear the difference between the two when I first switched, and I think they're pretty comparable. (it was more evident after 6 months that the difference was about half an hour of bass mixing on the Beyers compared to about 8 hours, I think it was, on the Grados) I actually used this ReMix (listen to the bass synth and the background percussion) when comparing headphones before switching to the Grados, and this song (listen to the kick drum and snare at 1:01) before switching to the Beyers, if that helps. What I heard from the Grados was clear bass (but not well-defined) and crisp treble, while what I heard from the Beyers was more well-defined ("rounded") bass and cleaner treble (easier to distinguish between, say, 14000 Hz and 16000 Hz). Here is a comparison of the Grado SR-60i and Beyerdynamic DT-880: http://graphs.headphone.com/graphCompare.php?graphType=0&graphID[]=393&graphID[]=963&scale=30 which I think shows they're pretty comparable at 36~15000 Hz and the major differences are outside that frequency range. Even though it seems like you want to use them for things other than mixing, if you wanted to use them for mixing, that'll work too. Ideally, for mixing, I think you should be looking for the headphones with the flattest frequency response. I would also recommend the lowest impedance if there are multiple impedance "versions" of the headphones you want (I've seen 32, 250, and 600 ohms); basically, the higher the impedance (600 ohms is higher than 250 ohms), the more the treble frequencies are attenuated (like a low pass), and the more powerful a headphone amp (in watts) you may need to hear through a pair of headphones at a suitable volume with an accurate frequency response. If you want me to show why that is, feel free to look here for a simple mathematical runthrough (you might have to just download it if you want to see the square root symbol): https://app.box.com/s/4rczycc5poqybjwpqtao4yr1sml2nvn0 or it's here too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_impedance#Resistance_vs_reactance Sorry, the headphones website I showed you doesn't have the same AKG K240 version, so there's no frequency response graph on that website for it.

I just tested the Deus Ex: Sonic Augmentation album; I see 53 upload and 8 download seeders, and it's taken barely 2 minutes to download with BitTorrent 7.9.3. I don't think it's the torrents themselves that are the problem. What are you using?

Like I said a few times in your other tracks, what you can improve on is not just your mixing, but your compositional skills too. In this case, the drums feel either a little lacking in uppermost treble (lossy) or a little overboosted in the upper midrange (especially with the snare), loud (especially the first reverse cymbal), and dry (all of them except the kick). Well, actually, the first lead doesn't have enough reverb either. The bass sounds narrow and a little resonant, and the first lead is lacking expression (it's just sustaining). Where's the vibrato? Portamento? Filter usage? Compositionally, it has potential to be good, and I think this is a pretty decent start; in this case I think the mixing is holding it back, and I would suggest you read up on using reverb. http://www.earlevel.com/main/1997/01/19/a-bit-about-reverb/ (a bit technical) or http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/may00/articles/reverb.htm (a bit simpler) And I think it would help as well to read up on EQ: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1995_articles/mar95/eq.html Note at the beginning though that it suggests you save mixing for last; you don't have to. I actually mix while I write, so I can hear things in full context and see the end result every step I go.