AngelCityOutlaw

Lol. I got Poison, Lilli, Yoshimitsu and Chun. So I can die happy too.

Looks like Asuka is in, so that guy who wanted Asuka & Lilli can die happy. http://media.eventhubs.com/images/2011/10/27_asukasboot01.jpg

After some shit that went down this morning and made me all angry inside, I channeled my rage into making a hypnotic little trance track. Which I call "Karma", because what goes around, friggin' comes around. http://soundcloud.com/angelcityoutlaw/karma Feedback much appreciated!

Good points. A lot of people keep bringing up "moba" communities. I have to be honest, I don't think I've ever played those games....

Out of all the gaming "communities", which do you think could stand to see the most improvement? We've all saw people online with Call Of Duty calling you every swear word in the book while telling you how they're going to teabag your mom after they hit you with a tactical nuke. Or the fighting game tourney kids who boycott any "non-tournament worthy" fighting games, rage quit, and scream "scrub" at everyone. Things like that. What's your worst experience with game fanbases?

Congrats! I hope it's good. Like I said though, from the trailer, I really wasn't crazy about a lot of the guitar tone. Some sounded awesome, like Brandon Strader and I think Bonkers' track. Most of the other guitar tracks....not so much. My opinion anyway. I'll have to hear the full album of course.

I like electronic music when it's mixed with something. Like rock/metal, classical, jazz, funk etc. I don't like most songs where everything is synths. The exception to this being psytrance type genres. The best electronic songs in my opinion are the ones that have synth bass and electronica style drums and rhythm, but the rest of the song is mostly traditional instruments. Most of the time I hear those kinds of songs in video games. Like this is a dubstep song I can tolerate, but only because it has classical elements. that "wubwubwub" gets really annoying.With any genre though, if the composition is shit, the song is shit. No exceptions.

It's pretty slick. However, for metal you really need hard hitting low-end without mud. As the "heavy" comes from the bass and drums. This track lacks the low-end that you really "feel" in most pro metal songs. That's my only suggestion really. Everything else is just awesome. \m/

First off, I'm not a dubstep fan by any stretch of the imagination. So.....anyway This actually confuses and slightly annoys me, because OCR supposedly has this standard which it strongly enforces and contributes greatly to the site's success. Scroll through the workshop forum however, and you will find much greater material than this. Much of which will be subbed, hit the panel, and get NO'd. I'm aware it says "evaluated by djpretzel" and what he says goes, but his write-up doesn't really provide any details as to why this made it. This arrangement hasn't exactly been getting 5 star reviews thus far and there's no point in me echoing things already said. Why though? Why is something like "Afterburner & Bayonetta" still on the "to be posted" list when I first saw it in the workshop forums months ago? That song got a lot of praise and is truly a great piece, yet something like this dubstep mix gets posted before it? I'm not trying to discourage the remixer from making music, so don't get me wrong on that! I just honestly don't see what made this mix pass. To each his/her own though.

lol I love this thread.

That's not what he's saying. There is no keyboadist on the face of the earth that will agree with that. Of course you have a better shot at making a human performance when an actual human is playing. In fact, you'll probably get a "human sounding" performance every time.

Everything will sound better when it's authentic. If you can't hire a piano player, break out the midi keyboard. If you can't play it on the midi keyboard, practice. If after that you're only option is to draw it in to fl, play with velocity, panning, reverb etc. If that doesn't work, abandon all hope.

Nowhere in this thread did I see that he was saying he was going to submit this to OCR.

True, but I think it's already been said......kinda.

That's odd, you just made a foolish comment. Yes, the pitch shift is very dissonant and most people probably won't like it. The golden rule with music is that "if it sounds good, it sounds good." The OP obviously likes it as is so who are you to call it an "error"? Advice is cheap; you can take it or leave it.

Good stuff! Not much else for me to say lol

That is sooo awesome. Congrats dude! I too hope Jaun Olive was a cool guy.

Gotta agree with Neblix on this one. If you give me a typewriter....I still couldn't write a novel. I have the right tools and I know how to use a typewriter, but I don't have the writing skills to make a good story.

My point was that a musician and audio engineer are not the same thing. The availability of DAWs and high-quality sound libraries has made more audio engineers than musicians. See, in school I studied music. From other teachers, friends and myself I learned more about the guitar and music. Music theory is the study of how music works and is a very deep subject. You don't just say, "I know all the chords and most of the scales. Yay, I know music theory!" It took me around 6-7 years of studying it and putting it into practice to compose music at a level in which people were willing to give me their hard-earned money in exchange for me writing songs for them. I still don't know nearly everything about music and it's workings. Up until two years ago, I had no idea what Protools or FL Studio was. I knew about Cubase since local studios (which are no longer around sadly) used it, but whenever I went to the studios, I wasn't there to sit behind the mixer. Last year, I decided I wanted to record and mix music myself since there is no studio without driving to another city now. I have lots to learn about mixing and all of that like I said earlier. TL;DR From my experience watching other bands record at professional studios, jamming and gigging with bands etc. A huge knowledge of music theory isn't required to write "good music", but a strong knowledge and execution of it is what often seperates the good from the bad. Now days too many people are like "I'll just throw auto-tune on my out of key voice and compress it more! That'll make it sound awesome!" Then you get music like Ke$ha....

Unfortunately though, many people out there don't realize that. Which is why I still say that the availability of DAWs and high-quailty sound libraries is in many ways, a very bad thing.

I've never saw what made them better than any other string out there, but it seems like everyone has a boner for them. I also don't see what makes Elixir or D'Addario better than any other brand.

Ernie ball has to be the most over-rated string brand known to man and beast.

11-49 Gauge Elixir or D'addario. 1mm pick of some generic brand.

My point was that we don't know if the story is any good or not. If it's good, that certainly increases his chances. This. The entire argument in this thread is basically "It's very difficult to do and the odds are very much against you, so you should just quit." If he doesn't get published and approval from Capcom, he still has fan-fiction. Either way, I'm sure he'll have readers if he finishes the project.

Studying under others and have them study under you. First and most importantly, listen to music. ALL music. Pay attention to what you like about it and what you hate, and WHY you hate it. Learn everything you can about music theory and composition. Learn from books, dvds, internet articles and best of all, musicians who can write better songs than you currently can. Have them teach you their own personal views on it as well as "conventional" methods they learned. Send them your compositions and have them "fix it" and send it back to you. In sheet music or MIDI format as well is a GREAT help with this. Because then you see the musical theory etc. as well as hear it. In general, form a sort of bond with many other musicians who are superior to you in the areas you wish to improve. One day, I will be able to mix and master my own songs like a professional. Today is not that day though. I'm learning from folks that I met here at OCR and other places. They listen to my tracks and tell me what I could better with mixing. That's not all though, they'll take my tracks and do their own mixes and mastering of it. Improving the track greatly. Sometimes, they'll send me the project files back, so I can SEE what they did and why they did it. I still have a long ways to go with mixing, but I am told that I am improving at a very rapid rate. I haven't even been mixing a year, so being told that has to stand for something. In return, some of the people who help me with mixing aren't all that great in the composition end. So I get to teach them what I know about writing music! Which I've been at for a long time. I like to think that I learn and they learn. Of course, some of my pals are way awesome at mixing, mastering, and composition. So there isn't much I can teach them in return. Unless they want me to provide some guitar or contribute to one of their tracks in other ways. Which I am more than happy to. Also, just because you're a beginner doesn't mean you can't be a part of pro collaborations! There is nothing wrong with working together to make beautiful art. Say you are an amazing mixer and composer, but you can't play keyboard or guitar at a good enough level to play the music you've written! Sounds silly, but with the current tech, it's quite common actually. So get a keyboardist and guitarist who ARE good enough to play the parts necessary! Learn from them playing your songs. They can teach you how to improve your skills at the instrument(s) so that eventually, you won't need them. If you do all this I have no doubt you will improve vastly and quickly. Not over night quick by any means, but quickly. What I'm trying to say here is, don't just show your songs to people and get crits on it. Collaborate with lots of people more experienced than you in a given area. This will give you many different outlooks on music combined with your own views. You do not have to be in a classroom to learn something well. Participation in the world of music is bigger and better than any classroom. Yeah, there are days I beat myself up and feel like I'm not improving. Then I listen to my songs from even just six months ago and realize that I have no reason to be down. I am improving.