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Hhhhhmmm what could he be working on here???

What's wrong with changing genres in mid-song?

Oh. My. GOD Markus. This is GLORIOUS. It is so lovely, so interpretive. Those chords are amazing. The playing is divine. It goes from soft and expressive and into groovy, then back to soft. Time signature change, whoa cool! The piano tone is delightful. I honestly can find no fault with this. WOW. If this doesn't "direct post" then I don't know what the world has come to. edit: I've listened to this five times. It brings tears to my eyes. Just lovely. Downloaded for my iPod.

I've been listening to a lot of tracks on OCR and some friends' tracks, each of which is totally different. One person writes jazz, another orchestral, someone else deep house or dubstep. I love all of these genres! So recently I made a song where I did several different sections each a different genre, yet tied together through good transitions. This song used tons of different instruments, as the entire soundscape was different for each part. Also, when I'm remixing, I like to use two or three or more source songs from the same game source. The verse can be based on one song, the chorus another, and the breakdown yet another. That's one way for sure to vary your composition. One area where everyone gets lazy is drums. Even if you vary your drum writing, it's a great idea to vary your drum timbres for different sections of your song, too. It's amazing how much impact that has.

It maybe simply be better to check your mix in mono, every now and then, just to make sure you have no phase cancellation (see if you can still hear all your instrumentation when it is in mono). I've never heard of "mixing in mono," is this a thing?

I find this impressive. I haven't seen all of your posts but I can imagine how ugly they must have been. But to admit fault, apologize publicly, and (most importantly) achieve the personal growth that I see here, impresses me hugely. I hope many people will see this and realize that it's ok to relax a little bit and just be part of the group without having to shred everyone out of anger or a false sense of pride, and that you will be accepted back into the fold. Also, kudos to djp, Larry and the mods here for reacting firmly, yet calmly and often with a great deal of humor, to attacks of this nature, and for not holding grudges once the person has calmed down and apologized. This helps everyone grow personally, too, whether they are part of the problem or just a spectator. *dives back into current technomanga project in progress*

Yup and different styles of drum sounds at different parts during the song, as well as different writing. (i.e. hardstyle drums for a section, soft rock drums during the breakdown, etc.) T is quite good at that.

Happy Birthday Rexy!

This is really nice. I think a little melody variation would be a welcome change, but I really like the atmosphere and instrumentation. The hats and snare/clap are a tad bright for the feel of this song, but not a dealbreaker. The drone bass could be a little louder, I love that. You could even do more with that pad, make it evolve even more and spread the stereo separation out more, add some sparkles here and there for a truly spacey feel. Lovely!

Thanks for that, friend!

The Evolve bundle is great, I had that already, but I also just got the Gamelan library, and I went ahead and got Action Strings this time too (was on the fence last time). They sound amazing out of the box and I think there must be 200 patterns in there, in every time signature imaginable. Now, to write something worthy of them...

Ok now just stop that, Argle. Some of us are older than that! Happy, happy Pretzelday!

Meteo, pictures will help, I'm really confused on your last round of questions... I'm still willing to do Teamviewer if you want. T - wait, you didn't upgrade to FL11? This may present some problems...

I'm working my way through these tracks... there's a lot of fun stuff in here, lots of talent. Great album!

It sounds good to me so far. I agree with what T said.

Great ear as usual, T! Ok I'll explain that section better. The backing structure is what I described before, but what you mostly hear is the high and low strings and the organ. The high brass is only adding some bite to the high strings, and the low brass is only one voice, providing support for the lowest end. (initially I had the organ part written in low brass but it sounded muddy. Gary my orchestral friend suggested the swap-out for the organ) That French Horn is what I mentioned as "mid brass" (name of the patch), and I used that for the response countermelody to the flute. That's the brass that's easiest to hear. Also, you're hearing pizzicato strings and a bell playing the Popcorn melody, and the triangle hits and chime-y effects are indeed from Damage, and the drums that start up at 2:50 (before the snare pattern) are from Evolve (so much good stuff in that library!). I have a very soft kick playing there too, and the shakers. And T, I forgot to mention that wind, I used your Sirocco preset, it is awesome! Oh and there is tons of stereo separation going on in this song, but not much in the orchestral section. I generally don't stereo separate the orchestral samples as they are already well positioned. The only widening I did on the orchestral section was to the very high bells, that Evolve drum loop, and Sirocco.

Thanks T! The orchestral part took me the longest because of the detail required to make the instruments sound somewhat natural. That is something I've been trying to practice getting better at. That part is high and low strings, high and low brass (with mid brass playing the response part), and a church organ, and the lead is that layered flute I mentioned (Kontakt flute plus Zebra "singing flute" preset). I'm glad you liked that section. My personal favorite parts of this mix are the section with the piano harmony, and the epic solo before the outro. And of course, the cheesy outro.

Thanks Chris! Glad you liked it!

I use Omnisphere quite a bit, and Kontakt for sample stuff. But I pretty much use Zebra for everything else. It's so versatile. How could anyone hate it?

Fresh Popcorn - Chimpazilla remix A friend of mine recently reminded me of this old tune, " " written by Gershon Kingsley in 1969 and remixed disco-style in the 70's. Once I heard it again (after so many years), I couldn't get it out of my head for days... so I decided to remix it again, but couldn't decide on a genre, so I just tried them all. Enjoy!

Track sounds quite nice. Maybe some additional drum elements could be brought in around 0:56 or so. Wow, that video is amazing, too. Love those pictures!

Argle says the mixing is ok. I say there are issues. And even if it was "ok" it could certainly be better. I can hear this song in my head with the issues fixed and improvements made and it sounds amazing. I'm being tough on this one because I really do like the writing.

Well I really do like your arrangement and writing, quite a lot. I listened to this four times in a row yesterday. And I didn't mean to be insulting, I realize some mixing decisions are personal taste (selection of chippy synths). But I must say this would probably get a "resub" vote on OCR just due to the mixing. Most of your instruments are fighting each other for space. Too many things are playing in the lower ranges, clashing with the bass. (personally, I HP every single thing in my mix, and I make sure NOTHING is playing in the same low frequencies as my bass, except my kick, and I eq those surgically so they don't clash, and I usually sidechain kick to bass also, to help with this issue). The bass itself is way too loud and needs eq and compression, as some of the bass notes were so loud that they nearly popped my speaker cones out. So, I suggest starting with balancing the instruments much better, first, then attacking each thing with eq so each instrument plays in its optimal range without doubling the frequencies of other things. You'll be amazed how much cleaner your mix is after you do this process, and you'll be able to get it louder overall too, as a result. Then, time to play with reverb to get some more feeling into the mix and also tell the listener how close or far away the instruments are. Also, please look into stereo separation, the mix will come alive with a few things placed wider in the stereo field. After all that, we can talk about special effects! Good luck! I'm looking forward to hearing this one again!