XPRTNovice

Best of luck with this!

Of all the things that I thought OCR would have no opinions on, new computers were not one of them...

Aaaand why music is important and why I like doing it: check. Thanks for the words.

Hey. So my Dell just shit the bed, and it's time for me to replace. My budget is $600 or less and here's what I use the laptop for: - Writing, browsing, watching movies occassionally - Lighter gaming - Traveling (so good battery life is a plus) - I MAY eventually like to use it as a mobile DAW, but that's not 100% necessary. So, it's a lot of light work for the most part, but I'd like to have some higher end options if I need it. I was considering getting another Dell Inspiron, but Acer/Asus/Lenovo seem to be good for the price but I don't know a whole lot about their reliability. HP/Compaq have done nothing but let me down my entire life, so they're out. Newegg has a dell refurb that's a i5 w 1TB HDD and 6GB Ram for $450 that I'm looking at. Any suggestions?

Fixed!

Eh I might, but unlike all you youngins, I got a wife and kid and maybe not a kitchen pass to go slumming with rando (albeit cool) people at a hotel

So, here's my secret: I'm lazy. I didn't spend ANY time proofing or editing this after I wrote it, trying to adjust the strings, etc. I almost purely played this on my keyboard and nodded and went to have a coffee. So, your suggestions are all awesome. Now I need to chain myself to my desk and force myself to get very detail oriented. I'm the same way with my writing...I hate editing. I wish I could just CREATE perfectly!

So, I wrote this a while ago intending for it to be used in the Final Fantasy VII web series, but hahahahaha. I figure I might as well work toward getting it posted. Arrangement: The Triumphant Coquette https://soundcloud.com/xprtnovice/the-triumphant-coquette Source: Honeybee Manor Thoughts?

Awesome news. Just hit me up when it's time for me to polish, etc. I've learned a lot since I started those two mixes.

Hey guys, A friend of mine stumbled across this and sent it my way. I haven't had a chance to read through all of it, but it's certainly a neat idea. Basically some guy is musically analyzing video game music and trying to figure out why it's awesome. http://gamemusictheory.tumblr.com/page/2

Hmmm...maybe!

Hey this is nice. I feel like it could use more low end; like it was building to a swell that didn't quite get there because I wanted some supporting lowness. I'm not listening on the best speakers though.

Many congratulations for youuuuu! I should have done that compo for Darksword a couple months ago

I think music is a great form of communication, and I think that's one of the reasons why I love video game and film music so much. Communication is about context; music set to epic events like video games makes such a difference in the message to me. And it can act as communication all on its own, even without lyrics. I think that's amazing. It also seems to be this strange cosmic constant between cultures, and something that defies explanation - though you can break down the music mathematically, it's just never a good enough explanation of what music is, and why it does what it does.

This just popped up for the first time in my random, massive OCR playlist, and I really enjoyed it. Very emotionally evocative.

You are awesome. Also, when I tried to figure out what a nakayama was, I found this: I don't think that's what you meant, but that's pretty retardedly awesome.

Cool man, let us know how it goes. There's also the Sibelius Auralia, right? Has anyone used that? Nice timing with this thread, I've been looking for some more edumacation.

I'm in for the group buy. I live locally, so I'll probably just commute, as much as that kills the evenings sorta...Hopefully I'll be able to stick around more this year than 2 hours on a Saturday.

Why are you continuing to insult my chest muscles?!

I am extremely sensitive about my small pectorals.

Basically, Timaeus came into this thread and was like "XPRT, your music is crap and your remixer handle is missing vowels." and I was like "bitch, vowels cost money, didn't you ever see Wheel of Fortune" And we had an epic rap battle but we're all good now. (he thought I was trying to promote you over him as a free mixing engineer but it was a miscommunication)

I will hate you forever for this.

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Oh I know, just chatting. I'll stop eating your thread now.

Yeah, but I want to learn so I stop wanting to put my fist through my computer. I'm taking lessons now with someone to whom I send my stems and then we mix them together and that's helping. Still, though, I can't tell you how many times he's made a change and been like "oh, that's way better," and I've been like "they sound exactly the same and I still hate compression because I fear things I don't understand"