XPRTNovice
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I wanted to tell this story because I think it's funny. After finishing my contributions to this, Theophany emailed me and said "Hey, tell your wife I said thanks for all the help with the vocals."
I said "No, man. It was just me."
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It was nice finally meeting you all. I was telling Vinny that if I had to write a blog article about this, it would be called "How to do MAGFest Wrong". I was only there for a few hours with a pregnant wife and I missed mostly everything. That's what I get for working through thursday-friday and commuting to the con rather than getting a room. Oh well, next year!
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You have time - it's 2PM at Busboys and Poets in Arlington.
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I'm so depressed I shaved my goatee.
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Hey, I'm trying to decide which of my instruments to bring - are any of you actually jamming in the jam rooms? I was planning on maybe bringing my acoustic or my sax.
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Don't make a big deal out of what you do, just do stuff. First you'll sound bad, then you'll sound either weird or generic depending on whether you try to sound different or not, and then, some times after that, you'll begin to have a style.
Seconded. If I look at my stuff on OCR, so far I have a bluegrass whistle-a-thon, a Sufjan Stevens-esque indie rock thing with Theophany, and soon I'll have: a Rachmaninov-style concerto, a flamenco tune, gypsy jazz, and klezmer. If I tried to use that to pick my style...I think it would just be noise. Or slience.
So far - and I've barely been here for a year, so take this with a grain of salt - I listen to source tunes and go "Oh, that would sound awesome as a ______". I'm not eletronica-oriented, so I've actually never "remixed" anything.
I have no idea if I even remotely addressed the topic.../ramble
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I just realized I'm going to miss the overclocked university concert AND the one ups concert.
Work is stupid and I wish I didn't have to do it. -
I think this whole thing would have been more entertaining had we lauded his compositions and invited him to the MAGfest brunch.
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I put my number on the list. I live locally, but not locally enough to get there after a work day, so I'm probably looking at a Saturday/Sunday only sort of thing. Maaaayyybe I'll show up Friday night, but definitely not Thursday.
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I'm in, but I need to be in Sterling by 5.
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You know, there's a tough mudder coming to VA beach next year...
That being said, I'd much prefer a Warrior Dash. Aside from the fact that it's 3 miles instead of 13, nobody wants to burn or electrocute me. Tough mudder is a little too S&M for me.
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I'm definitely going, probably Sat/Sun only.
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What is a good piano library? The ones that come with Komplete are good? Alicia's Keys seems nice too.
I've actually been really happy with the Komplete 8 piano libraries, particularly the Berlin and New York ones. I'm using them right now for a Rachmaninov-esque remix and it's sounding just as epic as I need it to. I also noticed yesterday that when you depress the damper pedal (if your midi controller has a damper pedal) you can actually hear the sound of the dampers lifting off the keys, which I think is cool.
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soundcloud, tindeck, youtube
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dude, I'd be happy to help if downloading that file didn't take me 8 clicks and advertisements and a captcha...
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Hey, I like this. I would say that I think the guitar work in the beginning is choppy...might want to look at your sequencing or find someone to play it live. The second guitar entrance at around 1:50 is better, but I think that's because you're doubling it there so it covers up the "fakeness" of the sound. It happens again at 3:20 or so. To me, it's the unnatural cutoff of that sound - might want to extend the release and you'd be in better shape. Then again I'm a guitar player and I can be picky
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I might be branching off a bit, but I'm wondering - EWQL has that composer's pack, where you can choose 7 sample packs for under $1000. Does anyone know if that deal is also 50% off, or only the individual samples? I always said if I bought anything from EWQL, I would just save up and buy the composer pack, but that might change if it's going to leap to $2000 on January 1st...
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So the samples that come with Komplete 8 are actually the Vienna samples? I've been using them a little bit and haven't liked them very much so far, BUT I am an idiot when it comes to sequencing (hence most of my mixes being live).
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If your secret is that you don't actually have a secret, I think we all know what your secret is.
Way to f@%&ing blow it...My day is ruined.
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You can definitely do Soundcloud, try the flash version. Go to a 'set' (that's a playlist of multiple songs) and then 'share'. eg.
Sets were the key. Thanks Andrew (and everyone else who responded)
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Also, XPRTNovice, that beat boxing is great! Anything specific you're interested in?
Nah, thanks. Sonic was never a passion of mine, but I'm all about laying down a beatbox track on whoever wants one!
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I must be stupid. I can't figure out how to do Soundcloud's embedding; when it gives me the code specifically for wordpress, it only embeds that one song. I think the HTML5 code embeds a whole player, but wordpress doesn't like HTML5. I'll have to explore tindeck/bandcamp....
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I'm trying to figure out the best way to put a player of my music stuff on my website that doesn't require me to buy anything. Soundcloud's option is OK, but it puts a different box on the website per song, from what I'm seeing, and my Wordpress site doesn't accept HTML5. I haven't done web design in a reaaaaally long time so I'm looking for some help on this. Thanks.
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The holiday season killed it for a lot of us, but I'm with Brandon in that you can probably expect it sooner rather than later - and certainly not a year from now.
OCR02575 - Chrono Trigger "Trigger, Please"
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OMG, the title.