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Sax has been delivered for this piece...interested to hear how you mix it in!

I will jazz you until you have no choice but to put on a beret and grow a soul patch on your face.

You want sax collab? PM.

This, but it's really cool. Maybe if you had some overarching instrument playing the lead that could be heard over the top. If you hadn't marked it Kakariko village I'm not sure I would have known it was this tune... maybe...some whistling ?

This. Yeah, it's tough to beat. But this is still Shnawesome. I don't hear a whole lot of string quintet accompanying a piano, and it creates a really neat soundscape. And, of course, the sheer piano skills make me look at my inadequate, clumsy hands and cry. OH SHIT GILGAMESH. That just happened. I almost never look at the source list because I love getting surprised, and that was cool.

OMG, the title.

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."

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!

You have time - it's 2PM at Busboys and Poets in Arlington.

I'm so depressed I shaved my goatee.

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.

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

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.

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.

I'm in, but I need to be in Sterling by 5.

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.

I'm definitely going, probably Sat/Sun only.

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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dude, I'd be happy to help if downloading that file didn't take me 8 clicks and advertisements and a captcha...

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

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...

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).

Way to f@%&ing blow it...My day is ruined.