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I'm interested.

Not to toot my own horn (bada BOOM) but I think the sax could be a touch louder, and with a little less up-front reverb. The wet mix makes it sound like I'm holding notes for longer than I am, rather than adding depth. But I don't have a very good ear for this kind of stuff so I could be just stupid.

I thoroughly enjoy sharing WIPs, particularly because I'm primarily a musician and not a sound engineer. I love the learning element of it, and the communal element of trading music. Since music isn't a source of income for me even a little - and in the times when it has been, it's had nothing to do with my compositions - I'm not really worried about my music being stolen by Coldplay and them making a CD out of it. Besides, as Rozo said, if they did and I could prove that it was my intellectual propety, I'd get some money out of it anyway. As far as not posting my best work...I consider the "audience" to be the greater community, not the WIP forums. The people who frequent the WIP forums are there for that purpose, so they're not there to judge you based on something you did in two hours and want some feedback on your composition for, you know?

I think a capella would be fine - I actually have some plans in the works to do one myself, having been an arranger, singer, and vocal percussionist for an a capella group in college. This site's standards are about quality, not category.

FF XIII ...and FF X-2.

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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