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I'll bring the Novice Saxophone and jam
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I just found out about this, and I'm new to OCR (first mix was accepted in April and still hasn't posted, but I have 3 more coming out soon I hope). I live <45m from this location, and I think I'll be making an appearance to meet you all but I'll have to see how it goes. I actually can't even get to the webpage right now to see what it is, but I love music, and I love conventions, so it can't be too bad.
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Hey - does anyone know of any great black Friday deals for music gear that can be accessed online? I got a mic stand and some guitar stands at Sweetwater/Musicians friend but mostly the music industry is bringing it weak from what I see so far...
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Easily one of my top 5 favorite remixes that have ever been made. The Hebrew singing is redonkulously fitting and there's just so much power in this mix that it makes my brain hurt.
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Love this one. The lyrics are very cleverly done and well sung with a good, rough voice quality that's sort of punk but not enough punk to make it tacky.
Absolutely love the drum work and the drum production, the way it's panned really adds a whole lot of depth to the mix.
And I love the part that leads up to the singer screaming "Let me out of here." Pumps me up every time.
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I've listened to this four times in the last few days because it's just awesome. As a jazz musician and piano player, I bow down to Shnabubula and his keyboarding skills, and the intricate drum work is fantastic. It is easily one of my favorite OCRemixes of all time.
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F@*K YEAH Larry. Thank you. This made everything so much easier.
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Hey, don't worry about it. This song is already done and on its way on to FF6 Balance and Ruin. There's no need for a mod review
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Dude, this is pretty bangin. The only thing I would say is that your guitar and arranging work is so good that I would have liked to hear some better orchestral sampling behind it, just something that sounded more realistic, but I understand everyone has constraints when it comes to that sort of thing. The core of the prog-metal stuff is just great.
Other minor critique is that the drums sound a tad out of time at 6:15 ish, like they might be dragging behind the guitar a bit. Or maybe the guitar is rushing.
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Definitely pretty much sobbed at the FF Distant Worlds concert. But there was more to it than just the quality of the music (though it was awesome)
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try this link: http://soundcloud.com/xprtnovice/gobble-snarf-snap
Thanks for the praise! I'm excited about this track and another one that is going to be on Balance and Ruin.
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Have a happy!
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Hold on with the speculation here.
That's not any fun. I think Squaresoft is actually going to hire the entire Balance and Ruin team for a billion dollar contract. Nobuo Uematsu is getting old, so they need us to fill in the gap. That's really what this is all about.
Or...OR...Square is suing us because some of their employees that inadvertently stumbled on some of the works-in-progress had their faces melted off. Then the guy who delivers the inter office mail came around the corner and slipped in a pile of liquid face and twisted his ankle, so we're getting sued for negligence.
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Awesome, thanks.
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So I recently bought/downloaded a "World" sample disc from Image-Line, and it basically dumped a bunch of wav files on me. I know with other sample discs that have Kontakt associated with them, they will map the samples that are closest to the pitch you are trying to play and make it play that particular wav in conjunction with your midi sequencer.
My question is: with a bunch of samples that have no joining file like kontakt, how can I map them out so that when I play a Bb (or a pitch that's close), the Bb sample is played, when I play the G (or A, or F), the G sample is played?
Or am I going about this in entirely the wrong way and asking the wrong questions...
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Easy answer - play the FF victory theme when they announce you as a married couple for the first time.
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That's awesome news. I think about this project all the time.
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So is there any real incentive to play this PC version if you already have the PS1 version? Seems gimmicky to me. But then again, it is Squeanix.
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I cried at the end of FF XIII because I knew my childhood was dead.
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DUDE. YES.
My only criticism is that, with everything else so full and live, the horns at 1:30 (by themselves) are a bit jarring and sound synthetic. I noticed in your original post you list people as though they were players, though, so maybe my ear is off. They blend nicely everywhere else, but after 1:30 I noticed that they were there a lot more, if that makes any sense.
Other than that, this kicks ass. This source tune is great, I laughed my ass off the first time I played it on Rock Band.
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Vocal percussion? As in beat-boxing? That's awesome! Welcome!
Yes, beat-boxing
I don't have the right equipment at the moment to really do it well (I've been hunting or a bargain on an Audix i-5 for a while) but I have some samples of earlier work. I can throw them on soundcloud.http://soundcloud.com/xprtnovice/circle-of-life-for-beatbox-vp
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Done! <- that's all I really wanted to say but the forums won't let me post a message so short so I am now writing this longer, completely unnecessary addendum.
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Hey, do you guys want me to post pics?
And yes, it was the Video Game Art museum. The exhibit was actually kind of meh (only 3 rooms, not much I hadn't already seen or known about) but I did catch a presentation by the guest curator Chris - the guy who put the whole thing together - which was pretty cool.
soloing in different styles of music
in Music Composition & Production
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I think the most important thing to do is listen. Different styles have different characteristics that make a solo distinctly "fit" inside that genre. As a jazz musician, I'm speaking primarily from a jazz perspective, but here's what I've noticed over the years about some different stlyes as an example:
Django (1920's gypsy jazz): heavy influence on the 6th, both in major and minor keys, give the style it's wacky tonality
Prog metal: Modes and arpeggios, modes and arpeggios...
Blues (and a lot of rock): relies heavily on the pentatonic for composing melodies
Those are just a few examples, but you might notice that while it's hard to tell why somtehing fits, if you try to play a prog solo over a gypsy jazz background, it sounds really weird.
I hope that helps.