Jonathan!

I was also a Mixcraft user for a good long while. (I switched to reaper relatively recently though because Mixcraft liked to crash on me and didn't play nicely with my audio interface) I would say that you should enter regardless since you don't necessarily need to share project files -------------- Sorry it took so long but here are the picks for Trism and I in the doubles: 1. Tinker knight 2. Shield knight 3. King knight 4. Shovel knight --------------

Don't worry, I am definitely going to submit unless something terrible happens

I haven't listened to the whole thing but so far it has been highly enjoyable. Thanks for posting it.

Thanks for the clarification. I would prefer to compete in the doubles bracket but require a partner. If this is not possible then I am happy to enter into the singles bracket. EDIT - Please ignore this, I am now signing up with Trism for the doubles. Our picks are here: http://ocremix.org/forums/showpost.php?p=974160&postcount=54

Do we need to sign up as a team or can we sign up as individuals looking to be placed in a team?

*old singles picks removed* EDIT - I am now signing up with Trism for the doubles. Please see post #54 for our picks: http://ocremix.org/forums/showpost.php?p=974160&postcount=54

Great pick - I look forward to mixing this one. The midi link in the first post doesn't appear to work. Here is a link that hopefully works: http://vgmusic.com/music/computer/miscellaneous/msx/T_AlesteIIMSX_MissionOneTheme.mid

http://www.gregjazz.com/upload/ugk2.rar

This is incredible, i thoroughly enjoyed it (...multiple times!....in a row!)

I think that the biggest thing you can do is to find reasons to practise as much as possible. It can be very demotivating to make music by yourself, especially if you are not happy with it. As such, I would recommend joining some of the competitions that are run on the forums. They give you a goal to work towards, force you to finish tracks and allow you to gain feedback from multiple people. There are 2 in particular that I personally like: - PRC. A roughly fortnightly competition which involves remixing a given source. This would give you a chance to work on your composition as you can be quite liberal with the sources. http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?p=972457 - MNP. This is much more conservative as you are encouraged to stay close to the original source material, making this a good place to practise your music production skills. http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=47513 I recommend that you read the following guide by Rozovian. It covers a tonne of topics that you will hopefully find useful. http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=33049 In terms of classes etc. I can't really help, sorry. This youtube channel has some great content that is presented in a simple fashion: https://www.youtube.com/user/recordingrevolution I appreciate that I haven't answered all of your questions but I don't really feel qualified to. Hopefully some of the more experienced members will be able to pitch in with suggestions. Hope this helps. Jonathan

Congratulations to Argle for the win and to all who entered for creating a great set of remixes. As I mentioned in my vote, it was a very difficult choice and I had to listen to every one of them multiple times before producing my final 3

Great, thanks!

I would recommend (as MindWanderer did) that you change instruments. Perhaps you could try a distorted organ (a la Deep Purple) or a synth as a lead sound? Many metal bands use synths for some of their lead lines. In my opinion, you basically need a guitar sound for rhythm. Shreddage sounds pretty good but I haven't seen any demos of it playing any chords. Some of the more djenty stuff in particular sounds pretty realistic. $139 does seem like a good deal, especially since it runs in the free Kontakt player. An alternative for your rhythm sound would be to get a guitar player to record them for you. This is both the best sounding and the cheapest (free!) way to do it. I would be more than happy to give you a hand with this if you provide the midi. I am sure that there are other guitarists on the forum who would also be willing to help too.

I put in my vote before you posted. Will I have to resubmit it or did it automatically set itself up?

Complete! Thanks a tonne to grappling hook for the excellent source selection, I really enjoyed this remix. In case of thasauce problems, here is the soundcloud link: https://soundcloud.com/jonathan-126/lone-wolf-raiden-2-stage-1-remix

Fantastic pick. I am getting to mixing this one straight away.

To those who cannot register: Did you register with an outlook / live / hotmail account? I tried use mine to sign up several months ago and still haven't got the email - I am assuming that the Microsoft mail servers have blocked it. When I created a new account with my gmail email I got the confirmation email instantly. Hope this helps.

Never heard this source before but it is really nice. Excellent pick! I am super busy this week but if I get any free time I will definitely try to work on this

I've not had the time so probably won't get anything in. That main riff is a right pain to cleanly get up to speed on guitar...

Nase makes a good point about buying an interface. If you purely want to do midi, however, then that cable should be fine. Few points to note: - I own the cable (well, a rebrand of it) and was very confused when I initially couldn't get it to work. It turns out that 'in' and 'out' are labelled in the opposite way that you would think. ('out' on your keyboard connects to 'in' on the cable) - Even with ASIO4all, you will almost certainly get better latency with an interface than the cable. The difference will probably be fairly negligible though in terms of how easily you will notice it. - There isn't much difference in price between Kontakt and Komplete (which includes it). Take a look at the other stuff bundled with it to judge if it is worth the extra for you. - Looking at it from the opposite perspective, is there a specific reason why you want Kontakt? Depending on the version, FL will come with free sounds and there are plenty of free instruments on the internet that are available. Depending on your budget, it might be worth just using the free ones to see if they meet your needs. - A cheaper alternative to FL Studio is Reaper. It does come with an awful lot less bundled stuff though (depending on what version of FL studio you compare to). To directly answer some of your questions: - "that chord will be reproduced in FL Studio": yes - "Am I right in saying that the ‘touch sensitive keys’ will be included in the MIDI signal and will be transferred to FL Studio": yes - "Connect the Yamaha to Notebook that will allow me to select MIDI options in Kontakt so that if I say play a chord on the Yamaha – that chord will be reproduced in FL Studio?": This isn't hugely important but you set the midi options in FL studio and FL studio routes the data to Kontakt which then creates the sound. Kontakt is created as in instance within FL studio. (Just didn't want you confused when you try it out) Hope this helps

This is a cool idea I record all of my instruments apart from drums live so, for me at least, it would be a good opportunity to learn about synths and sequencing. I do rather like the idea of being limited to one tool - could be very interesting. Perhaps we could also limit the plugins to the basics?

Count me in. The background riff sounds quite Irish... I might see if I can take it in that direction.

You can tell! As I said in my vote, the arrangement and production were fantastic. And thanks for the encouragement I intend to enter these competitions whenever I have the time.

Thanks to Bundeslang for doing all of the organisation and to Ichitootah for picking the source. This was great fun and I can't wait until the next round =D And congratulation to Showroom Dummy for the win. Your track was great with lots of really cool synth bits.

Complete! =D https://soundcloud.com/jonathan-126/snowing-all-over-the-world The intention of this remix was to keep the vibe of the song but add some original sections to spice it up. I am not really what genre I would put it in...cheese rock maybe? This is my first remix ever so every bit of feedback is very much appreciated. I had no idea how to write drums or mix a track before I did this so feedback in those areas is particularly welcome. When I get the time, I intend to extend it with another section with an original melody and probably another one that pulls some instruments out to let it groove. The sloppy guitar / organ work will also be redone Thanks to Ichitootah for suggesting the source, it was so much fun to play around with.