suzumebachi

Hot damn, we done it! We passed the $3,750 mark!

you are dead to me

added a bunch of links to examples of music on youtube, and links to rsn archives as well, for all the SNES games maybe later i'll do the same for NES and genesis

besides the obvious ones (chrono triggers and final fantasies and zeldas and ninja turtles and metal gears) NES/FAMICOM Adventure Island Adventures of Bayou Billy Al Unser Jr. Turbo Racing Choujin Sentai Jetman Dragon Quest 3 The Legend of Kage Maniac Mansion Mighty Final Fight San Goku Shi II: Haou no Tairiku Shatterhand Silver Surfer Takahashi Meijin no Bug-tte Honey Uchuu Keibitai SDF Wizardry series Backgammon (FDS) Exciting Billiard (FDS) GENESIS/MEGADRIVE Golden Axe series (especially 2 or very especially 3) The Hybrid Front The Ooze Shining Force I and/or II Thunder Force IV SNES/SUPER FAMICOM (.rsn) (.rsn) (.rsn) (.rsn) Heracles no Eikou III (.rsn) Heracles no Eikou IV (.rsn) Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 3 (.rsn) (.rsn) (field theme 2 is my favorite but can't seem to find it on youtubes) (.rsn) (apologies for the quality of this youtubes) (.rsn) Romancing SaGa (.rsn) ( an updated version of the general Romancing SaGa theme used in pretty much every Romancing SaGa game, from the PS2 remake) (.rsn) (.rsn) (.rsn) Treasure Hunter G (.rsn) (.rsn) maybe i'll add more when i think of em if you need links, i can probs provide em

final thoughts indeed

yeah I use a USB playstation controller. it's perfect for everything except maybe N64 but you can make that work too if you set the right analog stick to be the C-buttons.

wow some totally awesome guy pledged over $750! $1,119 to go, 43 days left

you weren't at Nerdapalooza by any chance were you? lolololololololololololol

for the longest time i used an old looped alternate version of the chiptune intro i made for 'Black Wing Metamorphosis' you can grab it here: http://hosting.thasauce.net/suzumebachi/FF7_OneWingedBit_2.ogg but my new phone can only do WAV or MIDI, and has a file transfer limit of 200kb that i have yet to figure out a way to bypass, so i mostly stick to MIDIs. generally either phoenix wright or super mario world.

I GET IT NOW! everyone who likes country must like garth brooks, everyone who likes bluegrass must like nickel creek, and everyone who likes hip-hop must like this song! it makes perfect sense!

absolute bullshit. that's like saying anyone who doesn't like tiger woods doesn't like black people. dumbest fucking argument i've heard on this site in ages.

people still play virtua fighter?

thursday is compo night. why not wednesday or friday or smth?

i'm not familiar with USB midi stuff at all. is there any kind of input latency? latency is going to be your biggest issue going with option 2. well, that, and basic stability. also, are you using onboard sound? onboard stuff is almost always going to have much higher latency than dedicated hardware. depending on your drivers, hardware, and the softsynths you're running, you're not likely to get any less than 50ms latency using an onboard setup. 50ms is very noticeable. especially in a live setting. and that's just the output latency, let alone input. you're gonna want an audio interface with low-latency drivers. ie: ASIO. just about any modern pro-audio type interface will have ASIO drivers. though as with everything, some are better than others. you can get a USB or firewire one that'll plug right into your lappy. look for one with MIDI in, and 1/4" out. with one of these you can likely cut your latency down to 5-10ms, and take a fair load off your CPU, so you can run more stuff. plus you have the added benefit of balanced outputs. the problem with going that way is, of course, audio interfaces aren't free. if you can find a solid used synth for less than the price of a workable interface, that's the way to go. of course, the cost effectiveness is also going to be dependent on whether you have your own amp or if you're going to be using house rigs or what. if you're going to be using house PAs everywhere you go, option 2 is your friend.

i saw this thread and made this then i realized this thread is a friggen month old damnit.

SHILL SHILL SHILL SHILL SHILL SHILL SHILL SHILL SHILL SHILL SH-- oh, I use those too. need some new ones though. mine been collecting dirt for about a year. YES, A YEAR. that's how negligent i mean that's how i roll. word.

not really jazzy and what not, but still very chill (and very great and also free): Aphilas - Instrumentally Ill EP Crepusculum - Sky Diaries MonoCulture - Lawn World Mosaik - Apologies Mikael Fyrek - A Thousand Years and One Pece - The Riddle of the Universe Planet Boelex - Raja Planet Boelex - Little World Url - Octopus City ST - I'll Meet You There Workbench - Detour EP Workbench - Zoo everything by Henrik Jose ever.

I so want to be there.

If it's hosting you need, I can set you up with a subdomain on one of my many sites. Only a couple of restrictions, but the most important: no porn.

What Vinnie said. WAV is basically the standard for lossless audio. It's also the best format as a starting point for encoding to any other (ie: MP3, OGG, FLAC, etc). So once you send CD Baby a WAV, they'll use it as a master for making all the other formats they're going to distribute. FLAC is lossless too, but it's not as widely supported and it probably has to be converted back to WAV before you encode it to anything else anyway. Is CD Baby really asking you to upload FLAC? Because that doesn't sound right to me. If I recall, there's two ways to get them the tracks for digital distribution: 1) Mail them a CD with your tracks on it, or; 2) Upload WAVs. CD Baby has pretty good customer service from my experience, so if you're still having problems just send them an email. Oy. Don't get me started.

Besides the part where it takes half an hour for one page to load, there's the part where it takes them 20-25 minutes to build your download package, and then there's a 50/50 chance of whether or not it will actually start downloading after that. If it doesn't, you have to build the package AGAIN. If it does, there's a 50/50 chance the download will stop for no reason midway through, and there's no way to resume it, so you get to start all over again! If they trashed their ridiculous download system and just used direct downloads they'd be fine.

I friggen LOVE the intro. Those pads are pretty great. Very reminiscent of bliss/henrik jose whom I adore. You lose me once that FM bass comes in though. It doesn't fit at all. The texture doesn't mesh with those super smooth chords, and it seems to be pretty much playing random notes. Once the main melody comes in again with the stuttered pads, it's all good again. The arps that come in later are a little over the top, but they mesh better with the FM bass than just the pads. Love the little tom fills. And then there's the guitar solo w/ the sidechained pads, faaaaantastic. Ending is a little weak though. But overall, pretty good stuff.

CD Baby has worked great for me in the past. I dunno much about TuneCore. Bandcamp on the other hand, from a listener's perspective, I absolutely fucking despise. Their download system is a Grade-A genuine hunk of flaming shit-stained garbage.

May I recommend getting a Sandisk Sansa e200 series. Don't get the one that comes with Rhapsody or whatever though (I think it's called e200r) because they don't take to Rockbox as well as the regular old ones. I've got a Sansa e260. Got it for $20 from woot.com. That's the 4GB one; has a microSD slot so with the default firmware you can expand it by another 4GB. Slap Rockbox on that bad boy and you've got yourself a hell of a mp3 player. Can even play Doom on it, or run gameboy emulators. Not to mention of course play NSF/SPC/IT/MIDI/OGG/etc/etc. Plus with Rockbox I believe you can even use a 32GB SDHC card which as you can imagine, is friggen awesome (though those micro SDHC cards aren't very cheap).