zircon

Heh. Honestly, this game only gets more and more fun for me. Blackwing Lair is a blast. We're doing smaller groups for Onyxia to make it more challenging, and trying to speedrun Molten Core. I lay waste to hundreds of Alliance each day in BGs. Friday night drunken Arathi Basin over Vent keeps my in stitches all night. I love this game!

Add Rellik, Unknown, Sadorf, Disco Dan, and TO to that list.

I don't think it's possible currently to get any more variation out of repeated notes.. at least for the marcatos and pizzicatos. Not only am I using alternating velocities, but the singular velocity layers have round-robin up and down bow strokes as well as automatic randomization of formant - 3 different possible 'hits' per note, thanks to Kontakt 2. I thought I did a pretty good job in that regard Of course, the legato/sustain stuff is much harder.

I don't find them useful. They can control any MIDI parameter on any device that accepts MIDI - this includes just about every function on every DAW and VST out there. Same goes for sequencers like Reason.

More like 15 GB It's huge anyway, Darth, channels>add>fruity soundfont player. Not the Silver Edition. It's only 1 GB (hence why its only $140). The Platinum Edition is 15 GB (and its also like $2000. But obviously its got a hell of a lot more samples). Not to nitpick, but the Silver edition is 2.4gb, the Gold edition is 15gb, and the Platinum edition is 68gb.

Last post I'm going to make on the topic, since I don't want to clog the thread; This mix IS doing stuff that hasn't been done before. There are a lot of things going on here that are unique and very far out of the ordinary. That is what experimental music is all about; unusual combinations of things, transcending genre limitations, and so forth and so on. I don't see how you could debate this. However, no, it's not jazz. It's not even remotely close to jazz. I don't know how you could possibly label it as such.

http://www.samsontech.com/products/productpage.cfm?prodID=1810 Here's a good starter.

Whoever sends me vocals recorded with iMic or a built in mic from a Macintosh or an other Laptop again, will die a painful death (and you can mix your stuff for yourself!). *cough* er... just had to express how much I like "built in" microphones and 10$ mics from Radioshack or something like that. You know, I'm kinda getting sick of everyone on this site bashing me for the equipment I use. I'm on a budget. A very, very tight budget, and iMic may not be AWESOME OMFG FTW microphone pre-amp, but its enough for the amount I paid for it. If you're trying to give me advice on what equipment to use, there are much more civil ways of doing it. I'm not proclaiming that my equipment is the best and I'm such an awesome remixer because I'm not. But for the people who visit here and wonder "How the hell am I going to start remixing with only $200?", I'm an example of remixing on low cash. Would you like to challenge the quality of my work? Would you like a fellow Audio Engineer to come into your studio, take a look around and say, "Pfft. I wouldn't be caught dead using that piece of crap!" No one is bashing YOU personally. They're expressing their opinions about your GEAR. There's a huge difference. Just because someone says "Logic rules, FLStudio sucks", I'm not going to be offended. I'm not even going to care. It's an opinion. Now, if they said "FLStudio sucks and everyone who uses it is terrible and should quit music" that would be a different story. But no one is saying that here, so please, be a little less sensitive. On a related note, I'm working on a guide to ReMixing on a budget. Sort of a basics to home recording/computer music, tailored to this community. I'd be happy to take suggestions.

Well, I knew about the Priest talent revision and review. But Gecko implied there was more info available.

I don't think it's experimental OR unpleasant, for the record. Regardless of whether you think it's good or not, I think this is most certainly 'experimental'. Your average song does not have this sort of extreme contrast, ultra-loud and supercompressed drums, etc.

Where? There's no talk on the Priest forum.

I save about every 10 minutes while I work. Also, whenever I do anything major, I save, then I save a new version. My new CT sewer mix has about 14 backups because of this method.

Actually there's a huge difference between 30-50 and 90 tracks. That's potentially 20 more people. That's a LOT of people considering the level of quality we're going for. Some tracks in the PSF are arrangements in and of themselves. Others are variations, instrument changes. Of course the short jingles can't really be remixed either..

Realistically we're looking at somewhere between 35 and 50 tracks.

Im definately on it! I signd up for 2 tracks. Zircon and others forgot to mention me Aw man, I didn't forget you There are at least 8 people I didn't put on the list because I want to leave an element of SURPRISE!

This is the official discussion thread for Voices of the Lifestream, the FINAL FANTASY 7 ReMix project, which has been underway since January 2006. Feel free to leave any comments, suggestions, or questions here. ------ FAQ ------ What can we expect to hear in "Voices of the Lifestream"? We're shooting for about 38 tracks from the Final Fantasy 7 soundtrack in a WIDE variety of styles. Tons of genres will be represented here, thanks to the varied list of ReMixers involved. Jazz, orchestra, rock, new age, trance, breakbeat, drum n' bass, solo piano... you name it, we're probably going to have it on here. Who's involved? AnotherSoundscape, big giant circles, bLiNd, blizihizake, bustatunez (Will Roget), Daniel Baranowsky, Darangen, Darkesword, Dhsu, djpretzel, Carbunk1e, GeoffreyTaucer, Hemophiliac, Jeremy Robson, JigginJonT, Jovette Rivera (DJ Crono), JigginJonT, Leifo, LuiZa, Mustin, pot hocket, pixietricks, Red Tailed Fox, Rellik, sephfire, Shnabubula, Sixto, sgx, SnappleMan, Star Salzman, Steffan Andrews (Spekkosaurus), Suzumebachi, tefnek, tweek, The Orichalcon, Tepid, Trenthian, Vigilante, and zircon. I emphasize that this list is not necessarily finalized. Over the last 15 months, people have come in and out for various reasons. I, for one, was hoping Wingless and GrayLightning would be able to contribute, but due to work obligations they withdrew. However, I still think the list is pretty solid. Can I be involved? Possibly. There are a limited number of tracks remaining to be mixed, and many of them are already claimed. However, if you're interested, either post here or PM me with samples of your work. I might be able to find a place for you somewhere. What's the current status of the project? It is nearly completion. 34 tracks are entirely finished and we have about 4-5 more in progress. When will VotL be released? Unfortunately, I can't really give anything close to a specific date. It'll be done when it's done. I've been setting and enforcing deadlines throughout the project's life, but I hesitate very much to be too strict here. I would rather give people more time to make a great mix then kick them off and get a mediocre mix from a less talented musician, or have no mix at all. What formats will VotL be released in? I would like to do a release of MP3 (uniformly encoded in VBR) and FLAC or WAV. Feel free to leave your thoughts about what you would prefer. What about album art and a website? djpretzel has volunteered to do this for us. Given that he designed OCR, I'm pretty confident he'll do a good job. But, if he decides that he needs help, or that he doesn't have time to do it, I will let you all know so we can find someone else. How about a preview? No.

Actually superwave has several commercial versions, all of which are more cpu efficient

Consider the new Roland SH-201.

You want stuff with Agility and additional chance to crit.

Well if you encode it at a good quality with the proper command line that's enough. You won't have to check if the encoding is good since you will know that it's already the best possible. One commandline can't be assigned to everything. For instance, some of my mixes play nicely with VBR. Others I have worked with (like TheWingless') don't. You can to encode on a song-by-song basis.

Not exactly. I use the Razorlame front end if I actually care enough, or DBpoweramp otherwise.

I DO use VBR. Check out "Clash at the Mountains" for example.

It's not only a matter of bitrate. Using the proper encoder with the proper settings can make you save a lot of quality. If you find that 128kbps vs uncompressed is very clear, you probably didn't encode it the best possible way. The latest listening test from HydrogenAudio has shown that LAME can produce near-transparent (un-noticeable) sounding MP3 at this bitrate, if used with the best settings. Sorry to sound so boring with these listening tests, but that's the only way I know to show concrete facts. I don't say "I prefer LAME", I say "people in general prefer LAME". That's what listening tests are for. I use LAME for everything, no need to convince me. 128kbps is still a massive difference for my ears. I do a lot of testing when I'm encoding my own music, and I found (like I said) that 256kbps seems to be the minimum for me to not hear a difference. edit; keep in mind I'm talking about CBR not VBR.

To be fair, 128kbps vs uncompressed is very clear. Even 192kbps vs uncompressed on a set of headphones is pretty noticeable. I'd say ABOVE 256kbps is roughly the upper limit.

This is impractical for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that many submitters are on 56k and/or have no hosting space, which makes sending even a 3-6mb file difficult. Multiple that by 15? Uhh.. yeah.