SnappleMan

Templates are possibly the best time saver out there. Every time I finish a song that I think sounds good, I'll delete all the MIDI/audio data and create a template out of it, that way when I want to sit down and write new music I already have a pre-mixed track that will sound good right from the start. After I get a little bit of track recorded I'll go in and start tweaking to make the mix fit the song. That's just takes care of the setup though (which would usually take a good hour anyway considering everything I need to sync up and prep for recording). For the actual music and recording I find that regular practice on my guitars, basses, and keyboards makes the songwriting process MUCH easier.

At first I read the title of this thread as "pooping in recording", which gave me the awesome idea to install a fully functioning toilet in my studio. Thanks.

If you can record MIDI sequences of your playing then I might be able to use you.

I was so excited to see someone covering Sword Master! Unfortunately though, you need to get your guitar tuned and set up, intonation is off.

Get a real MIDI controller?

Hey man, sorry to say but you already missed the bus. Team is picked and work is starting this week. But thanks for the interest! I'll listen to your song regardless <3

Like half the notes are wrong. Next time use a better source MIDI. (this shits bangin, and I still hear that pearl 1 DFHS snare that you've been using since the count of tuscany was in office, love you, ^w^)

Hey Judges, can you make me a Judge? <3

SHHH!! Yeap, braincells is gonna have a more active role this time around too.

Totally different people this time though! Only classic Snappleman teammate onboard this time is Norg (but he's like the American Express card... I never leave home without him)

Don't start any trouble here.

I have a really hard time taking you seriously with that hilarious signature you use.

The individuality is in the arrangements. The sounds are only a small part of what makes a musicians, his musical mind is more important and his ideas are the foundation of his creativity. Just because you won't hear someones VSTs doesn't mean you wont hear their personality come through musically. Also, I mentioned that for the most part the composition will be done in MIDI, after we agree on an arrangement for a song each of the people involved will export their own parts whichever way they want them, through their own synths. As far as the acoustic drums go, one kit is all you need, especially for a concept album which is basically one really long song. There will be electronic percussion and other types of percussion all throughout the album. I have one person dedicated to bass guitar for the entire album, one person for the drums, two people for guitars and on top of that we all arrange/compose the songs and choose our own instrumentation for our parts. I first tried this idea with the Contra 4 album and it was a complete success and people love the sound.

Yeah, I got a whole lot of people asking to sign up from all corners of this scene. I noticed you sent an "application" too but I already had a most everyone I wanted by then. *5. *Gonna arrange the entire soundtrack of the game into 8-12 tracks. *Progress may or may not be private, depends on how quickly I progress.

Alright dudes, recruitment is over. Thanks for everyone showing interest! I have the team picked. Now I gotta get everything ready so we can start working in a couple weeks.

Tweek, I like your work, I think you'll fit in well.

Pretty open on time right now, nothing set in stone. Most likely gonna start work slowly on this one and let it snowball.

Well, this is happening either way, I just hope that I get enough people from OCR so I can release it here.

Today I was thinking "okay, I'll go to OCRemix.org and check out the Star Fox album that must have been done or is being worked on because it's a no-brainer." but my search ended in a total D: So since it IS a no-brainer, I think it's I made this a reality. I figure it's been too long since I got a second album done here at OCR, so here goes. I'm recruiting talent for a Star Fox album. Anyone and everyone is eligible, just send me a song you've done which you feel represents your best work, I'll decide if you're right for this. This is going to be a concept album, and a strict collaborative effort! This means that you will not be working on just one song by yourself. Everyone on this project will be working on the entire album together. Tracklist: There is no set track list, I'll decide an order in which the songs will be arranged, then we will work on arranging them to fit the grand concept of the album. Grand concept: The concept here is the game. When you play the game you choose a path, you follow that path, the end. Linear can be nice sometimes. We will arrange the music so that it roughly flows as one song. Of course the songs will be separated into tracks, but this means that some tracks will be very long (maybe longer than 10 minutes) and some short (maybe shorter than 2 minutes). It's all down to how everything fits together. Your role: My goal here is to borrow people's talents and mix them together to get the very best sounding music done. The reason I want to make this a collaboration is because 60 minutes of ONE persons ideas get boring, and I really enjoy working with people because ideas grow really easily in that type of environment. Everything will be subject to my approval, but if it's not good you will know it's not good, and everyone else working on the project will know it's not good. Project workflow: The project will begin with me designating tracks to the team. You will complete a WIP and send it to me. I'll place them in a framework with respect to the track order and whatever else, then we will send MIDIs of our WIPs to everyone involved, one track at a time. So remixerA sends me a WIP for song 1, then if I like it remixerA sends a MIDI of their work to everyone on the team, we all work on it, then we move on to song 2. The MIDIs that are sent out are the most important part! You can use your synths and samples for showing us what you intend to do, but we will be working in MIDI. Production: As I said, we work in MIDI, that means all your ideas will be twisted, abused and warped. I will mix the entire album. Every member will be in charge of only a couple things sound wise. This way I can use the same basic acoustic drumkit on all the songs, same guitars and basses. Other things like pads, strings, synths, keyboards, electronic drums and percussion are all free to anyone in the group, but the basic "sound" of the album will be chosen by me. The main goal here is to have an album which is a true collaborative effort. EVERYONE here has the ability to contribute amazing musical ideas, even if they can't properly reproduce them into music. That and I want to have an album on my MP3 player that doesn't get broken up into 40 separate albums because 40 different artists made the songs.... Anyway, it's much simpler than I made it sound. We just work on the songs till it sounds awesome and is done. Working this way will be hard for some at first, but you'll get used to it quickly and that whole "stuck with no more ideas" thing will become a thing of the past. I'm only interested in people who are serious about music. I will ride you hard, I'll yell at you, I'll boot you out if you're not doing your work. Though, by the end of the process we'll SO be BFF ^___^! Oh... yeah, before people start asking.... THIS IS ONLY FOR THE ORIGINAL STAR FOX ON SNES (which is the only game in the series to have good music as far as I'm concerned!)

First track is from Mega Man Wily's Revenge on the Gameboy, second track I need a little longer on. By the way, these are horrible midis....

The sheer douchiness of this post made me log into OCR for the first time since like the D-Day to fucking respond. Fucking why the FUCK would you pay for Star Trek Voyager? Let alone put that ahead of paying someone back. Either way, thi

I almost bought one of these before trying it. The placement of pitch/mod wheels is pretty awful.

Gibson, Waves, NI, there's no difference there. When you get this popular you can do whatever you want and most of your brainless followers will take it and smile. Instead of finding intelligent ways to combat piracy they just put out a new version of this shit every 6-12 months.

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/UF80CL/ http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/VX80/ Also check out the Yamaha KX8 88. Avoid anything by M-Audio, regardless of what anyone here says, it's all crap.