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You heard right, anyone coming to magfest this year should grow a beard! No shaving till post mag! It will be glorious!
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If you want to sound official, it helps to actually have an official write something. But thanks, Sam.
ParagonX9 is an audio moderator at Newgrounds, so I sent him a PM. I don't think there's any reason to message Tommy and go that high up when Newgrounds has tons of cases of plagiarism every day. Jermain will more likely be able to do something.
Thank you Larry. I'll thank you personally during Magfest
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This is the first time I can actually get some satisfaction out of this scenario (which happens too often...) so I don't care if he's 14.
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I've been dealing with people claiming to be me, stealing my music and other OCR tracks and claiming as their own, but as soon as I try to confront em, they delete their accounts and disappear. This time, the douche stuck around.
Some crotchsniffer on newsgrounds posted Project Chaos music as his own, not sure if it was just my music or the whole project. Someone informed me of this, and that same person confronted the douchebag, but he has since deleted those particular songs. BUT, his account is still there and I don't know how much more of the music is stolen.
Here's a link to his profile:
http://1337n00bpwner.newgrounds.com/audio/
I don't know if this is a big deal to people, but, some of you with posted remixes should probably check that to make sure it's not your work renamed.
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The action is one thing, but the keys themselves are very cheap and don't feel good to play. You're better off saving money and getting a good controller. Edirol PCR series of controllers are fantastic. Not weighted or even semi weighted, they're synth action keys, and they feel and play great.
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I'd say, yes. If you really need those low frequencies, you literally wont hear them on monitors. If the range is 50hz, that's where the actual sound ends.
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what about these - http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/speakers_audio/home_pc_speakers/devices/249&cl=us,en
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Hey SM what kind of sound system do you have? It's very hard to shop online for monitors since I can't hear what they sound like so maybe you could tell me what you use. Thanks!
edit: I have another question. I am looking at speakers and most of them have a response of 40hz to 22khz or something like that. Howcome my current $5 radioshack mixing headphones say they have a 20hz to 20khz response even though they have a huge bass falloff?
edit: one more - what's the difference between buying pretty flat monitors and buying something more wavy but applying counterbalancing EQ?
There are about 50 things wrong with this post. First off, the logitecs are in NO WAY monitors. You don't even know what monitors are, do you? At home, I use a pair of KRK RP-5's, they're very cheap, entry level monitors, they sound good. As for your 40hz to 20khz argument, ughh...
Read this carefully:
Studio monitors are different from general purpose speakers in many ways, many of them even I don't understand, but the important ones are as follows. First off, your shitty Radio Shack headphones don't have a 20hz-20khz range, they have a very limited range which is embellished by EQ, BASS BOOST 3000x!!! technology and all kinds of cheap tricks to make you THINK they're good. Same goes with normal speakers, they will have a 40hz range, but, that's false. The more likely have a range starting at 90hz, or 250hz, and they use the same kinds of bullshittery to trick your ears as those cheap headphones do. Monitors on the other hand (any monitors that don't suck that is) are made to give you an accurate range. Meaning, if your monitors go down to 40hz, they REALLY go down to 40hz. The woofer is big enough and well made so that it can accurately reproduce that 40hz bottom range. No monitors that I know of go down to 20hz, you'll need a sub woofer to get those frequencies.
The KRK RP5 monitors I use are probably as cheap as you can go and still get decent monitors. At about $150 each, they're really affordable and well worth it. If you have lots of money to spend, and want what I think are the best monitors, get yourself a pair of Mackie HR824's. At about $500 each they're kinda pricey (still pocket change compared to the $50,000 systems that mastering houses use) but they're professional grade and very comfortably go down to about 38hz with amazing clarity.
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Nope. No way I would call those "monitors".
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Without learning WHY things sound the way they do, or what the relationships between notes are, you can only make music without knowing theory for so long before you hit a brick wall. Either your music will all sound the same, or you'll realize that your ability to write is limited and you'll then start to learn theory.
Like zyko said, theory is just a way to understand music. If you choose to go in farther, then more power to you, but EVERY musician needs to know the basics, and should be able to think of a song in terms of the events going on as opposed to memorizing how it sounds.
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Man, I wish I had the time to take theory here in college. I took it in high school, and although the teacher was very good, he was only part time and I had not had a lot of prior musical experience. I definitely hope to revisit it someday, though.
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The best way to get into music theory is to first off, consider yourself a musician. Regardless of your skill level, you are a musician, looking at yourself as a ReMixer or arranger of music doesn't get you anywhere mentally because you are setting a cap on how far you expect yourself to go. Second, pick a style of music that you can relate to musically, in a more general sense. Techno doesn't count. A very good way to learn theory is to learn the history of Jazz. Jazz has everything you need to think in a classical and contemporary musical way. It incorporates elements like complex arrangements with rich harmonies and themes, and as it evolves into different styles, it goes through stages of minimalism, abstract music, virtuosity, expression and when you reach jazz fusion, you'll be able to understand how all the theory you're learning relates to music that's relevant to you.
Don't think of music theory as a mathematical explanation of music, though if you eventually go deep enough, you'll find yourself using all kinds of formulas to make sense of music on a physical level. Look at it as a vocabulary you need to know in order to properly communicate through a musical medium. And write music throughout the entire process. Start by writing a 1 minute song, before you start reading anything about theory. Then as you learn things, apply them to that song, and by the end, it SHOULD be a better piece of music.
In the end, just try to have as much fun as you can doing it, try to harness the excitement of learning something new, the payoff is tremendous. Good luck!
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<3 Richter!
Come claim your present at magfest...
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Hmmm, looks interesting. Send me a PM or email with whatever it is you need, and we can work something out! I'd like to be a part of this.
EDIT - On second thought, I changed my mind. I saw the work so far, and I don't like all the ripped graphics you're using. If you draw your own graphics (I mean from scratch, not just editing Guilty Gear and Street Fighter 3 sprites), then let me know.
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Sorry to break it to you, but a repackaged library that's almost 10 years old is not really considered high quality anymore. Their demos are laughable by even ocremix's standards.
Remember, research is very important when investing in sample libraries.
Also remember, it's more about the skill of the user than the quality of the samples. Just because you can't get a good result out of them does not mean someone capable can't either.
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None of this conversation will help any of your guys' music suck less. Just letting you know.
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I just use whatever drums come with the midi from VGmusic.
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Hey Zircon, make me a judge. It'll be fun.
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Covers are the best!
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I say go with Ivory. I recently upgraded from Steinberg's "The Grand 2" to Ivory and I'm not looking back. The sound is incredible, but more importantly, it uses very little in the way of resources (other than ram, that is...).
Do keep in mind that it's 40 DVDs in size (10 DVDs) and a tad on the expensive side. I only installed one of the pianos (7gb) and I don't see myself needing anything more than that (though I do feel like the rest of the package is going to waste). The sampler itself is very clean, doesn't use much CPU at all, and everything is laid out very simply on one window with every option you could want.
I think that if you're serious about getting a fantastic sounding piano in your recordings, then this is for you. If you have the HDD space to install all of them, then go for it, otherwise you can swap them in and out of your setup through install/uninstall.
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There should be an option to set the pitch wheel sensitivity in each synth plugin. In most of the plugins I use, it varies from patch to patch, and it's fairly easy to go into the patch editing windows and set the mod/pitch sensitivity level. If it's not a part of the synth's GUI, then you'll have to open the product manual and find which CC control value corresponds to that function. Then you can go into the beginning of the MIDI track and set that controller to the desired value you want.
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! This project is still alive?
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You want to record your MIDI project as an audio track? Simple! Look up above the track view, you'll see a ruler. Click your mouse in there, and you'll get the Locators (they look like a little white arrow pointing down). Drag them apart to the start and end of your project, make sure that everything you want to export is in the blue area. Now, go to File -> Export -> Audio Mixdown. Make sure all the options are proper (depends on what kind of soundcard you're using and all that) and save. After it bounces the audio, you should have a mixed audio track of whatever was active in your project.
Magfest 6 is now BEARDFEST!
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Who cares what you look like with a beard? The fact that you HAVE a beard makes you cooler regardless. Trust me man, 90% of the girls there will be fat, ugly, and their legs will be hairier than the thickest beard you could ever grow...