DarkeSword

Damn right.

Well, you need to link whatever you want to change to the controller itself. For example, right-click the channel's Cut knob, and click on "Link to controller..." A dialogue box should come up, with a section marked "Internal Controller." Just click on the little drop down menu to select which controller you want to use. X-Y usually has two options, the X axis and the Y axis. You can basically link anything to a controller. X-Y is a controller, not an actual effect, so it doesn't actually do anything to the sound; it just provides values that other effects use. Hope that helps.

The best part about the show was me screaming "and darkesword with dream pipe" ONE MILLION TIMES in the chat during the last 15 minutes of the show, and Larry not noticing until the very end as he was about to sign off. Read the transcript; you'll see what I'm talking about.

You know how much I love the full version man. This is hands down one of my favorite songs. Period. I think you've done an excellent job constructing an excellent smooth texture with this song, and the balance between everything is just right. Excellent work man, as always. SOLID™

Yay for chat logging. Good stuffs man. Gooooooood stuffffffffs. SOLID™

GrayLightning is like me. He's totally awesome. Anyway, I already told you what I thought of this piece dude. Great stuff; lots of nice asian influences, and a really unique percussion part. Excellent.

I missed the show; I was in NY at my cousin's birthday. Any of my tracks played?

The wonky transitions are definately teh lose. The stuff that's there is fantastic, but I don't like how everything is strung together. There are places where transitions just come out of NOWHERE. I mean, the guitar playing is SICK, but there's hardly any development as far as arrangement is concerned. It like the Brotherhood said "hey we can play this part, and this part, and this part. So lets just put them all together." Really abrupt transitions in this song ruin it for me; incredibly sweet guitar playing, no question. If I was half as good as this...well...damn. Yeah. Sorry guys. I really want to enjoy this, but there's a significant amount of "WHAT JUST HAPPENED?" in here.

Where?

In his defense, he could be thinking about Sonic 2's HPZ. Yeah, because obviously this mix is a remix of that song. It says so right up there. "Sonic the Hedg--" oh wait; it says "Sonic & Knuckles." All sarcasm aside. Thanks everyone for the kind words. Personally, I think it's a fine REMIX. If you can't hear Hidden Palace in this song, go back and listen to Hidden Palace again, because the opening sax phrase is nearly verbatim. The chords might be throwing you off though.

You can't have played it to death without remembering the awesomeness that is Hidden Palace Zone.

Hey man, some DarkeSword music is always nice, right? I've got an original track I finished recently, and also my Ancient Hero mix could do with some playtime. Bother me on AIM about the original track though; I need to give you the full skinny on that.

Well, I don't use it for the actual funky rhythm stuff. I just wanted to make a 'triplet' chopper that would let me write triplets easier, instead of manually changing note durations. Anyway, if anyone can help, that'd be great. This probably won't help, but take a look at how many EFFECTS you're running on each channel. Sometimes that really kills you in performance, and you can usually get the same sound by using your effects more efficiently. I ran into a similar problem with an earlier version of my Twinkle Park mix, so I took a look at the effects, cut some out, and basically "optimized" my effects usage. For example, sometimes you can get away with having two channels set to the same FX channel for reverb, if your instruments are similar. Try some stuff like that. If all else fails, get more RAM. I run 1GB of RAM, and I don't really hit problems anymore.

It should just work automatically. Just make sure you click the little joystick icon on the X-Y controller's window and assign the proper joystick axes to the X and Y using the buttons under the joystick toggle. As for me, I'm wondering if anyone knows how to make their own Piano Roll Chopper patterns for FLStudio.

Not sure about a free one, but I believe you need to be using the latest version of FL in order to register your SF Player. It shouldn't be a problem if you own your copy of FL, as you get free updates for life, so you'll always have the current version. SF Player costs $35 to register. For purchasing information about FL, head over to http://www.flstudio.com

They actually don't share the chords; I just adapted Lava Reef's continuo line to Ice Cap's chords.

Jeez, are you sure you're not listening to MY midi? It's called IceCap Zone Snowboard strike, and it's available at my page. I wrote that MIDI years ago and reused a lot of the same ideas in this mix.

I think a lot of people realize it man.

Alright, thanks to everyone for your comments about my mix. I want to address something right now, that seems to be a big issue with the song. I like the bass sample. That's why I used it. I wasn't looking for something real sounding. I wanted something synthy with some bite. I actually tried a bunch of bass samples I had, and none of them provided the proper sound I was looking for. The bass sound fits the texture I wanted perfectly. If you don't like it, well, I'm sorry, but I do. Alright. Now for a little history behind this mix. Ice Cap Zone is a pretty special song for me. It's actually the first song I ever remixed. No, 'Hot Ice' isn't my first remix. A few years ago, I wrote my first remix, called 'Ice Cap Zone - Snowboard Strike.' It was written using Music Time Deluxe and Wingroove, a wavetable emulator that provided some cool GM MIDI sounds. That song is available here: Ice Cap Zone - Snowboard Strike Take note of the syncopated lines and the flute solo. They're nearly identical to the ones in this mix. A few months after that, I went back to the piece and did an extended version, with a longer middle section. Ice Cap Zone - Snowboard Strike (Extended Mix) A few years after that, I really got into composing and remixing. I noticed on the WIP boards that whenever somebody remixed Ice Cap, they would undoubtedly keep that "dundun, da da dundun, da da dundun, da da dundun" bassline that Ice Cap Zone is so famous for. I looked at my own previous version of it and thought to myself, "My mix really does something different...I should remake this piece with better samples and try to submit." So one cold afternoon in February, right before catching a train back home from college for the weekend, I reworked some of my old syncopated lines in FruityLoops using some soundfonts I had, and came up with something really nice. that Sunday night, upon returning to my dorm, I started working on it again. A blizzard hit NJ that weekend, so I was snowed in at school with classes cancelled for two days, and my roommate was still at home from the weekend. I took advantage of the solitude to tweak my mix, and came up with the great idea of using another Sonic song I had always wanted to mix: Lava Reef Zone. Listen to the organ and the flute at 1:38. Sound familiar? The flute starts its solo off with a quote of Lava Reef's melody, while the organ is playing the continuo line from Lava Reef over Ice Cap Zone's chord progression. I eventually tweaked this addition and finished the piece I had 'started' years ago. I submitted that week, and six months later, it was posted to OCR! So yeah, this song is really special to me, because it's the culmination of a lot of ideas and years of growth as a mixer. Thanks for listening.

That's nice, but this mix is by me, DarkeSword, not DarkCecil.

They're entitled to their opinion, of course.

Did you buy the full soundfont plugin, or are you just using the regular old demo soundfont plugin that comes with FL4? You need to have the full version of the plugin in order for the program to save your soundfont tracks properly. Nope, i didnt buy it, i use the regular ...well, so there is nothing else that i can do if i dont want to buy the plugin? That's right. The only thing I can recommend is to either buy it, or to keep a text file of all the instruments and their respective channels for personal reference.

Did you buy the full soundfont plugin, or are you just using the regular old demo soundfont plugin that comes with FL4? You need to have the full version of the plugin in order for the program to save your soundfont tracks properly.

I can see why DJ Pretzel put the deep in bold. That it one WICKED bass sound. This mix is really groovy, and has a different feel that you don't really hear in a lot of mixes. Lots of great sounds here, and solidly arranged. Excellent work Gecko. Always a fan. SOLID™