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Gotta go with Kris here. She nailed everything. Gotta add though that the siren's a good idea, but it just sounds so dry and lonely; I feel like you're trying to evoke a kind of city-at-night-in-the-80s feel with it, but it just comes off as a cheap sound effect. Needs to sit in the mix better. NO, resub

The lead starts losing me a bit once you go into Metal Man's theme, but it's not too much of a dealbreaker. Performances are killer and it's a great arrangement. Something about the soundscape reminds me of good Japanese doujin rock. Great stuff. YES

Would have also liked some more interpretation; what we got is pretty conservative. Really clean though, and some nice variation throughout. The build with the clock stuff was cool, would have liked to have some clock sounds stick around. Some sections get pretty lush. I like it! YES

Said this the last time I heard it. I feel like it still applies, for the most part. Synth lead is especially still just going off in weird directions; it's like you're afraid of sustained notes. Whatever; I suppose it's just a compositional style that doesn't jive with my personal tastes. It really is excessive on a second listen-through, though. Arrangement is pretty creative, and not badly produced either. I could see other Js passing this. Gonna vote NO for now, but if any other Js give some solid arguments, I can change my vote to close this out.

This probably would have been better if you performed it at a real English pub. *cough* Anyway! I think it's just fine. Volume levels could probably use a little bit of tweaking and I agree that maybe the ice cubes were a bit much, but the performance is great and the instrumentals are really good. I think it's a nice, creative take on the theme. I like it! YES

I think Larry's on the money. Maybe I'm being a grandpa too but the Spark Man sections just felt way too straightforward in their approach. Would have loved a lot more creative sections and more interpretation. Started getting some of that around the end, but it felt like too little too late. Aforementioned crackling was also pretty noticeable. The piece came alive during the more interpretive sections, but for most of it it felt like it was going through the motions; maybe just a touch too slow which ended up making the piece feel like there was a lack of energy. Needs more. NO, resub

Yeah, that's enough talk about depression in this thread. If you want to discuss depression and suicide in general, take it to PPR. Just split a crap-ton of posts to a new thread in PPR. Let's keep this thread about remembering Robin Williams and how great he was. If you feel the need to get on your soapbox about depression and suicide, keep it to yourself. If you really feel the need to get on your soapbox, go to PPR, but I still recommend the former option.

Yeah, this hit me hard too. Loved his work. Immensely talented and unbelievably funny. RIP, Mr. Williams.

This is done.

No, it's not mind-blowingly awesome. It's good, but the first half is rough around the edges. It's only in the second half that it starts to get really good.

i have a question for the panel how dare you?

Yeah, basically. Humans also get tired at night; that doesn't mean we're "powered by the sun," it just means that we have circadian rhythms that we're adjusted to which line up with a day-night cycle. Incidentally, we can adjust our circadian rhythms if we want to sleep during the day and do things during the night, and we'd be just fine. Animals aren't "powered by the sun." That's photosynthesis, and like The Damned said, that's what plants do. Okay but that's not what's happening in Attack on Titan. There is absolutely nothing in the series that actually suggests that everyone is experiencing mass hallucination. The horror of the Titans is very real and is something that characters throughout the series witness individually. People are actually being eaten, destruction is actually happening. There are more things that happen in the manga that suggest what the Titans actually are, and misconception and mass hallucination don't play into that.

Ants aren't machines that run on solar power. I haven't seen the anime, so I don't know how far it's adapted the manga, but there are revelations about the Titans later on that indicate something more going on than just the idea that they perceive us as ants/insignificant beings. You're making a lot of weird assumptions and leaps in logic here.

Yeah, getting really tired of people making birthday threads for random forum members.

August 8 - August 10, 2014 Baltimore Convention Center Baltimore, Maryland, USA We're returning to Otakon! Come and join us at our panel this year for great music, new trailers, game tournaments, and prizes! OC ReMix: Video Game Music = The Greatest Thing Ever! Friday, Aug. 8, 2014, 11:15AM, Panel 2 (4th Floor!) Panelists: djpretzel DarkeSword Level 99 Arrow Palpable

|12:32:09| »» <@DarkeSword> you guys having trouble with piantee joe sources? |12:32:58| »» <DeiaVengen> yup |12:35:17| »» <@DarkeSword> hrm |12:37:02| »» <@DarkeSword> gelato beach string counter melody is |12:37:04| »» <@DarkeSword> right there |12:41:08| »» <@DarkeSword> rest of the backing track uses gelato beach/delfino main melody which is sort of chopped/syncopated

AudioBus is an audio routing tool in iOS that allows you to stream audio from one app to another app. It's the backbone of inter-app connectivity for music production apps on the platform. AudioCopy is essentially a clipboard for audio on iOS. It's also incredibly useful for moving audio data between apps. Those two things are not essential for playing chiptunes, but given that a huge part of Gambi's functionality is dedicated to remixing and audio manipulation, not having those things present in an Android version essentially guts the application and turns it into just a chiptune player—which is what you're looking for, obviously, but porting Gambi seems like it would be a waste, because it wouldn't even be the same application.

Try , from Hiroki Kikuta's Soukaigi soundtrack. Truly gorgeous string track.Honestly just check out the entire Soukaigi soundtrack. All live, great expressive tracks.

Wow that's gorgeous.

Thank you everyone who came out and saw us at ConnectiCon. We didn't get a massive turnout at our panels but the folks who showed up were all super-nice and super-enthusiastic. Also much love to all the folks who came by our table and talked with us about games and music. Met a ton of cool people this weekend!

I have it! It's awesome.

from Super Mario Galaxy 2 always puts me in a good mood.

Yes, the show takes a lot of breaks. It's not going to ever be completely weekly. There are holidays and events and other things that happen that keep us from doing it every week. There's nothing wrong with that, and honestly I'd appreciate it if folks would stop digging at us every time we don't have an episode. I like doing Talkback a lot, and I'm really glad people enjoy tuning in when it's on, but if we don't do one and miss a week or two, then that's what happens. Anyway, enough about that. A Futebol Arte Talkback is definitely something we can do but it needs to be done earlier in the day because Ivan is on a radically different timezone and we don't want him to have to stay up until 4 or 5 in the morning for it. CTCon is also this weekend so we have to see if it's feasible for us to do this on a different day this week or push it out until next week.

The first episode of the original anime was also very closely based on the first chapter of the manga, which is why both first episodes are so similar.