100_PERCENT ROEMER

He certainly seems like the kinda person who would be down for a little clowning around on the side. My only regret is not buying the clown van for $2999.99 when it was still up for sale...

This is some of the best music I've heard in at least a decade. Seriously.

I gave all three tracks a listen. My background is classical piano so that's where I'm coming from regarding my take on the tracks. Lucid dreams sounds like a midi, which is not a good thing. The piano is monotone and obviously digital and not in a good way. It's possible to make digital piano sound realistic, but you'll need to add some amount of reverb, sustain, stereo imaging, and perhaps delay to mimic the sounds of a real piano and give it depth. Variations in the velocity of the notes is critical and generally pianists will emphasize the 1st and 3rd beats in 4/4 time, the 1st beat in 3/4, and so on depending on the time signature. Some slight offsets in the note lengths, passing notes, trills, crescendo and decrescendo, and other human touches are generally necessary. Real piano recording for reference: If you're recording a solo piano track, then it makes sense to simply record a real piano and it's surprisingly cheap and easy to find a good piano and a couple of condenser mics these days. However, if you're wanting to include other instruments like you did for your tracks, then getting the recording to be in time and in tune with your other instrumentation can be very difficult, not to mention having to denoise the background to create more headspace for the rest of the mix. I'm not sure what DAW you are using, but in FL studio, even the stock FL Keys plugin is surprisingly good if you take the time to work with it. There are other free piano plugins that are realistic as well (I used to use Tascam CVPiano back in the day). The other tracks were... different. I noticed that there was a lot of dissonance as well. Dissonance can be an incredibly powerful tool but you have to return to some sort of root or resolution to prevent it from simply sounding like random noise. I don't know if you've heard of clown core, but I recently started enjoying their "music" and they are a perfect example of how to use dissonance effectively to convey a musical intention (Don't be fooled by the clowns! These two guys are extremely talented musicians). Take some time to find some sheet music and pick apart your favorite songs to analyze the key signatures and chord progressions. From there, read into the main melody and the accompanying harmony and see how it fits into a cohesive whole with the intention of a specific expression. Music is hard to understand and even harder to compose in a manner that is artistic because there are rules that you should follow except for when you shouldn't follow them. Quite the conundrum. And hey, you can also try learning an instrument! Once you know how to play an instrument or two it becomes much easier to understand how to write music for any instrumentation. Best of luck and don't give up! Edit: I took a look at your youtube uploads and just wanted to say that I really enjoyed Recusion - Black. Very nice ambient feel and a perfect fit for a menu!

Thanks for the info and recommendations (and warnings)! I already have a good analog mixer and it doesn't cost me anything to keep using it, so I'll probably just go with an inexpensive interface to add in between the mixer and PC for now to see how it performs. Thanks again for your help!

The most I record simultaneously is three input lines when I play my hollowbody electric guitar so I don't think I can get rid of my mixer for recording. I use 2 mics for the acoustic space, one line for the electric pickup, and then combine both the acoustic and electric signals which results in what sounds like two different guitars playing together simultaneously. Maybe this is a silly approach, but since the three inputs are ultimately reduced down into a L and R signal and fed into the DAW, I pan the acoustic signal entirely to one side with the electric signal panned to the other. Once I have the two independent signals on the L and R channels respectively (now both in mono), I then set up two completely separate tracks/FX for them in the DAW and then invert the panning so they're centered (more or less) and in stereo but with each "stage" having their own unique processing chain. Looking at some of the less expensive interfaces with two channels (like this one https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/OnyxProd22--mackie-onyx-producer-2-2-usb-audio-interface), I'm left wondering: will the signal going into the interface get processed by the computer before going to the outputs for listening? Or will the signal coming in from the mixer just go directly to the outs regardless of the USB connection?

I'm forever dreaming of alarm clocks running on turbo mode... (Also, making this track cured my tinnitus. Seriously) https://soundcloud.com/100_percent_roemer/forever-turbo-alarm-clock And if soundcloud isn't good enough, here's a terrible music video with 100% extra pain Source tunes are Forever Turbo Heat Dance, Pebble Man, and Men's Hair Club.

Howdy OCR, So after 10+ years of faithful service, my desktop and dedicated soundcard need replacement. I picked up a solid laptop on sale at CostCo but of course, the only audio output is a 1/8" jack. My previous setup used an audiophile 192 soundcard which had six breakout cables with 1/4" connections. This allowed me to go from an analog mixing board to the computer for processing in FL studio, then back into the mixing board via a separate 2-track (L/R) circuit which then would go to my speakers/headphones. Since I'm using a new computer entirely now, I wanted to know if there is some sort of magic box utility thing that could accomplish the same. See attached for what I'm looking for. My budget is around $200 but since I already have a good mixer, something small and cheap would be preferable especially if it connects via USB. Thanks!

Dude this goes hard! Nice work!

wow, this one's a hell of a mashup ahahaha. Love it!

banger!

lol I thought youtube started buffering at 1:09

Thank you very much! Unfortunately (and I should have had enough foresight to see this coming), the name is too long and it wraps strangely regardless of the browser used. Feel free to disregard this request if I'm asking too much, but could you amend my username to "100_PERCENT ROEMER" instead? (removal of the second '_' symbol) Sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks in advance if you can do it!

If possible, I would like to change my username to "100%ROEMER" to match up with my soundcloud profile and differentiate between my musical work and the other work I do. If it is impossible to include special characters such as '%' in a username, please change to "100_PERCENT_ROEMER" instead. Thank you!

What a fun concept! Please put me down for a remix from either the greatly underappreciated Knytt Underground or the greatly disturbing Lisa the Painful RPG. Edit: I'm going to claim LisathePainfulRPG - Forever Turbo Heat Dance ?

Quoting to bump cockbee into 2024 with style

the support that comes in at the 1 minute mark is nice and has that watery feel to it, but it was too quiet to really make out... If you think about famous water tracks like aquatic ambience, the kick is VERY subdued and minimal. The kick and percussion also has prominent delay on it to create that echo effect that really makes the track stand out. Maybe try to reduce the prominence of your kick a bit and muffle it a bit? Just a thought, feel free to disregard. Fun track regardless, nice breakdown at the 2 minute mark btw

reworked track from ground up including mixing board/sends and kick/808 samples, shortened intro, kept most patterns, added piano solo with variations on main theme, added more automation to the automation hellscape attached wav of most recent stable iteration - BC005 (2/29 10:20AM) ---- FL keys and the mixer are the last remaining tools that can function properly now, it's only piano from here on project file has deteriorated due to famisynth 2.5.2 32-bit and FL10 -> FL20 conversion incompatibilities ASIO drivers glitch heavily during playback with pops and clicks adding/removing instrumentation causes system crash closing FL causes m-audio soundcard driver crash followed by system crash famisynth plays on its own without patterns at points, used filters to alleviate this (sounds nice in the end though) exporting a new wav in a newly resaved file is the only way to listen to the track now, hah using this post as an external archive in case this cursed project causes my 10 year old pc to melt down entirely, now getting BSODs after system crash soundcard meltdown after 041.............................................. 045 - who needs soundcards anyway? 055 - nani?!? Stems exported from 064 for remixing, current iteration BC006 BLOOD_CONSTRICTION_006.wav

Learned the hard way a capo can do some legit damage to the strings as they grind away on the steel fret while clamped. Oh well...

oh dear, it's up now (I hope) unfortunately, soundcloud compression causes static and distortion on the kick. oh well.. distortion issue resolved

an abyssal hellscape of automation and reverberation https://soundcloud.com/100_percent_roemer/blood-constriction

great track, I've enjoyed listening to it over the last couple years. Awesome work, thanks for sharing

solid work, enjoyed it, thanks for sharing

oh rad man, I enjoyed that album, what track did you write??

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Sounds kinda like the premise of Terranigma, cool stuff! Get a rom and SNES emulator and give it a go sometime, might find some more inspiration from it.