Geoffrey Taucer   Members

Had an excellent workout this morning, took it easy in the afternoon. Spent a bunch of time doing rings strength in a spotting belt.

That really doesn't look much like him.

OA wins this thread

http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR01657/ (actually, it's a viola, but it's still awesome)

Try PMing Larry

There are a couple of remixers who do music professionally (Ziron, Christian Pacaud, and others), but most of us don't. For a lot of us, it's just a hobby on the side. We have day jobs (or in some cases night jobs), and just work on music when we get the chance. Myself, I'm trying to go pro, but no luck yet.

Had a hell of a day today. In the morning, I went to work out with a buddy of mine, and we spent the morning doing almost nothing but strength (with an occasional break to go throw some triples on trampoline) We spent a lot of this time in a spotting belt on rings. I came up with a strength sequence that we took turns doing: Cross, victorian, backward roll to cross, press to maltese, lift to planche, press to inverted cross. My shoulders were dead by the time I was done. After about a half hour break, I want back into the gym and spent another two hours or so doing strength (mostly arms and shoulders) and stretching (my left-leg split is getting really close to being all the way down)

http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=3483

I hate FF7. But I have decent mics, and as long as it's not too big a commitment, I'd be happy to record some stuff.

Yes .

Wow, I'm "back in the day" now? To be fair, I guess it has been forever since I submitted a mix. I guess I'll have to change that....

Check in. Decent week, but not a great one. I've been slacking off a bit on my cross work, and I can't hold a flat iron cross anymore, so I need to get back to strictly doing that every day. My planche seems to be steadily getting stronger, though.

Ok, perhaps I will give it a go. Note that I remain skeptical that this game will ever reach completion, but as long as the winner doesn't have to wait until release to get paid, I guess that's moot. What's the general athmosphere of the game? Should the overall feel of the piece be bright and exhilirating? Dark and ominous? Something in between? Something else entirely?

I can't make it this year

I agree that you should learn some theory, but I want to clarify: learning theory doesn't necessarily mean in a formal, classroom-type setting. There are a ton of remixers with little or no formal training. I would guess that probably half the remixers on this site (at least) never took any formal music theory training. BUT! This is not the same as not knowing theory. You don't have to know the specific terminology, but you do have to have a feel for the application of the principals in your music. You have to understand chord structure and progression, you have to understand time signature and key signature, and you have to be able to apply this knowledge in your music. This is something that some people can simply learn by ear from trial and error.

While I will not deny that $200 would be great, I have several questions before I enter a song. First of all, will this game be released commercially? What is the nature of the release? (ie downloadable on the internet, sold physically, or what?) Second, will I retain rights to the song? Third, will we recieve the money immediately, or after the game is released? (if the latter, don't expect anybody to enter until you've provided SUBSTANTIAL evidence that the game is approaching completion)

Best of luck to Jordan. Here's hoping for a full recovery.

It can be done for cheap or even free. In fact, it can be done extremely well for cheap or free, if you're creative. You can do a lot with reaper and free VSTs and soundfonts, and it is completely possible to create a passable and even an exceptional remix without spending a lot of money; definitely doable for under $100 and debatably doable for free (depending on what qualifies as "exceptional.") That said, if you're willing to spend money, you can HUGELY expand your options. The first thing you should get is a sequencer that you are comfortable working with. As far as capabilities, most of the popular sequencers are more or less equivalent; it's more a matter of which has the workflow that best suites your tastes. Reaper is $50 (for a recreational license), and it can, from what I understand, do just about everything you will probably ever need it to do. FL is pretty popular at around $200, and used by some excellent remixers, such as Zircon (who does music professionally) and DarkeSword. Note that DarkeSword uses (I believe) all free samples and effects. (Zircon uses about $33295720935780293850293587092875092375908 worth of additional samples and effects). Two other popular options are Cubase and Sonar; I use Sonar, and absolutely love it. The second thing you should get is a good soundcard. There are probably other remixers who can give you better guidance with this than I can, but I do know that there are some excellent options out there for under $100. The third thing you should get is good headphones (as far as headphones vs speakers: the best speakers are definitely better than the best headphones, but a >$100 pair of headphones will beat the shit out of a >$100 pair of speakers). You want headphones that are acoustically transparent; that is, you don't want headphones with built-in bass boost or anything like that. After that (assuming you're not doing any live instrument recording, which is another can of worms altogether), odds are everything else you'll want will be samples and effects; and you can get perfectly usable ones on the internet for free. Be warned; good sequencers are generally pretty complicated, and pretty intimidating when you're just starting; just stick with it and give yourself time to learn, and don't get discouraged when your first few mixes suck; everybody's do.

Unforunately, DKC3 and DKL's music sucked compared to DKC2 (though I have always wanted to remix the DKL temple theme...)

WAIT WAIT WAIT There are original FULL disc sets? Like, of the entire project? 'Cause if so I never got one. I got the demo CD with a few tracks on it, but I didn't get the whole thing.

Robo's theme from CT sounds very much like a Rickroll.

The track goes to the first person to send me a WIP that I like.

I'll probably go as Sabin from FF6

I'm considering comming in costume this year, if I can whip anything up between now and then.

You fucker! You should have posted BEFORE you moved! I live in North Raleigh, about 10 minutes away from NC State. Anyway, there's a ton of OCR peeps in VA, so you should have no trouble finding some cool people to hang out with.