Geoffrey Taucer

Awesome. Also, first VOTL review. Anyway, beautiful vocal performance by Jill, great arrangement, overall very well done.

My brother plays peach, and fucking owns with her. He's a little bitch.

Is there a way to get DOSbox to output midi data rather than emulating old midi sounds? To put it more concretely, would there be a way to run the music from dosbox through an external synth via the soundcard's midi out?

Damnit. Now MAGfest will be all Krozed up. EDIT: I'd offer you a room, but I don't want to catch Kroze.

If you're comming that far, I'm sure nobody will object to giving you some floor space at the very least. As for getting a ride from the airport, if you don't get anybody here, try signing on to #magfest on irc.vgmix. I'm sure somebody will be happy to. Depending on how far the airport is from the hotel, I may be able to come get you, though it would probably be better to find somebody else if you can.

Ouch. ten characters

I love VGmusic. Also... OLD!

I'm thinking about buying some orchestral samples, and need reccomendations. The main thing I need is good brass, though decent strings would be a definite plus as well. Right now for orchestral stuff I use some Colossus and my Motif. Is there anything under $300 that would offer an improvement over these?

This is true; the intro should punch you in the face.

Jesus Christ Superstar has ballads. I doubt it will be a problem (though of course Hemo and Sammy are the ones who really have the final say in that)

For great lulz

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Vilecat, you might see if you can get a bus or train as far as NY, and then get a ride from there.

Today pandora... tomorrow the world! Nice work

Just ordered. Demos sound fantastic.

www.smashboards.com. Go to the regional zones section, see if you can find any tournaments in your area.

I think I should clarify; what I meant was would a pad alone be enough, or should I do a more involved synth line/arpeggios/whatever? Or should it be something entirely?

I agree that some electronic percussion could add a lot. I'm a complete n00b with electronic percussion, though (and percussion in general really isn't my strong suite) As for filling in the background, do you think I should use a simple pad, or should it be something more active? It has no bass currently; I'm depending on the rythm guitars to fill in the low end. DO you think I should cut the low end on the guitars and add in a bass? And if so, do you think guitar bass or a synth bass would work better? I'm probably going to drop down for a quieter section where this ends.

http://h.xerol.org/f.php?f=475 Metal/folk/ethnic/orchestral (mostly metal) version of Carol of the Bells. Unfinished, of course.

I'm working on a mix for which I'd like to have electronic percussion, and would like to do it myself, but I don't have the faintest clue how to do it. I'm stalking about something like Back to Skala or The Delay or Snowfall on Forbidden Lands (probably the best example of what I'm aiming for). How does one go about doing this sort of percussion? Is it done with simple samples and creative sequencing/processing, or is there some manner of drum synth that would do the trick, or is it something else entirely?

What is the wind instrument in the intro, anyway? And is it real? It certainly sounds real.

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Awesome mix, great blend of styles. I look forward to hearing more from audix.

Definitely no problem with learning, though my point was more that there are plenty of guitarrists who might be willing to work with you if the arrangement is good. live.xerol.org is a good resource for this.

If you want good-sounding guitars, your best bet is to find a real guitarrist. As far as getting samples to sound good, fake guitars depend far more on your ability to sequence and process them than on the quality of samples. Get a good amp sim and take the time to put together all the intricate dynamics (bends, slides, the occasional extraneous noise from the frets/fingers/whatever) associated with live guitar, and even a mediocre sample can sound decent if you know what you're doing. But without the right dynamics, even the best samples in the world will sound like shit. Honestly, getting it done on a real guitar would probably be easier.