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Ha, I did the exact same thing with Sonic. Especially when being in a car and looking out.

Some people probably feel that way because things like the mixer and channel settings aren't 'hard-wired' in the interface but are separate windows. It's something you get used to, well atleast I did, but I can see why users of other DAWs find it too cluttered.

IDM/Braindance? Dunno what Skryp's been doing lately really, but that's the genre that came up with the beats you're talking about.

Whenever I had been playing a lot of Diablo, it leaked into my dreams. Not so much story wise but in the sense that I saw my own health and mana bubbles, no matter if the dream was funny, nightmarish, sexual, or plain boring. As far as real life goes, rhythm and repetition are probably the main factors for a game to do something like that to your brain. Like combo chains in Tekken! There was a time where I couldn't stop pressing 10 hit combos into the air all day. You could call it an addiction to patterns i guess.

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Nice thread resurrection! Thanks a bunch Monobrow, DrumUltima, banana. Won't be my last 16-bit piece

Awesome! Wasn't it only a couple days ago that you only had 4 of 11 minutes of your piece done? I didn't know of your timebending abilities Seriously considering the $30 donation. Pretty amazing though how much money has been raised already. Rocken Sie weiter, mein Herr!

Doesn't read like a suggestion. The maker simply chose not to include any copy protection.

Not specifically, I was talking about the whole sound really. That's why I was wondering about your speakers. Because both the lacking and the overly prominent frequencies are consistent throughout the song.

You already know how to load VSTis don't you? After that, you load the soundfont and off you go.

Sound: Too shrieky. I did a bit of EQing on the mp3 out of boredom yesterday, and it sounded better to me with a decent boost at 200-500 Hz and a cut at 2kHz-5kHz (IIRC). The way it is now, the drums lack presence and the guitar riffs sound like a puddle of noise. It's hard to make out the notes at times. The EQ settings mentioned above definitely improved on that. Try giving the drums a lower mid boost as well. Out of interest, are you using cheap speakers? The sound makes for a slightly painful experience on decent ones. Talking about the arrangement, some sections are awesome. Good energy in general, loving the breaks. Good drum programming. The piece seems to lose focus during all the wankery though. The structure just feels a bit random at times, with one solo after another. I have absolutely nothing against soloing orgies, but some transitions could be better.

I sent you my demo via PM, hope you noticed.

Remember that tongue in cheek detector? It's a phonetic variant of 'special'. Try pronouncing it. Maybe picture a Troll Doctor from Warcraft saying it.

It's called a 'Reese Bass'. Google for tutorials. It's often used in a DnB context and sounds more aggressive there, but if you know the basic ingredients, I'm sure you can construct something like this too.

Is there a need for a 2nd Darkesword? You can find a style of your own that'll make you speciull.

Get a soundfont player VSTi like this one: http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=188856 Here's a good electric guitar soundfont: http://sound.thasauce.net/sf2/ultimate_guitar_kit_2.rar Nice for solos, but also ok for basic rhythm guitar. Check out the lower velocity levels at lower registers for palm muted strings. It's recorded via direct in, which means you have to use an amp simulator effect. Sampled guitars that are already amped by default have a much more static sound to them, so this is the way to go really. Try JMC900 from the bundle you can download here: http://www.simulanalog.org/ Example of what it can sound like: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?oy2jolwwfuz Happy chugging If you're looking for cleaner rhythm sounds, I'm sure the sf can pull that off somewhat convincingly as well, with the right amp settings. Experiment!

Most excellent. Mean synths.

I think you'd mostly get stories that don't sound too impressive for an outsider, full of EVE-specific terminology and gameplay logic. I suppose it's something you really have to get into to understand its appeal. I didn't btw, but my friend who plays it religously by now convinced me that it's pretty much the deepest MMO around. That doesn't mean that I feel any need to get into it though

My first remix still resides in the PRC archives: http://doulifee.com/prc/PrcSong/prc12/PRC12_Nasenmann_-_Psymon.mp3 Fruity Loops anno 2004, used mostly soundfonts and still relied on midis a lot. I still like the intro, for what it's worth.

http://www.zombiebazookapatrol.com/ ?

I love trackers when they control a relatively simple set of parameters, like Famitracker or TFMaker. It seems weird and counter-intuitive to me though to use them with polyphonic and feature-rich VSTis. Was it really an easy switch for you, or was it more about geekdom to begin with? I'd enjoy a video of someone rocking out with Renoise+VSTs from scratch. After all, trackers are still the fastest sequencers by design, I'd just like to see how well their workflow fuses with modern virtual instruments.

Awesome, I just created an instant OLRemix by opening 5 of the links simultaneously. Highly recommended.

If you mainly want to record, Reaper is the better choice. For sequencing via mouse, FL is indeed the best thing I can think of. The one terrible thing though about FL is the lack of proper time signature changes during a song. If it weren't for that, I'd probably stick with FL forever and wouldn't be playing around with Reaper at the moment. Reaper isn't free, is it? You have to get a license after using it for a month even though the program will still work. If you treat it as free software, that's not that different from using warez.

Yeahh, this one is awesome. Last year I had totally forgotten about my mum's bday until the day before, and Paulstretch saved my ass. She's into ambient music, and I managed to make a nice gloomy ambient album with it by making a couple crappy happy hardcore loops and sending them through it. Took about an hour, lol.

Btw, ever recognised how the noise channel is swinging while the rest isn't? Shnabubula pointed that out to me.