Hy Bound
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Good interview.
When i turned back after the interview to this page after having just read the Ms. PacMan -Hot or Not answer you gave, Pac Man was up at the top of the page winking knowingly and giving a big thumbs up...
I found it oddly ironic... or something.
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AWW THANKS GUYS you shouldn't have!
no, REALLY, you shouldn't have.
I C wut you did there...
...sadly, i didnt at first...
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Yay! I'm glad someone else was annoyed as well.
...though my problem with it is prolly cuz i never got a happy birthday thread...
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This is wonderful! This is probably my favorite kind of DnB feel and you captured an amazing mellow, yet ass-kicking feel throughout. The production is top-notch and the backing jazz cymbal is really awesome. The only problem I had was that it never really feels comfortable in where it is; like the song feels it needs to change things up quicker than necessary. Otherwise, this is incredible work and I hope to see more from this artist. Great work!
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Awesome song from an awesome awesome from the awesome kingdom in awesometon...
I've enjoyed all of your songs greatly and I'm very glad that my favorite mixer from yesteryear is now back and making awesome mixes again. Great work McVaffe, and I can't wait to hear more.
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I have a crappy on-board one that uses a conexant sound driver. but i have an m-audio mobile pre usb preamp/audio interface and a toshiba media center out-board sound card.
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So, I'm trying to set up my MIDI/Audio keyboard (Novation X-Station) and i find it needs an ASIO sound driver. I set it up in my DAW host (Ableton Live 7) and find that there is an input, but no output. Not even a choice of an output. WTF?
BTW, I'm sorry this is kind of a noob question, but its really getting frustrating.
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Yay! Get a damn Live thread in here! I had a lot of questions when i first started that having a Live thread here would have helped with.
On another note, the people on the ableton forums are a bunch of sniffy, pompous pricks.
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Truthfully, if I was going to buy something for 2,000 bucks I'd want something that didn't look like it was made in the '80s... That wouldn't be a deal for me even if it was 500 bucks. I admit it sounds nice and is made well, but seriously, if people are gonna spend that kinda moolah, it makes me feel better if the packaging actually looks like there was thought put into it.
...On topic, I'd say if they put a Korg Oasys on there for 2000 bucks I'd buy it in an instant. MMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....
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Since this seems more a discussion of the application of this technology rather than the technology itself, let me share something. Skip to 5:30 for the relevant bits, but be sure to go back and watch the jam session afterwards...
Intelligent arrangers like Band-In-A-Box and MySong are merely one of many tools at your disposal. Experienced producers can benefit from them, as you can use them to explore a variety of musical ideas. Band-in-a-Box helped me work out ideas that I wasn't sure would work, and it showed me how ideas I thought would work actually didn't.
The more software like this, the better. Amateurs may use it to throw crap together, but people who know what they're doing will use it to create even better music.
I completely agree!
I've been hearing a lot of the "software makes music for you, its gonna be the end of music as we know it!" theories for a long time and its only recently started to bother me. This kinda goes along with the new Melodyne software update that can take individual notes out of chords to fix it up. This only will help the experienced people make music better, not make shitty people good. No matter what medium of art, no matter how good the tools we use are, it isn't going to suddenly make all of the music shit. Sure there will be more amateurs and idiots making utter crap, but the talented people will always rise to the top.
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Dieselboy's the 6ixth session is a pretty good album, it was mixed pretty well. Its a bit more like photek's stuff, in fact i think photek is on it.
Kinda out of left field, but Oakenfold's Live in Oslo is actually pretty DNB-centric if i remember correctly; a bit more ambient DNB, but still more in the DNB vein. I can't stand oakenfold now, but that wasn't too bad of an album.
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In Live there is a "stretch" tool for the midi notes, so if you can figure out how long the notes need to be (in your case twice or half as long) you can do it. But for other programs I dunno.
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"Next week, more stuff you foreign bastards have probably been playing for months". Brawl, anyone?
I don't think Brawl even has a release date there yet.
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This review actually made me completely rethink my waning interest in ZP. Thank you Yahtzee, thank you.
...hehehe, gay jokes...
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Heh, well you could've about 2 weeks ago; my comp crashed and i lost everything. I went to look for it and can't find anything. The closest thing i was able to find was at a website: http://www.webplaces.com/html/sounds.htm
it brings you to a japanese site where i can't find anything to do with audio files... So if you can find anything there please let me know.
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My biggest mistake was not backing up my old projects on a flash drive or a external drive. I had a bunch of old songs that I'd love to go back and work on, or at least listen to, but I lost most of them because of a computer crash.
Hey that just happened to me!!! Hooray for the "it'll never happen to me" mentality.
As for being on topic, I'd have to say not getting serious in music sooner. There are a lot of people younger than me that I wish I was a lot better than just because I'm older.
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I was actually able to find that YOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo sound for searching 'Noh Theatre sounds' a while back. As for the shamisens and such, I use Colossus and haven't been able to find free or cheap versions of most of these samples anywhere.
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This is quite the awesome mix. Extremely well-engineered and fun to listen to. Although it was incredibly frenetic it never seemed to lose any sense of direction; it always felt like it was going somewhere good. I really hope to hear more from this mixer. 10/10 if I ever saw one.
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I was actually kinda 'meh' on this one, which is something I never thought I'd say about one of his reviews. I'm sorry to say my interest is waning in his reviews and it makes me quite sad.
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Let me preface this by saying that my wife works at Blockbuster, which, for the uninitiated is actually pretty awesome for me since we get 5 free rentals a week, be it games or movies. The downside to this is the fact that we have one car; meaning there are days I have to spend insufferable amounts of time in Blockbuster attempting to amuse myself by seeing how many movies I can correctly guess were directed by the same person.
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So during my time spent meandering down rows of games and movies i tend to overhear conversations of some of the many people browsing through games. Usually its made up of the different grunts of the 13-17 year old emo kids that live in my neighborhood, but a fair amount of the people i see looking for video games are parents. And while I'm sure those Emo kids make a good amount stupid choices, these parents are the sole reason games like "The Ninja Bread Man" (a game I hadn't heard of until i looked it up online and saw the reviews pan it for not even registering the Wii-mote most of the time) exist. Now, I admit that there are games out there that are considered to be bad by many people's standards that I enjoy quite a bit (Dynasty Warriors for example), but for god's sake, come on people. I don't need to think twice about whether or not a movie called "Meet the Deedles" (which was directed by Steve Boyum, who also directed You, Me and Dupree, incidentally) is gonna be a good movie. It isn't even a fringe group of people buying/renting this dreck either, its an overwhelming majority.
What made me want to post this rant in the first place was what happened yesterday while I was waiting for my wife to get off work. I was looking through some of the games to see whether or not they had DiRT (they have one copy, compare that to 4 copies of Spider-man 3) when I overheard a woman talking to someone on the phone about what game to rent for her kids. She hung up the phone without deciding anything and continued to stare at the games in a way comparable to a blind, semi-retarded Alzheimer's patient choosing which Quantum Physics book to buy. After about 5 minutes of this I chimed in to say that Smash Bros Brawl or Mario Galaxy were my favorites and that many of my friends loved them more than their own children. She mumbled something like "hehehehe, cheese" and grabbed a copy of both the Ninja Bread Man and Spider-man 3 and left.
Now I understand if I somehow confused her with the quip about loving games more than children or even scared her by snapping her out of her semi-conscious stupor, but damn! My wife then told me this afternoon that the lady came back today and told her The Ninja Bread Man wasn't registering with the Wii-mote and asked if she could rent something else... She rented Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games, which from playing it at a Target once I found was pretty dern boring.
I know this comes off as rather elitist and pompous, as someone who spends much of his time reading up on several different web-sites about even the worst games available, but its really starting to bother me that the average consumer of video games, movies, music, midget butlers, etc. only seems to look at the box art and exclaim "pimp-slap boxing! wow, and it even has graphics in it! I got's 'ta git me some o' dat!" But since it sells, more and more games are made based off of that same business-principle. Its nothing new, but I haven't really been exposed to the level of mediocrity people are expecting (or not expecting) from window-dressed games until lately.
Discuss.
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Sorry GT, I'm pretty sure thats not NWG. The only comparison I see is that he has a vaguely similar moustache. The NWG is without a doubt not spanish or hispanic; which is just what this guy looks like.
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So I downloaded the new "Album" (its not really meant to be an album in the normal context) done by NIN after they got out of a bunch of contracts with their label, apparently.
I'm not sure what to think of it truthfully; it seems like a lot of ideas for full-blown songs mixed together. I haven't listened to the whole thing straight through yet, which I'm told is where the real feeling comes from. It actually sounds like Trent Reznor's answer to BT's TBU with a bit more of an Amon Tobin's Foley Room feel thrown in.
Coming from someone who really enjoyed With Teeth, this is coming from a pretty different place. I really like quite a few of the single songs, but a lot of them don't really seem to go anywhere. For instance "34 Ghosts IV" starts out with an awesome buildup that gets completely taken-out for a piano and distorted pad bleh feel for the rest of the 5 and a half minutes. It just feels like they just kinda fucked around and tried to put it all together for an art-y project.
What are your thoughts?
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His reviews are still awesome-tastic. I haven't played Burnout Paradise, but I agree that having races based on trying to read a tiny little pixel-map while flying down and around curves at 150 mph is a tad on the retarded side. I don't really see why hes bashing the game for all the crashes though... thats kind of the whole point of the game. However, I'm only too familiar with the crash-ten-feet-before-the-finish-line-to-watch-your-first-place-go-to-5th-place poopcannon that mires Burnout 3. "Catch-up" in racing games is quite shitty.
Anywho... Awesome review as always. I've re-watched all of his reviews probably more than is healthy while I'm at work and I still can't find them to get old.
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Damn dude, you my sexy Swedish hero. this is an incredibly enjoyable track with some pretty awesome sounds that mesh really well together. I really like that ending effect of the song kind of slowing to a stop. Just all-around a dern sexy song and really well-produced.
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This one was absolutely awesome, best yet! All of his little quips were pretty flippin' hilarious.