prophetik music

i've actually never done a sax mix for any of these. i've never recorded anything for these competitions, period. first time heroe, your track is pretty fun to listen to =) it needs way more balls, though, particularly in the intro. add some more juice to the intro and i'm in lurve. you did so much creative stuff with the melody itself, and your use of effects as a whole was really creative and varied for the most part, i thought. dress it up and have blind or zircon show you how to add the bump to it, and you've got a really spectacular song. for those wondering, the guitar isn't live. it's from BGC's acoustic revolutions pack...and it was in 4/4 and not in the right key, and didn't include some of the chords that i needed, hence why it doesn't sound right all the time. it did a decent job for what i was asking of it, though, so i was pretty happy.

i submitted my track this morning. 7/8, jazz/pop, managed to use BGC's acoustic revolutions pack even though it's not the right meter OR key. huzzah for melodyne editor's ability to change minor chords to major =) i'm excited for this round. this isn't necessarily the best i possibly could have done, but i approached this totally differently than in the past for this stuff. instead of asking myself what the best genre and chord progression was for the track, i chose the oddest genre i could think of and wrote most of the chords before i started getting the melody worked in. i only added one chord - that pesky major III in bubble man that you just can't get around - to what i had originally already written. for coming to this track in such a bass-ackwards kind of way, i think it turned out pretty decent.

the multiple endings thing was supposed to encourage the use of the New Game+ option, particularly since it was so easy to get most of them. now, chrono cross's multiple endings were really hard, imo, to get. i worked for days to get the best ending.

he's a riot to play, isn't he?

you didn't get the good ending, brandon. go watch youtube. it's basically impossible to get the good ending if you don't know what to do when, since there's no on-screen cues, but the good ending is significantly better than that one.

ffx2 is considered by most japanese game writers and reviewers to be one of the better jrpgs to have ever been released. i think famitsu has it listed in the mid-30s all-time among any game, ever. maybe 32? i forget. i did a little research on it for a writeup a did a while back. it's got a high metacritic rating, too. that's almost more notable, showing that it was well-received in all three major theaters of the gaming world, unlike some other high-scoring games that weren't ever reviewed overseas. i got the information off of wikipedia, so i'm sure it's still there since it was referenced and supported.

i could NOT understand this until i realized that brush hotlinked an unlinkable picture that didn't render until i quoted it. still don't get it, but yeah.

chat's broken again. anyone online?

fantastic track. the homecoming track is pretty solid as well =)

no, we need more Neskvartetten =)

kthnx. bs, you're a doll if you didn't mean that, what did you mean? there aren't very many ways to take your statement there. you want blind voting because you feel it levels the playing field - but the only thing it removes is the name. what are we supposed to think you meant? i doubt this just popped into your head, so i'm assuming that it's related to this tournament, and the last match you had pretty close as it was. names might have swung it either way - but i know at least one person voted for you because they felt your track was so much better than what they expected from you. so name recognition swings both ways. that one person might have swung it in your favor in a different matchup. how did yours turn out, heroe? mine's really, really different from what i was originally going to do, and i'm stretching the source a bit to get there, but i think it's going to turn out ok. i have to record for it, which is something i've never done for one of these compo mixes. i always synth everything, but i can't get the right sound otherwise. but then again, what exactly IS the right sound with a mixed-meter guitar-driven jazz/pop track?

no worries. all couples have those conversations once and a while, married or no. i'll be on in an hour and a half or so (930pm EST) if anyone else wants to visit with me... =)

exactly why it's useless. DoD works because a zillion people submit, and no one knows who submitted and who didn't. in a bracket, it'd be pretty obvious who did which. i mean, can't you pick Lemon's style out from, say, willrock? bs is pissed because he thinks people voted against him because they don't like him. i'm sure that others have the same feeling...but then you look at the brackets, and you realize that rozovian and aeroz both lost early. so, yeah. that doesn't stand at all. in any of these brackets. edit: also, superiorx, neblix didn't mean it when he said that he'd vote against me to spite me. not only would his brother kill him, i'd never give him computer help again. this would make him cry.

hmm. 90s alt rock, complete with live guitar and bass? possibly. let's see if i can pull it off.

immature? not at all. you can appreciate the art and story in a comic just like you can in a book. and if you're into games like dominion, puzzle strike, yomi, or flash duel, there are a good number of players on here as well. we play using the online interfaces for each game occasionally. you'd be surprised how many adults enjoy these hobbies - even more so than the 'target audience' - since they've got the disposable income to partake in them. just because people tell you that games are immature doesn't mean that they are. what's more immature - a guy who plays some board games with friends, or a sports nut who just sits and watches soccer all day, or a car jockey who sits and works on his car all the time and doesn't interact with the outside world? welcome to ocr =) make yourself at home. we don't bite. usually.

is there recompense? is the movie for sale, or for free?

don't feel bad. there's a lot of people who are almost afraid to say that someone's song isn't up to the level of a different one. we live in a competitive society, though - do you like songs more than others? sure you do. you're allowed to put your own songs into that category. it's important to be proud of what you create, and to feel that it is excellent. that'll drive you to succeed, i think. that said, success is relative anyways, so if you make music that you enjoy, that should be a reward in and of itself.

i'm on too.

boomtiss is the only acceptable judge bias.

username, zircon? there's a lot of items, yeah, but it's got roughly the ratio of items to champions that demigod has, so it's not that bad. zero, yeah, i was hosing minions left and right with the AoE thing urgot has. it was basically three on five there for a bit, but they were dumb and kept racking up deaths by charging in without support and getting dicked over. i was up to 45% lifesteal at that point, so i basically just sat there and didn't move for minutes at a time.

the artist has an opinion, too. for example, hylian voted for mine last round. i also voted for mine. we both voted for what we felt was the better track. does that mean that hylian's track wasn't good, or that he's a terrible musician, or that i'm a terrible person for not voting for his, or that he eats kitty cats in stew on wednesday nights? nope. i should confess that i have not voted against myself yet, including last year when i lost to txai. i felt that my track was a better arrangement, so i stood by my guns. still lost badly, but that's the voting community for you =) my production was pretty bad, which is why i lost a lot of votes, but i've already discussed my voting beliefs earlier and i don't feel like rehashing that. if hylian's track had been as good as his track from the previous matchup, i'd have voted for him. his arrangement there was way better than mine was in the third round...but that's the tournament for you. i DO have an issue with artists voting for theirs just to cancel out the other person's vote (bs). if you legitimately feel yours is better, great! if you're just being an ass because you don't know how else to be, don't vote.

i think the idea was that the person clearly was almost there and just needed a bump to get over the hump. zircon helped me with my super dodge ball track several years ago with the same thing. also, in4 racist ban.

zero that 80m game we did was absolutely epic. you were what, 40-10-25 or something? too bad i sucked so hardcore before level 18.

forgot about that. i think that was related to how annoying it was for people to complain that their track was too hard and they couldn't finish it after three months.

not true, fred. i went slow and low for my last two songs, and still won. not sure what style i'll roll with for this last song, but we'll see.