prophetik music

it's render-farm level processing, so while theoretically it could be used on consoles, it'd definitely be reduced in quality.

i'd like a Save Carmine shirt, please. i'll paypal you the money in advance if i know you =) from the site:

i saw this somewhere else, a little while ago. while it's not a real-time engine, it's incredible! so much fun to watch. the cloth strips hitting the wall were stunning.

the wip i'm speaking of is Ballad of the Windfish. and, correct, sound test did a remix of Ballad/End Theme. these are two discrete songs, as noted by the different track numbers in the OP. if you don't want to finish it, i'll do it. it's no problem =)

your wip on the FTP is 1:24. and it sounds like the wip i heard over a year ago. is it done?

so you're not a pot smoker, then.

hey remixers, if you've got a wip that's still open, please check your pm boxes and get back to me as soon as possible. i am instituting a deadline!

it's not your fault. this would have been a great discussion if JM hadn't acted like a five-star McAsshole. that said, this is a pretty charged issue around here. it's particularly charged because of the change in standards over the years - there are certain older remixes that have been grandfathered into the system that don't hold a candle to some of the awesome music coming out regularly now. this doesn't mean that they are bad, or were bad when they came out. i have a lot of friends who thing OCR's remixes are terrible because they've only heard some of those earlier mixes. now, of course there's stuff that's still good music to be found in there - one of my favorites, for example, is Arrakis Wormsign, #60. but any system to rate them would be torn between a myriad of issues...between nostalgia value of the remixes, nostalgia value of the games (would neighburgers be overloocked for, say, one of the scads of generic FF7 remixes?), and feelings about the remixer (a few years ago, prot's mixes might not have ranked as high as they could). basically, as cool as ratings would be, people would just download the top twenty and ignore everything else. there are lots of flawed gems that get overlooked that way. kind of like what happened at vgmix =)

focusrite's saffire soundcards and preamps work fine. i've got a pro 40 that's excellent. mind you, i use w7 32-bit, but the drivers are supposed to work fine with both.

itt JM does not recognize either sarcasm or humor tbh, i'm planning on doing the same thing, though

i've been playing through starcraft again in anticipation of this. i'm never going to be any good at it competitively, but at the least i'll be able to enjoy the single player campaign extensively =)

i'm going to try to get it, as soon as the steam servers let me. looks really cool.

congrats, brian! happy for you!

this is fascinating!

for example, a man was arrested and incarcerated a week or two ago because his ringtone on his phone was from one of hitler's speeches.

probably because it's against the law to even really talk about that stuff. it's incredibly offensive to them, like a game involving tracking down and killing slaves would be offensive to us. except like a thousand times worse, since everyone there had family who were killed in WWII.

wait. asdkj;alsdf

an update to the previous post. if you're only using stock sounds, the drum samples as a whole suck. the fl interface, however, is possibly one of the easiest to get in and make beats with, simply because it's so streamlined. since samples are so prevalent online, however, you'd be pretty dumb to use stock sounds only. same statement regarding the basic included synths. fl's soundfont player, however, is excellent.

slightly incorrect. they asked for piracy by flaunting their hypervisor, repeatedly revising the EULA, and downgrading features out of the system, and people were dumb enough to go along with it. then hotz figured out how to get around the hypervisor, and immediately sony did more of the same, and lost a lot of their hardcore fans in the process. what's more, everyone went along with it, and blamed him for causing piracy. he didn't cause it - sony did, with their bad decisions and draconian policies. sony's business practices for the ps3 have been all over the map. opening up the system for extensive theming, making psn a haven for indie developers, not charging for multiplayer access, and allowing the use of the system for things other than just games (browser, linux, media center stuff) is what put them apart from the 360 among next-gen consoles. those were good decisions. sony's steadily been getting rid of these features, however, between the 3.30 update that removed linux (and forcing you to do the same to play online), taking forever to update the browser to add compatibility, and now charging for extra content access on a per-month basis - AND removing access to that free and paid content when you stop your subscricption (xbl doesn't even do that). as if it wasn't already bad enough that their constant updates for both the system and the games take forever to download and install, and that their content - downloadable and otherwise - consistently comes out months after the 360 and PC versions, and their controller feels like a toy, doesn't hold a charge after six months, and breaks easily. i've gone through four controllers on the ps3, and i play that maybe a quarter as much as my pc or 360. never broken another controller for any other system. they're also forcing in new features that aren't even fully tested yet, be it their clone of the wii controllers or their extensive bid on 3D technology that has the caveat of causing crushing headaches after as little as an hour of playing for a large portion of players, even with a $3k+ television. these are bad decisions that all relate to sony's desperate bid to make the console continue to be relevant through 2015. i don't think it's going to work, particularly if a wii HD or an X720 come out between now and then. edit: this post seems angsty. not intentional. i like my PS3 - i have a CECHE model, a phatty that plays PS2 games. i play quite a few exclusives on there, and am consistently impressed with their quality. i do not, however, play multi-platform games on it. the above reasons are why. everyone who knows me knows that i prefer my 360s for those games.

registered mail, man. it's priority mail plus two days, and someone has to sign every time it's touched. it's made shipping incidents go down from one in three for me to one in fifteen. much better =) and registered includes insurance and everything, so in that one incident we got the cash to fix it, no problem. pm me how much money you've got to spend, what size monitor you're using (screen resolution matters a lot when picking a gfx card for gaming), and what you want to do with it, and i'll get you a rough price asap. oh, and reaif, no, not yet =) we still live in a tiny little apartment. when we actually buy a house, i'll be giving it a shot. my sis-in-law is a vet, so i can get as much of the oil as i need - more than anything i just need some room to build it (and a general use for it, which i don't have right now).

so i guess you got it =) can i ditch the boxes now?

but your name is so good!

i've no experience with rackmount servers, no. tbh, while a rack is nice, it's way nicer to just put a little tower over in the corner. biggest issue with rackmounts is that there's no bloody space. all you need is something small and cheap that's at least an ATX mini tower, and it'll easily fit four or five drives (probably more since you don't need the optical slots). racks are cool, but it's rare you've got enough to fit in them. stick with a small case, not even a keyboard or monitor =)

i'm missing something here. what instruments do you want? you need to identify what you're looking for before you can scour for it. like, mitsuda, in chrono cross, uses a lot of wind instruments (flutes, oboe, clarinet), mallet percussion (vibes, steel drums, marimba), light strings, fretless electric bass, ethnic percussion (congas, shakers, tabla), and the like. don't look for a generic sample pack - look for good versions of these instruments. squidfont is terrible for melodic stuff, but would work for background and harmonic stuff. most of the instruments have incredibly long attacks, completely unrealistic. i'd suggest finding something like florestan strings for an articulate violin, bhcello for a useable cello (that's what i used on Canvas of Dreams), florestan woodwinds for the winds, and then just browse hammersound or something for the bass and percussion samples. there's tons of stuff out there - but you need to know what you're looking for before you look for it. edit: as for a soundfont player, FLStudio's soundfont player is good. i use that, since i use flstudio. if you're in a different DAW and don't want to switch, sfz's about as good as you'll find.

edirol orchestral is pretty poor overall quality. it's nice to get a whole orchestra for so cheap, but you get what you pay for. similarly, while garritan's gofriller is very easy to play live, it's poor compared to other, similarly priced options when it comes to sequenced stuff. melodyne is the best for fixing vocals. no questions asked.