prophetik music

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it's pronounced exactly how swedes would - linn-ay-uh. isn't it like the #2 name for girls every year in sweden? it's a flower.

that was the joke, right?

sony's software is trash. i'm using calibre (open-source ebook library and converter), and it's worked pretty well compared to the abortion that the Reader Library is. put about 300 pages of reading on it so far, reading the first of the Dragon Age novels. if you do what i did and load 400 ebooks on it at a time, be prepared for it to take forever to process everything properly. i had to let mine sit for over an hour before i could use it. also, sony's reader uses tags for the 'compilations' search function, so i had to go through and tag everything properly. don't bother using calibre's series functionality - just put the number of the book in the title, so you can find it later. also, the reader alphabetizes author's names by their first name. not the best choice, but whatever.

i picked it up but haven't played it yet. looking forward to it, though - i think i'll like blur better, but this one looks like crazy fun for now =)

an easy way to work with vibrato is to automate the depth of whatever LFO you're using to control it (depth = amount of either pitchbend or volume fluctuation you're using to create the vibrato effect). by automate, i mean ramp it up when you want vibrato, and ramp it to 0 when you don't need it. recording automation by just clicking and dragging is a good idea here - in fl, just hit the record button and control the level of the knob by turning it with your mouse when needed. i thought that was a little self-explanatory. did i miss something?

thunder sheets = thunder plates. depends what shape they're in - if they're free-hanging strips of metal, they're sheets. if they're strapped down on all sides (giving it a more pitched tone), then they're thunder plates. you might find an anvil also named a brake drum - being, literally, a drum brake from a car that's struck with the rounded head of a ball peen hammer or handle/shaft of a screwdriver. timpani in the other tracks don't sound like that because they're in a different range of the instrument. if we're talking about the same instrument (3 16th notes, starting at beats one and upbeat of two), then it's timpani we're talking about.

cid's theme uses timpani. they just sound terrible. the thing in the turks theme is supposed to be thunder plates of some sort, i believe, or the cymbal equivalent (like a china trash or something), cut short. the thing in fighting is an anvil, a la song of the blacksmith. it's pitched down to make it ring longer.

my wife dressed it up a bit to fit the larger size. posts aren't dated on purpose, so it's not immediately noticable when i forget to update them for a month =) RSS feeds are, though, of course. thanks for the props, guys =)

as part of a class i took this semester, i designed a website for myself. i'm pretty happy with how it turned out. presenting: prophetikmusic.net! on my site, you'll find some information about myself, a regularly updated blog/newsroll, and (of course) lots of new music! there's a fully functional RSS feed from the site, too, so you don't have to visit every day to catch the new material as it's released. feel free to check it out, and let me know if something's not displaying properly in a browser. thanks, everyone! props to kanthos for the web advice and relyance for the basic design of the header (that my wife then modified for the site design).

i'd like to read everything again a few more times. i'm particular when it comes to what i like and don't like, and that's why i tend to re-read books several times over the course of the years. anyways, i got it in the mail. i'm charging it now.

i know, idiot. i'm just saying that it was actually warranted here, instead of someone saying how they're dying of cancer and then someone either says that or tl;dr.

the original kindle didn't, but all of the sony readers do, as well as the kindle 2 and kindle dx. dunno about the others. actually, the sony reader reads most of the drm-free formats, like epub, txt, rtf, word docs, etc. charlie's angel, you're the kind of person who sells your games after you've played them once, aren't you? i save everything i've read, just in case i want to read them again. that way i don't have to buy it again if i want to go through a big series again. besides, how much do you get for a mass-market paperback? a dollar? that book's worth more to me than that =) tinus, sony's readers allow for text scaling, but you have to do it in the program that comes with it, i think =( oh well. most ereaders, due to the refresh rate, suck with textbooks unless you just want to read them like a book. hard to go back and view other stuff.

did you even read the op? it was totally useless. contributed nothing to the thread. hence, the cpb.

+1 ploos woon

i recently purchased a sony reader touch, a full-color touchscreen ebook reader. i'll be receiving it tomorrow. i'm an avid reader, particularly of sci-fi and fantasy novels. however, my bookshelf is literally crammed full of books, and for all practical purposes i'm running out of room. i'd had my eye on the kindle for a year or two, but it always seemed impractical to buy a device that would allow me to repurchase all of my books. i found this on woot a week or two ago, and said to myself, "time to spend some birthday money". i've been filling my ebook library between then and now, and i'm up to almost 500 books of free content, be it classics like Bram Stoker's Dracula or free releases like Brandon Sanderson's full book Warbreaker that he released earlier last year. i'm very excited to get my reader tomorrow. this model is particularly cool because it supports me writing notes into it with the included stylus, as well as pictures (for comics online) and audio (for audiobooks and music). does anyone else out there have an ebook reader? what do you think?

i lolled, malaki

how so? like, why was it so bad?

i'm going online RIGHT NOW to play reach. i'm pretty bad, but fun to play with =) send me a friend request if you want to play! edit: if you don't know what mouseover means, my gamertag is prophetofsax.

this might be worse than that time that garrett graves said, funniest thing i've ever heard on these boards. you know alicia keys was at columbia university for music before she dropped out for her 'songs in a minor' record contract, right? that she graduated prep school in three years? that she won like five or six grammy awards as a result of her first album? have you ever heard her play the piano? yeah, that's just a songwriter doing it for her. not like she's been writing songs since she was 14 or 15 or anything. in other news, this sampleset is the best piano sampleset available now for anything that's not historically accurate classical works. it can do anything.

medium range combat definitely improved with h2's battle rifle, but the addition of guns like the focus rifle, needler rifle, and the newly redesigned battle rifle in this game (as well as a decent pistol again, finally!) make a big difference.

i'd be up for during the day on wednesday (or really late, like 11pm est), or tuesday night. i'm pretty bad, but i've had my moments.

halo was never meant to be a fast-paced game like that - it's always been a little slower, forgoing twitch for a little more strategy. nice for people like me who aren't as good at that kind of stuff