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musique concrete, as originally described by pierre schaeffer, was originally supposed to describe aural ideas expressed through the manipulation of tapes. with the Nazis' invention of the magnetic tape recorder during the war, and the subsequent marketing of the technology in the few years following, schaeffer's ideas began playing sometime near 1948 on an egyptian radio station, if i remember correctly. the nature of musique concrete is that while it was originally based on found instrumentation, the invention and subsequent exploration of synthesizers allowed for an incredible amount of sounds to play with. early composers attempted to utilize popular compositional techniques - particularly serialism - to allow for some form to their creations, but for the most part it really was just playing around with sound - similar to early composers playing with ideas outside the traditional bounds of tonality and the church modes. if you want an example, there's a myriad of stuff out there that really fits this genre, but i'd recommend mario davidovsky's pulizter-winning synchronisms no. 6, for piano and tape. it's hard to listen to unless you've got a good explanation for what's going on, but it perfectly demonstrates these concepts. if you want something more 'found', schaeffer's early works would suffice, i'd think. since this youtube example's got a lot of pitch-shifting and all that, i'd say it qualifies as musique concrete. the use of various effects, like tape delay, stuttering, and timeshifting, kind of give that away. if it's just banging on doors and stuff, though, it's not really musique concrete. there has to be that manipulation of timbre and time to really give it that name. i did a lecture recital on the music of jacob ter veldhuis, and he was profoundly influenced by traditional musique concrete, particularly in his works Billie and Pitch Black (both of which are highly listenable, and really cool works for saxophone/sax quartet and tape). i also did a term paper on synchronisms no. 6 =) did that help?

gates of hell is electronic. in general, the use of non-traditional instruments to make sound is known as percussion. just kidding, doug! no, really, it's called found instrumentation. the vast majority are percussive instruments, since pretty much anything that makes regular pitches has been classified (like, there's five or six kinds of pitched instruments that consist solely of glasses with various amounts of different liquids in them).

fantastic link, there, BS.

i was laughing at that too for a while.

thanks, man.

usb is only faster if you don't have to back it up in the first place. with big files, i often just let it download overnight. since it puts it wherever (and downloads are stored sequencially), it's more annoying to have to defrag after lots of big files get transferred over usb for me than to just dl it again. it also depends on your download speed =) didn't realize it was a one-time thing.

you've already learned much, man. what an awesome newbie, for realz.

i don't get it, OP. what's so cool about it?

i know blue, red, and a bit of yellow. don't knock it =)

sorry for trying to help, kid. i generally don't store downloaded sample packs - i just re-download them on new machines instead of wasting time transferring them via slow interfaces like USB. normally, corrupted file errors like this stem from improper or incomplete downloads or transfers.

actually, by disabling UAC, you're just leaving your system more open to infections. try running the installer in administrative mode.

agility? pokefail!

you likely either have an incomplete download or downloaded the wrong version of EWQL.

i just saw the final trailer for this game. holy SHIT.

let's say men's large.

fair enough.

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.