prophetik music

this isn't a deal thread. this is for stuff you're selling.

next week around this time i'll have a copy of FO4 for the xbox one. if anyone's interested let me know what you want to pay for it. don't know if it'll be a code or physical copy.

if you want an xbox one, there's a sale on thanksgiving starting at 6pm that dell's doing where you get an xbone 500gb, the Gears of War collection, an extra controller, and Fallout 4, for 300$. the gow xbox bundle normally costs 350, so this is 50$ off plus about 100$ worth of stuff. i'll be buying that. i'm playing fo4 on pc already, so i don't really need that for the box, but i can sell it for cash for close to what it's worth in-stores. it'd be worth it even without that game, honestly. also, it's online only, so no stores required. gonna need to find copies of the master chief collection and halo 5 now.

nice, let me know when you do it and i'll try to help out where i can. re: cases, if you don't care about size, the HAF 9XX models (912, 922, 932) tend to be pretty nice for their cost. i was really impressed with the last one i encountered. they have big fans, and cooler master makes them quiet to begin with. i didn't even bother putting yate loons on them since they were pretty quiet already. yeah neblix, now that the storm scout's gone, my go-to is missing =( i loved that case, but my new one (carbide air 540) is better for what i needed now. it's better to work with a clean slate for windows in general than do an upgrade if you can avoid it.

i recommended w7 since it's the last one i've got extensive experience on. i use w10 for my gaming system, and it's all right, but there's some wonk there that i'm not a huge fan of. w7's still the most widely supported OS at this point, so i don't see a reason to go for 10 yet unless the alternative is a version of 8 - in other words, buying new should be 10, building or buying old should be 7, at least right now.

i'm heeeeeeere! neblix shot me a pm pointing out that i have info for people who need it =) in short, if you're willing to spend 700 or 800 bucks, build your own, or have someone do it for you. you'll get roughly the same numbers for your CPU and RAM, but you'll get *way* better quality in the mobo, PSU, etc. that's the parts that let the system run for years and years without a hiccup. the primary difference between these two machines is the discrete card in the dell, along with the dell having bluetooth, and the xps name itself (which is still a pretty respected name in big-box machines, dell dude aside). i would disagree that either'd be able to handle a big session, though, as 8gb is not much when you get into bigger sample sets. i can max out 8gb pretty easy doing any orchestral track, and the last time i did a rock track i ran that over pretty fast too with a few instances of guitars and the drums. building a computer is rarely more expensive for the same level of quality (it's usually vastly cheaper). W10 is not the daw i'd be using right now (W7 is, still, although from a perspective of W8 vs W10 I'd go with 10). having an external audio interface is super nice (i had a saffire pro 40 when i was doing a lot of mixing), but not required. i disagree with virtually everything supercoolmike said - sorry, i think you're still super cool =( RAM is one of the most important things at allowing your system to scale to bigger projects, arguably even more than CPU since you can always bounce tracks to wav and just load them after you've got them iced. additionally, raw straight-line speed on a cpu isn't as important as a good multicore setup, although this is less of an issue nowadays with everything being quad at a cheap price point. the thing is, RAM's cheap enough that you can just drop in piles of it and it doesn't matter. the cpu's the thing that's hard to upgrade if you don't plan ahead with your choice and what is offered in the slot you pick. here's my requirements for a good mixing pc: -discrete OS drive -8gb ram *minimum*. buy it in 8gb sticks so that you can expand easily...the bonus in speed from dual-channel 4gb sticks ain't worth it for the loss in potential slot use -big quad for the CPU. plan on spending as much money up-front on this so that you don't have to upgrade later -a good cpu cooler, since you're going to stretch the cpu most of the time newegg's site's having an issue right now with searching for components, but if i was spitballing it, this's what i'd see. cpu: i7-4790, 310$ (might as well pick what those machines you looked at had). 30$ more gives you a 4ghz cpu with an unlocked multiplier. cpu cooler: hyper 212 evo is my go-to, 35$ case: cheap micro-ATX like the tx-381, 40$. and a sweet handle, too! =D mobo: H81-based micro ATX mobo, 75$ range psu: corsair CX500, 45$ ram: 40$ for 8gb is standard os drive: either a samsung evo or a kingston v300 (evo for performance, v300 for cost), roughly 120gb is good for an OS drive on a pure music machine. figure 80$ for the evo or 50$ for the v300 sample drive: 1-2tb internal drive - i only buy WD, usually a Black model. 70$ for the 1tb and 120$ for the 2tb. going with the v300 and the 1tb internal, and 8gb of RAM, that's 665 or so for the parts for a machine that's got waaaay higher quality parts in it than those bigbox versions, and it's got a lot more features (like the aftermarket CPU cooler, the OS drive, and a better sample drive). you'll just need a flash-drive with the windows install disc on it is all, or drop another 20$ for a dvd burner. if you want to talk specifics for a custom system, ping me and we can chat. i can just about always make a system work for a good price.

i pm'd baha to let me know ages ago when this was posted so i don't forget again. looking forward to participating. edit: i may or may not have looked through last year's list to figure out what to ask for, since i'm terrible at that crap =P

this is sort of the most basic form. or, are you looking for an enclosed case to actually display the vinyl itself?

gotta keep it going =P this track is super great! i love the care taken with each part, and how to make them intertwine.

bardic and his brother play quite a bit. i've joined occasionally but am not particularly far along in the game. i like the characters that are just huge stunbots, they're pretty fun. i'll post a number when i get back home.

i sorta forgot about it, several times but i think i showed it to you back in 2012 when i first started it!

haha those strings and timpani =P

you mean, like every composer ever has done?

what is your dirty music composing and listening secret? are you a bluegrass artist that loves nightwish? are you a sound engineer who loves tracks that are slamified to the maxilation, way past the realm of reason and logic? maybe you just really like taylor swift and can't admit it in public. mine is that i really, really like overcompressed drums and layered/repeated phrasing. surprise! all those things that people point to when they complain about my music...i love that stuff. i hear it every time, but i don't take it out because i love that part

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YOUR NOT MY DAD

any time a thread devolves into sentence-by-sentence responses to posts, you can be sure someone is thinking "if i just shout louder they'll listen to me this time".

i have no concerns about performance as i was able to easily emulate FF12 with every graphics option i could think of cranked before i upgraded my system, so emulation is cool if someone's got a good suggestion for an emulator. is there any additional content in the pc version? has anyone else tried any of the mods on the internet yet? edit: bleck, more interesting as in harder, or more interesting as in makes something different?

i haven't played ff7 since i used my old psone to play it through after buying the game off the shelf at walmart. i'm interested in playing through it again in anticipation of the re-release of the game. i figure it won't be out till next holiday season (if it'd been this Christmas, they'd have said it!), so i've got time to play it and then get away long enough to replay the remake. so how should i play it? i know there's a ton of mods out there - has anyone played through some of them? if i do it vanilla it'll likely be on my PSP, but if there's better translations or improved graphics, i wouldn't complain about that. i don't mind emulation so if there's an option that includes save-states and omnipresent pausing (which helps a lot with babies around!), that'd be awesome. i have an old ps1 and a greatest hits version of the discs that work fine, and my psp and pc.

whoa, some nice changes. the updates to difficulty rankings and the kanai's cube look really nice.

nah, if you don't immediately brush it away as fanboyism, it makes a lot more sense than you'd think...more so if you look at the characteristics of the character types, what their abilities are, and how they're realized in-game, and if you consider the green ending to be canon.

didn't they say that dragon age is in the same world as ME and takes place way after the fact, with different races in ME becoming the different races in DA, and the magic being biot/tech powers realized? i mean, there's already direct correlation in the way the ogres look compared to the yahg. the 'creeping death' that comes from darkspawn blood could just be nanobots that carry some sort of crazy programming or something. i wonder if that's just going to remain a theory or if it'll be realized somehow in the game.

good to hear all is well. i know at least one other person's system had a similar issue. this took a little more research but we were able to figure it out.

oh, i thought it was going to be the gold vs garbage debate i'll point out, though, that expressing my exasperation about the over-politicization (is that a word?) of mad max at work got a pretty harsh backlash of "well you must be a misogynist then", which i thought was comical.

hahaha, the salt is real. what's wrong with watching a movie and not caring about the agendas that may or may not lie behind the movie? mad max was good. it was fun to watch. the action was entertaining, the show-don't-tell style was breathtakingly fun to experience, and the characters weren't cookie-cutter characters. i didn't go to see it because of the triumph of women over oppressive male entities or something, i went to see it because they had a flamethrower guitar and the movie's a freaking two-hour car chase combined with dune and borderlands, and that sounded awesome. did it have feminist underpinnings? maybe, a lot of the arguments both for and against are pretty solid. that said, who cares? i don't, and saying that i don't have a ball in that court doesn't make me sexist any more than not really caring about r&b makes me a racist. just pointing a finger and spouting hot-button words doesn't make you look educated and relevant. it makes you look ignorant and puerile. the endless need to ascribe a crusade to everything is abhorrent. edit: the fact that an action film with a script the size of a child's flipbook is raising this many questions about the intentions of the writer(s) is actually pretty cool. as i said, i don't really have a ball in this particular court, but the noise that's being raised (on both sides of the issue/question/whatever) is definitely interesting.