prophetik music

unfortunately, 35 people already voted, with like half of those people saying 'hey this song sounds good, drac ftw'. oh well. there's always next round, or competition, based on how this one goes. enjoyability is good, but when most people are saying that we're close in that factor, where do you look for the difference? most people just do genre bias. i know i do - personally, i'd want to vote for rawk over electronic any day of the week if they're close. but that's not what really matters, you know? it's not really in the spirit of the compo. guitarheroe, do yourself a favor and make it upbeat. it's hard as hell to make catfish's maw make sense when you're doing within the genre restriction i did it in for LAProject.

you're an FL user, right? i've often seen people use a large primary and a smaller secondary to fit their playlist and mixer on the second and their piano roll, synth settings, etc on the big one. works really nice. i used three for a while, with the playlist being on the third, but it's a bit excessive in my opinion.

the smoother aspect is what i really liked about it. having the battle system integrated into the world just makes it flow so much easier. the seperate-screen-for-battles thing is one of my most hated RPG traditions.

i am surprised that our battle is as close as it is. i don't want to sound mean - i like his track a lot! but when most of the actual posted remixers - gario, abadoss, willrock, etc - vote for mine, and a bunch of lurkers vote for his, that says something to me. it says that the people who think it sounds cool but might not know the source the best voted one way, and the people who understand the music and can hear the extra stuff that was added in with mine voted the other way. i don't feel that his uses the spring man theme much at all, and it seems that most people didn't bother to listen to the original source. all the parts that are mentioned as being awesome are just stuff that's inherent to the solar man track, which is bloody awesome. he didn't really add anything to it besides a drumloop and different instrumentation. that's not really a remix at that point, unfortunately =/ draconiator, you're clearly a skilled musician - mastering that particular style is something i have next to no skill in - but your focus was clearly on your track and on production instead of the arrangement itself. if you beat me - which you might, there are a lot of people voting for mastering and OST awesomeness instead of arrangement like they should - you really need to work on getting the arrangement to actually be a reinterpretation of the theme instead of just dumping the midi into a synth and boom-tissing the rest of it. you also need to work in the other track more, since you basically ignored it. i know spring man sucks, but that's the point. it's supposed to be hard you can't get better if you only remix schala and terra. you've gotta do catfish's maw and spring man and all the other crappy tracks out there. that's why i never take a project mix until all that's left is the junk. it forces you to work with less, and you learn more at a faster pace that way. i realized after writing this that this sounds abjectly harsh, and i don't mean it to be. drac's song sounds great as a remix of solar man. i don't think it stands up as a 50/50 split of both themes, though, simply because it's nowhere near 50/50. and yes, i'd be happy to do a remix with you =)

it works having a terrible theme, though, because every theme you're matched up against is always better than yours - hence, you can rawk with it more. sorry about putting everything out of order, darke =)

holy balls, solar man is awesome. what a contrast to trampoline man. needless to say, this mix is using a bit more of solar man than it is out-of-ideas man. sir nuts is done with his track, i thought.

looooooooooooooooooooool

whoops, might not want to generalize that much, considering there's so many VSTs where the only thing they do is simulate real instruments.

tell him that MMX got rejected due to genre bias and see what he says. say that the album needed more disco rock and less thrash.

fixed it for ya

the reason most people don't post wips is because any track, no matter how awesome, ages a little bit after listening to it a few times. something brand new will always sound a little shinier than one you've heard before. it may not age as well, but it's the initial impression that counts. so you probably don't want to post WIPs.

posted mixes don't really count, man. i've just been doing this longer than you. of all my mixes, i think one's made it through the panel, maybe? the rest have been DPs, and all of them either had major issues that got overlooked, or i had help on them. do a search for mephisto or prophetik in the judges decisions forum, and tell me that i haven't had trouble getting posted when i don't get DP'd now, some of them got rejected for ridiculous reasons, sure (i was told one was too far from the source when it was the exact same notes as the original, no changes, slowed down a bit), but that doesn't mean that those songs didn't all have a bunch of production or mastering issues as well. the key is to always keep getting better, no matter what. you don't want to look back in a few months and think, "you know, i don't think i can top that". you always want to be able to look back and say, "i wonder if i change this, how much better it'll sound".

shucks, you're going to make me feel bad. i will likely do what i did last time, which is listen to the tracks for two days straight and pound it out in like four hours. at least, i better - i'm out of town from wednesday to saturday. don't want to run out of time!

actually, like i said earlier, you can get the boxed version with a key that allows you to get lifetime free updates. which is what i've got.

academic version = normal box, cheaper.

i got fired a few days before my birthday, too, so i know what it feels like. liberating. like the first time you air dried yourself after a shower. uh

it's not about tech, people. it's about ideas. some of the best stuff i've heard came from fl 3.56 on a 1.8ghz p4. does tech make it easier? sure. goodness knows i spend money on it. but all the money in the world can't buy a good beat, or an interesting adaptation. as for a new computer... =D send me a pm with what you're looking for.

yep. fl studio's demo is the full thing - you'll just be downloading and running a regkey that takes about four seconds through your account page on the fl studio website. you install the demo, you run the regkey, you make music. easy as pie. i have the boxed edition (of FL 5 ) and it came with a text key to give me lifetime updates. so i don't know either way. i got mine academic, as well, through academic superstore, in...2005? don't remember.

the books blow the series to pieces, even though the rendition is excellent (the Imp is particularly well done, i think). definitely worth a read.

...BLOGS?!?why can't i shout internet

naw, i'm just busting. no biggie. like i said originally, i don't know any of the music anyways, so it's a learning experience. i learn about games from their music usually =) so, according to this song, MM7 is pc shovelware preloaded on dell all-in-one computers. so there. HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT PORNO SOUNDS LIKE

cheery? try, like, bubble-gum-poppy. how the heck am i supposed to rock out to a giant penis with arms? what's your superpower, spring man? I GET LONGER. what a douche

i hope your birthday is full of flaming cats and rainclouds. just kidding i kinda think you're cute

baaaallls. i should really have listened to these ahead of time. spring man is definitely out-of-ideas man, as someone on youtube called him.

PLAGIARISM, i say!