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Warm thanks to you all

If my memory serves, djpretzel invented post-it notes and nonsensicalexis was a famous tap dancer from the 1930's. At least, I'm 98% sure that's right... Anyway, happy birthday!

SPOILERZ Down. Saw it coming a mile away and it felt like a cop-out. (Though I'm sure if it fell people would have said it was cliche as well, but hey, what's wrong with a happy ending?) Overall, the film still gets 5/5 stars from me, but I did think the ending felt more like a "it doesn't fall" rather than "what do you think?" type thing. Besides, if it doesn't fall, that raises a few questions that make certain things not make sense for me, so I'm going to have to go back and watch it again and see if I missed any important details.

Thanks for contributing nothing to community discussion except condescending complaints and your chipper butthurt attitude. Keep up the good work! Seriously dude, I maintain that you only pop up to criticize everyone who doesn't have anything to say that pertains to how awesome you and your own opinions are. Get over yourself or just stop posting. No matter how badly it hurts your feelings, people are entitled to their opinions. I made this point once before, but anyone who cares to ever look at any of your posts will quickly discover that they are in vast majority either promoting your own music or complaining about the opinions of others. Grow a tougher skin. Also, I like your music. More of that, less whining please.

I'm pretty sure you're taking this way too seriously, sport.

that being said, feel free to remix it anyway and you can post it in here: http://ocremix.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=19

Are you recording live instruments like Kate, or are you wanting to sequence virtual instruments to sound like real instruments?

Voices of Passion is IMO largely worthless. It's more of a glorified vocal sample library than a playable instrument. I have no experience with QL Pianos, but personally I'd probably opt for something else just because piano plugins are a dime a dozen, and they all claim to be awesome, but really there's just not enough difference in most to make much difference. And unless you're writing stuff specifically for solo piano performance/realism, it's unlikely that anybody is really going to notice. Just my $0.02US.

again, depends. What's the primary style you're shooting for?

Depends, what kind of music do you want to make? Looks like the Signature bundle is a bit of an upgrade from the former XXL bundle, which was bloated with largely crappy plugins. Google shows a result where if you qualify for an educational discount you can get the Sig bundle for <$200, I'd do that. http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/654799-REG/Image_Line_10_10173_FL_Studio_9_Signature.html Basically, the Sig bundle is pretty good for what it is and what it includes (and definitely way better than the XXL bundle it replaced), but again, the true value really depends on what kind of music you want to make. If you're looking to do regular electronic stuff, the bundle's not bad. If you're looking to get more into pop/guitar/rock/orchestral/jazz, or pretty much anything else that's not electronic I'd get the Producer edition and put the other money in a piggy bank for some good 3rd party plugins.

Reason is generally not considered a DAW.

alternatively, if you're just recording directly into the playlist, you need to make sure you set your input to a stereo source.

That makes sense. Also, I guess I was talking more about Omnisphere than Komplete. I think Spectrasonics is pretty far ahead of Native Instruments as far as their ratio of useful sounds to useless sounds.

Which will be a long, long time. I have owned both for a couple years now and I'm probably not even a tenth of the way through the presets, especially if you also count Omnisphere's raw soundsource files and infinite synth capabilities. Plus, Omnisphere is not only a powerful synthesizer but it's also much easier than you'd think to create your own sounds. Here's a patch I made entirely from scratch in a couple minutes using zero samples: Just an example, and I'm really not a synth wizard by any stretch. I typically generally agree with you on several things, but this is 100% false. and I've met a reasonably large group of musicians ranging from hobbyists to professionals who would agree. I will definitely agree that there are many presets that are pointless but for every sound I don't like, there are at least 10 that I do. Back on topic, yeah z3ta for $20 isn't a bad deal, whether you're a preset surfer or a DIY guy.

this. Plus, one of the guys who did the music is on the IL boards. He seemed pretty nice.

Meh... ...that's what I would say if I were a total d-bag. In actuality, I think this is a lovely arrangement and a wonderful performance. Kate's a talented gal! Celtic music always hits a soft spot with me--and Kate loves to poke at that spot. Always a treat to hear her work!

If you're going for realistic acoustic drums, then I would recommend dropping a little money and picking up something like EZ Drummer, Addictive Drums, Groove Bias, or any other number of acoustic kits that contain round-robins (multiple samples for the same hit). This keeps hits from sounding exactly the same, and thus less mechanical and more realistic. It also eliminates the "machine gun effect" when you're sequencing things like rolls and buildups. Plus, most of these types of plugins are already pre-mixed by industry masters and further still, you usually have a variety of presets to choose from on top of that. Like if you want a roomy-sounding kit or a large, wide-open sounding kit, etc etc etc. EZ Drummer is, well, the easiest, but Addictive Drums isn't too bad either and has more kit presets to choose from and is much more tweakable. As far as the MIDI goes, many drumkit plugins also have a large library of MIDI files for you to drag-and-drop into your project. And they've usually been recorded by professional drummers, so the timing is always excellent, but still humanized and organic. And the MIDI files themselves are often good templates for you to use to change stuff around and customize them into something a little more "you". You'll also start to notice things in those MIDI files vs the ones in something like the Fruity FPC, where the velocities and timing of each note are varied, just as they would be if you were playing them live. Building your own acoustic kit out of samples is a tremendous pain and requires a lot of effort on all sides and even then, typically still sounds pretty mechanical and fakey in the end. As already stated though, if you're doing electronic music, it probably doesn't matter too much. Just learn to slap some EQ, compression, and whatever else on each sound and have fun with it.

yeah, that's bizarre. sounds like a problem with those batch of samples I would say. perhaps try re-rendering them as wavs in something like soundforge/audacity/etc and trying again.

meh, ticks me off that they still aren't including the 50% off deal to the upgrades. Those are the only things I'm interested in for now.

It will work on Kontakt 2 and higher. It will partially work on the free Kontakt 4 player.

is it only that sample that's not playing? Do any other audio clips/samples play? What is your "preview mixer track" set to under F10 > Audio? If you set the sampler channel to a different mixer channel, does anything happen? Does that sample playback in winamp/windows media player?

lol, nice. RJ is the man "Hello Youtubes!"

your remix is doing wonders for my mood. keep it up!

Pretty sick stuff, nice work!

Congrats on remix #1, it's every bit as awesome as your photoshopz