Arcana
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I'd just write a quick note on his wall, just like I do with all the celebrities; everyone knows everyone in Southern California, naturally since we're physically closer to one another than you guys are in Canada, and it's great.
AND DONE! If Justin Beiber gets a song posted then you'll know who made the connections.
I've never ever listened to a Justin Beiber song before and have no idea who he is besides a Canadian teen pop idol.
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The only thing that I feel that I lack when I mix on a laptop is screen real-estate (and a mouse/MIDI keyboard if I don't have them).
Hard drive speed and processor power, along with RAM, aren't pushed to the limit often enough for it to be an issue.
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I'm going to write a letter to Justin Beiber now and ask him to submit a song to OCR.
What? Yeah, he's Canadian, of course I know him personally, I like, drink beer with him after school. Err I mean, coke. No, not that kind of coke. Like, pop. Yeah, that's it. We Canadians know every other Canadian since there's only 30 million of us.
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Thread title was changed!!! Anyway Salluz I guess you still haven't, to me, given a convincing case on why this girl doesn't deserve any attention, other than the fact that she's become a pop star with what is presumably a manufactured image.
And they've been doing that for decades.
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The "Aversa couple" would cover zircon I'd think.
There's also a lot of names on the OCR news pages that featured artists who have been working in industry, like virt, Danny B. Also dannthr who posts on the OCR Workshop has a blog (I think) about working in the industry, see if you can find the thread linked in that forum.
Can you describe more about what the assignment demands of you? Do you need to put together a poster? A presentation? A summary report?
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It's even worse when you get into analog synth territory, because then everything sounds like a Harlequin novel. "Fat, warm, juicy, thick, deep", etc.
... or a hamburger.
It's all perspective.
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Also, what are you planning to upgrade? Your computer, your audio recording equipment, or both? Which operating system?
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Ars Technica was invited through Blizzard HQ and snapped and posted a bunch of photos.
Enjoy, I thought some of you might be interested in browsing through this.
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OK, I was chillin, drinking Sprite today and my friends showed me this video:. Ah, more generic c(rap) music.
This time it's a White female! What an interesting way to cover quality with novelty!
- The video looks like a Lady Gaga influenced gangsta rap session.
- The lyrics? I could drop a freestyle (adlib) with more depth and fuck up better than this.
- Well, the intro's catchy and the beat's kind of cool but... I don't know, repetitive drum dynamics, preset synths and played-out arpeggios bother me after a while.
Point: she's got rhythm but she's no Eminem. Give up.
I don't see anything in the video or the song that somehow flaunts the fact that she is either white or female. In other words, while the lyrics are bad and the video is very strange (I think if they were congruent with each other I wouldn't have any problem with them) there's nothing that seems to suggest evidence of your primary complaint that she's somehow using the fact that she's a white, female rapper to her advantage.
Maybe in other media she does it? I dunno.
- The video looks like a Lady Gaga influenced gangsta rap session.
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17 is very hard to hear.
Everything past that, I get the sensation that something is making noise, but I wouldn't consciously recognize it as a tone, it just ends up sounding like background noises. I am 29.
It doesn't help also that when you click on something you "expect" to hear something so you are all kind of listening as closely as you can and thus in a blind test I probably wouldn't hear 17 kHz either.
What's the "average" range of most songs on this site? Like, what range do people reasonably put instruments in? I would guess that very few people make music with a lot of stuff going on past 12 kHz, but I could be wrong.
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Yes, we're getting final renders in and yes, this project is moving on as planned
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I like the staff view because it's what I've been used to for a long time (I played piano before I ever touched computer music) and I'm used to reading music in this form. To tweak certain properties of notes and such, I have been using the "event list", rather than the "piano roll". However, many of you seem convinced that the piano roll would be a faster way of doing this, so it seems I should learn to use it, even though every time I've tried it, I always gave up quickly and went back to the staff. I'll have to try harder to become accustomed to the piano roll.
FLStudio doesn't have a staff notation IIRC.
And yeah, piano roll is useful but you compose in whatever you compose in, I wouldn't exactly force yourself to write in it, but the piano roll is a good thing to know regardless since it's pretty much the standard for displaying music now. As mentioned it has it uses, mostly in production and other things like that.
An option for you also is to write music in Finale or Sibelius and then import it into a program of your choice for producing.
But if you don't like Sonar, chances are any "transition" to a new program is going to be awkward. Maybe it would be worth trying Music Creator 5 anyway just in case.
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who's zircon? sum noob?
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I think the most useful thing in this screencast is simply the assignment of names and methods to the things that you hear in the track. As you mentioned in the video, anyone's who's been making dance music for a couple years is probably familiar with what sidechaining and filters are, but for people new to the genre who don't know what the terms are, it's a great way to learn. I also enjoyed how, although you outlined the track in Cubase, the video wasn't loaded down with technical details on how to use Cubase.
Good work, it's something I would easily recommend to people who are curious about learning more about dance music's creation.
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This is amazing. I really learned something from this.
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I kinda just wanted to learn outside of the OHC. since I only did music on OHC. I wasn't learning anything, just wasnt working for me. I sat down every thursday and wrote stuff that popped into my head.
I think that's up to you though - are you motivated enough to do OHC, but also to do music outside of that time slot as well?
If you can afford only one hour a week to do music, OHC probably isn't the best way to learn, but if you can devote three hours, no matter what you do, it will be better than doing only one.
Well. I know WHAT makes up structure, its just applying it.If you know what makes up structure... then really it's just a matter of laying down those Fruity Loops
Good luck. If you want any specific advice feel free to talk to me.Oh yeah, and watch tutorial videos online for your program of choice. There's thousands of FL Studio tutorials out there. Many of them are bad, but some of them are good and you might learn something. Also watch things like screencasts made by talented people and you'll see how their songs are put together.
Edit: Actually I just sat down and watched the entirety of Rayza's screencast. If you want to do the House/electronic stuff, WATCH IT because there's so much good stuff in it that you'll learn from.
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As someone who started compo at the same time as you, I have a few things to recommend...
First, I think compo is a good idea, it forces you to come up with ideas. The fact that you cannot create what you hear in your head shouldn't deter you, since that takes practice. Not time, it takes practice.
So do it often and try to ignore the fact that it's not what you had in your head when you sat down.
Vinnie and Rozovian and The Vagrance touched on it - listen to music. Lots of it. Try to re-create what you hear. I think that even doing this in the small will work really well - that is, take one small, tiny element of a song and recreate that only. Whether it be a hi-hat shuffle, a catchy bass line, a soulful melody. Create just that and get used to how the creation of that works. It's much less discouraging to recreate one or two instrument parts than it is to try to recreate the entirety of a deadmau5 song.
As for structure, it helps to map things out into different structures. Many modern songs have the following structure:
Intro, Verse, Chorus, Verse, (Chorus), Bridge, (Chorus), Outro
or some variation of. If you follow this kind of structure, you'll pretty much have a decent song layout. This is a great thing to fall back to if you just want to finish something that sounds pretty traditional.
Try to listen in the songs you like how these parts build up. Do they use the verse-chorus-bridge? Do they use A B A? Do they just take a single theme and develop around it? Do they repeat the same 8-bar melody for pretty much the entire song and build on it?
hmmm I don't know what else to say. Mostly, I think you should try to suspend disbelief and disappointment in being unable to create what you hear in your head in its entirety, and instead concentrate on really small elements instead. And from there, work up.
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I donated using the Paypal link
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It sound strange to say, but the level design in FF XIII reminded me a lot of the designs in Dirge of Cerberus (which was a surprisingly fun game even if it was extremely cheesy).
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Would have to figure out a way to integrate that info, but doesn't sound like a bad idea. Just not sure how it would work with the front page.
Well, technology-wise, if you post all of the messages using Facebook or Twitter, presumably you'd be able to use the appropriate Facebook API or Twitter API and suck all of the info down from those services.
Or, if you wanted to go about it from another way, you'd set up OCR such that when you moved a new ReMix to the front page, it would have a field that says, "Teaser". When you submit it, it automatically stores the teaser in the database, but also sends the message to Facebook and Twitter automatically (using the appropriate API services). It would be like writing your own customized "Twitter" application.
From a stylistic point of view though, I don't know where you'd put the info. Maybe beneath the date and the remixer's name, you can add that one line of text? Or, between the top rotating image-news thing and the Forum discussion, put a box with the "five most recent mixes"?
As an aside, I think that the OCR front page is a bit strange in that the remixes appear to attract much less attention overall than, for example, the "Community Discussion topics". They're a bit off to the side and stuff.
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You might enjoy some new-agey stuff like David Arkenstone, or modern Celtic stuff like Nightnoise or the Secret Garden.
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If there was a way to insert one-line teasers for new remixes on the front page, they may draw more hits.
I just noticed is that I often gloss over remixes on the OCR Front page. I see them but usually I don't click on them unless it's from a game I like or from an artist I know.
However, I then go onto Facebook and then I see a sweet teasing description for the track. For example:
"If they made a Wolfenstein 3D movie and managed not to screw it up, this would be the perfect music!"
And of course I then think... "Film score? Cool!" So then I click and download it.
Do you guys think it would be beneficial to have those one-line teasers somehow replicated or shown somewhere on the front page with the remix that's posted?
I visit this site a lot simply for the forums so it makes me wonder when the one-line Facebook messages makes me want to download music more than the OCR front page does.
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Well that's like the fact that you never see Children of the Monkey Machine on the forums, or that he hasn't posted a mix in some time...but he's almost always logged into IRC, and he talks too, just not very often...alot of the old remixers still lurk around, but they've just moved on to bigger and better things...but I couldn't imagine not one remixer that wouldn't come back to the site where they had their beginnings...
Well there's always been a handful of remixers who NEVER post on the forums but are very much alive and reachable.
Some people simply aren't forum whores.
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I'm bad at rhythms too. I hear something like, "Dummmmmm da da da daa- da dum" or whatever. I know what it's like in my head and I know what it SHOULD sound like, but I mess it up when I play on the keyboard because the tempo isn't right or something.
Usually I end up fixing it manually. As Palpable said, quantizing does help. Prohpet also says true, the click-track helps a lot too.
However if you simply can't associate the beats in your head with the tempo on the sequencer it may simply be a matter of practicing rhythms.
Stop hating on Justin Bieber!
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His voice is fine. He sounds like a kid, but you know, that's because he's a kid. It sounds about on par with other teen pop sensations.
He'll hit puberty any moment now and his voice will break and his career will be over