4,807 Forum Posts by "Khuskan"
The data does exist and could be pulled from the server, but there isn't currently an NG-based applet to take care of that.
At 7/24/09 02:56 AM, Back-From-Purgatory wrote: I vote the site is garbage, cause despite everyone talking about lots of useless reviews, I posted up a song and haven't gotten a single review since my second post in this thread.
Oh well... Don't really care for reviews from bots or instrumental haters anyways.
I got something like 10 negative reviews for a track I uploaded in a timescale SHORTER THAN THE LENGTH OF THE TRACK. The fuckers didn't even listen to it.
What the fuck is anybody in this thread talking about.
Minimum requirements... 12 gigabyte ram?
...wow.
I've got a few tracks up there, to be honest it doesn't seem to be that great for non-mainstream genres.
They don't like tracks without vocal lines, and they don't like tracks which build-up.
At 7/21/09 11:16 PM, statueofdiveo wrote: I don't use fl, I use logic, but it has all those capabilities. The thing is, the kick would have to trigger at the normal time. Should I start it earlier?
Use two samples, one sequencer track for the reversed samples which start slightly before the beat and end on it, and one for the actual kick.
Or you could bounce down your entire bass drum track, reverse it, add a tiny, tiny, tiny bit of short-decay gated reverb, reverse it again and stick it back in there, but the former method will probably be the best.
Well, you bought a headset mic so what do you expect? Quality microphones cost way upwards of $150. You don't need perfect quality for VoIP so you're not going to get it with a headset mic.
Autotune is a trademark of Antares, who make Antares Autotune, the original autotune software package/hardware module.
I, personally, prefer Melodyne, which is catered more for production over live performance as Autotune is. Gives a lot better control over the sound.
Opera mixes fantastically with many electronic genres such as drum and bass and dubstep.
At 7/22/09 09:35 AM, TheHollowMuchies wrote: Awaiting. Only have been for two or so hours.
Approved. Have some patience, some people have had to wait for weeks to get their tracks on!
At 7/22/09 07:09 AM, FireSickle wrote: I'm not sure what description I put in for it. I wrote all of the melodies bass lines and main drum concepts, put together the first 5 minute song structure with that, TIDUS mastered the instruemnts and added an extra couple minutes in for leading in and out, spruced up the drums, made some of my out of place melodies fit in... I consider it 50/50 work between the two of us, this is an original track, it's not a remix
Seems more likely your sonic cover rung alarm bells. Although listening to it myself, I've got little doubt that you did it all yourself, it's a pretty exact cover note-wise so I wouldn't be surprised if a mod gathered it was a midi rip. I'll see what I can do but at the moment there is no way for us to unban users ourselves, so I'll have to forward this on to a higher power.
Unfortunately, we are a group of humans, and when we go through the list we go through hundreds of submissions at a time. We loose focus, our ears get tired and sometimes legit artists get banned and vice versa.
At 7/17/09 09:56 PM, Mattylightning wrote: k it's been about a month since i submitted my songs....NOW WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY????
Banned. Your song 'Pokemon Trainer Battle Theme' is undeniably a midi rip. Assigning new instruments onto a midi track does not an original song make.
At 7/8/09 11:58 PM, ObsidianSnow wrote: You know, I still have no idea how you guys decide if a submission is legit or not. I mean, there's teh intarwebz, but still. I can see that the job might be a bit painful sometimes - especially with the (I would assume usually) mediocre first submissions that get submitted (*coughs* not mentioning myself with "puppetry"... lol).
It's actually less about legality and more about our policy on 'original work'.
The guidelines that I personally use then approving are thus:
- Rearranging of any non-NewGrounds track without explicit permission (mentioned in the song description with citations) for the sake of making a new track is dissallowed. This one is the harshest rule on the surprising amount of hip-hop submissions that get posted to NG. More or less, for every Hip-hop artist that is approved, two more are banned for using looped samples.
- Covers are permitted, as long as none of the original work is used.
- Remixes of commercial songs using that songs acapella are permitted, as long as it has been publicly released - i.e. on the b-side of an LP, as such a release is an obvious permissive nod for remixes to happen. Sampling the original song, however, is still dissolved.
- Using MIDI arrangements found online is as against the rules as cutting up the recorded track is. Nearly all MIDI arrangements are copyrighted to their artist and they withold the rights to use them to create more music.
- No Mixcraft. Ever. Or any other similar Duplo-music drag-and-drop software, regardless of if the software license says you can use it commercially.
It's you're music, there is no legal reason why you can't host it for free on NG and then charge for a compliation elsewhere - you can release the same piece of music under multiple licenses.
That being said, it would be a bit silly to release a CD full of stuff that can be got for free legally.
Either make some more tracks and make them exclusive to your album (so in effect the user is paying for those tracks) or take some tracks off of NG - though since you have already distributed them, that might not be such a great idea as it will essentially make piracy of said tracks legal. It's a bit complicated like that.
At 7/20/09 10:08 AM, agnryfaic wrote: I'm pretty sure the mods are aware of that. Which reminds me, didn't the copyright on that song expire a while ago?
Just because it's 'legal' to share a song doesn't make it compatible with the Audio Portal rules.
You were banned for uploading Iron Maiden songs.
The NG audio portal is for original music only.
Do not use mixcraft, you will probably get banned.
I have, but I recorded into a jack l/r DI box which had a preamp already in there - hence not much need for having an external one.
For newgrounds audio, especially first submissions, there is pretty much a zero-tolerence policy on sampling any commercial piece of work. It is not always illegal though.
Fair Use dictates you can legally sample copyrighted work as long as you're accrediting the original author, releasing the resulting work freely and especially if your work is a tribute or a parody of the song you are sampling. I again stress however, that Newgrounds does not currently follow Fair Use, as we strive only to have totally original music on the portal.
You don't need a preamp really, you can do all amplification via software. This will give you better control on how you want the sound of the rip to be.
If you ask the artists permission and they approve (would probably help if you cut them in on the profits) then you have effectively set up your own license with the artist and can use it. However, if you don't do this it is thoroughly illegal to use newgrounds audio for a commercial product.
It's mostly done by bouncing, or by turning up audio buffering to give the computer more time to process the audio - the latter sucks if you are using midi interfaces though.
So? Reason was featured in CSI as a audio analysis tool!
Top that.
At 7/15/09 12:56 PM, zer0701 wrote:At 7/15/09 12:52 PM, MonkeyInTheCloset wrote: http://www.mediaconverter.orgNice going... did I mention I needed to convert a video? It doesn't even accept the video as a valid file!
happy now?
Well, considering you posted in a forum specializing in audio I don't really see how you can blame us for that one.
I see where he's coming from. You need to work on really sounding your words. You've got a good ear for pitch but the words are loosing their sound and it's a bit hard to work out exactly what you're singing.
Well your itching face is placebo. You're imagining it.
I imagine the carcinogenic chemical to be lead, which would make sense. I'm not sure about the legality of lead in electronics in the States, but in the UK it is illegal to manufacture or import lead-containing electronic materials.
Yes, assuming you're not making any money from the game at all.
This usage is covered under fair use/parody.
USB mics tend to be a bit dogey, as you're bound to using the DAC included in the hardware with no other option.
If you buy a cheap USB microphone, the DAC technology is going to be skimped on and you're not going to be recording a sound as high quality as the actual analogue microphone can actually record.
Spend as much money as you can on the DAC (DI box) part that you can afford, it will make cheap microphones pull their weight.
If you're going to sell then and advertise them on NG, you better be including a usage license, boyo.
At 7/12/09 08:25 AM, varrin7 wrote:At 7/12/09 08:20 AM, Khuskan wrote: Do not use mixcraft for audio portal submissions, you will most likely be banned.How? Yes, it uses loops, but the newest version allows for MIDI instruments, so original compositions can be made in it. I don't see how people can get banned on a program basis.
There are a thousand and one better ways to make better tracks using midi sequencing, mixcraft is still mainly drag-and-drop duplo music.
We can tell, however, between midi sequencing and loop work. You won't be banned for using mixcraft as a midi sequencer, but will be banned if you excessively use the loops (as the software encourages you to do so)
Do not use mixcraft for audio portal submissions, you will most likely be banned.
