I'm hoping the wise Anime guru's here can help me out. I'm a man who likes to watch some good quality anime on his free time, and time has become a fleeting commodity. I no longer have the desire to randomly download series and watch like I used to.

SO I need your help. Can anybody suggest some soul crushingly depressing anime? Series like GunGrave and Last Exile had my tear glands checking in for over time, and I absolutely adored these series. Noble causes, epic deaths, things of that nature.

Please and thank you, thanks for your time!

what choo talking about Willis?!

Melodic and Progressive metal, ROCKS! Pun intended. There's just so much energy, so much power that stems from the genre that no other can touch. I agree that making too many sub genres of a genre is just pointless, but hey, people do anything to make something "unique".

what, they're PAYING people to waste their life spamming places now? I don't think bots work for custom built forums like Newgrounds...

At 4/15/08 12:16 PM, Rig wrote: lol, website whore

Hey! I MADE that page for people who needed free stuff, not going to not whore it when the occasion arises ;D!

Visit the free VST/VSTi plug-ins page on my website! Ranging from orchestral to electronic, bound to find something you like.

Visit the free VST/VSTi plug-ins page on my website! Some pretty neat piano VST's findable with a bit of searching.

Visit my profile for a link to a page with free VST's both orchestral and electronic!

At 4/11/08 02:06 AM, Joowna wrote: Which broadcast program do you guys use? I actually have some experience with broadcasting on internetradio, but I use SAM, if you need more ppl just yell :)

Also SAM is a great and powerful tool, it was simply not in our budget to get it though. We are actually planning on using that when we get our heads in the right place. When the radio is up and going, we'll definitely be giving you a shout!

At 4/11/08 01:20 AM, Gorillazrock wrote: Damn it, i always do this.... is it SOOO hard to make an edit button...

Also, i was maybe going to ask if you could create a bumper for my show so i can promote you properly

Affiliation Stuffzor take your pick. I will be making a formal announcement soon after this post.

Regarding the radio, it is still under discussion. It IS possible, we HAVE found a way to make it happen. It is merely now taking the right steps to make it happen effectively. We will be sure to let people know when that is up!

Sounds good. I've got a bit of work to do on my end, a few more things to try and connect, after which I will be making a public notice about the affiliation. By news broadcasting I didn't mean I take control from the podcast in any way, but merely inform the users who have signed up for my mailing list as a means of providing more exposure.

i'll also be making a "Sign up" thread here in the NG audio forum so people bastards can sign up here and i'll get them into the database as well.

I am also considering putting all the under dog songs in a collection as well. Would help a good deal providing more exposure for them as well as the database I figure.

Quite right. I am thinking of making separate Albums for the podcast groups. Each album will store Podcasts released by date so users can listen to all, or most recent releases of the PodCast genre, allowing multiple podcasts be streamed through at one convinient click.

Also podcasts of course get an email sent out with every release, so yes Gorilla, I think we should work something out. It would make for an interesting combination.

all valid points, but here is why I am committed to doing what I am doing.

1. This site does not compete with the portal. it feeds off it. It is by no means a place where anybody can submit anything, but hand selected, manually uploaded and set up songs of some of the highest quality tracks findable in the portal. In time it will house a LOT of really high grade songs and music that can be surfed and searched for.

2. It is true a podcast gives a quick dose of whatever music you mix into it, however I am not aiming for quick doses alone. This is why I would love podcast producers to join the effort so that these quick shots of music are also available, my end goal again is a smaller, more refined Audio Portal.

It's important to stress i'm we're COMPETING with the portal. Thats just stupid, the portal is way too big, way too refined, with way too many features. We are simply standing beside it, pulling the great music out before it gets buried.

a soundfont is usually an instrumental package with a few note files in them... taking out the samples would give you some rather unusable single notes. I don't know if thats what you want, though I remember there were a few out there which were free and did this. Let me go through my collection of stuff I never use anymore.

at 2:00 minutes, there is a double layering of voices. Soo... might want to watch out for that in the future :D! But other then that, you guys have something solid here, enjoyed the interview with Egorapter btw! Good stuff.

At 4/7/08 01:00 PM, Gorillazrock wrote: I don't know, but it seems like it would be a HELL of a lot easier to just make a podcast of the damn thing. I wouldn't mind helping abandoning my podcast, and helping you guys set up yours, since mine is up and running fine.

It would obviously take away the "Live" aspect but it would allow for us to actually have organized shows that people can pick from...

quite right, it WOULD be a hell of a lot easier, however it would also be a HELL of lot less effective. I'm trying to give people a platform to download/interactively listen to songs on a more efficient and inviting way then Newgrounds itself. We have no problem with hosting podcasts as well, i'd love to have you on board, however I am dedicated to making this as powerful as possible, there will be no stepping back, only forward.

Hey guys. So i've been RIPPING my head off from end to end to try and get this radio thing off the ground without destroying what little budget pool we have. Sadly it seems the affordable rates are either MAD limited, or MAD confusing, or just plain MAD. Not to mention the ONE feasible option we had, turns out our host tells us to go rape ourselves.

I have a good friend who can set me up with his school servers, and the live broadcasting feature IS coming, however for now, the "radio" so to say will focus purely on exposing artists and that alone. So without further ado, we present

NewSounds :: Good things, by Good people!

For stupid reasons i'm not going to go into now, everybody interested in seeing inside the database use the following log-in and password

login: guest
pass: guest

This database lets you

- Build your own playlists of the artists you find in here
- Randomly stream through the entire playlist, or however many you want, from whatever genre/artist or even just pure random! This is the PERFECT way to hear ALL of the great talent.
- Download the files you want (there will be a "download all!" link which will let you take entire albums in a zip file soon)

The database uses a pop-up flash player so make sure you can have pop-ups, or SHIT IS GOING TO HIT THE FAN OKAY, GAWD!

streamable files are possible, and are being looked into. Eventually we're hoping to be able to let you guys connect through a main streaming file that would let you select all or portions of the sites song lists.

Click on the "Enque" button to make the pop up appear. Until we get the registration thing worked out, remember, use guest:guest to get in. I'd wait until that was fixed, but it's not THAT important right now.

We're always looking for new talent, so come on by guys, drop by the SoS forums, leave a thread, and we'll get you set up! Existing members are always free to drop by and add more to their collection of course!

An exciting idea to say the least! Quite taken by it. One idea I have, though simple in nature, would provide a very fool proof, easy to implement yet interesting to see would be something like this.

Every level starts off with a simple percussion line. 4/4 kick/hi hat/kick/hi hat pattern. You know, the basic of the basic, foundational work. Doesn't HAVE to be this simple, but overall, nothing that gets too complicated. One of the levels I think should be very heavily percussion oriented. Every shot, every creature death, a percussion sound. So towards the hectic moments, you've got some brutal war drum patterns blasting away.

The premise behind the system is to have a kind of clock active in the background. A timer if you will. This timer acts as the number of shots each tower can fire, at set intervals. For example, a 4/4 beat means that you get 4 measures per bar.

The first tower might be able to shoot 1 bullet per 2 measures. Or in short, only in time with the kick sounds *all towers should fire at designated times in a measure, so it's not going to overcrowd and become annoying*

The second type of tower might be able to shoot 1 bullet per measure. So it fires off in synch with both the kick and the hi hat.

Third tower might be able to fire 4 bullets per measure, so give it a light hi hat sound. Small bell of sorts. The slower towers uses bigger louder percussion.

Then you can get funky with it. Perhaps let a tower first off 8 bullets in the first 2 measures, and then 4 in the next 2 and so forth. The more varied you make it, the more interesting the percussion beat is.

Since the level builds only the percussion it allows the musician to still go nuts with the melody. Unrestrained as long as it's appropriate to be accompanied by a heavy percussion storm *ie, not too much details on the instruments/synths, mostly leads, slight harmonies*

hope that wasn't pointlessly confusing.

1. I spent a lot of time today crawling the internets for people like us!

http://www.symphonyofspecters.com/?q=nod e/103

Free VST/VSTi. Thats right, the perfect price range for jobless students. 0 dollahs! From orchestral samples, to electronica synths, everything. Check it out, j00 will luv it.

2. 12mb/s is FAR too slow. NG demands at 50mb/s connection or GTFO!

nah, i'd say try again, perhaps you hit it at a bad time (server hic cup), try again.

Do you mean those loops they had playing? Those were made by ParagonX9, I believe one of them was Chaoz Devotion, but I don't know where the other loops came from. DnB I believe is also the section he's largely under.

having THROWN myself into this business like a lunatic the past couple days, I think I can be of SOME assistance.

So primarily what you want is to be live stream broadcasting right? ie, you talk into a mic, play what you want, the full radio treatment?

There are a few ways you can do this.

You can use something like icecast/BroadWave/Broadcasting-software.
com, since you don't want to stream songs from a server you're going to want to use something like BroadWave

www.Broadcasting-software.com has an interesting free program which needs just 2 things. Your song files, and some FTP space on a webserver, which your friend can provide. You arn't streaming any FROM to server, more TO the server. The concept behind this program is that it uploads about 5mb's worth of data to the server, and the ISP provider amplifies the stream to all the people who connect.

This way you can connect up to 500 people on a regular broadband connection! However many hosting companies that have shared hosting don't like this, and even forbid it as it puts a somewhat heavy strain on their servers.

This tool also comes with a "tuner" program which users can download if you want to also stream pictures with your broadcast. If not, they can connect through a standard .asx file generated by the program to connect to your stream.

BroadWave on the other hand is your run of the mill broadcasting tool. It's a very powerful tool in the functions it lets you do, more suited towards hardware oriented broadcasting to be honest. Has some mad features that can handle a lot of hardware setups.

Icecast, didn't look too deeply into it, but I hear good things :/

No flash player, what-so-ever

I was going to do something like myself! Glad to be a part! Since I won't be able to share much knowledge by using VST's, most of the files I share will have the soundfonts I used packed with them. So soundfonts + knowledge + death threat put into song!!!! Release some midi's as well in case people don't have FL.

ftw?

Good work though Souless, count me in.

you could do a few things
First, print it out.

1: Sign it, fax it to him, you can do this

a: if you have a fax machine at home
b: copy centers usually have them
c: public libraries sometimes have them for free use

2: sign it, mail it to him through snail mail, takes a week or so, but it's there isn't it?

3: sign it with your mouse. I believe this still counts, the point of the form is that you are aware of what is happening. Still best try the first 2 before going down this way.

At 4/4/08 01:57 AM, DragonsGrief wrote: I'm going to try on this one.

Haha yeah right if I even managed to you all hate me you'd just toss it out

nah! There's no biasm in submissions, if the songs good, it stands a chance. Go nuts, we look forward to it.

At 4/3/08 08:48 PM, wyldfyre1 wrote: well i'll admit i really like the idea. haha would be great to see what songs you pick and gets played. haha ever do talk shows on it? Feel free to hit me up sometime ahahha.

Wyldfyre1

definitely a considered aspect. Contributing/trusted members will be given the ability to have their own shows at any scheduled time! Just trying to settle some matters. Not going as well as I had hoped.

At 4/3/08 07:37 PM, Envy wrote: Yeah, Pico is getting kind of old. No offense...

Don't worry, next MAC theme, much more interesting. COME ON YOU BASTURDS, IT'S FREAKING PICO DAY, WE'RE ALL CELEBRATING! >:(

Direct linkzor

At 4/3/08 04:22 PM, Rig wrote:

At 4/3/08 04:11 PM, MaestroRage wrote: A QUICK ANNOUNCEMENT, WE WILL BE REPLACING THE CURRENT RADIO, WITH ONE I'M GOING TO BE PAYING FOR... THIS FREE SERVICE BLOWS

Why not broadcast with Winamp? It's free and awesome.

because it doesn't have half the features this other radio software has :D! Which in the long run, will be better for everybody involved.

Besides don't I have to stream audio from my PC for winamp?

At 4/3/08 03:22 PM, TheComet wrote:

At 4/3/08 02:07 PM, Gorillazrock wrote: Well, i guess they're kinda different. I'm hoping to basically be a recorded radio broadcast, but i'm kinda glad i'm not live 24/7. You would run out of songs EXTREMELY quickly, as the amount you would be playing would be more than people can submit...

heheh....You could play my stuff for probably 3 days of non-stop playback XD

So...how are new songs added into this? do the artists need to post somewhere on there for permission or is it full reign on the portal?

ps: anything of mine is fair game if you think it'll work :)

quite right! I have no fears of running out of material. In order to get processed go to the SoS front page for details. Essentially you sign up for the site *which automatically gives you access to the forum*, leave a post in the NG Radio forum, and then after a quick visit to your songs to see if it's ace.

A QUICK ANNOUNCEMENT, WE WILL BE REPLACING THE CURRENT RADIO, WITH ONE I'M GOING TO BE PAYING FOR... THIS FREE SERVICE BLOWS

Please keep the stream of submissions coming, when the new service is set up, all the current contributers and data will be transferred!

good for you then, keep at it!

In any case this radio and your podcast have nothing in common other then the fact music is involved, so please go away if you're not interested in contributing.

seriously, we've become too advanced...

IT'S TIME TO RECLAIM RETARDATION!

WHO HAS THE CRACK?!