I'd have to agree with nathan, the limiting compressor is doing its job TOO well and its blowing out the instruments and raising your noise audibility. Some of your samples or instruments may be pre-compressed already, which wouldn't help. My advice - lighten up the compressor a bit - maybe only put in on select tracks rather than the main bus.

We are looking for people to help us compose music for a visual novel in development.

We have a strong group of coders, artists and writers - not a fledgling group.

The project relies heavily on its score, so keep that in mind while considering your application (I.e a certain level of experience/quality is key, but we ARE still amateurs).

We are not really looking for existing works. However if you have some that you'd like to show us, send me a PM.

We ARE looking for people interested in building original songs, if you know anything about VN's that would be a plus.

I am the "Sound Director" for the project and I also write music myself, so we would be working together (or individually... doesn't really make much difference so long as we cooperate) to write emotional, situational or theme pieces.

I am a electronic composer myself - I like writing euphoric trance, dark ambient, instrumental ambient and progressive style stuff. Any style of music is OK, however I would "like" to work with someone that can write more "upbeat" instrumental stuff - be it rock style, classic instruments or jazzy.

Here is a synopsis of the plot so far:

The novel starts out following our young main character, who is in high school. His life is completely average. However, one day his world is ruined. His reality is literally torn by a fellow, and insane, student. He wakes up in a chair, hooked up to machinery.

His world was actually a virtual reality.

He finds out that some of the people from the virtual reality are with him again in the real world. They were jacked in as he was. He and them escape. The main character also finds out that the others from the VR have powers, yet mysteriously he does not. They later find out that the facility they woke up in was built to contain people like them, in hopes to prevent an apocalypse that had been foreseen by one of the first power users.

The society outside of the facility is a dystopia. A desert with walled cities (google image: Kowloon, or walled city).

There will be seven romantic routes and probably a few just plain bad ends.

I will also attach some character concept art to give you an idea of one artist's style.

If you are interested in applying or just want more information, send me a PM containing info about yourself as well as links to some previous work to give us an idea of your style.

I hope to hear from you soon!

Most retarded question ever.

God damn trolls.

I also love how he has a news post written already, directing us to his myspace.

God damn system abusing faggots.

If you have piano roll open in FL there is a bar below the "piano" part with vertical lines, which match up with the horizontal ones that you can put into the piano roll. Those vertical lines can be changed to affect the velocity of each note.

Not sure if that helps, but I tried.

Loans, I'm going to ignore your trolling and explain myself more CLEARLY. Because apparently people think I'm retarded.

If it is in fact a laptop - think about how it is put together. Everything is attached to a single power supply. Your graphics card, your sound card, your firewire ports. If they are attached to a shitty laptop PSU then they share a common ground and you will have interferance - in the case of a laptop it is the graphics card redrawing the windows or mouse on your screen which is passed through as beeps and clicks. Second - yes, taking the ground of your laptop is un-advisable. So long as you never come in contact with the internal parts, you will be fine (or you take a bath with it).

Also - a ground loop isolator is not a plug to lift the ground. That would be doing the exact same thing as I just stated, only reversible. A ground loop isolator is a small transformer which physicaly isolates the affected parts from the ground - taking them out of the path of the interferance.

If you want more methods on how to get rid of or fix this problem I suggest reading this article.
Solving Computer Audio Problems

:and honestly loans, you are a know it all douchebag, you were one google search away from reaming someone who was trying to help.:

What you have is called a "Ground loop".
It is usually characterized by a low freq hum (around 60 hz) due to AC power - but in computers it manifests exactly as you explained it. It is caused by a "dirty" power supply somewhere on the breaker your computer and sound equiptment is running off of. Chances are if its a laptop, it is the culprit. Some simple/crude methods are to get rid of it are to :

A. Move the laptop to a diffrent breaker/ciruit than your speakers/amp.
B. Remove the ground plug from your laptop.
C. Get a "ground loop isolator" off the internet (hell even radio shack/the source has them).

I had this problem when I hooked up my m-audio 410 firewire external card - I just removed the ground from my laptops cord, the sounds instantly disappeared. You might think its dangerous.... but it really isn't, unless you plan to use your laptop in the bathtub.

Ok - so there are people out there who feel that FL studio is a toy, others who hate the mac exclusive Logic software.

FL studio has a great sequencer (Step based as well as piano roll and automation curves), it hosts pretty much any external software and equiptment (Vst's as well as external synths and sequencers). The mixer is alright, but lacking compared to others - you can still do any tasks you wish to with minimal effort. It has a very intuitive interface, anyone can pick it up and be making music - with minimal talent or experience (which can grow). It is also fairly inexpensive ($299 for the LARGEST bundle).

Logic has a great mixer and is bundled with plenty of software. It has a good automation curve system (you can draw curves instead of only using beizers, simplifies the process lots), overall I don't like the sequencer part as much as FL studio. The mixer is full featured, arguably better than FL - I do like this part more than FL. Logic's interface is more "complex" than FL studio, so it lends itself to people who spend time making music and want COMPLETE control over EVERYTHING (FL tends to hide a few options). You can also program the backend of logic yourself if you know how.
The Logic Pro bundle is avalible only on Mac OS, and costs $499 for the largest bundle.

So - TLDR;

FL is good because it lets you do sequencing really fast with a simple interface.
Logic is good because it lets you have control over everything with a complex interface.

FL is bad because it takes more effort to get a "professional" sound in the end.
Logic bad because it takes longer to learn and is expensive/exclusive.

So... the lesson we learned today was??

A. You can't use premade loops.
B. People will respect you (maybe) if you actually write your music instead of re-arranging someone elses work.
C. Reading submission policies are good when you don't want to get a foot up your ass.

:TLDR;

:Expert troll 9/10

You know its fucking hilarious how popular Miku is in japan. A month ago I was on a trip (for 3 weeks) there - and down in Akihabara she is everywhere. Songs featuring her vocals playing it stores, figurines, posters, animations, even dojinshi. It is SOFTWARE. But the character just kinda took off and is causing a general shitstorm of media and marketing around it.

M-audio 410 firewire edition is what I use, haven't had any problems with it.

Yeah I am pretty sure that is a dulcimer - just comparing that song with dulcimer samples, sounds pretty much the same.

Congrats Rig - you moved up one more rung on the ladder of world domination.

But seriously, you deserve it.

I listen to a pretty large spectrum of music. Prog trance, Soul, Rock, Game OSTs, Anime OSTs, Philharmonic orchestral pieces, Dubstep, J-rock, House, Art rock...

I have noticed a trend though, I like pieces with a good progression and intelligent melody. My mood determines the flavor.

As for what I write... its seems to be fairly eclectic, but leaning more towards trance/electronic.

Gah.. my nostalgic soft spot is crumbling. I think I'll try a song from Starfox - no garrentee's yet though, I'll notify you when I have something solid.

So, the Kaossilator has RCA and headphone (mini 3.5mm) outputs. If you had a "line in" on your computer you could just take a male/male headphone cord and connect the two. If you don't have that then you'll need to get a better sound card with recording inputs. I have the M-audio 410 firewire edition, which has 8 analog recording inputs, and 8 digital SPDIF inputs. It has 8 analog outputs. You would easily be able to hook the Kaossilator to that, then run an ASIO driver as your main audio device in FL studio. Then its just a matter of turning on the correct "input" in the FL mixer..

Hope that helps a bit - not sure if it'll save you any money or effort though, lol.

Nfangled - Shen, by Shenkhar Type: SongGenre: Trance

Made this a year or so ago, but could never figure out how to make it into a "song"... it was just a collection of synth lines and pad progressions. I sat down and re-worked the entire thing, this is what came out!

Anatares auto-tune has fairly low latency, if you had the mic input routed into your computer you could use it to do the job. However the company makes a hardware unit as well, so that could be an even better choice if you want to be completely live.

At 2/22/09 02:47 PM, Grey-shado wrote: Im going to be in Kyoto in april.....

Well I'll be staying till like apr 8th.. if you are there by then maybe we could work something out.

I'm heading to Japan on March 18th for the Tokyo International Anime Fair (Otaku, but not cancerous like most of the net will cause you to believe) but will be touring the country afterwards to see the history/culture.

Is anyone else going to be there around that time that would like to meet up/hang out?

Hell if anyone wants to join me I estimate the trip/tour after the fair to cost about $2400usd (thats without airfare).
I have a kick ass itinerary worked up, covering most of the country, from Tokyo down to Nagasaki.

Anyway.. thoughts?

At 2/8/09 12:26 AM, MoniMC wrote: Yes it has a mic on the webcam...but it never works
i goto Audio settings and select ASIO v2 and from there i can't even here my fruity beat...???
Heres a pic...can i even do this with my audio card?

Right click the bottom section of the "quick cam" tab on your asio driver and enable it - it has been disabled some how. Once you do that you will be able to select it under the "input" tab on the upper right hand side of the fl mixer.

I've been messing around with waveshaping - done right it can make the most simple sine/square/saw into a really strange and interesting thing.

At 2/6/09 05:29 PM, LJCoffee wrote: I also tend to make heavy use of modulation in various forms. R5 is really good for that. Add a few modulators to your modulators and the next thing you know it starts approaching something very close to "random".

Yo dawg I put a modulator on your modulator so you can change parameters while you change parameters.

Sorry I had to.

Zupfen Sie - Shen (WIP), by Shenkhar Type: SongGenre: Trance

A WIP I submitted... ran out of ideas!! Its a happy trancy eurodance melody... I need some progression though.

I lol'ed a bit. Although that was after I tore my own face off.

Cancel my ignorance - melodyne 2 does indeed have the capability to process polyphonic sounds.

I need to google before I speak.

True - but as far as I know melodyne will only process monophonic sounds (I.E 1 note played at a time).

Thats why they mainly use it for tuning singers, live instruments and drums.

You would need a stereo recording setup to be able to record stereo sound (I.e two microphones placed in diffrent locations.) Or you need to take your seperate mono tracks and upmix them - in which case I suggest FL studio or a similar program.

Sorry to double post.. but I found a more "trancy version" if you care to listen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNV0JvzEs KE&feature=related

DJ virus - All your base

Its one of many "All your base" remixes... however I noticed that this version has lower pitched vocal samples than the original. Maybe thats what makes it less whiney and annoying?