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Congrats to all the winners! :D

I can't believe Halloween's already over, though. :(

HAAAALLLOWEEEEEEN.

Congrats to all the winners! :D

And now, HALLOWEEN.

Congrats to all the winners! :)

At 10/2/12 02:04 PM, TomFulp wrote:

At 10/2/12 01:38 PM, W3R3W00F wrote: One question, though: are the pumpkin carving competitions going on this year? The IRL and Carve N' Share competitions?

Yup we'll be doing those.

Oh, duh, I should've read the earlier posts. Sorry, Tom.

YAY, HALLOWEEN!!! :'D

One question, though: are the pumpkin carving competitions going on this year? The IRL and Carve N' Share competitions?

I've been watching Dust almost since the beginning. It's awesome to see how Dean's efforts have finally unfolded into the final product- a spiritual successor that keeps the spirit of Jazz Jackrabbit alive. :') /90stears

...Now I just need to get a 360. Huge congrats to all the voice actors! :)

Also, ScaryPicnic, I love your profile pic to death.

I don't want to believe any of this. Unfortunately, I do.

R.I.P., Edd. You were incredible. :'(

Cool, I won $30 store cred again. :D I still don't know what I'm gonna buy, though.

Congrats to all of the winners! :)

Congrats to all of the winners! :D

But what about the pumpkin contest? :c Who won?

Yey, banner. :D <3

If we're still having the Carve N' Share competition, maybe we should keep the game front paged...?

At 10/7/11 10:15 PM, StephenKP wrote:

At 10/7/11 06:47 PM, StephenKP wrote: Review my song, plz?
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/4 49579
Thank you. :D

^Crap, StephenKP's my other account. :P Sorry about that.

^When I wrote that I thought I was logged into my main account.

Yes. I HAVE perfected the art of failing daily.

At 10/3/11 05:12 PM, TomFulp wrote: We will be having Carve 'n Share along with the IRL pumpkin contest this year!

EL YAY. <3

W00T, Carve N' Share competition!!! :D

Thanks, Tom. <3

At 9/30/11 03:42 PM, The-Great-One wrote:

At 9/30/11 03:20 PM, W3R3W00F wrote: Anybody else think so too?

Yeah it would be freaking awesome!

I suppose that's two votes, then!

So... how about it, Tom?

We should totally have another Carve N' Share competition like last year, and put the "game" somewhere on the front page. That "game" was too ridiculously addicting to forget, and has grown on me like a weed. ._ . I'll probably end up coming back to it every Halloween season. FER THE REST OF MY LIAF.

I personally think it could become some kind of Newgrounds tradition, and like last year, a decent side competition along with the already existing IRL pumpkin carving competition.

Anybody else think so too?

At 9/16/11 12:56 AM, Spikrodd wrote: It's fun to mess with time signatures in music, if not for practice, then just for the hell of it.

Totally agree with you on that. It's not just great practice to explore outside of common time: you can create some of the most intriguing works in time signatures like 5/4, 7/4, 11/8, etc.

Anyway, I have one more question.

4/5 time is entirely possible, therefore, there must be a way to write it out. Does anyone think I wrote out 4/5 time correctly in the first picture or not?

In addition to my previous post, and just to clarify if needed, I'm not implying that 4 beats will complete 1 bar no matter what. If you switched to 5/4 time, there would be a total of 5 beats per bar, and each beat would last the length of a quarter note. Furthermore, switching to 6/8 would mean that there would be 6 beats per bar, and each beat would last the length of an eighth note. OR, if you did 6/4 time, there would be 6 beats per bar, and each beat would last the length of a quarter note.

Just clearing things up a bit, just in case...

At 9/15/11 11:12 PM, dontpanic01 wrote:

At 9/15/11 09:06 AM, LogicalDefiance wrote: I'd like to add that FL Studio's setting for meters is totally wrong. It has its own signature system thats pretty odd

Can you please elaborate on how Fl's meter settings are off,
(I'd like to know how, just so that my music will suck less)

Hope this helps a bit. :)

You know, I kind of wondered if it was wrong... I just didn't know if anybody else thought so, too.

At 9/14/11 05:23 PM, Thegluestickman wrote: Exactly what the people above me have said.

Time signatures are denoted as the numerator being the number of beats in a bar, while the denominator is what note gets 1 beat. There isn't a fifth note, but there is a quintuplet. So the quintuplet gets a beat and there is 4 beat sin a bar. That would be your 4/5 time signature.

Since when we put things in tuplet form, we're really squeezing more notes into one beat. One quintuplet = 1 beat. Therefore, the 4/5 time signature is one that only has tuplets which really gives a swing feel. More of a lively quick feel. It's not really a 4/4 signature because it's forcing quintuplets in to the beat. Hope I helped.

That sounds right. That's what I picked up from the Wikipedia article. I wonder, then, if 5 quintuplet beats would just be a quintuplet rhythm or 5/5 time? It seems logical, concerning 2/2 lasts as long as 4/4, 8/8, 16/16, 32/32, etc.

Also, while we're on the subject of "irrational" time signatures, there apparently is one song that uses a mathematically irrational time signature. Wikipedia says this: Conlon Nancarrow's "Studies for Player Piano" contains a canon where one part is augmented in the ratio %u221A42:1 (approximately 6.48:1). Interesting.

At 9/14/11 03:57 PM, Space-Whale wrote:

At 9/14/11 01:23 AM, BigRed wrote: I was expecting actual irrational numbers and square roots in the time signatures.

Well, I've done a song in %u221A-1/4.

I lol'd. xD

At 9/14/11 10:29 AM, Kor-Rune wrote: I did this in FL studio two nights ago coincidentally, but of course it wasn't perfect. But sometimes, that's okay, and makes it a little more human.

Theory wise, I'm positive you'd still have 4/4 or whatever time signature you're using, and you'd just be using quintuplets for the song instead of making the time signature some weird 4/5 thing.

Here's a septuplet rhythm I found on wikipedia, quintuplets would be written the same way.

I believe you're right, that sounds accurate. If you used 5 quintuplet notes, I think you'd just have a quintuplet rhythm. However, I wonder if, because I only used 4 of the 5 quintuplet notes, that would make it 4/5 time? There must be some way to write "irrational" signatures: John Pickard's 'Eden' used bars of 3/10, and the second movement of Thomas Adès' 'Traced Overhead' used signatures such as 2/6, 9/14, and 5/24 (according to Wikipedia).

An easier alternative to writing 4/5 may be just to use 4/4 at a quicker tempo, I suppose. :I I dunno.

At 9/14/11 01:01 AM, ProudAardvark wrote: Irrational time signatures are usually compound time signatures, i.e. 7/8 is really 2+3+2/8 or some other arrangement. Its a really common idea in eastern European folk music for example to have repeating patterns like this. I like it a lot and use it a lot in my own work.

Some suggested listening:
Prokofiev, Piano Sonata No. 7 Third Movement
Bartok, Contrasts

Happy composing!

Hm... I think that 2+3+2 would be an 'additive' time signature. That's what Wikipedia calls it, anyway. I need to start experimenting with those, they seem like they'd be handy...

Either way, thanks for the reply! :)

Hi guys. :) I have an unusual question.

I'm studying time signatures: Particularly, "Irrational" time signatures. Irrational time signatures are time signatures that don't have a denominator to a power of 2 (E.g., 3/10, 5/6, 4/3). Here's a line of text copied from the Wikipedia page.

"Notationally, rather than using Cowell's elaborate series of notehead shapes, the same convention has been invoked as when normal tuplets are written; for example, one beat in 4/5 is written as a normal quarter note, four quarter notes complete the bar, but the whole bar lasts only 4/5 of a reference whole note, and a beat 1/5 of one (or 4/5 of a normal quarter note). This is notated in exactly the same way that one would write if one were writing the first four quarter notes of five quintuplet quarter notes."

With that in mind, I tried to create 4/5 time as well as I could using FL Studio 10... however, I have no idea if I even read the Wikipedia article correctly and if the end result matches up with what the article said. :P

In the picture, I've selected only the first 4 light green colored quintuplet quarter notes, since 4 quintuplet quarter notes complete 1 bar in 4/5. The last light purple colored quintuplet quarter note is just a reference to show you that I've equally divided a 4/4 bar into 5 quintuplet quarter notes, but only used the first 4.

Seriously, I have no clue if I'm doing this right. I'm just curious and exploring what's musically possible. That's why I'm wondering if any of you know if I'm doing this correctly.

Thanks in advance! :)

Yay, Halloween. :D

And of course, Madness Day!

Win.

Congrats, Brad!!! :D

I know, you can favorite audio tracks so you won't forget about them in future time, but really, when you have more than 1 favorite audio track, that doesn't tell you which is your VERY favorite.

SO! List your VERY FAVORITE song (that was not made by you). Also, you can list two runner-ups, if you want to.

My favorite song:

• 
  ellipse by broove

  Click to listen.

  Score

  4.34 / 5.00

  Type

  Song

  Genre

  Drum N Bass

  Popularity

  29,054 Views

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The runner ups:

• 
  -gray morning- by Waterflame

  Click to listen.

  Score

  4.30 / 5.00

  Type

  Song

  Genre

  Ambient

  Popularity

  9,245 Views

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• 
  obviously by AlantheBOX

  Click to listen.

  Score

  3.82 / 5.00

  Type

  Song

  Genre

  Indie

  Popularity

  1,304 Views

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I hope this type thread hasn't been created before. If so, whatever.

Post away. :)

*Facepalm* Did it wrong. -_-

What does a robot eat for its birthday?" asked Al. Obama cringed yet stared shitting a midget because Adolf Hitler's butt was crawling with Jewish syphilis. And suddenly lesbians appeared!
"Fire the cannons, bitches!"
Adolf played with his pale wrinkly affidavit as Asian businessmen filed reports on Zen-Buddhism.
"You are a moron." said Bob, right after a vigorous morning swim in a shark-filled Iranian bank that's frozen.

"Whatever man I'm just keepin' it realer than a cake in a dirty hospital."

Bob smirked. "Silly lady, tricks are for my sock puppets!"

With diabetes, comes great ass cancer and cake filled with human hands and responsibility.

"Yo, Bobby," spurted an Asian businessman, "I gotta shit now."

Feces exploded while he reminisced about last night, and its stench lingered for hours. Clogged toilet made him only madder. The plunger was stuck tightly inside Al's round gauged ear. Hundreds of flies were exploding with pus-filled boners shooting democratic jews. The flies were unaware that they were really desperate for some attention. He wiped Andrew Jackson with the toilet paper soaked in hot water.

Meanwhile, in Austria, there

Austria, there