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At 12/13/06 07:17 PM, Gman250 wrote: Howdy... thought I'd give it a whirl... here's my entry.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/view.php?id=1 53283

- Gman

I didn't know Gman made music. Until now.

As much as I hate to advertise myself, the song I submitted yesterday was exactly meant to be actiony.

I imported one of the MIDIs into FL, but how do you change the tempo without it resetting itself back to 140? I usually don't do remixes so I'm not experienced with this stuff.

Question!

Does the entire song need to use that melody, or can we switch to different melodies at times?

Here's a short song that would be good for an action scene in a flash, or maybe a flash action-type game.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/view.php?id=1 502826&sub=68807

Top 2 favorite artists:

M4ster
dj-Nate

ZT has some unique stuff, though.

Yeah, there's Bootcamp which allows you to run Windows on your Mac... but that requires reboot, and is significantly inconvenient.

There is a third-party program that exists for the Mac called Parallels Desktop. It allows a user to run Windows XP within Mac OS. How much slower is it than just running Windows with Boot Camp? Not much at all, actually. It runs at 95% normal speed.

I personally think Vista will not succeed nearly as much as suggested by all the hype and that in the future, most of the population won't even be using PCs anymore. They'll be using Macs instead.

I tried Vista Beta 2 Ultimate Edition, and it's not much better than XP Home Edition. In fact, I would seriously prefer XP over Vista. Besides the small bugs from it being the beta version, here are the most annoying things:

1. Too much security. Some programs did not work unless I right clicked and pressed "Run as Administrator," in which case I had to click past TWO different confirmation windows. To add to that, the only options on the confirmation windows are "Run" and "Cancel." So if you have some sort of adware trying to run an exe, most likely a window will pop up every five seconds asking for that program's permission to run.

2. Resource hog. Microsoft has made a noble attempt to match Apple's Dashboard and Widgets for the Mac by adding the Sidebar and Gadgets. Sound familiar? That's because Google Desktop already has these features, and they're way better than the Vista version. The Vista version is big and bulky, and lurks at the right side of the screen of your desktop constantly unless you exit it. With a Mac, you can just press F12 to bring up the Dashboard, and with Google Desktop you can put your mouse to the right side of the screen to have a much smaller-sized Sidebar slide out. Not only does this hog space on the desktop, it also hogs RAM. And that was when I only had two Gadgets running: a clock and a calculator. Not to mention the Gadgets are huge, so only three or four will fit with easy accessibility, otherwise you'll have to scroll down. The search indexing feature does not even make searches much faster, especially not compared to searching with Google Desktop or on a Mac. But search indexing still manages to hog about 30 MB of RAM. Hard drive space is a problem too, because for some strange reason the hard drive space runs out much faster than XP, definitely not because of the programs I installed. Vista apparently has a lot of junk of its own that it has to pile up onto the hard drive over time.

3. Graphics aren't that pretty. You'll find way better graphics on a Mac. The Vista graphics are certainly better than XP, but with any lower than 1 GB of RAM on your computer, you won't be experiencing the full thing. Vista automatically adjusts the graphics settings depending on your RAM. I actually switched to classic view anyway because I didn't want to waste more RAM on graphics that I didn't need to see.

So to summarize, Vista is not anything like the upgrade to XP. XP was much faster and much prettier than the previous Windows operating systems. It also has many less problems. Vista, however, can mainly be considered a graphical upgrade of XP at the cost of speed and efficiency. If you're getting a new PC within the next couple years, it will most likely have Vista pre-installed and should not be a problem as long as the PC is decently specced, but I would highly recommend not installing Vista on a computer you already have. Stick with XP.

My turn.

Sup, I'm Anth0n, which is a pretty uncreative name since my real name is Anthony. My music ventures began with piano lessons nearly 10 years ago, but that's not really what inspired me to make techno. Instead, my dad somehow found out about music software for the PC that he could get me if I would be willing to use it (I was around 11 or 12 years old at the time). So I said sure why not. The program was (prepare to groan) an old version of eJay.

I mainly just did what eJay is made for: stick premade samples together to make songs. But I learned to make my own samples when I got a later version of eJay and the premade samples weren't as impressive. It was still an unsophisticated program so I basically made crappy stuff until a friend of mine told me about FL a little under a year ago. For a little while I was like "No way I'm using that, eJay pwns," but then I tried FL and found out that eJay did not pwn at all. And now here I am.

At 11/25/06 08:21 PM, Kingdomheartslover wrote: I can't believe it. It must have taken her a long time. and I mean really long time

I'm not surprised. Newgrounds advertises his/her songs every day.

Anyone know any plugins for FL that are good for mastering? My songs are suffering from a case of Suckymasteringitis.

What I like to do to spice up my melodies is if I have a series of notes that fits together but happens to be pretty boring, I add some more notes in the middle, such as the same notes but at higher or lower octaves. This works because since the notes fit together already, the same notes on different octaves will also fit together.

Also, melodies always sound better with background synths to complement them.

At 11/21/06 09:07 AM, Lardosama wrote: I was thinking about it and the only way an artist can really get recognized is by getting a high rating, thus increasing his popularity. So what I was thinking was we need more people to hear our music to vote on it. As stupidly obvious as that sounds, (and I think my IQ just went down a few notches) so why not form a group of people that continuosly vote and review each other's work? Like a group of ten or so that vote everyday and write a review for each song that the others write. I wouldn't mind having a group like that. I don't know if its a Newgrounds taboo though.

I had something exactly like that in mind. Of course, it can't be a forum post, because then that would attract even more zero voters. But the review portion wouldn't really be necessary, just the voting portion. The votes are what reduces the effect of the zeros.

I think on Newgrounds publicity must have been much easier to gain when the AP was first created and there weren't many talented artists around. Nowadays there are so many people who are very talented and competetive that it's difficult for a single person to gain major publicity.

At 11/24/06 09:54 AM, The-sandwhich-hugger wrote: i just downloaded afree demo and well fuirty loops sucks in comparison to acid pro
reason well for starters you cant change the pitch of any of the pieces
theres no drum cheating involved you cant say use a quick drum sample to add that extra spice to your music nope you have to spend useless hours doing it your self nope fruity loops isnt for me at all.

First of all, someone should learn you some grammar.

Second, I've never tried Acid Pro, but FL Studio works just fine for me. It's all a matter of opinion. If I could understand what you were typing, I would probably say that FL has those features that you said it didn't, because it seems to have everything.

Come check out the freshly submitted Rush 260!

And maybe some other songs too, in the meantime.

That Synkon guy is really good. Yay for unknown but very talented artists.

At 11/24/06 07:46 PM, SpamWarrior wrote: This thread is destined to become a target for 0 voters looking for new victims. Same as any thread whinging about getting 0'd.

I didn't want to admit it, but actually all my songs were zeroed minutes after I made this thread. My bad :P

If you're gonna review my track, it should be in a review, not a forum post. Plus that's not really the point. Feel free to not five it, but if you post a non-terrible song here I'll five it, and hopefully other people will too, that way people will be willing to return the favor to them.

I just got a pretty cool idea. All of us know how annoying it is to work hard on a song and then have it zeroed. So let's try to counter the process.

There are many talented artists on this forum, and these artists deserve to have their songs more recognized. Link a song here, and hopefully others who visit this thread will five it. I understand that some of us are still sort of competing for more recognition, but I can guarantee that many people can have high-scoring songs and still all be recognized. This thread will hopefully serve to put us above the occasional noobs who magically pop up in the weekly top 5. I'll begin by linking my latest song here, and if anyone else chooses to link a song here, I'll be sure to five it (as long as it isn't terrible).

It helps to get to know other artists. That way, you can trade fives on songs, and the zero votes won't affect either person's songs as much. Now I'm not saying to make friends just for this reason, but it helps to know people.

Instead of getting annoyed at newcomers, why not help them out?

Rosenthorp, you should post stuff like this in the Audio Advertisements thread, otherwise you might be flamed. But it's great to hear of your interest in music.

Are you kidding? Why would I want a Zune over an iPod? The only real advantage of a Zune is that the screen is slightly larger, but otherwise it's bulkier, heavier, and the software is terrible. You can also transfer songs to other Zunes, which would normally be pretty cool. Problem is that the process is very slow, and even finding someone else with a Zune may be difficult. If it was cheaper than the iPod, it might be a reasonable investment, but unfortunately they are about the same price. Plus, Apple offers various different models of the iPod, while Microsoft only offers one model of the Zune.

So yeah, I'd go for the iPod.

Erectronik is the best. In terms of choosing interesting names, I mean.

That's pretty coincidental, those are the exact Ejay programs I used to have when I used it.

What I've found is that Ejay has gotten a pretty bad reputation over the years for being noobish, but my brother uses Dance 7 and it actually offers a pretty good variety of customization. The downside is that it doesn't have VST support like FL does.

Hm, I just got a cool idea. But it's not a very good one, and it won't really accomplish anything, so never mind mentioning it.

Most pointless post ever.

Ok, here's a picture of my new camera and me. Hope it works.

Dang I'd like to upload mine but the filesize is way too big.

I think he's talking about voice acting, not music.

At 10/2/06 10:35 PM, G9 wrote: From the sounds of it, Vanguard seems the best for me. But how can something be hard to learn if it's just a set of instruments... or am I still confused about VST's and what they really are?

The only thing that takes a bit of learning is what all the different knobs and buttons do, because there are quite a bit of them. Just play around with them, see what happens, and you'll start making kicka$$ synths in no time.