At 11/29/09 03:54 PM, nathanallenpinard wrote: Duduk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEDboHDSU 50

Ullean Pipes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSjmvU_8x LY

Wow truly outstanding instruments. The guy who's playing the Duduk looks like hes playing a friggen Tuba lol. It really must be difficult to play that instrument, he's great at it though.

I know what you mean when you say an instrument is overused, and its annoying as a composer when you find something great and you love it, but it turns out to be just an overused instrument.

But I think its better to just use what you love, because how else can you enjoy the music you are creating, you know?

At 11/29/09 03:38 AM, nathanallenpinard wrote: I can't believe you didn't name the Duduk in any of those. Duduk is my top. One of the most expressive and unique.

Lol make a list man, and I never heard of Duduk. What culture does it originate from? I noticed you liked to use a lot of european instruments.

There are thousands of instruments in the world, whether it be electronic or natural, theres a certain sound that everyone can relate to, which is why they choose to use the instrument persistently.

So heres my top 10 list. 1 as being most favorite.

1. Pan Flute -The sound of this instrument is so incredible to me. Its this feeling of natural beauty, untouched by the creation of man. Very spiritual instrument.
2. Cello -just a great instrument
3. Erhu - Defines Japanese and Chinese culture, which is what i love.
4. Hang Drum - limited, but incredible instrument. If this drum were not limited, it would be my favorite.
5. ContraBassoon/Bassoon -I always loved Bassoon, it can be playful and funny, and yet at the same time, have
6. Celesta -a mysterious sound that i really enjoy.
7. Lute - My favorite form of guitar, such rich sound.
8. Timpani -A drum that has pitch, and can play chords and possibly more? yes please.
9. Bells -Nothing catches your attention more, than a bell. Gotta love em.
10. Piano -It would be a crime not to mention the Piano. Its a great instrument, but to me lacks what these instruments posses.

I usually dont suggest my own, but my old songs might fit that category.

The Mystic, by btriangle Type: SongGenre: Classical

+BT+ The Paladins Ride, by btriangle Type: SongGenre: Classical

At 11/27/09 05:34 PM, Xarnor wrote: I'd have a Bedn, and I'd name it Wade.

lol, wtf.

If you could have any animal as a pet (meaning it wouldn't kill you, or it didnt die for some reason) what would it be?

I think I would have a monstrous Toad, name him Scrump, and he could chill on my left shoulder lol.

At 11/27/09 01:30 PM, Calamaistr wrote:

At 11/27/09 12:07 PM, btriangle wrote:

So dont worry, the leprechaun is understanding, he knows how limited you are.

you have no idea how much styles i am familiar with.. so ill just write em down here, im sure its 90% more than you can do.

piano classical, orchestral classical, jazz, neo lounge, ambient, hybrid dnb styles, 8bit, 16bit, textbook modern vg and mellow (a type of ambient with more concentration on the individual sounds, and less chord oriented strings etc, pretty much a genre for relaxation)

And lately im making alot of fusions between two or multiple genre's.

So who were you again?

I am not impressed by the amount of styles you "say" you are able to perform, rather than really able to.

At 11/26/09 07:41 PM, Calamaistr wrote:

At 11/26/09 02:43 PM, btriangle wrote:

At 11/26/09 02:37 PM, Calamaistr wrote: The movie Amadeus is very inaccurate on the persona of mozart.

We all know this, who cares. Its still a really good movie.

Yes i agree it was a good movie and i even felt bad for salieri even though samewise, it was inaccurate on him too.

But still.

If i ever find a leprechaun ill be sure to wish for orchestral music to stay the hell away from games in the future.

The leprechaun would be sure to allow it.... for you. Since you clearly can only create one style of music, the leprechaun could not clearly have you open up your mind to more ideas. He knows you're biased, why bother right?

So dont worry, the leprechaun is understanding, he knows how limited you are.

At 11/26/09 02:37 PM, Calamaistr wrote: The movie Amadeus is very inaccurate on the persona of mozart.

We all know this, who cares. Its still a really good movie.

However, that being said. Mozart also worked for "the man" so he often had the same problems...AND GUESS WHAT FOLKS, HE WAS BASHED FOR IT TOO. I quote from Amadeus: "Too many notes."

Sire: theres too many notes, just cut a few and it'll be perfect :D

Friggen love that line :D

I'd have to say the score in Super mario Galaxy is one of the most unique and beautiful I have heard in a while.
Mario
Mario 2
Kingdom Hearts tune, Distracting, yet i remember loving it in the game.

I agree nathan in which you said composers think music should not be distracting in a video game is total BS.

Honestly guys, it makes no sense when composers say this. What tune do you remember mario by? Any famous game you can think of has some sort of tune that you remember it by.

No music really distracts someone from a game anyway, I think the main reason is to remove the feel of repetitiveness, so the composers make something boring and dull. I think video game music should be endless in the sense in which you can constantly listen to it and never really get bored with its content. If the composers did this, they succeeded.

At 11/25/09 08:27 AM, nathanallenpinard wrote:

Oh and A Knights Tale at some points, again with the incorrect soundtrack at points by having rock.'

That isn't "incorrect" that is a change of style to keep things interesting. It works at times. Look at the BSG soundtrack, it consists of taikos and duduk with classical elements, which most people would expect a more sci-fi synth inspired score.

Or look at Firefly (Serenity), where the score is entirely based on grass roots country, in a space setting.

The style doesn't matter. Any style can fit with any genre if done right. What matters is the content, and whether it fits the scene. You don't want some epic score where two peoplel are talking in a room (In the Name of the King did this lol)

I agree in a sense, but personally, I would have never put a song as famous as Queen "We will rock you" in a film that takes place in the middle ages. If the composer created their own songs and they put in guitars to give a rock feel, sure, i dont care about that, thats totally understandable for that type of film.

The mood did fit, thats for sure, but personally i think it took away from the movie when you saw a film that took place in the middle ages, and you heard a song by Queen played in the background. Especially when they had the people in the court actually singing and performing with the song, that just made it worse.

Btw in the name of king was a hilarious movie, my favorite part was with the fucking random ninjas lol. I died at that point.

Oh i just found a new one, Lady hawk. Great movie, incorrect soundtrack, by putting in rock.

Oh and A Knights Tale at some points, again with the incorrect soundtrack at points by having rock.

Since there are so many great movies out there with great soundtracks, its really hard to get a sense of what a bad soundtrack sounds like.

So i figured if you guys have anything to share about a bad soundtrack you heard once in a movie, leave your post here, and i'll watch the movie just to hear how bad that soundtrack is.

Heres an example of one -

The Childrens Crusade (terrible soundtrack, im not even sure how i came about watching this movie lol. The film repeated the same "Recording" 5 times within the same movie. Besides that, it wasn't even fitting for that scene, and was just bad.)

I enjoyed it, makes me look at how boring my life is, and try to turn things around. And Brad Pitt was pretty amazing in that movie, I didnt expect that from him.

Oh come one guys, dont buy arpeggiators. Make everything on your own, its a waste to buy something that you can do on your own.

Well hot damn, I find it very strange, but i know for certain this women has truly lived far greater than most people in the entire world.

The fact that she is so happy, and talks with so much confidence is just amazing. Most people would never dream of having kids, looking like her.

Great music nathan, however the fact that it so closely resembles legend of Zelda made it hard for me to play.

Wow really awesome, so basically this is showing you how to make the sound, appear environmental correct?

For example, someone is talking in the right corner of the room, and you turn around and you cant hear them. Is that this?

If so, sounds great, I cant believe you found this.

Does it work for macs?

Its actually pretty damn entertaining, and if someone made it sound a bit better, and have more comical moments, it would be actually quite hilarious.

Alright problem solved guys, thanks for the help.

At 11/8/09 09:34 PM, nathanallenpinard wrote: yeah, mine crackes at 64. Change it to 256 or 512. EW can't run at that low latency.

In fact, most samples can't

Im impressed its been doing so well this whole time too, I only finally noticed it up until now, I guess 45 tracks open is too much.

At 11/8/09 09:07 PM, nathanallenpinard wrote: Ah, then it might be using the latency that Logic uses then automatically.

Logic should be 512 or more. Preferably 1024, but sometimes you have to lessen it to get exact rhythm.

right now its at 32.

At 11/8/09 08:26 PM, nathanallenpinard wrote:

At 11/8/09 08:19 PM, btriangle wrote: Does anyone know how to change latency in east west to a higher number? I think thats my only problem.

It's in the options of the Kontakt Player, or if your using Play, there's an options menu with various settings.

Under what tab exactly? Surprisingly some of the tabs Play wont even let me get in. Its like locked or something.

Does anyone know how to change latency in east west to a higher number? I think thats my only problem.

Sorry to double post, I just want to let everyone know here I will not be viewing answers on this page, only by newgrounds or my email adress.

Also i made an error in one of the lines for the sailors. Its "STEAL" instead still.

Thank you.

Looking for voice actor for POWER OF 3 EVENT! For the game -Three Pirates-
1 - Im looking for 8 different types of voices for the game. Stanley, Rufus, 3 Lieutenants, 3 sailors. Each voice should be different and unique, but the most important of all, it should have a British accent to it. If you are not British, but can perform the accent, give it a go. However not all voices need the famous British accent, it really depends on the role you are performing.

2. heres a line for each of the Characters listed. Have fun with it.

(22 yrs of age, highly intelligent engineer, has a casual british voice, but should be unique in the sense of his intelligence. Not high pitch and zany)
Stanley: Because it makes no sense! You want to go to a place that you dont even know exists, no a ship that you dont have, without a crew to sail it, to find a treasure that probably never existed, and without a shilling to pay for it all.

(44 yrs of age, appears as a pirate, but is in fact a sailor. Think of a pirate basically, but less intense)
Rufus: What are you doing here? You are not part of our crew.

(30's-late 50's, they are snobby, rich, and are one of the highest rank. Think of a rich pirate)
Lieutenant: You done trying to save your pretty little princess?

(20's - late 30's, each voice should be fun, so think of something fun, could be zany and wild, or just normal. Practice with different voices)
Sailor: You will still this ship over my dead body- UH AHHH!!!!!

3. My email is Jamal@corriegraphics.com, or you can just message me here on newgrounds.

4. I will stop accepting submissions by November 21st. I will listen to your audition, and if i like it, and your quality of microphone, I will allow you to voice act.

Thanks and good luck :D

5. Everyone will be credited at the end of the game.

At 11/8/09 02:32 AM, nathanallenpinard wrote: Reset your audio interface, and change the latency for East West to a higher number. If it's only one instance doing it, that's probably it.

Also change the memory settings too if you have a bunch of RAM, otherwise Eastwest streams from you HD, which usually a normal computer HD isn't good enough.

The crackles are probably from latecy more than anything.

Ok well firstly Im not really sure how to reset my Audio interface, or change the latency for east west to a higher number, and im figuring yes, its causing it.

However, what i find most strange, is how before I got these monitors, I had little to none latency problems. But ever since I got these monitors hooked up, the problem occurs every now and than.

I can even see the Cpu screaming. Usually it only uses 1 core at about 60-80% of its max, but so far its been using all 8 cores, and one of which is using 100%, the others are about in the 20-30% range.

I dont see it streaming from HD, so thats good.

Well, as I mentioned earlier, I got new speakers, and well, they are great.

But, when I loaded up logic to test out some of my songs, I noticed that there was a crackling sound, and almost panning sound of the instrument, while I was playing midi instruments from East West.

I further examined the issue, and the only instance in which this nuisance continued to drive itself, was only with the Midi instruments from East West!!

So im really having some trouble here. I know its not distortion from my instruments, because I tested that already, and its fine.

So any help would be great, been trying to solve this issue all day.

At 11/6/09 11:54 PM, HardcoreCap wrote: solid monitors and for a good price...i say you did the right thing considering your budget....i started out with headphones then got Spirit Absolute 2s and an amp for like $140. since then i got some KRK rokit 8s and the sub that matches them.....the KRKs i got for about $300 which is also a good buy.

Krk's For both monitors? Or as a total?

Either way, the sound on these monitors are tremendous. I have never truly heard sound, until i got these speakers lol.

My old speakers seemed like the sound was all coming through a bass. Even instruments as high as a piccolo, had a bass to it ;O