Yeah this peice was written as a humorous satire of musical composition. I mean some of it is literally impossible, obviously. Its just fun to read and laugh about. And to watch youtube people have a crack at it.

At 11/10/09 02:35 PM, joshhunsaker wrote: I just played it. Sounds a little jerky but there is some nice counter-point in there where you release the frog in the 2nd chair saxaphone's bell or whatever. I didn't have a 2nd chair saxaphonist, so I substituted a mince meat pie and pretended the frog was a buffalo to compensate for the lack of shock therapy at the end (didn't have any spare car batteries).

Did you detonate the explosives here?.... here... and here? Nice work with the frog, I just hope the cattle made it off the stage. Like a dirigible....

I just crank everything up to 11 and see what sticks! :D

joking!

... But seriously

The most accurate ATTEMPT has been:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCgT94A7W gI

(The composer talks for a bit at the start, its at an old folks home)

I say attempt... because I mean really, how close are you actually going to get to the score?

You can search for Faerie's Aire and Death Waltz

Okay well obviously some people have missed the point.

It is not a serious score- It's a satire - It is however quite an impressive composition. If you actually look at the score it's quite amusing.
"Harpists all stand up"
"Bow really fast... slippage may occur"

If you look on youtube a number of people have attempted to play this score, one group got REALLY close, with a very large band.

http://www.oratoriosocietyofny.org/image s/Humor/Aire.pdf

That my friends is a link to a PDF of Faerie's Aire and Death Waltz!!

An impossible music composition - you will never play it! But feel free to try.

With such instructions however as "Play with Passionfruit" and "Release the penguins" you may find you've bitten off more than you can chew :P

I've included a small preview in this post:

may I interject with the greatest guitar ever...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0PoidKHC Qk

... But seriously folks, My actual suggestion would be The Ibanez S series

You R smart Tom, why not get someone in the office to make your own poll?

Hokay new problem, i wrote this thing that grabs a line from a text file based on a user search word. Only I'm not supposed to use #include <string>
I am allowed to use #include<cstring>

So how would i re write:

void searchDate()
{
    char dateSearch[99];
    size_t i;
    string line;


    cout <<"Enter a date you wish to search by: ";
    cin.getline(dateSearch, 99);

    ifstream bookcopy ("bookcopy.txt", ios::in);

    while(getline(bookcopy,line))
    {
        i = line.find(dateSearch);
        if(i!=string::npos)
        {
            while(line.find("#")!=string::npos)
                line[line.find("#")] = '\n';


            cout << line << endl;
        }
    }

So that it only uses reserved words from the <cstring> family and not <string>?

Yeah i tested with that... didn't work. I think the way i'm going about it is wrong

In theory it needs to:

search the text file for the string
if it finds the string it needs to output that line, replacing any # characters with '/n' charachters
It then needs to do it again for any other entries

it's not outputting the line that i search for

also in case your wondering the headers i'm using are:

#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <cstring>
#include <string>

Okay problem in C++

I have written data to a text file using ofstream with the format
name#address#phone#date#

In the text file there are multiple lines of this format.
What is the best way for me to search the file by any of the strings (i'll use date for this example)
and then output that line with proper formatting.
At the moment, i'm just trying to output the line and i was thinking something along the lines of:

void searchDate()
{
    char dateSearch[9];
    size_t i;
    string line;


    cout <<"Enter a date you wish to search by: \n";
    cin.getline(dateSearch, 9);

    ifstream bookcopy ("bookcopy.txt.", ios::in);
    while(getline(bookcopy,line))
    i = line.find(dateSearch);

    if (line.compare(dateSearch) != 0)
               cout << "result " << line << endl;


    return;
}

But that is not working...

I think inspiration is a funny word. I guess I would consider Inspiration a combination of every piece of music that i listen to and take things from. As well as the things I practice. I notice when I write it's usually inspired by something I've heard and my mood at the time usually reflects how I play it.
I come from a rock background but when I was committed to practicing Jazz everyday then the things i wrote all turned out with elements of the things I'd practiced.

1) Looking for a group
2) I am a musician (I have also beta tested for a number of games)
3) I have experience composing for film
4) PM or email lachlanjdavis@gmail.com
5) Nobody is in my group yet

I'm interested in Joining a team as a composer.

Well as it stands you cant load your own samples into the MyDrumSet program, but the samples that are there are pretty tight. But if you read his blog you will see that he is working on a new interface and he is going to re record his samples with the drum kit tuned. But he is also planning to charge a small amount for the next version of the program.

If you have any good drum samples please post them, especially snares and kicks. Because you can load samples into something like FPC (if you're using FL studio) but you have to add you're own compression and mastering.

At 2/27/09 08:35 PM, Firebalt wrote: I often try asking around here when i'm after good plugins for cheap. Something that I was looking around for was a decent drum plugin that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. A lot of people around here use stuff like EzyDrummer, well if you don't have the dough for that then check out:

Blue Noise Drums

They aren't finished, he is going to re record the samples. However the ones that come with the free download are tight! Once he has finished the project it will cost money so get in quick. I've tried them and it's great!

I mean from what I've tried, there isn't a huge amount of customising that you can do. But the samples are good and compression is top notch.

I often try asking around here when i'm after good plugins for cheap. Something that I was looking around for was a decent drum plugin that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. A lot of people around here use stuff like EzyDrummer, well if you don't have the dough for that then check out:

Blue Noise Drums

They aren't finished, he is going to re record the samples. However the ones that come with the free download are tight! Once he has finished the project it will cost money so get in quick. I've tried them and it's great!

As soon as i here a plug in like slayer in a song, then It's a 3 or less on my vote... fake guitars suck people... don't use them!

Does anyone have a sample of an Army Marching? I had a look around but all the stuff I found was low quality and rubbish.
I need something fairly high quality, a good reference would be the start to Apocalypse Please - Muse.

Basically it is possible to remove the vocals to certain extent. And i've done it one for live theatre and it worked okay.

Bascially if you're using Audition then just go to the vocal remove option. Here's it takes a stereo waveform, inverts one channel and slaps them together. Anything that was panned directly in the middle is gone. Usually this is vocals, however you also lose anythign else that was in the middle.

Yeah if you want a good distortion for standard chords (A bit like ACDC) then its more about the settings you use rather than the actual pedal.
You want your Gain (or distortion) down low. Then play with the Tone (or filter on my pedal) as you play until you get a good sound. In simple terms the more distortion you add the less clear you're chords will be. However if you have less distortion then you are probably going to have to increase the volume a little to get that extra bite.

Ah well top 20 aint bad i suppose, I can't wait for the next one!

I would have voted against, but thats becase im impatient... but its kinda too late now. Valentines day is pretty much tomorrow.

Appart from Coldplay winning awards... it was an alright turn out this year. (I really think coldplay have no talent)

Anyways, Radiohead won one! Which was awesome! Their performance of 15 Step was... AMAZING!!! Youtube it if you missed it! The marching band was the perfect addition for that song.

TobyMac also pulled out best Gospel album... and Alive and Transported was definatly my second favourite album of last year (after In Rainbows althought that was technically 2007)

Mars Volta won one, for that insane song!

And appart from Allison Krauss who has won a billion grammys and i've never even heard her... thats all the acts i really cared about.

Probably not. There isn't room for all these Genres and subgenres

That would be a really good idea! Have a sound effects portal for Royalty Free sound effects... but then again it would probably get abused and legal issues would arise.

I write music because I have all these ideas in my head, and I can never express them the same way I imagine them... so it's all in pursuit of creating the perfect song...

... I don't think that will ever happen

So what key do you want the solo's in?