Hey guys!
I'm in desperate need of a British sounding narrator, preferably from the north but not necessary,
I need this poem recited:

"O, how I wish my heart were cast of lead,
and my soul deprived of love,
so that I could live a life of reason,
and not one in which I am a prisoner of passion.

You see,
My greatest qualities are invisible,
and my most valuable assets, intangible.
Aesthetics have become my trade,
and so the Spartans will deny me the blade, while they go die in the shade.

The mighty called me an Old Greek and a young Queer, and have
likened me to the artisans of Athens, and banished me to the castles of Caen,
though I do not weep, yet instead I smirk,
for Old Man Time will soon descend, and of their might they surely will be stripped.

In one century, my sounds were fit for the peasants,
and in another, the aristocrats and the Kings.
and in another, again the peasants and now the Romantics.
and now, fit only for the deaf.

The sculptures of Olympia, the paintings of the Hudson River School,
the shapes of Giza, and the pillars of Monticello;
I have created these wonders, and with great pride too,
yet I've only enough wealth to buy me an old vest, preferably blue.

My fruits I know you've seen before, from pole to pole, I'm sure.
And still my name you will not recognize, for the mighty have purposely made it obscure.

My hand have become frail, and my body weak, and though
time has passed, and the many institutions of men have failed,
you will notice my music is still being played, and at my plays, many still will wail;
Time is clearly the mightiest judge of the tangible, and yet is weakened by the concept.

So,
Let it be known, that though I bear a curse,
which so many wrongfully deem a gift, and have mistaken it for brilliance, which even worse,
I will smile with fortune and humility at my Bed,
for only in name, will I really be dead.
I am the artist, the true immortal,
for my ideas cannot decay, but only strengthen instead.

The Artist-"

It only sounds good in a deep British accent, which I don't have :(
It will be used for an in class presentation for poetry, this one was mine,
If you have any questions, please PM or drop a post,
any help is appreciated!
Thanks

Ugh, I knew there was one,
Sorry about that :)

Hey guys!
I'm in desperate need of a British sounding narrator, preferably from the north but not necessary,
I need this poem recited:

"O, how I wish my heart were cast of lead,
and my soul deprived of love,
so that I could live a life of reason,
and not one in which I am a prisoner of passion.

You see,
My greatest qualities are invisible,
and my most valuable assets, intangible.
Aesthetics have become my trade,
and so the Spartans will deny me the blade, while they go die in the shade.

The mighty called me an Old Greek and a young Queer, and have
likened me to the artisans of Athens, and banished me to the castles of Caen,
though I do not weep, yet instead I smirk,
for Old Man Time will soon descend, and of their might they surely will be stripped.

In one century, my sounds were fit for the peasants,
and in another, the aristocrats and the Kings.
and in another, again the peasants and now the Romantics.
and now, fit only for the deaf.

The sculptures of Olympia, the paintings of the Hudson River School,
the shapes of Giza, and the pillars of Monticello;
I have created these wonders, and with great pride too,
yet I've only enough wealth to buy me an old vest, preferably blue.

My fruits I know you've seen before, from pole to pole, I'm sure.
And still my name you will not recognize, for the mighty have purposely made it obscure.

My hand have become frail, and my body weak, and though
time has passed, and the many institutions of men have failed,
you will notice my music is still being played, and at my plays, many still will wail;
Time is clearly the mightiest judge of the tangible, and yet is weakened by the concept.

So,
Let it be known, that though I bear a curse,
which so many wrongfully deem a gift, and have mistaken it for brilliance, which even worse,
I will smile with fortune and humility at my Bed,
for only in name, will I really be dead.
I am the artist, the true immortal,
for my ideas cannot decay, but only strengthen instead.

The Artist-"

It only sounds good in a deep British accent, which I don't have :(
It will be used for an in class presentation for poetry, this one was mine,
If you have any questions, please PM or drop a post,
any help is appreciated!
Thanks

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/2 76291, I'd like some feedback, please :)
I worked way too long for it to just fall on the floor like it did :/
Thanks guys!

I was wondering how many people here have tried/ or do write their music on a score or whatever and then try to play it back on piano, or input it on a MIDI sequencer,
I just recently started doing this and while at first it is pretty daunting, I've found that it can be easier to write something on paper than trying to figure something out on piano, or whatever your instrument.
Personally, seeing chords resolve on paper seems easier to work with than trying to figure it out by ear, kinda like a math equation..
Anywho, if anybody else has tried this or is doing it, I just started so, I'm just looking for some general tips or discussion on writing score.

At 9/10/09 02:15 PM, SBB wrote:

At 9/10/09 08:17 AM, Flash-MX wrote: In that case, $300 is a fair price seeing as how other programs similar to this (i.e Cubase, ProTools, etc.) can run up to $500 and even $1,200.

But that's not at all a fair comparison, you'll at least have to couple it with Reason, that's $629 and even then it's going to be very, very far behind all major DAWs on like a feature comparison chart. By the way I hope you know that you (flash-mx) as a Reason user can get Record for $130 so you're not throwing away 170 bucks

Not necessarily, one band that I used to work with (still do... kinda) used very little to none synthensizers in all of their music, and back when they used to record at my place, we actually used Audacity as a multi-track recorder for the bass track, drum track, etc, which seeing as how Audacity was a freeware program, there were many inevitable obstacles when it came to EQ and mixing, effects, etc. I agree, as a DAW, Record doesn't and won't stand up to bigger ones like Cubase or ProTools, but as a sketching and ease of use recording software, $300 is a "reason"able price. The only other one I've ever used that was as convenient as this and in this price range is Adobe Audition.

Oh and I do know about the Record for Reason owners discount, but I was using $300 as it's standalone price. :)

At 9/10/09 12:15 PM, Rig wrote: 300 bucks? To enable recording? You can buy Cubase Essential 4 or FL Studio for much less.

I would like to add though that if you are a regular Reason 4 user, and would like to produce tracks with Reason, this doesn't force use into outside software for recording anymore. I have Cubase 4 myself, but use it only when scoring video and rarely at that because I need some 10 odd VstI's to match the number of Instruments available in Reason out of the box (i.e Kontakt, East-West, NI Grand Piano, NI Absynth). Which I will say are sounds far more professional and dominant to those of Reason, but costly and inconvinent, most of their Vsti's come up to $200 and more, and if you add up all the ones I need, my total cost to Cubase would come out to about $1,400. Right now, I'm using a very outdated piano vst for scoring, but so far Cubase seems to have been a loss of money, considering 5 just came out. Undoubtfully, Cubase is more professional, and I ever make it out of the amateur stage, I won't think twice about dropping Reason 4.

At 9/10/09 12:15 PM, sorohanro wrote: I wouldn't call Record a "mediocre record feature", as for a really good professional microphone you'll have to pay more than 300$
- some Neumann - from 777 Euros to 5222 Euros.
- some AKG - from 83 Euros to 3333 Euros.

Record have a time stretching feature that Audacity don't have, is quite similar (if I understand correctly) to "Elastic Audio". Until you'll have to record drummers that have rhythmical issues, you don't realize how important is that.
Most of the times you'll have some "bleed" on your tracks, so cutting and snapping to grid is not an option... here comes the time stretching salvation :)
I used to make that manually, on every track... a nightmare that can take days (3 days for drum tracks of a single song).

Also I understand that the sampler and synths included in Record are quite nice, having most of rock and pop "must have" sounds.
FL lacks that very much, "out of the box" FL lacks even the most common sound, PIANO !!!

Sometimes people just want to focus their hatred to something... this time was Record...

I share your pain with the drum track recording,
For now, I'm still setting up a whole new hardrive for the Record, but as soon as I get it I'll be able to post some new tracks,

Finally I can implement live instruments into my tracks, and not just that, but custom samples at will. What do you use to record now?

Right now I have this Sennheiser mic that was very cheap,
I got it for a lowered price at $50, but even retail its below $100 at $80,

http://www.wwbw.com/Sennheiser-e822S-Dyn amic-Hand-Held-Vocal-Microphone-270856-i 1126772.wwbw?source=TWFRWXX&mr:trackingC ode=538CA873-5B81-DE11-9973-0019B9C2BEFD &mr:referralID=NA

They have some samples of sound quality here

http://www.thomann.de/gb/sennheiser_e_82 2_s.htm

At 9/10/09 12:12 AM, nathanallenpinard wrote: Ok, um. Here's my problem...

1. Reason doesn't have 3rd party support.
2. Reason should not be charging more cash for basic audio recording. It should a free update.

Well in all fairness, Reason doesn't necessarily need 3rd party support with the synthesizers it comes with already, not to mention the presets. It does feature ReWire but frankly I've never needed to use it because either of the 4 synthesizers can fit my needs easily. Effects wise, I would like to see some kind of implementation of Vst effect patches, but it's of no huge urgency.

Record is a standalone DAW, and some people who may want to buy it are simply vocal artists or bands who would like to have a multi-track recording system as simple to use as Reason. Not to mention it also comes with the same effects as Reason, and a single synthesizer that can reproduce the most commonly needed band sounds. In that case, $300 is a fair price seeing as how other programs similar to this (i.e Cubase, ProTools, etc.) can run up to $500 and even $1,200. FL Studio 8 Pro Edition is cheaper, but if anybody's ever tried to comfortable record audio in FL Studio, (record, not import audio into a sampler) can be and is a pain in the ass.

At 9/9/09 08:49 PM, haakjay wrote: I don't notice anything special about it. How much do they want for this?

For any Reason 4 user that's ever wanted to use it for producing vocal artists, this is a godsend,
all Reason 4 featured before was a NN-19 sampler that you had to record outside of reason with another program like Audacity or something, convert it to .wav, and then load a huge sample into the library trying to synchronize it to the rest of the track; a huge pain in the ass.

If you're not a regular Reason 4 user though, I would imagine this isn't really much,
but meh

At 9/9/09 08:41 PM, loansindi wrote:

At 9/9/09 08:16 PM, Flash-MX wrote: It's finally out!
Def. worth the money, and will be buying soon,

Really? It's worth that much money to add a basic DAW feature?

It's only 300 dollars and obviously that's not the only reason it's worth that much money, but I didn't feel the people who post in this forum needed someone to tell them everything that this thing does, i'm sure they can do it on their own. On that note though, I would like to change the tempo of the audio clip with extremely minimal pitch bend, and virtually no distortion.

It's finally out!
Just downloaded a demo and if you've already bought Reason 4, you can open up all the racks just like in reason, except... record audio on the spot! Just as simple as midi recording; genius.

Def. worth the money, and will be buying soon,

I reccomend it heavily to anyone who has Reason 4 and has ever wanted to record themselves singing just as easy or whatever; no need to use Audacity or whatever anymore,

Incredible! :D

Thanks!
And at $250 I'd probably just buy some books and video tutorials haha, though
I can see why you wouldn't charge anything under it.

*cough*bump :)

Oh well of course I would ask for examples,
Just as I've been asked :)

http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1248455160

http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1248455211

http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1248455244

http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1248455283

http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1248455346

http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1248455392

http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1248455571

http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1248455596

If you are interested, please post some past projects, or coding examples etc,
Or PM them to me rather,
Thanks!

At 7/24/09 12:59 PM, Sh0ckFyre wrote: I'm not too shabby with ActionScript for point and click stuff. PM me what you have. The money seems alright to be honest, $40 to do some coding? I'm down for it. lol

60$ :)

$20 Downpayment, $40 after the engine is complete,
I'll PM you in just a sec, my own computer is... preoccupied
(Brother on WOW...)

Ok, to answer some questions,

I am NOT planning on making some brilliant, sponsored game, this is more like one of those projects where you really... really... really want to make a game like this and you have no capacity to do so,

I have worked on/made some games before, but they never take off because of a lack of programming skills/lack of team cooperation.

Payment is negotiable then, maybe a 20$ downpayment, and 40$ after?
That's 60$, more than anyone will probably be willing to pay on these forums, especially when I'm

NOT

Planning on making any profit from this game, whatsoever.
And if you don't believe me then... really no loss to me, someone will be willing to eventually.

If you want more details about what I'm planning, story wise, then here's a bit:

So the game is set in 3052, and your character is a pilot (un-named so far)
His ship loses some kind of power, or capacity, I have yet to really lay this out,
and so he has to dock in a nearby space station,
The first part of the game then basically is to find parts for the ship on the space station
(Its going to be one of those... city-stations)
Once you do, you get a job from this adventurer/treasure hunter
Part II is you completing the job on whatever planet he sends you to,
and that's about all I've thought of.

Again, this is NOT going to be a game for profit, or sponsorship or anything like that,
And I'm fair enough to raise what I'm willing to pay if I change my mind,

Thanks!

By the way
(Terribly sorry for the double post)
I am

NOT

NOT

NOT

Asking for a complete game...

I will do the art, storyline, music, etc. etc.
Coding is a key part of a game... but not the only part

That's all,
thanks

Hey guys so here's the thing:

I want to develop a series of flash games similar to old video-game series like Monkey Island and Indiana Jones (Yea, the point-and-click LucasArts%u2122 adventure ones)

But... Have I have very little coding experience, and am equally impatient with learning how to code something like this. So, the little capitalist in me tells me to hire somebody to create this for me :)

Basically, this is what I need:

An .fla file, in an "engine" format.
(In other words, basic, BASIC art powered by the engine you *the programmer* developed)

An engine based on LucasArts%u2122' SCUMM%u2122 Adventure Engine
(If you've never played... basically its:

Point and Click Movement,
Inventory System
USE
PICK UP
COMBINE
OPEN
CLOSE
PULL
PUSH
GIVE
TALK
LOOK AT

or in other words, this : (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCUMM)

I realize that the coding is probably not too daunting for this kind of game, but I also understand its a lot to ask for, and I have NO deadline, so there are no time pressures.

I am also willing to compromise some options (Like maybe I don't NEED to have the Push/Pull options... but it would be nice :) )

I am willing to pay $40 to anyone who is interested,
and only after the .fla is completed

The trade would work something like this... you post an .swf of the engine on Newgrounds or something,
I verify that it's what I want,
I send MONEY... first
You send .fla via email.
It's that simple lol,
but please understand... no person in their right minds would pay before getting a product,
though a down payment is negotiable, If I deem ye trustworthy :D

Anywho, if you want more details, blah blah blah, PM me
Etc, Etc

I know some people are going to come on here and probably flame me or whatever...
"Why don't you take teh time and learn coding yourselff???"

This is America, if you don't know how to do something, and you're too lazy to learn how to do it
Pay someone to do it for you

As far as I know, this isn't against forum rules, but if it is
Then tell me
So I don't get banned... please.

Peace!

Scott Storch? :D

Hey guys, I've been wondering,
Jesper Kyd (Hitman, Kane and Lynch, Freedom Fighters) uses this same synth lead/bell kind of sound in almost all of his most famous themes, and I've been trying to figure out how to recreate it through a Thor or Maelstrom patch in Reason 4,
Ive found out at least so far that it is an octave difference between oscillators, but I can't find the exact timbre for this sound,
I'm not exactly a sound synthesizer expert, can anybody help, tips etc?

Its this sound :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urMYkDphl W8
:48 seconds in, the melody starts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwMqksh3x NY
:57 seconds in, mostly through the whole song

Hmm, I think you can use the Spider routing thingamagig, but if not, I guess the best way would be to use the two Thor patches in a Combinator patch; synthesizing both sounds, I think that's what your saying right?

Review club whooo!

If you could, please resucitate my track lol

Ihr Lächeln (FLMX), by Flash-MX Type: SongGenre: Classical

i spent so much time making it and i get like 3 votes and no reviews...
such justice :(

thanks in advance!!!

I'll give it a try,

Lawrence of Arabia - Maurice Jarre,

Just hope that deadline kinda extends? :D

Heres some ambiance stuff

Spyspun, by Flash-MX Type: LoopGenre: Ambient

Nitrox.City (Demo), by Flash-MX Type: LoopGenre: Ambient

Asteriod Chillout, by Flash-MX Type: SongGenre: Ambient

Nu_Ambience01, by Flash-MX Type: SongGenre: Ambient

Red Planet!, by Flash-MX Type: SongGenre: Ambient

Remnants of Outer Space, by Flash-MX Type: SongGenre: Ambient

Icy Planet, by Flash-MX Type: SongGenre: Ambient

New_York2053, by Flash-MX Type: LoopGenre: Techno

If you like any of them, or want one of them longer, etc,
ill be happy to make changes

If you want I can do some custom tracks in the same style

ala Ambient

I have many a chill piece that you may like

Spyspun, by Flash-MX Type: LoopGenre: Ambient

Nitrox.City (Demo), by Flash-MX Type: LoopGenre: Ambient

Asteriod Chillout, by Flash-MX Type: SongGenre: Ambient

Remnants of Outer Space, by Flash-MX Type: SongGenre: Ambient

<this one's got like bubbly sounds and stuff, you might like this one>

Icy Planet, by Flash-MX Type: SongGenre: Ambient

Nu_Ambience01, by Flash-MX Type: SongGenre: Ambient

Yea DnB makes sense to put it under, dnb isn't always just fast paced stuff

My favorite feature on Reason is the 2 samplers it offers,
All the time i'll go out and record a seemingly normal sound -- put it through some filters, effects, etc. and completely create new sounds as easy as it can get!

I don't know what it is about FL but I never thought it was as easy to use as Reason, even though I'm sure its way easier... or at least I think