Of course, it's in Japan. And I do think it's a sign of the end of the world.

Why people haven't started allowing their pets to be their tax consultants yet is more unclear.

At 11/24/09 07:32 PM, SymbolCymbal wrote: would i be able to use an ethernet cable to network the two computers since most places we would be playing in will not have wifi... or am i just missing the point?.. this is a little confusing for me

Yup, just through ethernet cable essentially.

At 11/24/09 04:28 AM, Syntrus wrote:

At 11/24/09 03:20 AM, joshhunsaker wrote: Newgrounds is a place where every 14 year old in the world has a chance to become quasi-famous by getting their semi-decent techno mishap in the top #30 list or weekly 5 and then build their little groupie followings that spill over to popularity on last.fm and similar sites.

Oh this isn't negative my mistake.... :\

It's tongue-in-cheek but it isn't negative. What other site do you know of besides this where anyone with a little talent, some luck and FL Studio at the age of 12-14 can get featured on a webpage that receives literally 100's of thousands of hits per day?

That's a pretty amazing thing to most people, and rightly fully so. It's almost weird to meet people nowadays my age that don't know what newgrounds is. That's an impressive marker in and of itself. This site fills what would otherwise be a gaping hole in internet venue for very young emerging artists of really any genre/style/form. Newgrounds does many many things right, and very few things "wrong". There are missing features/options/abilities/forums/concep ts/implementations of idea and so forth but that's only more reason to expand.

I can see one day this site being a huge tapped resource for people looking to fill amateur/entry-level careers in the arts. Look at the talent here! It's freakin tremendous! That goes for flash, art, music, games, whatever...

Anyway, I do like Newgrounds - it's great site. It's a great site filled with lots of pretty decent very young people, which is a breath of fresh air honestly compared to sites that only feature uppity grown-ups who can't be taught anything and will never take your advice. Those adults also don't complain as much. Honestly - I think the complaints are part of the inherent nature about what makes newgrounds great. If that doesn't make sense then spend some time @ kvraudio.com and you'll find out quickly what I'm talking about. It's a bunch of jaded fat-heads who can't get over how incredibly set in their ways that they are. Most of them are pricks on top of that.

People here will actually take your advice. Go to another site and try to explain a musical concept or theory or something about electronics and they will often kick your face in so quickly for assuming you know anything at all that you'll be wondering how you navigate back to google.

At 11/24/09 03:31 AM, Syntrus wrote:

At 11/24/09 03:20 AM, joshhunsaker wrote: Again not really getting the point.

More stuff that really doesn't pertain to the conversation. I think the purpose of this thread was to stop complaining.... not start.

If you imagined I was complaining then maybe you didn't even take the time to read my actual post.

To make it shorter for those with short attention spans - I was speaking to the effect of "why" newgrounds is that way, not complaining that it is. Newgrounds is a certain and will not likely ever ever change unless it's entire demographic undergoes a colossal shift to a mature and older user-base that doesn't spent 90% of the time online playing tower defense games and Evony and trolling the general forums of every "cool" website.

The entire first half of the OP's post was a blatant "complaint" against "complainers" anyway. It's like beating a dead-horse with another half-alive horse until they are both dead.

I use cheap really super-crappy rca cables with a $2k pre-amp, $600 DAC, $500 cd player, rather nice amp and $1400 speakers (Klipsch Epic CF-1's) and honestly - it still sounds retardedly good. I have cables that cost $100 and upwards of that amount (speaker level, line level, xlr, rca, trs, ts, you name it - have had lots of very nice cables) and honestly, I may have heard slight slight differences between the those and the cheapest POS hunks-of-junk beaner cables but not enough to justify spending more difference than a couple bucks for.

I've had Aural Thrills, MIT, high-end monster cable (TOTL M-series and high-end studio trs cables), Pro-Co, Belkin, Hosa, custom cables that I and others have created, mogami, etc, etc., etc.

I'm just saying. Right now my 6 thousand dollar system is running with cables that most audiophiles would stop dead in their tracks if they saw and try to burn if they could and it I cannot near the difference I can between amplifiers of similar price differences. I would rather spend the extra $100 on a better amp than cables. That I know to make a

Newgrounds is a place where every 14 year old in the world has a chance to become quasi-famous by getting their semi-decent techno mishap in the top #30 list or weekly 5 and then build their little groupie followings that spill over to popularity on last.fm and similar sites.

Then they can put out a somewhat neat looking album with collaborated artwork on garageband.com and amazon. Then, they feel uber-awesome and gloat in their huge gains in internet popularity and celebrate by creating a whole slew of partially-okay mediocre electronic stuff in FL Studio and Reason.

That's why it is the place that it is. You can be cool and relatively popular music-wise and hardly know what the crap you're even doing or what that button you just pressed that makes the sweet sound is actually modulating.

For the $200 range - seriously consider a set Behringer Truth 1030a. It's unlikely anything will touch them at that price.

I've heard a friend's setup with the Behringer Truth 2031a's honestly - I was pretty blown away. Their gear is seriously best bang for buck you get IMO.

Nathan has a really good point about it - you can't really have a "discussion" about a piece with a single review-response format. Individual threads per song would likely be a pretty decent thing. Most other sites like this have similar forums and TBH, they appear to function rather well for the most part.

ProjectSam, VSL, EastWest, Kirk Hunter and Synful are all good starting points for orchestral payware.

Just looked it up, it's called Reastream.

You can also do the same thing over the internet with remote computers with another included plugin in Reaper called ReaNINJAM. Want instant over-the-net collaboration ability? Boom, there it is.

Seriously, it's friggen cool. Check reaper's forums...and people wonder why there are so many Reaper fan-boys out there.

At 11/22/09 04:30 PM, nathanallenpinard wrote: You can't have 2 cursors on Mac OSX.

And as far as I know, there's no way to mirror any DAW on the market.

However, there MAY be a way to sync the tempo with two independent DAWs, but that'll take some google research.

It can be done with Reaper quite easily actually (running a single project multi-computer setup through the use of an included plugin with that program.). I do believe there are other programs which function similarly in some cases. I know Reaper does it for certain though.

Buy a 10,000 watt PA system, place it outside your house and play your music until the cops come. People will notice that.

TBH, there's really nothing you can't do - sound production-wise with Reaper/Reason/FL Studio. I use Reaper with Reason rewired and FL Studio vst plug-in for the most demanding projects.

A feature on formula controlling within FL I think would be very very useful to a great many people. Probably advance automation techniques as well.

Source of Awesome, by joshhunsaker Type: SongGenre: Drum N Bass

Oh yea...

At 11/15/09 09:50 PM, GarageBand wrote: Isn't a dj like... a kind of sandwich?

Actually, it's one of my friends names - I didn't realized he was so famous.

not true necessarily. There are still recording purists out there. Jazz, opera, some crooners, etc.

Sure, it's use is rampant, but to say it's "always" there is saying is a bit much. I know there are many singer-song writers that won't allow it to be used on them.

In other words...what if the clip appears on a FOX-based channel during a game-related segment/show? Unlikely? I think not.

At 11/14/09 06:16 PM, MaestroRage wrote:

At 11/14/09 12:52 PM, Back-From-Purgatory wrote: IGN yoinking music from newgrounds? Sounds like you might be entitled to a lot of cash there buddy. They make money running that website, it's a business, meaning you should be making royalties.

then by your logic Newgrounds owes a lot of money to a lot of people.

Except that NG doesn't produce the videos and then run them on the site with people's music from unrelated sites for very obviously non-flash related usage.

This is really quite different. It's an ign.com 'production' - that's usually what it means when that kind of seamless video of a flashy "ign.com" logo intro/outro is integrated to both ends of the clip...it's why you don't see videos named "monkey-sex monster mash hoe-down golf party" on ign.com - it's a completely different and controlled non-public video arena.

And that's why it's a big no-no. NG also isn't subsidized by a huge media mogul.

Farmer's Market

the real bad part is that I got shafted out of that other $.11 I see in the "earned" category. None of it was apparently my share...

get a better garden...more fertile soil. That typ'a thing.

I just made liek 67 cents from my revenue share for my front page song...

OH SHOOT DANG SON, I BE FAHMUS NAH!!! HERE COMES THE MONEY!!

The real problem with all this retarded copyright is some day (probably very soon) someone is going to try to pull this one:

Yamaha makes a new piano. It sounds amazing, it's the most amazing piano ever constructed - they use never-before seen technology to create harmonics that make you want to listen forever. Yamaha thinks there idea is so fantastic that they decide to sue anyone who use their piano to record an album saying that the piano is only "leased" to that person. They are simply buying a license to use that piano and Yamaha retains all rights to every sound produced by it and how it can be used. It is after all "their" technology allow that piano to make the sounds so therefore it is still their "sound" and they have the right to decide how that sound can be used and manipulated.

Do you see the problem there? Here's where it is going...and that's not a good direction. Believe me. Think about the implications and where people will start taking it.

tons of commercial artists do the same thing and never get fined...

You might as well try it. If it's good, it's still good. Use short clips though.

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).

But you get the idea.

At 11/8/09 05:02 PM, nathanallenpinard wrote: Also, you should know that studios use Shure SM57's to mic drums quite a bit, and they are hooked into pre's that costs 1000's.

This is also a very good point to consider...

I'd use a site like audiojungle/audiomicro/bigstocksound instead to be a little more on the safe side of things. That's just a safer plan overall really for any possibly commercial venture for music usage.