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are you using loads of movie clips?

Movie clips arnt synced with sound, so they can go out of time. If you want sound to sync with a movie clip, you have to put the synced sound inside the clip.

At 8/9/05 11:35 AM, NDP wrote: OMG 100 POSTS! Finaly lol

Nicolas...

well that wasnt spam :P

I dont see how you could have any use for that... at all. If you have a track the same BPM as Hertz, the sound quality will be so stupidly low, it will be inaudiable, if not pointlessly low frequency.

Get me a man who can eat his own head.

This has been done before. Several times. Take my advice and stop trying, the fulps only see and will only see the audio portal as supplement for the flash portal. IN none the less.

At 8/9/05 11:51 AM, Laiderdaiv wrote: Put some competition in the whole thing, you know? If you don't DELETE files that get blammed then what is really being changed here? Just copy and paste the format for the flash portal (like it's that easy). I would look so much more organized!

You have to understand newgrounds is mainly a flash site. If they did that it would take subject off the flash, and thats the main feature. Doing that would screw up the site. Ok so a blamming/protection system is really needed, but there arnt enough voters to vote on it, so then they would have to introduce EXP points, which would bring all the 0 voting noobs and reviewers from the flash portal into the audio portal.

I can honestly say, i havnt had a single review from a retard on any of my tracks, and i'm happy.

At 8/9/05 08:49 AM, WizardSleeve wrote: Most of my music is fully origional but VG remix's are well fun to do!!!

Agreed. I'm targeting the Kirby series for my next line of remixes, its an area thats been left pretty untouched.

Kirbys Dream Land. The old one. 1992. Made by the same people who made super smash brothers (Hal laboratory. wahay!) Time to probe it.

At 8/9/05 11:05 AM, NDP wrote: besides if you make goodmusic, youll get reconized, so, go back to your program and learn everything there is to learn because thats whats gonna get you famous.

Music made by NDP featured in the flash portal: 1
Music made by Khuskan featured in the flash portal: 11

Owned.

At 8/9/05 08:55 AM, Omar_Farajat wrote:

At 8/9/05 07:44 AM, Khuskan wrote: but apart from that, there isnt a single decent dedicated audio-only website.:

What about www.myspace.com or www.purevolume.com? I know it emphasizes more on rock/punk than anything else, but it's still mostly dedicated to submitting your music and getting it rated. There are some other sites like them too.

Because due to the main punk/rock theme to the sites, the ratings and reviews are often bias. I wouldnt dare submit any of my orchesteral pieces to a site like that, because most of the viewers arnt interested in it.

I'm coming up with an imaginary audio website. My thoughts are, instead of uploading the tracks directly, you upload to virtual albumbs and singles, so if one of your tracks does well, all of your tracks get premoted. It would help you organise your music a tad better too, instead of the whopping lists on the AP. Once you get past 20 tracks, it starts getting ridiculous, and people stop listning to anything else because they purely cant be bothered.

Audio dosnt even get mentioned in the 'best of the month' posts. I knows that some of the stuff in audio is a lot better than most of the stuff in the flash portal.

this is a forum to discuss the audio portal and music creations, not digital radios...

Anyway, those things are overrated. Whats the point of a radio which shows text. you might as well watch TV instead.

TedJohnston letting the world know what every single self respecting audio submitter truely feels.

Its really hard to get recognition for making good songs. Newgrounds is a great place to submit them because everything gets in, but there isnt a big audience. Theres places like OC remix, which you have to be at a very high standard to get tracks on it, and they have to be to a certain style, but apart from that, there isnt a single decent dedicated audio-only website. The sad thing is, theres a huge audience of contributers that would be very willing to take part, but the hosting costs for so many large files would be high, and it would be a programing nightmare to get it up quickly.

I personaly think voting shouldnt be handled by the public. Reviewing yes, but voting should have moderators or judges to make sure entries are rated fairly and justly. If i were to ever set up an audio submission site (i'll probably give it a shot soon, i have too much spare time), thats how i would handle things. Newgrounds gets around 10-30 audio submissions a day, so moderating wouldnt be that hard if you had dedicated staff.

As soon as my host/programmer/web designer/forum administrator gets online i'll see if theres any chance of knocking somthing up. Might be an interesting little project.

At 8/8/05 07:42 PM, TedJohnston wrote:

At 8/8/05 02:12 PM, Khuskan wrote: ...

eh...i disagree with you on some parts of that.

the synths? graintable and subtraction? where's the modeling synthesis?' seriously...Reason's synthesizers are the most overlooked part of the program, and is where most of the true power of the program lies.

The synths are great, but i was talking about creating classical/orchesteral tracks and they dont really have a place there over samples :P

I used the synths a lot in some of my tracks, Subtractor mostly over malstrom. After all, reason is a soft synth. and a sequencer. and many other things. :O

Anyway, its always nice to find a track from an old popular game that nobodys remixed then, releasing it to the public and nobody recognises it.

Also, VG tracks get a lot more attention than everything else, because sprite movies are popular, and you cant have a sprite movie without vintage music ;)

If it seems to load really quickly, click the play button again so it turns to a stop button, then click it one more time.

Repeat until it works. I get this problem all the time.

There have been so many threads like this. I have heard through various sources that newgrounds has upcoming plans for expanding the audio portal, but up till then, its simply a supply for flash music. Flash is the main feature the site after all.

The best way of getting exposure is making good tracks that get used in front page submissions, works for me ;)

At 8/5/05 05:33 PM, TedJohnston wrote: who votes five on their own songs anyways? i mean...that's just pathetic.

If sombody unfairly votes 0 for whatever reason, vote 5 to get your score to 2.50 and thats practicaly the same as resubmitting it. Maybe we need some judging panel of people to screen all the submissions, clean out the crap. Big job, but it would be worth it. Make it so only a minimum (and fair) quality can get in.

http://www.newground..917347&sub=29850

After 15 hours(ish) of re-recording, listning repetededly and recording, i've finaly managed to put together a rock remix of the credits sequence of Super Mario Land. I'm pretty sure i'm the first to remix this perticular track, mostly because that game is EXTREMELY hard, and it took me several hours and countless attempts to get to the end. As for the music, VIVA LA GUITAR SOLO!

First guitar solo i've done in a track, and i'm immensly proud of it.

Review/votes are requested :D

EAX all the way.

I always use EAX for noise reduction. Its not just for games you know, it does some awesome effects and cleans up live audio in real time. you need the hardware though.

I take old VG music and update it. People do it because other people recognise where its from and it brings back memories of how great the game was and what a great time we had as children, thus people like it. Just because its based on so me old VG music dosnt mean it cant be good. Check my stuff for examples [BLATENT ADVERTISING]

'Metal voice'

You mean vocoded?

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Not that i can remember, but there should be some files along the lines of somthing.pak1 or just .pak

I think you need a program to open it. Try pakscape. if that exists. i have no idea. You can rip the sounds from hl2 using the source SDK, which is useful.

'STRIIIIIIDEEEERSSSSSS!'

At 8/8/05 05:20 PM, EckHart wrote: Yea, I've responded to EVERY review as soon as I see it. I also, try to stay on top of creating new tracks, but with work, girlfriend, and friends it's kind of hard. But so far in less than a week, I have submitted I believe 8 or 9. So it's not too bad. But I haven't voted on any of my submissions because I wanted to see just what people thought. So should I vote on my own submissions?

I normally put girlfriend, work and friends aside to make tracks. They understand its what i do and how i express myself. Well, not really. but they couldnt care less either way ;).

Most of my tracks take between 2 to 7 hours to make. my latest one, 'Your quest is over' took about 12 hours. I dont know why or how i managed to spend so long on it, and i managed to get one review from sombody who had their speakers up so loud they were hissing. Newgrounds is the only place i put my music on the net, but i do send it to many people through other means. I'm thinking of publishing a CD one of these days.. but i'm not sure what people would think.

It is kind of upsetting to submit a track that you've spent hours on to get two reviews and one guy voting 2 as a joke, but to get more popularity, you have to make more tracks, and thats what fuels me.

Damn, i need to write a book or somthing.

Its got to a point that you can ignor the top 5 of the week, because at least 3 of them cheated to get there by getting loads of friends to vote 5 (I mean loads as in say 3) and voting 0 on all the competition. The top 50 lists are useless because new tracks get put at the top and stay there until more than one person votes, and tracks that havnt been voted on stay at the bottem, and nobody ever looks there to pick them up.

The way i've managed to keep up reviews and votes is by regulaly creating tracks, at one point i was posting one every 3 days. Its sort of like bumping a forum thread. People listen to the top one, like it, listen to the rest, hopefully voting and reviewing.

Don't be discouraged if one or more of your tracks gets a rating of 2 with no reviews. Reviews are the important thing, and since there arnt nearly as many n00bs on the AP as there are in flash, 'omfg j00 suck g0 kill yerself' reviews are extremely rare.

Another hint, respond to your reviews. sit there refreshing the page every few mins until you get one if you must. People like posting reviews if they know they're going to get an awnser, it means they can sneak in questions like 'omfg h0w 2 m4ke muzik lolz' and get away with it.

I wish i could just write a huge tutorial telling people how to make music, but since theres such a variety of tools, there isnt much point.

Do what i do. if you find somthing you like, remake it from scratch to sound the same, then transpose it/reverse it/add a delay line/reverb it/whatever. That way, if sombody accuses you of plagurizing, you can bite back and show you have the origional files :D

At 7/27/05 02:39 AM, Erkie wrote: LjCoffee, his productions set an awesome standard.
Khuskan , one of the few to impress me.
Rucklo , one of the few I paid attention to, to keep me in music.

More to come.

I feel so loved :D

My personal favs include paragonx9 and bounc3, but most of the stuff on the AP is of top notch quality as it is.

Thing is, music on NG is premoted as a suppliment for flash artists, not as another kind of submission for the viewers to see.

I dream of a day when audio shows up on the front page par with flash.

To be honest, its because the majority of visitors on NG couldnt give a flying arse about the audio portal. There are no rewards for protecting or blaming tracks (not that it can be done) and the people who do vote are either other musicians who vote fairly on what you've done, or people who are below you in the charts so give you a 0 to get above.

Personaly, whenever i submit, i always go and vote and review as many tracks as i possibly can. If everybody did this, we'd have a more friendly community where good work is recognised more, and with less 0 voting retards, but i have a lot of spare time on my hands because music is all I do.