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DimensionDude · Post by **DimensionDude** » 14 Jul 2006, 01:36

Hello

Comp1337 told me to post this song up on this forum. I was totally against this so if you think this sucks, don't blame me. It's an Atmosphere type song that i made in FL Studio 6.

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?a ... AC20C958DB

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 14 Jul 2006, 01:41

Just out of curiosity, why are you not allowed to post hyperlinks?

I will play the song and see if its good. If its not good then I suppose I can put up a song! It won't be by me, but it will be cool.

I hope.

DimensionDude · Post by **DimensionDude** » 14 Jul 2006, 01:47

yeah... now he tells me to post my previuos song to...

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?a ... 1F516055C3

i cannot post hyperlink because i'm a new user... it's an anti spam thingy

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 14 Jul 2006, 01:51

My responce to the first song....meh.

My responce to the second song....double meh.

DimensionDude · Post by **DimensionDude** » 14 Jul 2006, 02:09

"your song" is the original soundtrack to elfen lied... have you really made the original soundtrack to elfen lied yourself?

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 14 Jul 2006, 02:11

I said I didn't write it.

I said I didn't make it.

I just said I liked it

DimensionDude · Post by **DimensionDude** » 14 Jul 2006, 02:13

i don't think it's very nice of you to compare my songs to some professinal-made song... but you're right... mys songs are really... meh

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 14 Jul 2006, 02:14

Fair? I wasn't compairing them, actually. I just thought this was a thred to put cool songs. I think if you yanked the vocals in Searcher then it would be roughly ten to four times better.

DimensionDude · Post by **DimensionDude** » 14 Jul 2006, 02:16

i know... though i think this should be a thred where you put songs you made yourself

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 14 Jul 2006, 02:17

Right. Yanking song in 3...2...1

DimensionDude · Post by **DimensionDude** » 14 Jul 2006, 02:17

Yanking?

Noruas · Post by **Noruas** » 14 Jul 2006, 02:36

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... =ta+spring

I like the song, it fits with the video perfectly......

AF · Post by AF » 14 Jul 2006, 02:56

Actually your second mention of http://www.+ is actually a link, so you can post links now.

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 14 Jul 2006, 06:23

Dimention dude, click edit on the post and note the syntax of the fixed link URL. You need to use URL tags on PHPBB.

[edit] I like the peice... the vocoder is a little bit meh, but it's a good mellow techno peice. Could use a little more pickup in the middle maby, but pickup is hard to master when you're first playing with FLP.

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 14 Jul 2006, 06:30

So that is two votes for losing the voice. On second listening, I actually like it more. The first one that is. The second one is just a little too bland.

Forboding Angel · Post by **Forboding Angel** » 14 Jul 2006, 08:00

It's a nice piece. Rather far from professional I'm afraid though.

First thing that got me was the fact that not only are your drum samples lacking oomph, your arps sound like they came out of a casio.

THe tune is nice and pleasing. THe vox sounds like a talkbox, and that was overdone when cher did it. You would do better with a soft sounding female vocalist.

While it's pretty, it lacks substance. If you were doing an R&B type track I would understand, but the reason some R&B/hiphop/rap tracks sound as good and full as they do is because of many many dynamics and attention to small details.

Summary: Don't stop, jsut learn from your past and get better with every song you write.

el_muchacho · Post by **el_muchacho** » 14 Jul 2006, 08:34

Forboding Angel wrote:It's a nice piece. Rather far from professional I'm afraid though.

First thing that got me was the fact that not only are your drum samples lacking oomph, your arps sound like they came out of a casio.

THe tune is nice and pleasing. THe vox sounds like a talkbox, and that was overdone when cher did it. You would do better with a soft sounding female vocalist.

While it's pretty, it lacks substance. If you were doing an R&B type track I would understand, but the reason some R&B/hiphop/rap tracks sound as good and full as they do is because of many many dynamics and attention to small details.

Summary: Don't stop, jsut learn from your past and get better with every song you write.

The absence of dynamics is the result of doing the work on a pure software sampler (i.e only on the computer). You can only make a model that way, something that will give an idea of the real song.
In order to have give some flesh and body to the sound, one needs real instruments/synthesizers, and (if possible) real musicians too. That is, one must invest in a home studio. Then you can rework your takes on the computer. But doing everything on the computer simply doesn't work.

Comp1337 · Post by **Comp1337** » 14 Jul 2006, 11:14

He does have a pretty nice synthesiser.

DimensionDude · Post by **DimensionDude** » 24 Jul 2006, 10:32

actually, Comp1337... the Casio WK-3700 is not a very good peice of equipment...

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 24 Jul 2006, 10:40

el_muchacho wrote:
Forboding Angel wrote:It's a nice piece. Rather far from professional I'm afraid though.

First thing that got me was the fact that not only are your drum samples lacking oomph, your arps sound like they came out of a casio.

THe tune is nice and pleasing. THe vox sounds like a talkbox, and that was overdone when cher did it. You would do better with a soft sounding female vocalist.

While it's pretty, it lacks substance. If you were doing an R&B type track I would understand, but the reason some R&B/hiphop/rap tracks sound as good and full as they do is because of many many dynamics and attention to small details.

Summary: Don't stop, jsut learn from your past and get better with every song you write.
The absence of dynamics is the result of doing the work on a pure software sampler (i.e only on the computer). You can only make a model that way, something that will give an idea of the real song.
In order to have give some flesh and body to the sound, one needs real instruments/synthesizers, and (if possible) real musicians too. That is, one must invest in a home studio. Then you can rework your takes on the computer. But doing everything on the computer simply doesn't work.

Yes and no, you'll never get a perfect sound out of computer but you can get pretty close to what you want. I would want to remix anything I intended to professionally release with a midi controller and as many real instrumentals as possible (you shouldn't bother trying to do real instrumentals to replace synths that aren't pretending to be an instrument, but the ones that are definitely). But for proof of concept and amiture work the all digital version will sound just a slight bit worse then the professionally remixed version.

Spring RTS Engine

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