Sounds like it's not being written to clipboard, maybe?

754

(100 replies, posted in General Discussion)

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The thing I hate about this situation is that copyright laws are so ridiculously malleable.

Seems more like you are enjoying this aspect of it, to me. tongue

Part (most?) of the issue is about courtesy and communication and the fact that it's SO easy to contact artists in the chipmusic scene nowadays. The community is so tightly knit and open in communication between artists and fans alike.

I'm not even going to go into the matter of that "profiting on other's work" bit. :\

As far as "taking action" is concerned, I wouldn't really consider asking someone to take your stuff down or letting them know that they really should contact the original content creators as "taking action against someone". That phrase is so inflammatory it's not even funny. :\

Maybe I'm alone on the idea that people profiting on derivative works doesn't sound like a bad thing.

Nobody is saying that. Once again, it's about communication and courtesy and not being lazy/perpetuating laziness.

Me personally? I still don't mind if people share my music with whoever, but now that I've come to find out that something of mine has actually been broadcast to an audience as opposed to, say, file-sharing, I can't help but feel slighted that nobody sent me a message or anything. It was exciting to see that somebody liked my junk enough to want to share it with a general audience, but once you get over that green excitement (which a lot of confident established mature artists probably have, maybe [not to say an artist grows out of the excitement of having someone appreciate their output[), the fact that they didn't take the time to say anything about it leaves just a tiny bit of a feeling of emptiness left behind. This is just my personal thought.

Edit: shoot. I didn't mean to type all that...

Boy Without Batteries wrote:

I like these very much. I dont know what sketchman was talking about. I think the melodies and chord progressions were fine. was the song structure the best it could be? No but it wasn't terrible, I have heard much worse. My only advice would be to add a bit more variety in your instruments. I want these on my ipod asap smile

Yeah... well hey, I guess that melody style just isn't one that speaks to me, I guess. That's why my feedback was personalized with a significantly placed "I"s and "Me"s, hehe. All the things I described could just as easily be a list of things someone likes about the tracks. tongue

Keep on keeping on, man. Just make what you want to hear. That's the most important thing.

Oh just a point of clarification, when I said the tracks lacked direction, what I meant was that I didn't feel a sense of "movement". They just seemed to stay mostly in the same place for most of the time. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing.

756

(100 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I'm with TSS on this one. Whether you like the idea or not, it's the creator's right to have a say in what happens with his/her content if he so chooses to speak, and it is only polite and courteous, if you have any respect for the content creator, to contact them and see what he/she has to say, regardless of your so-called (most likely mistaken) "right" to host their content. Even if it's in such a roundabout way as to post a radio playlist in a chipmusic.org thread... >_>

The only legitimate reason I can think of to not contact the artists is because you're afraid they'll say no, lol.

8D wrote:

tss said...

Must make you all feel so tall. Rare opportunity here guys, get your licks in while you can.

757

(100 replies, posted in General Discussion)

If you license your music to be shared in a certain way, then why would you want people to ask permission to share it in that way?

Assuming of course that you DID license your music to be shared in that way. This post is mostly irrelevant.

758

(10 replies, posted in Releases)

I liked the parts where the framerate is synced to the snare.

Also this looks like some kind of hypnosis induction thing.

The mixing is cool.
Melody is all over the place and I can't really find anything coherent to hold on to.
Not much variety in the chord progressions. The tracks don't seem to have much direction, and the melodies don't seem to be trying to tell me anything.

The backing beats are cool sounding. I liked the second one better than the first.

I meant to come back and edit that with: In DOSBox. Whenever I try to use ATII in dosbox it freezes up and stuff. But yeah, FMC is nice and simple.

761

(100 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Hey, a dude can have a change of heart ;p

762

(16 replies, posted in Motion Graphics)

Aw shoot. I was doomed from the start. Oh well. smile

Thanks for clearing that up for me, lol.

763

(16 replies, posted in Motion Graphics)

Man I've been searching all over youtube for this video typing "einbaas castle" and stuff, lol. Glad I finally found it (don't know why I didn't think to come back here, lol).

Maybe you can put "castle" in the youtube tags?

Shoot, I procrastinated and then found out that I need a webcam to do it. Oh well.

765

(26 replies, posted in General Discussion)

DeerPresident wrote:

SketchMan3 is correct, I was mistaking the OBVIOUSLY difficult kazoo for the UNDENIABLY EASY trumpet. My apologies brother. tongue
Use whatever you have at your disposal, there are chiptune programs for almost anything, even calculators!

I'm just saying man. Gotta work on dem vox as much as anything else, and that includes staying on pitch (as far as the kazoo is concerned) and hitting those notes.
not to hijack the thread or anything, but this is an example of good kazoo playing wink http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJysdWOWTc8

chunter wrote:

A netbook with an audio interface may be good enough. Try to avoid putting the cart in front of the horse.

I see what you did there.

766

(26 replies, posted in General Discussion)

DeerPresident wrote:

ike any other instrument (except kazoo), it takes time and lots of practice to get good.

This is a horrible HORRIBLE misconception that needs to be squashed right now. I see it TOO much. Kazoo takes SO MUCH practice and time to master, due to the fact that it requires you to hold a NOTE with your VOICE. Vocal. training for someone who plans to do vocals in their music is just as important as training with any other aspect of your musical expression, be it an instrument, composition, technical proficiency, etc.

Train your VOICE yo. Sing scales and junk so you can stay ON PITCH, and get your quality of tone on point. Push out that diaphragm and use head-tones on them high notes, kid. Give your throat a rest. And control your vibrato and lung capacity for goodness' sake! If your stomach doesn't feel like it's going to flip inside out at the end of your set, you are doing it wrong.

Get it right, son. And do it often so you don't lose it due to 10 years of vocal laziness.

Edit: wink

tongue

767

(26 replies, posted in General Discussion)

If you don't know what you want then you don't need it.
Edit: Oh nevermind. I see you got what you were looking for.

Okay so I finally used this and it's pretty awesome. Way more stable and easier to pick up than Adlib Tracker 2.