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Topic Started: Oct 8 2012, 07:05 PM (1,533 Views)
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beetlewing
Dec 3 2012, 03:18 AM
First impressions:

Nice buildup in the beginning, I really like how...not frantic, but pumped it sounds.

~2:07 mark, I might be having shitty speakers, but that oscillating high pitched noise, maybe it'd be interesting if you turned the volume down so it was like a change in volume-bridge? I'm not a great judge of what makes a song better, so you can scrap that idea if it's absolute shit.

~3:40 balls I don't know why but I love this bit, I'll have to give this song a few more listens to know why. Probably because it's a lot more stripped down in contrast to before.

~4:38 never mind this part has become more favorite. I'm a sucker for piano in unexpected places though so I might be biased :D

I liked it! Maybe extend the last bit, or integrate that piano more? It's almost barely added in before the song ends. Unless that's the intended effect? Eh, but if you keep it as it is, I still find it awesome. Does what it's suppose to very well.
Thanks :) Piano is always nice, especially when it comes to electronic music. I don't really know why, but it always give it a nice emotional aspect, I feel. And I'll see what I can do about those things you suggested. After all, it's still a big WIP, and I want it to be as good as it can be.
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Dude, screw that guy who PMed you. I don't know much about music, so take this for what you will, but I would say you have some talent.

Anyways, make you a deal as far as a confidence booster goes. I'm learning how to draw/paint/whatever, so I'm going to sit down with your music and see what comes out. I'll share the final work with you, because artists sticking together, that's what we do here, yeah? :D

"Artists sticking together"...I love it when I hear that. I don't know why, but I do.
And I'd love to see how my music turns into art, and how others interpret it. I would turn it into art myself if I had any talent in drawing whatsoever lol

And thanks. Both of you. You guys made me smile, as anyone does when I get some kind of feedback/response to my music.
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Nov 28 2012, 02:06 AM
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I'm learning how to critique music constructively. I am not good at creating it, nor recognizing instruments. Let me tell you though, I'm not going to ass-kiss. I love your work. I don't see why someone contacted you with such negative intent, but my guess is that they like to cut down young artists. For the love of fuck, do not let that get to you. ( And yeah, death threats are pretty scary. I feel for you. :c )

because this is kinda long and i don't want to sound like an internet psychologist


Edit: Just noticed this happened months ago. How are you now?
Edited by Maggot, Dec 23 2012, 09:27 PM.
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Dec 6 2012, 02:51 AM
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Thanks Maggot :)

I'm doing a lot better now. Still having issues with my self-confidence about my music production, but it's not as bad as it was. I've been taking a bit of a hiatus from most of my sites, mainly my Tumblrs, and here, which allowed me to focus more on my music and get over most of the self-confidence issues.

And about the guy who PM'ed me: he messaged me back the other day, apologizing. He had not expected me to call the police. He really was just a stupid troll, still in grade school no less. He said that he was home sick that day, and that it made him hate everything, and he just happened to come across my music. I'm still pissed at the kid, but at least I know he was bluffing about the death threat, though you should never joke about it.

Anyways, I'm still working on No Chance of Survival. Anyone know good places to find an inspirational war speech or something similar for me to add to the intro? Also, anyone know anything that could make the intro a little more, I dunno, exciting?
Here's the link to the updated version again, in case you need it: No Chance Of Survival (Updated)
Edited by Dylnmatrix, Dec 16 2012, 05:11 AM.
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I had a pretty sleepless night last night, didn't fall asleep until 7 in the morning, and only got 4 hours of sleep out of that. While I was wide awake, I ended up starting to remix the song Take Me Away by District Bass. It's not much right now, but I'm sure I could really make it shine.

District Bass - Take Me Away (Dylnmatrix Remix)

Will be updating this post as I progress.

Edit: Added vocals and a whole lot more. Sorry if it's repetitive towards the end, I tried to keep it fresh, but I didn't have much to go on with the original song. Keeping it as a WIP for now, I don't feel like it's really done yet.
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Final Edit: It's done, woo! It still has the same url, so just click on the above link in this post to listen to the finished product.

Edited by Dylnmatrix, Dec 20 2012, 08:06 PM.
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Almost done with No Chance of Survival (link above). Just need a small inspirational speech or something for the beginning during the piano, and maybe a bit for the middle, though I may just reuse a sample or two from the beginning speech.

Also, I own FL Studio 10 now

I'm also getting reFX Nexus 2 (an awesome plugin with some great synths and pianos and shit, that I'm probably going to use the fuck out of) sometime this week. It ships on Monday and I'll get it sometime within 3-5 days.

Life's good, man. Life is good right now.
Edited by Dylnmatrix, Dec 16 2012, 03:25 AM.
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Dat program is preety shiny =w=

I like that song mind. Catchy~
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Dec 16 2012, 03:45 AM
Dat program is preety shiny =w=
I knooooow~

And thanks, I'm glad you liked the song. Which one though?
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Listen to how beautiful this fucking piano sounds compared to my old stuff with piano

I got Nexus 2 in the mail this morning and I fucking love it already. And I haven't even dived into the full program.

Also excuse the language. If you can't tell, I'm excited about getting Nexus.
Edited by Dylnmatrix, Dec 18 2012, 04:20 PM.
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oooo the piano is a lot clearer. Hope you have fun with Nexus :D
 
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oooo the piano is a lot clearer. Hope you have fun with Nexus :D uhm, how does one delete a post?
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Dec 19 2012, 08:22 PM
oooo the piano is a lot clearer. Hope you have fun with Nexus :D
I shall~!

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I'm not sure you can. PM Kal and maybe he can help.
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Survived the Apocalypse

Love is Powerful (updated link below)

Began writing this last night, wrote the right hand of the piano on my guitar, brought it over to FL and my imagination took over. Experimenting with 6/8 time. This piece makes me wish I could write lyrics. If I could, I would, without a second thought, make this into a song for my girlfriend. It would be fitting too, as our 3 year anniversary is in less than 2 weeks.

Edited by Dylnmatrix, Feb 9 2013, 03:04 PM.
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Oh wow. Damn, I love piano, and 'Love is Powerful' gave me the shivers :'D
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Dec 23 2012, 12:29 AM
Oh wow. Damn, I love piano, and 'Love is Powerful' gave me the shivers :'D
Wow, really? I'm glad it had that much effect on you. It makes me feel better about it. So much that I added even more piano and emotion into the finished version. Made me nearly tear up finishing it.

Love Is Powerful (Finished except for lyrics and vocals)
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Started another new project, not really sure where I should go with it. I could add samples of the Late Night Crew and make another fan song, or...I dunno.

https://soundcloud.com/dylnmatrix/new-track

Oh, and hey, my girlfriend made a promotion thread for her art, go give her some love.
Edited by Dylnmatrix, Dec 30 2012, 04:55 PM.
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Dec 30 2012, 04:51 PM
Started another new project, not really sure where I should go with it. I could add samples of the Late Night Crew and make another fan song, or...I dunno.

https://soundcloud.com/dylnmatrix/new-track
Added more to the track. Got some suggestions on where to go with it on Newgrounds.

Needs a title still. Any suggestions?

Also, big question: Should I add samples of the Late Night Crew? Make it a fan song for the stream?

Edit: F it. I'm making it a fan song. My Tumblr Post where this is (not really) talked about. I already have a couple suggestions for titles, and my girlfriend has given me a couple of ideas of where to add samples in the breaks in the song that I use to introduce new elements. I'm going to make a big list of all the names and then see what comes to mind.
Edited by Dylnmatrix, Jan 2 2013, 12:46 AM.
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Update on the Livestream fansong
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I'm back!

So, shit happened. Got depressed, had an unexpected death in the family, and was away for the whole week for the funeral.

During that time, I basically had no internet. My grandmoth"er's internet was slower than molasses, and my other grandparent's internet was shut off for the winter. So I haven't been able to update you guys for a while.

Anyhoo. I finished a new track (not the fansong).

It's called "Not Over Yet". I realize that it's not the best title for a track, but whatever.

I tried to make this song a constantly changing track. No two parts of the song are exactly alike, only similar in certain aspects. Kind of like telling a story. You don't tell the same part twice, but something similar might happen, but in different circumstances. Speaking of telling a story, this song is meant to tell one. I won't tell you what it is yet as I want to hear what your guys' interpretations.

Just warning you though, it's my longest track, clocking in at 7 minutes and 15 or so seconds. Just thought I'd warn you, in case you don't have the time to listen at the time you're first reading this.

Hope you guys enjoy!

TL;DR: Finished a new track, click on that blue text above in the post. Tell me what you think the story is. Enjoy.
Edited by Dylnmatrix, Feb 9 2013, 03:08 PM.
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Feb 2 2013, 03:43 AM
Info on where I've been and the track "Not Over Yet"
I just thought I'd leave a note that I've just entered my new track into a Newgrounds contest/competition to see who can make their "greatest song ever" to be their "theme song", with only a few hours left until the deadline. (Contest ends tonight at midnight.)

Wish me luck!

I'd give you a link to the forum thread on Newgrounds, but there's not a voting system in the contest.

But you could go and vote on my track as it is individually...>.>

You don't really have to, as it won't affect how my piece is judged in the contest at all, but it would be nice.

Edit: Aw, damn, didn't win. But oh well. The people who beat me are amazing artists and definitely deserve the crown. I still have a lot to learn before I can be up there with the Newground greats.

In other news, this is probably the calmest I've ever taken a loss in competition. I usually get a pang of jealousy and disagree with my score, but this time...nothing. I think this is because the people who won I love to listen to. The only thing that's biting me is curiosity as to how he scored everything, and what he based the categories on when listening. (like what made a track original for him?)

Anyways I'm tired, depressed from getting kicked out of school, and I don't want to do anything today.
Edited by Dylnmatrix, Feb 4 2013, 12:39 PM.
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New song started.

Go listen and tell me how I should finish this piece off.

Now.

I mean it.
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Hey guys. I wanted to make a post regarding that fan song I was doing.

It's been about a month since I've updated the track, and due to a lot of personal crap, inspiration was hard to find and I ended up losing a lot of the drive I had for this track. Weird thing about it though is that the track itself, is already done. It's written, mixed and everything. The only thing holding me back are finding samples of the whole current Late Night Crew (Cry, Russ, Red, Scott, Snake, Raven, Battlestar, and Ken. Maybe Jangles because he's coming in at parts of the stream more frequently now.) to add to the track.

Here's how the track stands with samples. Only Cry so far, and only 3 samples.

I've put some thought into it, and after thinking for a while, I've officially decided to release an instrumental version of the track. No samples, just the song.

The instrumental version.

And guys, do you know where I can find a good, clean (not too much noise behind it) one-shot sample, on past streams or on their youtube videos, of Russ praising the sun, Red's Nooooooo...'s from when they'd play Worms, some of Snake's phrases (his goddammits, or I'll get my coat, etc.), Scott being well, Scott, Ken's "Stay toasty, my friends", and some of Raven's random quips from whenever she's on the stream, and I know Battlestar has said some good one-liners one time or the other on the stream, so something from him? Please, let me know where (link to video, and a timestamp would really help) I can find some good samples of those so I can add them to the song, if you do know where I could find them. I'd really appreciate the help.
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Feb 10 2013, 09:00 PM
And guys, do you know where I can find a good, clean (not too much noise behind it) one-shot sample, on past streams or on their youtube videos, of Russ praising the sun, Red's Nooooooo...'s from when they'd play Worms, some of Snake's phrases (his goddammits, or I'll get my coat, etc.), Scott being well, Scott, Ken's "Stay toasty, my friends", and some of Raven's random quips from whenever she's on the stream, and I know Battlestar has said some good one-liners one time or the other on the stream, so something from him? Please, let me know where (link to video, and a timestamp would really help) I can find some good samples of those so I can add them to the song, if you do know where I could find them. I'd really appreciate the help.
Use the Ant video downloader, grab an livestream video, download it, convert it, cut it, remove noise, EQ it. There.
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Feb 15 2013, 04:16 PM
Use the Ant video downloader, grab an livestream video, download it, convert it, cut it, remove noise, EQ it. There.
I already have a downloader for the audio, but it's finding the specific samples I want. Hence why I asked for timestamps in my request. It's hard to sift through hours and hours of footage for one audio sample. Especially when your editing program doesn't like long videos over 2 hours.

Anyways, in other news
It's been awhile, Four Hams. And there's a reason for that. I'm going through some awful art block right now, and I haven't been able to make anything I feel is worthwhile. Here's what I've managed:
Blooming Flower (made this for my girlfriend as an apology for being an ass to her, only she got the download)
New WIP

Thing that really sucks about this art block is that I have the inspiration and motivation to make great tracks, but I'm just unable to go anywhere with the songs.
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Oh, wow. I really like Blooming Flower! I hope your girlfriend feels special. :'D
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Hey! Been a while.

So...music. Yeah. I've been making some since I last posted.

I also remastered my old songs, making them sound better.

So many links


ALSO
-Inner Demons has also been remastered and the price has been lowered! You can also get a free low quality version of it here.
-The awesomely talented Zom gave my song Bound by Fate some lyrics! Check it out here. It's not much but I love it.
-My friend Karl (Ionic Force in the music world) remixed Inner Demons! And it is awesome! You seriously should go check it out!

Aaaaaaaaaand I believe that's it.
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