Check out my songs, please!! =]
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Topic: Check out my songs, please!! =]
Posted By: Fourside
Subject: Check out my songs, please!! =]
Date Posted: June 30 2006 at 15:58
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Hey guys, I'd love for you to please check out my songs I have written
(the ones on the link below are all 2-12 months old). They are all in
between some mix of fusion, zeuhl, symphonic, maybe a few minutes of
RIO in there too, mostly fusion-ish though (not too fusion-ish though).
A few songs need to be remixed, so ignore any volume issues that may
appear throughout. All the songs were written in NoteWorthy Composer
and upgraded with sounfonts on SynthFont. Sorry guys, I'm no performer,
they were originally MIDIs. The sound is much better due to soundfonts,
you can still enjoy them, hopefully. Thanks, and I would love to hear some feedback =] Please see the bio on the site for any more info, (of the little info it shares) http://myspace.com/fourside1 - http://myspace.com/fourside1 |
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Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: June 30 2006 at 16:42
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Get your self a Line6 TonePort and upgrade your tunes with real instruments and reasonable sounding software-modelled amps - you could then add a mike and vocals.
A copy of Magix Music Studio is cheap and will help you sequence the audio - but if you can stretch to a copy of Sony Acid Pro, so much the better. You don't need to be a performer to use Magix or Acid - just capable of playing your stuff little bit by little bit. Your music sounds much better than the bagatelles I write these days (my flashing logo is the link) - but presentation is a large part of getting your music accepted by an audience. Music of that quality deserves a little investment. Soundfonts are OK - I used to use them a lot in my own compositions - but don't really compare to instruments, as I'm sure you're already aware. You can create your own using Vienna Soundfont studio, but I found these time-consuming and always ended up with enormous unusable files (my AWE had 28Mb Soundfont memory). Good music 
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Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: June 30 2006 at 16:43
Erk - 2nd time today I've accidentally mis-posted
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Posted By: Fourside
Date Posted: June 30 2006 at 18:17
Hmm... are these programs you speak of any expensive? Because being the unripe age of 15, cash is usually a little hard to come by. I've looked into some of these things and there's nothing really to be bought that wouldn't require me a few good months of working. But I guess if I'm intent on making these things sound good, I might want to pony up the cash. I admit I hadn't planned on spending any money, and so far its worked--its cost me nothing. On another note, any comments on the actual music? =] |
Certif1ed wrote:Posted By: UnknownFlow
Date Posted: July 01 2006 at 07:49
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Wow, excellent stuff, the first track on there especially i love, a
strange medley of various prog' genres, (Frank Zappa, Mavishnu, and
some Canterbury scene esque stuff even?)
Lol, no I really love it, you have some good stuff there, try and get
together some capable enough musicians together to play that stuff and
host some shows, I would definatly come and see that performed.
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Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: July 03 2006 at 03:08
I feel your budgetry pain. Magix retails around the £40-50 mark, and is the cheapest quality solution you're likely to find - you can even mix your existing MIDI with audio. There is a free version of Magix that's cut down to 4 stereo tracks - but might just do the biz - after all, unlike 4-track tape, you can dump mixed tracks without sacrificing quality. I'm not sure where you can download it, as I got my copy from a magazine - fully functional including Save, and non time-bombed. If I can't find it using Google, I'll stick it onto YouSendIt. Acid Pro is around £500 - but cheap for what it does. I think there's an entry-level version, but not a free one. The Line 6 devices aren't free, they're in the £100 - £1,000 ballpark, depending on which model you go for. Seems like a lot of cash, but when you consider that they're an instrument interface into your PC that will work with any audio processing tool, that model amps that would otherwise set you back thousands and thousands of any currency - they're probably worth the outlay, and you can get an early model on eBay for £50. If you want to hear the sort of things you can do with the Line 6 pods and Sony ACID, check out my tunes by clicking my flashy logo - you may not like the music, but all the guitar tones are produced using Pods. Like I said - I think your music is very good, and I'm even more impressed now I've learned your age. It's not really my bag, so I don't want to start analysing it, but there is a sizeable audience for that sort of music, and yours is quality, so all you need do is make it sound nice and get it out there! Good luck! ------------- The important thing is not to stop questioning. |
Posted By: Bryan
Date Posted: July 03 2006 at 03:16
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The fact that you're 15 and making music like this causes me to feel woefully inadequate. It's not my thing, but get some real instruments playing it and this is music I could seriously forsee gaining a following. |
Posted By: Pafnutij
Date Posted: July 07 2006 at 05:41
| Nice work, especially the jazzy piano parts. I hear a lot of 5uu's in your stuff. |
Posted By: penguindf12
Date Posted: July 07 2006 at 23:47
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beats the hell outta anything i've ever done
--but then again, I have no idea how to use the kind of sequencing software you have, so...
Really good stuff!
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 (also feeling inadequate at being outdone by a 15-year-old) |
Posted By: penguindf12
Date Posted: July 11 2006 at 04:14
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seriously, your songs are amazing. i REFUSE to believe you are fifteen.
what program did you use to do it all with?
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Posted By: Fourside
Date Posted: July 11 2006 at 09:18
Can you send me the Magix demo? And are these programs relatively doing the same function or is there any with certain upsides that I wouldn't be able to do with the others? Thanks =] |
Posted By: Fourside
Date Posted: July 11 2006 at 09:24
Thanks! I am indeed 15, a late 15 though =] I used Note Worthy Composer to write out all the music, which in my opinion, is a pretty terrible program but I have gotten so used to it I just can't do the same things with other programs. I then use SynthFont to upgrade the sounds of those awful default midi sounds. To all you others, thank you very much for the very kind words =] =] |
Posted By: Zitro
Date Posted: July 12 2006 at 22:17
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Your songwriting is excellent and maybe only one song of mine could
reach that level, but the fact that you are so young proves that you
have a lot to learn and you might end up being an excellent songwriter
in the future. Maybe you don't really need to pick up an instrument, but you could hire people to play what you have in your midi program. It's good to practice, but midi music sounds very dated and your songs could sound much better with real instruments. Unfortunately, you gotta find guys who excel at their instruments since Jazz and that weird prog you use doesn't sound very easy. |
Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: July 13 2006 at 12:10
IT MAKES ME THINK ABOUT THIS:
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: July 13 2006 at 12:15
You find the music romantic? 
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Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: July 20 2006 at 09:34
So you hear the sound, not the music then.  ------------- The important thing is not to stop questioning. |
Posted By: EROTOMANIAC
Date Posted: August 07 2006 at 14:45
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I liked liquid holes road wich instrument do you play? ------------- 
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