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<p>Figured I may as well post this one up too. Moondude asked me what I used for my orchestra in Anti-Realitat, and I found out that was a rather complex question to answer if it was actually gonna have any use to him, haha.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><table border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" width="90%" align="center"><tr><td style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000;" class="genmed">moondude wrote:</span></td></tr><tr><td class="quote" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #444444; line-height: 13px; background-color: #fafafa; border: 1px solid #d1d7dc;"><table border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" width="90%" align="center"><tr><td style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000;" class="genmed">Artificial Wonders wrote:</span></td></tr><tr><td class="quote" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #444444; line-height: 13px; background-color: #fafafa; border: 1px solid #d1d7dc;"><table border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" width="90%" align="center"><tr><td style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000;" class="genmed">moondude wrote:</span></td></tr><tr><td class="quote" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #444444; line-height: 13px; background-color: #fafafa; border: 1px solid #d1d7dc;">Hi,&nbsp;<br /><br />Am new to this kind of thing and have just finished a new track and am working on another tonight and will post the link. Can you please tell me what you think about it?&nbsp;<br /><br />The song is called "home and dry"&nbsp;<br /><a style="color: #006699;" href="http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=7889905&amp;q=hi&amp;newref=1" target="_blank">http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=7889905&amp;q=hi&amp;newref=1</a>&nbsp;<br /><br />Thanks&nbsp;<br /><br />James</td></tr></table><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="postbody"><br /><br />Man. You submitted this in like, July..... LOL.... Sorry for the huge delay dood. I really got to thinkin bout how Wake said to humanize Protagonist. Even though what I said in response to his review of Anti-Realitat was true, I looked back over it, and he still wasn't that humanized.... So here I am... like... 8 days later....&nbsp;<img src="http://board.soundclick.com/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif" border="0" alt="Laughing" />&nbsp;<span style="color: red;">(Review omitted from mixposure blog, see&nbsp;</span><a style="color: #006699;" href="http://board.soundclick.com/viewtopic.php?t=306510&amp;start=280)" target="_blank">http://board.soundclick.com/viewtopic.php?t=306510&amp;start=280)</a></span></td></tr></table><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="postbody"><br /><br /><br />Hi Dude,&nbsp;<br /><br />Thanks for the review, I am impressed by your view and the level at which you take to go into the track. I will take on board your comments as the tracks are still works in progress and will implement your changes as I believe that you are very correct in you analysis particularly on the loud voacl and also with the ending. Thanks you&nbsp;<br /><br />The drums are superior drummer but the thing is soo memory intensive but does sound great does it not, shame it makes my computer want to explode when the mouse goes near its name to load up haha 600mb in memory for the standard kit.&nbsp;<br /><br />I know what I am doing is not anything like what you do which makes me respect the opinions even more but thanks for the major detail.&nbsp;<br /><br />The rchestra part on Anti-Realitat is awesome would love to know what you used as the sounds and what plugin. The way it builds up wow!!&nbsp;<br /><br />Anyhow I'm going to do you head in now I've been playing with this track which is a silly big production and has around 15 vstis going on at the same time. Was going for a real electronic descolate mood on it to capture the mood of the song, I know its not finished but is close and is on my drive awaiting completion. If you could give me some feedback to help me find the flaws I would be eternally grateful.&nbsp;<br /><br />The song is called lucid and is driving me mad at the moment as I know it can be the most awesome thing&nbsp;<br /><br /><a style="color: #006699;" href="http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=7876657&amp;q=hi&amp;newref=1" target="_blank">http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=7876657&amp;q=hi&amp;newref=1</a>&nbsp;<br /><br />Many thanks from Liverpool and get some sleep dude,&nbsp;<br /><br />James</span></td></tr></table><p><span style="font-size: small;"></span></p><table border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" width="90%" align="center"><tr><td style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #000000;" class="genmed">moondude wrote:</span></td></tr><tr><td class="quote" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #444444; line-height: 13px; background-color: #fafafa; border: 1px solid #d1d7dc;"><br />Many thanks from Liverpool and get some sleep dude,&nbsp;<br /><br />James</td></tr></table><p><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="postbody"><br /><br />Sure thing man.&nbsp;<br /><br />About Anti-Realitat.... Lol. I'm getting rather mixed reactions on the way it builds up. I'm guessing the only parts that really need work are the very first bits of choir, which are a little off in the timing, and that bell hit that comes after the silence part doesn't have near enough bass.... There's also the fact my choir is just barely passing, but, I can't really do any better than I'm already doing with what I have.... I'm glad this game is sci-fi, and the fact it's a game.... Maybe I can play it off as purposeful when I'm doing some big ego-booster interview... LOL.&nbsp;<br /><br />But as to your question about the orchestra, I use EWQL Symphonic Orchestra Silver. So far, I haven't been too limited by it, given that the realism, is just WOW. I have to put forth very little effort to get the massive amount of power out of it. Just a soundgoodizer, a widener, extra reverb, and some basic EQ'ing, and I'm literally set to go, after I've tweaked the VST settings themselves.&nbsp;<br /><br />In Anti-Realitat, I use the Spiccato violins/violas/cellos, and I use the Quick Up/Down preset for the double basses, that gives me those quick staccato strikes. I leave the built-in reverb off, and then I channel it to FL Studio's native Fruity Reverb 2 plugin, with a variation on the cathedral setting.&nbsp;<br /><br />I use the QLegato setting for the legato strings,&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">(I haven't used the sus legato articulation outside of layering it with Qlegato yet)</span>&nbsp;and then I tack on the Dark Abbey reverb. In a song as loud as Anti-Realitat&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">(I know, you're thinking "WHAT?! I have to turn this up 20db above anything else I listen to, and you say this is LOUD?!"),</span>&nbsp;you don't want to use the master button for the reverb except for when actually making the song, or else you will hear some clipping when it isn't even hitting the red zone of the volume. If you're layering in some extra articulations in another instance, it depends on how many instruments are going to that master reverb channel for that instance.&nbsp;<br /><br />I left the master still off for the sus legato, but I probably would have been alright leaving it on, since I was only layering the violins and violas in the string lead towards the end of the song, right before the choir section goes crazy.&nbsp;<br /><br />The percussion just uses the bass concert drum, and its only provided articulation. (I don't know if gold/platinum have more drum articulations. I don't want to know. My wallet might suddenly become thin.&nbsp;<img src="http://board.soundclick.com/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif" border="0" alt="Laughing" /&gt It's got a lot of velocity layers, which is great. It almost sounds real as it is, but I'm slowly getting better at using it. I love all the little pre-provided drum rolls that I've struggled to do manually in the past. You can get lots of uber-powerful effects by using one of their drum rolls and then taking some of the single hits and carefully syncing it to whatever part you want (So far, I've just used it to change the end of the drum roll to make it more or less intense), to create a new little sound of your own. I use the Sinatra Chamber reverb and channel it to the Fruity Reverb 2.&nbsp;<br /><br />The huge drum hit with the delay right before that glitch choir effect, is not EWQL though. That's actually a heavily modified version of FluidR3GM's Power Drum. Lots and lots of EQ'ing, transposed everything down 2 octaves&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">(and the hiss is also really annoying, so I just use it as the occasional "boom" effect.)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">When it came down to the export, I turned off all the other plugins, and exported all the non EWQL stuff as one .wav, then each instance of EWQL separately&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">(all instruments within the instance active) (with the individual sets of instruments within the instance having their own reverb setting (with the master button set to OFF)),</span>&nbsp;then compiled my different versions and sync'ed everything again in Audacity.&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">(Lovely software, that. V1.3.8 doesn't work for me, but 1.3.6 seems fine.)</span>&nbsp;<br /><br /><br />600mb? Jeez. Those are some serious drums. Whatever gets ya by, man.&nbsp;<img src="http://board.soundclick.com/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif" border="0" alt="Laughing" />&nbsp;<br /><br />I'll take a look at the song when it comes up in the queue. Drop one in any time you want, dude.&nbsp;<br /><br />As for my sleep.... I tried to goto sleep. Didn't have any luck.... Went straight back to writing more stuff for AURA.... Then I added insult to injury by taking advantage of no noise/no annoying roofers to test run some voice acting.... then I cleaned it up and refined it for several hours.... ..... Then I realized I had spent 6 hours, telling myself "Just one more line, then I can goto sleep"&nbsp;<img src="http://board.soundclick.com/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif" border="0" alt="Laughing" />&nbsp;Hopefully, this means I should be sleeping pretty hard tonight...&nbsp;<img src="http://board.soundclick.com/images/smiles/icon_razz.gif" border="0" alt="Razz" /></span></span></p>

<p><img src="http://www.mixposure.com/include/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/smiley-smile.gif" border="0" alt="Smile" title="Smile" />&nbsp; Hey , Good morning</p><p>I do hope every one has been doing great,I hear some good music .</p><p>I hope that means every one is doing wonderful.</p><p>Have a great and wonderful day.</p><p>Faith(Fay)</p>

<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: andale mono,times;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: andale mono,times;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">'South Seas Dreaming' (collab.)</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: andale mono,times;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-family: impact,chicago;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ff99cc;">nothing like a push over....</span><span style="color: #ff0000;">it's a good </span><span style="color: #99ccff;">blues song</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: impact,chicago;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ffffff;">and I've got to put a plug in for baracasa and I</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: impact,chicago;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">our song didn't get the plays at first because i had to </span><span style="color: #ff0000;">upload a second version......and you got to see one of m </span><span style="color: #000000;">y animations</span></span></span></p>

<p><img src="http://www.mixposure.com/include/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/smiley-smile.gif" border="0" alt="Smile" title="Smile" />&nbsp; Goood Morning,Sorry that it's been a while every one ,got a lot goin g on right now .</p><p>So,I hope you will Know I love the music and every one here.</p><p>I hope thing get better around here soon ,I may not have any hair left , .</p><p>Have a great day every one.</p><p>Faith</p>

<p>Ah...well...in my haste to have a go at the contest...coz I want one of those lovely guitars!!! hahaha...but like everyone else nowadays...I don't want to have to pay for it...I uploaded a song I did during the past 2 months...enetered it with the (R)...and forgot I already have a much better one here...</p><p>So...I have altered the entry to Angel which I believe some of you do actually like a lot...so please please gimme some reviews...I need a break...been living in a shoe box and making music with a pair of spoons so help me...help me !!! </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Plea epas the word along to your friends fans...not to say review but at least to listen and review if they htink it merits it </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>And look...I ma so confused with life I can't type correctly ;)</p>

<div><a href="http://www.mixposure.com/index.php?t=mixposure_song_player&amp;song_id=7653&amp;band_id=1541">http://www.mixposure.com/index.php?t=mixposure_song_player&amp;song_id=7653&amp;band_id=1541</a></div>

<p>PETER BUFFET ,</p><p>an aqaintence , son of Warren Buffet , has been a pioneer in Recording , New Age music , Home recording technolgy and an oustanding musican/ composer for over 28 years .&nbsp; I used to listen to him play the piano&nbsp; years ago . Pleae check out these sites if you enjoy NEW AGE ELECTRONIC AND POP music</p><p><a href="http://www.peterbuffett.com/index3.html">http://www.peterbuffett.com/index3.html</a></p><p>Peter looks forward to having a space where he can interact, debut new songs and videos, host live webchats, as well as get to know you, the fans! It's by invitation only, so if you are interested in joining the community, please go to <a href="http://www.peterbuffett.com/ning" target="_blank"><span style="color: #063e3f;">www.peterbuffett.com/ning </span></a>to request your invite!<br /><br />To celebrate the launch, we'll be putting up new content and material consistently over the next few weeks (in fact he already has a brand new song up now!), so be sure to check back often and let us know what you think.</p><p>cheers</p><p>THE FULL QUID</p>

<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Hey everyone!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Since Jim chose <a href="http://www2.mixposure.com/nigel_potter/">Nigel Potter</a> as the Mixposure Artist of the month, he asked me to put his interview back up on the main Mixposure Page. I think August has been officialy declared <a href="http://www2.mixposure.com/nigel_potter/">Nigel Potter</a> Month <img src="http://www.mixposure.com/include/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif" border="0" alt="Tongue out" title="Tongue out" />. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">So if you missed his interview the first time around, please take some time and have a listen. You will not be disappointed!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">Oh and Happy Birthday Nigel!!</span></span><br /></span></p>

<p>Since this is NIGEL POTTER'S Month, I wanted to&nbsp;bring out&nbsp;a&nbsp;few of the songs, which I myself and Doc and Gary, had the opportunity of having Nigel Co-write and sing with us.</p><p>My first fortunate opportunity came when I asked Nigel to sing a song for me, called "From the Other Side". I was SHOCKED, when he accepted........and I have been so proud of that song ever since. With so many new people here, I decided to bring it out again and showcase Nigel in his month&nbsp;of "Artist of the Month" Spotlight. When the Carciello, Grant, Doctor C project started, we asked him to do some more songs........We were fortunate to have him do two for us....."Tolerate Me" and "Will to Survive", which he also wrote the lyrics and sung. I hope you enjoy these songs as much as&nbsp;we did having him singing them. I treasure these songs in my collection.</p><p>THANKS, NIGEL!!!</p><p>Rob</p>

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14pt; background: white;" class="ecmsonormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Formed in mid 2008, Brave Empire is a 7-piece Alternative/hip hop/rock band that brings a highly unique brand of sound to the world of popular music. With a wide range of influences including such diverse bands as Paramore, Anberlin , Lupe Fiasco, Evanescence and Lacuna Coil, the members of the Empire bring their vastly different backgrounds and interests in music together in a way that is interesting and very original. This distinctive sound, created by the genre crossing combination of vocalists Shaka, Vuoche and Shauna, is backed with a thundering solid backbone, produced by guitarists Jamie and Steve, bassist Matt and drummer Ignacio. </span></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14pt; background: white;" class="ecmsonormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The last year has been one of grueling practice and recording sessions and has highlighted Brave Empire member&rsquo;s commitment and dedication to taking on the task of breaking out into the mainstream music scene. They are realistic about the challenges and ready to meet them head on. The band are a hard working no nonsense unit backed by a team that includes experienced industry professionals, all with one solid focused aim. We all want to get this young group in front as many new fans as possible. </span></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14pt; background: white;" class="ecmsonormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The independently produced album &lsquo;A New Era&rsquo; clearly demonstrates the Empire&rsquo;s musical and lyrical strengths and versatility. Catchy songs like &lsquo;Lovin&rsquo; you&rsquo;, &lsquo;Where we belong&rsquo; and &lsquo;Set me free&rsquo; allow the listener to see the emotive side of the band. Others, for example &lsquo;Nightmares&rsquo; and &lsquo;Gladiator&rsquo;, are examples of the tough rock sound that definitively sets &lsquo;Brave Empire&rsquo; apart from the rest of the latest crop of talent. Two songs from the album are currently in video production and we will have supporting High Definition video material available for TV and online promotion pre-release. </span></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14pt; background: white;" class="ecmsonormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">All the music and lyrics for &lsquo;A New Era&rsquo; were written and composed by the 7 members of Brave Empire. &ldquo;We like to share the writing. We mostly write our own lyrics but are open to helping each other out to tie it all together&rdquo;. The songs lyrics speak about being a young person today. Love and dreams, hopes and fears and the challenges of being a teen in this ever changing world. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>Many pieces contain positive inspiring idea&rsquo;s, however the writers are not afraid to tackle confronting issues and cover topics relevant to modern youth. The words contained in tracks like &lsquo;Disturbed&rsquo; and &lsquo;Set me Free&rsquo; speak about the repercussions of drug use and a life gone wrong on the streets. </span></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 14pt; background: white;" class="ecmsonormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">&lsquo;A New Era&rsquo; is due for release in late 2009.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 16.2pt; background: white;" class="ecmsonormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">With a powerful debut album set for release, videos in production, a groundbreaking new sound and a burning passion for music, it is fair to say that the sky is the limit for Brave Empire.</span></span></p><p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/braveempire"></a></p>