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Post by doodleboy99 on Sept 20, 2008 11:35:15 GMT -6
Have you ever been going along pretty good in making a song, then all of a sudden you hit a huge road block? If so, talk about it.
For me I had two road blocks. I was making Fire Field from F-Zero. It was turning out pretty good. Until that low part. I CAN'T GO LOW ENOUGH. So I'm just going to have to add a small filler. The second one, well...my computer sucks. So recording videos is really laggy and bad quality.
So, yeah...talk about you Mario Paint road blocks.
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Post by Cat on Sept 20, 2008 13:27:51 GMT -6
Let's see, common roadblocks include: - Triplets on a secondary track in areas already completed. - Notes going too low or too high. - Strange tempo changes. - Requirements of an instrument that cannot be replicated. - And who could forget needing more simultaneous notes?
But that's all in the art of arranging and remixing!
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Post by kacelano on Sept 20, 2008 15:32:06 GMT -6
This is how I pan out - midi stinks at a part: I was trying to do Black Hole Sun, but the solo was terrible - the low Bb and high C# glitch: I really do not want to cut off a note when it is not called for - MPC's intrument's properties: I cannot stand to do some intrusments, especially strings and a piano - dynamical issues: this really doesn't neccesarly stop me, it just annoys me, A LOT - seperation of intruments in the same octave: whenever the same instrument plays at two different times. i.e. moving lines (May I add that MPC lacks a proper string ensamble. And that I prefer the cars softer)
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Post by Admin on Sept 20, 2008 16:14:04 GMT -6
- Repetition in a song. I will usually grow discouraged from doing a song if a particular melody/riff is played over multiple times, because it grows so tedious to copy and I've usually gone too far and saved to simply repeat the song, so I'm left with no choice but to finish the pattern. - Length. If a song contains more than a minute or so of non-repeating material, I usually quit after a while and come back later. - Chord and note recognition- I cannot say how annoying it is to pick out chords in real music when it's extraordinarily loud. I don't even want to use tabs or anything, because I am in contempt of any and all sheet music arrangement. So, I usually end up not getting much done because I don't know which notes to put.
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Post by Lolo on Oct 4, 2008 2:13:31 GMT -6
-I just NEVER seem to be able to get percussion how I want it.
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Post by SonicFan113 on Oct 19, 2008 7:11:48 GMT -6
Some instruments are not able to do. I wanted to do the Macho Grubba battle theme from Paper Mario TTYD - but at some points it's just not possible. No soundset has the right sound for it.
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Post by Colin Comard (Delay) on Oct 21, 2008 13:07:11 GMT -6
sonicfan: I have many instrument and sound samples. I don't remember the song exactly, but I'm sure I could make a soundset that has the right instrument. What is this instrument you are refferring to?
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Post by RehdBlob on Oct 21, 2008 18:51:47 GMT -6
I think the leading thing in the roadblocks that I find are the drums and percussion. For some reason, I can do percussion, but I just can't transfer it right into MPC without a LOT of time.
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Post by Colin Comard (Delay) on Oct 21, 2008 18:57:52 GMT -6
-Yes, I agree with RehdBlob and Lolo. it takes to long for me. -I also hate how most MIDI's don't take advantage of repeat signs and so I'm left to figure out where the song repeats, which I hate doing. -I'm terrible at composing by ear. I just can't do it. -Dynamics: I dislike the volume control in MPC
Pretty much everything people have said.
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Post by eataninja on Oct 21, 2008 19:20:57 GMT -6
-Dynamics -Cars (Both an annoying and an essential instrument) -Soft Instruments (Like planes) -Note Range -Note Limits
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Post by RehdBlob on Oct 21, 2008 21:41:57 GMT -6
-Finding time to actually work on it I definitely agree; I have multiple school/nonschool projects that I work on all the time.
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Post by AdolfoBaez on Oct 28, 2008 17:10:15 GMT -6
I haven´t uploaded any MPC song lately because of a huge lack of motivation, I guess that´s my Roadblock
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