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(11 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I'll admit I feel cheated by the lack of TB in this thread.

162

(2 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Manual mod installs or delete the game.

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(38 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Nuro Z wrote:

I've got so many, but my major influences are:
- Mike Shinoda
- Michael Giacchino
- The RZA
- Sage Francis
- Hans Zimmer
- Kanye West (yes yes, he's a douche, but musically he's a genius)
- Clint Mansell
- Ennio Morricone
- Plan B

I'mma let you finish your list but Black Swan is the greatest movie of all time

wink

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(10 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Woah, I got a mention! Awesome stuff. Thanks heaps Andrew. I hope you enjoy Siberia II as much

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(27 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Guys, I'm struggling. I've not been starting my track until Friday these past 2 weeks and I haven't even listened to the week 4 submissions, let alone the week 5. I fear it will compound to an un-catchup-able amount where I end up becoming just a contributor instead of a community member sad

It's all very good to have an emotional attachment to a sample and needing to put it in a person creation such as music. If this is the case for anyone then perhaps just upload it to your own website and not this one. Don't stop making the music you want and the way you want to, just appreciate that this website has submission rules. Put your song on your website instead of this one. Chuck it on SoundCloud and link it to us in the forums, just dont submit it as an entry to Weekly Beats. Having a personal meaning attached to a sample isn't a trump card to bypass the rules. The rules have always been clearly stated so it is a choice to break those rules should you upload a song containing copyrighted samples. People may feel they have the right to use a copyrighted sample based on the meaning it bestows (and more power to them) but they don't have the right to feel cheated or hard done by should their submission be removed for breaking the rules; rules they chose to break.

tl;dr - It's such an easy rule to follow. If you need to put a copyrighted sample in your song then go for it, just don't use it as your Weekly Beats submission.

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(20 replies, posted in General Discussion)

COMMIT OR QUIT

Or just record your own like I do.

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(15 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Lazerbeat wrote:

And there are half a dozen on ebay with buy it nows around 100 bucks.

What eBay do you go to? The cheapest Buy It Now for me is $147.59 sad. Cheaper than the $200 I previously complained about though. I'll own one soon I swears *shakes fist*

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(15 replies, posted in General Discussion)

My field recordings were done with the Zoom H2. Unfortunately I've been unable to find one to call my own for less than $200

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(21 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Shirt please. Size M

Thank you very much for the mention George. It was a surprise to see my name in there. I've been feeling detached from it all for a while actually so reading a nice review sucked my right back in to the awesomeness of Weekly Beats. I'm pretty shit at this whole 'community' aspect though - I haven't even listened to week 4 yet. NO TIME WAAAAAHHH.

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(501 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Thanks to little-scale I have a working computer. I should start working on it tonight. It's Racism Day here tomorrow so I have the day off work, which thankfully gives me much needed extra time. Needless to say without my Music Machine in operation I haven't even started yet.

Pushing it to the limit.

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(501 replies, posted in General Discussion)

NekoTheory wrote:

Ended up getting a bit stuck on the preview I linked above, so I might just start something new.
Will be a stretch with the girlfriend moving in the next few days/weekend, but maybe I can use her for my own nefarious musical ends. lol

Female vocals or she has to move back out.

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(68 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I'll probs be there. I'll bring my keyboard + laptop. I don't have any useful cables though...

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(501 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I don't have a working computer anymore so I really have no idea what my Week 04 will be. I was thinking of beatboxing into a tape recorder and mailing the cassette to Trash80...

edit: Working home computer... I have alternative means of accessing the internet. My MacBook charger blew up, the battery inevitably ran flat and I await the day I can afford a new one.