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#1
Heyall, this is the Mix I did for Technetium.

Used MTV 2000 PC as the platform, all of this is assembled from her work, I just chopped it and looped it in MTVMG. Except for the siren at the end, that is from the Generator. Special FX on the voices I used Audacity and Audio Surgeon.

This is the ALMOST done version. I have to go back and remove the pops and clicks from MTV to WAV conversion.

Enjoy!!

http://www.myspace.com/gruvenheimer

#2
When I convert a track from the MTV file to a WAV format I get clicks and pops at random. On an wave form they show up as spikes.

Up until now the only way I have fixed it is to go in with wavlab and smooth out the spikes. But it is time consuming.  <_<

Does anyone have a clue as to what causes this, or have you encountered it and figured out a fix?  :ph34r:

#3
House/disco / Fashionista
March 24, 2008, 08:07:10 AM
A long house mix. Used this during some photo shoots I was working on.

Fashionista
#4
Experimental/Other / Duelo Solos
March 24, 2008, 08:04:51 AM
Here is something a little off the beaten techno path  =]

This was my foray into the rock guitar samples in the generator.

My tribute to rock riffs through the ages!

Duelo Solos

:D  
#5
Other interests / Are there any girls in TIMGUL?
March 19, 2008, 07:58:15 AM
I have come across few women producers.

Are there any here?
#6
House/disco / Echo Agogo
March 16, 2008, 07:10:27 AM
Echo Agogo was an early creation, one of the first songs I made. It is fairly experimental, I was still learning all the 'stuff' I had at my disposal in the program.

This version is pretty much how it came out of the Generator. There is some clicking, and the blending is a little choppy. Plus you will see I didn't search too far into the library for voice cuts.

I never paid the song much mind and considered it not-finished for a long time, but my old roommate liked it quite a bit as do a few other people in my circle. So I decided to call it 'done' and publish it, and then I think I'll do a remixx of it (that wil lbe fun!)

Echo Agogo

Enjoy!   :ph34r:
#7
Other interests / Who has Myspace?
March 13, 2008, 08:17:08 AM
What are your links?

Here is mine.

#8
I have an editing software that goes all the way up to 320 kpbs. I never understood what that was all about until I just tried it one night.

There is a big difference in the quality and the flow of your music. It is like opening up the throat on the system so the info doesn't get squished and tinny.

Of course that threw me into a whole new learning curve because when I went back and ripped older tracks from 128 to 320 the sounds changed and in some cases it took me a while to get used to. >SHRUG<

Dj Omnimaga is right though, these make HUGE FILES. Useless for most email sytems and pages like Myspace or here if you are uploading to the site.

HOWEVER, you CAN upload your music to the Internet Archive.
The Internet Archive
This is a trick that me and couple of buds use. It accomplishes several things, but mostly

1. You can link to a 320 recording of you music that always plays well off of that site - only problem is if people are on dial up. But the archive rips your music into smaller files, so that problem can be averted. They just won't be able to hear the 320 version.

2. Your music is published. Not in the record company sense of the word, but technically once you upload a work to the archive it is published and you can better stake your claim to names and such. Or you can go on there and see if the name of your track has already been used 15 times, and you can modify the name if you want.

3. I already mentioned the ripping. They rip files for you.

Of course, you have to be on a decent speed hookup because the uploads can take forever (half hour to an hour on dial up). I am sitting right over a pipeline with not many users in the area, so I get 54 mbps which has spoiled me terribly. But it can handle huge file transfers in a fraction of the time.

I use Audio Surgeon for editing and mixing tracks outside of the generator. It can save to 320 kbps, and has turned out to be a very useful too for me. It cost about $50 and was worth every cent.

By the by, if you are serious about music and promoting yourself, I would recommend a visit to Technetium on Myspace and read the blog. Everything you need to do is laid out there for you (maybe not everything, but enough information is there for you to get some serious momentum and start creating an online image of yourself & your product).

B)  
#9
House/disco / (I Just Can't) Cope
March 13, 2008, 07:41:18 AM
One afternoon there was this cheecka who turned out to be a psycho hose beast. First she had been all nice & friendly for a while and then she got all vicious and bitchy when I told her my software.   :angry:  (BAD CHEECKA!! BAD!!)  >SWATS WITH ROLLED UP NEWSPAPER<   (BAD CHEECKA!!)

LOL. I was totally devastated coz this was kinda early on and still was really shy about sharing my music. So after she dissed and ripped on the generator I cranked this track out in about an hour and posted it online and dedicated it to my psychotic so-cal fan.

(I Just Can't) Cope

Oh yea, I guess I just realized the coping part could be taken two ways. I was talking about an uptight techno fan not being able to cope with someone producing digital tracks that sound less than super compressed and totally hi-fi. LOLOLOL.   :lol:
#10
Techno/Trance / Synergy
March 13, 2008, 07:23:07 AM
Ahhh, Synergy. One of my favorites now and forever more... I was working on a chase scene concept at the time this came about.

Synergy started as just a little 30 second piece of a larger mix that ran through a series of styles & genre. I got an idea from it, threw an old school hip hop/dance beat under it and then put some DnB effects on it.

And then, well, the song took on a life of it's own and I think I just went crazy. This one has a REALLY powerful bass kick that is fun to play with on a loud system (don't blow a woofer!)

Synergy - Audio Assault Edit

:ph34r:
#11
House/disco / Insanity
March 13, 2008, 07:15:40 AM
Another one of the bon mots... messed with the FX on this one, I wanted it to sound lo-fi like it would if you were really playing a scratchy old recod on an old home stereo system.

I dare say, mission accomplished....  (Somebody get me a banner!)  :P

Insanity
#12
Experimental/Other / Maybe He was the One
March 13, 2008, 07:11:53 AM
FUn with reverb. This is a little bon mot, one of a series with the same basic beat.

Maybe He was the One

:blink:  
#13
Experimental/Other / Andean Aria
March 13, 2008, 07:07:17 AM
This is an intro track. The are some unedited riffs in here you may all recognize.   :P

Andean Aria

Enjoy!
#14
Experimental/Other / Radio Dream Sequence - Part 1
March 13, 2008, 06:58:40 AM
This was from not too too long ago. Couldn't sleep one night last fall and came up with this. For fun listen to it with a good set of headphones on  =]

Radio Dream Sequence - Part 1

Cheers!   :D  
#15
Experimental/Other / Fly the Banner
March 10, 2008, 08:17:09 PM
This was the product of a snatch and grab jam session one sunny afternoon in Fremont! We were having a VERY good time that day. My roommate added the subtitle 'exploding house pet mix' (when I first played back the 'fly' cut pitched up so high it was really really loud). She said people's pets were exploding from the sound... we were laughing so hard it hurt. That was a great day!

Fly the Banner

Enjoy!  :D
#16
Introductions / Uff Da!
March 10, 2008, 03:49:08 PM
Hi my name is Sean and I live in Poulsbo, which is near Seattle but may as well be in the outer crab nebula as far as them city folk are concerned. LOL. I am definitely in the boonies here, but it was a calculated move. After 10 years in the city I got tired of all the sirens and violence and tweakers going through my trash.  :o

Poulsbo is a Norwegian town, they have a viking festival where they eat lutefisk (don't ask) light a huge fire and throw fish at each other. All in all it is pretty entertaining, and a welcome relief to city life - if you can get past the fact that everything closes by 9. Uff Da is a Norwegian phrase meaning a variety of things. I think it is along the lines of Oi Vey.

Sooooo, I am a geezer but I know I am not the OLDEST person here (New Zealand, I am looking in your general direction).  :P  (let me know if you don't get you disk issue resolved). I won't bore you with a bunch of crap that will start to sound like a music history class... let's just say that when I got my first walkman it was made out of die-cast metal and played cassette tapes.

At that time we still had an 8-Track player in our house and we all thought THAT was pretty neat.  :blink:  

Like I mentioned in another post, I have been through a lot of phases in my life (old school rap & breakdance, new wave, rock, rave, punk) plus I was a Dj (mobile and radio). I didn't really have a pre-conceived notion of what my 'genre' would be when I got started with MTVMG. I like rave a lot, and I gravitate toward hard dance and house music, but I will take on just about any challenge if I am in the mood.  :ph34r:

The day I found MTVMG I had actually been part of an attempt at launching a punk band that fell apart. I was VERY dejected and upset that day, I was walking through the underground part of the mall at Westlake Center where the bus tunnels are. I stepped into Electronic Boutique completely apropos of nothing - I had never shopped there before - and I saw the MTV MG for PC there on the shelf. It was $40, and I thought 'what the hell, I'll give it a shot'.  <_<

That was the best $40 I ever spent, and one of the luckiest turns for me. As far as I am concerned, MTV MG PC really blows doors with it's signals and with the range of ability (for $40). Yes, it is unstable and it crashes, which is terribly vexing. But this has taught me to save every time I make a change to a song, which is probably a good habit to have anyway in our line of work.  B)

:D So I am very glad to have found this community, I think this is the coolest. I have been producing since 1999 and have finished about 35 of my own songs, 2 mixes over 20 minutes, 3 song collaborations with Technetium, I have about 10 songs in various stages in my PC, I am working on a remix, and I have about half a million ideas flitting around the inside of my head.

My primary computer has been out of commission for one reason or another for about 2 years during which I used my mother's laptop (thank you mom). NOW though I have got my mean machine back and I am very pleased. Just last week I started moving files back on to there and I look forward picking up the pace with production work.  :D

In addition to the digital producing a play the clarinet and the drums, I have a keyboard and I got a guitar last year which I am practicing on and would like to play well someday. I can also play the kazoo!

I look forward to meeting all of you and hearing your music and I hope some wicked collaborations come from all of this. I have already downloaded the first master mix and just put it on my Juke last night so I can listen to it today as I go around town.

So, um... yea. ROCK ON!

ps Did you know Fat Boy Slim uses an old videogame console to get some of his samples? Yep. I heard him talking about it on the radio. He said it was ancient but it was one of his favorite pieces of equipment.   :lol:  
#17
This seems like a pretty good resource. I found the answer I needed in here - of course, I haven't applied it yet since I am at work. But it makes sense what they are saying (the mixer levels in my computer aren't ticked right or adjusted correctly, that's why the samples are silent).

Codemasters Support Community for MTVMG

Cheers!
#18
This is the first song I ever did, the first night I loaded the software. Pretty straightforward use of the provided riffs. I loved MTVMG so much I loaded and loaded samples until I crashed the program. LOL. Then I had to go back and optimize the sample list and delete sounds ... it is a crazy song, but I still enjoy it today.

I burned it to CD that same night, and I listened to it over and over in amazement until the batteries gave out in my CD player, about 3am. LOL. I have made a few remixes of 'Coming Soon', this one I included (Verbal Burble Mix) is pretty ... um, different. Think 'Art of Noise'.

Just realized, as I link the songs, this isn't THE original, this is an edit I did a few years later, but the basic integrity is there. Mostly I went in and cleaned up some clicking, smoothed in some fade in and out of vocal samples, and also added the ticka-ticka you here to the left (to sort of give the track a thread).

Enjoy!

Coming Soon - A Work of Incredible Genius

Coming Soon - Verbal Burble Mix
#19
House/disco / Lost My Mind
March 07, 2008, 03:05:50 AM
Here is a house version using a familiar sample... made this one in 2004.

http://www.archive.org/download/LostMyMind...Mind320Kbps.mp3

Enjoy!  
#20
I am very happy to have a place to commune with other MTVMG users. For eons I thought I was the only one, and hardly anyone knows what I am talking about when they ask me what I use to produce. So I just say 'oh a video game'. But here is a place I can really talk about stuff and figure things out. Kudos!
#21
I feel silly for even having to ask this because I have used the software forever. But I have never completely figured out the process. I know there is a way to record audio from pc, and I know how to start it in the generator, but how do you aim it or select what you want to record from on your computer?

I even called tech support on this and he wasn't very clear on the instructions. (apparently the engineer that was working on the first version had a tiff with the company and quit before all the instructions could be laid out and bugs smoothed over - that was what I heard from a secretary working at codemasters USA, west coast office).

ANYWAY, I digress... has anyone else out there managed to figure this process out? Can I import disected bits of wav and mp3 files to do remixes for my friends?  
#22
House/disco / Slave to the Bass
March 04, 2008, 08:30:57 PM
Made using the original MTV Music Generator for PC.  =]

This one is a remix of 'Bass onna Plate'.

Enjoy!

http://www.archive.org/download/SlaveToThe...Bass320Kbps.mp3