Kelpie

After all this time, my motherboard finally just gave up. It started shortly after the last song I made, and I was actually working on another song. It's to the point that I can no longer keep it booted for longer than 5 minutes now.
Since I got a BSoD, I had a bunch of dump files. My boyfriend looked through the dump files and thought it was multiple problem, other than the motherboard. The last piece he looked at concluded it was the motherboard. However, my common sense kicked in that if it appears to be a problem from every other component, then it's the motherboard, because I consider the motherboard sort of just that - The mother of all components, the controller of all components. And as he looked at the last piece, our conversation boiled down to:

Him: BIOS_CHKSUM 000f0fb0′05a487c0 CORRECT_CHKSUM 00000000′0000000f
your motherboard is uh
Me: Is what?
Him: done.

So now he's looking at some old computers that have been replaced for companies his business does work for. Hopefully I don't end up with something worse than this, because we all know how much it hurts my now dead machine to just do a simple song with 10 patterns. It would certainly be nice if I had a job for the $250 it would take to get me a temporary upgrade that would actually be worlds better than the setup I have now.

I seriously can't believe how far I have gotten with my music. I just keep getting better and better. My limitations now are with my hardware. The need for a MIDI keyboard, the need for a better soundcard.

It all started with the Tetris and Zelda minimal remixes. I started from there. I was still learning how to use Fruity Loops Studio. They sound so poor in sound quality and not as great now. But they are still my favourite. They signify of how far along I have came.

Here I am with My Techance Boogies. They sound the best. They sound like I'm gong somewhere with my music now. I have been going through dead times (Times in which I attempt to make a song, but for some reason, I just can't do it) and spurts of good creativity.

Overall I look back and think just how far I've gotten in how good I am with my music. This is my music history. Pretty cool, eh?

Expect to see it soon! It will grab you by the feet and knock you down! I'm sure you'll LOVE every little part of it!

My boyfriend and I (Well... After he started messing with it, it became a file that is too CPU hungry for me to work with, so while I did some work, he worked a lot on it) have been working on it for quite awhile now. I really think you'll LOVE IT! I feel almost like I've gone through several stories by the time the song is over. :P It's so awesome now (Thanks to my boyfriend) and I fixed a bit on it. Especially after I figured out I could use XY Modulation Envelopes! And I got this cool VST plugin I'd like to share with you all (It's free!): http://illformed.org/glitch/?page=downloads It's so neat!

(Okay, so maybe I should give myself more credit than I'm giving myself here, but my boyfriend did work a lot on it!)

Also, as a side note: I don't know how well a LOT of the panning and a LOT of lower XY modulated parts will sound with cheap headphones. So if you have DJ Style headphones, I'd suggest using them when listening to this song!

With this song, I actually added in a basic percussion loop. Twisted it up a bit so that it has a "end beat".

I have reformatted on my old junky computer and have installed about 20GB worth of VSTi plugins (About as much as I can do with only 160GB of space, lol).

So I haven't really played with FLS in awhile, AND I'm using FLS 8 instead of 6. I have noticed a significant sound quality increase from both versions. Stuff sounds better, but that also means that it might take more to tweak the instruments so that it doesn't sound like crap, because I actually tried to see what Trance Pants sounded like without any editing while putting it into FLS 8 and rendering it off, and it didn't sound the same, but it sounded loud and parts were being dominant when they shouldn't have.

This song is a mixed genre. It is instrumental in a sense, but also very much so electronic. I think this song is perfect in all things except the percussion. Because if you were to re-render as much as I do to see how a song sounds like in an MP3 instead of raw, you would get annoyed of things too.


Storyline:

For Emotional Balance, it consists of all the feelings that would be there if you were emotionally imbalanced:  Depression, anxiousness, hopelessness, loss, regrets, anger. Then it has a twist: I am really trying to get back up, and I know that the days are hard to go through, but I must be strong.

That is the storyline with Emotional Imbalance.

So in other words, I have to explain the more harsher emotions with a saw instead of something soft like a piano or clarinet. While the piano and clarinet explains things like hopeless, loss, regrets, and the feeling of getting back on your feet.

Depression is a very mixed feeling. So it is really in the whole song, but no one instrument explains it. Depression is very aggresive, but is also very soft.


**UPDATE**
This will be the last song for quite awhile again. My computer finally gave up. I can no longer keep it on for longer than 5 minutes after Windows logs in.
Read my blog post here to learn more: http://kelpie.bandamp.com/blog/17110.html

I had uploaded the wrong piece. The other piece was too much. This is a minimalistic piece. A sad piece. It is a reoccurring theme for most of my songs. This does not need anything more. It is not meant to be played by an orchestra. It is meant to be played on a piano, and I did just that.

I used Finale Notepad to create this piece. Right now I have been unable to create any music with Fruity Loops Studio, because I can't afford an UPS to prevent my house from frying my powersupply again. I just RMAd it, and I am not going to be able to use my computer, so I opted to look for a free composer, and Finale Notepad was exactly what I wanted. I had worked on this piece for awhile, and was wanting to do a song in which there was the low, simple notes, and then the melody. And since I like ACE, BDF, and FAC (piano keys) being played together, I wanted to make a more complex, yet simple piece.

Although some of my measures were odd, for instance, on some measures, I really wanted them all to be quarter notes instead of eighth notes, but could not because of the measures being 4/4. Or I wanted my whole note to be half in one measure and half in another. I made some compromises because of this.

I had my boyfriend then take the midi files and put them into FLS and make it into an MP3.

I made this song awhile back. I'm sure it's not really finished, but it does have potential.

I haven't been really working on any songs right now except using software that will work on my EeePC like Finale Notepad, because I found out that my house is the reason why I'm having problems with leaky capacitors in all the powersupplies. I just RMAd my last PSU, and I really can't afford to get a UPS right now to fix the problem. I am certainly craving to make music, though.

Enjoy, I hope you like it.

A Solo Tomorrow (Sunrise Remix) I like to call it. It is in A minor, which is not even suppose to be happy. Weird surprise, huh? That's why it's called a Sunrise remix. (Yeah, I made that up)

Okay, I had a Piano Keyboarding final, and it just so happened that I was working on a song on the Midi keyboards at school in this class, instead of practicing with the songs we were given. And well, here it is.

So what's the story behind this lovely song? Well. I would always play the Tetris A song and the last two notes, A and A flat, would always feel like another song, like something missing. I would always try to play with them. But I never could get anything out of them. Then one day, I came to that class pretty tired and bored. I just played the Tetris A song... like 5 times, then it just came to me. The song came to me. Yeah I know it sounds crazy.

The beginning of the song is sort of the original, but the last two notes are not. The tempo of the song is actually about 87, but I had the original at 90, so it's a little faster than I played it at school. The original one is here: http://kelpie.fragvault.com/fl/NoAlbumYet/PianoKeyboardingfinal.mp3


Enjoy, I hope you like it.

This first started out with the first 35 secs being a ringtone I wanted to make for my phone. It sat with me for a long while, sounded real good. However, it didn't sound finished. And thus this is the complete song.

Enjoy, I hope you like it.