TnC Mixes: 3-some freestyler minimix

3 songs, Bomfunk MC's - Freestyler, Out of Space - The Prodigal, Talkin 'bout Dub - Apollo 440 mixed together, different BPMs and long boring intro's made the mix hard to finish. Cutting/pasting until raw mix was finished, then cut some samples with the title of the song in it and some spoken words and mix the raw mix together with the samples (that was the plan).

Still unfinished due to the bad design of Audacity. Multitrack is terrible. Still searching for a free multitrack editor. Still have to test a couple with midi 

TnC mixes: thinkpad of ???? ( Windows Store)

Rarely you find something good in the Windows Store, most of free apps have less functions as freeware programs you can find on the net, Only if you pay you get a app that is realy usefull. But why pay for a  app if freeware programs are much better ? I enjoyed a remake of Every Breah You Take on YT witn a kind of soundpad device. So I searched just for fun in  the Winstore for a freeware soundpad. Abd there was! It was made by ??? and work like expected without consulting any manual or website. The only thing I missed was ,saving different configurations , but hey, its free, so why bother if it does what it should do. So I put samples of a very old floppydisk of Blunt Axe, Dingetje, Madness, AC DC, Deacon Blue into the soundpad app, here are the results. Totally chaos and sometimes funny too. Try it yourself with all kind of (short) samples, or use mine ( tnc samples.zip). I hole you dont mind mystrange kind of humour

2nd post about soundpad or not ???

TnC mixes : mixesvibes mistakes

There are so many software programs for mixing music, its hard to be original. Mixvibes tried to be original by creating for every sample a differ er nt  short video and a interface to mix them together live while manipulation also the video and the video of each sample in realtime. I liked the idea and the interface tha t allows you the change the video in many ways, however the free version I tested had very limited amount of samples. Tha t shouldnot be a real prob l em, but the given samples didnt match with eachother,  so creating a interesting soundscape with video failed. I tried a couple of time, still the results were acc to my TnC standards , not good enough to upload it to YT. So I created a long video with the best parts and here is the link to try it yourself. Of course you can pay for lots of sample pack to make trap techno or lounge and I assume you can  create better tracks then with the free version. But I have some doubts when I hear how off tune some samples sound in the free version. WHY included them? The free version of Magix Musicmaker hsd much better ssmples thst really sound good together, check my other post to listen. Give it a try, mixvibes and then buy another mix I ng prigram. Well.. what are you waiting for?

Vids were made but needs editting maybe to create better music...

TnC Mixes: Red 5 Minimix

When I was trying to finish the post about "I Love You...Stop!" I wonder if anyone had made a mix of Red 5 songs and upload it to YT. If you have read that post you know the answer.
So I got the idea to make a simple mix of the 3 songs I did like from Red 5, "Da Beat Goes", "I Love You...Stop!" and "For This World".

I ripped the audio from some "official music video's" of YT and started my mix-program.
As usual, things go not the way you planned. The idea was to start off with  "F T W" ( a bit mellow), then "I L Y S" to be more uplifting and a big finish with "D B G". However that order of the songs could not be mixed nicely, even if I changed the BPM of the songs to match the fastest song. So the order became "D BG", "I L Y S" and "F T W". Well, that was not a problem, most of my MSX Moonblaster Mixes had some kind of mellow/lounge end.


So I already changed the BPM and the order of the songs and still the mix was far from finished. I let my mix program decide to match the beat (same BPM) to create smooth transitions. It matched the BPM, it was horrible to listen too. I started listening to every song from the beginning until the end and started trimming. "D B G" needed less trimming, but when I was finished with "I L Y S", it lasted no longer than 01:12 of a song 03:47 and "F T W" was after trimming more than 1 minute shorter. 

Then I added my old friend 'cross-fade' to the mix, instead of any 'beat-mix xx', things were going to sound better. I mixed down the whole project and started to think about the video.
Well, first I listened to the mix and was not happy with the very short version of "I L Y S" in the mix, it was a TnC House Classics, never the less. Again, mix-program trimmed a 1-minute longer version of "I L Y S", mixed the whole thing again. Now I had 2 versions of the same mix, named "short" and "long version" and no clue which one to use in the video for YT. A couple of listens later I go for the short version. 

Did I already mention the speed-up to 115% I used in both versions (after mixing)?
It did miracles for the whole mix, sounded fresher and less boring (which is the worst of my fears when I am mixing). Still, something was missing, so I fooled around with all kind of effects. By accident, I used echo and made the mix completely out of sync. However...I like how the echo sound changes the drumbeats. I split the stereo track into left and right, added a very low (0.1) echo to 1 of the channels, mixed it down as a stereo track and...

Yep, the mix is ready for the video. Mmm, not exactly, the bass in the whole mix was a bit underrated. I decided to crank it up with any effect I could use. In the end, I got the best results from the compressor effect, not any equalizer preset. 
( after I finished the video I listened to whole thing and the compessor made it sound like a cärhifi system with closed doors...so I removed the compressor effect to get less bass but more cleaner sound )

Yes, we gonna make a video now. I liked the shark pictures Red 5 used for "I L Y S" sleeves for the (maxi-)single, so I used them for the opening and credits of the video. Finding a nice character set was easily done, but trying to match the Red 5 colors of the pictures was not an easy task. I ended up with red and pink, these looked not to bad.

For the video I had the idea to divide the screen into 3 parts (like the 3 songs I used), play only the music-video of the audio, while to other 2 only showing a picture of the start of the video. For this, I had to cut the music-video into the length of the audio part. Cause I had trimmed every song and speed-up it was impossible to sync the video with the audio. 

Well, if you want to see the musicvideo's, you have to look somewhere else.

Next problem was I could not find how to put the music-video into my minimix video, without playing any sound. I had already converted music-video parts without audio, when I found the right switch in the video-editor. 
Because the screen was divided into 3 parts, it's not easy to see, which music-video belongs to which song title. I show the song title just at the beginning of the song.

Maybe I get problems with copyrights and stuff, we will see.
I have uploaded the short and long version to SoundCloud so you can decide which one is better. Don't expect me to upload a video with the long version.
I am done and move over to my next project.

Soundcloud: Red 5 Minimix Short version
Soundcloud: Red 5 Minimix Long version

Youtube: Red 5 Minimix (MixMeister TnC)

BTW Mixcloud did not allow any file less than 12 Mb, so I uploaded to Soundcloud instead.
What a ...  rule.
 

TnC mixes: TrackMania 2 Canyon 125 speedmix

When I am washing the dishes I like to have some music in the background. Over the years I collected many mashups, mixes, Xmas songs, game soundtracks, own CD-rips and more 
( maybe a bit illegal stuff ?).

So I put a DVD-R in my half-broken DVD-boombox ( remote control and display are broken) with some Lounge music and Virtual Audio Project (synthesizer music, see earlier Happy Halloween posts) and I was breathless by the instrumental techno sounds coming out of the speakers. I had to know what the music was and from who. It was labeled TrackMania 2 Canyon, so it was the OST of that game.
In total 8 tracks for 4 canyons and 2 menu music. I never want to buy the game itself, cause I bought a previous version called TrackMania United Forever and that game was good enough (or should I say difficult enough). Every TrackMania has almost everything a good race game should have, a track-editor, changeable car-skins, local and internet multiplayer, downloading new cars / car-skins, save replays, make screenshots, but no damage or guns.

Check out the 20k replay movie.

For this mix, I had 8 tracks, but 4 of them were almost the same. They even sounded a bit like the menu music. But I liked all of them. When I first hear all tracks from the DVD-R I assumed it was all 1 mix. When I looked on my computer on the DVD-R, there were 10 tracks with different titles. In the end, I used 9 in the mix instead of 10 tracks, cause 1 of the menu music sounded just 1 of other tracks and the mix sounded a bit too boring. 
I also cut a bit off the last track the menu music for a better fade out, hope you don't mind. 

When my mix was ready to be published on YouTube ( I was not sure I got issues with copyrights on mixcloud), I had the idea to create just a simple video with a visualizer, then my son (plays sometimes TrackMania United on Steam) told me it was less boring to watch if there were footage of the TrackMania 2 Canyon game. I agreed and start looking for footage with no watermarks or texts during the races. I found a long video of someone playing a couple of races of the Beta version and forgot to record the sound. 
So I cut and cut and pasted in the video I made with the visualizer, still, these footage .seemed not very interesting to watch. Then I tried to use the footage of all official trailers of Ubisoft of TrackMania 2 Canyon. But it felt wrong, the trailer had already good sounds, why re-use them for my simple Speedmix? I added an intro and an outtro to the vid with footage of the Beta version and decided to publish it on the net, first on Mixcloud, then YouTube.

I am sure if you search for TrackMania you get enough vids to watch for the rest of the week, so no more links about the game, well just one...

I forgot to tell I used the visualizer of WinAmp called Milkdrop from Nullsoft Inc & walter Gruess. It has very different styles of visuals and very nice color schema's. In the video I just used random visuals which turned out very well. Here is the download link.

Life Is Strange - the mix - TnC OST Mixz "The Decision"

It was never my intention to make a 2nd post to any game, but as you can read in the description of the mix on YouTube, making this mix was a some kind of price I had to pay for getting the music and the game out of my head. 
I will use this post to tell you more about the mix itself.

I listened to couple of Life Is Strange soundtracks on YouTube and there were so many songs I liked a lot, mostly the more depressed sounded ones. 
I just wanted to hear those songs together so I started my old Mixmeister Fusion and let the automatic BPM determine how the playlist would look like. 

It turned out alright (I guess) with a mix of instrumental, mixed vocals of male/female and 
a balance in soft beginning and hard endings. 
I mean, most songs in the mix started very quietly and the erupt at the end. 
But it was hard to cross-fade those songs with all different BPMs (according to Mixmeister Fusion, that is). 

It took me 12 versions before all song transitions were fine. I kept on cutting / pasting / listening to the same transitions to find the perfect mixing in key ( in my case, mixing by ear, not by the beat).

So in the end, I had my mix, but it seemed logic, if I want to publish on YouTube I must do more than just showing a title picture during the playing of the mix. 
I made some notes for different versions of the video, and suddenly I had the idea when 
I listen to the mix I made.

What if, the whole video mix shows with short video's and the music itself, the state of mind of Max Caulfield to make in Episode 5 the final decision, sacrifice Chloe, her best friend or sacrifice the city Arcadia Bay. 
I used short videos from Episode 5, where Max walks to the Lighthouse and is reminded of all the good memories she had with Chloe, just before Max had to make the decision. 

So I started the mix with a short video of Max and Chloe before Max had to decide and end the video with a short video of the tornado. It only seems normal to name the mix "The Decision". 

Some of these memories of Max are seen in the mix, I had to cut a lot to get different memories and not let the background noise/music ruin the mix.

But there was more trouble ahead.
My video-editor could only handle 800x600 resolution, so the video quality is....bad. However the audio seems okay, so I uploaded it anyway. 

After uploading I tried to search for my video, but YouTube search didn't find it. 
Maybe it's better, cause there are so many well made fan video clips with scenes 
of Life Is Strange. If you hate the video, but like the mix, I have uploaded it to mixcloud. 

Check the links below for the video and mix.



The video or The Mix

Note: I wrote Mixz instead of Mix, cause it's not really a smooth mix with nice transitions between the songs (and I speed up all songs to 115%)

And finally: I found some other Life Is Strange links I had to share it with you:

A beautiful Wikipedia fan-made
A fan-made story for the prequel of Life Is Strange
A playlist of Life Is Strange instrumentals, each 10 minutes long

That's all folks for today !

TnC House Classics presents : Don't You Want Me / Dont You Want My Love - Felix

Of course should this one be included in the TnC House Classics. I remember I was speechless when I heard the song for the first time as intro on Impact's Housedisk 1.


The version of Impact was for Music Module (MSX-AUDIO ) so I tried to create a MSX-STEREO version in Moonblaster.

A slighly modified version with a sort of videoclip you can find on YouTube with the name 2 Felix (after the name of the original artist).

I used it also in the Moonblaster Housemix Between Good and Bad Gabbaheads.
Why is the song so populair ? I have never heard any organ like that and the sample was used in many other housemusic productions...even today...

Felix had a 2nd hit called It Makes Me Crazy, less sucessfull, but still a great song with another hypnotic riff that stays long in your head once you heard it.
Lucky for me it was also made for Moonblaster by Silence so I used it in my Moonblaster Housemix Cryognity Makes Me Crazy

I only included the original videoclips here, cause I don't want to waste time searching for specials, when the originals are special enough.

Here I found some interesting info about Felix. But what are you waiting for ? Get that Impact's Housedisk 1 and play it loud on your MSX-2 !

Mixmeister TnC Moonblaster mixes (total 7)

Hi, 

It's been a while since I post something new, but a Dutch heatwave, stress at work and some nasty Flash player malware, got me away from the keyboard and my blog.

So this once is some sort of retrospective of my MSX Moonblaster mixes so far.

Yes, I created 7 mixes, not 6, cause I refurbished my 1st mix and the result was more different than the original plan (the REPRISE). 

I uploaded all my mixes to mixcloud so you dont have to download anything, just listen.

Here is the link: https://www.mixcloud.com/NoiseCollector/

Will there a mix number 7 ?

I had already some pre-recorded songs, but I have some other interesting projects I workon so I leave it where it is right now.

If you looked carefull to all the playlist, you know that each mix is created from a diskette with 20 tracks or more (ordered alfabeticly).

So mix 7 will only included tracks begin with the letter K and L.

On the left side you see an example of the source of all mixes.
Of course I should include here pictures on Moonblaster, BlueMSX, Mixmeister Fusion and Audacity, but if you download a package from the link at mixcloud you get a lot more info about each mix and an interesting bonusdiskette too...

Mixmeister TnC 6th Moonblaster mix: Invasion of the I-Magnetics

I was working on this mix at the same time as my first REPRISE mix, but in november 2013 I could finally finish this one.

This time with a little help from my son, who listen and made very usefull comments what should be changed.
The hardest parts to mix where the parts the BPM didn't match at all, I had to put so samples between so the listeners won't be annoyed too much.
And I was experimenting with some filters in Audacity, you can hear one in the intro.

There is more to tell about this 6th mix, so follow the links below:

If you want to hear the 6th mix: Mixcloud
If you want to know more about the 6th mix, get it at: MediaFire or Depositfiles
If you want to download the 6th mix whole package,
get it at: MediaFire or DepositFiles

This time I even uploaded secretly the mix to Mix.dj, my favorite website for not only house-mixes but a lot of music styles like Disco, DnB etc. etc.
I will post later some links to DJs I like a lot at Mix.dj...

Last not: I made the simple GIF-animation completly with PhotoScape
It is a very easy to use picture-editor with a lot of features (like taking screenshots...)

Mixmeister TnC first Moonblaster mix in the blender: 2 The Limit In2 A Twisted Reality REPRISE

When Mixmeister TnC was listening to his first mix, he noticed the were some parts too loud (clipping), some to silent and some were no stereo after all.

So after a very long period of editing, modifing, recording, mixing, he released his first mix again. The songs were the same, but there were a lot of changes in this REPRISE mix.

Can you hear the differences between the first mix and the REPRISE ?

If you want to hear the REPRISE mix: Mixcloud
If you want to know more about the REPRISE mix, get it at: Depositfiles
If you want to download the REPRISE mix whole package,
get it at: MediaFire or DepositFiles

Mixmeister TnC first Moonblaster mix: 2 TheLimit In2 A Twisted Reality

More than a year ago published Mixmeister TnC his first mix at Sound-/Mixcloud.
A year later he had 2 followers...how famous can he be...

Mixmeister TnC released his mix at Mixcloud, but he created a complete package for those
who want to know more about the backgrounds of his first mix.
It included en document about the making of the mix and it's songs, the songs in MP3-format, some pictures related to the document and 2 MSX disks in DSK-format.
One with the original Moonblaster musics and one Music-disk with some songs from the composer featuring in the mix.

Until now Mixmeister TnC still released a package together with publishing on Mixcloud.

If you want to hear the first mix: Mixcloud
If you want to know more about the first mix, get it at: Depositfiles
If you want to download the first mix whole package,
get it at: MediaFire or DepositFiles

Dutch Heroes of MSX Music Part Zero / Introducing Mixmeister TnC

I was planning a interview serie with some well-known MSX music composers, 
cause I was curious to find out the person behind the music.
Well, it was not easy to create a lot of questions that make sense and to put them 
in the right order.
So to test the questions I interviewed Mixmeister TnC, wellknown from his mix-tapes 
at Mixcloud.com ;-)
After this interview I was ready to face (real) MSX music composers, like...
Well...stay tuned and you will see...

Meanwhile, have fun with this interview, by downloading at:
-  MediaFire
- DepositFiles