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[Z123M >> Battlefield]

Uh oh.

Look out, Zero's got some new sound! Btw how much did Sonar 7 and East West blah la Silver XP set you back if you don't mind me asking?
I look forward to some of your own piano playing used with this new gear, it's very exciting.

Zero123Music responds:

thankyou you very much assassin for the 10!

And I have a few piano ideas, and will put them in Sonar :D

thanks again,

[FFIV - Theme of Love - Cayler]

Nostalgia 101

You could always know where his chords would go, but in a good way, it was natural to receive his music, even though it always makes you feel different. Nicely arranged.

Cayler responds:

Yes, I've loved his sound for many a year. :) I grew up playing Uematsu's songs on piano all the time.

[~Never The Same~ by Cayler]

I love you.

Your love songs are pretty darn brilliant. They're raw and open, when I write I hide it all with an extended metaphor, which makes for shyte lyrics. I could wish for nothing more than for you to get your songs produced as best as they can.

Cayler responds:

Most of my lyrics are something I thought up and aren't really specifically something that happened to me, but these lyrics actually came right out of a page of a notebook that I vented in about a year before this song was put together. I too really hope that I can reproduce these songs much better someday. The main obstacle right now is jsut the time to do it, I'm sure I could get it all done well if I had the time.

[~Laces~ by Cayler]

I am feelin' it.

That was the funniest set of lyrics ever simply because you sang them in style so they don't even stand out as totally random.

Cayler responds:

Yes, I was in the mood when I made this. XD

[FF7 World Theme Excerpt]

I love piano, I love this.

This is truly beautiful, I never played FF7, and people always say I need to, this is the final straw, I have to play it.

Cayler responds:

I'm one of those people who will tell you that you have to play it. lol It's my fav game of all time, and I made that decision before I even knew how the rest of the world had received it, so completely uninfluenced by what other people said about it. They way the graphics are iffy and music is midi and the story is so deep, you come away from it sorta feeling like it wasn't a game at all, but a very unique and powerful dream. None of the subsequent FF7 spin offs haven't done the original justice at all, so you have to play it to fully understand why everyone loves it so much.

[Gerudo Valley-LOZ Ocar ofTime]

Awesome.

Hell I'd iceskate to this and I'm australian.

[Dramatic Reading - Xaos PM]

Hahahahahahaha.

I am laughing way too hard for this, dramatic readings of people wanting to sound serious is just the ultimate piss-taker. And scottish people are great with vocal stuff, I mean, he makes such a stupid thing sound like it is important and impactful. I love this, hahaha I love the "yeah!" guy in the crowd at 0:58, nice mastering.

Rig responds:

Haha, thanks for noticing! I spent over an hour finding various crowd sounds and mastering the whole thing.

[~Fall~ by Caleb]

Mixed feelings.

Your voice is seriously exceptional. And it's a shame when the music you make's production quality isn't at the same standard your singing is. And this is just personal, but I don't think you need to chorus your own voice so much or heavily, just a stylistic preference I guess but I think it sounds perfectly fine by itself or with a subtle backing, I always relate the enhanced vocals to an originally bad voice to improve, which is nowhere near a problem for you. Keep at it though, keep writing, singing and making music.

Cayler responds:

I hear you. And really not just the music's production quality, but even my voice is kinda sucky. When I made this, I could only do one take on vocal recording so it's pretty much the same as a live performance, without any ability to stop and retake something if I messed up. I'm really anxious to redo all of my stuff with better equipment.

[~Only Heart~ by Cayler]

Brilliant.

Your voice is like free cocktails at a conference, even if you're not really into what it's for, you go just for that. The difference is, what you make is actually really really amazing. By golly you are a talented coconut. This should maybe have been put in the category "Kick-ass". I think you could really push the music behind your voice. I mean there could be a real build up before the lines before and including "So why can't you just stay here?". Maybe a tiny bit of percussion for those instances or something might help, but it's brilliant either way.

Cayler responds:

Yes. Every time I listen to this in retrospect, I always feel like the music needs a whole lot more to really pull out the potential of the melody. When I redo it, I will add a lot more, but for this particular piece it's kinda hard to know exactly what I should do since I'm so familiar with the simplicity of it now. Basically it seems like it fits it theory the way it is now, but every time I listen I end up yearning for a lot more from the music. So I know that it needs more and where, but the idea of putting a bunch of percussion in this seems wrong at the moment, like I'd be taking the makeover a little too far. lol But I know that once I change it I'll get used to the new version and it'll be just fine.

[~Dusty Memories~ by Cayler]

Gentle.

I hope you can resolve your crackly issues, but it kinda doesn't even matter, it almost sounds like a record player. I really love the balance and flow you have in this. The type of synths make me think of it being from the scene from Scarface when montana shoots his best friend, only this is a little more gentle and passive.

Cayler responds:

Actually the cracking in this song is part of the synth I used, it is supposed to sound like a record player. I wasn't planning on posting this at first because it's not much of an actual song, but I felt like the feeling it gives could really be used in a flash or some other production where the theme is gentle or sad, usually after something tragic has just happened.