Starmen.Net

Album Flavor: Peanut
Character Representative: Mr Saturn

WHAT KIND OF MUSIC?

• The songs must be EB related.
• New tunes entirely original must sound very EB'ish (like Bound Together)
• Any Starmen.net, other site, or EB event songs must have EB music in them and must be EB related in their lyrics.
• No cussing, no insulting of anyone or thing.
• Any genre of music. Jazz, Piano, Guitar, Techno, Remix, etc

QUALITY OF MUSIC

• Refer to the presently released RC tracks. That is the level of quality to be aiming for.
• Recoding and output quality must be in Stereo. No converting from Mono to Stereo after composing.
• NO MIDI. No constructed and outputed in midi and converted to mp3.
• Able to use midis to help contruct a song, but I don't want midi sounding music as a final product.

HOW TO SUBMIT

• WIPs may be posted here or sent via PM to Jonk.
• FINAL works may NOT be posted here. Send them to thejonkay@gmail.com
• These songs must be unique to this album and must be made by you.
• Group entries must be approved by the entire group before submission.

RELEASE FORMAT

• Packaged and presented digitally for download.
• Potentially later used for EB franchise promotion to places like Nintendo, IGN, etc.

DEADLINE

• When the album is filed (to a least 118.5 minutes)

ACCEPTED ENTRIES

• Coming soon

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The first four albums have been determined and are going to released slowly.

This is a topic to post WIPs (works in Progress) and get collective feedback and more.

Rock Candy is back and alive!

*looks at the date of the first post*

Holy. How'd I miss this before?

Anyway, what exactly are the "rules" for making a song? Say I took an old (probably non-copyrighted) song such as Old King Wenceslas, made EB-related lyrics for it, and sang along to music (the same song, Old King Wenceslas) that was done by some professional artist, is that something that'd fly? (provided that I could do it well enough, of course.) Or would I (or someone else from the site, say) have to be responsible for the music side of it, too? Or is such a "parody" type song right out, even though it's (very likely) public domain?

There are now badges that you can earn for submitting a quality song and one if it gets it.

Submit a Quality Song -

If you are on an album you get one of the following badges respective to that album.

RC1 -
RC2 -
RC3 -
RC4 -
RC5 -
RC6 -

If you are a Rock Candy or EarthBound music legend like Cromkayer or Sephy or Tansunn, where you have produced a number of outstanding tracks crossing Multiple Album...

RCDXsparkle -

There are many retired songs with Rock Candy. Here is a badge for those that were one part of Rock Candy or just didnt make the cut but tried.

RC Retired -

RC Staff -

I bet y'all'd like some Smiles and Tears in the key of Ab, huh?

Cool.

chuggaaconroy wrote on Tue, 19 December 2006 12:48

The best thing I've got is MP3 Trix, which I got from download.com . It's pretty good, for free.

MaxVdub wrote on Tue, 19 December 2006 13:25

I used Sibelius three and Audacity; the reason I didn't use Sibelius' actual recording utility was because you missed out on the echo. Of course, now that I've figured it out, I need to find my Sibelius disk again, and that'll be a load of fun. . .

You can export to mp3 or wav without buying it. Just leave it open and hope your computer doesn't crash or anything.

The Ricardo del Sexy theme song will go on the Special Starmen.net Version of Rock Candy. I am trying to keep the core of Rock Candy EB themed to the highest extent. I am not going to shut out the smnetting love because hey, nerds need loving too, and sexy man candy like the ricardo!

BTW, badges have been distributed to those that have earned them so far, so that means that they are in effect. You will be able to get a badge pretty effectively now. Look at my badge list to see it in action!

New badge is also available for retired songs.

Several songs need to be replaced from the existing non-released Rock Candy albums and I was thinking that this would be the perfect opportunity for some to get in on being part of these first few albums.

Go ahead and submit songs via PM! I will be awaiting your entries!

I'm pretty sure the problem is the actual audio file. It overdrives no matter what master volume I have on. And I'm not using any EQ or anything with Winamp.

Can anyone else confirm that isn't just me?

ness_the_mess wrote on Mon, 08 January 2007 18:01

If you're a Mac user, I can help you out... also, you don't really need a fancy setup. I record all my acoustic stuff through my iMac's pinhole mic, which works suprisingly well. Granted, I do have midi in, but it's pretty useless until I pony up some cash for a preprocessor.

Also, I'm on the album! Totally cool.. the forums rank is pretty slick. Big props to all who orgaznized this stuff.

sorry, I know it is a RC 5 topic but I love the song pollyenna(live) and flying men.

crazyants wrote on Mon, 08 January 2007 22:00

your not the only one >_>

MaxVDub - Your Level Up song is awesome. I like what you have, RC ready!

Unlimited Lumpia - excellent work. Happy Happy is already going on RC 2. Defeated Courage and Threed Sled will go on furtre tracks. I would suggest a little more of a easing of presentation in the beginning of first few moments of Threed Sled because it comes BURSTING out of tha gates. I love that, but that might be a bit abrupt for CD and audio listening for others.

Pinstipdiva - The AB Simles and Tears song sounds too technically composed and horns sound off for some reason. It sounds a little dow in mood. I would try to cheer up the mood more with the song. It's suppose to be a happier song.

theReverendAG - The Lonely Winter Soundstone Freezup sounds very nice, but there is quite a bit of over string sliding sound effects in the beginning of the piece. If you can avoid that it would be prefered, but if you can't that's ok.

CarbonDog - Star of Twoson is a too digital in presentation with what it is trying to accomplish. The piano seems a little abrupt and the chorus feels like there could be a better solution for that part of the song. The composition is nice and Like the different foreground instruments used.

Electrospecter - Winter Ambience is a great song, quality work. Definitely RC bound.

PsiHeroNess - Winter of 1989 is a great song for the nostalgic presentation that you give, I would add a little more variety or something new to the second repeat of the song to keep the listening wanting to hear the full song instead of expecting the same iteration. It is a very nice song and RC worthy but I feel it could a bit better!

Stevesesy - Winters and Winters Redux are nice and a good start. You need to be a little less harsh with the piano and let it flow more or add something to allow it to be a little more softening. The nature of this particular tune doesnt go well with the straight forward piano key hits. Goodnight is really good but there are parts that are sounding a little too technical such as the background ambience and and the organ-like sounds. There must be something to soften the transitions between notes to mask the digital nature of this composition. In the Rain is doing good, I really like the piano in this work but the same ambience problem is persisting here as in the other ones.

bstring - Both Dance of the Moon Kangaroos and Freedom Song have heavy percussion and should tone it down a bit. I love the guitar on Freedom song, it is really good. The Moon Kanga one needs to have the purcussion lessened and other music brought more up to the foreground.

JustinB - Fire Fire, Hirake Goma Doufu, Twoson and Open Seasame Tofu are harsh technos. Fire Fire and Twoson would come the closest to becoming accepted, but I think it still they are pretty boom boom boom when presenting themselves. I am warming up to Twoson more and more as well as Fire Fire.

BenSpinSpace - Fourside Piano is a great song, no improvements needed!


For those that did not get a badge next to their name, look at the comments an ask for additional feedback and submit. I am will ing to work with you as are other artists here. We aree all here to help each other improve.

Tansunn is also now officially part of the Staff of Rock Candy and will be here to dish out the necessary when I am unavailable. He joins other RC staff like Fishsticks, Kevin and the fan music staffer Erik.

Jonk wrote on Fri, 19 January 2007 14:02
What did you find lacking in the recording? I recorded my guitar directly into the computer without the use of a mic to make sure there wouldn't be any background noise that would ruin it.

Jonk wrote on Tue, 19 December 2006 01:38
What is going to happen to the retired songs?

The retired songs were retired for one of three reasons

• They were originally made by Nintendo (from games like SSBM or Mother 64)
• The quality of the submission didnt hold up over the years. The bar has been raised and they just didnt hold up.
• They were requested by the artist to be removed for improvements or just personal preference for their song not to be hear at this time.

Will they ever be released, maybe the songs of #2 point on the list. The Official Nintendo ones get released as bonus tracks on special RC events but they will never be officially be a part of RC. RC is now officially 100% pure fan made. Some of the artists may redo some of their older tracks.

Also some of the tracks from previous albums that were say, part of RC1 but aree not now, they may be a part of later RC albums. The songs just got rearranged to allow for some newer tunes to make it on all the albums evenly as possbile.

Jonk wrote on Fri, 19 January 2007 13:02

Oh wow, awesome! I'm really, really glad you guys like my music; it seriously means a lot to me.

So anyway, I'll go ahead and take a look at my Threed song and see if I can make the introduction better.

Jonk wrote on Fri, 19 January 2007 13:02

Just now caught that. . .

Unfortunately, that's kind of "the" final version that went to the Spokane Falls Community Band. I'll see if I can't get you a live version of it come March, though.

Cool.
What I uploaded was just samplings of the ideas/pieces I had in mind. I shall put your advices to good use, once i get a chance to work on it more. I just got my Wii, so it may be a while.

On that note, How long is RC going on? Do we have a while to get things submitted, or is the 5th album the last of the set? It would be great if it were on-going, but, you're the commander of this ship, Jonk.

Oh cool, I didn't even know I got a badge until I posted
Thanks!

I personally liked my remix of Open Sesame Tofu (the new one), cause it's bouncy sounding

i need a winters quitar tab...

You can submit a song anytime. Rock Candy is always open!

I should note that I am not making comments hoping that other people will make comments (like Jeffman above). This community is about multiple feedback so I want to encourage that!

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