DS10Forum.com Compilation #2 - A Journey Through Space

[HarleyLikesMusic]

Words cannot describe, so please listen.
Thankyou everyone who helped and contributed!

http://www.archive.org/details/Ds10foru ... roughSpace

Harleyx

[DS-10 Dominator]

a beauty!

[Rock Kandy]

I
Must download once i get home

[AnthonySeeha]

Listening through it right now. I'm really enjoying it so far. =)

[HarleyLikesMusic]

Looks like there will be an update to the comp soon because of a late coming track.
The track for Mars i have just been sent is actually amazing so it deserves to be on so i will update it after work, although no more late additions after this sorry.

[Decktonic]

So much awesome on this comp.

[Geolm]

Thank you everyone for this compilation, amazing tracks And by the way, I like the artwork.

[HarleyLikesMusic]

DONE !
Post wherever people

[kloudygirl]

every track is awesome! soooo proud to be in this! much luv goin out 2 everyone!! this comp rips a hole thru space....there i said it ^-^

[ChrisLody]

Yes!

I'm grabbing this right now. I know what's going to be in my mp3 player tomorrow at work...

[Syscrusher]

I'm listening at the gym tomorrow!

[motone]

Nice compilation, indeed.

But there is one thing that really bothers me: Some tracks are compressed to death, especially the tracks "Our Moon", "Stellar", "Proxima Centauri Hijinx Ratatat", "Twilight Zone" and "The Stars" have an unbelievable dynamic range of 3dB and less! There's a lot of awful distortion in there.

Don't get me wrong, the music itself is really great, but the audio quality is f++ked up!

Please, for the sake of listening pleasure, have a look at the following webpages:
http://brianstagg.co.uk/p_t_a_clipressed/
http://www.pleasurizemusic.com/

Here's a tool to calculate the dynamic range of your music (Windows only, but also works with "wine"):
http://www.dynamicrange.de/sites/defaul ... 201_4a.zip

Thank you!

[ChrisLody]

http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2011/01 ... urney.html

[Rock Kandy]

I dont know jack about that stuff ^-^
as long as its on my ipod and i my ears
can stand it. its good

[Geolm]

Agreed with monotone, the loudness war must stop ! But I think that the korg ds-10 himself tend to compress the signal, I never was able to saturate even if the volume is very high...

[motone]

Here's the DR-Meter log for this album (FYI):

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 Analyzed folder: DS10Forum - A Journey Through Space
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 DR   	   Peak     	   RMS      	 Filename
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 DR6	  -0.00 dB	  -8.07 dB	 01 A Journey Through Space
 DR6	   over    	 -7.26 dB	 02 Telescape
 DR5	   over    	 -7.27 dB	 03 Our Sun
 DR5	  -0.00 dB	  -8.15 dB	 04 Mercury
 DR8	  -0.00 dB	  -9.89 dB	 05 Venus
 DR3	   over    	 -4.75 dB	 06 Our Moon
 DR8	   over    	 -9.17 dB	 07 Earth
 DR7	   over    	 -9.57 dB	 08 Phobos
 DR7	  -0.00 dB	  -9.19 dB	 08 Mars
 DR10	 -0.00 dB	 -11.00 dB	 09 Orbit Decay (Requiem for Phobos)
 DR6	  -0.00 dB	  -8.34 dB	 10 Asteroid Belt
 DR9	  -0.06 dB	 -12.66 dB	 11 Jupiters Wave of Destruction
 DR8	  -0.00 dB	 -10.08 dB	 12 Saturn
 DR8	  -0.02 dB	 -10.23 dB	 13 Far Away From View
 DR7	  -0.22 dB	  -8.08 dB	 14 Haumea
 DR3	   over    	 -5.35 dB	 15 Stellar
 DR3	  -0.00 dB	  -3.90 dB	 16 Proxima Centauri Hijinx Ratatat
 DR8	  -0.05 dB	 -10.36 dB	 17 Milky Way
 DR5	   over    	 -5.69 dB	 18 Neptune
 DR2	  -0.00 dB	  -3.34 dB	 19 Twilight Zone
 DR3	   over    	 -6.43 dB	 20 The Stars
 DR6	  -0.00 dB	  -9.25 dB	 21 Pulsar Navigator
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 Number of files:    22
 Official DR value:  DR6
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[DS-10 Dominator]

It's funny that you bring up this discussion cause I'm very much against the loudness war as well. I never use 'maximizers', and maybe just a tiny bit of compressing or limiting on my master in my Ableton Live music projects. But in DS-10 there is constantly 'saturating' (analog modelled compressing/limiting) going on when your instrument peaks. I don't feel like in The Stars this is a problem though, it's supposed to sound like that. Though it's important to understand that you get a clearer mix out of DS-10 by putting down all the volume sliders.

[motone]

I don't feel like in The Stars this is a problem though, it's supposed to sound like that.

Mmmmkay...

Though it's important to understand that you get a clearer mix out of DS-10 by putting down all the volume sliders.

Indeed.

Maybe next time we should agree on a certain volume level (RMS). Tracks that exceed this value should be lowered in volume to have a balanced volume level on the whole compilation. Just my 2 ct.

[WMRhapsodies]

Oh man, I'm so happy of being finally there!...Thanks again Harley and all contributors and sorry for being late. Can't wait to this evening to listen at it properly!.

[DS-10 Dominator]

I don't feel like in The Stars this is a problem though, it's supposed to sound like that.

Mmmmkay...

Though it's important to understand that you get a clearer mix out of DS-10 by putting down all the volume sliders.

Indeed.

Maybe next time we should agree on a certain volume level (RMS). Tracks that exceed this value should be lowered in volume to have a balanced volume level on the whole compilation. Just my 2 ct.

Maybe you're right and my track could have been a bit softer. But I mean it's not like music HAS to be unsaturated... Giving every instrument its own place in the mix is most important. I do agree my track is a little too loud on this comp, the volumes are not 100% balanced. But I can't blame Harley for that, I know that it took me a week of tweaking to get that right on the last comp. Now I'm wondering why I didn't look for some automatic tool do to this? Or it would be good to upload one tracks as a volume reference next time. Let's see how we can arrange this better for comp 3.

Most important is that we have nice tracks again !