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Mich
AKA Cimylium for music.
Occasional electronic musician with a synthesizer obsession, programmer by day.

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How Newgrounds changed my life in one year.

Posted by Mich - January 12th, 2009


Today, the 12th of january, I subscribed to Newgrounds one year ago.
This is about how Newgrounds influenced (read: totally changed my life) in one year.

First of all, I'll tell you how I got on Newgrounds.

I got into a game called 'Flashflashrevolution' or 'FFR' in short. My skills at the game improved steadily, so I got to play songs by Cornandbeans. I got really interested in his music after a while, and then I found out he had a profile on that site too. From there he linked to his Newgrounds artist page. So yeah, I went on his newgrounds profile, and found out that he had quite a lot of music on here. I spent hours browsing his tracks and downloading them.

I went on his myspace profile, which said that he uses reason 3 and Fl-studio 7. I got inpired to make music too, since I read that he was actually my age. I had already used FL-studio 6 before, but I sucked majorly at it. So I decided to get my hands on reason after watching some videos about it. Ofcourse I chose the most recent version, number 4.

So then my music production adventure started, I played around with reason, and got to know it a bit. I wrote 'DnBcore', later renamed to 'Cold Revenge'. I had little or no knowledge about music production at that time, so yeah, you can hear it's not that good. I didn't get much feedback on it, as I knew no-one on the site. I wrote another song, 'Absolute waviness', a 5 minute long crappy 'trance' track, even worse than cold revenge in my opinion. Same thing goes, not much response to it.

Then I wrote 'Obsession Of Force'. This is were things changed for me. I started writing it in reason only. At the time of making it, I was also browsing some other artists I had discovered, including Kr1z. I found out that he was tired of the 'zerobombers', and he was about leave NG. He wrote this on his blog. I pm'd him about it, telling him his music was great and he shouldn't just quit because of that, since he had quite a bit of legit fans one here too. He replied that he wasn't going to leave after all, so I replied again, saying I was happy about that, and I also aked his msn. Since he's also Belgian, I could just talk Dutch to him.

Kr1z started giving me advice on writing my song. He told me he uses FL-studio, and he uses this great VST plugin, which most of you audio artists know, Refx Nexus. He showed me some demos of it's capabilities, and I was instantly in love.

So yeah, I still had Fl-studio, and I got myself nexus, and I started writing little pieces for 'Obsession of force' in fl-studio (with Nexus) and then exported them, and added as samples in Reason. The song still sucks though, though I didn't really realize that at the time. It got majorly 0'ed, and I got a bit pissed off about it.

I joined 'TEH 5TEAM', which was founded by Kr1z and F-777. I started really advertising it in reviews and such, and we got quite a bit of new members. It were the 'glory' days of teh 5team. One day, we got a group conversation of 5team people started on msn. It was quite funny, but pretty spammy ofcourse. I decided to add everyone from that conversation to my contacts.

On an unrelated note, I made my song 'Frozen mind', which was my first full song in FL, and it turned out quite nice.

A few days later, one of the people in the 5TEAM group chat started talking to me again. I don't remember how we got to it anymore, but we ended up talking about pretty personal things.,

At this time I started writing 'Twilight to Mydnite', a song decicated to the girl who made that banner up there at my profile. (Mydnite) That song was also my first (and only so far) song that got a weekly best spot, which I was very happy about.

We kept talking as the days passed, and we got really good friends. REALLY good friends, and well, fell in love right around the time I was writing the second part of Twilight to Mydnite, which caused it to be filled with love emotion. (Like in the author comments)

We ended up finally meeting in the summer, which was fantastic. We talked a lot over MSN in the following months. During the holiday season we met again at last.

I played around with FL-studio for months and months, but I never got enough inspiration to finish a whole song. Which might have been a good thing, since I learned loads through all that practice. Kr1z was learning new techniques too, and he told me about them, so when he learned, I did too. My girlfriend taught me some things too, and vice versa. There are also various other people who have influenced me on my music skills. Zenon gave me some really helpful tips for goa. Karco gave me some mastering tips, I read Nav's blog, and many more =)

I also started going to the audio forum, first as a newbie, but ah well :) I got involved in a major audio people chat on msn, including Chronamut, Envy, and another bunch of people. I added most of them to my contacts. So yeah, more people to learn from, You know who you are, how insignificant it may look in your eyes, you're all part of me developing my skills. I started going on that forum more and more, and I really fell in love with the atmosphere there.

Thank you Newgrounds. For turning my life upside-down.

Thanks to this whole year on NG, I found the girl I love, I got to know a whole bunch of new friends and I learned so much about making music. My English greatly improved too, since Dutch is actually my first language.

All because of Newgrounds. Thank you for reading Newgrounds. Thank you for being here for me.


Comments

You're welcome :)

Ge zijt welkom, ventje!

^____^
That doesn't sound right in Dutch :p

Hahaa! Goddamn i wish that that would happen to me. Your story is like a fairytale.

Thanks for reading :D
And I'm so glad it's actually true :)

That is one large wall'o'text. I decided it was much too long to read, so I read the last four sentences there, and I think I got the jist of what it was about. You are very welcome, newgrounds loves all its bastard children and shows them all the support and caring that any drunken, pill popping, racist, closet-homosexual, step-father would show his son. Hope this comment encourages you.

:)
Yeah actually, lots of details, but summarized it.
Thanks for commenting!
(Btw, is it just me or are the forums broken?)

No, thank you. For contributing.

It's my pleasure. :) It's all I can do in return.

Well well.. Brought together by NG? I've had a long distance girlfriend, but it didn't work out for me.. I hope you have better luck.

Maar ik hoop dat je nog wel je Nederlands blijft spreken :D

Yep, by NG, the distance is very hard, but msn is great, and so are webcams.
and it helps when we get to see eachother, it's really lovely then.
You just need to put effort in it. An positive side about the distance is that you actually talk to eachother about EVERYTHING. it's much easier to talk about difficult subjects over msn, since you're shy less easliy then.

En Ja, dat Nederlands zal ik er niet uitkrijgen denk ik, al vind ik Engels een veel leukere taal :p

I'm in need of a TL;DR :D

Well, you deserved your username :p
I got to know my girlfriend, because of a team we formed, against zerovoting.

I learned loads of music things by loads of people.
I became an audio forum regular.
and I got a LOT better at music.
And my english improved greatly.

Yaaaay! ^_^

wooo!

OMG it's a bigass post! Seriously, dude, happy NG birthday. ;D

Thank you :D
Did you even read it ? :3

Haha, I remember teh 5 team...good times...

In the beginning yeah :p lol.
It kinda failed after a while ^^

Heartwarming :)

indeed. :)
There don't only have to be those big 'I'm leaving' stories.
This is a story of great events, because of NEwgrounds.
And it's true ^_^

I just joined today, on the 12th too! Hopefully something amazing can happen to me too! Anyways, congrats.

Thank you! :D
Enjoy your stay at Newgrounds, I hope it brings good things to you too :)

Wow your birthday is a day earlier than mine.
YOU OLD MAN!

We should totally party :D

Haha yeah ^^ XD

Wow dat is echt een mooi verhaal. Kon ik maar echte goed muziek maken. Maar hey ik begin flash te maken dus muziek hoef niet op dit moment. maar als het niet voor newgrounds was had ik nooit een soort van muziek gemaakt en nieuwe vrienden ontmoet. En gefiliciteert met jou verloofde!

Well i hope that sounds right in dutch. :P

It actually sounds pretty much allright :D
You do notice it's not your native language though :p

Just keep practicing btw, you'll get there :)

Glad to hear it.

Glad to hear at least one guy has a good story along with Newgrounds? :)

Thank for commenting :)

Awesome man! I never knew the details of everything.. but wow.. crazy awesome stuff there!

Happy One Year!

And keep makin those crazy good tunes and such too... you've definitely come a long way really quick.

Thank you very much man :)

hard boiled butts

sounds painful.

Hmm... Newgrounds heeft een hoger aantal nederlands sprekende mensen dan ik dacht.
Nogal awesome te lezen hoe je leven zo verandert is in een jaar. Fuck, ik ben nog maar een aantal maanden actief maar nu al ben ik bezig met hele vette dingen.

Op het tweede jaar, gij zuiderbuur :P

Danku :p
hmmm Iemand van Nederland dat 'gij' zegt? :p Cool. ^^

Well Done, I wish NG could change things for me too, but nobody ever talks to me :/

Then talk to others yourself :) Get involved in the community, don't be scared to pm artists.

HAPPY NEWGROUNDS BIRTHDAY BROTHER!!!

Im really happy for you man, you cant imagine it, this post was really touching and I think it made a lot of us reflection on how newgrounds, this little community of amazingly talented artists, has influenced on us, probably you dont know but you have also influenced on my life a lot (more than you think) and Im very thankful to you for that.

You're a great friend Mich ^^

Keep that way and you will become the happiest man on earth.

Peace!

I think I already am :)
I'm glad I influenced you, you influenced me too :)

I can only agree :D

Peace!

Pretty sad man.....

Not exactly.

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