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Question: The Gate :: Total Votes:55 Poll choices Votes Statistics Yes it is beautiful 18  [32.73%] No It's dull 16  [29.09%] It's ok but would be better with real voices 10  [18.18%] It's nice, not that good 11  [20.00%] Guests cannot vote

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The Bell(end) Group: Members Posts: 1051 Joined: July 2005 Posted: Oct. 04 2005, 16:09 I the 'The Gate' sounds beautiful, I have no predejuices against Mike's use of the vocoloid at all. I truely think it is wonderful. The choir boy effect and the main voice are excellent and the harmony works really well.   -------------- When the night's on fi-ya, do you need love's arms to hold yew? :D Back to top

Sir Mustapha Group: Musicians Posts: 2802 Joined: April 2003 Posted: Oct. 04 2005, 16:18 My vote? 3rd option. My opinions: It definitely would be MUCH better with real voices. As it is, it's ok. BARELY ok. And it depends on my mood: it'll be ok on a good day, atrocious on a bad day. -------------- Check out http://ferniecanto.com.br for all my music, including my latest albums: Don't Stay in the City, Making Amends and Builders of Worlds. Also check my Bandcamp page: http://ferniecanto.bandcamp.com Back to top

hiawatha Group: Members Posts: 2391 Joined: Mar. 2004 Posted: Oct. 04 2005, 16:25 Imagine an album of Cylon love songs. -------------- "In the land of the Dacotahs, Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak-trees, Laugh and leap into the valley." - Song of Hiawatha Back to top

The Bell(end) Group: Members Posts: 1051 Joined: July 2005 Posted: Oct. 04 2005, 16:28 Everytime we touch sang by vocoloid! hehehhe   Damn now I want to hear it........ maybe I'll get vocoloid some day   -------------- When the night's on fi-ya, do you need love's arms to hold yew? :D Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: Oct. 04 2005, 22:43 its absoultly perfect! This song gives me peace! Its just like walking down a gate to a green place and just feel love and good feelings. This is not a bad song at all. Thinking about that mike have done this vocals to robot voices dont mind me at all, since he have on/done them. You know, remixed them to robot voices from beeing human voices. This is mike and i feel that this is hes place!   -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

qjamesfloyd Group: Members Posts: 1349 Joined: April 2001 Posted: Oct. 05 2005, 06:39 The first time i heard it, i thought it was very different, i love the accoustic guitar break in the middle, simple and effective melody. I think Mike has done very well with the virtual vocalists, a lot better than most people were expecting, ok he could have used real vocalists, but Mike likes to try new things, and this is new, nothing wrong with that.If he has used real vocalists, then i guess people would be moaning about the choice of person. Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: Oct. 05 2005, 08:22 Quote (qjamesfloyd @ Oct. 05 2005, 06:39) Mike likes to try new things, and this is new its true! this is something new. This something i nevert have heard before. Thats why this song gives me good feelings. -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

EeToN Group: Members Posts: 845 Joined: Sep. 2001 Posted: Oct. 05 2005, 12:40 The Gate reminds me of David Bedford, particularly his album "The Odyssey". I can't say I love it... -------------- If I were music, I would be Enigmatism. Back to top

Bill Bobaggins Group: Members Posts: 477 Joined: June 2005 Posted: Oct. 05 2005, 19:48 Although I've still not received my CD from Amazon.com, I have listened to the 60-second snippets of all of the songs.  The Gate was the most emotional song for me.  I love it. -------------- Speak friend and enter. Back to top

olracUK Group: Members Posts: 1683 Joined: June 2003 Posted: Oct. 05 2005, 19:52 4th option, not a stand out track for my ears, very little progression or emotional content. each of us hears different things, arrives from a different direction. But from Mikes track description, I do see where he's coming from with this track. -------------- The answer is 42 - but what is the question? Back to top

Tansy Group: Members Posts: 416 Joined: April 2005 Posted: Oct. 06 2005, 04:36 I stand by The Gate! think that it's not for human voices .For me anyway-something really going on there,perhaps my own imagination But loved this track on first hearing,and still do Back to top

Chicular Group: Members Posts: 240 Joined: Sep. 2004 Posted: Oct. 06 2005, 05:13 I like The Gate!  For me i must be a cloth eared nincompoop or something but i've got a feeling if Mike said that all the vocals on this album were sung by real singers rather than vocaloids no-one would dispute it.  It's an inventive track with a nice acoustic guitar bit, wouldn't be out of place on the Millennium Bell. Back to top

bee Group: Members Posts: 1227 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Oct. 06 2005, 18:09 Quote (hiawatha @ Oct. 04 2005, 21:25) Imagine an album of Cylon love songs. Would that be Cylon Dion?! What is Cylon? I adore the Gate. It is deep and strange and I find myself drawn to it. It reminds me of the Buddhists chants that go on for ages and seem to sink down inside you and make you forget where you are. LOVE IT! -------------- ....second to the right and straight on till morning.... You heard me before Yet you hear me again Then I die Till I call me again Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Oct. 07 2005, 09:04 I think it's very beautiful. And also very eerie, with those seemingly endless synthetic chants. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

hiawatha Group: Members Posts: 2391 Joined: Mar. 2004 Posted: Oct. 07 2005, 09:06 Quote (bee @ Oct. 06 2005, 18:09) What is Cylon? Here is a typical old-school Cylon. If it sang, it would likely sound similar to the voice in "Sheba" on QE2: http://star-www.st-and.ac.uk/~srk1/dsa/cylon.jpg Here's a modern Cylon: http://home.arcor.de/lulubaby/tx/cylon.jpg Looking like a lounge-singer, she can probably sing at least as well as the Vocaloid. -------------- "In the land of the Dacotahs, Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak-trees, Laugh and leap into the valley." - Song of Hiawatha Back to top

bee Group: Members Posts: 1227 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Oct. 09 2005, 10:13 Thanks Hiawatha, though I feel none the wiser I do at least have an image in my mind now! Neither look very 'friendly'!!!! Think I'll stick with listening to the Gate. bee -------------- ....second to the right and straight on till morning.... You heard me before Yet you hear me again Then I die Till I call me again Back to top

CuNimb Group: Members Posts: 222 Joined: July 2003 Posted: Oct. 14 2005, 07:19 No! -------------- Happy? ha ha ha.... Back to top

Legend Group: Members Posts: 68 Joined: Oct. 2005 Posted: Oct. 20 2005, 05:42 No thank you, it´s awfull!! And why on "Light"??? Back to top

maria Group: Members Posts: 928 Joined: July 2002 Posted: Oct. 21 2005, 17:16 beautiful? hhmmm.. i can't decide yet... i'm not sure it can become a favourite, but something funny happened to me last time i was playing tr3s lunas. we were in places where there's no music and i decided to listen to 'light' to fill that thick silence.. we were flying up and up and one of the times we stopped to look how far the earth was, 'the gate' was playing and this is how i suddenly saw a virtual singer at least now those strange voices have got sort of face for me   -------------- ...morning and evening i'm flying, i'm dreaming... Back to top

Holger Group: Members Posts: 1506 Joined: Feb. 2003 Posted: Oct. 21 2005, 17:52 Great story, Maria! Back to top

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