I, too, have a MIDI keyboard running through my sound card on my computer.  It makes your life that much easier, being able to play something and know exactly what it will sound like, using the instruments available to you on your computer.

I would be happy to help any way I can, though my music theory knowledge is extensive enough to know all the major, minor, 7ths, diminished, sus4, and augmented chords/scales off hand, that alone hasn't been enough to let me create any masterpieces yet.  
I suppose my largest obstacle is lack of direction: I never have incentive to finish a project, nor do I have a goal to work towards.  My life lacks inspiration, and that is what I seek more than anything.

My abilties on any musical instrument, including keyboard, are limited.  I can play the trumpet with limited proficiency, but I don't even have one anymore.  I can play basic music on keyboard (melody on right hand, chords on left hand).  I can play the "A" section (the better-known part) of Beethoven's "Fur Elise" without much difficulty, but anything any harder than that, and I get into trouble, having never taken formal music/instrument lessons.  Everything I've done, aside from trumpet playing, which I did in my high school band, has been self-taught.

I'm no music master, but I do have a passion for it.  I know what sounds good, I know what doesn't.  I can tell whether a piece of music fits its' purpose, and I can respect any budding musician or composer, of anything to a powerful rock song, to a moving orchestral piece.  I love music with story and emotion, and I would give anything to write something like that.

I won't pretend to be an expert, but I'd be happy to help whenever I can.  I have some knowledge of MIDI, digital audio production, music theory, some digital audio software, audio cutting/mixing, but I have much to learn about advanced musical arrangement, advanced musical structure, and I need a new computer :

As for microphones, I DO have a USB interface mic, but I can't guarantee that MSN will recognize it.  Seems like only half of my programs will recognize it, since it doesn't plug into my sound card directly.  We can try though

As for gorgeous titles for musical projects: I've never been strong when it came to naming my work.  That is certainly a valuable skill

About a month ago or so, I left a LBT wallpaper on my computer's desktop, when a few of my close friends came over to my house for the night, just to play games/hang out.  now, let me first say that these two guys have been my best, most understanding, supportive friends all throughout high school, and even right now.  

Anyways, when my friends arrived, they looked at my wallpaper, and just gave me this....look:  :blink:  -  <_<

It wasn't a big deal, but it was just funny.  Then they started joking with me about "I see you have a soft spot, :" just jokingly.  
Whereas my other friend just got up and asked what the hell that was doing on my desktop; non-threatening, but just the idea that I knew he couldn't respect it for what it was.

In my experience, my female friends have been much more accepting when it came to my interest in the LBT series, than my male friends, who just think i'm nutz

So I'm just wondering, what have your experiences been when your good friends learned of your strong interest in the LBT Series?  Have they "converted" to enjoying it as well?  Have they accepted it, ridiculed you, abandoned you?  How has LBT been when it came to your real-world (non-online) friends?

Please - that's beyond my expertize :

I hadn't noticed the flaw in "When you're Big" so far.

I've uploaded onto my webspace, the track off the CD, "When You're Big" with the off-sync.

http://www.angelfire.com/az3/action9000/lbt.html

Notice, especially in the section with the "la la la la"s sung by Hyp's gang, that the accompanying singers consistantly begin singing their lines prematurely, especially on the last two "la la la la"s.  Another line that is sung too fast, is the background repeat of "Duckfeet too".  These errors are Not present in the original movie, LBT 3, mind you they are very minor.  However I think the movie's "take" of the song was better.
Another difference between this track and the original LBT 3 version: The very last note (the word "Biiiiig", sung by Hyp) is Not held on the CD version.  In the movie, it is held for a couple of bars, whereas on the CD version, it is released after a beat or so.  Just some minor differences.

Some other tracks from the CD, such as "Peaceful Valley" are clearly straight out of the original movie soundtrack, as they are complete with the sound effects and other voices, which is interesting.

I'm 19, turning 20 in July.

Spike ate them  
 

I wondered the same thing myself; all I can figure is that they were temporarily under the care of Mr. Threehorn and his family, due to the fact that the Twin's real family (who must be a family friend of Cera's family) was unavailable at the time.  The Twins were returned to their family, who possibly also reside in the Great Valley, and that family is simply never seen in a later LBT movie.

However, the serious contradiction to this is when the Gang is chasing after the twins on the way to Saurus Rock.  Prior to crossing the gorge, Cera nervously says to herself: "The things I do for family..."
Meaning that, either
1) Cera, deep down, considers the twins family even if they are not.
2) They truly are family, which shoots down my theory.

If it is #2 above, then possibly they are cousins or distant relatives of Cera's family, who, like I mentioned above, were temporarily unavailable, and asked Cera's family to babysit them for awhile.

Just my 2-3 cents.

Welcome action9000. (Gee I can't pinpoint where you came up with that. A few of us are pretty obvious, but you've stumped me.)

I suppose I owe you an explanation

I first came up with the name "Action Man" as a little kid, perhaps 6 or 7; who was sort of a sci-fi superhero with tons of money and awesome technology, who flew around space, participating in races, fighting evil, all that good stuff

Anywho, I eventually had to give his vehicles names, and I ended up using 9 as the model numbers, with the 9000 being the newest model.

When I was about 12, I discovered that Hasbro toys had recently created a character with the same name, Action Man
http://www.actionman.com/

and that really made me mad, since I used to use "Action Man" or simply "Action" as my screen name, and people were Constantly bugging me about my reference to the stupid (in my biased opinion.  If anyone here is an AM fan, I mean no offense, just stating how I felt) toy.  I attempted to convince people that I came up with the name well before Hasbro ever used it, but, of course are dumb

Anywho, I decided to apply the old model number into my screen name, to cover up the "Action Man", where my new name is derived from.  Hence, Action9000 was born.

lol,
Out of curiosity, how many of you guys have recorded many/all of the songs from the LBT series.  I have all but, I think, one - which I simply forgot to record during my mass-recording session last week...I'll get on that sometime,  if I feel like it.  


Mr. Thicknose's song, near the end of LBT 8, when he's singing about how he still has things to learn...completely forgot to record it, though I didn't think it was that great of a song anyway  :

http://www.angelfire.com/az3/action9000/lbt.html

hehehe

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So annoying!

I'm not sure if anyone has answered the "So annoying" debate yet, but
Sue from LBT X says "I hate those things, don't you?  So annoying when they nibble on your foot."
when she stomps on the Bog monster, shortly after littlefoot is about to jump into its' mouth.  Could this be the line you're referring to?