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Undertale - ᴅᴇᴛᴇʀᴍɪɴᴀᴛɪᴏɴ (Megalovania Orchestral Remix)


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The MIDI scoops made me giggle some - if you are going to make this arrangement such a drastic style change from the original, you might want to fiddle with taking those out because its not exactly something an "orchestra" would do.  Aesthetic conflicts and all that.  If you are going to slow the tempo down to 154, you might want to try legato endings of staccato (during syncopated sections).

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On 12/15/2015 at 3:20 PM, HankTheSpankTankJankerson said:

The MIDI scoops made me giggle some - if you are going to make this arrangement such a drastic style change from the original, you might want to fiddle with taking those out because its not exactly something an "orchestra" would do.  Aesthetic conflicts and all that.  If you are going to slow the tempo down to 154, you might want to try legato endings of staccato (during syncopated sections).

what's a midi scoop?

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1 hour ago, yuzuki said:

what's a midi scoop?

I believe he's referring to the pitch bends on the main motif, starting at 0:20. It sounds midi - like you just bent the pitch of the notes, rather than sounding like the strings are playing their notes that way. I also can't really picture an orchestra being asked to play that way - I think it would sound more appropriate if you tried emulating grace notes.

Your brass instruments sounds very nasally and unappealing. You might be able to EQ some of the tinniness out of them, but the best solution would be getting better brass sounds.

I think another reason this sounds very midi is because many instruments lack reverb. The chior, percussion, and harp have reverb, but the strings, brass and woodwinds sound very dry, and they also play too cleanly.

Your cymbal sounds weak, it doesn't really have an impact. You could try mixing it louder and giving it a sharper attack.

It also sounds like your mix has lots of mids and lacks bass, and is mixed a bit too quietly in general. But I'm not that experienced of a mixer, so if someone else could confirm this, it'd be nice. Maybe you should add more bass instruments? I don't hear much going on down there except for the timpani.

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oh, i actually threw this together in like 2 days and called it a day, so it wasn't the cleanest work -- it's already out the door and done though, so there won't be any more revisions. i do agree on the banks, and i'm getting better ones this year; these were just stock kontakt sounds and session strings

thanks for the feedback!

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