*NO* Mega Man 4 'Drill Salsafied'

[djpretzel]

name: Disposer
songtitle: Drill Salsafied
style: Salsa
e-mail eb_disposer@hotmail.com
location:
original game: Megaman IV
theme song: Drill Man

enjoy ~Dis

[Malcos]

Nice stuff. Could have been taken up another level had it been busier at certain intervals, but this is definitely a

YES

[m68030]

It makes me sad that trumpets generally sound like such crap if they are
not real. So far, just a few seconds into this track it's a neat little
arrangement, but there are some instrument quality issues that are really
killing it for me... if a few of those lead trumpet lines were replaced with
something that wasn't suffering from bad midi patchitus I'd give this a
yes, but right now those few moments are just killing an otherwise killer
little latin track. I just don't think it's fair to let something that has such
fun potential get away with something that can be fixed.

You can drive a car with shit smeared on the windsheild, but why not
do something about it?

NO

[Vig]

hmm....borderlineage. there is great percussion, and the arrangement is solid. but it is awfully repetitive for a fairly short song, and the lead patches (trumpet mainly, but sax as well) are bad.

i think with a better lead, i would probably give this a YES, but for now, it's a NO[/b]

[Disco Dan]

ok so the horns aren't THAT bad. But let's change the title, mmkay? It's not salsa. More Merengue, if anything. Salsa is much slower and laid back.

Anwyay, some of the horn blasts sound pretty nice. Actually, the thing I think needs more work is the percussion. Find some nicer conga samples (they're pretty easy to locate (much more so than, say, strings)), and listen to other examples in the merengue style to get an idea of how the percussion is arranged in this genre. Listening to salsa won't do you much good in this instance because you'd have to slow the piece down to like 66% speed and rework most of the instrumentation. Stick with merengue, it's working for you. Also, you may want to try to uncrowd some of the instrumentation. Latin jazz is all about dissonance, but they're all about clean dissonance, not just "hey let's all just play what feels right in this section and it'll sound cool and jazzy 'cause we're misunderstood, etc." Not that this is THAT bad in the crowded department, it could just use some cleaning up. I think.... Either way, in its current state:

NO

[Protricity]

Its just too much of the original melody repeating over and over.

I like the variations. Very nice, but the arrangement as a whole is following the original way too closely.

Secondly, the sample set might need some updating. The drums and instruments sounded very GM and thin.

The drums never changed much.

NO