*NO* Chrono Trigger 'Black Night'

[djpretzel]

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Hello there. Still here, still trying to get one of my piano arrangements up
there.

In the slight rare chance you guys forgot me (of course you didn't...)

Remixer: Blak_Omen
Remix Title: Chrono Trigger - Black Night
Original Song: Chrono Trigger - At The Bottom Of Night
Email: darketernal_13@hotmail.com
Remix at:

Comments: I was going through all the Chrono Trigger remixes at Overclocked
the other day, and I noticed everybody seemed to love Zeal or Schala and
favoured a dance/trance feel. I decided to join kLuTz and submit a piano
remix of an uncovered (?) song which I really liked (I was surprised this
one wasn't done already). I took a lot of artistic creativity with this one
(or so some say) - the dissonance IS deliberate in places, yes, the rhythms
may be wrong, whatever - this was my interpretation and nothing more or
nothing less. I was going for a sorrowful feel throughout the piece
so...uh....enjoy.

Please, please get through! I'm preparing for weeks of tense waiting.

Thank yer kindly.

[Malcos]

This is a good arrangement, and I do like the dissonance (as always). I thought that some sustain was needed occasionally, as some sections felt quite dry. In addition, it was played a little too straight, too on the beat. This could have done with some more humanity methinks.

NO

[Disco Dan]

it was played a little too straight

Probably sequenced, actually, as it sounds VERY mechanical with little to no sustain on the notes. Makes it sound very artificial. Lose the player-piano sound and add some realistic sustain, and we've got a winner. For now:

NO

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[Israfel]

Yeah, I'm with the others here. Sequencing piano is some hard work, but unless you're doing a Conlon Nancarrow impersonation (yea! for obscure references! :P ), then you really have to take the time and humanize.

I think you tried to do some things in that regard, but it still sounds a bit too mechanical to pass.

NO

[analoq]

i like the arrangement, flows more smoothly than the last track we heard from you. the mechanical sequencing was already described 3 different ways, but here's a 4th anyways: it's woody sounding, there's not a noticable sustain* going off and on in the phrasing. and, try some reverb with a long tail, that will give this mix some of the depth it needs and help cover up the not-so-good piano samples.

no

*if sustain wasn't part of your artistic vision, that's fine too. but at least try the long tail reverb?