ORC103 - Not The Last Starfighter - RESULTS!

[analoq]

RESULTS:

ladies and gentleman, the votes are in:

6. avaris - Space Parade (7)
5. andyjane - Solar (8 )
5. hbpencil - lunacy (8 )
4. Rayza - Awesome Song Great Job (10)

3. Nutritious - Cosmic Drifting (14)
2. S|r Nuts - Stellar Blast (17)
1. Cyan - The galaxy is at peace (22)

many thanks to all of you, this round of ORC was a huge success !

congratulations to Cyan, please send in your original music to Doulifee within the next couple weeks.
i've been in contact with Rexy and we feel it is best for everyone to delay ORC an additional week so that ORC and PRC can run opposite to each other like they used to.


go here to view all the votes (link at bottom):
http://compo.thasauce.net/rounds/view/ORC103




Source Material:

long ago, a friend of mine was learning to use Visual Basic. he made this delightfully crappy space shooter and asked me to write background music for it. the idea of writing video game music doesn't thrill me, but it was fun to make a Gradius-style piece of music. this is pretty much the last MIDI file i made before i started releasing music in mp3, it's about seven years old!

analoq - Star Fighter: MIDI (http://compo.thasauce.net/files/materials/ORC103_starfighter.mid)

Deadline:

8:00pm PST, 11:00pm EST on May 4th, 2007.

Rules:

Use as much or as little of the source material as you like.
But use it!
Be as conservative or interpretive as you like.
But voters won't appreciate rips!
Have fun.
No whining!


thanks, cheers, and good luck !

[andyjayne]

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Cool :D

Source is good for this kind of thing too - prominent melody parts and a few different sections to work with. Maybe it's just because it's called starfighter but it does remind me of some early 2D PC shooters.

[Cyan]

Hey, cool source. I think I'll come up with something this time. Too bad I've been out of ORC the last couple of rounds.

[chrono26]

i'm back in this time...hopefully. nice source, mister.

[Rayza]

DONE!

http://www.box.net/shared/18l2soxe3l

[Sir_NutS]

analoq is running this now? coolio :D I wouldn't mind if douli of you handled it, you're both awesome.

I don't have time at all to do compos anymore... but hell, it's analoq, I'll take a break and do this.

[Doulifée]

just this orc. analoq want to test the thasauce compo system :smile:

[analoq]

i'm like Aunt Flo, i just come around now and then to shake things up.

http://www.box.net/shared/18l2soxe3l
hah! eligible, though. go submit it (http://compo.thasauce.net/rounds/view/ORC103)

edit: you know, i've been listening to this on loop for the last 10 minutes. damn gorgeous vocals, what are they from?

cheers.

[Radiowar]

hmm i think i will try

[Rayza]

edit: you know, i've been listening to this on loop for the last 10 minutes. damn gorgeous vocals, what are they from?

cheers.

Kate Lesing 2 from VIPZone.. Autotuned to hell (not my doing..)

[avaris]

Submitted my entry awesome source tune. :nicework:

EDIT: http://compo.thasauce.net/files/avaris_-_Space_Parade(ORC103).mp3

[analoq]

sweet!

also, you guys don't need to put ORC103 in your entry title. the system will take care of that for you. and you can link to your entries from c:TS here if you like.

cheers.

[Cyan]

I'm working on a mix in 70's synth -style (I've been listening to Kraftwerk a bit too much, I suppose), seems to turn out well. Not finished yet, though.

[analoq]

you think you can listen to too much Kraftwerk? you are a disgrace to electronic music. get the fuck out.

kidding aside, i'm looking forward to it! ORC needs more electro. (:

[Sir_NutS]

you think you can listen to too much Kraftwerk? you are a disgrace to electronic music. get the fuck out.

kidding aside, i'm looking forward to it! ORC needs more electro. (:

There's never enough kraftwerk.

My entry is almost finished (4 minutes or so done) I'll try to finish it this week. If I don't get to finish it I guess I'll have to submit the wip as a bonus mix.

It sounded tight though.

[analoq]

no prob, you still have till friday night to enter. plenty of time to finish something, even if you hadn't started yet.

entries! entries! entries! entries!

show me your love !

[Alex Smith]

I'm going to throw something together just for you analoq <3

[andyjayne]

I am going to see how much I can get done in 30-45 minutes, if I get anything substantial I'll submit it even if I think it sucks.

[analoq]

^^^ that's the right attitude.

any of you guys study improvisation before? "The only wrong note is the one you don't play."

the only way to lose a compo is not to participate !

[Cyan]

My entry _should_ be ready by tomorrow ... I hope. :)

[Nutritious]

Put this together in a couple of days. The original made me think of those classic space opera tunes, so I thought I'd try and emulate that. My first submission of music for anything :)

http://compo.thasauce.net/files/Nutritious_-_Cosmic_Drifting(ORC103).mp3

[analoq]

nice, nice.

as for the rest of you, you've got less than 24 hours to get your entries in. check out my sig for a wicked countdown!

[Alex Smith]

check out my sig for a wicked countdown!

Hey, what am minute! It changes - it actually counts down! Wow, I'm impressed :D

Good stuff. Will be submitting soon.

[Sir_NutS]

http://compo.thasauce.net/files/Sir_NutS_-_Stellar_Blast(ORC103).mp3

As promised.

[Cyan]

Got home from work now, and it's about time to finish this sucker before deadline.

[Alex Smith]

Is a minute and a half too short?

[Cyan]

Heeey, I thought the deadline was now? I must have been fooled by the timezones.. According to analoq's counter it's still time left ;o

Didn't make a mastering becouse I thought it was too late, would it be okay if I delete my entry, do some masteringwork and upload the track again?

[analoq]

Hey, what am minute! It changes - it actually counts down! Wow, I'm impressed :D
you're not playing with kids here, this is analoq! (:

and yeah, a minute & a half is fine. go submit it.

Heeey, I thought the deadline was now? I must have been fooled by the timezones.. According to analoq's counter it's still time left ;o

Didn't make a mastering becouse I thought it was too late, would it be okay if I delete my entry, do some masteringwork and upload the track again?

sure. if you're logged in, you should be able to delete your own entry and resubmit it with no problems.

[Cyan]

Cool. Did a quick mastering, and resubmitted now.

And the link:

http://compo.thasauce.net/files/Cyan_-_The_galaxy_is_at_peace(ORC103).mp3

[Sir_NutS]

yeah.. speaking about mastering... mine was pure crap but I didn't have much time to mess around with that, sorry!

btw I like the upload thingy.

[Radiowar]

kinda wanted to try this but couldn't get to record properly in time...
i'll see if i can get a tolerable recording of something in an hour

[analoq]

if andyjane could do it, i'm sure you could to.

Xela were you going to enter yours? we're in the red, time's almost up.

[Radiowar]

submitted mine...it isn't exactly what i had hoped and it is pretty rough but there it is

http://compo.thasauce.net/files/hbpencil_-_lunacy(ORC103).mp3

[analoq]

voting period has started. no more entries will be accepted.

go here to vote:
http://compo.thasauce.net/rounds/view/ORC103

see the first post in this thread for more information.
great entries, guys !

Remixers: you can vote and you are encouraged to vote for yourself. just don't forget about giving a 2nd and 3rd place (:

[Alex Smith]

Bollocks .

[andyjayne]

I'm going to take a listen and vote now. I'll try and explain stuff in that reasoning textbox.

[andyjayne]

Okay I've found something very annoying with the voting page. Once I've clicked the flash player to stream I have to set my focus on another tab before I can type in the Reasoning text-box as otherwise the keys I type are controlling that flash player. Is there any way to sort this out (possibly disable hot-keys within the flash player)?

Cheers

Edit: Oh and I've voted. Really like how you can see who has voted.

[avaris]

Yeah I'm def liking how you can see who voted. Good idea.

Also on my entry I swear it's playing at a lower tempo when I stream it off of the webpage...I don't know it's the same time and all but it obviously sounds slower. Could it be that my mp3 is 4800 instead of 4100 and the streaming player only plays files at 4100. Hence it is playing it slower because is playing a different sample rate than normally intended?

Besides that crap lots of good entries dudes.:grin:

[analoq]

Once I've clicked the flash player to stream I have to set my focus on another tab before I can type in the Reasoning text-box
the hotkeys don't interfere for me on FireFox or Safari, but i've disabled them anyways. hope that helps your issue.

Could it be that my mp3 is 4800 instead of 4100 and the streaming player only plays files at 4100
yup. it's a known-issue beyond my control. you should always use 44.1 anyway; mp3 codecs are optimized for it. you may actually lessen the quality of your music by using 48. send me your mix in 44.1 and i'll remedy this quickly.

cheers.

[avaris]

Here's the linkage

http://swallace21.googlepages.com/avaris_-_ORC103_space_parade.mp3

Thanks dude

[analoq]

taken care of. apologies for not noticing it before the polls opened.

[andyjayne]

Just re-listened to it and it does sound better than when I listened to it, my votes and criticisms stay the same though.

[avaris]

It's cool guys, the best part is now I know to stop ripping mp3's at 4800.:tomatoface:

[analoq]

we're in the red, last call for votes!

get 'em in, get 'em in!

[Hemophiliac]

i voted, good luck all

[analoq]

results are up! see first post or go here:

http://compo.thasauce.net/rounds/view/ORC103

view all the votes here:

http://compo.thasauce.net/votes/index/ORC103

good job, guys! hopefully i'll see you in 2 weeks.

[andyjayne]

Cheers for the feedback all.

[Bundeslang]

Looks like I missed voting completely. Lucky we have enough votes, so I will listen to the songs now.

[Sir_NutS]

Nice work cyan. See you all in the next comp! (hopefully)

[avaris]

There were def lots of good entries hb pencil's was awesome but the recording quality kinda ruined it for me. It was cool to see someone take the source in that direction. Thanks for all the feedback.

[Cyan]

Nice. Thanx for the feedback, everybody who voted. I'll send my song to doulife ASAP.