Hahaha I can hear it now. I used to love watching the Mega Man cartoon when I was a kid :grin:

And my song is now finished and subbed, despite my DAW's best attempts to crash and/or lag consistently.

Woohoo done! I hope people like it!

Done and done! I like the final result and I hope you guys will enjoy it.

So briefly going back to the source, it may have split people, but to me it does face ease for me to mix.
Although, if I want to hear the source as an individual song, I'd be better off citing the Powered Up version. If I had noticed sooner I could've involved some of the added backing elements of that version into the mix, but compositionally it's all too late :razz:

It's kind of funny that, after Darke talked about capping the number of participants to make the competition between participants closer, the last few rounds have been very close near the end (this round, there's seven in a pretty close competition).

Yes, it is close right now, but it's hard to tell exactly how close because Rexy changes her votes more often than a Snake Man sheds its skin.

Yes, that's how close the competition is; one minute I'd think "such and such a person should win", the next I'd think completely differently. With orlounge's theory stated above also taken into consideration, you can see how it's been hard for me to pick all week xD

For example, right now my first place vote is standing at Rozovian's entry "Halite". I wasn't really won over by the production techniques when I first listened, so it didn't immediately grab my attention, but the way he handled the sources really grew on me over the course of the week and has resulted in a strong collaboration with the rest of the Mega Ballers. Considering that "Solidity" was my first place vote in Round 3, it tells me something of how Rozovian is plowing through the contest.

And then there's my current second place vote, "Black Alleycat". That was one that grabbed my attention production wise, but I similarly passed over it because I didn't sense enough Shadow Man on my first few listens (then again my familiarity with Mega Man 3 is a bit faint). But I dig the mood with that one, and it should be something for Amphibious to be proud of, a very consistent performer in this contest :)

That's why I waited until the end to vote. There are so many great entries this week that I have been going back and forth all week.

Really? I wait until the end because I'm buzy/lazy.

My votes. Why do I wait until Saturday to vote?

call the fire department
nice sounds but raw sound, hard transitions.

when the moon cries
somewhere between poetry recital and metal-y singing, also long and slow. not my thing. at least it's not voice clips. nice sounds.

which one do i shoot?!
compression bothers me. some generic sounds. scratching and glitches, cool. nice take on gemini, too.

float
i was going for shortest name of the round, u fiend. nice and mellow track. slow and drawn out gets boring after a while. nice sounds, esp. at the end, really like that lead thing.

wily's ruin
more vocals. messy, a little exaggerated, but good attitude.

skull shield
way too hard transitions. good energy. could have had a bigger ending. vocal clip.

a swarm of voxels
really cool sound. getting a tmnt vibe.

halite
three-way collab practice, just in case. terrible intro. annoying ride, and the rest is even worse. whoever made this something something.

black alleycat
i like this intro. nice groove. i like this track. gets a bit old tho, could have changed some more in chords or something.

totally tubular fortress
more 80s. i like the sync/pwm synth.

megaman awesome
hopeful much? cool drums, occasional empty parts, clashing writing. if it doesn't get better before half the track is over... it doesn't. check that your writing doesn't clash... and if it still sounds weird, check that your instruments aren't tuned differently (easy to check on synths, just check the oscillator pitches). tuner plugins are useful for this stuff (I use those for making sure my noise/filter/resonance patches are tuned right, as those don't use oscillator pitch).