[Hylian Lemon]

We've released! See the community thread for links and comments.

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Essence of Lime is an unofficial remix project covering the soundtrack of The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages. Music appearing only in Oracle of Seasons will not be covered...yet. stay tuned

History:
I announced this album as a one-man remix project in May 2008. Hence the citrusy pun on "essence of time." Gradually, people offered their help until the project was finally "officially" opened to other remixers. The project was completed in June 2010.


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[PhiJayy]

This track is awesome. I love the intro strings, and the electronic synthesizers.
Sounds real good.
I'm looking forward to the completion of the project.

[progressive]

Sounds great to me. I looked for the source track at vgmusic and I couldn't find anything about an intro scene. That said, I think the mix becomes very good very quickly, but the strings in the beginning sound pretty synthy against your lush pizzicato strings until the drums and 8-bit bleeps and blips come in. After that, things mesh really well. The arpeggiating square wave that comes in about halfway through seems a bit piercing. Maybe cutting it in and out would add some interest and tone it down? Tempo change near the end was nicely done. Overall, really great stuff.

[Hylian Lemon]

Thanks for the comments! I'll work on that stuff.

In the meantime, I have this youtube video with the intro music in it. Vgmusic does have the first part of the intro (listed under Oracle of Seasons, since it's the same song), but not the rest of the source I included in the remix.

Oracle of Ages intro

[blue.nocturne]

1:11 and 2:17 sounds a tad too loud, it sorta hurts because it's so high pitch. It sounds pretty awesome so far, but I would say to watch the really high pitch square noises, especially the ones that are held for a long time. Also, the flute's tone quality annoys me, it's so prominent but it sounds fake and it could sound a lot better with a better flute. However, I really liked what you have so far, keep it up!

[Hylian Lemon]

All right, new version! You would not believe how hard it is to edge my way onto our laptop (our desktop is waay too old to sustain much Fruity Loops action).

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So what's new?

-Cloned string track a couple times, raised and lowered clones an octave, lowered volumes of the clones (I heard this was a good technique). And I messed with the string velocities a bit in the intro.
-Toned down the high-pitched eardrum raids of the main synth
-Looked for another flute sample for forever, but couldn't find one that sounded good in the song
-Ended up pairing one of the better flutes with the original
-Made flute echoey in the intro
-Added a bit in between the two slowdowns at the end of the song
-Adjusted some instrument volumes, especially the bass

So let me know how it sounds!

[Salluz]

If it's not over yet, I want to be in it.

[Hylian Lemon]

All right, I'm going to send you a message with some more details and guidelines and whatnot.

In other news, I have been busy on my PRC entry this week, but I have gotten some feedback for this track on the irc channel. Once I get back home on July 7th or so, I'll get back to work on this (expect more material in the middle).

[SLyGeN]

Just thought I'd pop in here and say I'm looking forward to a few of the tracks in this game, especially Ambi's Tower.

I *may* have a clarinet player for you, if you want it, but my recording equipment can hardly be considered par.

[Hylian Lemon]

SLyGeN: I'm not sure subpar recording equipment would be worth the effort, but thanks for the offer.

After having received feedback on #ocrwip, I have made some changes, so here we go. Links have been updated.

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Mainly I've added about a minute of new material in the middle. I've also altered the ending a bit because multiple people felt that the tempo shouldn't slow down twice in such close proximity.