All Activity

Dang, it's been like three and a half years since I posted here. I must be getting old.

Drumming simulation VSTs can take a lot of memory for sure. Ugritone is the same way - I often bounce/freeze/render these kinds of VSTs for memory purposes.

The beat is for sure. I was tapping my foot along the whole time. The vocals were clear and easy to understand which is a huge plus for me when it comes to rap. I liked this arrangement of Bloody Tears, great remix!

What an interesting intro! I don't I've seen anyone get credits for crowd chants before, that's super cool! The remix itself is a foot tapper for sure. Equal parts chill and powerful, with some excellent guitar work to boot!

I felt a chill, and not just because it is overcast this morning, this remix definitely fits the vibe of a cold location. The bells sparkle and shimmer in the airspace like snowflakes slowly making their way down to earth. The percussion of this remix is definitely a stand out, super crispy and prominent enough to be impactful. Excellent remix!

You can't go wrong when the remix starts off with such a killer bass groove. This remix oozed cool and was an absolute delight to listen to. I like the tempo shift near the end. Excellent remix!

i tried that one out after reading about it in your post, and it's quite good. it has a rather hifi sound that works well in contrast with the age old vanilla addictive drums 1 that i still use. i got the basic drum expansion plus the grit and yamz pack. so, 90 bucks for a lot of possible combinations. these aren't the most articulate and fine grained dynamic drums, the packs are pretty small (just 300 mb on the grit drums e.g.). old AD1 has way more dynamic range for subtle ghost hits and stuff. but they sound plain good, and are suitable for harder hitting rock/metal stuff that AD1 vanilla doesn't do well. so between the two, i feel i got all the drums i need now! it does seem though like ML Drums is crashing FL Studio when you try to export audio with it. that's pretty bad :P

hm, lotsa bots frequenting OCR these days huh? the thread view has gone to over 300, but only 23 soundcloud listens. any opinions? i've found that i'll ditch or re-write the intro (less metal from the start). it's gotta be 4:30 or 5 minutes long in the end...still some work. kinda worn out on it now, but i'll pick it back up. i hope :) i think there's high potential to do more interesting funk/metal fusion stuff.

It took me quite a while, but as of a couple of years ago, I BELIEVE I've gotten all of your song identifications here entered into the database. From one data nerd to another, I can't express enough how much I appreciated your thorough work in identifying all of these themes being referenced. :-)

No need to stretch a vote out here -- I'm on the side of "gotta be more substantial." This could probably work if the genre execution was better, but as it is, you've got a lifeless drum kit paired with a too-simple piano and some tasty bass that could stand to be a little more featured. For lo-fi hip hop (or boom-bap, for the old heads in the room), you need to execute your drums, bass, and the tone of your instruments very precisely. With the sharp, reverb'd shaker, the extra-crispy-and-dry snare, and the lack of anything resembling dynamics, this misses the mark. Gotta add some more realism and probably don't let it sound so very quantized...a J Dilla-style beat would have a lot more "humanity" to it in small imperfections in timing. Shaker with all the reverb contrasts poorly with the rest of the drum kit, and all of it sounds too "crispy," aka there's too much high end there. Saturation and low-pass filters are your friend here. Also, playing with more than just a few drum samples throughout will help. Get us some variety in sounds...remember that a lot of old hip hop music sampled MULTIPLE drum loops that would appear at different times in the song, creating more timbres to work with. You're on the right track with those vinyl-sampled tom fills -- if you can get that kind of texture on more of your drums, you'll be on the right track. For mixing, the piano as-is can work, but genre-wise it's probably better to add some low-pass filtering to it to soften it up. Making the performance more dynamic would also help, since right now everything sounds quantized to grid and to velocity. Bass was decent but not featured prominently enough for the genre. This one should come back with more dynamics, better drum processing and wider variety of sounds, and an overall tone that feels less crispy and more dusty (less high end frequencies in key areas). You'll be helped by embellishing the arrangement as well...don't just make it the same throughout but add some variation to the themes, maybe do some call and response with the piano and another instrument. NO (resubmit)

Happy Mother's Day (I hope everyone had a good one). Despite having some plans on incorporating "Bloody Tears" (I consider it a VGM classic with a great melody) into one of my own remixes, I decided to listen to this track after Larry posted about it. I feel the Rap portion covers Alucard's story well and is a nice gift for the occasion. While I've never been a fan of Trap music personally (especially when done by amateurs), I found the arrangement strong and distinct for a source that's been remixed plenty (not saying that's a bad thing, especially in this case). Over all, good job.

Sampled Bryan Fury's ending theme from Tekken 4 aaand this was the end result.

Reharmonization :)

Thank you! That was one of my favorites as well. I did a bit of a harmonic trick in the middle where I used the same melody with different chords, and it felt like a new key. Still don't know what to call that technique today. :-)

Looking forward to the great work you guys will bring! :-) Honestly, I did feel the same way about the Evaluators' position - this is a great change.

Pretty heavy stuff, and while I admit screamo isn't my cup of tea and sometimes the music was louder than the vocals, altogether this felt like a solid ReMix. Really liked the violin for the time it was there.

Sexy sax, clean electric guitar and oozing with triumphant 80's energy, this is an awesome arrangement. Loved this one.

What did you think? Post your opinion of this ReMix.

Ah, I loved making this! The tradeoffs from one key to another was my personal favorite part to write. I also think that this ReMix more-or-less defines my go-to sound palette today! I didn't look at any other songs for sound design inspiration in this case. I kept the sound design inspiration internal to what made sense for this ReMix.

Interesting idea for an album. I would be interested in joining...now just gotta think which song to remix

I think he meant the shift into the solo having a change in tempo made it seem like the solo (regardless of instrument) came out of nowhere. But I understand that it can be read like that as well. --- I actually love this style you found for yourself, with a funky synth/guitar palette. Also love to see more Goemon ReMixes on the site. I have one in the pipeline from 2016. :-)

It's completely experimental and generic sounding I suppose but it was fun to make lol

What did you think? Post your opinion of this ReMix.

DarkeSword just moved the post (Thank you!!) We had some others show interest - I do have the Lunar Panic mix mostly done, I'll be doing some touch-ups, fixing the ending and submitting it. I'll likely move a lot of the status updates to the projects/albums discord channel.

i've recently downloaded zxtune on android, and it has similar functionality. i've found lots of cool japanese arcade game osts on obscure FM synth chips since. just by randomly going through the archives while taking a walk. basically stuff that's reminiscent of the streets of rage sound. i haven't had a cellphone for a while, but i borrowed this fat clunky one from my dad that he bought specifically for watching youtube. it has this big integrated loudspeaker. it's perfect for blasting your vicinity with blaring chiptunes XD i can see myself annoying a lot of folks when i go travelling in the summer, hehe. going on walks with an app like this is perfect for finding new interesting OSTs. when i'm at home, i tend to only listen to the old stuff i know already, if at all. and i agree, these apps are great, it's like digging for gold nuggets. there's so much trash in these archives, but when you find a nugget it's so fun. it goes for game OSTs as well as chip musician archives. there should be a random radio play feature in there. something that randomly draws the next tune from the big archive lists.