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I'll talk with DragonAvenger and see if we can do anything cool for December Reviews month.

I'd re-touch Sins of the Syndicate if I were to sub it to something like this, and I'd probably rewrite the string parts to do something of my own, just since I'd have time to do it. If I did that, then bLiNd wouldn't actually be on the album, which would be a shame. None of the tracks are actually in a state that I want to submit yet, though, and I do not give permission to include any of my songs as they currently stand.

^ I am impressed by your remarks you should're in the panel of judges with technical musician words you are a person with experience Mr. timaeus

Alright everyone, we are at our 4th deadline. I'll be checking in with everyone on the album to see where everyone's progress is. Also, We have our Second Song for the Album Completed, by Malcos !!!! Keep up the good work everyone, and let's see this album to completion !

No worries, Yoshi. Okay, so, unforeseen circumstances gave me some time to suggest a list of strong candidates for a proposed OCRI package (which, remember, has lower standards than mixpost standards)! After listening back over the mixes, and based on what I believe would fall under that category, I've made an unorganized and then organized list below (no hate towards anyone whom I didn't pick out of the 92 tracks!). In parentheses are reservations or concerns I have about production and/or arrangement. PRELIMINARY UNORGANIZED LIST (IN THE GENERAL ORDER OF THE ROUNDS) - 'Rolling' - evktalo feat. Jorito & Tuberz McGee (check sibilance of vocals, consider reduction of washiness on the reverb for the rhythm guitars, and maybe lower the overall volume a bit; also, 2:17 sounds disjointed from what came before, IMO, so try figuring out a transition, including changing some notes around) - 'Electric Moves & Cephalod Grooves' - SuperiorX (check the volume and upper treble EQ of the lead at 0:53 - 1:19 and other spots where it shows up; also, maybe think of an ending, but not crucial) - 'Firefly' - Sir_NutS feat. Usa (would be nice if the volume was simply a few dB quieter overall, and could use a bit more clarity in the vocoded vocals though not crucial) - 'Bounce Too High' - Ivan Hakštok (check for slight boominess from the bass) - 'MMMDop' - WillRock - 'Beetle Dopplerganger' - jnWake (consider a bit more of an assertive lead at 1:12 - 1:32, and at 1:43 - 2:06; I might be able to give a hand on this, btw ; also, try putting more variation in the rhythm guitar patterns) - 'Caffeine Shoveling Hunter Turtloids' - Ghetto Lee Lewis feat. Jason Covenant & WillRock (try lowering the upper treble on the lead at 0:15 - 0:44; also, consider reducing the amount of reverb on the vocals and padding, as well as lowering the overall volume a touch) - 'X's Demise' - pu_freak - 'Sins of the Syndicate' - Flexstyle feat. bLiNd (could be quieter by about 3~5 dB, but that's about it) TBD - 'Vector Point Engineering Sigma Fortress' - Jason Covenant feat. Ghetto Lee Lewis & WillRock (perhaps look into the vocal clarity, specifically the sibilant and fricative syllables. Also, extend the tail of the ending!) - 'Mind Flip' - timaeus222 (already revised for more variation on the second half and more polished mixing! ) - 'Requiem for a Reploid' - Usa (consider looking back over the MIDI CC automations, and lowering the overall volume by about 3~5 dB) - 'Red Shifting Drift' - Gario (maybe try lowering the reverb a little) - 'Flight of the Peacock' - timaeus222 - 'Gate's Secret Dream Lab' - Usa - 'Beautiful Bloody Bats' - fxsnowy (perhaps consider asking for a live saxophone player, because it's pretty hard to humanize a sax) PRELIMINARY ORGANIZED LIST (BY PERCEIVED ENERGY LEVEL OR ATMOSPHERE) Aggressive/Otherwise High-Energy: - 'Rolling' - evktalo feat. Jorito & Tuberz McGee - 'Firefly' - Sir_NutS feat. Usa - 'MMMDop' - WillRock - 'Vector Point Engineering Sigma Fortress' - Jason Covenant feat. Ghetto Lee Lewis & WillRock - 'Sins of the Syndicate' - Flexstyle feat. bLiNd TBD - 'Caffeine Shoveling Hunter Turtloids' - Ghetto Lee Lewis feat. Jason Covenant & WillRock - 'Mind Flip' - timaeus222 Middle-Ground/Groove-laden: - 'Electric Moves & Cephalod Grooves' - SuperiorX - 'Bounce Too High' - Ivan Hakštok - 'Beetle Dopplerganger' - jnWake - 'Red Shifting Drift' - Gario Mellow/Chill-ish: - 'X's Demise' - pu_freak - 'Requiem for a Reploid' - Usa - 'Flight of the Peacock' - timaeus222 - 'Gate's Secret Dream Lab' - Usa - 'Beautiful Bloody Bats' - fxsnowy PRELIMINARY ORGANIZED LIST (AS PROPOSED TRACKLIST) Disc 1 (0:33:39) 1. MMMDop - WillRock 2. Electric Moves & Cephalopod Grooves - SuperiorX 3. Beetle Dopplerganger - jnWake 4. Rolling - evktalo feat. Jorito & Tuberz McGee 5. Caffeine Shoveling Hunter Turtloids - Ghetto Lee Lewis feat. Jason Covenant & WillRock 6. Beautiful Bloody Bats - fxsnowy 7. Requiem for a Reploid - Usa 8. X's Demise - pu_freak Disc 2 (0:28:54) 1. Bounce Too High - Ivan Hakštok 2. Flight of the Peacock - timaeus222 3. TBD 4. Firefly - Sir_NutS feat. Usa 5. Red Shifting Drift - Gario 6. Mind Flip~ - timaeus222 7. Vector Point Engineering Sigma Fortress - Jason Covenant feat. Ghetto Lee Lewis & WillRock 8. Gate's Secret Dream Lab - Usa ENERGETICS STATISTICS Overall Selection ~ 7 High-Energy 4 Middle-Ground 5 Mellow Disc 1 ~ 3 High-Energy 2 Middle-Ground 3 Mellow Disc 2 ~ 4 High-Energy 2 Middle-Ground 2 Mellow PRELIMINARY RESULTANT PROPOSED ARTIST LIST bLiNd? evktalo Flexstyle TBD fxsnowy Gario Ghetto Lee Lewis Jason Covenant jnWake Jorito pu_freak Sir_NutS SuperiorX timaeus222 Tuberz McGee Usa WillRock

Here's a great site where you can get a well scanned of the original. https://archive.org/details/principlesoforch00rims The author died 107 years ago so don't worry too much for the "free" stuff.

Throwing my hat into the mix, if no one else has suggested it, purchase/download a book that details orchestration techniques and practice. Half of getting orchestral music on a DAW to sound realistic is the knowledge of what an instrument can do, or how instruments are used idiomatically. The best sample libraries, for example, won't tell you when a downstroke will typically be performed in a string section, or how the woodwinds will breathe with a particular phrase, but they WILL supply you with better tools to emulate these techniques and sounds, when you do know. Snappleman is definitely right in the regard that proper use of the samples is key, and learning orchestration technique helps dramatically in that regard. Rimsky-Korsakov's "Principles of Orchestration" is a well known classic, in this regard, if you want a place to start.

So much hype!

that filter sweep tho

I also want to thank everyone for participating, and—more importantly—I want to thank everyone for making this a drama-free compo. Usually there's at least one instance of someone being a total poop, whining about how people are voting or complaining about other teams'/artists' music. This time around, we had none of that. Everyone was a good sport and supportive of each other. I'm glad that people had fun and were able to learn things and grow as artists. Also, just to reiterate something I said a few weeks ago: if you're planning on submitting tracks you made for the SFRG to OCR, please include a source breakdown for the judges' benefit. I'd also like to suggest someone (not me) maybe organize an album project using select tracks from this competition. There's a lot of insanely good music that came out of the SFRG, and I think that a pretty good package could be put together and dropped as a proper album (as opposed to the standard archival release I put out of compos). Give artists maybe a week or two to make any necessary revisions, gather updated and remastered WAVs, etc. I can put together some album art too, and we can drop this as an OCRI release.