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Oh how I love Nostalvania's weird time signature jazz work. Really natural variations with a super smooth bass line makes this a chill af listen that is perfectly reminiscent of the artist's style.

Man, this is some good-ass Jazz-ass! Seriously though, you just have this excellent understanding of jazz partwriting. It's so good.

Absolutely love Nostalvania's style, this is definitely gonna be on my playlist for quite some time!

Since I finally removed all Adobe Flash from my computers over security concerns, I've been unable to use the streaming previews via the embedded YouTube box. Going directly to YouTube works just fine since I can use their HTML5 viewer. Embedding YouTube via a Flash <object> like OC ReMix does has been deprecated for over a year now. Could we get this upgraded to use the preferred <iframe> embedding which supports HTML5 viewing while falling back to Flash? Thanks!

Yeah, same issue for me, too. I kind of like the system, though, so if it's not fixed by next week I suggest people who are participants for that week to vote for their own track. It balances out as long as both people vote, and as an unexpected bonus it punishes a few people who don't vote (participants who don't vote miss that point they give themselves), pushing out at least a few votes. That's good for compos like this. My two cents.

both the MS store credit and the game are gone. i am, however, continuing to debate selling my music workstation. it's an older i7 (8 cores @3ghz) and 16gb DDR3 ram, with a couple TB of storage and a discrete graphics card for multi-monitor setups, in a really over-large rackmount case. it still handles large projects pretty easily, thanks to the huge amount of cores and the excellent i7 architecture, but would get blow up by any current i7 on the market. i could sell it within driving distance of rochester ny for probably 400$ OBO, or shipped for 50-100 more (i'd need a new case for it) plus shipping, likely around 30-40$ for a system of this size. i'd be amenable to trades as well, since it's just taking up space and i don't have any sunken investment in it. it is, however, way more computer than you could ever get for 400ish$, so if you're interested, let me know and we can talk it out. edit: forgot to mention that this is basically a perfect slave machine if you want to get into that kind of setup. tons of cpu power, no fancy extra crap.

I'm also having a problem with voting. Mine isn't going through because I don't see the numbers change after I vote.

Thanks for the advice I did changes after them, there might still be too much high frequencies in the synth.

Interesting matchups for Round 2 (Jorito vs. WarMachine? Yoooo!) -- I finally found a way to remix my two sources, it's going to be something really unique.

Mostly true, but I must defend my honor on one note, my good sir *sips tea* =p 0:50 - 1:05 uses the organ melody from Crystal Tears (1:31 - 1:52). So I didn't entirely slap 'em <EDIT> back to back till the last minute. Just...mostly. T_T

The end of Hoboka's track actually incorporated both sources quite well, so here's to giving credit where it's due. The first few minutes did just sound like butting two sources together, though, which isn't a good thing. A shame, since it is produced quite well, overall, and that last minute does some really cool things with both sources. Edit: Mindwanderer ninja edited, catching what I said here on his own, lol.

The "see who voted for this" poll feature doesn't work. It seems to load for half a second, then just collapses. Tried a couple of browsers. Oddly, inspecting the HTML, the popup seems to be loading a bunch of elements that normally belong in the HTML head (title, meta, and link tags). Oh, that's interesting. Didn't realize pasting internal URL's would do that.

I just call it MAGFeast, I mean food is half the reason I look forward to MAGFest.

Nope. Write a song in 980bpm if you want, as long as it sounds good.

Good luck to everyone! I'm looking forward to hearing what gets submitted to this contest

If you mash up VGM with an original song, then if the original song is copyrighted, it is copyright infringement when the mashup has content substantially taken from the original and the mashup is commercially distributed, and still probably copyright infringement even for free distribution. It depends on whether the original's composer saw it and whether he/she acts on it. It's safer to just not distribute it. In terms of OCR standards, when a mashup (or remix or whatever) has content (either musical or directly-ripped usually count) substantially taken from original non-VGM (like Metallica, Paramore, Slipknot, certain folk songs, other mainstream/classical songs, etc), it would be given a NO OVERRIDE. Here is an example:

Haha, I'm 99.99% sure you can submit a mix that used any medium you like - sequenced DAW is just the most accessible for a lot of us.

Interesting, I'm battling against WarMachine with who I collab'ed on a Castlevania song for Vampire Variations 3 My schedule is pretty busy, so it might mean a weekend allnighter. Hope to squeeze out something enjoyable though!

Hah! Just took a quick listen to Aleix's and I'm fairly sure I lost this one. I really had this nifty idea that I was working on with all ukulele stuff but it just wouldn't have been possible to finish it in time. Good show, Aleix!

Wow! This is fantastic! I am loving the way you rearranged this. Excellent stuff!!

Perhaps MJ would've been happier if the music/game was made with arcade limitations in mind (in the same vein of Violent Storm, that is).

Thanks a lot timaeus! The snare only plays at 1:55 - 2:08 and 2:26 - 2:53, for the rest of the track i used the side stick. I'll try to bring it up more. Btw, how do you get more "air" on it? The kick drum? I threw it out of the window No seriously, well yeah it's actually there but i agree, it's too low in the mix. Ok, i think i can narrow the piano a bit. Will check the reverb too. Hm, i think i get what you mean with the bass smearing the intonation, will try to move some of notes to higher registers and see how it sounds. Yes there is a bit reverb on the bass, but i can reduce it, no problem. I actually like the stops/kicks there, and IMO it gives the following swing part a bigger impact. But thanks for the suggestion, maybe i'll try it out, nonetheless.

I wouldn't say this is a super clear-cut NO Override. The Dodge Ball song is based off , but has some original sections to it, which Jordan uses. In fact, there's more usage of the original sections than the Sakura melody:Dodge Ball sections: 0:00-0:15 2:09-2:22 3:35-4:21 5:07-5:21 =88 seconds Sakura sections: 2:39-2:54 3:09-3:35 (with Dodge Ball hook at the end of some phrases) 4:41-5:07 (with Dodge Ball hook at the end of some phrases) =67 seconds I would say that the Dodge Ball song has enough original parts that it is its own song, just like certain songs from the TMNT games that incorporate the TV show theme. If Jordan had shied away or minimized the Sakura melody this would be fine for OCR. But 67 seconds is definitely not an "extremely limited" use of source material not originally from a game. By the way, this song is amazing. NO OVERRIDE

Excellent song. I'm a total sucker for smooth bass, and this song delivers. Good job once again, DJP. For reference, here's the Coors commercial that this song was based on, YouTube'd: