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Hi everyone...this is Aubrey Hodges and I am the original composer for several Quest for Glory titles as well as many others over the last 3 decades. I have recently released the soundtrack for Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness http://aubreyhodges.bandcamp.com/album/quest-for-glory-shadows-of-darkness-official-soundtrack and thought it may be of interest to this site. I would be willing to provide a few of the newly recorded and arranged versions if that is something you would appreciate. I am not really sure if the original composers are supposed to be involved in the site or the remixes as I am new to ocremix. (I found out from a fan who sent me a link to the forum). Almost all of the new versions of the songs included are played with live instruments and are now what I had envisioned when I composed them originally. I do plan to release 3 more of my Sierra titles as well: Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist, Shadows of Yserbius (working on currently), and Robin Hood: Conquests of the Longbow. I have also release a 20th Anniversary Edition of my Doom Playstation Soundtrack that includes a ton of new material, longer tracks with new arrangements and 8 brand new bonus tracks. http://aubreyhodges.bandcamp.com/album/doom-playstation-official-soundtrack-20th-anniversary-extended-edition I sent a message to one of the staff but have not heard back yet. With the deadline approaching so quickly I thought I should post here to try and get an idea of whether or not I should provide a few tracks for this and if so, how exactly to provide them. Thanks for your help and thanks so much for your appreciate and support of game composers! -Aubrey Hodges aubreyhodges.com (info, blog etc.) http://www.aubreyhodges.bandcamp.com (album streaming, sales)

Hi all, This is Andrew from midimusicadventures.com / The QuestStudios Archive. I would have loved to try my hand at making a proper remix to send in for this callout, maybe I'll submit something in the future. Unfortunately, I also only found out about this the other day. I do however have an ancient crappy 'cover' of Erana's Peace I once made a long time ago (early 2004). At the time, I was only first tinkering with and learning to use FruityLoops 3.0 (Which then updated to 4.0 and they changed the name to FL Studio) in an effort to see if I would like it more than an ancient (even then) version of Cakewalk I was using for MIDI compositions/remixes up until that point. I don't think it's up to the standards to be submitted to OCREMIX so, with some trepidation, I have linked it above just for fun. Aubrey's new official soundtrack is much better, we should all listen to that instead. It really is great! I'm glad to see that QuestStudios is still a valued resource for DOS Era adventure game soundtracks. To try and make a long story shorter: The original QuestStudios was an amazing resource for Sierra game soundtracks and MIDI's among many other things. Not terribly long ago that site was hacked, and the backups were also corrupted. The original site owners' Tom and his wife Dianne had decided to retire from the site at that point for a multitude of reasons. I offered to rebuild "The QuestStudios Archive" from my own downloads from the original site and accumulated libraries in an effort to keep that great content, and in my possibly biased opinion, a part of PC Game Music and Internet history, online. With the helpful submissions of some other former QuestStudios site message board members, things are coming along nicely. Though a bit slower than I'd like due mostly to my other life responsibilities. Anyway, I just wanted to say thanks for linking my little site. Also, if anyone has a need for the complete MIDI file soundtracks for QFG1-4 they can been downloaded here. I look forward to seeing what people come up with here! Personally, I love hearing the remixes on the site here where a song's melody is taken to a completely different music genre than the original. ~Andrew

Rock. Welcome, @aubreyhodges! Like Gario said, we always love game composers being involved in the community, giving feedback to arrangements of their music, or submitting their own interpretive arrangements. Since you're here, I'll just extend the callout window another 6 weeks to give people a fair chance to take advantage of you checking in on this. You can host/link anything you like from your work on the Quest for Glory series or PM me what materials you'd like us to host, and we could take care of that!

And since the 10.000 song milestone is reached, I did a small analysis for all the 10032 songs of the Compo Page. I think sources also count, but they are not in the list, as well as submissions which are removed later. The number of votes in the system is currently 4474. Contests % and Year % (PRC had 765 out of 9063 songs). Maximum score in a voting stage: NinjaPenguinDan in this years special Pi Round (PRC314), 46 points. Top 10 Most active remixers (I found myself back at place 79 with 32 entries). Only one name with a recent PRC song: Gercr 1 359 Arcana 2 269 sci 3 227 JH Sounds 4 221 DDRKirby(ISQ) 5 221 Misael.K 6 177 Forty-Two 7 167 johnfn 8 162 gercr 9 154 CJthemusicdude 10 146 Acuity This is what I could make in 15 minutes, if anyone wants to see more just reply and I make more statistics (I might do that anyway).

wacha i like this song, not the lyrics but the fact that i find it's a parody of the rap genre (in a good way) the beat while a little bland in my eyes i can see the rhythm and how it was used. as for my two cents on the whole racial thing. i do not care about the word, it's how you use it. my cousin Vanessa (who is the only family member i love) is married to a black guy and he's awesome and i'm happy to be related to him. my stepfather on the other hand....oh how racist that man is

Convolution reverb generally uses a lot of CPU. Kontakt's convolution is the same way. Just use an external reverb that isn't convolution based!

Get Jukebox, load the rom into it, play a song and mute all but the drum channel so you'll be able to get the sounds with a WAV recorder. Good luck. And welcome to OCR!

Not sure if this is an eval, as the first page isn't updated. I'll give my thoughts on it anyway, 'cause I wanna. I still like SFX (rawr), but Rozo is certainly correct - there's certainly a difference between using just using SFX and using them in a way that makes musical sense. Lots of effects throughout this one, and they're at least rhythmic. Not 100% on their use (there IS an excess of them throughout), but that's mostly a subjective opinion. The ring sound is piercing, though - low pass that sucka. There's a lot of fluctuation in the volume, making the track sound a bit unbalanced. It sounds like you're taking the volume knob and trying to find the correct levels throughout the song, which is unusual. Unless you have a reason to fade out or in (like in anticipation for a drop, or as a transition), I suggest keeping the levels more steady. If you want to humanize the sound by imitating the slightly different volumes that occur when a person hits two or more notes, that's likely better done with the velocity of the instrument rather than the mixer volume. Dat dirty bass, tho. Nice dirty bass. Nice soloing on those leads. Surprisingly good use of the panning. Sometimes the harder panning on the leads when they alternate is a bit distracting, though. I like it, but don't make that pan so hard. Hopefully some of that helps.

Hey there! Welcome to OverClocked ReMix - it's an honor to see you around here! OCR actually has a history with composers in the industry arranging great music for other games, as well as composers arranging their own video game music, so I'm happy to say it's perfectly within the bounds of the site (and it's always a little exciting, too!). If you want to submit something either for Larry's call-out or simply getting your music posted on here for its own sake, the instructions (format, e-mail to send the submission to, general parameters, etc.) can be found here. I'm excited to see what you have in store for us!

Well, Widowmaker is the sexiest smurf to ever wield a sniper rifle.

Just another day as Genji... They were kinda bad though. I'll chalk it up to that "OMG OVERTIME RUSH POINT" but the Hanzo ignored my I'M USING MY ULTIMATE LOOK AT ME cry, the Reinhardt ignored me, the Zarya ignored me and the Mei didn't bother trying to freeze me. Her first ice wall also sort of stopped Hanzo from doing his job.

Oh man, does nobody ever pick sleepy time music for this compo?

This is just how IPS4 does things, vs. vBulletin or even IPB3... presumably there are internal benefits to the unique strings being added to paths, but they wouldn't be apparent to end users or even, necessarily, administrators Thanks - this should now be fixed.

Freaking amazing stuff to all who took part in this! My favorites are probably the Pokemon, Mario Kart, and Undertale mixes. Then again I love the sources of those, so maybe i'm a little biased. But yeah, freaking amazing album

Had this blasting in my car after I got out of work today. Sad to note that the Super Mario Galaxy track is absent but I can understand why it probably was cut. I still need to get to the last couple tracks but it's been great so far. Glad it's finally out, great job! And somehow, I'm not surprised it's DJ Snivy jamming out the Pokemon track.

Awesome! This was one of my favorite Genesis games, thanks to the demo cart including Revenge of Shinobi and getting me hooked on the series. Gonna have some fun with this track for sure.

Some great stuff in there! In addition to track 4 and track 8, track 9 sounds awfully familiar... glad something good came of that! I really like the Final Fantasy V, Mario Kart Wii, and Undertale mixes as well.

About to start panel work on the graphic novel. Here's a promo piece I did before I start. "Welcome Home"

I think I've gotten decent at countering most of the annoying characters. Hate Mei, though.

Where's the "dislike" button...?

Very cool tune, I love the mixed time signatures! Very clean sounding mix!

I play Threes a LOT. This remix is awesome. Really cool electronic take on the jazzier source. Syncopation is KILLER. YES