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voted. That was one of the tougher votes. Nevertheless, it's worth the effort when I score a 5 entry round Thanks guys!

Hey everyone, we're likely changing the album field for all of the individual OC ReMixes to just "ocremix.org" -- without http:// or our recent change to https://. It would potentially future-proof that field vs other eventual prefix changes to the website URL, although we haven't had that many in the first place. Here's where I need your feedback: are there any services/programs where you think our discoverability would be negatively affected by making this change to just "ocremix.org" as the album title? As far as I can tell, there aren't many services like Last.fm that people use anymore, and some scrobbling-style services won't even display full website URLs as album titles. I can't think of any compelling reason not to change it, but if you have one, please let me know.

Meh, decided to extend the vote now before I forget. So Wednesday April 1st at 11PM Night it is now.

Welcome to the Voting Stage! There are 5 entries this round. There is 1 Bonus entry this round There IS a voter bonus this round. HoboKa has a vote worth 2x, since previous winner did not pick this round's source. Don't vote for Bonus entries please. Participants may not vote for themselves. Vote ends April 2nd Thursday (Pacific) at 11PM. Vote here https://compo.thasauce.net/rounds/view/MnP111

I voted! And there was no white screen of doom! Please tell me my vote went through.

Seems like a fine desicion to me

I sent my vote in. Really had to think about this....

As did I!

In case you’re not perfect at transcribing tunes to midi already: I’ve always had the best results relying purely on ear, trying to transcribe parts of any given tune that I really fancied, but once I get something I like I just more or less roll with it. It’s good exercise: rewarding on the one hand to nail a difficult part verbatim once in a while, but it’s also possible to turn a couple mistakes into a happy accident combo and get something derivative but highly original, if you’re lucky. there’s many many ways to tackle creative arranging, but this is probably the best short balanced advice I can think of for someone learning the ropes: don’t use midi, train your ear, but don’t aim for perfection unless you really want to, instead see if whatever mistakes you might make can be turned into a virtue. it’s sort of a jazz staple, only not in real time. Poor man’s Jazz if ya will!

yes! i have always wanted this. that way in iTunes i can just press "o" and it jumps directly to the album. ...not that itunes is really a relevant thing anymore

Seems like a reasonable decision to me. No one ever types out the http(s) anyway lmao

Results time TheVideoGamer submitted a bonus song. Trism got 15 points, not enough to avoid the the last place wooden spoon And the winner of PRC405 is PlanarianHugger with 17 points!!. PlanarianHugger, you are the winner and may pick a source for PRC407. Send the source to me (with a MID/MP3 file, otherwise send a second source with a MID file) by PM, other options are PM me @ ThaSauce or by e-mailing to bambombim@gmail.com (I prefer a PM @Ocremix). Send your sources as fast as you can, but before next Wednesday (8 April 2020), 11:00 AM ThaSauce time (18:00 UTC, 19:00 GMT). You may select any source from any game, but not a source with an OverClocked remix or a source which has been used in PRC before. An overview of the past PRC's can be found in the following links (I recently updated this site): http://sites.google.com/site/bambombim/prc http://bambombim.googlepages.com/PRCRemixList.doc (also downloadable via the link above). http://compo.thasauce.net/rounds/view/prc405 for the votes and comments. PRC406 already started:

Ah well, Planarian won anyway (and rightly so!) so it doesn't matter to much.

A few things that work very well for me: I only take the lead stuff (melodies) from the source track and forget about the rest (e.g. chord progressions, basslines, etc.). Up-front I usually already have an idea for the genre/style I want to do, and I usually try to push myself to try new things and make the genre different from what the source track uses (e.g. make an orchestral Megaman track in stead of a more stereotypical rock arrangement) Arrangement structure is flexible; why stick with the exact structure that the source uses? No problem in turning the B section into a verse section, the C version into a chorus and use the A section as a solo, for example. In general, I write like 8-16 bars and then think "okay, I can either go more intense or less intense from here", make a judgement call based on that, and just run with it. Try to make it an organic part of your process and just treat it as an original, I guess (there's a reason I call my remixes "originals with stolen melodies"). Hope this helps some.