Meteo Xavier

I'd love to try this, but I have an ambient album to complete, two books to try and fanagle into publishing, plus work on the SD3 remix album on top of life itself. I will literally die of music if I tried. Sounds like fun though and I'll definitely be watching how it turns out.

Well, if you want, you could still use that ending section to your advantage by starting a brand new one right as all the sound is gone. Thats what a little of these orchestral types do and you can get it so that it ends there.

Oh come on, a comeback like mine only comes along once in a blood red moon.

Does Destiny still post and remix around here? Those two Seiken Densetsu remixes she did are why I'm here and I'd love to hear more.

Well, it won't stand as a real professional orchestral deal, but I think its finished as is. The strings in particular are excellently done and I'd love to trade you on what you used and how you used them.

I had a dream last night where I got to breastfeed a child. You want some of that, too?

Well thats one mild reason why not to call it, it'll probably just be redirect hell. I haven't seen a phone number on any questionably legit form that has ever been helpful in any way.

Ok, that article made two fatal mistakes: 1. It killed my ISP and made me restart. 2. Failed with a capital PH to mention Elec Man Stage and R.E.M. "All The Right Friends"

Bleck's an asshole, don't pay attention to him. Anyway, Prelude, which is a famous Final Fantasy signature song, straddles the line between orchestral and new age. It is usually in C Major and one of the few songs I can think of where the song focuses on the arpeggiation as the melody. My recommendation: Track down the opening song from FFXII. Not only is it the best version of the song, it also adds in the best version of PROLOGUE, another signature Final Fantasy song. Youtube it and go from there, you'll recognize it. The only other song I can think of that focuses on a similar arpeggiation is "HYMN" (Piano Original) by Moby.

One of these days I'm going to go back and repolish the sound mixing and structures until it sounds as good as it should. Do I have to resubmit it to the judge's table from there or will they let me switch it out for whats up now?

1. It's a really bad idea to call a number from a document that is extremely speculative at best and flat-out fake at worst (or middle). 2. This is worth looking into because a lot of people in the video game communities were looking forward to Crimson Echoes, so much so that a lot of video game websites are reporting this to a fairly wide degree. This clearly is not just a little deal here. An episode like this has all the potential to be a stepping stone towards serious ramifications towards the ROM hacking community and, subsequently, the video game fan communities. Legitimate or not, a lot of other developers and industry bigs catch on to this news too and then if they wonder if their shit is being hacked and released... well, it only takes one domino to knock down thousands of others. Thats how things in this business tend to work. And thats if its legitimate. If its not, whether you and ZeaLity are part of it or not, its a large enough thing, IMO, that someone needs to answer for it to the communities, especially if these ramifications can still happen, and they can. There's just way too many weird things in play with this scenario to call it clean and leave it alone. That's why we're all wondering if its legit.

I'll do it, so help me God.

This little story of ours got fucked up pretty quickly, didn't it? (Suddenly, the idea of using Temporal Flux to make a ROM hack based on this wild episode forms tastily in the mind. Then Meteo remembers he doesn't have Temporal Flux anymore and is sad. )

I knew there was something I was forgetting, course I would wonder, if this is legit, if they wouldn't do that anyway.

Anyone feel ambitious enough to start an investigation team? Edit: Hmm.... if I email Square-Enix and inquire, and it turns out they DIDN'T know anything about it until I mention it specifically, wouldn't that bring it to their attention anyway? Edit II: But... wait, the project's already "dead" so what does it hurt to poke a dead man? I'm totally going to do this..

You really need to post this in Workshop ~ ReMixes. But one of the mods will move that for you.

Thats a pretty good indicator, to me, that he was really wanting something out of it, like nerd fame or whatever its called. To be fair, he likely didn't expect it to take so long, and wanted to drum up interest to: A: Build that positive energy from well-wishers to continue working on it. B: Build a fanbase that, if someone drops out, would be willing to help pick up the slack and find a replacement. Its more likely, though, that it was an oversight and ego thing.

Like I say, I'm not saying thats what he did, I'm just saying its thoroughly plausible based on that letter (which I agree with Darkesword is poorly written) and what I've heard about him so far. You don't put that time and energy into a project unless you expect to really get something out of it, and if the insecurity that you wasted all that time and life creeps in, it'll build a nest, then a hive, and then it takes over to fabricate a reason to not to work on this accursed project and junk whats left so as not to remind yourself how much you gave for nothing. Now, back on topic, did Zeality junk the project? Could he hand the project off to someone else to finish and anonymously release it to the community from there?

The stress of working on a huge project for years and years can make you do all kinds of things that don't make sense. Not saying he did, I'm just saying I can definitely see his position in doing that.

Lord.... that could've been me.

Ok, sounds good.

I'm confused, what do you need album art for again? Sorry, I'm just kinda lost in your text, there.

My advice: If you're not looking to be that serious into this, don't even start. This sounds curt, but there's a reason for this. $100, even in the video game remixing corner of the music world, will not get you far at all. That could buy you the drum machine version of FLStudio. Don't even bother pirating either, thats time and energy and computer resources all wasted by the end. And even if you had even 15x the budget, it would still take you roughly 2-5 years to learn how to remix and mix and master properly, depending on your innate talent. And even after, the chances that you'll be able to put that hard-earned skill to use beyond getting a Super Metroid mix across the Judges Table is so infantisimal (spellt right?) I cannot, in any good conscious, tell you. Remixing and music making is a LOT of fun, but its also very addicting and for all you need to invest to do it right and only maybe have something come out of it.... well, you're better off doing something else.

I've never taken drugs.

Well, I['m going to sign up for this bitch now while I have time and enough room to build some cred.