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I'm really tempted to get Another World, maybe Outcast and The Longest Journey too. There's a lot of cool-looking games on there that I may or may not get at some point in the future because these sales aren't as huge and I don't really have any money to spare :/

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I was a little disappointed by this, to be honest. I like the drums a lot but there isn't a whole lot going on top of that. The piano is at times feels little exposed (like there isn't anything to help it carry the tension in some parts), more or less goes through the melody of the original a couple of times with some little additions here and there and then that's it. I mostly just felt like this came and went without an overall arrangement arc, and it really feels like it should've been longer. There's some impressive sequencing (or what I assume to be sequencing) and it's a difficult source, sure, but I kinda wanted more

I used to not like this mix way back when and I really have no idea why. I've listened to it many times since then. It's so delicately arranged, and every choice that's made throughout is thoughtful and deliberate. That is very, very hard to do, and requires a lot of sensitivity and attention to detail. People could learn a lot about how to arrange something with genuine feeling and a sense of purpose (especially with a very limited set of sounds) by listening to this guy's two mixes.

I'd say this has a good chance of making it on OCR. It's only the timing issues/performance issues that might be brought up as a factor. I think they're fine because the things you're playing are technically difficult and there's a whole lot of charm in your playing, but that might hold some people back. The slight medleyitis is cleared up by the end, when you've done a lot more of your own interpretation, so I don't think that's an issue. Maybe the mixing is a bit rough, but I think it works just fine for the style of mix. Good luck!

This is totally fuckin' spazzed out, even for you! Nice job dude!

I think you went just a little crazy with the bitcrusher and the compression. It's an interesting sound, and it can work really well. Just be aware that like...you're going to be really messing the sound up even more the more stuff you add to it. I think I'd tone down the compression and filtering/resonance effects on the initial synth that comes in (the growling higher pitched one) so it can be a little more of a textural thing. The synth you have the melody playing works well. And I mean, it's a sylistic decision anyway, but the more you add instruments and try to push them in the front of the mix, the more they're fighting for space in the mix, and the more you're going to clutter up everything and make into a garbled mess. You need some stuff in the background to add texture and offset the major things happening in the front of the mix. So please think about that.

I wish I still had the gbs for this so I could check the source. I'm gonna wing it here. The distorted, chorused, reverby synth you have is cool but it's not a good thing to pick for a lead because of how distantly it's mixed, and it's also very very quantized right now. And I mean, it's a synth, so being quantized is ok, but it at least needs something else in the arrangement to offset the focus from it so it doesn't sound so stuff. You need some counterpoint going on to do this. Some synth sweeps, arpeggios, whatever you want. Just things to add overall texture and help the mix feel like it's building up to something. Also your percussion is not awful but I really would add a couple more layers if I were you, it's a bit barebones right now. Keep at it!

There's not much here yet but what you have so far sounds good. I agree about the bell sound, it's a tiny bit out of sync and it doesn't mix in great texturally with what you have. I suppose you could mix it differently, or you could opt for a different sound (like a darker keyboard sound or something along those lines). I wouldn't just take it out, though, since the juxtaposition of it doing the melody and what's going on in the guitars is interesting even if a tiny bit rough.

The way you change between the original key (which sounds like a sample of the original) and your own version of it with the sparkly pads is very jarring. It's not necessarily a bad thing, just pointing it out. This sounds like a backing track right now. The melody doesn't even ever come in, it just loops the intro progression with some hip-hopish backing over and over. I don't know if you wanted to do more with this or not, but if you were going to submit it to OCR you'd have to probably integrate the melody and make a whole lot of additions to make it an overall arrangement and not just a basic groove.

You could really count it either way, but you'd probably count it as 6/8 just to make it easier to count, yes.

I gave the song a listen and I agree with this. I'd just count the whole thing in 6/4 but I suppose it is easier to switch 6/8 for that second little section.

Some very obvious ones: Super Mario Land - Birabuto Kingdom (level 1) (and also the rest of the soundtrack) Kirby's Dreamland - Float Islands (and the whole soundtrack) Wario Land - Water music

I would totally do this if my old computer was still working :/

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Hiroki Kikuta, Alexander Brandon and Grant Kirkhope (and I've also played Solar Winds and Jill of the Jungle before so I won't leave the other guy out). Awesome.

This whole thing is totally silly. This is like the people who complained about vocals being in remixes. It's the silliest thing in the world. I thought that everclear hangover mix was totally dumb, but that had nothing to do with the swearing. This is directed at A Ron: If you're going to personally crusade against all vulgar rap (something that is completely ubiquitous in today's culture), fine. But randomly singling out a random artist on OCR, of all places, seems quite strange. There are many different kinds of rap out there. Some people are inevitably going to do things that you don't like. I'm not part of the "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it" school, but I think you at least have to know how to express your opinion in an eloquent manner and then concentrate your energies on something positive. Arbitrarily crusading against something you don't like (and on OCR, where there's only a few rap songs?) and then getting a persecution complex about it just makes things 100 times worse. It makes it into everyone vs. you, which is what this thread is now, and I hate this kind of crap.

Such a great soundtrack. The intro section is obviously in 4/4 and when the drums come in towards the end it's in 4/4. That leads me to believe the whole thing is in 4/4 and it's just extremely difficult to tell because the organ's phrases aren't following the beat and neither are the strings before the drums come in. I counted in 4 from the beginning of that section until the drums come in and it matched up perfectly, so I think that's what's happening. That reminds me, Dracula's Overture from CV3 is in 11/4:

There's a bunch of crazyass NES prog in weird time signatures. I can't even think of anything but the Contra thing that CHz mentioned at the moment though. here's one that came to mind: this is entirely in 6/8 (or 3/4) with the exception of a bar in the intro that adds a couple beats and then skips a couple about 5 seconds later (so it technically stays in 6/8 I suppose), but all the rhythmic interplay makes it seem way way more complicated than that. also this one from star ocean 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE1g5F2T7BI first phrase has 12 beats (first bar 7, second bar 5), second phrase has 14 (first bar 8, second bar 6), third has 18 (first bar 8, two bars of 5) and then the fourth phrase has 12 (two bars of 6). then that repeats once, then the second section is entirely in 6/8. Then there's a bar of 5/8 and then a part with harp arpeggios that's 20 beats, divided into 11 and 9. I like how this one sounds, it's kind of arhythmic except for that second section.

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