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There's a light pop at 1:14, just noting. Yeah, the depth Vinnie was able to give to the soundscape was a significant step up as far as the sound quality. I wouldn't be angry if this version passed. That said, I'm with Emu that the most unrealistically sequenced areas still stick out like a sore thumb. It's still below the bar of realism should make it as far as sequenced piano, as anything with speed or forcefulness here is immediately sounds very fake. I hate to be the bad guy on a direct post candidate that was pulled back, but the touchups on the WAV can't fix significant problems with the sequencing and lack of realism. We don't need million dollar samples OR grand piano recordings, but this still needs a step up. Still a NO.

Yeah, he didn't read it. The standards-related issue was the incorporation of a non-VGM song, and that was the only issue on that level.

Don't have much to say other in following up the others other than nice job giving this a unique style and really making it your own, Forrest. Lots of great creativity and ear candy here. Some people will hate this, and I'll hate them BACK. Welcome aboard! YES

Yep. We'll fix it up with the next update along with some other minor tagging corrections and other higher encodings. Andy, djpretzel already compiled a detailed list of the revisions: http://ocremix.org/info/Torrent_Update_v20121012 For now, those aren't in the plans. We'll see how many WAVs I can pull together over time.

The piano sample in the opening was a bit thin and exposed. The plucked string samples are a Blue Magic trademark at this point, but the quality & realism could really stand to be stepped up by now; not meant to be a shot at Damon, far from it, but IMO they lack of realism was too exposed. I thought the rhythmic alterations here were an interesting concept, though on the first listen, the direction felt VERY scattershot and unfocused. Once I listened to it a second time and was familiar with the structure, that uneasiness went away and I could clearly hear how everything clicked. Great source tune choice, and a cool spin on it for sure. YES

Blue Magic Damon Campbell Website: User ID: 4656 Submission Info: Chrono Cross Song of Ruin part 2 Chronopolis Original song Youtube link: http://youtu.be/OFT6Ox4Wiyc Hey everyone! This is one of my older remixes that I never really bothered to submit before. I was kinda disappointed with the EQing and I decided to wait until I'm a little bit better at mastering before I tried to submit it. I wanted to wait until I got some reviews on my WIP from the mods before I sent it in, but there's not too much action going on in the WIP forums, so I'll just use my own judgement. Its been a long time since I last played CC, but there were a few tunes from the game that really stood out to me and stuck with me throughout the years. So, I'm attempting to create a series of remixes of those particular tracks to pay homage to the creators of this awesome game and soundtrack. Honestly, I'm not even sure what genre this remix would even fit in. I kinda came up with the concept on the fly by mixing a few different styles together. It was more of an experiment than anything, and I was really hesitant on submitting it since I've been having difficulties with my previous submissions. I decided to stick it up on YouTube and Soundcloud to see how people feel about it and I got some pretty positive feedback, so I decided to tweak a few things here and there and send it in. Here goes nothing... Thanks, Damon

Something about the way this is executed just isn't quite clicking, IMO. Which is a shame, because it's clearly a very clever intertwined combination of these 3 themes. It's crazy, because I like the choice of throwback sounds, but after a promising intro, something in the execution was just really, really flat and unexpressive, especially once things kicked up at 1:46. It's certainly difficult to articulate, and I feel like Palpable would probably say what I'd LIKE to say in the best way, with DarkeSword also being able to just call what's not clicking here in four sentences of less. Just some other quick notes, 3:14's section got a bit buzzy and cluttered somehow; not sure what happened there. The Schala lead also sounded flat. I liked the finish at 4:40 though with a much cooler Super Metroid lead, which DID sound more expressive. I'm going to wait for some other points of view to come in on this one; it's a very interesting arrangement approach, but it's just not working for me, and I don't want to say NO until some outside perspective on what's potentially not gelling here. EDIT (11/9): See, what did I tell you? Palp nailed it; I wasn't able to articulate the lack of detail in the sequencing or the repetitiveness of the percussion writing. He's explained the drawbacks well and in detail, Paris, so work on those larger issues, make sure the weaving of the themes clicks completely, and give this another go. It may not pass, but it sincerely worth a shot. NO (resubmit)

Little help? - LT Remixer Name: MasterParis Real Name: Paris Stalker Website: www.facebook.com/ParisMusic www.soundcloud.com/par-5-1 User ID: 46763 Games Arranged: Mega Man II, Super Metroid, Chrono Trigger Name of Arrangement: The Brinstar Bubbles In Schala's Mind Name of Individual Songs Arranged: Bubble Man's Theme, Upper Brinstar, Schala's Theme Comments: I know these songs haven't exactly been short of remixes individually, "Not another Schala's Theme!" is probably one of the things that go through people's minds. I love these games and their music, but I had to do something different to make a ReMix of any of them stand out on their own merits. After spending a lot of time deliberating what goes together, I managed to get these three songs all on one beautiful scale, after I suddenly realised how well Upper Brinstar's bass and strings go with Bubble Man's underlying melody. Schala's theme was just a natural fit after spending a whole day singing various other songs with these two in my head trying to find the final key. Hopefully everyone enjoys it as much as I enjoyed making it! ------------------------------------------------- - Schala's Themehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFDwzQyPRhQ - Brinstar - Plant Overgrowth Area http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G8XQ89risA - Bubble Man Stage

Great source tune choice! The mixing was a bit muddy, and the beat/clap patterns were pretty vanilla and a bit empty-sounding, which both dampened the intended energy here. I recognize that clap pattern as used in DarkeSword's Sonic Adventure 'The Twinkle Park Classic', though it hasn't aged well. The synth lead at :08 was a bit shrill, but as far as positioning, it should have been more upfront compared to the beats/claps. The background string sequencing introduced at 1:24 sounded slightly behind the beat, but it wasn't exposed it a way where that promimently stood out. The sound of it was on the fake/potentially exposed side, but it served a good purpose where it was. There were only brief dropoffs of the beats from 1:19-1:38 & 2:10-2:18; otherwise, they were kind of on auto-pilot and not really energetic enough to withstand the repetition. Some further creative dynamic contrast throughout the piece would have kept things fresher. The switchup at 2:57 was SO MUCH COOLER as far as the instrumentation ideas. The piano sample lacked realism, but otherwise this sounded like a much cooler, more cohesive direction to take the theme, and made for a nice finish. There's potential here, but right now the beats are bland and coasting and the mixing feels like more of the higher frequencies are muted. The arrangement definitely goes in the right direction as far as interpreting the theme, but there's something lacking in the dynamics and mixing so far. Hopefully the other Js can give more targeted feedback that could strengthen this. Personally, I think it would take a significant amount of work to pull this up where it needs to be, but it's very promising for a newcomer, and shows good potential for the future. I hope you won't be discouraged, Shelbi, and will continue learning and improving your music. NO

Remixer name: xTrickyWolfy Real Name: Shelbi Winstead Website: http://www.youtube.com/user/xTrickyWolfy?feature=mhee http://ocremix.org/forums/member.php?u=49772 Name of the game: Sonic the Hedgehog/Sonic Heroes Name of arrangement: Hanging at the Castle Name of individual song: Hang Castle Link to original song: How it was made: The program used to make this track is Mixcraft 5. The song is the bgm for "Hang Castle", from the game Sonic Heroes for the Gamecube. The instruments and different tracks were recorded on the program using an Alesis Q49 Midi Keyboard. I learned this song by ear and has always been one of my favorite video game tracks of all time. I wanted to give it a unique upbeat mood because I don't believe it has been done before. It gives Hang Castle a different feel that soothes me. Maybe others will like it as well.

Starts out pretty conservatively, but quickly adds some original instrumentation at :06. Really love how Zas personalizes the instrumentation at :19. The structure remains the same as the original, but Zas really makes the sound his own, employing loads of instrument variations, herbs and spices. The soundscape was noticeably cluttered/messy from 1:26-1:46, IMO, which was unfortunate. The old-timey muted trumpets at 2:04 were precious, there's no other way to say it. I thought the volume was a bit much compared to my control track, but it wasn't a huge deal, though the swell at 3:21 seemed to clip like a motherfucker. I wouldn't mind some other opinions on the mixing and levels just to verify or smack down my concerns there, but they were minor in the big picture. Ideally, I'd love to see those things touched up, but the call's pretty obvious to me. Lovin' it. YES

This one's a project track from Zas's Seven Years solo album. - LT http://zazmusic.bandcamp.com/track/i-cant-goron-ill-goron Remixer Name: Zas Name of Arrangement: i can't go on (i'll goron) Name of Individual Songs: Goron City (Ocarina of Time) Thanks for your consideration. As always you can leave the links up. ---------------------------------------

The opening didn't actually sound like Bubble Man, and the lyrics initially don't as well; nothing wrong with an original intro; just noting it. I like the overall sound to start, though the vocals immediately sounded too muddy and the timing, while not horrible or anything, was disjointed and behind the beat. I like the tone of the guitar though, and I like what you're going for with the overall sound. Source finally kicked in at :44. Nice handling of the melody vocals at 1:13. The airyness they have sounds sweet, but again, the vocals still sound too muddy and need to sound sharper. You'll need to EQ them so that they're not competing in the same frequency range as the guitars. Hopefully, a musician J can give you detailed advice. The arrangement was sounding a bit repetitive at 1:57; nothing that was a red flag, but there could have been some variation employed in that verse. The dropoff at 2:13 could have been an interesting transition towards the finish, but I felt the bass cameos of the other themes (2:21-2:35) were messy and out of left field with no synnergy; they merely broke the flow of the song without adding anything. Perhaps ice that and throw in a straightforward cameo of the beginning of the Bubble Man theme in. This is in a really good place to get some tweaks and pass. 1) Clean up the mixing so the vocals aren't bleeding into the other instrumentation. 2) Improve of get rid of the bassline stuff from 2:21-2:35, it just sounds out of place. 3) This one was the most minor issue for me, but tighten up the timing some as well. It may bother others more. Otherwise, the arrangement was a pretty solid pass aside from the hiccup at the end. Now the mixing just needs to be tightened up some for the win. Really sounding cool so far, Paragon! I know just getting it evaluated it has taken a while, so hopefully you still have the source files intact, but this is VERY promising and I hope you'll go for tweaking this! NO (resubmit)

Good evening! Got a submission for you. This is a Mega Man 2 rock song featuring synthesized vocals using the Vocaloid software. It was originally a Dwelling of Duels entry, but the mixing has been improved with some outside assistance (who wants to remain nameless, and who encouraged me to submit it to you). I originally wanted to make a wah-heavy "disco-rock" type of song, but somehow I would up making a bouncy little happy grunge number instead. The lyrics are just generic love song tripe which I translated into Japanese (and I don't speak Japanese, so I can't vouch for the accuracy of the translation), so I'm not including them. They really shouldn't be the focus. Artist name: Paragon feat. Hatsune Miku (if you don't want to credit a fictional character with a performance, I understand -- just credit it to Paragon) Song title: This Love is Involuntary Game: Mega Man 2 Source song: Bubble Man's stage (along with bonus snippets of other MM2 songs in the bass interludes) Thanks! ---------------------------------------------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G8XQ89risA

Can't help but get a proud papa bear kind of feel listening to this. :'-) I'm certainly not djpretzel, but having been an OCR fan for 10 years and a judge for 8, hearing the skill and grace of the collaboration between Mansoor and Sabrina just fills me with a sense of pride for both them and how far this community has come. It's amazing to hear the diversity and talent of artists like these on a regular basis. Beautiful work.

Sheer elegance.

One of my personal favorite mixes throughout his whole musical career, and that's saying something, because he has so many unique pieces. Just when you think you've heard it all from Chris... amazing.

Dayum. http://www.businessinsider.com/disney-buys-lucasfilm-for-4-billion-2012-10 http://youtu.be/YyqlTi7lkhY Disney seems to take care of their franchises, and the Marvel Comics purchase has worked out great so far, IMO. But Scott Bloom on the Tweeter had a fun question: Can't say I'm hyped about Star Wars: Episode VII personally, but it'll make bank, let's not waste time assuming otherwise. So how are you guys feeling about this major acquisition?

Sorry for the wait on this one; I held it in order to give this the fairest look at the arrangement that I could alongside your breakdown. I didn't quite agree with some of the most liberal aspects of the arrangement counting as overt source usage; some moments you gave yourself credit for sounded too liberal and too loose of a connection to count. That said, there were also some brief spots here and there where a note or pattern based from the source was trailing off that I'd count. The track needed 120 seconds worth of overt source usage to pass on arrangement with over 50%: :19-:27, :49-1:13, 1:21-1:33, 1:36-1:48, 2:14-2:23.75, 2:33.5-2:38, 2:42.75-3:02, 3:31-3:52 = 110.5 seconds or 46.04% I didn't find the production bothersome enough to have any criticisms of it, but I'd say this is a great base where you could tweak some of the mixing and add a few more overt references to the source that don't get too liberal and you could easily get this mixes passed. You're 90% of the way there. NO (resubmit)

Those should be fixed, and the first one was just a link typo that needed to be corrected. If you catch other things, feel free to let me know, sure.

The lossless version from HoaH ending cuts off due to their crossfading (poo), so I'll get a proper one from DS if he has a WAV, or just use the previous version. Thanks for the catch!

That. I'm also still a NO on the revised version. Let's not get hasty about the edits it needs to be a fully-formed song sans the Beatles sampling.

I'll go back later and add some more things, but the list is there for anyone's haunted house or whatever spooky thing you may need it for.

uTorrent's a perfectly fine program to use and it's what I use. I'll admit, I don't quite get what you're so concerned about, but if you're basically asking "Is it safe to install uTorrent on my computer, or will uTorrent somehow infect my computer with a virus?" then everyone's telling you it's fine. The uTorrent program itself is safe. To ensure you don't install any bloatware, just pay attention to each step of the installation process.

That's an original demoscene song by Laxity (Thomas E. Petersen) called "The Alibi." Pretty sure that's the version played through Vibrants though (http://youtu.be/sXto5fBFC1E), as it's definitely not the the SID chip original. Over at Remix.Kwed.Org, moog made an awesome smooth version as well: http://remix.kwed.org/?search_id=3048 - All of moog's material on R:K:O is worth checking out.