Liontamer

Because. Were you...hoping for some sort of super-detailed explanation?

No, stupid.

We had a good run guys! Back to normal now.

Hi this is my first submission ever, so I might do things wrong, well i'll try my best to follow the instructions on the website so my remixer's name : Chalalagne My real name : Gabriel Cyr my email adress : peacefull76@hotmail.com I have not subscribed to the forum yet. If need be, just let me know and i'll do so right away. The game's name: FF6 aka FF3 in the US The tune : Epitaph This is an orchestrated version of my favorite tune from FF6/3 with a little hint of Ravel's Bolero (was'nt intended but seems to sound a bit alike). P.S. the "sml" at the end was just a way for me to separate it from the 320 kbps version and is not by any mean part of the title. Thank you for listening ! If it does not qualify, any info/feedbacks would be apreciated ! -------------------------------------------------------------- http://snesmusic.org/v2/download.php?spcNow=ff6 - "Epitaph" (ff6-309.spc) This did have some additive writing, and the tempo was slowed, but the structure sounded exactly like the original, and the mood wasn't particularly different. Loops at 1:35 (and a bunch of other points) with some more new supporting writing added each time. It was basically the same core melodic ideas with no variation/interpretation there. Expansion is a reasonably fine arrangement approach, but that's got to be in conjunction with other aspects of interpretation, IMO. The textures were decent if not 100% cohesive, but the amount of melodic repetition doesn't bear 7+ minutes by a long shot. Shorten this track, and get more interpretive with the melodies. NO

I don't know who you are, Txai.

I definitely need to dig around these features and trick out my page more. Lookin' badass though; this is the future! http://www.myocr.org/user.php?name=Liontamer

The distortion being fixed, as long as peeps confirm what I'm hearing there.

The name for the remix is "Lullaby Elegy" Here is the Link to the Remix: Contact Information * Your ReMixer name: Steven.Bonnell.II * Your real name: Steven Kenneth Bonnell II (Alex Molini playing the piano) * Your email address: Steven.Bonnell.II@GMail.com (I'm not a narcissist, really...) * Your website: N/A * Your userid (number, not name) on our forums, found by viewing your forum profile: 27221 Submission Information * Name of game(s) arranged: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time * Name of individual song(s) arranged: Intro * Additional information about game including composer, system, etc. (if it has not yet been added to the site): Already on the site! * Link to the original soundtrack (if it is not one of the sound archives already available on the site: Youtube Link to Song: * Your own comments about the mix, for example the inspiration behind it, how it was made, etc: Me and my friend, Alex Molini (The piano player!) both do music, we're sophomores in college, and we're pretty sure this is what we're gonna be doing with our lives in the future. Well, every time he's in town on break (he goes to school in Boston, I'm stuck in Nebraska!) we get together and just "jam". He chooses a key, then we just play and see where it takes us. I just recently purchased some recording equipment (I swear I'm not a narcissist...) and decided to record some of our playings. Well, one time I actually gave him a set of chords (from the Intro theme) and then played my melody over it, then we just played for a while, kind of following each other, then we ended it, sort of like how a jazz combo would play out of a real book (play the tune, solo over the form, end with the tune). I'm not too sure if this adheres closely enough to the original to constitute a remix, and I'm not sure if the playing is clean enough to be considered a "finished, polished" work. Understandably, these are important aspects, though I'd like you to keep in mind that this entire piece, save the melody and the melodic quotes of the melody (redundant?), are entirely spontaneously improvised. I'm always open to feedback and I never even considered that I could submit something I do to this website, though I've listened to you guys since forever and a year ago. If you are borderline on this remix for ANY reason (production, quality of tone on either instrument, cleanliness in playing, "excessive liberties" taken with source material), PLEASE reject it and let me know how I can make it better! I would rather a rejection and then a better resubmission than a borderline acceptance on something that could be made better! The trouble with improv performances is that I ALWAYS want to redo it because, of course, improvs could ALWAYS be better, right?! Thanks for hearing me out! --------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.zophar.net/download_file/12209 - 01 "Title Theme" Hahahaha! Yeah, completely, and I mean COMPLETELY outside the reasonable bounds of liberalness for an arrangement. A huge majority of this has nothing to do with the original theme. I just put it on the panel because it's a cool listen. Also, a 66kbps/32kHz is way below acceptable sound quality. Longer mixes are appreciated, but don't go below 96kbps/44kHz. So basically you have 8 minutes, tops. Awesome performance though, guys. A very serene piece. If you ever record an arrangement that's more substantially tied to the source material, like more than 50% of the arrangement clearly using the source tune, definitely submit another piece. NO

Yeah, I basically took care of this, so I'm gonna repost my link, only obnoxiously judge-sized huge: Larry Oji presents: Video game musicians on Twitter I'll pester Dave about adding Twitter IDs to forum profiles.

The soundtrack to Final Fantasy X is very beautiful. I always find it to be very atmospheric and the mood of each area is generally communicated very well in each track. But the only problem I had with it was that it felt very electronic. I was glad when any piano or orchestrated collections were released. I thought I'd do my own version of one of the tracks, sort of as a re-imagined arrangement that resembles a real orchestra more closely (building up and creating a little more of a dynamic and heroic feel). Cheers -- -Marc J. http://checkerpop.com http://junker.ca -------------------------------------------- http://tzone.org/~llin/psf/packs2/FFX_psf2.rar - 319 "Time of Judgement" & 120 "Song of Prayer" Opening mimicked the original, but then switched gears at :23. Awkward string articulation at :43. Orchestration seemed like it was distorting a bit, so hopefully someone else can verify that or not. Cool "Hymn of the Faith" usage from 1:39-1:59. Pretty solid dynamics, good interpretation despite remaining in the same genre. Title's not creative at all, but whatchagonnado? Good work, Marc. YES (conditional)

Recognized some parts here and there; need some help for a breakdown; sounds liberal - LT Remixer: Sixto Sounds Game Remixed: Animal Crossing Track Remixed: K.K. Rock ***Project Track!!!*** This is one of four tracks I did for Joe Cam's Animal Crossing project. I wanted a very driven rock style down to its purest form; loud guitars, pumping bass, and pounding drums. I think I achieved that pretty well. This is also the first time I ever tried using a slide. It's hard. Much harder than it looks. Anyway, rock out accordingly. ------------------------------------------------------------- The judges below basically confirmed everything I thought about this mix, i.e. way too liberal. Fun track, but outside of OCR's arrangement standards. No hate, but that's 1 Animal Crossing mix that was too conservative, and now one too liberal. I'd love a AC mix from you on the site, Juan, but we need a happy medium. NO

Hi Dj.Pretzel, I hope all is well and you had a nice Christmas vacation. I recently did a new game remix, this time from the NES game Blaster Master and I would like to submit it to the OCremix. Contact Information · Mattias Holmgren · Mattias Holmgren · info@morningdewmedia.com · www.morningdewmedia.com Submission Information · Blaster Master · Battlefield (I think, it’s a little bit drifting around some of the melodies in the first few tracks) · NES · The remix was made in Cubase 4 with Kontakt 3 as main sampler, various commercial drum samples and custom made samples. The track contains some real flute and of course an acoustic guitar solo, loads of z3ta+ patches, Albino 3 presets etc. Did you include my last Zelda remix (Zelda Heineken?) Hope to hear from you soon. Kind regards, Mattias Holmgren www.morningdewmedia.com

Original Decision: http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14885 1st RESUB: http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=16616 2nd RESUB: http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=18913 Fourth time's the charm? I took the judges' advice and posted my newest version on the forum and the only advice I'd gotten was just to submit it again. So I am. The things I've changed since the last submit: 1) Mixed and EQed the vocals very differently to emphasise the higher end 2) Mixed and EQed the piano to be brighter and more present 3) Re-recorded the tubular bells 4) And various other tiny tweeks (acoustic guitar/bass EQed differently, etc) * Bastian * http://myspace.com/bastian Submission Information * Legend of Zelda and Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past * Overworld, Princess Zelda's Theme * Composer: Koji Kondo ------------------------------------------- http://www.zophar.net/nsf/zelda.zip - Track 1 ("Title") http://snesmusic.org/v2/download.php?spcNow=loz3 - "Princess Zelda's Rescue" (loz3-22.spc) Hahaha! 320kbps/48kHz, the encoding's completely overdoing it. And to be honest, the mixing job here doesn't merit the bitrate. S'alright, let's see what's there. The soundscape still was a bit murky, and some of the vocals needed to be de-essed pretty badly. I'd argue the panning was too drastic as well. Do vocal parts really need to panned hard left and hard right as opposed to mostly left and mostly right? I also think you emphasized the high-end too much. Along with exacerbating the ess-ing of the vocals, the instrument brought in at 2:26 with quarter notes sounded too loud & grating. The piano still doesn't sound very realistic. Still, it was pretty buried. Not sure why this was never significantly improved across all these versions. I'm gonna be generous. I think the mixing/balance is still pretty bad and the piano also sounds bad. But I like the arrangement enough. The pacing is very deliberate, but I think it's OK. Rather than go NO again, I'm gonna use my discretion and give a conditional YES. But you're gonna have to find someone who can do the post-production on this and get it sounding right. Right now, and this is NOT a knock on your abilities, but it hasn't clicked yet when you've taken your shots at it. Whoever helps you can also give you some pointers you can apply to your future work, so I think that'll be the right move for you to get the piece where it needs to be and also improve your game. I'm being generous here, so good luck with the rest of the vote. EDIT (6/25): Vote revised to NO; see below.

Heh. I dropped 'em a line; maybe we can do an interview and put the logo in some context. Like I said over there, our logo IS cool, so I've seen people just use it. Nice find, posu. They should have had Tim Follin on their list. [/complete bias] Just knock that Mortal Kombat theme off.

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I weathered the hovering threat of B-Unit! I win!

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Kick both of you. This is excellent all around. I keel u. I haven't got a thing against orchestration, but this is easily the most unique and creative approach to a Halo arrangement in existence so far.

They work. AFAIK in Winamp, when you open up a zipped SPC set (i.e. an RSN), it plays the first track and adds the remainder of the tracks in the set at the bottom of the playlist. If you have a huge playlist, you need to scroll to the bottom of it to see the other tracks in the set. If you want, you can take any RSN, rename the extension to RAR, the unzip the RAR. You'll then have a folder with the individual SPC files.

Ha! You ever hear the footage of that?

Sub another great mix. I'm sure you have some awesome arrangement ideas left in the tank.

Well honestly, it's not really anyone's business why something's not posted yet. I'm just planning to separate out the conditional YESs from the ones that are ready to go.

That's very Compyfox of you.