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I gotta say, I also wasn't quite a believer before this was finalized, but it really works awesome in the actual game. BGC's take on the theme would have been awesome as well, but I'm feelin' the Red Cyclone!

Strong stuff; glad you worked on it some more. This is niiiiice. Congrats on 70 mixes as well!

I'm never gonna maintain judges charts again, but donations could be a good idea. Basically anything that doesn't require me to do more secretarial work could be cool.

Alright, so with Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix coming out on the 25th & 26th, we're going to be putting out the soundtrack on OCR this week. djp's feeling just offering 192kbps MP3s. Not to break protocol, but it is our first professional soundtrack and I want to avoid any significant complaints that could arise if 192kbps MP3s is the only release format. We're likely not doing OGG/FLAC/AAC just because MP3 is still the most accessible standard. That said, what encoding quality do you want for the release of this soundtrack? Are 192kbps MP3s just fine? Do you need higher bitrate VBR MP3s? Do you REALLY need WAVs? OR Does it just not matter to you, as long as it's reasonable quality? Your input could help influence what we do for this one, so please let us know!

Well, there's a link that says "Music Source" right below the video, but I'll get in touch with them and see what we can do to handle the linking more formally. BTW, the ReMix used is McVaffe's "LatinSphere". EDIT: Ah, I see what you did there. Nice work.

Would you mind linking some examples? I'm interested at what's specifically being used.

Indeed, today sadly marks the 1st anniversary of the death of long-time OC ReMixer Reuben Kee. Reuben, along with four other Singaporean rowers, lost his life in an unlikely boating accident that made international news. For anyone who enjoyed Reuben's music, Reuben's family continues to honor his memory by hosting his music as well as his M.U.G.E.N. works at his website, http://www.reubenkee.com/. Reu was a skilled composer and arranger, and his body of musical work and the accomplishments achieved with them were a testament to a career that was cut down before he reached his prime. I know had Reuben remained living, he would have continued to create great things. As a music community, we can relate best to understanding whom we lost through his music. I encourage anyone and everyone who enjoyed Reu's work here to visit the Pathos of his website and download his body of musical work. Everyone saddened by Reuben's passing can continue to post thoughts on Reu and his work here. For anyone that wants to specifically and only direct thoughts and condolences to Reu's family, we ask that you please do so at this thread: http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=13320

Nutritious, poolgirl Justin Medford, Amanda Medford NutritiousMultimedia@gmail.com http://NutritiousMultimedia.googlepages.com 16520 Tales of Symphonia: Knight of Ratatorsk Now Isn't The Time This mix is part of the Tales project. I've provided a general breakdown of the source usage below as it may be difficult to pick out. I'm not sure whether or not chord similarities also play into it, though. :15 - :47 Delayed piano playing riff from bells in original :47 - 1:14 High strings playing violin part from original 1:00 - 1:14 Delayed piano again on bells riff 1:14 - 1:42 Vocals derived from bells riff in original 1:41 - 1:55 High strings again on violin melody 1:55 - 2:20 Vocals from bells 2:22 - 2:51 Vocals (pretty loosely) & Glockenspiel playing variation of the bells from OST 3:23 - 3:38 High string stabs based on bells part in OST bridge at :37 3:38 - 3:53 High strings based on violin on OST bridge at :38 or so 4:04 - 4:31 Vocals = bells 4:31 - 5:00 Chorus same as above 5:08 - end Delayed piano again on bells Recently, Larry posted in the Tales project thread (http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showpost.php?p=437549&postcount=2007) with the idea that some mixers on the project tackle some of the music from the Knight of Ratatorsk soundtrack to coincide with the release of the new Tales game Dawn of the New World in the US. The project had already been "finished" at this point, but there was still plenty time before release to give it a go. Kyle sent me a few songs from the OST and I ended up choosing Now Isn't The Time. When I begain on the intro to this song, I was intending to take a sort of ambient orchestral approach similar to several of my other remixes. As I progressed a bit, though, I started to get bored with the concept. So I bumped up the tempo and layered in some beats and synths, going a bit for a Hybrid-esque feel. I was taking a break during one of my remix sessions when suddenly a melody and lyrics popped into my head for the song. I hurried back to my desk to sequence out the melody and write down the lyrics that came to me. From that point, this song was my main focus for the next several weeks - developing and recording the vocals and instrumentation, getting great feedback along the way. One person commented that having female vocals along with mine would really help the mix. So, I enlisted my wife for additional vocal work on all three verses as well as the choruses (yeah she's awesome). This has, by far, been the largest song project I've done up until this point (I have something like 40 versions of the song saved). It's been a big strech for me with this being the first song I've produced with vocals, but I've received some excellent feedback and help along the way. Namely, from OA, Audio Fidelity, Zircon, and remixers on the Tales project. I'd especially like to thank my wife for putting up with me during recording sessions and helping me with lyrics. Geez, sorry for the long sub letter, I usually try and keep the short and sweet. Oh well. -------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for providing the source! I still have no clue what you did with it. Sounds rather liberally used, but I'll come back to it. Tales of Symphonia: Knight of Ratatosk Original Soundtrack - (114) "This isn't the time" Right off the bat, the parts need to sound cleaner and better separated. Once things picked up at :47, the soundscape sounded very cluttered. The cymbal shot at 1:01 was brief, but one example of something being too loud and drowning out the other sounds. The vocals at 1:15 sounded too dry. The tone of voice had kind of a Robbie Williams or Moby spoken word quality to them, so they're aight, but you need to mask the dryness. I liked the vocal interplay, but the vocals during the verses sound like a straight up dry mic recording with a tiny bit of treatment, and that's no good, IMO. They're generally too upfront and not couched in the soundscape at all, though stuff like the glitch effects where you pulled the vocals way back worked. Provided the arrangement checks out, rework the production to polish this up and this has a shot at passing. NO (refine/resubmit)

Not much really. Kind of depends on a combination of momentum and completeness. (Around the World needs to get goin'!) But yeah, I'll move some over to Projects. In-progress albums more in their infancy belong in WIP.

http://snesmusic.org/v2/download.php?spcNow=eq - "Atlena" (eq-06.spc) Having first heard this and also encouraged Kenneth's revisions, I initially felt this piece was passable despite its issues. I thought the arrangement was relatively conservative but personalized well with the new counterpoint writing and expansive instrumentation. But having read through the NO votes and keeping those crits in mind on a fresh listen, I'm afraid I also have to say it's not ready from primetime for pretty much the same reasons everyone else gave. But for anyone to say Finale isn't cutting it I think is a disservice to the strength of Ken's other passed mixes. I believe more mixes at the production level of "At the End of All Things" and "Epona's Pastorale" would likely pass, but didn't think this was at the same level of production quality. I thought the main difference with those compared to this one, Ken, was that you effectively used reverb/delay to give your sampled instruments more body and natural-sounding resonance, and this piece didn't have that. For example, the layering of the bowed strings throughout did create some density, but the strings were so dry that the textures still felt thin. The brass first used at :19 was a sore spot. I dunno if there were 0 effects on it, but it sounded thin and flat; it definitely had 0 meat behind it and was too exposed. In this piece, the samples were a lot drier, and the articulations were a lot more exposed and unrealistic sounding. So when DarkeSword mentioned that the feel of the soundscape didn't sound like a live performance, I agreed. That doesn't mean you need ultra high-end samples, just the the soundscape lacks that performance ambiance to make what you have sound more natural. Ultimately, I think that was the dealbreaker on the production side, not because Finale and GPO samples weren't cutting it. It sounds like it could be difficult to create an effective room ambiance with this piece given that the bowed strings seem to take up so much space, but you handled it well in "At the End of All Things", so I think it could be done here if you wanted to tweak it further. That said, I know you've been touching this up for a while, so there's no harm in calling it a done deal. Personally, I think it makes a solid addition to Dirge for the Follin, or I wouldn't have OK'ed it for the album. I completely understand Palpable's b-YES on this, because I've wavered on that line myself in judging it. However, I think the sum total of the issues with the dry sound and exposed, mechanical articulations holds it back enough to go NO. Either keep the textures dry but refine the articulations OR make the soundscape wetter using more delay/reverb on the parts to better mask the shortcomings of the articulations. Very sorry to drag this out, Kenneth, but understand we all want this to realize its potential and sound its best, as well as encourage your continued growth as an artist. NO (borderline/refine/resubmit)

Thanks for the source clips, especially since there's no formal soundtrack release I know of. The vox articulations could use some work to sound less robotic, but the overall mood was OK. The encoding had a few artifacts around the 1:00 mark. The brief use of the main theme at 1:32 was a good idea in principle to transition, but the section at 1:40 still felt disjointed from what came before, IMO. The addition of the beats at 2:15 felt sloppy and brought in way too late in the game. The volume on them was too loud. The transition to the Fairy theme at 2:48 also felt discordant, disjointed from the rest of the track and didn't flow well. The beats really didn't cohesively combine with the other instrumentation. By the time the percussion gets really crazy at 4:02, it was just distracting. I liked the melodic interpretation at 4:31 a lot, but the beats were overpowering the track. Not to sound dismissive, but AnSo and particularly Palpable gave solid advice on how to improve the piece, so see what you can do with this and keep at it, David. NO

n00bfl00d '08: ReMixers We Can Believe In! It's great to see (and hear!) new artists contributing to the OC ReMix community. Some stay awhile and become regulars, others strike once and fade away stealthily into the night, but *all* of them make a permanent mark on the community, and we appreciate their skill and creativity. Because we love our n00bs, we've decided to celebrate new artists for the next couple weeks by posting ReMixes exclusively created by newly minted OC ReMixers. We've got a loaded lineup of ReMixes from games including Final Fantasy VI, Cave Story, F-Zero, Super Mario Bros. 3, Chrono Trigger, Donkey Kong Country, Tetris Attack, Lemmings, Valkyrie Profile, plus a Portal theme you know & love that's our second live orchestral performance! In fact, the first n00bmix was JUST posted: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion 'Pirates of Oblivion' by John Revoredo http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR01777/ Be sure to get in the game and slap down some Reviews on the new tracks as they come in. As always, OC ReMixers live and die off of your feedback (OK, they don't, but they like reading it). So keep an eye on the front page to check out the latest ReMixes in n00bfl00d '08! Support OC ReMix This Holiday: Shirts & Shizz!! We'll be starting up our annual combined charity program soon, but WE need your help this holiday season, too! You can help OC ReMix REALLY easily if you are one or more of the following: 1. Buying presents for others (or yourself) through Amazon, or... 2. Cold/shirtless If that's you or anyone you know, send them to http://www.ocremix.org/store/ for shirts & hoodies and http://www.ocremix.org/amazon/ for all sorts of Amazon goodness. If you buy like a big TV or console, we could get $20-40 at no extra cost to you, and even smaller purchases help us out with a buck here and there, all of which goes towards operational costs. You want us to operate, right?? Come Hang With Us! @ MAGFest (w/ djpretzel, zircon, pixietricks, Mustin, Dale North, Mazedude, Grant Kirkhope, Howard Drossin, The Fat Man, Tommy Tallarico, loads of VGM cover bands and more at a HUGE Hilton hotel! Bacon!) http://magfest.org/ - January 1-4, 2009 - Alexandria, VA, just outside Washington, DC @ Genericon (RPI FTW) http://genericon.union.rpi.edu/ - January 23-25, 2009 - Troy, NY OC ReMix Does Interviews! Did you know that OC ReMix conducts interviews? To date we've interviewed ReMixers McVaffe and Beatdrop, composers Tim Wright and Grant Kirkhope, and others, with more to come. You can read 'em all at: http://www.ocremix.org/info/Category:Interviews We also GIVE interviews! Print, online, TV, radio, any format: hit us at press@ocremix.org if you wanna talk game music. P.S. We go "legit" SOON!: http://games.capcomdigital.com/streetfighteriihdr/ OverClocked Twitter! You can follow OCR on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ocremix - it's a combined feed of the latest ReMixes plus announcements and anything else we deem kickass enough to include.

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Shaddap already about it.

To clarify, we don't do replacements, but definitely post a new version in this Review thread for everyone to enjoy if you do make one!

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Be sure to capture some audio and/or video, Luke; I'm looking forward to this. Good luck!

Last.fm ceased that feature not too long ago, so that effectively kills all the streaming ReMix previews we had. We'll have to figure something else out. Sorry, guys, this one was out of our hands.

Got a revised cut from Rozo that I'm declaring ready for primetime: "And it is...GO!" [/wrong racing game]

http://vgmdb.net/album/11041

I fixed it for you. EDIT: Damn you Dain, you is too fast!

HAHAHA! There sure was! Too bad you didn't know about it!

Note: If this link doesn't work, you can find the file by going to site removed and then downloading MegaMan9-ConcreteFact.mp3 Contact Information * Your ReMixer name: wtuo * Your email address: * User ID: 25933 Submission Information * Name of game(s) arranged: Mega Man 9 * Name of individual song(s) arranged: Title Theme, Concrete Man * Additional information about game including composer, system, etc. (if it has not yet been added to the site): Released for WiiWare, Xbox Live Arcade and Playstation Network, composed by Ippo Yamda. * Link to the original soundtrack (if it is not one of the sound archives already available on the site): o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf8_4noxqgk o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwYHfGZMB0g * Your own comments about the mix, for example the inspiration behind it, how it was made, etc: Inspired by playing the Mega Man 9 demo over and over and really appreciating how good the music was. It was the one thing that kept me going while remembering how to play Mega Man, and so I after hearing that both the Title and Concrete Man have similar tempos, I decided to make this mashup with some guitars and some piano. The intro 'chiptune' effect was to show the development between the 8-bit sounding synth and the modern rock style which follows it up. -------------------------------------------------------------- Rockman 9: The Ambition's Revival!! Original Soundtrack - (04) "TITLE", (08) "CONCRETE JUNGLE (CONCRETE MAN STAGE)" & (07) "GAME START" Too cover-ish; it needs more interpretation. The drums could be more interesting as well; as is, they were fairly flimsy and didn't sound cohesive with the rest of the instruments. I did like the interpretive soloing over the from 2:03-2:24, but that wasn't much in the big picture. Adding original countermelodies and other new writing beyond the straightforward rock adaptation would have been good. That's the short of it. A good listen, but it's not a unique arrangement. I'd love to hear you apply some more ideas here to personalize it more; you could do a great job with it. NO

Hi! This is my very first submission to your site. I've been thinking 'bout submitting something to you for a long time, and here it comes! Contact information: * ReMixer name: SiDEKICK * Real name: Johannes Andersson * Email address: Johannes@who.net * Website: None * Userid: 21912 Submission information: * Name of game(s) arranged: Final Fantasy VII * Name of individual song(s) arranged: J-E-N-O-V-A theme I guessed this song would be very popular to remix. I'm not at all into this genre and this is very new to me, but I think the song turned out pretty cool anyway. - Got a lot of other remixes on the way, with other kind of genres like, Jazz, Orchestral, Rock etc. Thanks for your time. And sorry for using email-attachment. I couldn't find any good host that wasn't just temporary- Cheers, Johannes -------------------------------------------------------------- http://tzone.org/~llin/psf/packs2/FF7_psf.rar - 214 "J-E-N-O-V-A" Not bad at all for a first sub. The percussion being very spartan really hurt this, since you had a pretty weak anchor for the rest of the track and the texture was never cohesive. Melodically, this could have been more interpretive as well, but I liked a lot of the other instrumentation and arrangement ideas. The last couple of minutes had some interesting twists before going back to source for the close. Honestly, you just need to build some cohesive textures to properly fill out the background, and this would be in much better shape. Hopefully the musician Js can give specific advice on accomplishing that. I hope we hear more from you, Johannes, keep at it! NO (resubmit)

ReMixer name: AJiLe Real name: Andrew Lawler UserID: 25958 Source: 'Kraid's Lair' from Super Metroid This is my first submission (!) so I'm pretty excited. I've been reading and listening to ocremix for a long time and I really respect you guys. 'Kraid Begins' is an orchestral take on the classic theme, inspired by thoughts about the guardian's origins. I mean, he just woke up one day and decided to be Mother Brain's #2? I think not. Henchmen like that are made, not born. Thank you for your time, Andrew -------------------------------------------------------------- Don't recall Kraid's theme ever being in Super Metroid, but correct me if I'm wrong. http://www.zophar.net/download_file/9125 - Track 5 ("Kraid's Chamber") That intro definitely grabbed my attention; I was feeling it. The brass from :51-1:30 sounded pretty fake, and some of the string articulations on the string at 1:08 sounded a bit exposed as well. The texture sounded stronger afterward though, as the quiet nature of 1:32's section sounded a bit more cohesive and didn't expose some of the samples as much. The drum at 2:14 probably needed more meat on it. Same with the cymbals at 2:18. The textures from 2:26-onward were again on the thin side while going for a more grandiose energy towards the finish. I think once you appropriately fleshed out those sounds for a richer texture and better dynamic contrast with the quieter sections, as seems intended in your composition, then this would completely click. Overall, this might have what it takes to pass, with the arrangement carrying it, but I'm not quite sold on it. It's not that the soundscape needs to be louder/fiercer, but I thought this needed a little bit more meat on the bones here for the more grandiose sections. Once that's in place, I'd be with this all the way. Touch this up, Andrew; I like what's in place so far, and it's a great first sub with good interpretation. NO (borderline/refine/resubmit)