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I was waiting for the structure to change at 1:07, and it did, so props for not getting to repetitive there; you had a good change in the instrumentation, placing the strings as the lead, followed by the dropoff at 1:23 allowing a small bit of original writing before going back to the theme at 1:38 and repeating the choir at 1:46 (sans piano). IMO, when a piece is so short, it shouldn't repeat sections; for a short 2:13-long piece, having a quarter of it repeat in a cut-and-paste way was too much for me, so unlike Gario, I felt this actually was an incomplete package. At least some sort of further variation from 1:38 until the end would seal this for me, as it's a great arrangement of a short theme, but felt lazy and underdeveloped for the end. Any sort of other creative changes in melody, tone, textures, rhythms, instrumentation for the final 35 seconds would make this an easy pass. Good work so far, Federico, and good luck with the rest of the vote. NO (resubmit)

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Rubber stamp, son! YES

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Absolutely not. When you submit something to OC ReMix, OCR doesn't take any ownership of your arrangements. Definitely promote yourself anywhere and everywhere you want.

Beyond the basic adaptation to EDM, there's not much more going on in terms of interpretation; if that's definitely the direction you want to go it, that's OK, but this would need stronger, fuller-sounding production, and more dynamic contrast to complement the meaningful but still straightforward genre adaptation. Pretty generic and thin synths, so at no point was the soundscape ever filled out. The initial beats were meant to be thick, but the writing underneath the beats was both too thin and too quiet. At 1:35, the textures were super dry and hollow. At 2:05's section, the textures should have been fuller relative to what came before, but the intensity is still the same as when the beats originally came in at :58; same problem for the close at 3:59. Even when you have the textures change for the chorus at 3:33, there's no body to any of this, just the thicker beats/kicks. I agree with MW that you shouldn't be discouraged, Harold, but you should still use the WIP feedback and production discussion forums here as well as any other audio forum you visit to continue upping your game. We all have to start somewhere, and this is far from the bar here, but your arrangement did show off your attempts to personalize the sound of "Chrono Trigger". Keep at it! NO

I thought the main snare sound was in the uncanny valley and didn't quite click with the rest of the instrumentation (this stood out even moreso during the machine gun drums from 4:18-4:30), so the rock opera synergy wasn't there, IMO. Agreed with MW on the lyrics being hard to make out at times due to the mixing. Other than that, creative and ambitious! Rubber stamp. YES

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Thanks for the catch; all good!

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You don't need any technical know-how to direct an album project, just putting that out there. You just need to have the time & energy to organize it and keep things progressing.

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Sorry for the long wait on formal feedback; always love SoE music, so I wanted to check this out. As soon as I heard the opening synths, the parts seemed really vanilla and bland, BUT I could definitely imagine a capable producer then busting out of a purposefully minimal opening to hit you with a dense track, which is exactly what should have happened at :29 but unfortunately didn't. In any case, the sequencing's too stiff, the soundscape is too dry, the parts don't have any meat/heft to them, there's little in the way of dynamic contrast (because even when parts were dropping in and out, and the overall energy level was always at the same). The arrangement's also way too repetitive and undeveloped, but it appears as if maybe the length was more about showing a proof of concept. The sitar at 2:16 was a cool approach as the lead. Obviously you have a lot to learn, so there's no problem starting from somewhere; you'd do well by checking out other artists doing stuff in the vein of what you're doing here and find out what they do - Just Coffee would be the person that comes to mind given the initial instrumentation of this SoE piece; I know it isn't going for an 80s-pop style, just that he's successful in styles where you have more robotic/grid-style timing and need denser effects/fuller soundscapes.

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Sorry for the unreasonably long wait on a formal evaluation, but I'm glad to check into this now. I'm definitely open to tracks where the source tune references are more quiet than usual, but I'd argue they were too quiet and understated in this case. That said, it's a creative approach. The opening stutter build subtly referencing the percussion parts of the source's intro was a detail that I could see most people overlooking, but I appreciated it. The drone/beat was creatively done but ends up feeling not substantive enough due to how quiet and de-emphasized the other "Terra"-based part-writing was. It comes off as not much of an arrangement, not out of a quality sense, but in the lack of prominence of the source material; that said, it's a intriguing experiment. For consideration to OCR, consider making the lines/parts based on "Terra" more audible, and providing more variation/evolution to the droning beats. This is cool and interesting thus far though; you do have a lot to learn, but don't short-change the creativity you're showing off already. I hope we hear more from you.

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There's something about the main drum tone & timing that make it sound programmed, but I could be wrong on them being sequenced; it was a criticism I also had with your Castlevania mix that I evaluated, but overall they sound solid, so it's a relatively small issue. The ending at 3:04 was trite and sudden for me, but we'll live. Good arrangement work again; indeed conservative, but eventually incorporating original composition and more interpretive treatment of the theme to compliment the rock cover approach. I don't think the original writing flowed as naturally from the arranged parts, but it wasn't an awful fit; perhaps other people may have opinions on that. In any case, this sounds fine as is to submit, if you haven't done so already. Let's see what the panel thinks.

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Cool stuff, just too short and underdeveloped to be something that would be approved as a standalone arrangement on OCR, since that's the lens I'm looking at it through in terms of a formal evaluation. The genre adaptation is melodically conservative, but the new instrumentation and subtle changes to the backing writing with the piano went in the right direction. That said, it's ultimately 70 seconds of the source tune and that's not enough substance vis-a-vis the Submission Standards here. If you were at all interested in developing this specifically for submission as an OC ReMix, there would need to be more ideas, variation, and development of the arrangement. For what it is, it's a very good listen, and I thought the original section at the end pieced together nicely with the arrangement of the source.

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