Rarrum

Unless it decides to drag me in another direction... thus far.. a big finale, rar!

The ending in that posted version hasn't been written yet, hence the abrupt stop. It's what I'm working on now.

New version up: Since there were more than a couple comments about the seeming lack of percussion in the first half.. I've gone back over that again and tried a couple things. I'd appreciate any feedback on how well that fits with it. The middle section (flute melody) has been extended, and just a little work done on the part after that. The ending section still hasn't been written yet though.

Just put up a newer version (mp3 this time as well as ogg): I've tweaked the first half a little more now. The last half hasn't really changed other than about 10 seconds of work added to the end.

There was a part where it did seem a tad empty (around 0:42 to 0:52) to me... I wasn't sure if it was just me (from having heard it so many times) or not though. I think I've found something to fix that up though. The part directly after that suffered similar but not quite as bad, and I've done something similar there (I'm introducing a backgroundish part synth drum at the start of those two chunks). The repeating bass rhythm is intended to fill in as a sort of replacement for a major percussive part. Since that goes on for around a minute though... I'm going to be toning it down just a tad for parts of that first minute. Which guitar are you talking about? There's technically two (distortion one, and a sorta muted electric one that follows the same "percussive" pattern as the bass part). I'm thinking of giving the distortion one a nice background part a little earlier than it's currently introduced right now.

This is an arrangement of the "Showdown with Magus" theme from Chrono Trigger. I would appreciate any feedback and constructive criticism on it thus far. Known issues: No stereo pan applied to anything yet. (I will be doing this once the full composition is complete) Note that it is not complete, so the current end is just an abrupt stop as it hasn't been written past that part yet. Updated May 5: http://www.neoclaw.net/music/files/temp/ctmaguswork.ogg http://www.neoclaw.net/music/files/temp/ctmaguswork.mp3 It's unfortunate that Ogg Vorbis isn't an option for submission (or even submitting both ogg and mp3 to give users a choice). I'll worry about that later though.