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    Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door - Final Boss Theme "Shadow Serenade"

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    Its really nice. You got a fantastic atmosphere going. I felt a little bit cheated though as I was expecting a more of a build and a climax, but thats just a personal preference.

    At 2.03 it starts feeling like something big is gonna happen, but it then fades and returns to the same as the start with a few extra sprinkles.

    Regardless though of what I've put above, I would say that there needs to be more motion, or a better way of putting it - texture, especially at the beginning. The same pad is used at the same octaves and harmonies all the way through. Try introducing something to fill out the mid and lower octaves, even over the first two minutes. With the backing being in that high range throughout, the mix never feels grounded or settled. Its a fantastic vibe for an introduction. I can really see what you're trying to do but even with creating atmosphere and massive space, doesnt mean there can't be variation and a few more parts dispersed throughout the mix.

    One thing that would work well, is instead of having the full melody at 0.36 played. Just start with the first bar, leave it a bit, then continue the phrase etc.

    Play with the space you have, you can make it feel larger with a little creative panning. Try some automation with putting the odd broken phrase appearing to left, then answering on the right. The lead in the first two minutes could be echo'd with another synth.

    Try adding stuff and taking away. I defintiely feel like you need to add some kind of variation to the pad, or more specifically the "aaahs" as it gets a little incessant.

    A lot here I know, but its really captured my imagination and you have a foundation for a really epic and chilled ReMix. Just keep going, even if you feel like :banghead: at times :)

    Still needs more of this. Further more, it needs better transitions and a good deal more attention to detail. This is still quite the empty mix, and while there's lots of potential, the samples aren't high quality enough to warrant this low amount of processing. Also, some more layering and subtlety would do very well.

    I'm still source-searching here so that may take me a while, but since this suffers similarly sample and production-wise to your last song I reviewed, I'd suggest going to watch some tutorials for sample processing and mixing on whatever your current choice of DAW is. :nicework:

    How I started with getting the sound I wanted was by listening to an artist I wanted to sound like, then trying to nail their sound using various techniques. Do this and it will also likely help your understanding of song structure as well!

    Keep it up and please don't give up on this stuff, because as I said before, you've got potential here!

    Metroid Prime 3: Corruption - Samus vs. Rundas "Melting Sun"

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    Same thing here as with your other one. The production is fine, and the song is enjoyable, lots of emotion in your arrangement and you pull the slow-and-heavy weight very well. It really depends on how well the source is received, and this one a little bit more so than the other is harder to pick out because of how slow you made it. Short of rearranging it, this song is at the point where it has the best shot it can at passing, so go for it.

    Spiral Knights

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    Sorry for the bump, but if anyone in here is still playing regularly, there was a fairly significant update released today. There's a whole new level type that has some sort of torch-lighting gameplay mechanic; it hasn't made it to an active gate to try yet, though. There are a few limited-time costumes you get if you spend at least $10 on energy. And maybe most importantly of all, Spiral Knights was added to the new Steam Trading system, so you can trade items outside of the game, and even trade them for items from TF2 and Portal.

    Yeah, I saw that. However, the steam trade update actually broke my Spiral Knights. If I start steam up, and try to go into SK, I just get a brief flash of the character select screen followed by a no-error exit. The only solution I've found thus far is to disable Steam Community In-Game, load it up, back out, then re-enable it, load it up, and bam, fully working. PITA but at least it doesn't keep me from playing. I got very worrisome because my account is tied to my Steam account and can no longer play with Stand-Alone client ;_;

    I did pay for some energy last month and that has made getting some of the tighter upgrades a breeze. Still mostly 3* items with a 4* sword, but haven't had the chance to do a JK run. If anyone else is still playing I'd love to give it a shot with four people. Vilecat's about the same level of progress as I am so one or two other same level people could probably do it, right? Also got Zircon to make an account yesterday, so he's got a bit to go but should probably join for some runs.

    That new locale sounds really awesome, hope it makes it into rotation when I'm upgraded enough to play.

    Edit: totally forgot, name is LevelNinetyNine on SK.

    OverClocked After Dark - We're BACK! 01/18/14 - You can't handle it all

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    We need to migrate the RSS over to the new site anyway. I'll give Brushfire the FTP access info when I can get my hands on it (at home this afternoon). However we should definitely just get the RSS off of the other site since DEVEN IS NO WHERE TO BE FOUND.

    News to me, and my bad for being incommunicado this week.

    Edit: Also, while we do have much fuller reign over 8bitx OCAD wordpress, we're limited to a version number due to the database on their web server. So we'd have to find a plugin that is compatible with the version of wordpress we're restricted to. I guess that means a nice weekend of research.

    Dang Space Invaders..

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    This is actually a pretty sick start to a track... but it seems all we ever hear from you is 60-90 seconds of a WIP and then you move on to the next one. Would be really nice to hear a finished piece 3-4 minutes long with solid source referencing and a full arrangement. FINISH IT!

    Yup. That's it right there.

    OCR02290 - Mega Man 9 "Smooth As Honey"

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    Okay, I gotta say that during eval, I was raving about this song. Sure, there's some timing issues as a result of so much being done in a live-feel style, but none of the shortcomings take away from the SHEER UNIMPEDED AWESOMENESS of this song. It is smooth, funky, in your face, and will wrap you up and toss you onto the boogie with slick bass, great brass, and killer synths.

    Without a doubt this is my favorite track on the album, and I can not agree more that I want to hear more from SirJord. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go dance.

    Wild Arms: ARMed and DANGerous - History

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    I've gotten everyone's messages about this. Anyone who fails to receive a response in a timely manner from the co-directors will be not subject to the cutoff date but have something more flexible. When these things are out of your hands, you won't be treated unfairly. Furthermore, everyone who is affected by the hurricane and whatnot is given leniency.

    Mega Man 9: Back in Blue - History

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    So uh, is this cutting ahead of Around The World?

    The track that needs to be fixed still isn't ready, as far as I know. Can't wait around and have albums gathering dust while that finishes. I believe we told both you and Murmeli Walan that not even last month.

    OC ReMix @ PAX Prime! (Aug. 27, 12PM, Raven Theater, Seattle, WA)

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    If you know anything about OCRemix then most of the stuff at the panel was stuff you already knew about the site (and I barely come here). Was expecting a lot more music oriented stuff, like how you guys put together a basic remix, maybe even you demonstrating using your chosen music software, things like that would've been really cool and lot more interesting than hearing who was getting engaged to who and just seeing the guys in real life.

    That said I'm very appreciative of the real CDs you guys provided at the panel and I will treasure the Sonic Remix CD! Very cool.

    Hope you don't think I'm trying to be negative, just a suggestion of what you could do to make a more exciting panel next year.

    :)

    Thanks for the feedback.

    That being said, I would have loved to have dedicated every slide of every powerpoint we showed this year JUST to Larry getting engaged so I had an excuse to repeat that picture of Larry's face over and over and over and over.

    On a serious note, we do try to come up with a panel that is accessible to both newcomers and regulars, which is why we request additional panel time when possible. Squeezing everything into an hour was very difficult, and we had to unfortunately cut short things like the Q&A, Name That ReMix, and, as of recent, the live performance of ReMixes via OCR LIVE. This time not everyone involved was able to make it, but even then the setup and test time would have likely taken a chunk out of the panel and not allowed us to do the CheetahMen 2 competition.

    Q&A is usually when people get to ask things like "how do you make a ReMix" or "what software do you use". The reason for that is because the answer to those things is very specific to the person who's answering. Anso uses Reason and his workflow process is probably 90% different than mine, since I use Sonar and incorporate more live instruments than he does, which in turn is also likely 90% different than how BGC does it, since he uses FL Studio. It is a good suggestion to potentially start applying for a "How to ReMix" workshop where we can go into these things in greater detail, so it is definitely possible to address this in the future. We did add the information on how a song BECOMES an OC ReMix, which a lot of people aren't intimately familiar with, so that was at least something.

    PAX PRIME 2011! August 26-28!

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    PAX was a blast, really happy I went and met/saw so many awesome people. Of course, rooming with the staff was really fun, and finally got to meet Nutritious in-person. He reminded me of a taller, bulkier, more mediteranian version of Shariq (only minisculy less sarcastic :P). Manhug'd Sephfire and chatted about games and music and fanfic, got to meet his amazingly cool wife who was rocking the light-up Kanye glasses. I daresay she rocks them better than Rama. Beardhug'd Danny B, who was a riot at the VGM in the Mainstream Panel. I really could just list all the people I saw and had a blast with, but I'd be writing a novel (A_Rival, OverCoat, the MAGFest JamSpace crew, Danimal and co., MegaRan, Jeff ball, Rainwave's host, Kaxxon, TrueStar, etc. etc. ad infinum)

    Panel went fantastically, and we will be uploading the trailer that was debuted there shortly. Thanks to everyone for showing up and being part of an awesome convention.

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