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You should provide some more analysis with that blue shit for other types of compression. VBR V0 versus CBR 320 particularly interests me.
The easiest way I can tell if any particular song requires a higher bitrate (without going all crazy with that graphing stuff) is by converting a WAV to FLAC, and looking at the average kbps rate throughout the song. (Though I may be missing something here.) I assume by that method, one could see if that opera example truly is a "terrible" one or not, by seeing how far the FLAC dips down. Hm, kinda' makes me wish there was another type of FLAC-like format that wasn't as restrictive as MP3 VBR is, yet was engineered with human-hearing limits in mind. ...Maybe that's called OGG! (Made by the same people, too.)
(As a random not-really-relating note: recording a human voice to WAV, then FLAC-converting it, leads to a pretty small size. But as soon as I add some effects to it in Reason [default reverb patch on full-power], the FLAC size doubles.)
I got it right awhile ago. Couldn't tell the difference really until the end. Though now that I think about it, even after listening to it all that time ago, I remember I could put my finger on this certain open-ness throughout the entire 320kbps opera clip. I wasn't sure if that was a good or bad thing at the time of the listenings, but it ended up being my backup reason for choosing the correct one. And with dann's WAV clip, it just makes more sense (it being slowed down sounds really awful, however).
If anything here is true, it's the fact that backing shit up as technically as possible sure beats just talking out of an ass. (Not saying I've done any good tech-talk here.) Unless the person desires to continue living a life of uncertainty.
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The opening sounds like it's got a sound quality problem (can't put my finger on what kind), though apparently that's some effect you deliberately chose to put over it. I guess it's alright!
Since I'm a critical sort of guy: the whole first section, with the percussion and main progression, makes me want to critique this negatively ("it's just verbatim Zeal with percussion!"). However, when 1:28 comes in, it turns into a really cool style. Because of that, I'd have 1:28-1:39 play longer, before that main Zeal melody commences. Extending it like that would really have affect on many more people. It would make critical people less critical about the song as a whole, imo, as it did in my case, because it would bring something new to the Zeal theme. So, once they'd hear the entire song and go back to the beginning, they'd enjoy it a lot more. (Kind of like the first synth lead part of Beatdrop's new mix before the 32nd notes.)
I don't enjoy vocal clips. Unless maybe they were put under some effect. Effects make EVERYTHING better
. Lots of songs use just plain voice when they could easily make things more interesting by putting it under an effect that compliments the rest of the song. I mean, if vocal clips are even necessary at all.Ending is good. Reflects that 1:28 section.
As for production, it's good enough...
...Though, if choosing to go the extra mile on your current sound-producing capabilities: it could be more open, bigger and fuller (comparing to all those l33t electronic artists out there). Volume as voltage/amp'age REALLY makes a difference in any song ever. After all, if you can't hear a song('s details), why bother listening? With my headphones plugged directly into my computer's slot, and everything imaginable at max volume (no headphone amp), there's a certain oomph not present in this that's present in a lot of retail electronic music. Though obviously don't make it clip, should you decide to experiment with volume. And I'm sure there's something more to do with it than volume (ala maximizer), but that's not exactly my strong point.
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Best mix in awhile the end.
The appearance of the first gritty synth lead (1/6 through the song) made me a bit weary of the rest of the song. Then the 32nds came and it was all unique from there.
The most important aspect of music today, in my opinion, is to find a sound that's unique---and that's what's present here. Electronic buffs, make yourself at home with this ReMix.
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I swear I not only searched but went through every page ctrl+f'ing for "SNES". Whatever.
thanx, d00d
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Vintage OCR? I've heard every OCR since I came here in 2001 or whatever.
And on a semi-related note, anyone know of a site that has NSF files not on Zophar? I know this one http://snesmusic.org/hoot/kingshriek/ which has Slalom but not some others I'm looking for like Anticipation (and other DavidWise stuff [WheelofFortune/Jeopardy!]).
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I read a thread here half a year ago or so, where someone was going to do this and point out notable tracks. I don't think it exists anymore; is the guy still around doing it?
I wonder if anyone's done it for the NES and C64, 'cuz chiptunes r cool.
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Probably my favorite source from the remix album and the original soundtrack. The original is there with the standard good style of Morse to really bring out a new and vibrant sound. I just wish it was higher bit-rate and included my favorite section of the original (it has all the other parts).
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The surf section doesn't "ultimately" ruin the song. It's probably the most enjoyable section of the song BECAUSE of how random/unexpected it is*.
The orchestral intro is well-done, too.
But when the guitars drop out, I don't really like the lead synth at all (needs to be accompanied with something more gritty, or rather have the entire sample be different). Then, leading it up to the bright cheerful lead sample, that's a good sound and I like it, but I think it's too lonely for too long (kind of a minor nitpick, since the next section uses it along with that Pendulum-style section).
Mainly, I think most critics really would like to see the song more fleshed out. It suffers from the syndrome I have with making music, where I have sections of music only last for like 8 measures. With longer duration and a somewhat-better mixing of sounds to give things a fuller meaningful feel in certain places, this would be quite perfect.
Certainly it's extremely important for people to enjoy what they truly like hearing and express that, rather than let nostalgia take them over 100%. It's very natural for people to compare OCRs with retail songs (production or otherwise), and love and nostalgia for games can overshadow that a little. Sure it may be a little harsh sometimes. ...But there's quite an abundance of people out there who will think it's the best remix ever, as well.
For me, I wouldn't mind if every song created from now on was a mix of genres, because there's already been so much stuff done in familiar territory. (Doesn't mean it always has to be hardcore and 'fun'; it could be super meaningful, too.)
*Though I may have a bias 'cuz I know this super-cool dude who really likes fun works like this, and I'm reminded of him every time something like this comes up.
...I wonder how great this would sound on expensive and colorful car stereo system. The final heavy section really made me wonder that. With all the negatives and double-thought out of the way, it's actually quite nice to just sit back and enjoy it. And yes, Pendulum is good. (offtopic: Speaking of cool contemporary artists like Pendulum... Robot-O-Chan, the song not the mediocre [imo] album, by Prometheus is one of the most enjoyable and well-written songs I've heard lately, along with Ribbon on a Branch by Younger Brother.)
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Only annoying parts were the sporadic organ with the opera singing, and the megaphone lady, and how they used kids' voices a LITTLE bit too much (still infinitely better than that Most Wanted song which is seriously one of the worst things I've ever heard).
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This sounds a lot like Theme of Payon from Ragnarok Online. The sound quality is a bit higher, though! And there are still some stark differences. It's nice to listen to after that RO song.
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Here are some very under-represented songs (in the remixing community), from SOTN.
They aren't the best VG songs ever or anything IMO, but they seem like they could be the most popular for those familiar and into the game. ...Besides that over-remixed Dracula's Castle theme.
Now if there's only some way to not show the videos in this large fashion.
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I figured there was a catch, but not anything like that. Don't know until I try.
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I'm sure he would like the idea of a site for flacs if the background design had a huge letters saying DJP ROCKZ DA HIZZOUSE YO D00DZ OCR CHECCIT AIGHT. But torrents are good, too, though I think it's awesome to manage sites that have huge files via HTTP (and for user-uploads I plan on using FTP), as it shows progress towards better and better bandwidth capabilities. For instance, the basic plan of my Web host (Lunarpages) keeps upgrading bandwidth availability. Taken from here:
"1,500 Gigs Storage!
15,000 Gigs Data Transfer!"
And it's stayed the same price. It's rather quite scary. It started out much smaller a couple years ago.
I'm theoretically taking a risky chance on bandwidth by making the site available. But lots of things in which I take great interest and initiate never seem to gather many people's attention, so until I see a decent amount of people submitting, I feel like this is just going to be a waste.
(I know I'm just wasting more time not trying to get a method for upload and advertisement, but I got this sudden feeling that I'd be killing my school grades if I do. I guess that final semester stretch does it to me. Actually, instead of doing nothing at all, school or otherwise, until the last second during this feeling, as per the usual when it occurs, I should just get all my school stuff out of the way to feel refreshed again.)
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What the hell is this? Your Socket and OoT forest temple mixes are some of my favorite in the remixing community. But this...this is a travesty!!!
So, do I win the award for harshest critique? What about least informative?? Anyway, apparently I don't like the genre of Strange Overcoat or repetitive default-esque, 'mixing software'-sounding synth bass samples. I can't really say anything about the other samples, because even if some incredibly awesome sample or samples were to take the lead, all current samples would be out of place.
The fanatic tower of power stuff actually sounds good as a fusion of warped voices in this already-warped style of music. But the very last bit when they're sampled by themselves has to go.
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I meant that I liked the sound of the last melodious sample you brought in; I wasn't critiquing it if that's how I sounded. It reminds me of a harpsichord but good and colorful. My screen name can be found in the buddy icon at the top of my post's profile.
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One technical problem I can see from composing with BMS keysounds is that the sound quality might not be too great if they're relied upon heavily.
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I think the piano is too open, as if it was some kind of background ambient sound. IMO it should be louder (maybe I mean crisper/sharper) yet more centralized to a particular panning.
The beginning is too much of a kick in the face. A tiny bit more buildup would be good. Maybe start with the percussion a little less complex, then make it complex and then bring in the bass. But don't spend too much time on this.
The 16th melody sample actually sounds unique to the song. Actually, during it, the "open" piano sounds good. So perhaps follow my piano suggestion then keep it the way you have it, though it still may sound good with less piano ambiance throughout the whole/most of the track.
The opening strings sound a little hissy or something. Maybe it's the low bitrate. Actually, realizing this is actually 320kbps...looking at the waveform, everything looks quite loud. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it would be interesting to me to see what this looks like (and sounds like) at a higher sampling rate and bit depth. (So maybe you could PM me with a sample of a WAV at the highest possible resolution.) Overall I hear clipping throughout the whole track. It all just sounds scratchy to me.
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http://www1.ocn.ne.jp/~hibroad/score/ And here is a list of all the Beatmania IIDX (7 keys) songs. A lot of them are licensed before 4th Style, but after that it's the opposite.
Beatmania (5 keys) and Pop'n Music have quite a few more licensed tracks, but there's still quite a bit of potential.
this is my favorite iidx song
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The theme at 30 seconds is just begging to be remixed in an obvious genre DJP SHOULD DO IT JUST LIKE HE'S DOING FUNKY'S THEME FROM DKC2. Actually many people are capable of doing it; that's just the first thing that comes to my mind (maybe too much).
The title should be "I will pass."
The first song sounds like virt's recent song: Staring at my Spaceship or whatever
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http://flacmix.escaprism.org/index.html
I don't know anything about ASP/PHP/Java(script)/VBscript/MYSQL/databases (they all seem cool but hard to initially understand/implement via webresources alone) so I can't figure out how to make users upload FLACs (only accepting FLACs) which would then upload to individual folders I have and then show a field of uploads for other users to download FLACs with visible ease.
Actually, if I wanted to open up the playing field even more, I could allow APE or other lossless formats. Not too sure about that.
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Either my download for cotmm's just-linked flac mix keeps corrupting or the file is corrupt. It won't play past a certain point in my Winamp or even load in Audacity.
I'm almost done with a site whose content will be geared toward user-submitted FLAC remixes from the most popular VGremix site out there (OCR VGMIX KWED THASAUCE ...and even ANIREMIX). It won't be anything close to ocr-quality in terms of coding...for now.
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I actually created a thread a year ago or so willing to do that, but didn't think it through thoroughly enough. I'll be learning site design 'n' stuff in the coming years, though I probably have enough understanding and possibly bandwidth already. I don't see why calls couldn't be made immediately 'cuz I'd be willing to host the files and of course torrent them, and the sooner the better 'cuz well it's obvious why.
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FLACs would be interesting to listen to but definitely useful for editing purposes. I quite enjoy stringing songs together to form a coherent theme (just like how video games are in the first place only with visuals along with audio), and without initial OCR FLACs the final output would either be 1) even more compressed MP3 or 2) (needlessly large) FLACs from the already-available MP3s.
Also, with keeping everything at such low quality it seems as if OCR is catering to options that bring in the widest variety of population, when the core of the site's submission process is to not be a popularity contest. Sure bandwidth problems exist, but as soon as they don't exist (just one example) there's no reason to hold back, because overall it would be an influential step to making people more aware of the medium.
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I made a megamix of relaxing OCRemixes/VGMixes ---> Aural Pulchritude / (flac)
.................................................................................[170MB.............../..448MB]
^tracklisting.
I've gotten a compliment on it via PM for exactly the purpose the original poster wants. Personally I wouldn't be able to focus on studying with this type of music. (Energetic or even meaningless music like gangster rap actually does a better job of that.) But the guy via PM didn't seem to have a problem so try it out. Right now I'm enjoying djp's Chinatown(BadSushi), which appears to be a really underrated mix. I wouldn't mind listening to it forever from a relaxing standpoint.
(If anyone is interested in sending me lossless audio files for their remixes, I'd be willing to have them for these editing purposes. [Which is at least one reason why having FLACs would be useful.])
Guess I'll make a list for individual song purposes below.
[00:00] FINAL FANTASY XI...........HEAVENLY ANEW...........................MV...................vgmix2
[05:32] CHRONO TRIGGER.............ZEAL PALACE (TRANCE MIX)................ALEXANDER PRIEVERT...neither
[11:55] RAGNAROK ONLINE............JADE MARS...............................STRIDER YOKOSHIMA....vgmix1
[15:10] CHRONO TRIGGER.............GREEN AMNESIA...........................DISCO DAN............ocr
[20:14] SECRET OF MANA.............APHRODITE OCEANUS.......................THE WINGLESS.........ocr
[23:21] FINAL FANTASY VIII.........MADAME BALAMB...........................FATTY ACID...........vgmix2
[28:34] METROID....................SUGAR, WATER, PURPLE....................SHNABUBULA...........ocr
[29:40] FINAL FANTASY VIII.........THE LOST HORIZON........................DESTRUCTO............vgmix2
[32:21] BLASTER MASTER.............INTO THE EARTH..........................NINES................ocr
[36:49] DRAGON VIEW................APOCRYPHAL..............................ALUMINUM.............ocr
[39:54] PHANTASY STAR II...........SLICK UNIFORMS..........................QUINN FOX............vgmix2
[43:26] CAVE STORY.................MOON RHAPSODY...........................DRUMULTIMA...........ocr
[47:13] FINAL FANTASY III..........WINDS OF ETERNITY.......................AVIEN................ocr
[50:30] DARK CLOUD.................LASAIA'S RESTING PLACE..................DEV..................ocr
[53:14] UNREAL.....................ALTERED ATMOSPHERE......................ELISHA...............vgmix2
[56:50] UNREAL.....................ABOVE AND BEYOND........................ELISHA...............vgmix2
[59:37] PHANTASY STAR II...........MAMABRAIN...............................QUINN FOX............ocr
[61:24] SECRET OF MANA.............DRAGON SONG.............................HARMONY..............ocr
[63:37] FINAL FANTASY ADVENTURE....NOTES ON REVELATION IN A PUBLIC PLACE...ZIWTRA...............ocr
[67:02] EARTHBOUND.................DREAMING ON DISTANT SHORES..............RELLIK...............ocr
[70:59] SUPER METROID..............MEGADANCE MIX 2002......................MIDIMAN..............ocr
[74:12] ICO........................SAVE ME (OCR EDIT)......................SUPERGREENX..........ocr
2nd disc will be a tad more on the groove side
disc 2 (doesn't exist yet) prospective possibilities list in no particular order:
[00:00] ICO.....................SAVE ME (AP EDIT)..............SUPERGREENX.........ocr( / vgmix maybe)
[XX:XX] SOCKET..................TRIPTHELIGHTFANTASTIC..........DJPRETZEL...........ocr
[XX:XX] PHANTASY STAR II........BURNTMOTA......................DJPRETZEL...........ocr
[XX:XX] PARASITE EVE............MITOCHONDRIATIC PHASE..........JOSHUA MORSE........vgmix2
[XX:XX] VORTEX..................GROOVE-MECHA...................MCVAFFE.............ocr
[XX:XX] FINAL FANTASY 6.........AGONY OF OBSCURATION...........DANIEL BARANOWSKY...ocr
[XX:XX] SONIC ADVENTURE.........TAIKAL DRUM'N'RAGGA............MCVAFFE.............ocr
[XX:XX] FINAL FANTASY 7.........HEART'S ANXIETY................CERACRYST...........ocr
[XX:XX] CHRONO TRIGGER..........AUTUMN IN YESTERYEAR GUARDIA...PROTRICITY..........vgmix2
[XX:XX] DONKEY KONG COUNTRY 2...FOREST BIRDCUSSION.............PROTRICITY..........ocr
[XX:XX] ARKANOID................GALWAY IS GOD..................INFAMOUS............remix.kwed.org
[XX:XX] SONIC 2.................REICH LAKE.....................MAZEDUDE............ocr
[XX:XX] SONIC THE HEDGEHOG......LOVE HURTS.....................DJPRETZEL...........ocr
[XX:XX] SUPER MARIO RPG.........SEEKING HEAT...................SINE................ocr
[XX:XX] LEMMINGS................LOUNGE LEMMINGS................MAZEDUDE............ocr
[XX:XX] SEGA RALLY..............SOLACE IN SECOND...............QUINN FOX...........vgmix2
[XX:XX] RISTAR..................H2O............................QUINN FOX...........vgmix2
[XX:XX] TETRIS..................TETRIS X-3.....................CORRAN..............vgmix2
[XX:XX] PHANTASY STAR ONLINE....UNEXPLORED CONTACT.............QUINN FOX...........vgmix2
[XX:XX] DOUBLE DRAGON 3.........FLOATING NINJA KICKS...........DIGIMATIC...........vgmix1
[XX:XX] REVENGE OF SHINOBI......CHINATOWN(BADSUSHI)............DJPRETZEL...........ocr
[XX:XX] VARIOUS.................ASIAN LEGENDS..................REYN OUWEHAND.......Nexus 6581
[XX:XX] DONKEY KONG COUNTRY.....BEYOND THE WAVES...............ELISHA..............vgmix2
[XX:XX] DONKEY KONG COUNTRY.....BLUE VISION....................BLIND...............ocr
[XX:XX] STAR CONTROL 2..........THROUGH THE ANGLES OF SPACE....MARK VERA...........ocr
[XX:XX] XENOGEARS...............XENOSPHERE.....................OCEANFIRE...........ocr
[XX:XX] MEGA MAN 4..............LET THERE BE LIGHT.............AMIEVIL.............ocr
[XX:XX] SOUKAIGI................AFTERSHOCK.....................ZIWTRA..............ocrpretty much anything by quinn fox except his Umaro FF6 mix
8.5 gigs of free samples
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I thought this was going to be a thread about this place:
http://www.freesound.org/index.php