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I can vouch for both of these things. I'm a pianist and I'm a very low-key person. I'm not a loner but I keep to myself more often than not. By contrast, all of my friends practically are guitarists and they're VERY outgoing and almost dominating at times.

My track is done and done here

That'd be Monobrow! She really came through with Cavern Caprice, delivering something extremely ethereal, ambient, and VERY expansive. It's gonna be a really nice counterpoint to Anosou's already-posted remix of the same theme. Ultimately this is one of my favorite project mixes to throw on and just lose myself in, Katie did a friggin awesome job here We're down to 7 mixes left, folks. This is getting really, really close. Think we can wrap up by the end of April? I think it's doable... I hope! That way, when Flexstyle and I both get out of school we'll have ample time to work on mastering and final production aspects and get a final release package ready to go for evaluation. We'll see how it plays out!

This is fucking beautiful. No two ways about it. I gotta say though, your piano sound is really overbearing in the high frequencies, it has a rather thin sound that doesn't really match up well with the rich, full instrument sounds you're using in the rest of the arrangement. Try some EQing to bring out a bit more tone in the piano, or hit me up and I can bounce some out using my Emotional Piano samples that I think will fit a lot better here. Lemme know if you wanna take me up on that Also, Yoshi avatar uprising in this thread XD

Well, don't get me wrong, this isn't impossible to fix. But in order to do so, I think you'd probably have to spend quite a bit of time learning the many facets of humanization that you could probably learn more easily by just making more music in the meantime. I think your time would be better spent coming back to this later, but that's 100% my opinion. I do have to change something though, since I've used EDIROL Orchestral and the samples are actually quite nice. I'm not sure why they're sounding so stiff and unrealistic in this song, maybe it's just an illusion caused by the unrealistic sequencing, as well as the attack and decay values like Stevo is saying. I know for a fact that you can get great sounds out of the VST you're using, actually. I realize my last post was kind of discouraging, but I hope you don't take it to mean that it's impossible to get this up to workable standards. I was just giving my personal advice on how I feel is the best way to improve your craft, based on what I've seen from other people burning out when they dwell on a song for too long. Your mileage may vary.

In all seriousness, I've suggested this before. I would love to see the ensuing shitstorm that would happen when you guys inevitably trolled the fuck out of anyone who submitted anything XD

Yeah, Mod Review is generally intended for completed songs, not 20 second loops. Expand this if you ever feel like it, and then we'll talk about mod review

You totally nailed the Daft Punk sound choices here, but your production isn't really packing the same punch. I can't tell if it's the volume problems (I've got my system volume maxed out and it still seems kinda quiet) or if you're just not mixing your instruments right, but something's off about this. I think you get a little too ridiculous with the glitching and sidechaining on the melodies. That kind of stuff works better when used sparingly, it just doesn't have the same impact when it's this prominent. The biggest problem with this arrangement, though, is DEFINITELY the repetition. It pretty much feels like it's just composed of several 1-bar sections repeated 4+ times in sequence, and put over a beat. The end result has a cool sound, but it gets boring to listen to without enough variation going on. That should give you some directions to work on if you want to improve this. The sound choices are actually REALLY cool and totally work well for Ice Cap Zone, so I'd recommend working on your production/mastering as well as adding some more dynamics to the arrangement itself, cause this has lots of potential. Good luck dude

Alright man, thanks for your patience. I've been listening to the track on and off to try and get a feel for it. I used to play Runescape a lot so I'm much more familiar with this source tune than I'd really care to admit x_x Anyway, I'll start with the good. You seem to have a pretty good ear for balancing your instruments and overall, the production on this actually isn't too bad. I'd say your snare is a little too piercing and could lose a bit in the high frequencies. The way you wrote the song also leads to a lot of crowding in the mids, mostly due to the strings clashing with each other. Overall the arrangement is pretty good as well, quite interpretive and a nice time signature transition/genre adaptation. Shows a lot of creative talent, which I appreciate and recognize. However, there's a few serious problems here that I'm afraid will take time to iron out. First off, the sequencing is very unrealistic, and I'm not really sure there's a quick fix for this. A lot of it is just that your writing sounds blocky - everything's playing at very fixed intervals and there's not a lot of variation in the patterns. In addition, it sounds like your note velocities are all pretty much the same. These two problems generally give an amateurish sound to a song, and unfortunately it's showing through here pretty strongly. I doubt the song would be able to pass the panel for that reason alone. In addition, your sample quality is... not the best. I'm not sure how much more you can get out of the samples you've currently got (what DAW are you using?) but I really don't feel like the ones you have are really cutting it, unfortunately. I know it's not impossible to make good sounding music at OCR quality with free samples (ProtoDome and Ziwtra have done it and routinely outperform those with high-end samples in terms of overall quality) but in order to do that you probably need to spend more time writing music and paying special attention to humanization (i.e. note velocities, quantization, and laying out notes in a way that sound like they're actually performed by a real instrument.) Ultimately I think you've got the chops to write good music, but in order to make it on OCR you need to really work on your sequencing and how you utilize your samples. I would honestly suggest just continuing to write music and get feedback here instead of dwelling on this track, you'll gradually tend to get better as you work on new songs. Maybe someday down the road you can revisit this with some more experience... I don't mean to be discouraging, but the problems with this mix I don't think are really going to be "quick fixes" per se. Good luck man Hope this was helpful.

As your friend, I have to point out that you are making a terrible mistake

@Flexstyle: Yeah, I'm the same. This one (and PR's work in general) is a HUGE crowd-pleaser for all of my non-OCR-savvy friends and Mr. Raptor has actually developed quite a cult following within my social circle, who all happens to really really like hard electronic music This is my "intro to dubsetep" track for anyone who's looking for a creative song to jump into the genre with. Never failed yet

You know, I think I've harassed Drew enough about this, so I'll just come out and say congrats I'm out of hateful things to say. Good luck you guys!

Also, given the proxmity of the remaining 8 songs to completion, I've decided to just hold off on the final preview until we've got every song in. Hopefully that'll help motivate everyone to push to completion speedily!

We're now in the single digits as far as total remaining WAVs go! OA and DragonAvenger have finally wrapped up their aptly-named "Party's Over There!" remix. Should be quite the treat, this one's got lots of live performances and some solid energy going into it. Great job you guys

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And you don't afraid of my wrath cause you NOT FINNISH UR REMIXZ >_< you should afraid of that

Here's some good new! Zyko's finally finished off his two remaining tracks, putting a very solid spin on Nuts n' Bolts and Rockface Rumble. I'm particularly proud of the latter one, which ended up being a collab with Diggi Dis and Diotrans, and captures the unadulterated nostalgia of one of my favorite DKC source tunes of all time. Fantastic work man, Waleed's definitely put out something that's right on par with, if not even greater than his contributions to the last album!

Remix: http://tindeck.com/listen/xufj Source: Metal Gear Solid 1 spoilers ahead, fair warning. Here's sort of an old one, I was sitting at the piano, late at night in somewhat of a melancholy state, when I suddenly was stricken with memories of (in my opinion) one of the most heartwrenching moments in video game history - the death of Sniper Wolf at the hands of Snake, and Otakon's grief-stricken reaction immediately after as he watches the love of his life die in front of him. "I want to ask you. Do you think love can bloom even on a battlefield? " This line was my inspiration for this piece. I started playing and this came out. This improv was a pretty emotional one for me, I ended up using a lot of powerful chords and ended with a more cinematic style that's pretty out of character for someone who usually performs ambient, easy-listening material. I guess I just got caught up in the moment As usual, I just recorded this in one straight take without much/any planning and with no editing afterward. Raw and dirty with performance mistakes left intact. It's not very technically proficient (I've only been playing piano for a few years) but I hope you can appreciate the performance and the significance of the inspiration nonetheless. I think I still have the project file, so if enough people think it's worth my time and can give me some specific critiques, I might be able to polish this one up. I doubt it's OCR quality but I'd love to get other opinions on if they'd like to see this kind of thing submitted. Cheers!

I guarantee that once the project is out (it should be very soon, no later than the end of 2011 at the very latest) you'll hear the songs from the artists who still haven't finished and think "Damn, that was worth the wait!" We've got some VERY good stuff that's still in the works and the project would suffer immensely if we pushed forward without those people.

This is not true, I love everyone on this project regardless of if they're finished or not