Eino Keskitalo

Yeah, if there was a FFX project I would feel the need to be a part of it (to my own peril).

legendary

I should be able to make that. I feel bad for not being able to work on the song for so long, but I should have a bit of time in the end of June to remedy that.

That's just nuts. And brilliant.

It's good to put the game title on the thread title.

'Rolling' is edging towards completion...

Many thanks @Eladar for great feedback! Good to know about the percussion feeling repetitive, I think I'll put a bit more effort into it. Very good analysis of the structure - I'll think of something for the intro and especially outro for certain.

I've played and enjoyed (and completed!) Quest for Glory 1 (the VGA version) but strangely enough I must have played without music.. perhaps it was before I got a soundcard (oh man, the ancient times). Got some cool ditties in there for sure.

WIP (2016/04/15) Mixing improvements. Close to finished I think, I need to consider the mixing of the bass end, I'd be interested in thoughts about that (and the mixing in general).

Nothing wrong with 8min+ pieces!

Sorry, forgot to reply. Yeah, this thread is pretty quiet, it'd be cool to get it rebooted sometime. The thought of the initiative was games from 2000 and earlier. Touhou is mostly after that right, and the earliest games are for PC98? (By all means go for it anyway!)

Well, by this I was inspired to map out my own odd time signature plan of an arrangement for this source.

Very eager to hear Sixto's take on Lenna's theme.

I don't have the time to check this out right now, but really looking forward when I get some peace and quiet, maybe in a couple of weeks, it'll be so nice to check this out then, it'll be quite a special moment I know!

Good work ruining hopes and dreams already. Many thanks & looking forward to even more of that.

WIP (2016/03/18) Some variation (such as start/stop shenanigans) for the "chorus" repeat before the outro, compression on the hihats & snare and maybe some other tweaks. The big bass drum distorts the mix here and there (definitely needs some attention), and the bass is kind of plain (but maybe ok?).

We did do something and I submitted my Wandering Warriors arrangement to the panel recently too. Hopefully more to come! @Rukunetsu that's great to hear!

Speaking of the above (hehe), here's my wip thread for the Psycho Pinball track: wipwip

Circus table from Psycho Pinball! Part of the source used in the intro Part of the source that was used in the other parts Full source --- WIP (2019/08/04) Nothing like coming back to old nearly finished stuff. I didn't really do a lot about the ending. Shortened the intro a little. Maybe it's passable anyhow. Chiseled the middle quite a bit and made the bass filtering more interesting. --- WIP (2016/04/15) Mixing improvements. Close to finished I think, I need to consider the mixing of the bass end, I'd be interested in thoughts about that (and the mixing in general). --- WIP (2016/03/18) Some variation (such as start/stop shenanigans) for the "chorus" repeat before the outro, compression on the hihats & snare and maybe some other tweaks. The big bass drum distorts the mix here and there (definitely needs some attention), and the bass is kind of plain (but maybe ok?). --- WIP (2015/02/15) I've been sitting on this for quite a while, some feedback would be nice! This is from PRC round 276. Love the game, not a fan of the circus music, but there was one part I liked and felt could use, so I used that part. I didn't find a video with just the music, but I think it all (or at least most of it) is played in the gameplay video above.

Cool to see a SRA mix. It sounds "lossy" (like a low kpbs MP3). Youtube is possibly hurting your audio quality. Some of the percussion could be humanized more, varied in velocity and could use alternate samples (several samples for the "same" drum hits). The hand percussion in the beginning (and the same part used later) could use some velocity variation and some snare rolls and especially crash cymbals suffer from hearing the same sample played the same way many times. (Some of the percussion sounds just right with the drum machine feel though). The same humanization/variation criticism goes for the synth riff that is played first in the very beginning. It actually sounds all right in the intro itself, but when it repeats throughout the track it sounds stiffly sequenced, doesn't sit as well in the mix and I get the feeling I'm hearing the same thing as before. Listen to the riff in the original, it is much more lively. The production is better in the original track. Your mix (though again Youtube may be hurting it) sounds a bit thin, like the different instruments weren't filling up the sound spectrum enjoyably. Try to perhaps EQ your tracks or change some of your sounds to better fill up the mix. (Also, you have room to add some subtle atmospheric sounds etc to fill up the mix). The original also employs panning heavily (bit too heavily, but perhaps it's because of DS' speakers), which you could do more too. Arrangement-wise I like the long stretch at 1:34-2:13, I like how the bass is let go for a good while, and it's a good feeling when it comes back. The voice samples from the game fit very well.

I feel like pingning @Chernabogue and @Rexy in honour of certain Sega Mixer Drive shenanigans.

I like the non-RPG and hero theme expansiveness. @Brandon Strader, I took my Legend of Dragoon track to Ivan's PSX album while this project was in limbo, but I also had a WIP of this Soul Blazer town theme and I'd like to keep working on that instead. I have some other ideas (and existing WIPs that might fit) as well but best finish some tracks first!

Well, crap. Put me down for Mystic Invasion. What's the timeline like? Hope this isn't going to hurt..

If only I could make arrangements just by claiming tracks..

Nice source choice. Cool and impressive sound! I, too, have a natural aversion for SFX and voice clips in tunages, but I have to agree they're well used here. The whole piece is very well paced and structured.