Eino Keskitalo

Aww yeah. This could be nice to find e.g. OCR-relevant net radio shows, streams, album and game releases and stuff like that there to check out.

I freaking LOVE the variety of tones you wring out of that electric violin. Industrial noises and everything, very metroid-y. I like the backing track too, kind of a cool dark 90s vibe, which I grew up on pretty much. What a cool unexpected piece.

Excellent addition, I'll be using the calendar for sure!

I'm really swamped & have very little music time.. I can't deliver an update for this deadline (I have been working a bit but I don't have anything to show). I'll try to make something happen as soon as I'm able to.

Upcoming birthday, so I got the game, hoping to get full four players with no-one knowing what the hell they're doing. I guess I should check it out first though to set it up, controllers & everything. I grabbed the OST too, and it's really solid, evokes the 80s/90s anime mecha battle feel very well, I imagine it very much adds to the game.

Stuff is really piling up for me, and I have very little music time right now.. so I probably won't have an update for the check-in date.

For me it often happens that even if I'm sick of it when writing it, it might sound passable, or at least inspiring at a later time. I try to save everything I make (and with sensible file names, too).

I really like seeing this sort of special event stuff happen so gogogogo!

Looking forward to this, especially as an enabler of many good things to come.

Ahhh, that game, this tune! Nice beat-ification as far as I can tell from a quick listen!

Congrats on the release! Grattis! I'm expecting the game would be very frantic, based on the music. There are some nice themes recurring throughout the OST it sounds like.

One minute? Did you check the newest version in a later post or the first one in the first post?

It's actually a version of Apparently, since the publisher is the same, Lemmings had some levels themed after other games.Really nice theme.

I've used my real name instead of a handle for quite a long time, and "evktalo" is kind of a shorthand to use as a login handle ("v" is from my middle name). That's what it basically is meant to be - my real name, only shorter to save me some typing. Then seeing it used by other people in messages, ending up in MP3 tags via compos, having it in "also known as" in the OCR artist profile, and even actually hearing it pronounced out by people, none of which I anticipated. It feels a bit dumb.

Fun episode! Trolls does have great music. Star Control 1 is not a shareware game. You can still buy Duke Nukem 1 & 2 from various sites, GOG.com and the 3D Realms site itself.

Ok, great! It's Skull Man (yes Jorito, you guessed right ) FWIW, Shatterhand has a good soundtrack and only one arrangement on the site, so it'd be cool to have that represented.. though of course, I'm also picking the well-treaded Mega Man music so who am I to speak!

I wonder if it'd be alright for me to claim another track while still working on the first one? I have a Mega Man 4 WIP I should get finished.

Team feedback sounds good, usually not that many people from the project comment all that much (it's lots of work anyhow) but it has seemed like having a project forum for WIPs is worth the effort. I haven't progressed my track yet, as I'm swamped with other commitments, but I should be able to work a little bit on my track before the check-in. Thanks for the heads up!

Resub final candidate 1 Many thanks once again for your valuable feedback, timaeus222. I note that I should probably keep the big picture better in my mind while I write, and that also goes to melodies - I have a bad habit of just inserting a bunch of notes in to the pattern, instead of trying to think about the melody as a whole. Since the sub, I extended the arrangement, but that was fixing something that wasn't broken and lead to that indecisive feel (or, to have more of it). Instead, I just cut out that weird section which no-one seems to think was good (even after simplifying it), and now it seems to progress well. The Hydrocity Zone example was great, and I think I have the 1:08-1:22 lead resolving better now. I also mixed the bleepy thing a little higher in the beginning of the mix, doesn't seem to hurt. I did mix the snares down due to the feedback, and I thought they were ok balance-wise for what I was going for even so much less loud. I did now layer the main snare with the lower frequencies of a beefier sample.

Sorry, I didn't double-check the MIDI since playing MIDIs doesn't really work on my machine. I'll make more effort the next time, since it's no fun hearing it wasn't good to work with (and not accurate). I too do have trouble using MIDIs as starting point, there seems to just be no life in them if you just slap some sounds on the notation, whereas if you start from scratch you can make the instrument have character/soul/whatever as you go. Maybe it's not just having a not-so-MIDI-file-friendly DAW. Sometimes it goes alright though, and faster than transcribing by ear.

As far as the most creative take on this theme, the competition is actually pretty tough between this, Cloud Garden and Glass Cage.. All great examples how you can bend a little (but weighty) video game tune in many, many surprising directions.

Tracker modules were the best back in the day, since you got the music and the notation and the samples. I definitely learned stuff. But tracker modules were pretty simple then. That all said, I have some of my Renoise project files here. No external effects etc used.

If anyone is looking for good sources, here's a great soundtrack from an actual robot fighting game (that is also quite super):

Late 90s, finding a tracker module with " " from FF4 made me learn it on the piano, and a friend had collected some MIDIs from Final Fantasy games and what not, so I had some idea about VGM arranging. Local VGM band Axes Denied really made want to do something similar, especially with their Turrican 2, Star Control 2, Bruce Lee & Ocean Loader tracks. was the first track I actually arranged, thanks to People's Remix Competition. The stuff that I first started thinking about doing were probably , and (plus the after a friend's request), none of these are still done of course..