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It's certainly a lot of fun to hear these themes in this different sound! The drop in the middle was strange, I get what you went for when I read about it, but on it's own I didn't feel like it was really a musical representation of a sudden death in the game, if that makes sense. I guess I agree with timaeus222 about the lack of structural dynamics after reading his comment too. As it is, I definitely enjoyed listening to this, but I'm not sure if this would stick on the playlist quite yet.
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The sidechaining is woefully apparent at 0:05, 0:23, 0:50.. but it's really there throughout. Fresh ears needed!
The new vocoded bits sound good (though I didn't have a problem before).
Nice vibrato & pitch bends on the new lead in the middle!
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I don't seem to have access for that, actually!
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Battle Arena Toshinden was on PSX first. It was a western release title, I remember being pretty impressed of it in the store.
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A VR music film headed by virt.. the single doesn't sound bad at all.
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Thanks for the kind words. I do intend to finish my track eventually, I've wanted to do something from FFMQ since forever.
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Nice to see all these newer indie games get some coverage. Hoping to see some of these worked into OCR submissions!
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Good stuff as always! Nice chills in Frozen on Mechanical Island. You should totally write a soundtrack and have someone do a game around it.
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Though I liked the acoustic drum sound, these seem to gel better with the rest of the mix. Good update!
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Sounds cool! I'm already looking forward to the soundtrack.
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That version of Space Invaders seems to have been a simultaneous release for PlayStation and Windows (plus a N64 release a month later).
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Didn't manage to transcribe much more than the bassline, apart from the intro and the eight bars in the middle of the source that served as the starting point for the adaptation to this sound. So it's a skeleton, but maybe it'll be an interesting skeleton to listen to nonetheless.. I'm happy to have started this tune, as FFMQ was one of the first soundtracks to make me really notice VGM, and it's still a really good soundtrack. Transcribing the piece is making me appreciate it even more.
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I'm assuming it's a live acoustic drum track, so layering it with samples sounds like a ton of work.. btw Phonetic Hero, that was a good explanation about the fundamentals in drum sounds and stuff - immediately useful for me!
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I've got a 13 seconds WIP done!
I notice the thread topic says voting stage, but the deadline on thasauce is still 14 hours away? I'm cool either way, I'm happy to have started something out of a nostalgic source tune, and even if I managed to continue this one, I think it's probably pretty non-MnP so I'd only submit is as a bonus, most likely. -
Pretty good start and an interesting genre adaptation! I think the style works quite well. The intro is very nice - it's good to start off strong. Transferring the melody between strings and trumpet is a nice touch, xylophone is cool. Love the triangle, too.
Percussion and bass seem pretty repetitive and slightly overpowering, though I'm sure you're yet to adjust everything, add variation, work on the velocities etc (but right now it took a second listen to notice how much variation in the instrumentation you had in your a-part behind the beat).
The backbeat with the orchestra was kind of strange to hear, though I wouldn't say it wouldn't work! The sound of the percussion is kind of soft compared to the snappier sound of a rock drum kit. Perhaps you can imply a backbeat rather than being so explicit with it, if that makes sense.
Very good start! It's a fun and unexpected take on the fun original.
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I'm a huge fan of sticking to the exclusives* with something like this.. though it would make sense to me to allow ports IF the music was different - this is a VG music project/site after all. Just my 2 eurocents.
*) or games-that-debuted-on-this-platform
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Pretty groovy! Lovely drumming, and a nice, varied arrangement with initially a dry "narrow" chiptune soundscape, but branching out to include more varied and "advanced" sounds.
In a sense, I thought the drums could've been a bit more forefront in the mix. I'm not sure if it makes sense, but I also thought they're a bit stuck in the centre and could be wider in the mix - some stereo sweeping during some fills might be a nice effect.
I thought the arrangement had a pretty nice ebb and flow structurally, growing and then going back to the basics, or more restrained part here and there. And I agree, the vocoded vocals add quite a bit, it's a nice texture - I think you don't recognize them as vocals unless you pay attention and that works just fine.
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This IS the right opportunity. I'll do my very best to participate to honour the return of Dj Mokram! =)
edit: haha, not my kind of tune at all.. let's see what I can figure out to do with it.. ooh, there's a nice little Chrono Trigger/Castlevania: Symphony of the Night -type bit in it. And come to think of it, this isn't that far off from say Legend of Silpheed music or Zeliard, which I like quite a bit.. (it's not that I didn't *like* this type of tune, just that I don't know what to do with it. ok enough blabbering)
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Oooff, looks like I've "slept" through the deadline.. there's some other deadline on 28th, right?
Anyway, I should be able to work on the track this week. Sorry.. -
Great atmosphere from the start and that stays throughout. The harmony of the piece has a nice tension (Picardy third stuff?) & the sounds compliment that feel very much. It's quite optimistic but also excited.. anticipative, if that makes sense! Cool interpretation of the source - I thought the source itself had some iffy writing that didn't quite work but you didn't seem to include those portions.
I very much like the gradual introduction of the beat, and the pacing of the piece was pretty good. I thought the bell writing could have been a bit sparser in the beginning to enhance the development of the mood.. it's slightly noodly to my ears.
There's a couple of weird harmonic choices at the end (around 2:45-2:49) that stick out and don't make sense, hurting the impression of the track a bit at the end.
My favourite bit was the backwards-y synths around 1:40-1:47, very nice also writing-wise. The chords going back and forth to build up around 2:00 was also a nice touch.
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Nice initiative! I like that you're going for games with no posted ReMixes yet. It's also nice that people get opportunities like these to bypass the usual waiting time (that's a huge appeal for albums intended to have short development cycles too).
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I'm hoping to see that too
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I simply loved this song, getting goosebumps. I like how solemn it is and I also was a fan of keeping the vocals dry, center and singular the whole tune - a harmony might have been nice but for me it really delivers as it is, without additional oompah or sugar coating. It sounds more direct and earnest this way (I'm guessing, anyway). (Also, I'm glad there's no thundering drums and stuff, or modulation coming in, that kind of thing
) Can't say I was bothered about the guitar sound either, sounds good enough to me, might be better if it was better sounding but no problem. The swelling string/pad is very nice, the single line bowed string is pretty weak and pushed to the side, but not a huge issue.
I can hear the autotuning, it doesn't bother me, though I'd prefer without (tough of course it's nice that it's in tune). I enjoy Dustin's voice quite a lot here. Well done, and that it was made for the occasion is super cool - thanks for sharing!
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Pretty interesting stuff from a quick listen here and there. Wishlisted for later..
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Oops, I completely slept through this. I had no idea time moves so fast. Hmh. I'll do a kind of a bonus mix at some point.