Eino Keskitalo

Cool treatment of the source tune. I liked the tones of intro and had a nice moment of recognition at 0:19-0:22. 90s eurotrance piano is hurting my sensibilities at 0:49. The section feels a bit empty in general. Didn't really read the thread carefully what you're planning to do in case you already got plans to fill it up. The low whistle lead is pretty static and hogging up the sonic space, but I see you have already some plans to change that up. I was kind of expecting the piece to pick up (with a nice steady beat or something) for a long time, but perhaps you're going for a more ambient/newagey approach. The progression of a tune is feeling a bit blocky to me, the sections seem to just change into one another, they could build up into each other a bit more. In a way, what I'm hearing now is as if each section was a intro-style build-up followed by a break (which is another intro-style build-up), before the beat (or so) would drop, but that never actually happens. I very much like the rewriting/harmonization with the piano & stuff from 2:10-> onwards, though the piano is a bit loud and mechanical. The writing's really good! Keen to see how this will continue.

Lovely sound, I like your style & got your EP. I like the structure of the arrangement, very nice acoustic sound at the first part & speeding up with the electric for the later half. My main gripe was that the main melody felt a little clashing harmonically in the first half. I felt it could've been adjusted better to the new chords. From memory, I recognize 0:05-0:10 used half of the figure in the source's intro, 0:19-0:41 was the main melody in the A part. To me the source usage felt a little on the thin side, though it might add up & it's definitely ok to use only a part of the source (talking about OCR context here). I can't help but feel that the B part of the source would've sounded great with your instrumentation! Also, what you did use felt a bit marginalized, maybe mainly because the synth lead in the first part of the sound was a bit quiet. The intro figure on the acoustic definitely is quite buried in the mix in the last part! But it does definitely sound like a GHZ arrangement to me in the end. Apart from the harmonic clashing with the melody, I enjoyed this a lot!

Nice, you got props from the composer. I agree with ACO about the BOOOM aspect. I'm not sure if you're going for a realistic solo piano arrangement feel, since the bg arpeggio sounds like there's a third hand playing it. It's got a bit of a feeling of using a piano sound for MIDI. The tempo changes are quite nice!

Great to see an update on this. I disagree with Old Man Pac about being too similar with the source. Simplification counts as personalization, as far as OC ReMix goes at least. Frankly, this sounded very familiar, but when I listened to the source I was sure there was another source track that used the same melody, since the original was that different (turns out I was thinking of OverCoat's rearrangement). Sounding pretty good! I really liked the arrangement additions, and now that it's a more complete piece, I'm really digging it. I do think the soundscape is a little on the sparse side from around 1:40 forwards. That point is kind of cool, with the backing pad being soooo quiet (and gaining volume a little later), I wouldn't mind if it had been just a touch louder initially. 2:25 some nice synth enters to fill the mix, it's good, but there could be some other element coming in earlier already. I was definitely expecting the beat to pick up at 2:30; instead the busy lead solo filled the purpose, but dammit if I didn't love the beat to start building up after it around 2:50 and got to full swing at 3:07. Lovely variations on the flute! I still felt the mix from 2:30-> to be on the empty side, you have some cool backing elements, maybe they're mixed a little low or there could be some more stuff going on. Don't lose the sense of space of course, it's definitely a good feature of the arrangement. I'd also turn the snare and maybe bass drum down just a notch. A very enjoyable update & I'm looking forward for the next one!

Hello from another Renoise user. =) The idea for the arrangement is great, hearing the theme as a metal riff brought a smile to my face. The arrangement could flow better structurally, it's a bit blocky from section to section, and while the tension in each varies, it doesn't build up from section to section as well as it could. It seems that you could cut some of the sections or cut the length of some sections to make it progress more.. say, dramatically. Some of the sections also sound empty (0:22-0:37 for instance). Timing of the playing is better in version 3, but still loose at least in the slow/no drumming sections. I personally liked something about the drum sound better on the 2nd version, it had a better presence in some sense. The 3rd version drums do sound more metal in style, the 2nd version was a rock kit. Either kit sounds workable to me.

Not bad, I enjoyed a listen! If I have the time I'll give some more comments.

Not bad at all if you just begun! Don't have the time to go more in depth but keep going!

Layer some backing growls on that one, I think it'd work!

This is appreciated and kept in mind!

I'd be ok with that.

Like Joe C? Happy birthday!

I don't have the time and space and opportunity and stuff to record any vocals unfortunately, but I shouldn't have trouble finishing my piece otherwise.

I'll be *so* happy if we will hear something from you this round! Yeah, I agree it's a complex source. I'm thinking of doing a bonus track, and even if I go towards prog rock like I'd like to, I'd *still* simplify from the source somewhat.. all part of the challenge!

I still owe you my feedback, Rozo. Do you want it for this version, or the next one?

YoshiBlade, I like your attitude! If you mean mashup as in combining two or more sources, that goes on all the time. If you mean sampling original audio, that I believe should generally be treated carefully, but a couple of recent tracks do sample the original songs extensively: Eclipse Apocalypse and Powerglove (It's So Bad). Sorry for off-topic. =)

I love the music, have been a fan of the arrangement since it was released. With the video, I really liked how much was achieved with makeup and costume and no CGI, not that I was expecting computer effects but I was reminded of fantasy movies with similar visual imagery and lots of CGI and I just liked the feel here very much in comparison. From one viewing, my understanding of the story was that the main character simply comes across a magic mirror, and I understood the other characters to be some sort of tree or nature spirits that bewitch the character and then toy with her, having her go through transformations. She then makes for escape and purifies herself by diving into the water. Moral of the story? Hell if I know. If you see a mirror in the forest get the fuck out of there. It seemed a bit linear and straightforward, but I need to give it another viewing (to see if the visuals line up with the lyrics for instance). I appreciate it didn't cut into performance scenes (my pet peeve of music videos with stories).

Awesome! Can't wait to hear what you come up with!

Never have I said this is a simple source! But, you don't have to follow the original in that sense. You can take the very hummable melodies and make a simpler piece out of them I believe!

I've started my track. I'm thinking of trying to do vocals, I believe Jason would appreciate that.

Yes! Green Hill Zone combined with Bridge Zone from the Sega Master System version of the first Sonic the Hedgehog.

I approve of picking up the old tracks again! Love the tuned percussion. Veeery nice instrumentation overall, chippy leads with the rich percussion makes for a super fun sound. The lead levels seem a tiny bit uneven. 0:22-0:23, 0:25-0:27, 0:32. The swipe across the stereo field at 0:38, 0:52-0:53 & 0:56-0:58, 2:08 jump out of the mix as a touch loud. The higher notes of the leads at 1:27-1:42 (1:28-1:33 area) and 2:13-2:27 (2:18 onwards) too. Maybe try to soften the higher freqs on the EQ. I enjoyed this one very much & hadn't heard it before, glad I did!