Eino Keskitalo   Members

I'm about halfway arranging the tunes on guitar; bad thing about using actual instruments is that I'd need to find the time to record them, too..

Touchstone, I think you should contact a moderator to give you control of the first post, so you can update it (it might mean locking this thread and starting another). Good luck with the restart!

Loved that story, you need to get that into the trailer. Something like that must have inspired the Boktai series, they just reversed it.

This is indeed wonderful on the arrangement side alone, and I really love the huge sound as well. This is from someone who generally dislikes "epic Hollywood orchestral" style music. Loved the sparingly used electronic elements, plus I actually like how the sequencing feels like an electronic track (maybe not a compliment if the artist was going for a realistic feel), it makes the piece feel more relentless. The approach fits so well it makes it seem easy, while it's obviously not. Makes me want to grab the guitar and try how the arrangement would work for a rock band. Also gets time signature bonus points from me!

Legacy of No Backlight, Just Darkness It's fun to read the whole project thread, since it's whizzing past so quick! This is how projects should be done. (granted, being a restart there was existing work but still! everyone)

Do resubs need to follow the "three weeks between submissions" rule? I don't think I saw that they needn't on the submit/FAQ; but somewhere I have gotten this idea in the back of the mind. Probably making it up, but thought I'd check.

So good to see the trailer up! My daughter's comments: "That's a very hot football! ... I like it! Football field, football field.. I like the football field! Let's take a snack with us. Did you make this song? Did I make this song?" Looking forward to the release!

I'd love to claim the if that's all right. I know it's not a Smash Bros. specific track though, so if anyone can point me to a Brawl-specific theme that would mash well with it I'd be happy to combine them.

I bought 8BitBoy and Crimsonland from the Steam summer sale. 8BitBoy felt all right as a retro platformer, it was given high props on the Finnish game magazine Pelit and seems definitely worth the sale price and more. Crimsonland is a classic WASD+mouse arena shooter, I haven't tried the remastered new version yet, but the old one was really good - endless waves of different enemies, picking perks to improve your guy and trying to survive as long as you could. Really good stuff. Looking forward to playing the new version.

Having a child really helped me to use the time I had for myself effectively. Haven't had a writer's block or anything like that ever since. Other than that, I just bang rocks together even if it doesn't sound any good right then. Most of the time stuff that sounds like shit when I'm making it sounds ok the next day, at least in the sense that there's at least something salvageable. Also "taking a long time to get even a basic loop done", making music takes hours and hours for me so that doesn't sound out of place to me. Deadlines really help, I can heartily recommend participating in compos, such as PRC, MnP or OHC. As for getting ideas or inspiration, all of it tends to come to me in the moment I'm actually making the music, so I can't answer your question exactly.

This is a really cool idea, and I'll try to set aside some time to do a bit of recording. I don't have a lot to say though (I've had surprisingly little to do with GB), but still something!

Loved it. All of it, through and through. Seeing Devo & Sugarcubes mentioned gave away I was probably going to dig it. And I dooooo. Only crit though, the vocals sound the singer is changing their voice to make it sound funny. I'd liked a more earnest take, if that makes sense. It'd ultimately be funnier too. That said, I very much enjoy this as it is. Good production and arrangement throughout and yes, the percussion is especially good.

A bump indeed!

Okay, I'd like to officially claim The Lab if you don't mind me taking my time. I'd really like this to get off the ground, maybe that helps.

Okay, I'd like to claim Crystal Room, and Tuberz for collab.

Yeah, that sounded pretty good!

This is one cool mix. I do like the steady single-note bassline with harmonies changing on top of it, I'm a sucker for that sort of stuff. Nice piano breakdown action for variety. The use of the classic underground bg theme is worked really well into the arrangement, I didn't even recognize it on the first listen and it was so cool to spot on the second (after reading the writeup). I also appreciate that the track is fairly long, but doesn't really feel like it.

Overall the arrangement has a certain sense of clarity to it, I really liked that. The steady attack of the intro brass was indeed quite mechanical. Didn't mind the samples or the age of the mix other than that. Some murky/conflicting writing on harp vs the other instrumentation at 0:51 & 1:02 & 1:12 & 1:18, maybe at 1:25 too, again at 1:38. I felt there was some push-and-pull at the final third between minor and major feel. The minor feel at 2:24 felt odd, not wrong, but I thought it'd been more effective in major feel (going from minor feel before to major back to minor if that makes sense). 2:41-2:43 seemed to try both at once. The arrangement is neatly divided into three parts, that was well paced. Pretty cool way to adapt the source, too! Nice to see this posted after such long time. Was it retouched in any way since submitting? Didn't see that mentioned so I assume not.

I thought all the entries were pretty solid & very enjoyable, although on the short side. *pats self on back for deciding to half-ass copypaste repeating the song twice with arbitrary variations thrown in* I didn't check the sources how you incorporated them together, but all the pieces seemed seamless enough. A Taste of Ivalice very nice and moody, low-key, sort of grand but not too epic for my tastes - I'm a non-fan of epic Hollywood orchestral stuff, so this sort of cinematic stuff really has to hit the sweet spot for me to like it, and here that happens. It never gets off to BOOM BOOM BOOM stuff like it sort of hints that it's building towards to, but that's honestly just a plus for me. I very much like the electronic/trip-hop vibe I'm feeling that's there. This is really begging for more length & development basically, this is going somewhere but doesn't reach it yet. Dustin Time I very much like the chippafunky style here. It's short and sweet, and the rhythmic variation is super nice. Obviously tragically short. The sounds are good, but the production is quite flat, but I'm guessing you just didn't have the time to give it that mixing polish. Spirit of Beginning so what's that you're saying about never going to do this style again? Because this is sounding like a fairly solid foundation, it's flowing quite naturally, the jazzy trio approach is certainly functioning. Pretty much in my opinion only needs humanization of all three instruments (and a bit more variation on the drums), more length and a bit more ebb and flow, breathing room on the arrangement. But a really cool start and I was feeling this, definitely!

Yes! Happy birthday to Chernabogue, and Zoltan too!

Well, I think I'm done. Not finished, but done - can't afford to put any more time into this. Wish I could, I quite like what I have going (and the tune felt really awkward for a long time, I like it when that happens). I'll send this to FenixDown shortly.

So do I understand correctly? Deadline is noon EST on Monday - so that means about 20 hours left? I've started mine and if there's that much time, it might turn into something decent ..ish.

Ah, too bad. The last two were a lot of fun! The Sixto appearance was quite golden. Now you need something else to joke about. Snappleman was cool to see as well. His relaxed manner puts his feedback style in perspective.

It's Finnish.