Eino Keskitalo

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.

I love that translation. It means "a bombproof thing", which is an idiom for something that's absolutely certain.

Let's see if I can whip something together. edit: Yes, I could.

Wow, that piece from Bravely Default is really cool. I believe it fits very well with For Tomorrow's Sake, they have different feeling to them so alternating between those might work really well. It's just.. there's so much goodness in there, that'll be the hard part! I'll just have to try to simplify things to make it in time. So much could be done with this.

When will the "Currently.." thread be updated? Also, if The Pixies submitted ( , I believe it uses about the first minute of that), what would your decision be? Some pretty badass music in that game btw..

Still working.. rerendering the clavinet because of the hum.. hopefully done in an hour or two!

What, no Saga Frontier 2? Ha, we have a PRC match-up with Yami. Cool.

Gotcha on the notes & breakdown, will provide. Now, back to that Mega Man piece..

Yahh, getting pretty excited here! Can't wait to see what the first journey theme will be.

If Tommy V. Dunbar submitted his original recording of the Archon & Archon II music, would it get posted? I'm just asking this as an excuse to post a link to that cool story.

Since you say an additional tracker interface would be nice, I'll have to recommend giving Renoise a go (has free demo). But it does fall short of your MIDI and piano roll requirements. Perhaps reViSiT would work for you for the tracker part. It's an Impulse Tracker -style tracker implemented as a VSTi plugin. It'll work with most DAWs. I've tried it a while back with Cubase, and it worked all right.

Someone do this in about three-four days and submit it to the Game Boy 25th anniversary EP! I believe it's still lacking a Mario mix.

I have a mighty appreciation for this, pretty much. Maaann, I need to go back to some Doors listening for sure. I only feel the production is a little bit too clean.. and yeah, I wouldn't have minded the piece being longer, like with a dirty organ solo at the end or something. I also do think the panning works, it doesn't even sound "unbalanced on purposed" to me, I didn't particularly notice it before reading the write-up.