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final candidate 5 - unbusied competing leads in the final few bars The melody kind of goes between the leads now. --Eino

Good show! So, no show this week then? --Eino

Awesome! Thanks once again. I'll fix that spot. --Eino

Pretty Bach-y! --Eino

There's quite an album coming. --Eino

Oops, so early? Thanks for the heads-up, Chernabogue! --Eino

That's great news! Looking forward to it! --Eino

Maybe referring to that that You and I has "Jillian Aversa ft. Malukah" as the artist but Generations has Malukah credit under vocals. I'm confused! --Eino

Happy birthday, you monkey-monster! And thanks for all the help with the tunes! --Eino

FTL: Advanced Edition & the iPad version are just around the corner, coming 3rd of April. The update is free. Looks good too. I'm ready to play this! --Eino

Clicking on "Latest Feedback: Workshop ReMixes" links on the workshop page (http://ocremix.org/workshop) leads back to the workshop page itself. Firefox 26.0 on Xubuntu 13.03. --Eino

Final candidate 4 (dl) - soundcloud tweaked the levels so that the main lead would stand out each part (a little seems to go a long way) tried to parallel compress the bass drum, maybe a bit more interesting now some other little details tried a bit of that crosspanning, but it's probably pretty inaudible boosted the limiter on the master channel by 1.5db (getting bad ideas at this stage?) Thanks again for the excellent comments Timaeus! --Eino

Super easy to listen to, energetic, happy and bouncy. The piece's feelgood nature is augmented by having a good forwards drive to it, I think it does a lot to this piece that the tempo is as fast as it is. I remember this from the workshop and I'm happy to see it posted. I own a copy of Yoshi Touch & Go too! --Eino

This is some of the awesomest music of 2013 and you all should check it out. Now. --Eino

The production is pretty good in many regards actually, nice stereo separation for instance. The bass and percussion sound good - mechanical, but not in a detracting way. There's a lot of nice synth touches as well. I'm reminded of earlier Shnabubula tracks, I'm a huge fan of those. On the side of criticisms, I'd have liked a tiny bit of an intro. The main lead sound during the first half is pretty weak to me, it's limp and loose, I'm not much of a fan. There are also some strange harmonies on some of the synth washes that I'm not also completely sure sound 100% good. The e-piano solo is quite ace though. I also think I'll have to get me a M01 as well. --Eino

Solid, pleasant offering of ambientsy material. Very nice work! --Eino

I'd be interested in joining the upcoming talkback as well. edit: On second thoughts, I really need the sleep. Some other time! --Eino

I was supposed to have the time yesterday, but no.. I've already translated a part of the lyric into Finnish, which I thought might be fun. (: I might have some opportunity for quick take tomorrow, so I might be one of those who could use the extension. --Eino

Sweet stuff. For some reason I don't like the guitar tone at the beginning, but it sits well in the mix once more stuff comes in. --Eino

Many thanks for the valuable comments, timaeus! I think in my arranging I generally have a problem (or maybe just style, but more likely a problem) of not establishing a strong lead or a followable center to my arrangements. This isn't the first piece I get this kind of feedback with. Thanks for the good pointers, I'll look into it! I was actually wondering about the kick myself. The kick is a stock sample, I don't know anything about constructing good electronic kicks - perhaps a good time to start learning. Hehe, good one on the motion sickness (actually it's the name of this arrangement). If I did (over)do the crosspanning accordingly, I *would* probably get some myself quite easily. It's a fun idea, I'll consider it! I'm don't want to polish this thing forever, just to submittable (and passable) status, as I want to move on to other pieces. But I'll try to address at least the clutter & focus problems to some degree. Once again, many thanks for the excellent crits! --Eino

Time to finish this thing for subbing. Still taking feedback, hopefully this will do! Final candidate 3 An update based on Gario's excellent feedback. tweaked some lead & pad sounds to balance the EQ better pitched a couple of the snare sounds a bit higher made some leads follow the source more closely added a bg melody from source tweaked the bass sound for additional life/stereo/detail other small tweaks confusing convoluted source breakdown: What's used from the source: the two slightly different note sequences: 0:51-1:05 "half-time" 0:00-0:07 "fast"; the variation/ending at 0:05 is only referenced once at a bg melody. 0:29-0:36 background stuttering melody-ish support bleep 0:22-0:29 bassy line Source usage in the piece: The bass line - the rhythm is offset to be off-beat: half-time: 0:24-0:53, 1:10-1:23, 1:58-2:01, 2:05-2:09 based on half-time with chord change: 2:01-2:05, 2:09-2:12 mix of fast/halftime: 0:53-1:08, 2:14-2:41 Square lead: 0:53-1:05, 2:13-2:43 half time, the steady rhythm broken up 1:26-1:56 half time The filtered saw lead at 1:48-1:56 based on the bassy line at 0:22-0:29. Support stutter (from 0:29-0:36 in the source): build-up: 0:09-0:11, 0:13-0:15, 0:17-0:18 meat of the usage: 0:20-0:38 0:40-0:46, 0:48-0:53 2:22-2:30 sparse usage (often buried): 1:00, 1:03-1:04 1:34, 1:38, 1:49, 1:53 2:06, 2:09 2:32, 2:36, 2:40-2:43 Other support stuff: * "ticking" square 1:08-1:10, 1:25-1:26, 1:41-1:58, 2:00-2:01, 2:03-2:05, 2:07-2:09, 2:11-2:12, 2:19-2:21, 2:43-2:48 (from source 0:00-?) * bg square lead 1:19-1:21 (fast, part at ?) * bg square lead 1:23-1:24 (fast, part at )) --Eino

Nice loot! I feel so bummed I couldn't pledge anything at all. --Eino

I think the key change in the end works now, you fixed the strange transition into it. I think it has a point of highlighting that section and distinguishing it from the previous part. FWIW I think your sounds are fine apart from the mechanical guitar. Lots of very nice sound design / soundscaping / effect usage I think. I think the guitar as a sound works much better from 3:30 onwards. The track sounds pretty sparse around 1:36-2:46. The section is pretty long. It's mostly the bass line and some spicing, and I feel like there could be a lot more of textural interest there to keep the interest. 1:53-2:03 with just the bass & the low synth do work on their own, it's pretty cool how it's stripped down to that, but overall that section feels pretty empty for how long it runs. I'd recommend trying to trim it length-wise and also add some smart ambient textures to it, even very quiet (high passed?) light percussion touches could work. Lots of improvement, if I recall correctly! Very enjoyable track as it is. I'd still try to work on the long sparse section. Another idea would be to perhaps ask around for a guitar collaborator? --Eino

A very, very nice take on the original. The entrance to the main meat at 1:07 or so makes the geese all bumpy. Pretty cool modal shifts (or whatever) towards the end at the quieter section before the final fast part. Love the tale about the trumpet part too! --Eino