Eino Keskitalo

FTL has some great music. This is the final sector/boss music, I remember those fights. Should go back to trying to beat the game on normal. Anyway, nice concept! I'd like to see some FTL mixes as well. --Eino

It's the best xmas gift you can get (saying this from experience). Many congratulations and much happiness! --Eino

Wow! I'm impressed, that's a really good walkthrough of the song, I'm really grateful you took the time to do that. Really well laid out too! That criticism about the structure was just what I was looking for. I think I have to agree with that & work some more on the arrangement. It's very encouraging to hear that so much of the track was working for you. Many thanks! I did forget to include the source link, will do later.. --Eino

I could put the stems up, even though I don't think I mix particularly well. The easiest for me would be to just share the Renoise project file, if anyone's interested. You can use the demo version to look at the file, and I don't use any external plugins either. Buuut I dunno if anyone's that curious to install new software etc.. Anyway, stems, yeah, when I find the time. --Eino

I gather we are battling Kuja this round, but the winner of the two of us gets to the finals. --Eino

Okay hmm, I guess I'll try to sneak in some Gogo in that case. (: edit: This compo is super adorable. I have nothing bad to say about it. Go compo! You can do it! --Eino

*insert joke about ectogemia joining up as the staff dentist*

This was my entry for PRC259. I've mixed it a bit better thanks to feedback from that round (thanks especially Esperado and MindWanderer). I'm marking this as finished, as I'd like it to be.. but I need help determining if it's (a) actually serviceable/interesting as a piece of music (worth listening to) and ( good enough for OCR - especially the guitars. I'll be happy to work on this if it still needs work, but even happier to just submit it if it's ok! https://www.dropbox.com/s/otamh46v6s8dzf9/eino_keskitalo_-_Kaikuluotain_wip_20131217.mp3 --Eino

I have seen a couple of attributions in mixposts. Edit: or quite possibly just this one: http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02320/ Couple of Gario's mixposts mention having sounds from freesounds but don't elaborate, I'd assume those use samples that don't require attribution. --Eino

Hooray! The concept of the project is great. And the list of finished tracks looks promising already. Unreleased Dj Mokram goodness.. Get this thing done!! --Eino

Man, that to be judged -queue is shrinking fast.. Isn't it? --Eino

http://wtrebella.bandcamp.com/album/nimble-quest such chippy goodness. Really well written tunes if you ask me. --Eino

I was going to suggest collabing too if Flexstyle wasn't up for it himself. (: --Eino

Bracket images are looking really good now (poor Garpo). Hunf, Kuja. Somehow, I feel stumped right now. I admit it's good, but somehow.. Well, I guess I was already heariing a style/arrangement in my head and Kuja's theme doesn't quite fit! But that's just what makes this fun. It's similar to Tyranno Castle music in CT which is a source I've wanted to tackle for some time. Also.. That "pre-final match-up", reading it actually made my heart rate go up. I hope we get good competition in this Darkness round! --Eino

I love Wonder Boy 3 to bits, and the source is great. I think you did a fantastic job with transforming the music to 6/8, and the 80s feel of the sound is also very enjoyable. The only thing - and a big thing - I'm thinking is that the structure isn't anywhere near finished. The proper start (at 0:28 ) feels like it begins from about the last third of the song. You still have the two first thirds to write! Or so it seems to me. I really, really like what you have here, and I'm very much looking forward to updates! --Eino

Hmh, I'm not hearing that much now, except for the second guitar coming in at 0:21 is eating up the other guitar a bit. It also feels it has a bit too much low end in it. That's a floor tom, right? Not even sure if it's a single sample. Something was sticking out about it to me. Oh well. Damn, it's criminally short. --Eino

I feel bad for not giving any feedback especially after getting so much useful comments myself. Just haven't had the time (and I really should be critiquing BA3 tracks when I have it) but here are some short comments for the round 4 tracks: Ivory The playing is really communicative and emotional, which I enjoy a lot. The transformation of Hope's theme from guitar to piano works very well. I actually had a bit of trouble recognizing Lulu's theme first, but that speaks entirely of the quality of my listening. I think the treatment of it is quite brilliant. The arrangement is a indeed bit of a sketch. The transitions from part to another are somewhat tight turns, and could use some "glue" kind of writing, to weave the sources together a bit better too. Tight turns can be good though. Some of the sudden transitions could work great with just a small pause between them, to create anticipation and then surprise with just going directly to the next part. I lack the theory vocabulary to explain this, but I also felt that the piece sticks too much to the "first chord" or root of the scale, which makes for a sort of one-dimensional impression, especially emotionally. Now if this sounds harsh, I only mean to say that there is a lot, lot of potential in the arrangement. The "glue" part could well be something that contrast the "first chord" feel of all the other parts. Sheesh, I hope you can make some sense out of that. The ending also leaves a feeling of not being developed nearly as far as it could be. That all said, what is there is pretty great - especially the treatment of sources. They could be better woven together, but I already thought that the first transition from Hope to Lulu worked quite well despite being quite straightforward (just one played after another, except the latter changed to 3/4). I really, really hope to hear this developed further. Edward Zorn Gets a Haircut Two things I consider brilliant in this arrangement: the genre choice (both in idea & execution) and the treatment of Edwards theme. It's so different (at least to me) but completely recognizable! On the other hand, I wasn't able to hear any Zorn & Thorn apart from the intro (but maybe that's just my listening again). The rhythm team is quite stiff & mechanical. The voices sound surprisingly good, and the trumpet also sounds good, gives it a Beatlesque vibe (at least to me). The final reprise of the, I'll call it verse, felt a bit samey to what went on from before, which might be unfair as it OTOH seems altered to give it a feeling it's leading to the end, but that sameyness was my initial impression. The overall structure felt complete. Enjoyed the piece a lot! The Gogo Cat Experience I was expecting boombastic orchestral pieces from Chernabogue, and this jazzy vein he's been exploring is a really pleasant surprise. There's a great feeling of a small, smoky, very very decadent club that's probably a front to some sinister organization.. but nobody cares. The very deliberate, relaxed (but still tense) tempo/ryhthmic feel does a lot to create this atmosphere. The material feels cohesively put together. The piano especially sounds good, the rest of it could be humanized better. Get XPRTNovice on the clarinet obviously. Right, couldn't keep it that short after all. That's why you don't see any comments from me, always ends up taking too long. --Eino

I'm a huge fan of DI's Pinball games & their music so I was excited to just see this thread. I enjoyed your take, too! I thought you had made it sound your own, which I always appreciate. As for hopefully constructive critisism, it seemed that the guitar was burying the backing, and that when there were two guitars simultaneously, they were burying each other. So the mixing levels and especially EQ could be improved. I'm on pretty bad listening gear at the moment, which may contribute though. I'll see if I can have another listen in better environment. The other thing I thought was that the timpani/kettle drum suffered from being a single sample. I also would love to hear you expand the arrangement; give it more lenght, and perhaps write some variations of the lead melody. --Eino

Congrats Trism for the win! Thanks guys for the comments. I agree, the mixing needs work so many thanks for the pointers MindWanderer and Esperado. Very useful constructive critisism there! --Eino

Ha ha, I just realized that the voting stage isn't even over and I'm already talking about what I'm going to do next round. What a dick this guy. --Eino

Flexstyle's Starcraft mix got rejected for not enough source usage. I really liked it, so I'd love to see it get through. Any plans for it, Mike? --Eino

I think the vs-style tracks ( and medleys) are a neat idea to cover more source material per album track. You guys are right about worrying about album size while wanting to cover the whole series, I'm starting to understand that now. --Eino

I for my part should have a good part of Wednesday for arranging and good parts of Thursday and Friday recording (taking out the electric this time), and then some of the weekend for mixing and stuff. Well see how that goes! Last two rounds I couldn't have done anything without staying up a night, and I'll want to avoid doing that now. Pretty excited to see what the boss source will be! --Eino

Congrats.. and thanks to all of you for doing this! --Eino