Eino Keskitalo   Members

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

Gotta think of something for this round, maybe some track I always wanted to do but haven't gotten around to.Wow 10 years, that's indeed really somehing! I've been participating for five years I think. --Eino

From the Road Rage tracklist, I remember thinking it didn't have the stuff I'd wanted to arrange. Setting tight constrains may help getting a more focused album together, but at the same time it's not landing into everyone's interests. Funny actually, I don't think I've really played any of the games of the projects I've finished tracks for. But in his case where I've played a lot of the DS version, getting to pick the source you really want from there instead of a sorter list seems more important. --Eino

I have submitted my piece! --Eino

I've playd the DS version quite a bit, and might well be up for covering a track if the project gets off the ground. --Eino

I should be able to finish mine today. Edit: arranged & recorded to a satisfactory extent, needs some mixing time. Hopefully tonight. --Eino

I've started something as well. --Eino

1. Finish studies 2. Get a job, support family 3. Enjoy downtime with family 4. Stop stressing so much 5. Still find time for music making 5.1. Fully arrange & record my VGM lullabies 5.2. Finish some of the 10-20 unfinished game arrangements I've started (and intend to finish) since 2008 5.3. Finish the soundtrack to a friend's game 5.4. Code, compose & arrange music for Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup (yeah right) ..or really, just number 4. --Eino

Technically I have five more But all I have is the melody + lyrics I'm singing to my daughter at the moment. I have a vague plan to fully arrange & record them next year. --Eino

Ok, here's finally the lyrics to Toteutukoon toiveesi. toteutukoon toiveesi mahdottomatkin sait tähdenlennon kiinni tyhjyydessä matkanneen sekunneissa mursi tuhkaks' ilmakehä sen vuosimiljardeja matkanneen talven taivaalla tähdet tuikkia saa nouse hämärän syliin keinumaan se vie sinut kuuhun vie sinut tähtiin vie sinut kauas ja lähellä pitää yö on ystäväsi yksinäisyyksineen laula paremmaksi sen huonot puoletkin yö on ystäväsi taikoineen, unineen täysikuukin paistaa talven taivaalla.. se vie sinut kuuhun.. So what does it say? Here's a literal translation and when I say literal, it's almost google translate literal, i.e. it very much loses it's lyricalness and what not. may your wishes come true even the impossible ones you caught a falling star that travelled in the void in seconds, it was broken by the atmosphere it travelled billions of years in the night sky, the stars may shine climb to the lap of darkness for a rock-a-by it will take you to the moon take you to the stars take you far away and keep you close by the night is your friend with its lonelinesses sing to make it better the bad sides, too the night is your friend with its spells and dreams the full moon is shining too Man, that's awkward. Much better & more meaningful in Finnish, please believe me. As you can tell I did start with the first line from Serrah's theme for the lyrics but went from there to the falling star & lullaby direction. So you probably gathered that this is a lullaby. It's an actual functional lullaby in that our daughter (soon three years old) likes it very much. It's her current favourite of the VGM lullabies I've made for her. It's also the first I've recorded (I made it in this competition). I was able to work the lyrics & singing away from the computer and also sang it a bit to her before recording (which was great for the workflow, since I didn't have much time on the computer) but she really only started enjoying it after hearing the recorded version. I guess that's that. --Eino

That's a freaking magnificent box of stuff. Oomph. --Eino

Thanks for great comments Avaris & Chimpazilla! I think I'll do some tweaks right now. --Eino

If anyone is up for a collab, I could play some modest guitar to the Batman source tune. edit: Wow, the Assassin's Creed source is really really nice, and very remixable to boot. I can do that too! (but *very* modestly) --Eino

Thanks for the review RiverSound! I agree with everything you said. Thanks especially for pointing out the dissonant parts. I felt I didn't get the harmony quite right. Hope's theme has been transposed up a little to the same key as Lulu's; the mode (modality, somethingsomething) is also changed to fit, and the melody is changed to to fit the chord changes in Lulu's A part. It's not nearly as recognizable as I'd have liked (plus, the dissonance..), but I hope it at least a little bit Hope-ful. Yeah, there was much copy-paste. I do intend to continue working on the piece, so there shall be varying up the beat to a satisfying degree. The structure also needs some more work, the last section doesn't quite flow as well as it should. Thanks again for the criticism + the compliments as well! --Eino

It's looking like I won't be able to pledge.. bummer. Hope you reach the goal! I'll have to grab it later. I at least tweeted the link to all my 23 followers. --Eino

I've heard that putting the exercise bike in front of the TV is effective. Watch series and game while working out. Sounded like a good tip, haven't tried mysel. --Eino

I decided to sleep instead. Sleep is good. Then I realized, there's still time until about six in Monday morning here. So plenty of time still! --Eino

I'll probably set aside time next night.. Heh. --Eino

Sounds like a fantastic idea. I'd print some for myself. --Eino