Eino Keskitalo

I have 30 seconds done and I'm really enjoying making this one. Trying to kind of go back to basics. Lots of time left, this should be fun! --Eino

I did get it now, the recent 75% off sale was a steal. Just beat it on easy, crew teleporter for boarding the enemy vessels was a lot of fun. In the end I had the starting burst laser, a breaching teleport missile weapon, an ion teleport missile weapon and the 4-costing beam. The breach missile was pretty good for softening the enemy crew before boarding. Not sure how the boarding strategy works on normal, I'm kind of trying to resist playing more for now. Very much enjoying the soundtrack! --Eino

Man, this soundtrack is super cool. --Eino

Good critiques, I agree with pretty much everyone! I had too little time for my ambitions, but there's things I could've done better in the time I had and the comments really help point those out. I do need to learn to work faster anyway! Bundeslang, I really appreciate that graph! Thanks for all the amazing effort you put into organizing the competition round after round. --Eino

Gets a bit too loud, even farty at the end But this style certainly works for the source! Very cool to hear this take too - glad you posted it! --Eino

Phew! thankyouthankyouthankyou. For the record, I spent 15 minutes of the extension adding bass to the second half.. and 30 minutes of biting nails and watching progress bars and what not. I really must start taking that stuff into account when approaching deadlines. --Eino

edit: Ah, scratch that - thank you for the whole hour extension! Curse my metallic body, I was too slow! --Eino

5 min extension plz?

http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/age-of-empires/credits gives David and Stephen Rippy the music credits. vgmdb seems to have a tracklisting from a compilation OST: http://vgmdb.net/album/1697 (and more musician credits) Maybe it's on that, maybe that info can help looking it up? cheers! --Eino

Well I have a midi rip thing done, perhaps I'll have a chance to go from there before the deadline! --Eino

Yeah, the libraries are piss cheap and all the demos I've heard sound great (take Ragol Weather). I'll be picking up some percussions later for sure. I also used the free cinematic synth drum sample pack on my latest PRC. So, good stuff, definitely entering. --Eino

There's definitely nothing stylistically wrong with the vocals for me. Somehow they just come off as not well enough performed, as if the melody was too low for the singer. Or maybe they stick out from the mix in some awkward way. Perhaps they come in a little unexpected. The more I listen to the piece less it bothers me. I like how brief this piece is - it makes me want to listen to it several times! (: --Eino

This is just so incredibly well done in terms of both the artistic scope and production quality, not to mention the excellent performances. I just hope this piece alone doesn't nudge the OCR bar upwards so that we mere mortals still have a chance.. --Eino

Really impressive use of the source material, it's clearly recognizable but I don't remember it been used this way, slowed down and forming a solid basis for an electro-pop song. I especially love the airy vocals! On the downside, I don't find the male vocals quite up to par, and the bass drum is pumping the rest of the mix uncomfortably. I don't think the piece is dragged down by these points though, and the unexpected but natural arrangement is something to raise your hat to. edit: I'll add that on the second Leitbur track of the album, the male vocals are spot-on, although the bass drum is again quite uncomfortable. I'm pretty happy to hear another track immediately! --Eino

What did I think? I thought wow. Genre-defying stuff, very fragmented, constantly shifting.. combination of sounds is quite unusual, many points of comparison come to mind (American minimalism for one*).. reminds me also of some classic Shnabubula tracks, which can never be a bad thing. I do think the mixing seemed pretty bright/loud, I had to turn the volume down while listening to the album in sequence for this track. I can live with that, this was a surprising and exciting track, I'm looking forward to listening to this again and again. edit: * lavosslayer thought in the album review thread that Inner Universe by Origa came to mind and I have to agree! --Eino

I liked the PRC version quite a bit so I'm looking forward to the update! --Eino

Congrats Esperado! I dug your track. Pick a good one! (: Thanks for the great feedback everyone. Lots of good points! I've already worked on my track a bit more, and plan to work it to OCR submission eventually.. which will take me 2+ years, but it's on the way! (: I'll also say here, since I didn't write a track description, that I used Impact Soundworks' free Cinematic Synthetic Drums and Timaeus' free Just Plain Glitched sample pack. --Eino

The vote has been saved Nice round everyone! --Eino

Awesome! Gogogo! I for one am very much looking forward to hearing this thing. Ouch. That really sounds painful. :/ Hope it gets better. Congrats Riversound! --Eino

just made it! ^____^ --Eino

Very nice drums. Going to add to the choir and agree that the piano could've been a little louder in relation to them. The atmospheric pads & the static noise intro are really great. The harmonic explorations in the end felt a bit undercooked - they were by no means unwelcome, but the shift to major feel was a bit surprising.. which can be a good thing, but then the piece didn't develop further. I was definitely expecting the piece to explore this variation more thoroughly. I do note that Emunator seemed to appreciate the ending in his judging call. For me it would've worked better as a whole without the coda. Regardless, it did work as a whole for me. Very enjoyable mood, dark mood! --Eino

I've started something, feels good to be back to PRC. --Eino

Hey, cool to see you have a C64 setup with MSSIAH going, I recently got a C64 and am planning to get MSSIAH eventually. The sound packs seem cool, but I don't have compatible software so I can't check them out. --Eino

Heh, Megatokyo has been running for quite some time, hasn't it? I used to read it something like a decade ago.. sounds like a fun gig! Congrats on making the goal (and 50% more) already! --Eino