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Eino Keskitalo

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  1. Gotta give props to the smile your lady manages to pull off. The baby makes the best face though. That takes me back. Wish I'd thought of taking a group shot! Huge congrats! Our daughter (now almost 2) also says hi - she seemed to find the picture endearing as well. (:

    --Eino

  2. A pretty rocking, varied arrangement of frankly, not the greatest of sources. The combination of those two chords and that melody in the first part feels kind of stunted (which is quite sad for the plant-themed Wood Man). The ReMix doesn't break that impression, resulting in a strangely low key tune for such rocking instrumentation. I don't think it embraces this feeling like it could either, so it falls a bit mid-way. I'll have to say, though, that I love the guitar part at 1:56!

    --Eino

  3. The guitar goes really well with the electronics in this one, very well done combining them. I also really liked the transition around 2:30. High point of the track!

    As for criticism, the judge decision thread has a lot of good points. I personally wasn't fond of the eurodancey bass/beats, and many of the drum fills, especially as the bassdrum doing the fast notes didn't add to the energy, but seemed to lose it. (All of the those notes seem to be at full velocity - varying it might make it work better). Overall the beat of the song could have flowed better, it feels like its dragging down rather than building up and going forwards.

    But apart from the bass and beat, I enjoyed the synth sounds, and as I said I admire how seamlessly and effortlessly the guitar is incorporated, and that 2:30 bit keeps me listening to this piece again. Congrats on the well deserved first post, and I'm looking forward for more!

    --Eino

  4. This was my piece from KNGI Game Duels EP vol.1, that I'm touching up for OCR submission.

    new wip:

      https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/lms8dwgym9g5rguuzhcz6/eino_keskitalo_-_ninjan_graali-20240621-wip.mp3?rlkey=gzbxdzf4uneebvnhtp9boh3fd&st=94xm9v53&dl=0

     

    Sources:

    Source breakdown:

    • The arpeggio from Ghost Castle plays almost throughout
    • The two-note figure that plays in Aquaduct 0:00-0:38 is played 0:00-1:00 (though in 6/8 and 7/8 instead of 4/4)
    • Dropping the bass to C# in Aquaduct at 0:20 is reflected at 0:45-1:00 (although the bass does come back to D# in the arrangement before going back to C#)
    • The melody from Title Screen plays at 0:28-1:00
    • The melody from Ghost Castle at 0:47-> is played in the background at 0:45-1:00
    • Aqueduct 0:39-> is approximated at 1:16-2:07
    • The two-note figure from Aquaduct plays at 2:07-2:38
    • The melody from Ghost Castle is played from 2:07-> The bass also follows Ghost Castle chord changes.

    Old:

    Current WIP (2013-03-09)

    Changes done since the EP version:

    • better mixing
    • more attention to stereo image
    • unbusify, define parts better
    • spice up the bass a bit
    • rename the piece twice

    A little of each seems to have done a lot. It's amazing how much chipping away at levels and EQ does. It did take me hours and hours though!

    --Eino

  5. They added two more items to $10 and over tier (Hotline Miami EP and POP:ME1), and also added seven more days to the counter.

    The $10 tier bonus list:

    • Hotline Miami: The Takedown EP
    • POP:ME1
    • Joypad Records EP
    • Skyrim: Main Theme cover by Lindsey Stirling and Peter Hollens
    • Kanto Symphony EP
    • Adventures in Pixels
    • Jottobots

    I thought the previous GMB's $10 tier rewards were such a horn o' plenty, that this ones looked quite pale in comparison (though the main offering was very good). Now it's starting to sound much more like it. Of course, that's just comparing it to previous bundles.. it's all way worth more than $10. Not that I could give more than $1 this time, quite sadly.

    Check it out folks, it's good stuff.

    --Eino

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