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Eino Keskitalo

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  1. I usually listen by ear. This is a lot of work, but with practice it becomes easier. I usually might only just learn specific parts of the source, not everything. For example, just figuring out the melody is often a lot easier than figuring out the backing track. And it's also quite fun to reharmonize the backing. You kind of get the "personalization" of the arrangement for free. Though I have to say earlier I was a lot more careless about the source tune when transcribing, where now I'm more interested in actually learning how it goes. But you can start "easy" with just the melody. Depends on what you want. Like HH360 says, someone might have transcribed the source tune into a MIDI already. These can be useful. That said, I haven't found a nice flow to working with them. They usually end up constraining the track too much for my liking, compared to me transcribing the original myself.
  2. If we could get participation and voting up that would be great I think! PRC was quite popular in the early days, when forum activity was a bigger thing. It made sense to pick sources that were less popular to get more exposure for the sources themselves. But I'm now thinking maybe it would be good for the competition if more well known familiar sources would bring attention to the competition.
  3. Thank you sggod89 !! Originally I think the restriction of "no OCR ReMixed tunes in PRC" was to highlight more obscure tunes and perhaps get more variety to OCR eventually due to compo -> submissions. I support this, but I think other things are now more important for PRC... So these days I would allow those more popular sources again, perhaps that would add life and interest to the compo!! I do think it's a good idea to not have the same source over and over again. The one-year limit sounds all right to me! The "rematch" idea sounds fun but hard to manage!
  4. Cool goal and congrats for achieving it! I can see how with such a goal both the speed and quality would come up. Do you think you'll keep up a regimen like this? It sounds like you were able to keep it fresh for yourself for a year?
  5. Mmm, a free round over the holidays, always so tempting ...!
  6. Oh my Water Goddess Mitula!! Shining Force II is soooo good and Motoaki Takenouchi is such a fantastic composer. I also would like some _sleep_ in my life but if I can't find time for this round what is even the point. I know right?!
  7. There we go, finally edited this a bit .. https://www.dropbox.com/s/5ven7lnd920h8xx/eino_keskitalo_-_bitter_sweets-20221123-rc2.mp3?dl=0 I _think_ I addressed the lead panning a bit, at least one of the flutes seems to lean to the right. I mixed the arpeggio a lot lower. Didn't change the structure, but added a little bit of warbly pad towards the end to fill out the soundscape a little bit. Probably will write a submission letter soon!
  8. Sweet stuff! A pleasant surprise as the style wasn't indeed what I'd have expected from DDRKirby(ISQ). Super good chill mood here, with sort of a restrained "bubbling under" feel. There's something under the surface ... and what a wonderful transformation of the original source tune!
  9. The source tune is basically Incy Wincy Spider in this one. Lemmings OST had a lot of (if not all of it) public domain music.
  10. Excellent album! Sweet tunes for while working. Have shared around.
  11. Super cool SNES techno! edit: Allister Brimble ... no wonder I was feeling Amiga vibes!
  12. Ooooh, this one is a favourite ... (edit: but yeah, I already picked this previously)
  13. Gotta say I love the way the source has been treated here. The first part reminds me how beautiful just the melody is. The second part is quite clever in using just parts of the arpeggio run. And then we get the full beautiful arpeggio. The glitchy, choppy approach is also really fun! FF4 was a really really impactful game for me when I was a kid, and I get the nostalgia recognition goosebumps here too.
  14. The 7th Saga is great stuff! It'll be interesting to hear the results!
  15. First track is sounding sweet! Really cool selection of 8/16-bit sources too, with a few home computer tunes thrown in! I have to ask ... what is your relationship with Bazooka Bill?
  16. Thanks Henkka! I think I'll take another listen at the source, and look into the drum balance.
  17. Thanks David! I'll take a listen and see if I'll incorporate some of those extremely well-articulated and pin-point thoughts. 1. and 2. especially sound like something I would want to do, thanks! 3. would adjust the song structure which I might judge too much work at this point but I'll certainly give it a pair of mouse-ears and see if they agree with the idea. More importantly, you should certainly check out Castle of Illusion on the Master System; I'm almost shocked that you haven't! Castle of Illusion on 16-bit vs 8-bit is very interesting. The 8-bit version is not trying to do what 16-bit version is doing but only half as good; it's a solid whimsical 8-bit platformer in its own right and in its own, perhaps more deliberate style. The soundtrack also has specific tunes in each version, although the cake level theme is in both. Mega Drive/Genesis version actually has a variation of the theme that I long considered using to extend this arrangement, but I think I'll just wrap it up now rather than sit on it for longer!
  18. Original: Rearrangement: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5ven7lnd920h8xx/eino_keskitalo_-_bitter_sweets-20221123-rc2.mp3?dl=0 Older versions: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kankncj3jyypjkd/eino_keskitalo_-_bitter_sweets-20220415-rc1.mp3?dl=0 This one started way back in 2012, during People's Remix Competition round 210. https://compo.thasauce.net/rounds/view/PRC210 I decided that hey, this is actually finished, with just a bit of polish. I was thinking of extending it, but it sounded rounded out enough to me now. It's a bit short, but if you like it, you can simply listen to it again!
  19. Original: Rearrangement: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9mz8x5t4f4hfxwi/eino_keskitalo_-_sieluraiteet-20230106-rc5.mp3?dl=0 Old versions: https://www.dropbox.com/s/339befddrodv5f7/eino_keskitalo_-_sieluraiteet-20230105-rc3.mp3?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/vue95l2ak4z8isa/eino_keskitalo_-_sieluraiteet-20220415-rc1.mp3?dl=0 This one comes originally all the way from People's Remix Competition round 247, in 2013! https://compo.thasauce.net/rounds/view/PRC247
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