Gario

I have no preset hate, and would love to use them if they sound good. Unfortunately I use Reason 3.0, which only comes with two synthesizers, and the presets on them are... well, limiting, after you use them for a while. That forces me to get into custom synths. Ah well, I guess that makes me a better musician overall, in the long run. I think I hold a common position here - if it works for you than go for it. The only time I'll point something out is if the preset is not working for a particular track, but then it's not an issue of a preset but of soundscape design.

Yes they're similar. You know that there's only so much you can do with chord progressions, right? In a finite world of tonal music you're bound to find two songs that use the same progression, just by the law of averages. It's still fun to listen to it, though

Ooo, very sexy remix. A couple of comments, if you want it on OCR - there's not quite enough source to go around. It sounds awesome, but playing that source once in the middle (and a little ditty at the end) isn't going to cut it for source usage. There's a lot of room where you could include variations of the source in this arrangement, though, so I could see that being fixed easily if you wanted to. Not to mention that there's a badass section in the original source that isn't even there (and it's just pure synth wankery - I mean it would go so well with your track...), so hopefully we will see an update with awesome source usage, but that's up to you. The length is... short. Objectively speaking, the arrangement is just begging for more. It sounds like there's a whole other section that it's building into, yet it fades out instead. It made me sad, because I was looking forward to the next section. I can't say for sure, but I think I hear some clipping in the high ranges. YT tends to do this to videos, though, so if you could provide a link to the Mp3 we could make sure it's something with the track rather than something with YT. Otherwise I loved it. The dance style was great, and it got me bobbing my head, for sure.

It's great, overall. Long, a little on the boring side, but it's great. One issue that might help with just about anything that's wrong with the track, though - you really need some sounds that fill the mid/upper-mids of the EQ. Perhaps a pad, maybe an electronic texture, instead (to keep with the style), but this track never seems to fill that portion out. Instead of blanketing the track with that mid filler, though, you could have it come in and out at choice parts to make the track more interesting overall - thus fixing the supposed 'variety' problem (it's actually very varied, but it sounds like it's all the same due to the soundscape). Yeah, fill that range better and you'll have a real winner on your hands, here. Nice sounds, interesting arrangement. I likes it.

Man, I was waiting for this album for a while - glad I was able to get it before my NM outing for a week. Let's see how it holds up (although who am I kidding, with the remixer lineup that's there it'll hold up just fine, I'm sure).

He needs WAVs because it's a lossless format. You don't want to send an Mp3 file for him to compress when he creates the properly labeled Mp3 + FLAC files.

Hanon is worth the twenty bucks so get it. Don't even question it if you're serious - it'll help your technique immensely. To get the most out of it first learn the exercises on the white keys (as written), then learn it in BbM (all the black keys) - that way the technique will apply to all sorts of different music. In the ideal world you learn it in all 12 keys, but it works well in those two at least. As for chords, tinker around for a bit, listen to music and imitate. You can learn them through books and such, but the piano represents things in such a visual manner in the first place that you can learn quite a bit just through imitation. BTW, on most programs there is a piano roll that you can use to input notes, so anything/everything you learn on the piano chord-wise will translate easily, so keep up the good work.

Wait wait wait! HOLY SHIT. I just caught this, hold on, it's a response from the Zelda Trance. Yeah, yeah, we already know he also claims to be bLiNd in that same statement. He just took credit for creating OCremix.com... er, I think he meant org. I'm still laughing at this, it's just amazing. Move aside, DjP, this guy is the real brains of this site!

Haaa... this guy's still up too, after repeatedly telling them to shut him down (you know, the guy who is bLiNd, Saimey and Rama all at once). I have seen them shoot down someone stealing AnSo's Mario remix, though, so we can still dream that they'll someday take action... ... just like someday Sega will produce a good Sonic game again, amirite?

Nice work, Sir_Nuts. Glad you liked the source, btw - I can see you and I both think it's a terribly underrepresented game .

Parallel 5th =/= leap of a 5th (which is what Neblix said). Moseph's description of it clearly shows that means 'parallel'... which indeed sounds like a failed music theory student's counterpoint exercise And the first leap in the melody of 'Chariots of Fire' is indeed a fourth, not a fifth. There are some horn motions before the melody that are leaping fifths, though... so there's room to save yourself, Neblix.

I enjoyed it for what it was. In fact I enjoyed it quite a bit. The quotes were a nice touch, by the way. Great work.

Liontamer (as a representative of OCR) or K. Praslowicz could file a copyright flag against the video. YT seems to love to take videos down based off of that, so that might work. I also will post a message (that will probably be deleted). At least I would, except Youtube has the funny habit of not allowing me to post anything. I can't ever seem to figure out why that error message comes up (it's not descriptive, either - it's "error, try again").

No mixes... no shit? What a shame. Well we better fix that, eh? You get Hardman and I'll give Sparkman another shot - that'd fix up that list nicely (and someone can cover Wily 1 ). Going to give it to you straight - these synths are pretty vanilla. I think after two mixes posted the J's will look at that in a very negative light (they look for progress with a posted mixer, according to some of their comments on mixes), so get some custom work on those synths to really make them unique. That basic trance saw is especially noticeable. The portamento on some of the synths is quite badass, though - give you props for that The arrangement is passable, I think. The source is there, yet you seem to go on quite a few interesting paths away from, as well. I think you really water down the harmonic complexity of the original track, though, which really works against you here. Trance is a genre that should steal variety when it can, because there's naturally not much to grab, and the variety of harmonic motions are a perfect place to get your sounds. The drum line fills the space, but it's generally not interesting. It's like the junk-food of drum lines - it's filling, but it's not really good for you. Spice it up with some variety, some crisper sounds (perhaps a little compression could go a ways here), more fills... just moar, overall. The production is a bit on the quiet side overall, but it's not bad otherwise. Try to get the volume up a little bit without losing the clean sound you have already. MM3 is the best. Hardman is underrepresented. That name is suggestive and the Japanese are perverted. Good luck with it.

HAHahaha~... YES, someone who understands my pain.

Mmm... dictation. It's a skill that needs to be put into practice, there's really no two ways about it. Some tricks to it: learn intervals by associating them with well known songs. For example, you could memorize a descending major third by imagining the first leap in the Mario theme song. Whenever you hear that leap you know what it is. Association to every possible interval (there are about 24 of them - 12 up and 12 down) will help you learn dictation faster. When listening to music, listen for patterns. You'll find that there are a whole lot of them out there (Up a major third then a minor third to make an arpeggio, anyone?), so remembering these will help you when you come across them in music you're trying to dictate. Otherwise it's a skill that only comes through diligent practice. I practiced by rearranging VG music by ear (no MIDI ripping - that doesn't help dictation), so perhaps that's a good place to start .

That was a flying bug - you should know that it's immune to earth types. Sheesh...

Alrighty, I got mine updated. I'll have it up and running in about an hour, Dyne. Since you're taking remastered wavs anyway I decided just to give the whole track an overhaul, so be prepared .

Goddamn you internet - I was mid download and it crapped out on me. Now it's not available anymore. *sigh* I guess I better wait for the inevitable torrent to come by...

Nope - the track wasn't a joke, so I'm glad you like it (I do too, personally). The possibility that it'd be posted was the joke - it just... no, it'd never happen

Oh shit, Sonic finally did it. He banged Amy, just like she always wanted. Either that or he did that human chick from that one game... What a twist. You know, I can see their potential hook to this game - two playable characters, so this game could have co-op. There's a big problem with that, though - co-op didn't even work back when Sonic was good, so what would make them think it'd work now? If there's no co-op (or anything to make it stand out) then it's just another rehash of Sonic that we've been seeing for the past decade. Nothing new (other than the question of who's offspring that is, Sonic and...?).

Yes. Not successfully, though... Fucking peacocks.

Sorry for the lack of detailed review, but I wanted to do a drive by comment while I have 5 minutes. The overall soundscape is very nice to listen to, and the references to the source are obvious (yay). One of the major killers of the track, though, is the overall limiting that occurs on the master track (boo). You need to fix your volumes so there isn't nearly as much clipping, overlimiting and/or overcompression. This will improve your production values dramatically. I also recommend you use a free hosting site to provide a Mp3 for everyone to listen to, since Youtube tends to mess with the quality of the sound. Those are my speedy suggestions - I liked it otherwise.

Money? Yeah, post that in your title and you'll get a response within the hour, I guarantee it. Musicians love moneys .

Rozo, Sir_Nuts... dooo iiiiiiit... Yeah, it's on my list of things to remix, too, so who knows? Maybe a mysterious bonus mix will come from this, as well.