Gario

Good article. The real joy of it, though, were the responses. Why were you gettin' all defensive, LT? Is it because you know that OCR is all about drum loops, so you want to cover it up with a bunch of words, hoping people won't catch onto the truth? WHAT CHICANERY!

Oh God, please send more Contra music our way - the people of OCR do NOT have enough of this amazing soundtrack! The jazz interpretation is quite impressive. For some reason, I never thought of it in that way, but it works very well for the track. The organ is really in the background, but I guess it would dominate too much if it were brought out too much. Sweet, sweet arrangement.

DS has a posted track of the Greek Temple, if you haven't heard it yet. Highly recommended, for sure, if you haven't already heard it before.

Looks great, watching the video - I'll try it out in a bit. At roughly 6:37, though, all I could think was that we created a goddamn album based on that one song, so why couldn't he use any of it?! Gaaah!

Oh hell yeah. It did have it's good points, like the music .

Not much activity in the project forums. I understand it's early, but if anyone has anything to show off (be it super-rough, 60%, nearly finished, whatever), the project forum is certainly the place for it. I'm sure Bahamut is really enjoying the tracks that have progress on them, but I insist that people use the project forums for their WIPs so we all can give some helpful feedback on the tracks. If you can't get into the project forums, let Bahamut know so he can give you access. Just throwing that out there - it's been awfully quiet for the past month .

http://www.box.net/shared/lsgk0jrn0v OMG OMG OMG, Gario writes purely orchestral music!? Yup - in fact, I personally prefer to write for the orchestra over writing electronic music. I just don't have the tools to make it sound good, right now . This has been sitting around my computer for about a year, so I decided to share. It was made for a project with orchestral Metroid remixes, and now I decided to share it with you guys here. This isn't and was never meant for OCR, so don't worry about it's conservative nature or poor quality. It was made on Sibelius with the onboard Sibelius soundfont (which isn't good, but it's a touch above GM). If anyone wants to upgrade the soundfont to something a little more pleasant just let me know here and I can send you the files . I'm personally not going to update it, though, nor am I going to spend any time rearranging it for any reason - it's finished, in my book. I don't mind feedback, though (as long as it's about the orchestration/arrangement, that is - sample quality will be a redundant statement ). Alright, enjoy. You can't have enough Super Metroid mixes . If you want the sib file/score/midi just let me know.

You're 21. You now need to get smashed... and I'm not talkin' about the 'Smash Bros' kind, either. Happy birthday.

Alright, I got mine up. It's short, but at least there's a functional reason for it being so, this time . I hope it's acceptable. Go Axiom Rangers! EDIT: Perhaps an extension should be in order? There was some interest in this thread before, where'd they go?

I'll try and get something on it. No need to see a compo go to waste, eh? I hope there's more people than me, though .

First one is Castlevania for the NES. I'm not familiar with the other two, but I'm sure someone will identify them in time.

So bLiNd, I take it you're reARMing yourself with that DANGerous track?

Hey, I actually do mean I want more execution-based challenge, lol. I want more of that 'depth' stuff, too, though. It's great to know the difference; I never even thought about the difference between the two. Great stuff, man.

Don't worry - mine's in . I'm taking a short break, but I'm going to attempt to finish it today, to the best of my ability - all it needs is a freakin' ending (which is always the most difficult part of the piece ). Hope you enjoy it . Also, WOOT Devastus! EDIT: Woah, I just noticed that this is probably the only track I've written in years that DOESN'T rely on heavy-ass gating (there's a LITTLE gating, but it's a bare minimum). Neato.

... Button Masher's version is way better.

You never know unless you try - why don't you post a request in this forum? That's what it's there for.

OH NOES! You're a director for this!? We're all gonna get whipped for WIPS! j/k I knew you were a director Wait, I'm a director, too... do I get a whip to whip people for their WIPs? I've always wanted a whip to whip the WIP people for their WIP's.

You know that if you switch your name around a bit, you come up with apple lab? What're you gonna do in your apple lab, create genetic apple monstrosities, or genetically splice them with a human, so it becomes a sentient being just so it can scream when you eat it? WOULD YOU EAT A SENTIENT APPLE MAN, PALPABLE?! IN YOUR INSANE APPLE LAB, PALPABLE?!? IN YOUR APPLE LAB!? Happy birthday. Don't make freaky apple mutants and eat them - it's probably not good for your health. Eat cake instead.

You also could put a space between the '8' and the 'O'. You know, so it's 8 O rather than . You really expanded that Sorceress part, and it was neat. It was lacking some FF6, there, but it was still a good expansion.

My favorite remix of it is easily this one. No kidding, the way that the voice lines up in it just... works.

I made a few minor tweeks, so if you could redownload my track for this compo, Darkesword, that'd be awesome . EDIT: Shit, that was past the deadline, wasn't it? Completely unintentional - I thought I was within 12:00 GMT. Ah well, use either one, at your digression.