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This made my day - OLR is back in business!

There better be one goin' on during Thanksgiving - I'm in this week if you guys are! Thank God for Holiday breaks .

Almost two years, eh... I remember when this was on the front page - it's terribly sad. I wasn't a forum member at the time, though (nor was I involved in the forums), so I didn't read the touching thread that coincided with the incident. I honestly haven't understood how connected the community is until now - I'm glad to be a part of it. While I couldn't say it before, he is a remixer that I give my deepest respect, condolences and prayers to. God be with you, Reuben.

Ah, Damned, that wasn't very nice... wait, you are old Slut, nevermind. Happy birthday, and try not to age too much this year.

If you don't know... well, I don't think it's ethical for me to influence your vote, so let's stop here . *cough*vote for me*cough*

Alright, I submit something... I didn't want to see this end as a single submission compo, so here's my offering. Enjoy it in all it's (short) glory.

I didn't think that I would get another DS game until they remade FF6... This obviously proved that wrong.

Hey, all! I'm trying to submit some music to a few graduate schools, but one of the places I'm looking into requires decent recordings of my music. For the most part I have that covered... however, one of the pieces (a woodwind quintet) that I want to submit doesn't have a very good recording, unfortunately. Would anyone be willing to run it through a good sound font (I mean a pretty realistic one, not a free one like I use, unfortunately) so I can have something decent to submit? I've got about a week and a half to get it in by, and while I've done everything else for this college I don't have this one recording . I have it in Sibelius form and Midi form; if you're interested please send me a pm (no offense, but the material is a bit too sensitive for me to post publicly). Thanks!

I'm going to try to get something done before the deadline, so this won't be an empty competition Hopefully more people will submit, though.

Yup, MM9 remix album coming out... Also, whoever wants MM9 remixes should check out the WIP forums more often - people take stabs at it quite often. There's a Splash Woman mix, a Galaxy Man mix, a Jewel Man mix and a Intro/Concrete Man mix on there - all of which sound pretty damn nice, imo. For those that can't wait for the album, of course . Really, though, people should check out the WIP forum more often than they do, considering a lot of requests appear in there.

Megaman 1-9... Great. Fucking. Games. Contra (NES): Really. Fucking. Difficult. Silver Surfer (NES): Incredible. Fucking. Music. Amagon (NES): It. Fucking. Sucks.

It's just fine - I'm not sure I'll be in my state, though, so I don't know if I can participate. Maybe I'll just make something early on and get something in . We'll see .

How can we forget about the most varied talent on OCR? Happy birthday, dude. I'm always waiting for your next submission - actually, I'm waiting for the day you submit a gansta-rap remix of something like Amagon's theme, and actually produce something I enjoy. The scary thing is, I think you could do it. Really. Anyhow, happy birthday, and keep on truckin' some impressive music, here!

Umm... oops - totally forgot to vote, now. Time to take my Alzheimer's medicine.

Oh hey, it's another birthday thre... Wait, it's Rozo's birthday! Have a good one, buddy, and keep the WIP forums alive with your crits and comments (I've been a bit lazy, lately, in that department ). Have a good 24th birthday ...which isn't old, like Palpable said, lol.

Woo, the last track is claimed I was actually thinking it should be a metal track, so don't let us down, Luke!

Yeah, it's MM3, alright, but the octave leaps make it hard for us to connect the tune as the intro, on first listen. Just a thought - if you make the octave leaps occur when the melody leaps significantly in the opposite direction (the melody leaps down, the octave switch goes up) it would be easier on the listener. Not much else to go on (obviously), but I'd like to hear the rest of it when you get it - it's easily the best song in the franchise, so we can't get enough remixes of it.

Bumped for an update (the link on the first post is updated) - got a new bass in there, a warmer mastering overall and cleaned up the end considerably. I also have new rain - new rain is nice How's it sound?

Ah, you're primarily a percussion writer - I see why you made most of those decisions (it's technically easier to see rhythmic patterns with the ties, and the resonance notation is common). I used to do the tied notes for my music, as well, which is why I know pianists don't like it . Look at some piano music if you want to learn to write idiomatically for the instrument (that goes for any instrument, as well). Don't worry about it's mechanical sound, since you can't really do much to fix it on Sibelius. Find a player to play it for you - that'll fix it . Yeah, about the two Wily mixes... I guess there really is only one solo piano mix (I hear a few that use piano and other instruments and got them mixed up ) Best of luck with future pieces, and if percussion is your forte why not make a percussion remix of a tune? We don't get too many of those on here (although one does immediately come to mind, lol).

From the last thread - when I talk about sidechaining I mean when you purposely clip out the sound of other instruments in order to give room for your drums (or whatever instrument). If you didn't do that effect throughout your song on purpose then your song is overcompressed and clipping at those parts. That's what I'm talking about

I've been waiting for this one for a while, now - all I've got to do is download it somehow on my terrible connection (patience and time - two things I lack ). Nonetheless, congratulations on the release - I'm sure it's incredible (and I'll try to verify that as soon as I download the album).

I think Ascendancy nailed it - it's like you had a bunch of great ideas but didn't know which one to go with. Also, is that Wild Arms that I hear in the music, periodically? Not much to say about this one - isolate some ideas and crop others. I don't think the production is bad on this track, personally. I don't know about the OCR judges, but I think it would be passable based on the production. Just remember to pass it by one of the J's, when the time comes. It's my favorite track from that entire game, so make it great

Well, those songs on that setlist would all rock - just gotta echo what's been said (Starcraft Terran song? Diablo Tristram? Brilliant.)... Hey, do some more Silver Surfer on the live set, too (perhaps the intro music ). Just a suggestion, if you're takin' em', seeing you're a SS fan.

Ooo, a Sibelius score! I haven't seen one of those since college . God bless Sibelius (finally got a copy, myself - can't wait to refurbish some of my older compositions and get them published with it ). To be honest, people should post scores more often, except generally it can't be done with the programs they use . Yeah, there are in fact two piano Wily arrangements on this site (live performances, no less), so I don't think it has a chance to get on here, unfortunately, but let's look at it as if it isn't going on the site and give you good criticism, anyway (just being honest, not harsh). Alright, first of all it's not a sonata... I'm sure you used the title to mean 'Piano song' in a more clever way, but it's not a sonata in the technical sense. Form would need to have an exposition, repeat, development and recap (which, I'm afraid, this track doesn't have). I don't know, I just thought it might give you some ideas The triplets that occur in mm. 21 - 22, while a good idea, are an isolated idea that sound out of place in the music. If you're going to use triplets be sure to incorporate them in more than one part of the music; otherwise I'd recommend taking them out, entirely. Watch some of the harmonies - the penultimate harmony toward the end of each phrase tends to be a bit off from the source. I personally like the slow intro + Midnight Sonata 3rd movement action you have going here, but it doesn't seem like enough play on the original. Normally, if it's not an OCR song I don't mind, but because there's enough remixes and arrangements online to satisfy every genre out there ten times over (especially piano), you've got to give it something different to differentiate it from the rest of the crowd. It's not bad (especially for a first attempt) but it doesn't quite stand out, as is. Needless to say, it sounds mechanical, but with that handy-dandy score you've got that's relatively easy to fix - find someone to play it for you . Let me take a quick look at the score to see if it's playable... Too much pedal! If a real pianist say this score and actually used the pedal like you have it the music would become a muddy disaster (especially in the quick parts!). I can appreciate the pedal in the slow sections, but even then most pianists worth their salt would add the pedal there for flavor, anyway, so it's redundant to write it in so often. The ties that go nowhere are strange - I take it you just want the note to ring, right? If you keep the pedal markings the notes will ring, anyhow, and if you simply add the notes at the end of the ties it'll be clear enough to let the notes ring. Just letting you know I haven't seen that in notation before, nor do I find it necessary to do here. I notice you like to tie eighths together to represent quarters. While that's technically acceptable, it might be easier to read them if you either make the tied eighths rests instead, or make quarter notes instead. The way they're laid out looks strange. The only time you should use the ties in the context of this song is when the quarter (or whatever) note will take you over the barline. Measure 52 looks strange with the eighth - sixteenth combos in the left hand - you should just change them all to eighths (with the sixteenth note you'll get at the end tied to the next measure, of course). Alright, hope this helped, and good luck on your next remix... Oh, and welcome to OCR .

Quick note - this belongs in the 'Workshop: Remixes' forum. You'll get more attention there than here The aural sound here is quite brilliant, although I could do with less sidechaining in the melodies (actually, it could use less side chaining overall, in that section). Love those instrument combinations I'm not quite feeling it as much when you get it into the electro-house sections, personally - it just sounds too juxtaposed against the other part. It sounds interesting at the last third of the song, but the uber-sidechaining really detracts from all of the parts. You really need to take the sidechaining down quite a bit, overall. We all can't get enough Corridors of Time, though - don't let the fact that OCR has 1,000+ remixes of it detract from you .