Psychog13

thats sounding pretty good, Gunstar heroes ftuw do some more!

Gotta admit, I hate final fantasy with a passion so im most likely out of this one.

OMG voting is HAAAAAAAAARD! Awsome pieces guys

true, it doent help that all ive heard mostly come out of that fruity loops from a long time ago before ever knowing of this place has been total epic fail by people who really couldnt write anything, kinda made me just think the program must be pretty rubbish so never given it the time of day. Would actually like to hear the results of something that has been done by someone who knows what the heck they are actually doing with fruity loops I seem to hold reason in high reguards also just because i know that VNV nation uses it for his work and he can get some decent sounds out of it, not decent songs mind but awsome sounds haha ^-^

ill check that one out sir nuts ^-^ I think my cubase cd thing came with wavelab but i didnt have a clue what it was so i didnt bother looking at it, might be worth a look. ia so got fruity loops and reason 1 but i cant use those confusing programs for the life of me, tbh tho what ive heard come out of fruity loops i dont wanna use it but reason sounds fantastic, just wish i could get my head around it i do have some sorta reason plug in for cubase so i can use its intruements in cubase but as i cant use reason at all it kinda doesnt help p.s. bring on the next one showroom ^-^

First and foremost I appogise firstly Rexy for my rudeness, also and it had not crossed my mind that you be a woman, I didnt know though so surely you cant be upset about that but now I do ^-^ but anyways so sorry abouts that. ^-^ erm 2ndly I actually wanna say how much I personally appreciate that you are running such a competition as this, ive really enjoyed this first event that ive participated in and shall definatly be entering more. oks onto the issue, thanks for taking such a long time to write. I know it seems that there is some bad blood atm but i gotta be honest even when i write sometimes i write a bit bluntly and stuff when i really dont mean anything by it. And i am definatly very calm ^-^ I hadnt thought of normalising the piece after extracting to wav, although i dont have a program to do this other than importing it back into cubase and then normalising that wav only to extract it again... hardally seems logical. Is this some program i should be made aware of? squenced piano is frowned on? Why because the people who can play feel threatened by it? shouldnt they then frown on any sequenced intrument, Sounds a bit daft to me and eliteist. I dont play piano but i understand how to sorta and i thought my note lengths were pretty accurate to as if a performer was playing the piece i think, that is something I taken some time on. Forth is good, im not bothered, i could of came last and felt little or no heartbreak but im definatly not here to win and the position doesnt matter at all, Im here to improove myself so that i can create pieces based on video games that other people apprecieate, thats all that matters to me. I thought people here would want to hear them thats why I joined. anyways thanks for writing and erm, sorry xGx

I expect constructive cirtisim and i want it. I do agree with the constructive things i was able to pull out of what he said i just think the way his entire paragraph about my piece personally was written was in an incredably harsh tone, very blunt and rather hurtful to be honest after the effort i did put into it as i assume everyone else here did also. it was hardally constructive i just read it as hate, "the entire thing was sloppy, the entire thing was weak" definatly doesnt read like "I think what let you down was..." or "the piece was intresting all round but you really need to improove..." thats why i was offended. It was supose to, I thought the empty gap was terrible with just the crappy offbeat bassline on its own, the crowd added the atmosphere it needed to make it an epic build up i thought, clearly your tastes say otherwise. Still not really understanding what anyone means by that, and also is 'sloppy' really what my piece is? i mean, how was I sloppy? I spent ages on each individual intrument, each part of the song making each piece of music work so that everything locked in tight, and dont get me started on the drums i always spend ages on them. I would hardally say that I was sloppy in that aspect so i dont understand at all what you mean when you say i was 'sloppy' or it is a 'sloppy production' but i would certainly hope you do not mean it in that aspect in which i am reading it which is i was lazy and threw it together without any care. i didnt rush anything, but all i know now from what rexy said is my output was too loud which is true, that was a minor error on my part and maybe a 'sloppy' mistake, doesnt mean you have to call my entire piece sloppy I still think it sounds pretty great on my comp (which does kinda have a kick ass sound system and makes anything sounds good to be fair :S ) ...other than in Rexys personal taste he disliked that i compressed my piano a little, what was sloppy about it? I really dont understand This was my first entry, i intended to participate purely to have fun, I had absolutly no desire to win to be honest (as that means i cant participate in the next one and i want to!) I like the idea of lots of people making differnt mixes of the same thing and being able to compare at the end. its a brilliant idea and very enjoyable. I hope to get better at remixing and stuff from being a part of this 'competition'. I would like to think that by now im pretty good at making decent covers of old retro stuff but lacking in the originalality part which is why with this one i went crazy and tried to do something ive never done before which was solo throughout the entire piece using multiple intruments (which no one seemed to notice ). I tend not to experiment more with intruments but with writing original pieces like the piano at the start and solo's which for me being a drummer is quite difficult as i understand the theory behind music (scales, chords etc) but am not very good yet with any actual melodic instrument if you know what i mean. However i thought the comments that were written were just harsh and way too hard hitting for me to really take in without feeling like the guy basically just said it was rubbish and thats that, i sure he ment well and maybe I over reacted a little at first reading and i do want to know whats wrong about my work but its just the way it was written. Very exaguarted too i think... well, i HOPE.

hehe grats showroom ^-^ bring on the next one. 4th, not a bad start i guess.... reading up on the comments im rather hurt to be honest with these comments - "Production wise, everything seemed really sloppy" also "weak production to it". I spent literally fucking ages getting every instruments sound levels perfect with each other O.o (or at least on my sound system) the piano esspically!!!! The start was a controlled gradual increase of volume and velosity aka a gradual fade in... I didnt just want to start playing it like i was taking a sledge hammer to the damn thing... also i used a classical piano sound which kinda sounds a little compressed but works really well I think for piano pieces like that, you cant diss the piano dammit " I'm not so sure about using audience claps as a constant use of percussion; it probably adds a little bit too much cheese into it if you know what I mean." - the clap was over used on purpose but mostly followed the snare (cheese ftw) and the actual auduiance wav was only used twice for short times to fill some empty gaps... "in the event that it comes with a mixer then it's probably a case of turning down the input volume" yeah that is pretty true i tend to leave it a little high but on my system everything was decent, however listening to it on a poorer system like my mp3 player and it sounds too loud, had i done that sooner i would of corrected it. "the transition to 3/4 timing around 3:35 seem a little randomly placed " true i was going to add a slow down in tempo before that but didnt have the time so just did a straight switch of tempo (also it was still 4/4 just played in triplets hehe ^-^ thought the change added something new and kept it intresting ). to be honest that is the piano part i started with entirely, it was the first thing i wrote for this "I'm interested to know what program you work with though" cubase vst5 "You provided one of the more fickle entries around here" ...that reads like ciritisim I just tried to make the piece intresting. The tune we had to work with was pretty lame as it was. oks im still not very happy about useage of 'weak production', i mean wtf? WEAK?! Thats a pretty harsh word surely conciding the sound and intrument quality and actual sound of mine i thought was pretty damn good in comparison to others (no offence intended) ...fucking 'weak'... damn man i need more details. Thats not very posi xGx

yeah totally not impressed with the mp3 versions of the tunes, not only are they just midi rips but i hate using basic audio versions of intruments that sound pretty much nothing like real intruments, sounds absoltuly rubbish imo my sky chase zone is miles better than theirs should get an OCR team on the job also haha that s2 ending video is pretty cool

Voted awsome stuff guys

might give this a try later if i have the time

there is currently a Tales of Symphonia PCR119 in progress, voting starts on the 3rd, remixing the tune from Sylvarat or somthing http://compo.thasauce.net/rounds/view/PRC119 thought it might be revalant to your intrests

Alright mines finally ready, going to send it now I settled in the end for "Euphoria in Sylvarant (Tales of Symphonia)" Cant wait to hear the other entries now This was very fun cya on saturday! *edit* Didnt realise others were already up to listen to! hehe checking them out as to the rules not posting any comments tho - so cya on saturday

You dont realise just how almost perfect a title that is for my mix good suggestion

Not even one reply.... *cry*

Actually posted mine today cant wait to hear your's though

Hey I think mine is actually finished or almost anyways i just added something that made it actually pretty damn good even i like it now just one problem though, i never played this game so I dont know what to call my mix, any ideas? p.s. its sooooooooooo goddamn happpy!!!

you mean the actual level or the part when the empire is talking on the screen and you untie the professor? the level tune is epic (but which tune in game isnt epic really ) btw if you havent checked my site, i uploaded a 2nd gunstar tune so check it out

god this song.... ive got 5 mins of mix so far and i hate almost every second of it >.< mine is awful at the moment at least i think so haha i just hope i can do something good with it before the deadline

mines not so good atm, not having much inspiration at all

Awsome sig thing stuck it on straight away ^-^ Cheers Hylian

Hey guise This is my first Post here in these forums so I hope you enjoy this piece i offer Its on my website at www.myspace.com/xcriticalstrikex The source comes from completeing Gunstar Heroes on the Mega drive and there is a small cinematic, one of the sweetest tunes in the game i think its always a pleasure to hear when you clock the game. I hope you like it ^-^ xGx

Yippee! some lemmings ftw Hey Xeno Just checked out that mix, In a word its pretty damn cheesy hehe but in a relativly awsome sorta way. Alright before laying down my constructive crits im going to admit that I personally am not a fan of 'trance' mainly because of the genres endless repitition and ambience, its not something i like at all and your song did seem to loop far too long for my liking in places but i think thats down to the genre so i guess thats a good thing? Basically dont hold against me anything i come out with as i dont have much of a clue anyways So anyways, what I thought was that fir a start the sounds u were using were actually pretty decent but the lead tune was maybe a little quiet behind the loud siren like phasing-saw-keyboardy-ravey-soundy thing - yes... that thing... - I could barely make it out So sound levels is prby one thing for you to look at. Other than that I think that your drums were very weak and brought the piece down dramatically cause they were really lacking any oomph and just looped pretty much all the way. Minimal or no fills and to be fair it was a pretty weak beat full stop A damn good start though Xeno, the intruments were spot on and came together nicely. Get a bit of practise in writing your percussion and your a winner! Keep it up xGx p.s. Im totally new here too hehe, even though ive wrote loads of mixs in my spare time im only actually submitting my first post in this forum today ^-^ and i would love to hear any critisim u have about mine ( you can get revenge haha )

The intrument you are using sounds ace, but ir definatly needs accompanyment I think. Also it seems that rather than upgrading it it looks like u took the best part of the tune out and downgraded it its also very hard to make an almost perfect tune better (all the tracks from galaxy are pretty awsome) unless you completely change the feel of it ( and in most cases masacre the source hehe ^-^; ) Well either way reguardless of that it still sounded good mate, some serious potential, keep that square coming! ^-^ (also sorry if this sounded too critical, i really did like it )

Never played the game, dont really like the tune and it sounds allot like space harrier but what the hell I'll see if i can throw something together! ^-^ this is going to totally d-rail my current master piece in the works tho >.< *edit*...or not cause i just finished it now i can start on this thing ^-^