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Ok, as a guy who larry has named as getting rejected a large amount of times before getting posted, I thought I might make a post about the process of how I got to the point of having 25 mixposts on OCR (and more coming! ) It might help you guys figure out how to help yourselves here... Ok, so I got to OCR after some success on youtube with my remixes, my subscribers had told me to come here and get mixes posted. So first thing I did, I submitted this: . Now, I waited 5 months for a response, thinking that the site just didn't function with the judges panel for a while, when I finally got a rejection, which basically said everything was wrong with my remix. Now, first things first... don't do what I did, don't submit to the judges panel blindly. The standards are a little specific and even if you're an experienced musician with good production skills, that doesn't guarantee you to get past the arrangement standards. Unless you're a talented guy with good production skills and a lucky arranging style that fits with the criteria of OCR, you're going to get rejected first time. So I submitted blindly again, and got an instant rejection in the form of an email. Now I got a little annoyed at this, and one thing thats very important is that if you want to become an OCRemixer... getting a grudge against the judges is not the way to do it. Don't ask me why, but anyone who does, just doesn't improve their craft in the same way as others... maybe thats why they get disillusioned (its not easy to get posted folks) but blaming the judges for doing their job really isn't the way to go So I decided to head to what is now the Workshop forum, to post my remixes there for quick feedback, which is what ALL of you should do from the start because its not only a good place to learn, but its a good place to find out what the judges look for without waiting 5 months for a response. Now, I updated a fair few of my older remixes, but they just weren't cutting the mustard apparently so I started one from scratch, getting feedback as I went along, and I came up with my first mixpost, Mountain Of Dreams. Now, this is what I started with: http://tindeck.com/listen/qwwj. The WIP forum helped me get it to the point of the OCRemix version. So through them I got my first OCRemix. Its the way forward folks, the WIP forum. Now, once you've got your first mixpost, don't get cocky, you'll get rejected again for sure. Chances are your first mixpost was a fluke (like mine) and you'll get about 5 or so rejections at least before you start to do stuff constantly over the bar. You'll get there tho, with practice. Use the knowledge available here to you, I joined OCR at the same time I joined university and I learnt more here than I did there. Not kidding. Its a gold mine of music technology teaching basically, and if you use it well, you'll go above and beyond OCRs calling

Well done everyone! Knew block rockman beats would do well, but never expected to actually win! Thanks to halc and nutritious for helping out with this, and of course, great tracks from everyone! Some great tracks from this competition, some of the ones I particularly enjoyed were Dubious Brother, Far From Home and Shadows of Wily to name a few

I can't help feeling he's abandoned this tbh. The SF compo, which honestly he shouldn't have started before closing out this one, has been in progress for a few weeks now, and he still hasn't updated votes here. He can prove me wrong and post the votes, but clearly, he's not that bothered about this, and deems doing the SF compo more important than finishing this right now. Its a shame really.

This is probably the dogs bollocks of all zircons remixes. Its got a rather cheeky mischievous tone to it, similar to the plants vs zombie soundtrack, but it uses that as a foundation to build up to some fantastically epic climatic moments, for example, 1:20 and 2:13. Dynamics are the focus here, and no one has quite mastered that art in the same way as zircon has, and he excelled at that strength here. The treatment of the source tune is pro as well, changing the meter to compound time (3 measures in each beat... swing feel) was inspired, and compliments the infectious groove. And as always, it has zircons seal of production. The only real weakness this remix has is the ending, particularly when you had such a great potential ending to expand and finish at 3:10, it decides to reintroduce the beat and fade out. Confusing decision based on what you had to work with but its a minor gripe. Its got groove, its got orchestral, its got rock, its got EVERYTHING... If you were only to download a select few remixes off the site, then this should be one of them... its clearly one of the best the site has to offer. Oh yeah, he did it in 3 hours or something... Fantastic work zircon, I applaud your effort here.

This for me, is really a standard for how orchestral arrangements should sound, everything fits together so gracefully, and the arrangement is great. As someone who doesn't know the original source, it sounds a lot like something John Williams would do, which is about as high praise as I can give. Even if you don't like orchestral music, give this a chance, because its worth it. Fantastic stuff.

Then have a fake one in 6 months. NO ONE HAS TO KNOW

So today is TheGuitahHeroe's Birthday. It is a day of celebration. A day of happiness. A day of foursomes on the golf course. And of course, a day of beating him at guitar hero. If you can. Have a great day Jamison, now you just gotta go out and play at a 19 hole golf course.

OA you suck This is a fantastic mix. Love it love it love it

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. All this drama is now worth it, simply for this picture.

<3 u baha My stance on this is that its a good idea, but execution is poor. Facebook is a powerful tool, but 3000 likes before release is too much imo. I'd have drawn the line at 25000 likes overall myself. I just feel like this is going to unnecessarily push back release by quite a margin, maybe 2-3 weeks perhaps. Still, I haven't seen how many people are liking the page since it went up, I hear its more than usual, but i'd say its the same sort of idea as a youtube video... at first you'll get alot of likes, but then they'll slow down... to a crawl. Not optimistic about you guys hitting the 27000 before too long, but good luck regardless.

not liking facebook or megaman is the same as not liking air or breathing. GET OUT FOOLS.

Protodome has basically hit my thoughts on this whole thing exactly here. However, it has always seemed to me to be a production issue, rather than an arrangement issue. OCR has production standards as well, and most chiptune music just doesn't cut the mustard where production is concerned. Limitations of instrumentation, regardless of how creative people are with said limitations, has very little to do with it from my standpoint. I'd like to see someone submit a mix with limitations similar to chiptunes forcing some form of creativity as far as sequencing goes without reverting to pure waveforms, because I feel that is where the line is drawn to pass and rejection. Limited instrumentation with good production will warrant the pass assuming its done well. Correct me if i'm wrong judges.

Hey, don't discount anyone here till they've actually lost. Gario has a chance, as does everyone else GOOD LUCK GUYS.

I have one thing to say about this announcement... meh.

Bon Scott - and Marc Storace - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZH5aY48BP8

Darkesword won.

Shut up Brandon. Lol.

You're starting another compo darke? heh. I won't be participating, the WCRG took up too much of my increasingly busy time so i'll be sitting this one out. However, good luck to everyone who enters, i'll be keeping my eye on this.

Happy Birthday! Also, happy birthday to Harmony as well!

Surprised Protodome and Ben Briggs haven't been mentioned yet. Both awesome, and Ben Briggs was doing it before many people on this list

Its got to be good to be cliche. Sure, its used alot, but so is anything these days. You might as well say piano pieces are cliche. If you're feeling it, then do it. If you are worried people are going to say its cliche, you can always expand on the idea and make it your own, rather than carbon copying an idea thats already been done before.

I'm finding this the best of OA's current trilogy of PW mixes, and that synth solo is awesome, altho calling me out was a mistake. A BIG mistake. PREPARE TO DIE. If I have one critique for this mix, is that the ending doesn't seem to fit. I like turnabout sisters theme, but I don't feel the source translated quite well here. Its a shame because it feels like a rather strange ending for such a great mix. Still, awesome stuff, I dig it!

So you're suggesting that its ok to start a competition, see it through to the final and then not bother to count up votes and announce a winner? REALLY???? Imagine this was a bigger competition. Remember that Assassins Creed Competition. Imagine if they had got all the tracks in, let people vote for the top 20 and left it in the air. Sure there isn't a prize to be had here, but its nice to know who won at least, and for it to be offical and everything. Also, everything prophetik said

I reckon Darke will eventually get around to it. In the first GRMRB, after Zircon won the main compo, and the revenge rounds carried on, he spent about 2 months between updating both the votes and starting new rounds, and it took forever to finish, at which point no one gave a shit by the time it ended, and zircon didn't even give in a track for his final round against me. That said, he DID update eventually, and thats my point, but he did take his time for whatever reason. Looks like something of the sort has happened again here. 1 Month and about 10 pages later after the finish, I have to say, whatever the reason for the delay Darke, don't leave us hanging like this! Give this compo some closure, you owe it to everyone who's participated