Spakku

Do you remember the futuristic area of Chrono Cross that was frozen in time? I can't remember the music at all, but this definitely gives me a vision of it.

What you have here is too climactic for such a short chunk. You need more time to build up to the intensity or the effect just seems like loud for the sake of loudness. Since it was written to be an indefinitely looped chiptune you can't just expect the natural buildup to translate to this arrangement.

I...didn't realize how old this was.

I can hear the man-choir a lot better, now, which helps in identifying the source. Like, a lot.

I can't put my finger on it but something you did unbalanced the mood polarity, it seems more optimistic now. It's still an equally impressive effect, since now you've got the tense sounds working to relax. I'm just curious which one was your intent, now. EDIT: Scratch that, my headphones just weren't plugged in all the way. I was missing out on some of the sounds and I lost intensity on the ones I could still hear.

I've got no specific advice for you. It needs remastering. I just wanted to show my support, because this arrangement and rewrite is fantastic.

That reminds me, I'm having trouble imagining vocals on this. I'm really intrigued at that idea.

You definitely need a stronger transition between the lobby and tower themes. So far that's my only complaint worth mentioning.

I remember this track very clearly and WYLTK's right, the source isn't very prevalent. You need to re-level everything, the rampant percussion and background instruments are drowning out the bits that play the actual song.

It sounds good but it doesn't seem to warrant being its own independent song; it still sounds like it wants to be background music.

You sound like you're in a boy band.

This song was always so sad, so heroic, so pretty... And you turned it into techno fluff... It's like you walked right up to Harry Gregson-Williams and slapped him right in the face. I can't help but admire that on some base level.

For the first 40 seconds I keep expecting it branch off into the DKC water melody.

Make it however you want, polish the fuck out of it, and submit it. If it's not what they want they'll say no, if it is what they want you get some main page exposure. You should redo the drowning alarm, instead of just throwing it in on top. The transition from drowning to the second half of the melody doesn't work the way it is. That bit set aside, this mix is really fucking awesome.

I am not believing the lead instruments in the first half at all. Actually, this could sound a lot better if you could find some people who play the for-real guitar and flute. A song like this calls for hands-on variation of the sound with its lead instruments. Also, the transition from acoustic to techno needs to be smoother.

Your intro-melody transition was really sudden. Startled the crap out of me. As a whole, your arrangement of simultaneous relaxing and edgy sounds at any given point toys with my emotions. These are good things; despite the contrast these elements work and flow together very well. I love every second of this. Except for the last ten which were completely silent, you should probably trim those off.

It's so...friendly. A good contrast to everything else on this site being so intense.

Wow, I think you actually fixed my gripes with the original tune. I am impressed. But your compression thing is really dragging this track down.

It sounds pretty good but I have no idea what the source is, my FFVIII memory is a little fuzzy. Could somebody link me to it? My one detail I can pick out is that sometimes when when it gets louder the whole thing starts to sound scratchy, I'm not sure if that's a quality problem or if you're just blowing out my headphones. Either way, it could probably use some work.

I'm not good with details, but I can say that the last note seemed pretty painful. To a song like that, ending on an obnoxiously loud blast from the leads seems inappropriate. You've got a good style, though, I like it. You manage to cover a variety of sounds without jarring transitions, which impresses me quite a bit.

At first I thought the steel drum was a bad lead, but once the energy kicked in a little after two minutes it melded beautifully. Although if you play the drum live you'll have better control over the sounds it makes and it'll probably work better in the beginning. You must have a very musically inclined family to expect this of them. I look forward to the real thing.

I never would've figured something with this source to be done so non-techno, you caught me off-guard. For that I salute you. It sounds kind of scattered, though. Like you can't decide on a style to do it in. The elements don't quite mesh like they should, I guess.

Short but sweet. I like it.

You've got good variety but it feels really midi. Maybe level-changing, maybe some different samples, I don't know how to fix it. It bothers me the way you introduce a new sound and musical theme for the last half minute only to have it repeat and fade. It seems like you want that Gandrayda whistle tune but don't know what to do with it. I love the direction, though. Make me proud.

The first thing you need to do is get a new host. This thing is so damn low-quality I can't focus on the bigger things.