SuperiorX

Subbed. 
Hope everyone likes 5 minutes of static.  
 

Do it by ear!
Train your ears!

Secrets of The Creative Process: part 1 

This is pretty much my process

OH IT'S ON NOW
(frantically searches "Ground Man MIDI" on Google)

@Arceace Bring It. 

Got around to submitting my track today since I wont have any time available tomorrow to work on music.  It was definitely tricky finding a way to work the two sources together given how different the mood and feel of them are but I reached a decent compromise I think.  Excited to hear the rest of the tunes this coming round.

I might have fractured my rotator cuff this weekend, I could be out of commission for the competition, but I'll see if I need surgery, and I suppose I'll be ambidextrous this week in doing as much as I can! We'll have to see when voting closes as well. 

please never let this die

2018's Mega Man Compo-of-some-sort Round 1
Rage Reviews!
 
Razor Wind
Very nice use of the themes and sound fx! Great Energy throughout and the mixing is solid!  Only nitpick I can make is that the
ending is a VERY abrupt one note cadence with almost no decrease in energy in the phrase before it to signal the end of the remix!
Great listen! Most competent use of the stereo field in the round i'd say!  NEXT!!
Digital Redemption
Listened to this over and over trying to pick out metal man's theme but for the life of me i'm not hearing it!  NEXT!!
Dopamine
Great Rhythm Guitar tone! Only dig is that the lead is on the overly fuzzy side for my tastes!  Themes are recognizable! Awesome
remix! Why you don't do more Dwelling of Duels compos is beyond me! :/ NEXT!!
Fire Truck
Right off the bat that bass is really bottom heavy and unrecognizable in the mix! I'm afraid to hook up my subwoofer cuz i'm
worried it's gonna be all subs....! Themes are recognizable so good work on keeping things familiar! Biggest issue for me is that
there is no real use of stereo throughout the entire remix! By that I mean no expansion/contraction which was omnipresent in Razor
Wind! For the most part good work! ...NEXT!!
Thunder Crash
Bass hangs slightly to the left which was off putting until I realized a few seconds in you were going for a live jazz band on a
stage kinda thing. Nice work on selling that! Actually... is it a live band?!  Surely a week is too short a time to detail such
great humanization on all of these instruments...! Great remix! Regardless If you were able to write AND get a band together to
practice this OR detail this much interpersonal energy with midi in a week is a real accomplishment!!
...Unless you are just a very competent keyboard player! NEXT!!!   
Crash of the Tornado
Very funky! Dig the use of the strings throughout even if they could use some more detailing!  Enjoyed this mix. Get back to me in
a decade I might be able to vote on this matchup then!  NEXXXTTT!!!

Empty Desires
Ah Shademan, my source for the first mega man comp I did back in the day.  Allright I'm going to get real here. No gratuitous exclamation point use.  
Good that you subbed your WIP in the end. Only crit isthat outside of some really thick mud you had a very nice vibe going for what you had. Sort of reminds me of DJP's Marble Zone
remix. what's it called... Love Hurts i think? If you do finish this send me the link because I'd like to hear what this ends up being. 
Drill Bits
Very well developed remix!  But it fades out...! And it only has one bass...!!! You know you need to layer those things right?!!  NEXT!!

I realized this is my first compo with the new forums! Having this separate voting thread with the poll setup makes tracking votes and reviews sooooo much easier than the old format. Love it! First round was pretty awesome, nice job everyone! A few quick thoughts from me:
Air Man vs Metal Man
Arceace:  loving this song! Probably my favorite one of the round. I love the atmosphere in the intro and the hints at each of the themes. The integration of Metal Man into the lead was groovy - nice use of SFX too! I felt the arrangement meandered a little there in the middle after the Air Man segment (~1:30ish mark), but things were groovin' again come ~2:00. Overall a very nice sounding song, I enjoyed it! AxLR:  Nice use of the retro low-fi sounds. I echo Gario's thoughts on the atmosphere - trippy & sample heavy, in a good way. Sources were definitely harder to pick up on, but I enjoyed this for what it was! Fire Man vs Cut Man
Mak:  good stuff! Standard rock/metal affair - I thought the guitar work was really well done and the integration of both themes was handled well too. Very fun song! Ronald Poe: soundscape is pretty thin and I'm only hearing the one source, keep at it! Tornado Man vs Crash Man 
ahhhh this was the toughest matchup!!!!
Ridiculously Garrett:  groooooovy - I loved your instrumentation and the overall vibe of this song. That EP  I live for this kind of low-fi jazzy/funky music. I liked how the EP kept the track moving forward and the string stabs on the melody line were very fitting. It reminds me a lot of the stuff Amphibious makes, which is also right up my alley. pixeltea:  this one was sooo good too! Ironically kind of a similar style to Garrett's, just much faster paced with a swingy jazz style. Sax sounds a little fakey, but I thought it fit the atmosphere well enough. I really really dig the arrangement and the chord progressions. Piano Crash Man parts were the scene stealers for me Ground Man vs Shade Man
supercoolmike:  thanks for turning your song in good sir! I liked what you had going. The atmosphere was really eerie and I liked the use of the piano and pads in the intro. The lead your chose for Shade Man was really cool too. I wish you had had the time to finish it up and integrate Ground Man too. Good start! Thanks all for the thoughts on my song! Yeah it definitely relied more on Ground Man, but as others referenced I used the Shade Man motifs as ancillary supporting melody parts. It was harder to integrate than I thought it would be at first. The lead at 1:13 did do a direct interpretation of the Shade Man motif too. I wish I had more time for it, maybe I'll work on it some more after the compo.

I realized this is my first compo with the new forums! Having this separate voting thread with the poll setup makes tracking votes and reviews sooooo much easier than the old format. Love it! First round was pretty awesome, nice job everyone! A few quick thoughts from me:
Air Man vs Metal Man
Arceace:  loving this song! Probably my favorite one of the round. I love the atmosphere in the intro and the hints at each of the themes. The integration of Metal Man into the lead was groovy - nice use of SFX too! I felt the arrangement meandered a little there in the middle after the Air Man segment (~1:30ish mark), but things were groovin' again come ~2:00. Overall a very nice sounding song, I enjoyed it! AxLR:  Nice use of the retro low-fi sounds. I echo Gario's thoughts on the atmosphere - trippy & sample heavy, in a good way. Sources were definitely harder to pick up on, but I enjoyed this for what it was! Fire Man vs Cut Man
Mak:  good stuff! Standard rock/metal affair - I thought the guitar work was really well done and the integration of both themes was handled well too. Very fun song! Ronald Poe: soundscape is pretty thin and I'm only hearing the one source, keep at it! Tornado Man vs Crash Man 
ahhhh this was the toughest matchup!!!!
Ridiculously Garrett:  groooooovy - I loved your instrumentation and the overall vibe of this song. That EP  I live for this kind of low-fi jazzy/funky music. I liked how the EP kept the track moving forward and the string stabs on the melody line were very fitting. It reminds me a lot of the stuff Amphibious makes, which is also right up my alley. pixeltea:  this one was sooo good too! Ironically kind of a similar style to Garrett's, just much faster paced with a swingy jazz style. Sax sounds a little fakey, but I thought it fit the atmosphere well enough. I really really dig the arrangement and the chord progressions. Piano Crash Man parts were the scene stealers for me Ground Man vs Shade Man
supercoolmike:  thanks for turning your song in good sir! I liked what you had going. The atmosphere was really eerie and I liked the use of the piano and pads in the intro. The lead your chose for Shade Man was really cool too. I wish you had had the time to finish it up and integrate Ground Man too. Good start! Thanks all for the thoughts on my song! Yeah it definitely relied more on Ground Man, but as others referenced I used the Shade Man motifs as ancillary supporting melody parts. It was harder to integrate than I thought it would be at first. The lead at 1:13 did do a direct interpretation of the Shade Man motif too. I wish I had more time for it, maybe I'll work on it some more after the compo.

Such a good source. Can't wait to hear what you do with it!

Holy shit, I didn't even realize it was the Saturn version, and the fact that it isn't the primary version of the song is criminal.  Such an amazing tune, and looking forward to the remixes integrating it!!

I realized this is my first compo with the new forums! Having this separate voting thread with the poll setup makes tracking votes and reviews sooooo much easier than the old format. Love it! First round was pretty awesome, nice job everyone! A few quick thoughts from me:
Air Man vs Metal Man
Arceace:  loving this song! Probably my favorite one of the round. I love the atmosphere in the intro and the hints at each of the themes. The integration of Metal Man into the lead was groovy - nice use of SFX too! I felt the arrangement meandered a little there in the middle after the Air Man segment (~1:30ish mark), but things were groovin' again come ~2:00. Overall a very nice sounding song, I enjoyed it! AxLR:  Nice use of the retro low-fi sounds. I echo Gario's thoughts on the atmosphere - trippy & sample heavy, in a good way. Sources were definitely harder to pick up on, but I enjoyed this for what it was! Fire Man vs Cut Man
Mak:  good stuff! Standard rock/metal affair - I thought the guitar work was really well done and the integration of both themes was handled well too. Very fun song! Ronald Poe: soundscape is pretty thin and I'm only hearing the one source, keep at it! Tornado Man vs Crash Man 
ahhhh this was the toughest matchup!!!!
Ridiculously Garrett:  groooooovy - I loved your instrumentation and the overall vibe of this song. That EP  I live for this kind of low-fi jazzy/funky music. I liked how the EP kept the track moving forward and the string stabs on the melody line were very fitting. It reminds me a lot of the stuff Amphibious makes, which is also right up my alley. pixeltea:  this one was sooo good too! Ironically kind of a similar style to Garrett's, just much faster paced with a swingy jazz style. Sax sounds a little fakey, but I thought it fit the atmosphere well enough. I really really dig the arrangement and the chord progressions. Piano Crash Man parts were the scene stealers for me Ground Man vs Shade Man
supercoolmike:  thanks for turning your song in good sir! I liked what you had going. The atmosphere was really eerie and I liked the use of the piano and pads in the intro. The lead your chose for Shade Man was really cool too. I wish you had had the time to finish it up and integrate Ground Man too. Good start! Thanks all for the thoughts on my song! Yeah it definitely relied more on Ground Man, but as others referenced I used the Shade Man motifs as ancillary supporting melody parts. It was harder to integrate than I thought it would be at first. The lead at 1:13 did do a direct interpretation of the Shade Man motif too. I wish I had more time for it, maybe I'll work on it some more after the compo.

The download is in the public voting thread. Get er' done.

Eh, it happens to the best of us; I've had one or two submissions to these things where I only had about 50 seconds of music finished. One week to make a mix can be a brutal limitation, and it's one hell of a hardcore way to get back into arranging music off a coldspell of 3+ years.

all right, I submitted my wip since you guys still wanted it. It's not much but it was the only idea that went as far as it did. sorry for the letdown.

I just submitted my song. Didn't get to spend nearly as much time on it as I'd like to have, but it's not too shabby   Best of luck to everyone else!

sorry for the disappointment, but I think i gotta forfeit on this one. Came into this hoping I would get out of my funk and I just never did, I restarted so many times and I just didn't like any of my attempts... I have just been creatively shocked for this year so far, even just attempting to make some original tracks never goes longer than a minute. Think I just lost all my motivation or something, honestly don't know what to do anymore to get fully back on the creative saddle..

Oh no! That's a bummer! I'd encourage you to still turn something in please. Believe me, I'm right there with ya:  it's literally been 3 years since I've made any music so this round was a struggle for me too. My song isn't very long either, so even if you only submit a WIP, it's still better than nothing! 

I submitted my track! I'm actually pretty happy with how this one turned out.

 

Looks like I'm not the only one who didn't do anything musical last 3 years. And my track also short and silly. Submit your wip Supercoolmike!

Oh no! That's a bummer! I'd encourage you to still turn something in please. Believe me, I'm right there with ya:  it's literally been 3 years since I've made any music so this round was a struggle for me too. My song isn't very long either, so even if you only submit a WIP, it's still better than nothing! 

Oh no! That's a bummer! I'd encourage you to still turn something in please. Believe me, I'm right there with ya:  it's literally been 3 years since I've made any music so this round was a struggle for me too. My song isn't very long either, so even if you only submit a WIP, it's still better than nothing!