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Alright, I've made some improvements. The instantly notable one is the new intro; I got rid of the old one altogether, as it wasn't really necessary to have the original, or something very strongly resembling the original, "reminding" people what it sounds like. Or something. Amongst minor changes across the song, I also made some major changes to the section at 2:15 - 2:55. It sounds much more happy now. :3 http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/3/7/2353729/Sonic%203%20boss%20hardcore%20remix%20ver2.mp3 More critiques please! ^^

Thank you very much for the input, I'll get to work on improvements, especially around the intro.

Well, I went for hardcore, but I think I ended up with Hard Trance instead. Anyways, some matter of days ago I was searching through YouTube and OCR in search of a hardcore (or dance, even) remix of some Sonic 3 music; if I remember right, I searched for sonic 2 stuff as well. While I didn't search all that hard, I didn't really find anything that I found appealing. Getting to the point, I tried it out myself. Here it is, in its current state. Each version is an improvement upon the last, so the most recent version is at the bottom. Version 1: Sonic 3 Boss Hardcore remix Version 2: Sonic 3 Boss Hardcore remix ver2 To note, the intro is meant to sound like the original, so it has little difference beyond modern using modern synths/samples. I really like it right now, but it feels like I didn't put enough time into it, almost like I rushed it. I get this feeling with almost anything I write or remix, so I don't know how legitimate that feeling is, but I wanted to know what the OCR community themselves thought of it. I have intentions of submitting it in hopes of approval, and with such, I want it to be as high quality as possible in every regard. Please provide any critiques that you have! This will be my first attempt at submitting a song to OCR, and I want it to be top notch quality.

w-wait.. are you saying it's possible to just open the MIDI files in FL Studio, reassign them new instruments, and change it from there? I've been rewriting all the notes by opening & examining them in Anvil Studio. o_o Oh, I guess so.. I was actually hoping to be, more or less, done with this RuneScape music for a while, and work on my other list of projects. :x That is to say, I was willing to go back and put forth a bit of effort into improving the tracks, but to completely rewrite one of them? Maybe, although I may want to try it by this apparent method of opening it in FL Studio, reassigning instruments, and then changing it from there. I would of course make a lot of changes to make it more an actual remix and less a remaster-with-some-creative-liberties, but having the notes already written out like would be a lot easier than reading notes from the original MIDI and adding them into the song one-at-a-time (which I'm sure is the norm for those who are remixing songs without any such source to begin with, but if I have accessibility to it... ) Aww, no orchestra hits? That was the main reason I liked the original song In seriousness, thanks; a couple of my friends have told me they like it better than Scape Main simply because Scape Main is too much like the original. That is to say, I liked it that way, but whatever floats your boat I suppose. I might try to put a bit more creativity into it; see what else I can do to make it more remix-y. Whatever the case(s), thanks for the awesome input; it's the best post I've gotten from any community I'm in. Granted, this community is meant for this kind of stuff, but it stands true nonetheless

Hello, OCRM community; This is my first post here, so if I'm doing something "horribly wrong", please tell me. Anywho, I had a sudden urge about a month ago to recreate/remix some of my favorite songs from RuneScape, an MMORPG I long since retired from. I had downloaded a folder of RuneScape's music's MIDIs a ways back, mostly to listen to, but in this way I could full examine (and therefore rewrite) every individual note that I wanted to, without guesswork or whatever when I ended up wanting to recreate some of them. My personal favorite RuneScape song was always Evil Bob's Island. I don't know why particularly, but I think it was the orchestral hits at the beginning and at some point in the middle. Dunno. In any case, this was the first song I attempted. After Evil Bob's Island, I wanted to do a song that most players would know fairly well. What else, but the login screen's music? In the game (and the list of MIDIs that I had), it was titled "Scape Main". This actually took me much longer than Evil Bob's Island, although partially because I took a full 5-day break due to laziness, lol. I realize the songs themselves aren't ready for actual submitting (they're at a bitrate of 256kbps I believe, rather than the limit of 192kbps), and they don't really have original names [yet], but I plan to remedy this of course, before I ever submit them. Evil Bob's Island (No original name yet) Original Link 1 Link 2 Scape Main (A Knight's Tale [i might use that name]) Original Link 1 Link 2 While Evil Bob's Island is very much a remix (where the song's "structure" is the same, for some of the song the only thing identical to the original is the melody), I tried to stay fairly close to the original source with Scape Main, adding my own creative liberties here and there. It's still a remix, but much closer to the original than Evil Bob's Island. I'm mostly posting these here to see what the OCRM community thinks of them, before I submit them. Perhaps there's a way I can improve them before submitting? I've noticed that they have some fairly strict guidelines and so on especially regarding quality, and being the first RuneScape remixes up there (as far as I've noticed; if there's some actually up there already and I just couldn't find them, please inform me), I'd want them to make it through the Judges.