Garpocalypse

You have no idea how much i'm waiting for that one. If today's SEGA would just get there %^& together. BUT Star Ocean is one of my favorites and if you had a problem with SO4 then you probably didn't play SO3. Which wasn't bad but was pretty damn not great. It did have the best OST from Sakuraba though in my opinion. The series peaked with SO2 but if this is a new game then i'm really really freaking excited. Hopefully they'll get back to what made SO2 great and fix the problems they started with 3 and 4. I agree that the soundtrack to 4 wasn't as good as it could have been. The remixes of previous games' battle music was a complete miss and all of them lacked what made the originals energetic. (Cutting Edge of Notion remix was so bad it brought tears to my eyes) Anyway, you got my hopes up. If this isn't a new Star Ocean game then i'm gonna freak.

Even Better! I didn't buy the game so i didn't realize that. Sorry. Maybe i will buy it now, but my fight stick is broken. Life isn't fair I tells ya.

Plus Clamato Fever. You should have seen the look on my face when i booted up the trial of SFII HD. I had no idea until then that Capcom used an OCR track for their remake.

Being a SEGA oriented videogame enthusiast my exposure to megaman has been really limited. But I am getting excited about this game. My only problem is they decided to put it out for free for the PC crowd because it would have been much more expensive to go the console route. Console gaming is dying ...and that bums me out. Willrock should have been on the soundtrack. IMO. Congrats to A Rival tho.

Before you spend any money for mixing information take a look at Recording Revolution on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=recordingrevolution Best resource i've ever seen and it's all free.

... June is boss month? I don't get it. Besides, mothers think alot of things. Any big reveals? I don't really watch the VG awards because i think they are a joke...

If choral music doesn't speak to you then you won't get much enjoyment out of it regardless. The trick is not to close yourself off to that fact and just listen to the work that went into it if you can't find anything else to relate to. I've been very much anti vocals myself and never really found much enjoyment in listening to a choir. Even though i used to sing in them... The good news is that there are so many hybrid styles out there now that eventually you are going to run into a piece of music you really love that uses an element that you really used to hate. Try finding some music you like that uses choirs in the background and eventually you'll gather more of an appreciation for it. This thread kind of reminds me of the times when i was going to deathmetal concerts with my friends who didn't understand how i could also play in orchestras. The more you expose yourself to the better you will appreciate what you get to hear.

Thanks Ambient. That second section is a huge problem i know. I rode the small distorted bass part in the source to the end and hoped that was going to be recognized well enough to allow me to improvise over it. Now i see that it wasn't. I have a pile of remixes i'm working on fixes for so i hope to crack this one open again at some point. I guess if i can get it submitted in the next month or two i should just barely make the posting for Halloween 2016 right? Kidding.

Just sent you my WIP Superior. If you can make it to the end of what is probably going to be the worst 2:30 of your life then you are a saint.

http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/sega/genesis/ Yea it does sound very close to Duo the Fox's "Harmony remix" on VGMusic. Midi rips can be used for production practice. I just wouldn't post them anywhere since it's not really... your work. Start with playing the melody across all the instruments you know, then experiment with different chord progressions in whatever styles interest you to make the source your own original interpretation.

Same. I had four versions of Collision Chaos I was working on for the past few weeks and not feeling any of them. Went to bed depressed out of my mind last night then promptly woke up at 2AM knowing what i wanted it to sound like. About time right? I'm on Ver. 5 now and i'm trying to bust my ass to get as much of it together as i can before tommarow. I may end up being just past the deadline but not more than a day or two. Congrats on a great remix posting btw Rexy.

yea i know that feeling. love the game, love the music, love being on this album, love OCR, love spencer....platonically. And..... i'll get something...sooner or later. EDIT: just thought i'd ask. Will the remixers for this album be getting a forum sig? Maybe one with their zone on it? I only ask because i have no talent for that kind of thing.

Hey Roz thanks for the crits. I was rushing to get this thing done and i made some really bad calls that i hope wouldn't have been noticed so easily. For one, I grouped all my drums together in one track and processed them together. ...whoops. But i didn't have the time to record each part individually. I'm going to redo a few things and send it off to the judges in time for next years halloween.

Happy Birthday!

I thought there was something familiar about that.

Sorry to hear Cyril but there's one thing i gotta know so that this doesn't happen to me. Who was rooming with this guy?! I need a pad! Floor space, Closet Space, Table Space, hell if you have a suite and keep the fridge empty i'll use it!

Yea, eventually. If I could. Mirby. That's why i won't be rooming with you. I've got a bit of a thing with being locked up in other people's closets.

I have my pass and i'm looking for a room share so if anyone has an empty closet in their room i'll take it.

If DJP was on this album I would put my entire soul into this thing. O wait this is sonic so it's probably already going to be that way.

This sounds too good to be to true. There must be a catch somewhere. I'm sure of it. But since I can't find it yet, I'm in! Taking both production and sound design.

It wouldn't be a review, i think OCR has enough threads dedicated to reviews and "how this remix makes you feel". This would be an analysis that would try to be as selfless as possible. Only what went in and what could have gone in and why. Anything like that can be posted and the group would be open to everyone regardless of experience. Seeing how other people learn about music is the goal of the whole project. The only problem i see right off the bat is how to interpret the analysis. Here is an example of what you wouldn't be able to do, something like "Willrock's Snowboarding Sonic is a classic Neo Conservative example of Radicalized Right Wing 1940's Pre-Modern Post-Deconstructionist Politics" and then distort everything just enough to support your point. Just Music, Game and DAW related facts. Of course I support the idea for a vote but since it's likely that we would end up with 15 or so remixes with 1 vote each there would have to be a way to narrow the results. Since it seems like there is more interest than what i was expecting i'll try to get the ball rolling asap. I'm not the most forum savy OCR'er so i have little idea where to hold something like this.

This is an idea i have been kicking around for a little while that I think would help everyone with their remixes. On a weekly/bi-weekly/monthly basis, a remix would be selected from the site to be torn apart by the group. Every possible line drawn, every note realized, all production techniques speculated (if not readily provided by the remixer ) This would not be a review of the mix but an analysis of the chord progressions, voice leading, key modulations, scales/modes used, overall idea of the mix, it's relation to the game, use of the title, possible mixing and mastering techniques and so on in order to learn everything that went into the creation of the work. If anyone has taken a literary analysis class or did some music analysis it would be the same idea and more than likely a combination of the two. I think it would be a great way to dust off some older remixes and keep information flowing between posted remixers and OCR hopefuls. Would anyone else be interested in something like this?

At first I was hoping to become known for my Epic Melodic Deathmetal remixes but the problem is that so far, they all suck. I'm still working on that but i'm also working on hybrid styles now. Here's my formula Let (x)=a given style Take x/x AND FIGURE IT OUT!

Sorry, didn't even see it. December 1st. I'll be there. This is jumping the gun but could there be an exclusive WIP listening party so we get a feel for the general direction of the album at some point?

Is there going to be a notice when the first round of wips are due?