Ivan Hakštok

Long time since I posted anything here so have a linky: http://tindeck.com/listen/sfrc Can't say I had much to work with as the original tune is very minimal, but still brilliant in the way that it perfectly fits the atmosphere of the game. I was going for the same feel with my first version of the remix but decided to make it faster, and I'm still in a dilemma if it was a good move. This is still far from done, arrangement is still incomplete/needs to be worked on and I'm not satisfied with the electric guitar sound - might record a real one when I get it in my hands some of these days. Also I'm thinking of using a bass guitar for the bassline instead of a synth, and maybe a different string patch, gonna try as many options as possible with this remix. Mixing/mastering could probably use some work too but I'll leave those details for now and wait until I complete everything else. Feel free to comment, whether it's critics, suggestions or just pure hate EDIT: Source:

Frog's theme still owns everything in my opinion. In one word: Heroic.

My 2 cents on the thing: I'd definitely love to see another Chrono game. Let's be honest, Trigger has every right to be on all "Top 10 games" lists. The game was simply awesome, with a great story, gameplay, sound and graphics (for that time). Comparing it to some other RPGs, like Final Fantasy series, it had a much more cheerful nature, probably because it didn't take itself too seriously. And now, we move onto Cross. Cross was a great game on it's own, and I feel it preserved the "Chrono spirit". But the problem was that the developers tried to make a game that doesn't require playing Trigger to know what the heck is going on, and that's what caused the rift between it's haters and lovers. If there's a next Chrono game, 2 things can happen: It could be a direct sequel to Trigger, or a new shiny game with the "Chrono" attribute where again the only things that links it to Trigger are a few characters and Lavos as the final boss. Now in both ways, someone is gonna get really disappointed. Trigger fans could be getting their Duke Nukem Forever, and other gamers could be getting another generic RPG with nothing new, because let's be honest, it's hard to follow up one of the best games of all time. We all know that Cross had almost half the sales of Trigger. My conclusion - chances of a new Chrono game are very low, if not zero.

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Wow I just realized that in 5 months I've been registered here, I haven't properly introduced myself, so here it goes. My name is Ivan, 19 year old Computer Science student from Croatia. I was informed about OCRemix in a rather unusual way: after listening to lots of video game music remixes on youtube, one day I got a friend request from OCRemix there. I went to check what this overclocked thingy is about, and liked it. After browsing a bit through the site, I decided it's time to try and do something on my own. Times are hard, ideas are scarce, but I'm sure one day some of my remixes will be a part of the site Can't say I'm having problems with writing music down, as I can say I had a good musical education (1 year in a brass ensemble, 5 years in a rock band), but like I said, no cool ideas pop into my head. Probably because I'm more focused on my studies right now. Argh. Damn college. That's all from me, keep on rocking, technoing etc.

Sry for the double post, I finally have polished this up, here's the link so tell me if you spot any problems: Maybe I'll even try submitting this remix if people like it

Link to the song: http://tindeck.com/listen/xmdl This idea came to me all of a sudden, and I think it's pretty neat for something done in couple of hours. Toyed a bit with measures, using 4/4 for the intro, 7/4 for the main theme and 3/4 for the breakdown, but I think it fits the arrangement perfectly. I tried to make it a bit longer but I think it already feels a little bit repetitive so I'd like to hear some suggestion for additional instruments that fit this style.

Hah, if I knew the handclaps were so important I would've used them, but I guess I totally forgot about them. About the breakdowns, I'm afraid I don't have any ideas what to do about it, maybe you could point me to some remixes here that had them made properly. But considering this is my 2nd techno remix ever, I'll take these comments as compliments, as I was worried that these themes were already combined, and even better, in some other remix xD

Wow just saw these comments since I haven't visited this site for a while, thanks people I've improved this a bit in the meantime, since it was my first techno remix project, so I hope the final polished version will be out soon

Tindeck link: http://tindeck.com/listen/ooyq Idea of combining these 2 songs came to me one day, they were in the same key and always stuck together in my head. Some parts from Man With The Machine Gun are completely removed, and I think I made pretty good work out of the rest. The drum loop kinda seems dull, but I tried giving it variety and it differed too much from my original idea. Hope you enjoy it

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Hello everyone, this is my first post on these forums. Recently I've been doing some work with this tune so tell me what you think: tindeck link: http://tindeck.com/listen/zqlx youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGTymWBPoKQ I think mixing can be done a bit better but I'm new to all this and I'll need a while to figure some stuff out, but I believe I'll have an improved version soon.