pokemoneinstein

https://www.box.com/s/h0pczjt9mixcydlhahw8 So I've got this piece and I don't know where to go with it. There are some parts that I've moved on from that sound unfinished (the piano interlude in particular bugs me) with which I just can't seem to figure out what's wrong. And I also feel like the drive is lost in the song. The beginning is so different from the end. Beyond that, I just don't know where to go after this. The mix is undoubtedly too short, and I want to revisit the ending theme again, but I just can't think of a nice way to keep the song going. Any and all thoughts are appreciated, either for extending the mix, or improving what's already made.

If I can finish mine before the album is released, I'd love to be included, but I'm not sure I can, and I'm not sure it's even OCR material. So we'll see.

I'd love to get Ashley's theme, but I'm in a crunch on time. If I can sign up to potentially contribute it as a bonus track, sign me up!

Actually, I just started work on it again. If you don't mind, Argle, I'd like to reclaim it—But since you got here first, I'm happy to pass it up to you. I should be able to have it done before January 7th, if that's alright.

I'd be happy to do it, but not for a month or two, when my schedule frees up. If you haven't done something with this by then, let me know! Sample:

in the list of characters, you should note if they're taken. I'd like to audition, but I don't know who to audition for.

Well, thanks for the advice everybody! Though I'd still appreciate some musical criticism. Like I said, that was really the main point of this thread, not asking how to handle haters. XD

I'm not here to complain about him, I'm here to find out if what he said has any validity to it. To an extent, sure it does. But I'm here to get feedback on both my own and his version for how to improve as a musician. The primary goal here is improvement, the story was just an explanation of what got me thinking about a piece I made so long ago. I would have put it in the Workshop forum, but because it's comparison, I wasn't sure that was the place for it.

Well, you don't need to be an expert to be able to tell that neither of these is very good. I suppose the question should have been "which is less bad" Regardless, thanks for your input. I find that to often be the case, as well.

So I made . I spent about 10 minutes on it, it's only a few seconds long, and I made it as a demo song as celebration of getting EWQLSO Gold. There are a few mistakes I made in the notes, but if I do say so myself, the production is pretty good overall, and it's a decent piece.Then this guy comes along, bashing it relentlessly. He made about 15 comments insulting me and the piece (he clearly only listened to that one piece and no other works of mine before going on to insult me outside of musical ability). I try to remain level-headed, but obviously, that gets difficult with someone so belligerent. I ask him to leave with every comment he makes, and every time I do so, he just keeps going. It escalated to the point where I blocked him, and he decided to make an alternate account just to keep insulting me directly, through YouTube's personal messaging system. I then reported him for harassment, but that's beside the point. So he makes his own version to prove something. What that may be, I don't know, because frankly, I think his is terrible. It's longer than mine, sure, and he didn't show the same carelessness I did with mine (but come on, I spent 10 minutes on the thing, I wasn't trying to make it amazing). But ultimately, it uses only strings, with little variation in the sound aside from jarring velocity changes that frankly, make it unbearable. To me, it sounds like he has absolutely no idea how to properly mix a song, leaving his mix sounding incredibly un-proficient. (He's also got another orchestral cover that I find to be even worse for all the same reasons.) So I'm here to get the opinions from you guys, the ones who know what they're doing really well. Is he right to be so arrogant? Is my work better overall, or is his? What can I learn from this whole thing to better myself as a musician? I would ask what can he learn, but I've politely offered my help to him over PM and he made it very clear he doesn't want any "advice" from the likes of me. Thanks in advance for any thoughts and/or critiques on the matter.

I was on the phone with Applecare the other day, and they had me delete a file called PACEsupport.kext. It turns out, EWQL can't run without it. it's an anti-piracy thing, and for some reason, the driver refuses to install on my computer. Anyway, I was hoping somebody here would be kind enough to try to find it on their computer and send me a copy. For Mac users, it should be under System/Library/Extensions, or a quick spotlight search could do the trick. For PC users, a search should work, but I don't know where it's stored. Thanks in advance to anybody who comes along to help!

Congrats to everyone! There are some good remixes here. Are there any plans as of yet regarding the start of Season 1?

New version: https://www.box.com/s/878392f48680e0edc6fb Critiques, please?

As for adding more songs, I think what you should do is have someone suggest an addition only if they can pledge to work on it or find someone who can. And they should run the track by you before doing so, so that you can approve it, in order to maintain even representation of the game's chapters.

You know, I'd really love to hear you do something from Pikmin. Regardless, what sort of percussion do you use in remixes such as this, the Super Mario World ending theme, and others? It works very well with orchestrations like this and I'd love to get my hands on it. I know you develop a lot of original sounds for commercial companies. Is it something you made for distribution?

Same here—wish I had known.

Anybody? Bass note feedback? Please?

Twice before. No reply. I'm planning on contacting once more

Well any remixing anybody does is progress that I'm happy to see. I'm glad you guys have stuck with me, but so many others have just... lost contact (and interest).

Nobody's sent in their WIPs. One person has dropped out. I'm going to have to rethink the way I'm running this.

Deadline is tomorrow. I hope you've got your drafts almost ready.

Well thanks very much for that! It makes total sense. What do you think of the different bass line versions I posted?

Actually, I already fixed the clap. First of all, that whole beat got completely screwed up, so I had to fix it, and in the mean time, I faded the clap in. It's uploading over the old link now.

Well as I said, I'm terrible at writing percussion, so I did my best to make it better, but it's just not in my ability to do something big about the kick. Anyway, once again, I did my best to incorporate some criticisms. Here's the new version, mostly minor changes. https://www.box.com/s/2f76c0363b93980b6bf7

I'm setting a new deadline, July 22nd. You have two weeks to get your WIPs in. In the mean time, anyone who's got any progress at all, It'd be nice if you could show me where' you're at. WIPs should be nearly complete by the deadline. I'll cut a little bit of slack, but two weeks in the summer should be plenty of time for many of you.