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fxsnowy - Team Zero Treble Rolling (Frost Walrus in Palace Ground [X]) Bounce Too High (Vanishing Gungaroo in Palace Ground [X]) Firefly (Shining Hotarunicus in Palace Ground [X])

Signatures look awesome, thanks!

Everyone seems to love chiptune music as well as very clean/high quality music, which are like polar opposites. But a lot of people for some reason hate the sort of 16 bit "in between". I love it though, the sounds from Banjo Kazooie, Donkey Kong Country, Mario Party 1... I really love those cheesy synths and sounds. I wish video games would still use that retro soundscape once in a while.

Thank you! much appreciated

Great album! I'm absolutely loving "Together we Fly" by Neblix and "FALCON PUNCH" by Ben Briggs

back to Mod Review, here are a list of things I did: - More varied and dynamic bass line - Relaxed the timing and velocities of plucked instruments, more strumming - Added small variations to melody - More cohesive reverb - EQed piano and brought volume up so it sticks out more - Added Pizzicato to one part - More humanized flute and erhu through volume automation - Brought bass up a couple dbs. - More realistic pitch bends done with pitch automation instead of samples I always feel like my arrangements come out quieter than other people's. Probably because I don't compress as much as I should..

Our team name is Team Zero Treble, and consists of YoshiBlade, Anorax and myself. Meghan Trainor approved.

From the Workship FAQ : "If it's been a few days since you posted a Mod Review mix and you still haven't received Mod feedback, feel free to drop one of us a PM to get the ball rolling" You should definetly PM a workhop moderator

Yay it's happening! My picks: 1) Dark Dizzy (X5) 2) Squid Adler (X5) 3) Slash Beast (X4) 4) Cyber Peacock (X4) 5) Launch Octopus (X)

Thanks Skrypnyk for the criticism.

I like the arrangement, it is very nice. The tone however is too hollow. There is too much reverb, it sounds too distant. Piano tone by itself should sound more like this Did you record this through mic or use midi? I hear some mistakes, which leads me to believe this is recorded. Recording a piano piece through microphone is really difficult, because you have to practice the piece for at least two weeks or even more depending on the length and difficulty. One small mistake and you have to redo everything. It's not like you can do various takes and take the best parts out of each take. And this is 5 minutes, which is fairly long. There are some amazing piano VSTs and sample bacnk for free online (again I am assuming you recorded this with a microphone). Doing this with a great software piano instrument and fixing the mistakes through midi would sound a lot better.

Yeah didn't realize tindeck has no time indicator on the music files, I'm going to start using soundlcoud for WIPs. https://soundcloud.com/fxsnowy/mb2-character-select/s-UmPCI

I have always wondered how to make midi snare hits in quick succession sound more realistic, Round Robins seems like the answer. I wish all sample libraries had this. I stitched the fast same note plucking from the Chinese Ruan Moon Guitar with the regular notes played by the Ghuzeng. Was worried that it is too noticeable and distracting, might need to fix it.

First of all huge thanks for writing this detailed criticism, I appreciate it a lot! Yeah that is something that was bothering me, the fake sound of the instrument when the chords are played. Gonna try to offset a tiny bit like you said and adjust velocities You know, I always hate using ornamentations that are just samples of the software instrument, because it gives me very little freedom. I never thought of that, using pitch bends through automation to recreate vibrato, gonna try that out as well. What do you mean by stitched sequencing? Weird I actually think the erhu does sound realistic. I'm not sure I understand what you mean when you say lacking variation in tone, wouldn't varying the tone make it less realistic? Reverb is one of my weak points. I usually just pick a different reverb preset I like for every instrument and set the wetness accordingly. I read this is the wrong way to do it. I read the reverb should go through a bus, which I guess means only one type of reverb should be in the song, with different varying levels on every instrument. Is this right? And if so is this why the reverb tones don't sound cohesive?

Thanks, I used the "GarageBand jam pack: world music" for all the oriental instruments. I know what you are thinking, sounds lame lol, but there are a lot of really cool and realistic sounding instruments. The only bad thing is that it is only for GarageBand/Logic Pro. When you say the piano is odd, do you mean the tone or should it be replaced completely? I was trying to create a bit of contrast between the Asian instruments and the regular sounding bland piano. Also can you give me an exact time to the bit that sounds off that you are referring to?

It's not a question of being a good or bad theme, it is just preference. I think sometimes the theme determines (myself included) whether people want to participate or not. Announcing the theme a few days earlier before the round starts creates more excitement IMO.

How come there is no theme? I think that is why there aren't any signups

This sounds fun, gonna participate

Thanks, yup gonna wait a couple days and then set as Mod-review

Bump Added finished version

I love Banjo Kazooie, one of my favorite soundtracks. Count me in. Funnily enough, I am currently working on a piano arrangement of Glitter Gulch Mine from Banjo Tooie for the PRC compo. Can't get enough Grant Kirkhope music!

They probably are, but unfortunately I don't think Uematsu is gonna be the one to do the remakes. Look at the Final Fantasy X/X-2 remake. They completely ruined the original FFX OST that Uematsu composed with absolute garbage. If they leave the OST as is or make Uematsu in charge I think the remake will be worth.

Yea I agree I kind of overused it

Hey MrKyle thanks alot! Glad you liked it. A few questions, does the erhu stand out in a bad way because of its sound in general, or only because of the vibrato? Also when you say the shaker is too random I am confused, because the shaker only does a a regular steady 4/4 beat. Can you give me a specific time where it sounds too random?

Hello everyone, this is a remix I started a few years ago, kind of forgot about it until recently, so I decided to keep working on it. It is an oriental ReMix of the "choose your character" theme from mario bros 2. Any feedback is appreciated! Source : WIP 1 --Edit-- - Added better and smoother transitions - Removed a few pitch bends and mordents - Hard panned a few parts - More varied Drums WIP 2 --Edit-- tagged as Mod-Review --Edit-- Got a lot of feedback so gonna revert to WIP and keep working on it --Edit-- CURRENT VERSION back to Mod Review, here are a list of things I did: - More varied and dynamic bass line - Relaxed the timing and velocities of plucked instruments, more strumming - Added small variations to melody - More cohesive reverb - EQed piano and brought volume up so it sticks out more - Added Pizzicato to one part - More humanized flute and erhu through volume automation - Brought bass up a couple dbs. - More realistic pitch bends done with pitch automation instead of samples I always feel like my arrangements come out quieter than other people's. Probably because I don't compress as much as I should..