jnWake   Judges ⚖️

Didn't have time for decent reviews this time, but I'll share some quick thoughts. Cosmic Sounds: Similar to your last entry. I feel the instruments are better sequenced this time. I think you could do more with Aquatic Base though, it is a great song with an amazing mood and some interesting chords that I believe you haven't used yet. Tuberz: Nice tune, I like the part with Burst Man's main melody. Rocking! I feel the drums could be a bit more powerful and that the bass could be louder too. In general, the low end seems to lack some power. Also, not much Prison Lane this time (and you repeated the same exact riff from Round 1 )! Mr. L - Once again, a pad! This is a very ambient track, sounds good. Main critique is that some leads feel very forced, which is why you put them in the background I guess. I'd really like to hear something in a different style from you, most of your tracks have a very similar vibe... The pads are awesome though, what do you use to build them? ZeroTheMaster - Quite an unusual style for a Sonic/Mega Man mix! Main problem I have with this is that the instruments are too synthetic and don't really give a march feeling. Also, as therex said, the soundscape is a bit bare, there aren't many lows. therex - This is unexpected . Percussions are fun as are the brass fills with the Toxic Caves bass. Bass is a bit drowned by the rest of the instruments and it makes the section beggining at 0:55 feel a bit "toneless". Flute section is a bit unfitting imo, too cutesy when compared when the rest of the song. MindWanderer - Instruments are better this time! The horns are a bit low (and some notes may be off key) though. The arrangement is good, but it's usually a bit hard to mix this kind of songs in a slow orchestra style, not every melody fits that kind of arrangement. Arrangement feels a bit long too (and that flute note at 3:21 sounds terrible!). Cash and Change - Drum sound could use a longer reverb, it sounds slightly strange now. The part where bass enters at 0:32 is quite cool. Marble melody sounds a bit waltz-y with the new rhytm . Section at 1:25 kills the mood a bit, the snare doesn't sound that good here. The higher pitched synths you used are nice. Song could use a pad, but it is cool anyway!

Despite the series being old, Mario games still sell more than most other games today. I'm too lazy to look for the exact numbers, but Mario Kart Wii sold like 33 million copies, New Super Mario Bros Wii sold more than 20 million copies and Mario Galaxy sold a bit over 10 million copies. Also, Call of Duty releasing 44 games since 2003 is incredible. Are all the Call of Duty games shooters or do they make spin offs?

Instead of spamming the forums with all my entries, I'll post all of them on this thread! Anyway, here is my entry for round 2: The new source (Turbo Man will be used in all entries) is: Chrome Gadget: .My mix: https://soundcloud.com/jnwake/sonic-3-mega-man-7-chroma-car . Initially I wanted to do something in the style of Chrome Gadget, but that song doesn't have an easily identifiable style so I ended up mixing the styles from both sources. The final mix is an energetic and fast song with some neat chord progressions in the vein of Chrome Gadget. Any feedback (on this mix or the previous one) is welcome! This time I used a bigger variety of VSTs. There are some synths (and the E. Piano) from FM8, guitar is Shreddage, Bass is Scarbee, Piano is The Giant, drums are AD and the synthetic drums are from Battery.

Hahaha wow I can't believe it got taken down. I watched the video. It was better than the last one, can't believe how many games kill your wife! (I'm glad she didn't mention Mother 3 because that would've made me so salty)

I got Tuberz! Time for a rocking mix this week

Submitted my entry! A lot of the source usage is in the chords used, hope you notice that (for example, the chord progression from the section with the synthetic drums is taken from the second section of Chrome Gadget, but I used Turbo Man's melody over it). I feel like I could've polished a bit more, but I think it's a pretty fun song anyway. Hope this one doesn't bore you Mirby

Your track was pretty good! I believe you were ahead most of the time in the votes except well... right now My mix for this round is almost ready. It's closer to my usual style than my round 1 song, but I tried some neat experiments for this one. Hope you like it!

Haha there haven't been many votes either. My song is coming along nicely now, I had some trouble at first with Chrome Gadget (its harmonies are kinda odd) but now I'm progressing!

This article explains some stuff about the used games: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-05-22-phil-harrison-tries-again-to-clarify-game-ownership-second-hand-sales-and-always-online-in-xbox-one It's clear you can't play used games without paying the price again. However, he states that there will be reselling and stuff, but he doesn't say how they'll do it. About the "all in one" market, I don't see why the same that is happening with phones should happen with home consoles. People seem to prefer smartphones over other devices (which is a bit debatable since the 3DS isn't doing bad) because it is more comfortable to carry less stuff. That doesn't necessarily apply to the home market, but we'll have to see what happens! Besides, most of Xbox's services are avaible on the US so it isn't a big deal in other countries.

I guess that's your opinion. I've had a lot of fun playing FIFA in my life

You simply can't believe that playing a sports game, where you control a full team, is the same than playing the real sport where you only control yourself (and limited by your talent ). The experiences of actually playing the sport and playing sports games are not similar at all, that's a very weird thing to say.

Looks cool. Only sad thing is that so far it seems that this next generation will be the same than this last one, which isn't necessarily bad, but innovation is always welcome.

B4C2 songs need to be posted somewhere, so here I go! I'll post all my entries on this thread. ------------------------------- This is my entry to the first round of the Sonic vs Mega Man competition. Sources are: Toxic Caves: .Turbo Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJxir0_MCGo . My mix is here: https://soundcloud.com/jnwake/sonic-spinball-mega-man-7-spin . My idea with this track was to keep the funky mood of Toxic Caves (mainly through the bass line), while adding elements of Turbo Man to create melodies. I'm not much of a funk person so I experimented quite a bit with the chord progressions here (recently discovered the 7Alt chord ). I'm especially proud of the 2:27 section! I have to polish some stuff to call this a finished mix. Namely, the middle solo is a bit sloppy, panning is a bit weird and the ending needs a better fadeout! Any feedback is welcome, hope you like this song! As a note, almost every instrument used is a preset from either Absynth or FM8. Exceptions are the warm pad, strings, distortion lead and drums.

It's review time! Yami - Intro Kick is a bit too agressive when compared to the rest. Can't recognize any source until 0:57. Lead at 1:32 is a bit drowned (and some of the bends are a bit risky, almost off-key). To be honest, the mix isn't very interesting, but it doesn't sound bad at all. Tuberz McGee - Love the intro! Nice rocking guitars. The kick drum feels a bit sloppy. Prison Lane is clear in the intro. The transition to Needle Man is very natural. You mixed the sources pretty well, nice job! Mr. L - Nice pad the intro, seems to be typical of you . Heavy dissonance at 0:23... I don't agree with the lack of melody mentioned by others, piano takes care of it nicely in my opinion. Biggest criticism would be that the pads drown out the rest of the instruments a bit too much during the mix. By the way, if you feel the kick drum is hard to notice, try two things: sidechaining and boosting the higher frequencies. It's almost silly how much the kick gains with a good click. therex - Nice song! Ridiculously energetic You went a bit overboard with the delays in my opinion though. Also, the first transition to Turbo Man's C section is a bit too sudden. The solo is super fun! Cash and Change - For some reason your opponents never show up (like in the Maverick competition!). This is mainly Marble Zone and also mainly a bass... There's some terrible dissonance when Quick Man starts fading in, you should just transpose the song to another key instead of forcing it in its original key. Overall, this sounds like you grabbed a midi of Marble Zone and one of Quick Man and just put one after the other... MindWanderer - Distortion guitar sounds straight from MMX3 This could really use some pads to create a more interesting mood, it feels really empty now. Bass at 2:48 seems a bit off. Overall, it sounds very empty all the time, drums aren't very powerful and there's nothing that gels the mix together. Cosmic Sounds - Interesting mood created at the beggining, even with the not very good string sounds. The piano with delay was a nice experiment. Mega Water S sounds very unfitting with the slow mood of the song though.

Just wanted to point out the source usage. Maybe the slower tempo (taken from Toxic Caves) makes the Turbo Man sections harder to recognize. Anyway, parts from Turbo Man are: - Lead in the first section is the first lead from Turbo Man. - Second section is a variation of Turbo Man's second section. - The bright lead thingies at 2:28 are playing the third section of Turbo Man's theme (the same section that Rex used a lot in his song ) I didn't feel the song was too long but I'll look into it if I ever polish this mix. I'll be posting my reviews soon!

Good luck to you too! Chrome Gadget has a lot of material to work with, should be interesting!

I meant when PS4 and the next Xbox arrive

I hope my song arrived OK, I remember having issues in the Maverick Battle thing...

Losing EA is a big deal, I can't believe people try to argue against that. EA probably doesn't sell consoles, but the lack of FIFA, Madden and other stuff may lead people to buy other consoles over Wii U. I love how some people live in some dream world where everyone can buy 2 or even 3 >$350 consoles like it's nothing. And don't take me wrong, I love Nintendo and I want Wii U to succeed, but arguing that losing EA isn't important is very silly. I hope Nintendo has more unexpected news like the Sega one...

I'm sending my submission now. Could've used more time to polish the drums, but I like what I came up with. The song is pretty different than what I usually do, I hope you people enjoy it! EDIT: By the way, I hate sending WAVs because my upload speed is terrible ;_;.

It'd be amazing to have more time for this round, my track needs some polish! If not I'm ready to submit anyway

I don't remember that happening (but I don't use FL though). I only recall installing the library and that's it.