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Do you have any restrictions regarding style or how close the remix has to be in terms of mood/arrangement?

What is a good piano library? The ones that come with Komplete are good? Alicia's Keys seems nice too.

Anybody has good tips on creating a cool lead? The ReValve presets are cool but I want a lead that sounds clearer and not that distorted. I'm using the Power Metal preset but I want to know if anybody has built a cool lead...

Whenever I'm really out of ideas I find inspiration in other music. Listening to music you really enjoy and analyzing the musical ideas they use is great for inspiration. Or, listening to styles that you don't usually listen to is also a good way to get inspired. However, I agree with Rozovian. Making music is more about ideas and discipline than inspiration, since you never know when you'll get inspired!

Excellent album! I love how emotional the songs are. "Terrible Fate" in particular is very tragic. "Clocktown" has a source I can't recognize (second half of the song). Mixing Final Hours and the Fairy Theme in "Healing the Great Fairy" is a pretty risky move, but it sounds nice. "Moon's Tear" is pretty. "Lovers Mask" is a very interesting take on the Zelda Lullaby.

Lots of clipping on this one. The idea is very interesting though. I like what I can hear of the mood under the heavy distorted sound... The kick of the drums could use some reverb in the intro section, I think it would sound cool.

I love how this sounds. The intro sounds pretty clean. The lead is a bit low but I guess that is intentional. The string note at 0:29 (E I believe) sounds a bit off to me. I'd take the classical sus approach there and play a D# after the E. From 0:33 on, the lead feels like it belongs to a completely different song. I can't explain exactly why it feels that way, but it doesn't really fit well with the rest of the instruments. Maybe it is the melody that it's playing. Sax is cool but I think it could use more articulation: vibrato, bending, whatever the hell your sample can handle! Change at 1:25 is cool. I like the flanger or whatever effect you used on the percussion. On the piano section beggining at 2:00 I feel you could make it sound better by changing the lowest note played. For example, at 2:04 the left hand plays a F#m but the lowest note is an A (I think), and it doesn't sound really powerful. I love how the rest of the band enters later. Overall, I really like the feeling of this. In some sections you could look into the tones you're playing more carefully since some melodies or chords are a bit unfitting in my opinion. Production seems pretty clean to me (a few times it is too loud but it doesn't really bother me).

I don't do these resolution kind of things but I'll list some things I'd like to do next year: - Record something with my band (we have some original songs ready, but for some reason we always fail at recording them). - Get posted on OCR and work on the mixes I want to do (so much good VGM). - Learn jazz theory and incorporate it to my compositions.

I'm buying this soon. Does it come with any guide or anything? I'm very inexperienced with Kontakt...

Extreme bump! I reworked this mix with some better sounding samples and hopefully better mixing knowledge than what I had in August. Link here: https://soundcloud.com/jnwake/final-fantasy-vi-a-waltz-for-a .

Cool, I may buy this! This is the only Impact Soundwork library that works with Kontakt player?

Hope is so low for Mother 4 that I can't even include it there

Pikmin 3 will be released on the Wii U U or whatever the hell Nintendo comes up with next. F-Zero UU and Star Fox UU will be the other launch titles

I feel motivated to help this project a bit more (since the PM OST is so good!) so sign me up for the Koopa Bros' theme (wonder how I'll add orchesta to it) and I'm planning to attempt a bonus track, but I won't claim it yet.

Given that no more stars have joined then I'll drop out. I fear I won't have enough time for this episode (I hope I ever do ) so I'd rather let somebody else participate.

If there's a strong lack of stars, you can leave me out. I won't have much free time as I thought I would (but enough to participate in case you have enough stars!).

Amazing mix! The intro reminds me a bit of the Chrono Cross' underwater theme. The rest of the song has a neat kart racing feel. Drums are amazing. Bass is very cool. Synth pads are awesome and the lead is great!

Last version of the Mix: https://www.dropbox.com/s/m1kjpsnejy57h76/jnWake%20-%20We%27ll%20Never%20Be%20Angels%20%28RM%29.mp3 . Old version: https://soundcloud.com/jnwake/starcraft-2-well-never-be . Source: .So, I made this mix for last month's DoD and now I want to polish it. I feel there's some EQing I could fix and maybe lower the reverb (and the compression/limiting), but I want to hear your opinions on that! Regarding source usage, the original song follows a, roughly, A-B-C structure. My mix is, essentially, B-A-B-C-A. I tried to keep some of the feeling of the original song in my interpretation. Anyway, hope you comment!

Woops, totally misread that (hopefully a star choses Volt Kraken then!). I'll be editing the post shortly.

This time I'm signing in as a novice! Source: Dr. Wily Stage Boss from Mega Man: Powered Up (or Mega Man 1 if you want). And... Links to my previous work: Forever a Sponge - Wire Sponge/Infinity Mijinion mix from the GMRB! Coin Song ReMix - Mix of FFVI's Coin Song and Figaro Castle. There's a couple more mixes on my souncloud, but almost everything I've posted is a bit rough. Not sure if it's of any use, but I'm South American, so you may want to consider that for the timezones (not radically different from most of the US but probably different to most European countries).

Same thing happened to me lol. Anyway, I can't believe no one has posted here in almost 2 years. This song is great, amazing piano playing/sequencing/whatever and a very interesting arrangement.

I can't believe I haven't posted here yet! Anyway, trailers have been pretty cool so I'm hyped for the final release

I think this song has like no high notes. Extremely heavy and interesting rhytm, I like it!

Sounding much better now! This is just my opinion, but I feel that if you managed to get a guitar tone like then this mix would be ridiculously awesome. Your distortion could be a bit more agressive.

To me, part of the negative press comes from the fact that most people that visit gaming sites are "hardcore gamers that hate Nintendo". Then, the press can gain a nice amount of clicks by bashing anything possible! Not to say the console is perfect, since there are some real problems (slow OS and that freezing thing), but I laughed when one reviewer complained about the placement of the buttons on the Gamepad.