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This is a pretty cool style for the source material! Really gets you in a dancing mood. I'll echo the volume complaints. Brass is too loud and completely drowns the drums. I think adding some bass to the arrangement wouldn't hurt either.

This always hovers over my head when composing so I intentionally try to put unexpected things into my songs, like key changes, non-traditional chord progressions and stuff like that. However, it's very easy to overdo it and end up with stuff that sounds terrible in an attempt to sound unique. I guess the easiest way to avoid this is to listen to different music and get as many inspirations as possible to avoid being too influenced by few sources.

New starters are pretty cool. Litten looks cool and stands out from the rest of the fire starters with so much black. Rowlet is cute and looks funny, the twisting head animation is amazing. Popplio looks so derpy that I can't help but love it. The circus seal theme is awesome too. Bat legendary is awesome. Looks so majestic. Lion looks like a true force of nature but I don't dig the design that much.

I'll share some of the bands I listen to: Tesseract is progressive djent metal band... Or something like that, I get confused by genders often. Anyway, they are characterized by weird rhytms and cool vocal harmonies. Some of their songs have growls and shit like that but they've slowly moven away from that. Andromeda is a progressive metal band that usually makes very technical songs. The one I link above is one of their ballads where the singer shines. Their instrumentals are pretty good. Finally, while most people in this thread have probably heard of Symphony X, I want to share what I feel is their most underrated song: Rediscovery part 2 is one of my favourite metal songs. For the first minutes the song is quite calm and hopeful but then turns darker before having some of SyX's stranger riffs. For some reason this song isn't very popular (unlike some of their other epics like The Divine Wings of Tragedy and The Odyssey) and I believe they have never even played it live. A shame for such an incredible song.

You almost nailed it timaeus! "Vio" isn't used for 1st person. Anyway, I also remember this one from the workshop. It's a very pretty arrangement with nice playing. I feel the guitars are a bit too bright but that's just nitpicking. Awesome job!

If anybody has an spare Dakrai code I'd really appreciate it. Can't get one in Latin America.

I'm working on mine too... Not that close to completion yet but in the works!

Hahaha this is great. Someone should balance this by covering this song: Maybe I'll do it in the future, but I can imagine a metal remix of this being awesome.

I'll do my best to reach that WIP date. Just need to get some good inspiration...

I have a separation of 3. It links me directly to Uematsu lol. Btw, I'm blown away by the amount of info in MusicBrainz. It has everything about me, even the fact that I use different names here and in DoD.

Hopefully someone takes my idea of OCR Secret Remix Santa for 2016 so that people too far away like me can easily participate

Oh, technomanga is a silly "meme" here from some guy that complained that OCR made too much techno or something like that.

Hope you guys enjoy the mix when the album releases. To my surprise there aren't many Chemical Plant Zone remixes that aren't "technomanga" so I went for a funkier/rock approach.

Pretty neat articles about Undertale here: http://jasonyu.me/undertale-part-1/ http://jasonyu.me/undertale-part-2/ They're like an extended version of DrumUltimA's posts.

I don't even want to post my first remix here. It's awful haha. At least my songs sound decent now. I'd link my old Guitar Pro tabs if mysongbook.com was still alive though ;_; My original music isn't that bad.

Someone should do Threed from Earthbound. It's a very pretty theme!

I've always been obsessed with avoiding repetition in my songs, long before I met OCR. However, that's something I would like to change since many great progressive bands actually use repetition a lot! Some Genesis or Marillion songs have sections that simply build off a base for long without getting stale and that's something I'd learn to do myself. For example, The Invisible Man (by Marillion) has a section (beggining at around 6:30) that lasts like 3 minutes and has the same guitar riff playing through it all the time yet it's very progressive thanks to changes in the other instruments, particularly the vocals and keyboards. OCR did change my music a lot though since before OCR I only wrote music using Guitar Pro. I used to post my compositions in MySongBook (a tab site) actually!

Copying melodies is fine and all but if you really want to learn to play keyboards you should take care of finger positioning, especially when you're beggining to play. It's very common to see people who use like 1 or 2 fingers to play because they never learned proper positioning. You should also take care of your wrist positioning since a wrong one can be pretty hurtful. Your hand should never be below the keys, and you always want your fingers arched down to play the keys (like the 1st pic below). Sadly I don't have any book to recommend but I bet there are plenty tutorials on YouTube haha. I'd recommend watching stuff on hand posture and finger positions for scales and stuff. Of course there's also learning how to play with 2 hands at the same time but most exercises should cover the basics of that.

If this progresses nicely you should try contacting the VGCW (Forums and Wikia). It's a videogame character wrestling league and features Dracula as one of the main wrestlers (he's actually the champion now). Last episode also teased Alucard. I think you could make a nice collaboration with them!

So this is an album of village themes in general right, not limited to RPGs?

There was (is?) a Paper Mario project that's unofficial (I believe?) but I'm not sure what its status is.

That sounds interesting! Your material in that WIP was pretty good. If Bahamut is up for it I could claim Danger then.

Glad to see this revived. I've always thought "Danger" could be remixed in the style of prog. metal band Andromeda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOlPFPW5Tuo. Not sure if I should try claiming it though...

Awesome post DrumUltimA! I recently finished playing Undertale and I'm blown away by the OST. The number of incredible tracks in there is just... too much. My favourite is probably the genocide battle against Undyne (Battle Against a True Hero) or Death by Glamour, although the True Lab themes (Here We Are and Amalgam) are good competitors too. It's pretty cool how the themes are reused during the soundtrack. My favourite has to be how Flowey's theme is turned from a silly cute song into an epic battle theme in Finale. The magic of changing the chord progression (and a few extra notes!).

So many gifts! If only there were events in South America for the GameStop mythicals. I'll miss some cool ones (and already missed Mew).