spellmynamewithabang

then why is your thread topic listed as "finished?" i do not understand anyway: cave story is my favorite game so that's both bias for and against you; i love any and all attempts at doing anything with the music from this game (cough) but at the same time i'm a lot more critical of any attempt to do something with it as a result so here's the skinny on this: it's shrill. those mids are killing me! maybe this is just my speakers but this is so chippy it hurts, and in a way that's at odds with the pleasant warmth of the original's pxtone stuff. try programming some more complex synth tones, here! my ears would love you for it, seriously the drums could be switched up a lot but the production on them is more-or-less alright i guess it gets really muddy once it drops, though; there's like, no bass. where my bass at dog in a mix like this you need mega bass also, it kind of just repeats without much arrangement (it's actually more repetitive than the original; some parts you've taken ) and is really, REALLY safe! take some liberties with the source! you don't have to go all prog-crazy to make something that's a little more interesting than this; Quicksander might not be my favorite mix of all time but it's a pretty good example of how to not lavishly stick to the source with an edm mix like this. idk i hope you do more with this! i love cave story and i'd like to see where this could take you if you stuck with it.

Don't worry about it! Take your time with things; mostly as this stands right now I'm just trying to gauge how much interest there'd be for this project, as it's not a game I hear brought up often. It's close to my favorite Genesis game (Sonic 3+K and Comix Zone maybe -just- clinch it) and it's one of the best ones on the console and yet very few people seem to actually, like, realize it exists, at least not the same way they realize Revenge of Shinobi exists (which is baffling, considering how much better this one is). I plan to put track slots up to be claimed early-mid September, at which point we can start with a more concrete direction for what this is going to look like in the long run.

i was lukewarm to this track at first but after a few spins i think i might like it more than chemixtrixx. dang. most of my beef with it lies in that cheesy-ass snare build near the beginning but the more i hear it the more it seems to make sense with the wackiness of everything all in all: good stuff

shinobi three: return of the ninja master [ an overclocked remix album project ] the bottom line: basically, shinobi III has one of the best soundtracks of any 16-bit game, and maybe one of the best soundtracks of all time I've never played the arcade Shinobi games. I've never played Alex Kidd in Shinobi World. I've never played Shadow Dancer. I think it has a wolf in it. I've also never played Shinobi X, (thankfully), or the PS2 games, or the recent 3DS one (though I want to). I've played Revenge of Shinobi but I never got very far in it because it was kinda slow and boring and too hard compared to Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master. Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master is an incredible game. It's like if you combined buttered toast and jumping off a swingset. It's gorgeous, it's fast, and it's smooth as coconut rum. And it's got a bitchin' OST. Don't believe me? listen to it rn ok dude i'll wait tracklist (roughly in the order you'd hear it in-game) plus: are you done ok good here's the concept the concept: practically nobody seems to know it, so let's tell them, and do so aggressively By "it," I mean that first thing: this game has a kickin' soundtrack. It's rougher than the rest of them and tougher than leather. And I want it to be shouted from fuckin' mountaintops and done so with dripping, glorious style. There are only two Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master rearrangements on OCR. Let's change that! what it is: an album, duh I'm fully intending for this to be an official OverClocked ReMix album, with all that that implies* *that implies songs with ridiculous, impeccable production value and some degree of compositional ingenuity and I want it to be a cohesive album; this is going to be something you could stand beside anything in your library and be like "yeah dude this is a bitchin' album," not "yeah dude this is a collection of songs, some of which I kinda like!" That's an insanely vague concept, necessarily so, and it obviously can't be clarified further until we get more of an idea of what people are even going to be doing on this album! But suffice to say that I want it to be a big, nasty love-in; people shouldn't be getting egocentric and making holed-in bunker tracks unless they're really, really perfect ones. There should be some amount of collaboration between parties, here! what needs to happen right now: these things This is going to be a little unorthodox compared to some other albums around here, so maybe pay attention! -there aren't any spots to claim (at least right now); instead, people should just go ahead and start making things. don't wait on my permission to start! just make things and send them my way via personal message -once a suitable amount of interest is drummed up in here we can start piecing it together more and assigning spots and roles and so forth! -no need to worry about the art, i'll do it myself! and no, the thing above isn't the cover, it's just a thing i quickly sketched for this thread for now there is no deadline to worry about; let's focus on getting the ball rolling. this is probably going to be a long-term project, so picture a final deadline (and release) one or two years from now. like, 2015, maybe. That's a lot of time! in short: listen to the soundtrack, make things you want to make, send them to me, and then we can worry about moving further ahead does that sound good

i like the part where you ignored a pretty good post because you didn't like that it criticized you and it really very much made me want to listen to your mother 2 rearrangement

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i'd love to take on the boss theme! (attack the barbarian, natch) edit: if anyone needs someone for some hip-hopping-and-it-don't-stopping i am available for some rapping, because that is a thing i do

here's the current version there are some minor mixing niggles and it needs to be fleshed out and extended after 2:18; is there anything else what do people think of this do you like it

really digging the stardust speedway one! the bass sample is a little grating, and the string bit that starts around 1:14 really bugs me (it sounds fake and the pattern is too repetitive) around 1:49 there's some weird dissonance that sounds really out-of-key i'd like to see some more variation but for the most part it's really nice; i'd like it to be extended! i'm not nearly as much a fan of the egg golem theme but it fares pretty well overall. that said, though, that fake guitar is distracting it's not -that- bad apart from the lead (which is really off-putting) there's a horn blast around 1:40ish panned left in it that's really loud 1:55 there's a drop in amplitude and everything's panned center and it's weird idk if that helps

iPads, as far as I know, have no onboard vst support, because that makes no sense (vsts don't work on their own; they aren't self-contained applications) however there might be an app built for running vsts? i can't imagine it'd be on the app store, though in either case a bunch of excellent music apps do exist on the app store! moog's animoog is pretty great (i haven't used many other ones but i know there's an approximation of a kaossilator/kaos pad on their somewhere) and if not you could probably find an midi controller on the app store (i know there are some) and just run the vst in a DAW on a laptop? maybe?

i strongly dislike fauxrchestralism and how awful it sounds, i guess that's really it, i have a bias *shrug*

are you for real it's a very good, strong series of arrangements but it sounds awful because of the lack of live instruments is that just me it sounds like fake ducks wailing

The m50 is one of the best pairs of headphones i've ever used, so I'd just say to stick with the original plan tbh (i've never used these headphones but monoprice's HDMI cables always work nice and well i guess?)

i guess nobody likes grasstown well here's an update anyway: http://spellmynamewithabang.tumblr.com/post/57386378426/yet-another-update-to-that-grasstown-mix

it's very squished like, this thing is a brickwall like a motherfucker. there aren't any dynamics! the mixing is shot up the wall like a squeezebox; this has internal problems that limiters will not magically fix. is the limiter boosting the gain on the main track? if so, make it stop that; only have a main track limiter at zero db so that things never go -above- that and even then try your best to mix -without- the limiter there so that you know when things are too loud. everything feels kind of flat and bland and safe; not just your arrangement, but the tonality of it. it's very midi-playing-at-psg-chip right now, to my ears. the drums are the most interesting part of this mix and they're not produced terribly well/arranged terribly well (though they're better than most of this) part of the reason everything feels very flat is that everything is Go Go Go all the time and it's exhausting; have some quiet bits to accent the loud ones! i know you've set on this being the structure of the mix but it's way dire right now. don't listen to the original at all; think of the mix as a new composition with similar parts instead of This Is Me, Making Sonic Music. do something wild and wacky with it! program crazier synth voices. go all-out. minor note: the string at :53 is dire and doesn't fit the tonality of the rest of this at all! i'd recommend personally not using anything resembling an orchestral sample/synth unless you're actually playing it yourself but i'm in the minority here, but in general that's a thing that should be fixed somehow idk i hope that helps

Any word? I sent mine in six days ago and got no response either here (in PM or in this thread) or via email. Just checking in.

fiddled with it a little more today, gonna post a second version probably later tonight: click things i already know i need to do: -i'm splitting the bass into five notes; the third section marks a quick key change (or chromaticism, or whatever you call it) that needs to be addressed with a snap-back right before it becomes dissonant; this still has the bass the previous version had -there are terrible samples at the beginning; that's not at all final (i'm going to play everything that's not a synth patch or a drum machine/breakbeat live by the end of this) and neither is their sparsity; i'm messing around with that section a little bit more because i'm not happy with it -right before it kicks in there's a weird pop because the filter didn't cutoff at the right time; i'll fix that as soon as i can (as that vine i posted demonstrates hearing low-freq sound mistakes like that before i export is nigh-impossible) -also right before it kicks in i think i need a small anticipatory moment but i'm not exactly sure what that would be! i'll figure it out, don't despair -none of the synth line at the end is even close to final, that's really basic sketchwork other than that and the mixing in general i think that about covers it! fire away

FL Studio is absolutely the best MIDI editor I know of, hands down. Someone I know described going from FL to Logic as feeling like you've suddenly dipped your mouse in molasses, and I couldn't agree more; FL is just so, so good for working fast. Other DAWs handle samples and effects and other things a lot better overall but if you're primarily working with MIDI I'd go with FL 100%. For everything else: Pro Tools. So much of my workflow has involved going from FL to directly mixing+editing in Pro Tools that it feels second nature, now. I can't think of a better audio editor, at least none I've used.

Just sent mine! hope i'm not way too late etc etc

Out of curiosity, how much longer are you considering submissions? (I'm working on mine right now and I'm going to send it in as soon as I'm comfortable with it, but it's good to be sure)

oh, dang! i just saw this now; definitely going to work on something for this super hexagon was one of my favorite games of last year, so that caught my attention quick smart

I don't understand why you'd ever make such ridiculous removals of anything; if a thing is good, it's good, right? "If you ignore that it's milk, this milk isn't bad." I think it's pretty silly to do that! If you like a thing, you should say you like it, even if you're not a super fan of the person who made it or the thing in general. Doing otherwise is kind of willfully close-minded; maybe you might like milk after all, and you never knew! Forcing yourself to think "well it's only ok in This One Case" is pretty misguided, but that is my opinion. It's quite similar to people who look at a Chris Ware book and say "this is so literary it shouldn't be called comics" because they have an ingrained view of comics being lesser forms of art and writing, I think. It's still comics! It has always been comics. anyway more on topic sampling is almost always a viable artistic tool, except when it's not. the difference is a common sense thing, really, like the difference between erotic art and out-and-out pornography those are my thoughts

thanks! yeah, the mixing is really, really off and I can't do much to fix that for now (my headphones are broken so I'm mixing on laptop speakers that sound like this) but re: everything else - i agree about the writing, i need to fiddle with that and accent the shit out of it - what's everyone's feelings about the voice on the chorus? i think it needs something more but i'm not...quite sure what that would be

a soundtrack to a videogame it's over a year old now there's not much else to say i did everything, including the cover (except for the remixes i commissioned, of course)

i literally ctrl+f'd "cave story" because i wanted to do one from that game so here we are at a standoff i'm probably going to do more than one, though i've never done a prc and it sounds hella fun so EDIT: i might be picky but i'm also confused: round 83 is listed as being "Sonic Adventure 2 - Ice Paradise (GEN)" which doesn't make any sense, because: -ice paradise is from sonic advance two, not sonic adventure two -neither sonic adventure 2 nor sonic advance 2 are on the sega genesis am i insane or was this intentional