Dafydd
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Ah. Well, no, it might be original to OCReMix, but I've heard other. similar versions elsewhere.
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If it doesn't sound odd to you, don't let our opinions kill your creativity. I'm assuming though, that since you got the melody down perfectly, you're basing this off a MIDI?
You don't really need to understand what I or BardicKnowledge said (I went to music school for 9 years, and reading his post gives even me a headache, even though I understand it
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The bassline is consistently playing the fifth or third above the original bassline, which ****s with my mind. I like the general soundscape and attitude of the mix.
Where did you get those drum samples, anyway? They really do fit the mix perfectly.
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This is awfully quiet. I hear you punching on a keyboard at about the same volume as the song itself. Are you playing all of it live, simultaneously?
It's also awfully hypnotic and weird. It's like elevator music on a scratched and skipping CD, at least until the harmonica kicks in, at which point it gets less elevator-ish, but no less weird.
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Welcome to OCReMix!
This was pretty nice, but I've several similar sounding versions of this before, except the piano section, which was the best part, I think.
Those drums sound awfully familiar. Is it a soundfont?
PS. Your written English is better than that of many native speakers
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Don't be so sure you'll have more time just because you graduate... people with jobs don't really seem to be swimming in it either
Replacing the original NES instruments with something else would probably sound cool.
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The very first seconds of the intro are very promising, but then the snare that comes in is terrible - too loud and too deep in pitch.
From 0:43 it's too loud, or the compression too intense - the punchiness of the drums drowns in everything else. The dubstep wub from 1:09 is badly out of tune at times. The flute from 1:40 is very dull and unnatural.
The arrangement and combination of the two themes is very nice, I think, aside from a few note clashes here and there, especially between the flute and the rest
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Damn this sounds like "stalker". No coincidence, but still...
My guess is this is too similar to the original to make it past the panel. It sounds really good, though! Could easily have been part of the Shogun 2 TW OST, at least until the 2:30 mark. The drums that come in after that sound really generic/MIDI and flat. If dubstep is what you were aiming for, something punchier would have been nice, and would have fit much better with that mean sync lead thing you got going there (which is also very nice). The drum sequencing itself is ok, but the samples and processing aren't.
tl;dr: orchestral parts are excellent, drums need more beef. Arrangement likely too conservative.
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Yours was pretty spooky.
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Heh, that lead sounds awfully familiar
Not much to say, I think it sounds good, aside from the noise/glitch that doesn't really add much imo.
What's that dinosaur burp sound at the end? I mean, what's it supposed to sound like?
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You really seem to have thought this thing through
Kudos on a so far working concept! -
I'll also sign up as a star.
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Well this is awkward.
I'm not sure his reservations about which category he merits were at all warranted.Maybe I should have been a star instead, but I truly am not confident about my production at all, and when I compare my own work to that of posted mixers, I often find it seriously lacking (hence the title for my entry), and I did actually learn a lot while making the song. I didn't intend or expect to steal the show like this, however...
I'll make up for it by signing up as a star for the next round! We cool?Thanks, everyone!
EDIT: Oh, and good work!
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The hour draws near, when all may choose
Which 'mixer will win, so the others must lose.
For this episode is done, and with it our theme
Of spookiness, nightmare, or maybe just dream.
All made good efforts, that I believe
And the winner we'll find, on All Hallows Eve.
Nice work
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Of course I'm not accusing O-Clocked of enclosing diseased files; As I said, I'm questioning [mu]torrent!
Visiting a website like ocremix and downloading mp3s from it and/or its mirror sites wouldn't be any more safe than using the torrent files, afaik. The internet is a dangerous place.
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Like I said, we only get to suggest a few, and even those aren't guaranteed to make it. I think that's enough for now.
I'm gonna be an ass and ask all of you who suggested mascots to edit your posts and list next to each mascot the number of games they're in that have remixes on the site, as well as the total number of remixes (neither number needs to be exact), just to give me an idea of why it should be a mascot.
(also, Dafydd, it's particularly, not particularily.)Thanks! It's impossible to pronounce that way, though, now that I really try, haha...
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Got some news, but for some reason, I've lost permission to change the thread title...
Anyway, we are going to have some new mascots added soon, and we have been tasked with suggesting "a few". Can you think of any particularly deserving character (especially from games that have a lot of ReMixes on the site) that aren't belong to Square-Enix?
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I totally agree that how well the mixer adapts the source to the theme at hand should be in focus, but your definition of "interpretation" isn't at all what I had expected. Then again, I might be so brainwashed by OCR's definition of the word that I don't even know what it means any longer.
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How much you used material from the track you picked, and also how much you altered it and made something new but still recognizable. That's my idea, at least.
How is that different from interpretation?
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Could anyone clarify this?
Votes should be based on, in roughly descending order, use of source [...]. Interpretation of the theme shouldn't be considered.What does "use of source" mean, really?
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Done it. Link is the same.
I should probably clarify AGAIN that if you think my song sounds like shit, don't think Sir Nuts had anything to do with it, because none of it is his fault. Just for the record. I got started with this too late and had no time to apply his advice.
EDIT: I also misspelled his username in the filename.
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Submitted my first wip, which was all I had time to make, sadly. I didn't even have the time to do the things Sir Nuts told me about regarding clipping and such! He did provide me with a source, though, and the little I had time to do is very different from anything I've done before, so even if I didn't really finish the WiP... hold on. Exactly how much time do I still have left?
EDIT: Holy crap, I still have an hour left!? Well damn. Can I replace my submission with a new file if I do so before the deadline?
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I think you can use '''*''' to write asterisks in wikis without them turning into bullet points (that's how they do it on wikipedia, anyway). It also seems the character stays an asterisk if immediately preceded or succeeded by a non-whitespace symbol, e.g. a comma, or the number 3:
In general, though, I prefer using numbers for footnote references rather than abitrary symbols like asterisks and crosses.Fallout 3*I'm pretty sure the fact the Xbox doesn't list the ReMix is just an oversight, though, since that same ReMix is listed by both the PS3 and Windows ports of the game, and afaik the soundtrack is identical in all ports. I've informed the staff about it and it should be fixed shortly.
It's odd that, when you checked the versions of Fallout 3 to link in the bio, PS3 was listed, and Windows wasn't, because the Windows version of the game has game id 622 in the database, and the PS3 version has game id 623, indicating it was added later (despite the fact that the first and so far only ReMix of that game lists itself as being a PS3 ReMix). Odder still that the Windows version was then updated to list the ReMix (apparently a while later) and the Xbox version was still left out in the cold.
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1 - 1000 only has 865 files.
First post says:
More info: http://ocremix.org/info/ReMix_Changelog(2,355 files total, FYI, since we've removed some material in the past)
Crateria Surface Remix
in Post Your Game ReMixes!
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I like it so far, but it needs to be developed further. Any updates?