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Yay, F-Zero! Been listening the soundtrack since a few days back. Ah, the memories... This isn't the hottest song in the soundtrack, but it deserves some attention nonetheless. The pads are clipping in the beginning, I think (or maybe it's just distortion). Bass is pretty awful and MIDI and way too faint compared to the pads. The brass is too loud, too. The drums are really boring, plain and faint, too. More punch, please. I'm missing the snap and rhythm of the original. It felt like it was going someplace and this is just... stomping on the same spot somehow. I think it's mostly because of the drums. I'd suggest not playing making the bass play non-bass notes when the pad is playing, or make the pad stop playing low notes. They kind of clash and drown each other out, and there's a lot of dissonnance in the bass spectrum, and the pads clash with the melody too, especially in 3:00 and on. I think the main problem is the volume levels. Some instruments are way too loud and some that should be are barely audiable, mainly the bass and the drums. Try listening some some of Zircon's stuff, he always makes the drums very in-your-face in a good way. I think he's using compressors to do it. I don't mean you should make your drums sound like his, but study the way he does volume levels.

Green Day taking the mean password screen theme from Megaman 2 into Minority-style hopping. Oh yes. Happy Punk that one up like I tried doing in my now broken source WiP (i.e. RiP).

This is nowhere near as smooth as the other one. The voice in the intro feels fake, and so do many other instruments later on. Anyway, this is clearly much more OCReMiX like, and has much higher chance of passing the judges panel than your previous mix did. And I'm saying this preferring it over this one. I'm kinda missing the source tune though... it's in there pretty briefly, but the theme I was really looking forward to hearing isn't really here at all. Anyway, best of luck to you. I think you should submit this and see what they have to say. Rarely does a mix made in just a few hours make it past the judges.

He's just inexperienced. If he had to start over every time it ended up this bad, he'd never improve.

QFE. 10 char...

Here are some cute ones from Yoshi's Island: The first one is yoshi jumping on skis, and the second one is a snowman enemy (I think he appears on the same level as the skis, but not sure). LT: Bueno. Great! Any plans on sorting those avatars alphabetically? They're a jungle right now. And, er, rougly, how long time until accepted avatars get added so you can use them? Not rushing, I'm pretty happy with the one that I got right now. Just curious. I mean, how often is the avatar folder updated?

Awesome! Can't wait to hear it.

Yeah, I'm not saying that this site should be hosting sound upgrades or that what you're doing here at OCR is stupid, but I personally don't mind listening to sound upgrades myself (or the original source tunes for that matter). If a remix doesn't at least have a portion of it that sounds pretty much like the original (but better), I get kind of an anti-climax, it doesn't give me the aural satisfaction that I set out for when playing the mix. There are many songs on this site that I just don't like listening to. They may follow the guidelines, but as far as music goes, they're not that interesting, or I simply am not interested in listening to a remix of a song I've never heard. Hehe. Likewise, I get hugely annoyed by tiny details like how the bass in this mix is offset, or how the melody is "wrong" in the 2:10-2:20 section (and in some other places, such as in 4:35) in McVaffe's otherwise wonderful Zelda 3 "TheDarknessAndTheLight" mix. Sometimes, a song contains obvious misinterpretations as well as reinterpretations, and they make me want to scream "Do not want! That's not how it goes!" But that's just me. I know Schnabubula used to point out details like this when he was a judge. Anyway, what I wanted to say was that if you want to stick with just making sound upgrades, that's fine in my book. Not all good music has a place on OCR. And of course adding techno drums isn't the only way to make it a "remix". Just poke around the site a bit and listen to some mixes, there are even songs to remix rock or techno themes into an orchestral style. Or listen to my wip.

A firm but perhaps too broad a grasp. People looked at me funny in the US when I talked sometimes because I confuse written English with spoken English, and speak sentences that no native speaker ever would, except for the odd RPG fanboy who thinks he's an elf or something. So even if they couldn't tell I was forign, since I had no accent, they could tell there was something fishy about me (the fact that I had no idea what they were talking about when they said things like "Wall-mart", "Kroeger" and "Food Lion" didn't help either. Hahah. I remember the first time I tried to pronounce the word "pussy" (in the middle of a sentence), hadn't heard anyone say it before... came out like "pooh-see" and my cover went down with it. You can't explain a mispronounciation like that with anything but a big blush and an "I'm foreign, sorry".

The initial synths are pretty horrible. They remind me of going to the dentist, or a sawmill... Is it supposed to sound like a guitar? The intro is too long and repetitive. Everything feels very mechanical and inorganic in an unpleasant way. A clone of the first synth comes in and it still feels like an intro. Where the hell are the drums? Lots of dissonance - the bassline doesn't fit with the melody at all. The softer synths that eventually replace the sawmill sounds are pretty nice, but I'm still missing percussion. You need to work on making more stuff happen, all the time, to keep things interesting. It all feels very static, especially the beginning, with the horrible distorted synths. Try adding some pads here and there, some nice drums and modulating the melody instruments so they don't feel like they're on autopilot. Additionally, I would advise you to work a little more on your wips before posting them here, if you don't wanna get this kind of critisism. It can be very annoying to have someone else tell you about flaws and problems you're already aware of. Work it up to where you think it's good, and then see what others think.

Dude, don't get me wrong, this is good stuff. Much better than many of the "interpretive" mixes you find here. Yeah, it's the one that plays when you get the "rainbow gun" (the one that's called hyper or something, the one you get from the metroid to kill the mother brain with), and also just before you get to the wrecked ship in crateria... I don't know what you're using to listen to music, usually, but if you want to listen to game music, there's a great plugin package for winamp called chipamp, hosted by OCReMiX... it makes you able to listen to pretty much every console music there is to listen to - amiga, nes, snes, n64, playstation, gameboy, sega etc. Then all you need is to find the soundtracks, like those rsn files, and open them in winamp like an mp3. There are other ways to listen to the music, too, but if you're already using winamp, that's the easiest way to do it. I don't own any soundtracks either (other than those that come with "collector's editions" of game's that I've bought), but I have roughly 300 or so on my hard drive. They take no space at all, because they're stored in the same format as in the actual game - hence the need for plugins and stuff. For example, the soundtrack for Super Metroid takes only 300kB, as you noticed, and the average NES sountrack is only 25kB or so. They're free and legal to download (I think) - you can usually download source tunes directly from OCReMiX (find a remix you like and click the chiptune tab).

Hey, I agree, don't add techno beats if you're happy with it as it is. I think most remixes are created from an idea - I get them all the time, like "hey, this song would sound great as a rock song" or whatever. If your idea was to make it sounds like movie music, stick with it - don't change it just to fit someone else's standards of what a remix is. Unless you want it published on the site that is. If you didn't even have access to the source material - well, you have pretty incredibly good memory. The bass was pretty much the only thing that didn't play the notes pretty much exactly as in the original. A soundfont is basically a sample package complete with patches (instruments), with settings for how the samples are used (modulation envelopes, loop points, etc). Try this is you wanna know more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundfonts Please, do a movie music style remix of the song I asked you earlier. It's gonna be sweet like honey yum yum.

Keep the verbatim one though, there are lots of people who like listening to sound upgrades It doesn't get you into OCR, but hey. You can always make an "OCR edit". But yeah, if you want your song on OCR, you need some more "interpretation". I would dare say that the little clip I posted above could probably be an intro for an OCReMiX. Not much, but a remix could be built from it.

Cool stuff. The synth bass is offset by 2 notes compared to the original, it's kind of annoying... (listen to this clip I made just now (or a midi, if you prefer) - the first 4 measures show how you did the bass, and the last 4 measures show how it should be. The timpani in the actual SPC are off-beat and offset - just listen to the song from the beginning and count the measures, ignoring the timpani, and you'll see.) Other than that, really fucking sweet, dude... Hey, could you do the song named "Theme of Samus Aran - Galactic Warrior"? I really want to hear your take on it. What are using to make this anyway? The timpani was pretty hot.

I'm sorry - being Swedish means being exposed to both British, American and Australian English at every turn - the result is a really messed up accent and spelling like a schizo. I'm simply confused, that's all. This website is American and the spelling should probably be kept consistently American, except in cases like watkinzez's bios, since he's Australian, and he wrote them. Myself, I try to stick to the American way of spelling and speaking (can't stand horridnesses like "inissialise" (British) instead of "inishalize" (American), but I screw up sometimes. I even lost my own Swedish accent after moving away from home and doing army service. Being an arrogant capital city dweller had isolated me from other accents, and as soon as I got in touch with them, I picked up every weird expression and pronounciation there was to be picked up from the rest of my platoon, like a kid who catches every virus there is after finally being let out from the parents' quarantine-like overprotection. I guess you could say I'm adaptable... The good part is I can learn how to pronounce foreign languages well enough to fool a native I'm one of them in a matter of weeks, even if my vocabulary is lacking. Bottom line: edit away.

Hey, who changed the thread title? Mao means "King of Demons" in Japanese? All I can think of is Mao Zedong... hahaha. I didn't like the parantheses ("(humans)") that were scattered across the bio, but other than that, it was fine. I again apologize for my absence...

Russian websites scare me... and it's downloading at less than a kB/second. Meh. Maybe I'll try listening to it another time.

Well... I think he's just pulling a joke on you. Today is april first Besides, if was being serious, why would he send a PM to you, and to to me? ... maybe Linearity is the one pulling the joke. Haha

I hated the game, but I agree the music is indeed remixable.

EDIT: Disregard the below, I guess... the more I think about this the more I think that I only wanted your opinion if it was a positive one, and now I'm being all sore. Does that mean that if I replace the sax I have with the one I can download from your soundfont website (which has some very nice fonts on it, btw), the sax would be good enough? It still doesn't sound real. I know there are tons of good, free samples out there, I just didn't see what was wrong with the ones I have - I thought they were good. I thought you were complaining about sound quality, not that the samples were inadequate. I guess i misunderstood you. "Get better samples" is kind of open to interpretation. What's a better sample? Who decides? I guess the main problem is I can never tell if what I make is good or not. If elevator music is ill-defined, how can I pigeonhole myself into it? I wanted to make this sound like something you would hear in an elevator, with all the cheesyness that comes with it. I don't know what it's really called - if there's one thing I don't know it's how to label songs by genre. I can't tell rock from pop or trance from techno. Ishkur's guide to electronic music makes me dizzy. I didn't intend to exclude everything that didn't sound elevator music-ish, but I had an idea of what I wanted to do. What's wrong with sticking to a concept anyway? Must all music be cross-genred and exploring? Again, I certainly agree this song is far from perfect. I think one of us has misunderstood the other, or both. Degree, I agree (huh-huh, it rhymes, huh-huh) the song is repetitive, and I intend to fix that. Unfortunately, Reason doesn't allow for tempo changes (incredibly enough, since they've been around since the days of mod trackers, if not longer). Now, this: I have no idea what this means. Elaborate? One thing that bothers me is that all the music I make feels horribly mono, no matter how much I pan things around. Reason's stereo imager doesn't seem to help, either.

I agree that the song is a little monotonous. Also, the strings you're using have way too slow attack. This is especially obvious at 00:30 - 00:40. The lead guitar is kind of drowned out when playing the melody. The melody is, in fact, very drowned except during the "chorus", which is also the only time in the song when the whole song doesn't sound very sparse. Also, I like the dark sound you get here, but I want some more hi-hat wishy-whoosh, and some cymbal carpets during the chorus.

Eternal Buffer is more like it. I'll give this a listen when Putfile isn't so crowded.

Haha, nice... can't say this sounds a whole lot like Corneria though, even though I can hear that that's what it is.

Hey, you should be thankful a judge popped in and commented on your stuff. Or anyone, for that matter. Way too many wip threads "fall off the edge" of this forum without a single reply, other than the thread starter's own bump attempts.

Er... I used pretty much every one of the devices... I understand that my samples could be used better, I just disliked "get better samples". I just really, really, really suck at production. I haven't a clue about anything regarding mastering, mixing, balancing, equalizing and all that. All I hear is "this sounds good" and "this sounds bad". I can never put my finger on what should be done to improve things. But even I agree this song is unpolished. The thing is, even if I was happy with it, I doubt it would be up to their standards. Heh.