[Paper Mario 2, Mario Land 2, DK Country, Ocarina of Time: Mare Undarum]

Updated with both Aquatic Ambiance and Zora's Domain. Now the title is even better.

I found it quite cohesive even considering that there are 4 themes in there. Sadly I dont remember so good any of them except Zoras domain.

 

Maybe the beginning is a little bit too chiptune? Later mixed with the pads and the "real instruments" sounds nicer for me.

[TLOZ: Song of Storms - Acoustic Remix]

I really enjoyed this ReMix. I like this theme a lot but normally what I find in different arrangements is that they insist in this urgence theme inherent in the game and it doesn't allow me to relax to the music. However in this ReMix I can just sit, close my eyes and listen in peace.

 

By the way, why didn't you try to do a mod review before submitting the track? I've seen it can be really useful to have an idea of what the judge would expect from a ReMix.

 

Anyways, I wish you good luck!

[About the judge panel. How does it exactly work?]

With the new forums in place, I updated the forum links and also clarified the statement on how voting works:

 

Decisions on submissions forwarded to the panel are reached by a majority of a panel quorum; a unanimous vote will be closed after three negative votes or four positive votes. A split decision will be closed after a difference of three votes (e.g. 5 YES's vs. 2 NO's), or extended to a majority vote at the request of a judge. In addition to his power to veto any submission regardless of the panel's decision, djpretzel may also serve as a tiebreaker during particularly divisive decisions.

 

Generally speaking, the order in which the panel hears a piece shouldn't matter too much, because

• There have been times where decisions initially going one way have flipped to the other result, but usually by the time 3 judges have heard something, if someone was going to dissent, they would have. For some unanimous decisions, I've sometimes asked for an extra vote due to not being sure if someone else would dissent or not.
• If a vote is very close, we can have most or all of the judges vote, in case there are enough votes remaining to change the decision;
• If an artist or the community strongly disagrees with a NO decision and feels it went the wrong way, we'll revisit it.

By being willing to take all of those steps, we try to have a system where the order of voting shouldn't affect the outcome, and if a mistake appears to be made, we'll re-assess it.

 

 

You can just check the Judges' decisions topic to see what happens. In general you'll find that it takes about 3 votes, and that Chimpazilla is usually the first to judge it

 

If you browse through that topic a bit you may find some tracks that needed more judges but I doubt any track ever needed to pass through all judges to reach a verdict.

Thanks for the answers! I understand now

[About the judge panel. How does it exactly work?]

Hello!

 

I suppose this is a basic question but it is somehow not totally clear to me and I ask it just to understand the process a little bit better I was reading the judge panel faq and I found this paragraph:

 

Decisions on submissions forwarded to the panel are reached by a majority of a panel quorum; a vote will be closed after three negative votes or four positive votes. Any decision can be further extended to a majority vote of five at the request of a judge. In addition to his power to veto any submission regardless of the panel's decision, djpretzel may also serve as a tiebreaker during particularly divisive decisions.

 

Does this mean that actually all 7 to 15 judges hear the track and when 3 say no then is over? Or when 4 say yes is also over? Depends then in the order in which the judges hear the track?

[Difference between a remix, an original or a cover? What is this piece of mine?]

To save you time, it would be rejected based on the instruments being mechanical (fake), particularly the strings and the staccato lead (clarinet?). Interesting rhythmic similarity with the woodblock though; I think that part is valid arrangement.

 

Based on 0:19 and on, which generally has more overt source usage, I think the lesser presence of scales compared to the original (which has more scales and less >1 whole-tone melodic jumps) makes your melody a bit too different, at least until 0:58 for me. 1:36 is the most obvious source usage IMO, and I can say that 1:36 - 1:55 is quite valid because it's in the context of a similar harmonic progression as well. Afterwards, however, it gets more liberal. Overall, I think this feels more inspired by the original than being an actual ReMix of the original. It's kind of borderline for me but I would lean towards it being too original.

Thanks for the feedback! I get a better idea with this. I'll try to put something together and then I'll post it in the workshop

[Difference between a remix, an original or a cover? What is this piece of mine?]

Self-promotion disguised as questions... I can dig it 

Precisely the impression I tried to avoid xD. The thing is if I was reading around the forum and this differences were not clear for me even hearing examples etc. and I thought that if I could connect something I've done with the proper definitions then I could base my next remix (I plan to submit something to the workshops) in something I've already done. 

 

If this thread is in anyway against the rules or I'm going too far I don't have any problem in editing my posts and erasing the links.

[Difference between a remix, an original or a cover? What is this piece of mine?]

Cool! Thanks for the answers!

 

I suppose now is much more clear to me what is an OC ReMix. The remaining question for me would be: How much is too far away from original so that is not anymore a ReMix?

 

I did something like an arrangement of a tales of symphonia arrangement. But in my arrengement the notes were a little bit changed. Just for the purpose of really understanding and to be able to prepare something to submit. Would this be ok as an OC ReMix or is it already to far away from the original version?

 

My piece:

https://soundcloud.com/danielpellicer/tos_fightingthespirit

 

The original remix:

 

The original piece:

[Difference between a remix, an original or a cover? What is this piece of mine?]

Hello!

 

I'm new and I was reading around that there is actually differences between a remix and a cover and that sometimes the pieces submitted are too far away from the original ones that actually don't fit here in OCR. Could someone tell me the exact differences?

 

What would this be?

 

My piece:

https://soundcloud.com/danielpellicer/another-loira-terranigma

 

The original one:

 

(I would like to improve to be able to do as good as the original one! )

[The Newbie Introduction Thread: Come on in and say hello!]

Hello!

 

My name is Daniel and I'm new in OC ReMix. I have heard of this community a lot of times and I even have a couple of albums in my computer but until now I was afraid of doing an account and saying hello. I put myself together and managed to write here this message

 

Hello to everyone!

 

A little bit about myself:

I studied in the conservatory a little bit of classical music but then left it because I had to study for university. Then I started to compose my own videogame themes using a DAW. It was a lot of fun so I started to do it more often. I like snes music a lot and I'm trying to find the best way to emulate doing some music to it. I also like nes chiptune and I try to do some famitracker tunes with it. I compose for more orchestral things using sonar or mulab.

 

If you want to take a look at what I've done I'll put a link in my profile. 

 

Thanks for reading!