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    Chrono Trigger Orchestral Remix - World Revolution / Final Battle / Main Theme

    in Post Your Game ReMixes!

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    On 4/15/2019 at 6:11 PM, Souperion said:

    Let me first congratulate your ambition in not only working with a huge composition, but also working with some great Chrono Trigger pieces! I think that overall your hard work is showing with this monster. The big chromatic drop at 1:28 is what told me that there was more than just a good cover coming. At the final battle part (Roughly 2:00) I fairly enjoy the bass line's slight panning from left to right, giving a nice surround sound for the apocalypse. You make the orchestra nicely handle what synthy goodness and shredding guitars normally deal with. And that Lavos scream, gives the chills. And after all the mania of the battle, breaking into the main theme with delicate strings and woodwinds: classic. Nice spread of feeling and intensity. 

    The best I can offer by way of critique: The brass sounds a little too smooth at parts where they handle the melody (Like 0:40, 5:17) ), some added attack on the notes could be nice. And... well, I hope someone else will come and offer better feedback. This was a pleasure to listen to, keep working with it!

    Thanks! Between this and the other piece I posted here, getting the brass notes to sound a bit more varied in velocity was a common issue that came up, so I'll be sure to sort that out in the future. Thanks again for your input.

    14 hours ago, HoboKa said:

    This IS ambitious and wow it starts off no bars held.  And WOW the YT algorithm has utterly failed you mate.  You'd think that a tag like Chrono Trigger would garner at least 10,000 views off the bat.  Google sure is a shitty Big-Media pandering, Disney-cock sucking garbage pit... Do you have Soundcloud and Bandcamp??  Might get more views there.  

    Right.  Loving the production and the breakdown at 4:00 is great.  Is this E/W symphonic library samples??

    Cheers! Yeah Youtube seems tough to get some traction on, I'll add some more tags like you mentioned. I've got a Soundcloud too, but that seems similarly quiet. To be honest, every time I look at the Youtube video I'm sickened by the shoddy image (ie. the composition and layout, not Toriyama's work naturally) that I set as the video's background. I suspect it does no favours for the video's potential viewership. It serves as a constant reminder not to spend multiple evenings working on something and then cobble together a bad photoshop last minute lol.

    And yes, pretty much all the instruments in the piece come from EastWest, aside from a few (some synths, the organs) that come by default with Cubase.

    Glad you liked it!

    Chrono Trigger Orchestral Remix - World Revolution / Final Battle / Main Theme

    in Post Your Game ReMixes!

    Posted

    Hey folks, here's a big ol' piece of music that took far too long to do.

    I learned a fair bit on how to approach composing/mixing big orchestral pieces like this, especially when there are synths/guitars layered in on top, though I imagine there's plenty to be improved.

    Let me know what you think, cheers!

    Chrono Trigger Orchestral Remix - World Revolution / Final Battle / Main Theme

    Brass City - F-Zero Orchestral Remix (Mute City)

    in Post Your Game ReMixes!

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    3 minutes ago, JohnStacy said:

    So as an orchestral musician and and a brass player myself I really just wait around this forum for people to send orchestral stuff.

    So this hits both of the areas of things I do. The first thing I notice is that the mixing is actually pretty good, everything is really clear, and it's for the most part orchestrated well. That said, I do have some objections to the use of samples here.

    It seems like you're using cinebrass (or another similar sounding brass library), which is just fine. Cinebrass is awesome. I think you could do a little bit different job of using the articulations patch. In this case, using 2 layers, an articulation patch, and the legato patch under it. That gives you the sustain and power of the brass, but without the "pretty" articulation that that patch normally has. Let's take a timestamped journey:

    Beginning - Your use of the Captain Falcon samples throughout are hilarious, in a very good way.
    Beginning - This brass figure where you're repeating the note over and over, I can tell by listening that the velocities are either very similar or the same and you're just relying on the round robin articulations of the patch. I would suggest using the repeated notes in the strings, and letting the brass just hit accents. This is my orchestral brass player side talking. I have had to play many parts written just like this. They're tiring and really tedious to rehearse, for not much musical reward.
    I also think that doubling the horns and trumpets in octaves like this would be more effective with just the hits rather than every note. You can hear that this adds some mud to an otherwise clean mix.

    :21 - I'm listening with headphones now. I think you actually are using the sustain+articulation thing I mentioned, but the sustain is so much quieter than the attack that it just sounds like attack to me, and it ends up doing that car horn, honky kind of sound. Balance out articulation+sustain and it'll work really well.

    Actually that covers most of the things I'm hearing here.

    Cheers mate, this is great stuff to take onboard. The instrument libraries all come from Eastwest. You're on the money regarding the velocities, they generally remain the same between notes for each part (equal parts laziness and relying on the Eastwest plugins to try add some variance). Regarding your other feedback, I'm not familiar with all the musical terms so this is a useful point to start learning some more. Thanks again!

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