DarkeSword

Looks like someone didn't read the rules and posted a review in the other thread. Because I'm not totally heartless, I'm going to quote the review here.

Moved to WIP after a week! Get to work!

If you're talking about the "Chrono_Symphonic_Mirror_Pack_(mp3).rar" on my server, I didn't use that one. I made a .rar of the mp3 folder from the torrent. perhaps that wasn't clear enough?? Compy, there's nothing wrong with herograw providing a rar file of the MP3s as they're released on the torrent. You can never have 'enough' mirrors. If this helps to alleviate bandwidth consumption, isn't that all the better? The point is getting the music out there, and there are no errors with the tagging or filenames, because the files in this rar are taken directly from the torrent download, so rest easy.

There are direct links on the website for you to download the MP3s one-by-one.

While it's nice, it really doesn't have anything to do with Chrono Symphonic. It's really just run-of-the-mill CT fanart. So no, I don't see this going into the torrent.

This is exactly what I was trying to convey with the piece. If you've ever played the X series, you know that X absolutely hates fighting and wants to live a peaceful life. He doesn't take any pleasure in killing repliods, and even in the Zero series, he turns into something more saint-like. Often times you hear really rocked out versions Megaman music, because the music is like that, and it's supposed to get you pumped, but I always liked X as a character because despite being a robot, he has a kind of humanity to him; I tried to bring that out in this piece.

I've made an addendum to the rules. 7. Do not post requests for music directly from the games themselves or professionally released arrangements (i.e. The Black Mages). This forum is for making requests to the remixers for a song you would like to see remixed.

Yeah. I envy those guys' ability in that area. They take the free stuff and work miracles. I have the ability to consistently make Reason's decent orkester library sound like crap spewing from a marching band tuba at haltime. Unknown needs to create a tutorial or something explaining how he does that. I'd pay money. Seriously. It's not that difficult; just use the right amounts of reverb and stereo separation, and pay attention to velocities. Write realistic rhythms, and know the limitations of your sounds. You need to treat a violin sample as a violin sample, not a real violin, and understand its limitations. That's how I approach sequencing any 'real' instrument, and it's what I did when I wrote my tracks for this project.

This project is progressing so quickly that I predict it will be done yesterday. Moved to WIP! GO GO GO DOOOOOOOOOOoooooommmm......

You can always read the script while listening.

In my defense (), the project's main idea was 'movie score.' I wrote these tracks to underscore what was happening in the scenes I wrote for; I had the script open while I was composing these. Doing something in the style of a movie score doesn't automatically mean 'Hollywood quality sounds;' it means accentuating what the audience sees with what the audience hears. That's not to say that movie scores can't or shouldn't be strong melodically, but the approach I took with these two tracks was different than the approach taken when writing standalone tracks. Actually, it's one of the (very few) things that I don't like about this project; some of the songs try to stand on their own too much rather than strive to be integral with 'the movie;' the most serious offender being Blue Skies Over Guardia! In retrospect, it would have been a better idea to use something more akin to djpretzel's Jethro and Vash at the Fair; if I was watching a CT movie and Blue Skies was playing the whole time that Crono and Marle were at the fair, I'd get sick of it. In the context of the project's theme of 'movie score,' I think that The Rising and, in particular, Crono's Dream, are successful pieces, and I'm very proud of what I was able to accomplish as far as melding thematic material and invoking certain moods. I'm not an orchestral arranger (despite past arrangements I've done), which is why they're simple pieces, but I think that they're some of my best works in terms of realizing the original intent I composed them with.

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You couldn't read the first five words? Don't be so indignant.

Thanks man; I'd be interested in hearing some more in depth comments later in this thread, if you don't mind.

Just set your BT client to NOT download the flac files if you don't want them. Any BitTorrent client worth the space it occupies on your harddrive is able to deal with multifile torrents and file selectability.

Thanks Larry. I was just about to post the same thing.

Now that anyone everyone has had a few days to cool off, I'm going to unlock this thread. If you have anything constructive to say, you can say it, but needless whining, complaining, moaning, etc is not welcome. Please take note that even though it's 2006, we are still in the 10th anniversary year of Chrono Trigger, as the game was not released until mid/late 1995, so nobody missed the 10th anniversary and Chrono Trigger is still awesome blah blah blah. This thread will remain open after the normal release comes out so that project members and the general community can discuss the pending release of the Special Edition. All FEEDBACK/REVIEWS of Chrono Symphonic must be posted in the feedback and comments thread that will be created upon the release of the project. Any reviews that are written in THIS thread will be deleted. I made this text big because I just know that people are going to post reviews here anyway. You've been told the procedure in obnoxious, size 18, bolded text. Follow it, and don't complain when your review gets deleted.

Hey wow you guys got exactly 1,000,000 remixers assigned to 1,000,002 tracks in like 3 minutes. Amazing, you must tell me your secrets! Moved to GD for a week GO GO GO DOOM 4EVA!!!!!!!

Stop whining. Claado already apologized, and if StarZander can't get the distro script done in time, then you'll just have to wait. It's an important aspect that alleviates server stress. It's not the end of the world. In any case, I'm going to lock this to prevent further complaining. Claado, since you're a coordinator, you can still post, bump, and reply. I'll also add Compy to the coordinators group so that he can post here as well.

I just think that it makes more sense to do a multiversion like we did with Doom and Kirby. Have the mirrors host the lossy-encodes (MP3s), and have the torrent distribution contain both lossy and lossless encodes in a selectable multifile torrent. Bandwidth issues solved. Two versions creates more confusion for the end-listener, and if you do ONE torrent, it'll have a longer life than if you run two torrents parallel to eachother; running one torrent is more efficient as well as far as tracking and leeching. Chrono Trigger was released in March '95 in Japan and August '95 in the US. We're still in the 10th anniversary year, so I don't think it's ridiculously important to do a release before January of 2006. I think it's more important to do one cohesive release with everything available rather than to split it up with what basically amounts to an MP3-teaser release. The only project to ever do multiple releases was Relics of the Chozo and that's because it was the first one, and there was a demand afterwards for lossless. We've come a long way since then, and we understand the demand associated with these big releases. I don't think we should complicate the release by doing two versions. Release the whole thing and be done with it. We've been waiting patiently for over a year now. A few more weeks isn't going to kill anyone.

Which of the releases is going to be tracked on the OCR tracker? You need to work out the logistics of this release. I would recommend that you just release the special edition as the normal one, even if it takes a little more time, rather than doing a stunted MP3-only release, and then setting up a brand new torrent for the special edition.

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I've gotta agree with Larry here; I don't really see this as a rearrangement of the source material at all. It's the original with unrelated embellishments all around. Pull out the one continuo line from the source material and you're left with something wholly unrelated to the original piece. Needs some actual interpretation, as opposed to addition. NO

Nice guitar playing, but this isn't all that different from the original song. It follows the original arrangement quite closely, and gives off a general BGM feel, as opposed to being its own song. Drums are really static, but there are some nice fills here and there. Guitar solos are cool, but the lead guitar sounds far in the back of the mix; everything else is a bit louder, so it all sounds unbalanced. Fadeout on the solo is kind of a cop-out ending. I don't mind fadeouts, but you never brought the song back to the melody, so the whole thing ended up feeling incomplete. I'd like to hear a longer version with more variation and more attention paid to balancing the instruments. NO rework/resub