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    [GSM3] Round 1 Voting

    in Public Voting

    Posted

    Voting Guidelines

    Teams were tasked with writing three mashup arrangements of two songs each, one from a Streets of Rage game and the other from an Etrian Odyssey game.

    In order to make your vote, listen to the remixes and, for each pair, choose the remix that fulfills the following criteria (listed in order of importance):

    • The remix arranges both source tunes in an interesting and identifiable way into one cohesive piece of music.
    • The remix is well-produced within the conventions of the genre.
    • The remix is enjoyable to listen to.

    Stream the remixes via Soundcloud or Download the Round 1 Remix Pack (MP3).

    For your reference, here are the source tunes for Round 1.

    Streets of Rage vs. Etrian Odyssey

    Streets of Rage 2 vs. Etrian Odyssey II

    Streets of Rage 3 vs. Etrian Odyssey III

    You can also use this thread to leave comments about the tracks. Remember to be kind and constructive. Thanks for listening, and thanks for voting!

    *NO* Remember Me "This Is My Memory!"

    in Judges Decisions

    Posted

    Love this game, and the OST is one I come back to quite often.

    The arrangement here is good, but the slow string articulations are killing this for me. You've setup a monstrous task for yourself: doing a straight sequenced orchestral version of a piece that uses live orchestra. In that comparison, it's absolutely going to sound lacking. Not that it can't be done but even on its own the production of this feels flat. It doesn't feel expressive.

    I think the Js all made some pretty thoughtful comments and I'm gonna come down on the side of the NOs. This is a valiant effort and I think with a focused approach to articulations, you could give this one a kick in the pants.

    NO, resub

    Made the switch from Firefox to Brave Browser after a couple of decades

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Hey just so you know, this whole "they don't care about privacy anymore" is 100% fucking nonsense. Mozilla does not say that they can use your data however they want. This is also part of the terms of literally any site you upload anything to; the service needs to say "you grant us the right to do things with your work so that our service can actually function." For example: uploading a picture to Bluesky? Bluesky asserts the right to transform your work so that they can generate a thumbnail of the picture you uploaded.

    That's what these terms always mean. It's never about a service or a piece of software asserting ownership of your data. It's about you granting them a baseline level of permissions so that they can actually do the things you need them to do with the data you give them. This type of "company is stealing your work" scaremongering makes the rounds every few months in art communities and every single time someone has to clarify that companies are not stealing your work.

    Mozilla is not claiming ownership of your work. Mozilla is not throwing privacy to the winds.

    Instead of watching a clickbait video that perpetuates the same stupid misunderstandings, maybe go directly to the source and actually read what Mozilla has to say about it?

    Also, Brave is the second-to-last browser you should be using (behind Chrome). Brave has engaged with scummy shit such as:

    • Replacing ads on pages with its own ads and taking a cut
    • Putting their own affiliate links in search suggestions
    • Installing a VPN on Windows without notifying users
    • Numerous partnerships with cryptocurrency firms

    If you want a reliable browser that's not Firefox, there are plenty of options like Orion, Waterfox, Ungoogled Chromium, Arc, etc.

    Brave is not it.

    EDIT: But also just keep using Firefox.

    Timing tips

    in Music Composition & Production

    Posted

    The answer literally is what you already said: "Do what sounds good." Turn off snap in FLStudio so you can freely drag the reverse and keep adjusting until you get the sound you're looking for. If you want something more seamless, consider adding some reverb to the reverse to help mask the hard cutoff.

    *NO* World of Warcraft "The Stars Whispered His Name"

    in Judges Decisions

    Posted

    It's a tough call but I'm gonna side with the NOs on this one. I don't feel like there was enough variation to justify the length here. There's a lot of repeated phrases, which normally I don't mind, but it doesn't feel like a structure thing here, just more like padding. I think the production is feature of the genre, so no qualms there, but Flex is dead-on about the drums; needs more humanization and variation, which I feel like you could pull off while still operating within the conventions of the genre.

    Interesting take but ultimately it's a NO from me.

    A BIG UPDATE to our Judging Process

    in Announcements

    Posted

    The Judges Panel has been talking about ways to work through the queue of submitted remixes at a faster pace, and after a lot of discussion and weighing the pros and cons, we've come to a decision that's probably one of the biggest adjustments to our process in a long time:

    Submissions no longer require four (4) YES votes to pass. A decision is reached as soon as the difference in votes is three (3).

    To clarify the key change here: when a submission receives three (3) YES votes and there are zero (0) NO votes, the submission is accepted, because the difference in votes is three (3).

    If a submission continues to go back and forth without reaching +3 in either direction, the panel will continue to vote until all active judges have voted and the majority will determine the decision.

    This update to our decision making process will immediately apply to any submissions on the panel at the time of this announcement going live, and for all decisions moving forward. We won't be going back to previous rejections to find decisions that started with three (3) uncontested YES votes but eventually got rejected; in those cases, what's done is done.

    We hope that artists will find this new criteria a little bit easier to understand. Overall, we've been impressed with the quality of work being sent in these past months, and this should make it easier for us to get the slam dunk tracks through the process faster.

    Thanks to all the artists who continue to participate in our curation process. Hope to hear your work soon.

    - DarkeSword

    OCRA-0079 - The Impact of Iwata

    in Album Reviews & Comments

    Posted

    3 hours ago, VoinTsynk said:

    Torrent for this is 100% dead, no peers, doesn't matter which client you use, I tried out BitTorrent and uTorrent, they both look like this. image.png

    Had a lot of people leeching/seeding last night when things went live. I personally used qBittorrent to make the torrent and saw peers using qBittorrent and Transmission.

    I can take a look again at the torrent to see what's going on.

    Question OCRadio

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I've been a web developer by trade for a long time before I took over OCR, so I have a general sense of where features like this end up getting put. One thing you can always try is when you log into a site, you can sometimes click your own username (the thing that indicates you're logged in). Sometimes designers put information related to you or your account under that. Rainwave does the same thing. Click on your username, and a big info block with some links slides into place.

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