DarkeSword

There are some balance issues with this. Strings are boring. Nothing but sustained chords, all in the same place the guitar and sax are; everything sounds crowded. They're a bit too far forward and loud. The guitar playing is alright but it's pushed far back. Sax solo sounded unnatural and amateurish. I don't like the sax sample either. Repetitive too. NO

Borderline NO as well. I'm not a big fan of the piano sample used. In this setting, there are times when it seems too bright. Coma's comment about plateau development is dead-on. This song goes somewhere in the beginning, gets there, and stays there until the end. A bit boring. I think more attention could be paid to the velocities; either that or use a velocity layered sample that doesn't have such a sharp sound (in texture, not in pitch, kthx). Decent, to be sure, but I think some more development is warranted here. WORK ON MORE AND RESUBMIT!!!

Pretty sparse and boring as far as the coverage of the actual tune goes. Beats are cool, the atmosphere is cool, but all you have in way of rearrangement is the original melody on sustained chords. I listened to the original song and it seemed to me that a lot more was going on in this song than what's presented here. Some arpeggios would be nice. Maybe some counter melody. Just do SOMETHING other than dropping the original melody over sustained chords and cool beats. Nice, but NO

Yes! I was actually going for a Cowboy Bebop vibe, which was the main reason I used the saxophone. That's right...the sax had a purpose.

Not a big fan of how you used Slayer here. It's very droney and buzzy and doesn't add much at all to the texture of the song. Percussion lacks a high end, as Malcos mentioned. Drums are quite loopy, and very lo-fi. Not a bad groove, but it seems much to simplistic. The original sounded cleaner and more interesting. This arrangement is pretty weak. Not a lot of highs and lows in the progression of the song. Sounds seem quished into one area of the spectrum. NO

ok. Here's my question, then : Besides the soundfont player, WHAT can I use to make my stuff sound good ? (and how do I use it ?) And if this isn't the right place, WHERE can I ask this ? Use effects on your sounds. Learn to use the Mixer in FL. It allows you to add reverb, delay, and a whole host of other effects. This will help your music to sound less dry.

I'm going to side with Prot here. This is just really repetitive as far as OCR standards go. I like the sounds, and the texture, and the arrangement is really neat in its atonality, but I think that some more interesting things could be done with the timpani and the strings as the mix progresses; as it stands, those parts are a bit stagnant. Nice work, but I'm gonna go with a NO, because of the lack of evolving arrangement.

If you have specific questions about FL, then go ahead and ask, but don't ask a general question like "how do I use this?"

It's a fairly uninteresting arrangement, with looping and layering being the primary technique. Not particularly bad, but I find the mix to sort of drag on, even though it's pretty short. It's a rock mix, right? With some kind of electric guitar sound? It needs a SOLO. That's what guitarists do. They SOLO and MAKE UP CRAP. I want some made up crap! Well. Not crap. You know what I mean. Do more with the arrangement. It's rather mediocre. NO

I have no idea what's going on with that. Are you using a full version of FL with the full version of SFPlayer?

Are you using the decompression tool I provided? Make sure you extract the .sf2 files. Then load them with the soundfont player in FL.

They take a fair amount of memory. That's the deal with any kind of sample. A general rule: Samples need RAM. Synths need processor power.

Yeah they're good. Right, so I updated the soundfont site yesterday with two new fonts. If you guys have any requests for sounds that you've heard in my particular remixes, I'll post them up there. http://soundfonts.darkesword.com/

COME ON BHAI SAHIB! OBHARCLUCKED RHEMIX NEEDZ MORR RHEMIXEZ BHY INDIAN RHEMIXARS!!!

http://soundfonts.darkesword.com/ has Squidfont and a Tubular Bells soundfont. Squidfont has a decent orch kit. Here's a mix that I used it in for an example of the percussion. The timpani and gong are not part of the orch kit in Squidfont. I'll update the site today with those two fonts.

Not bad, but not great either. The equalizing between the sampling and the added in stuff is way better than Krakenphonic at VGMix.com, an Earthbound remix done by Spekeosaurus which sampled extremely heavily from the original theme but added a whole bunch of industrial loops and other stuff. A definate keeper even though it breaks one big rule in the remixing community. What rule is that?

The beginning is really boring. Doesn't go anywhere. I also agree about the percussion. It's pretty bad. It sounds very amateurish. There's no groove, no accenting, no pulse. Very basic. The panning effects are annoying too. Can't say I enjoyed this much. NO

Larry...today is the 20th.

Excellent work, but please get better samples for next time. YES

NO, for reasons indicated in the above note and in PM's with the author.

Hello Darkesword. My name is Kevin Sisk, aka Kevin "Lorenzo" Sisk. I contributed the one and only Terminator2 remix on OCR . I submitted a Sonic 3 remix entitled “Remixed Carnie” around November/December of 2003, receiving a confirmation email afterwards. Suffice it to say, I am beginning to worry a little. I know this asking a pretty big favor, but I was wondering if there is anyway possible to ask DjPreztle if he remembers coming across the submission for “Remixed Carnie” and the link just didn’t work, and if so could please you send him this? I think I know why this link didn’t work. I had forgotten that I created a subfolder for my remixes. You have no idea how much of an ass I felt like after realizing this. Anyway, thanks for your time and hopefully you’ll let me know where my submission stands. If things don’t work out, it’s ok. I can just resubmit it. I’m pretty patient anyway. Thanks again Stay cool. Kevin “Lorenzo” Sisk p.s. congrats on becoming a judge. [DS Note: I talked to Kevin about this mix, telling him that it probably wouldn't pass, because it was too similar to the original in the first half, and almost an original in the second half. He asked if I could fall this through anyway, just so he could get feedback from the judges about his mix; I hope that's fine.]

That continuo synth sounds really cool, but needs to be less verby; it's filling up a bit. Also, drums sound a bit loopy, but they've got some nice retriggering, and the loops change up a lot. Nice coverage of the menu theme, pretty groovy beats, and interesting sounds. Nice arrangement too. Not the best thing since sliced bread (but hey; What is?), but I think we can give this one a ?. *changing my vote* Okay, upon further reviewal, I'm going to change my vote; I can see what Vig and Gray are saying about the lack of low end now that I listen to it a few more times. I still think that the whole song could be a bit less verby too. NO, but I did like it; fix up some stuff and resubmit.

There's something really weird going on with that xylophone instrument. Something about the harmony rubs me the wrong way. There seem to be some really weird note choices. Interesting expansion. The guitar is such an abrupt change; I'm not sure I like it. Plus you've got this thing you keep doing, playing those notes really loud to break up the pretty guitar. Sequenced to guitar to sequenced don't really have transitions; they just sound concatenated together. Interesting, but I'm gonna say NO.

Haha, thanks for the musical shout out man. As for the mix, it's pretty nice, but I've always felt that for the length you've made this, it's a bit repetitive to stand on its own. It's a nice groove, but there are a lot of dead spaces in here that could really be filled out by lyrics. I know for a fact that you've got lyrics hookups, so make use of them. This could really shine if you you just had some rapping over it. As it stands, NO, but give the lyrics idea a shot and resubmit because the airiness of the pads and the general groove is something I dig. Peace bro.

Pretty repetitive. There was this huge anticlimactic build in the beginning too. I was waiting for some kind of hot trance beat or something, but nothing happened. This actually doesn't seem to cover Magus's them so much as it uses magus's chord progression. There's some background stuff, but mostly it's just that same annoying lead over and over again. NO