DarkeSword

Not a bad arrangement; this is a nice texture in the beginning. What really kills the song is that your samples seem to all be set at 100% velocity. It's clipping all over the place. Chords don't match the melody either. =( Have I seen your lantern? NO

Sounds pretty much like the track from the game, except it lacks emotion. And it's got some pads, and some shaker instruments. Oh yeah! And some drums! Those pads are flooding out everything else. Sorry, but this isn't much of an arrangement. It's nice sounding, but I'd rather listen to the original. NO

I'm kind of borderline on this. There's nothing technically wrong with this; sounds a bit low, that's all. I think though, that the arrrangement plods a bit. The percussion is really nice, but everything else is pretty average. The melody repeats for a long time, and when other bits of ocarina songs come in, they sound obligatory. That's the problem with mixing the ocarina songs; you need to find a way to make it not boring. I enjoyed bits of this; mostly the percussion track, but apart from that, it's a bit lifeless. Sounds more like backing to something with lyrics than its own song. Borderline NO

Wow. Super natural articulation in the intro. Great opening. Oooooh...very nice strings. Simple and effective. I really love the meshing of the instruments. Water sound is a bit much, but works. Very nice work. Wish the piano wasn't so bombastic at the end though. Whatever. YES

Wow...this goes on for 8 minutes?! Pretty low fi, and extremely repetitive for it's length. Actually extremely repetitive for any length. Those brass hits are getting on my nerves. Took you three whole minutes to get to a new idea. This just seems like some original piece with Zelda stuff dropped in there. And it goes on FOREVER. Kind of like time. A fitting title, at least. NO

There's not much I can really say about this piece, aside from the fact that it's incredible. You really show off your virtosity on the piano in this piece. There's plenty of emotion and expressiveness that's absolutly necessary in piano pieces; this piece has it in spades. I absolutly love the arrangement, and for me, the best part comes around 1:43. The flowing piano really gives a sense of liquid momentum; I can feel a lot of motion at that point. The way this arrangement changes and evolves is really something amazing. Fantastic work. YES

Ah, I remember this from the WIP board. A pretty nice sound; too bad it sounds almost exactly like the original, except with a nice drum track on it. There's also an original breakdown in the beginning that seems to have nothing to do with the source material. It doesn't show any kind of understanding of Rainbow Road at all. Seems gratuitous. The actual remix part isn't very different from the original either. Try for some actual arrangement. NO

Am I allowed to vote on this?

Opening was pretty cool, but the levels get kinda crowded when everything comes in. Everything is vying for my attention. Drums, synth, flute, every thing is pushed right to the forefront. The drums are pretty repetitive too, and sound pretty unnatural for the kit you used. Much too short too. It could use a lot of development. The groove you have right now is pretty cool; just work on your levels, expanding the arrangement a bit more, and fixing up those drums. NO

This seems really straightforward and a bit too simple. A lot of the chords/harmonies you're using don't seem to mesh well with the song; also, the melody and accompany sounds are much to similar, and the fact that they're played together makes the weird harmony really clash. That key change is kinda weird too. As for the sound effects, they're boring. Show me some cool rhythmic stuff with the SFX; not just consecutive 8th notes. Pretty average track. NO

I'm totally diggin' this one. Nice groove throughout, and the ambient sounds really add to the atmosphere. This is great chill music, with really dark qualities. There's a pulse to it that I really like. No technical issues, aside from maybe a bit too much reverb. There are parts where I feel like the song's going to start clipping, but it doesn't. Cool. I enjoyed this. YES

Should be a good show.

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viewcount+1? Nice work.

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Sounds kind of...BGMish. That bassline is reminding me of my .mid writing days, and not in that fuzzy, nostalgic way. Sounds almost WinGroovish. You might want to take a look at another sample or something. That wish-wash-wah-wah synth is annoying too. It does sound pretty out of place. It doesn't mesh well with the other sounds in the piece. Also, that flute around the end sounds really out of tune and harsh. Nice arrangement though. Good development throughout the piece. Interesting ideas. With some cleaning up, I think this could make it onto OCR. Not yet though. NO

Prot, are you sure you didn't listen to the lo-fi stream on soundclick? It doesn't sound really lo-fi to me in the MP3. THIS RAWKS OUT MAAAAAN Yeah. I like it. It's awesome. I especially like the acousticky ending. Rock. YEAH OK SURE

Man, I love Iwadare's stuff. Let's see about this mix, eh? Wow. You need a better piano sample. In fact, you really need some better samples altogether. Those brass samples are really whiny. A lot of these samples are kind of "meh." I feel like I'm playing a PC game from the early 90's. The arrangement is crazy good though. Very nice interpretation of the melody, and some really awesome highs and lows. My issue is crappy sounds vs. great arrangement. That's a tough decision to make. For me, there are parts where the piece suffers because the idea's you've presented are great, but the sounds you're using don't convey the emotion you're trying to get across. I find myself cringing at the sounds more than I am enjoying your arrangement. This sounds like you wrote the song as a .mid file, and just recorded it to waveform. NO, but I strongly encourage you to take a look at the sounds you've used and try to fix things up. The arrangement is great, the execution is not. I want to see this piece on OCR eventually. Good luck.

Given the repetetiveness of the source material, this isn't a bad piece. The instrumentation is pretty good, but some of those sounds around halfway through get on my nerves. Pretty good variation throughout; there's still some repetetiveness there, and I wish this was a bit shorter. This has a kind of robotic weird-intervals quality to it. I don't particularly enjoy this piece, but that's really based on my personal preference of music. I don't see any reason to reject it. It's a good mix. YES

I agree with Vig and Prot. This is almost there. Almost. I really like that triplet feel you kept from the original; the drum beat is pretty hot, although a bit busy at times. The timpani's are cool and make a nice addition to the texture of the song. Pretty good development there too. Like Vig said though, it's pretty in your face most of the time. It needs a bit more subtlety to it. Take a look at your levels and try to balance things out a bit more. What really struck me about this mix was that the percussion was king of loud. It's also a bit sparse, consider some nice smooth pads or something to add harmonic support and balance out the harsher sounds of the mix. I like what you've got here, but I think that this mix could be a lot better with a little more work. NO, for now.

I'm pretty borderline on this one. On one hand, the piano arrangement is pretty nice; like Prot said, things change and evolve throughout the whole mix. However, I'm inclined to agree with Israfel. The piece is very mechanical sounding. Attention needs to be paid to dynamics and velocities on the piano. It comes off sounding quite mechanical and quantized. There are good ideas here, but the execution leaves something to be desired. I'd suggest getting in contact with a piano player to play this for you. OCR has a few of them that frequent the boards, shouldn't be hard to find one that's willing. NO, for now, but I strongly urge you to work on making this piece more organic and humanized, and then trying for a resubmit.

Actually...that wasn't Suteki da Ne from FFX. That was some completely different Japanese song, probably with the same name. I still thought it was decent, though. :/ Goddamit! Oh yeah I forgot to mention to Paige: GIRL, YOU NEED SOME FUCKIn' TASTE!!! Succubus laid the smackdown. O_O

Yeah, I agree with Coma. Seems to just build stuff around the original. Sounds nice, but try actually rearranging the song, instead of just putting your own stuff around it. NO

Great show Larry. I think everyone had a lot of fun, despite technical difficulties. Also: <3 Succubus Looking forward to originals show. Should be hot.

Actually I haven't done it again. This was my first mix with FL, and my first mix posted to OC. XD