DarkeSword   Administrators 🎮

Should we be judging this version?

It's well produced enough, but I think there are still some problems. Your snare sound get really exposed when the main melody comes back in around 1:56-ish; all of the other elements are being filtered and faded away but the snare sound is still cutting through everything. The softer flute section is nice but soon the march percussion comes in very loudly and out of balance with everything else. I feel like the construction of this piece isn't so great either; the builds and drops are very fast and very sudden many times. Starting around 3:22, you build up and drop to piano and immediately return to high energy and then drop back to piano again and build back up quickly to high energy synths, all within the span of a minute. It's weird to say, but that's actually a bit too much variation for a trance piece. Even though you have all these quick changes going on, the piece still feels repetitive. It might be because the source itself doesn't have a lot of material to work with, but there's still the whole beginning part of the source tune before the piano melody that you haven't used. Sound design is also fairly basic; you might want to think about spicing things up with some more interesting synths and work on a more evolving texture of sound, rather than relying on quick and dirty building and releasing. Still needs work. NO, resub

The koto playing Splash Woman is the best part of this, but the rest of the piece sound really clunky and plodding. I feel like a lot of the samples (strings, winds) were really exposed here, and the balance between all the elements were really off, especially during the Wave Man sections. The sustained chords sort of just droned. I can't remember if I voted this one high during the competition but I'm not really feeling it here at all. NO

This is doin' it for me. Love all the pizzicato strings everywhere. Blend of orch and rock really works. Like other joojes have said, I love how you're building tension throughout the piece. Ending could've been better, but thems the breaks. I like it! YES

Should be DP. Great vocals and really good lyrics, something that vocal mixes don't always have. Acoustic + Chips = Love. ~YES~

I'm on board with OA in that the production is really good. Really tight sound. I'm going to disagree with the other judges and just say that, going by the source breakdown, this is an incredibly ambitious arrangement and I think it's really paid off very well. It really does push the limits on what we consider arrangement, but at the same time, after checking out the source breakdown, I really get what you're doing here. The original track has a very distinct harmonic sound to it and I think that that's also captured here, even when your melodic ideas get really out there. I'm going to go ahead and YES this. I think it's fascinating to see someone really digging deep into the guts of a source tune and putting something like this out.

Oh this is beautiful. A little conservative to start but the solo sections really bring out something special, especially the great flute work. I love it. YES

caaaaaaaake

Already threads for both 3DS and Wii U. Also it's preferred that if you want to discuss specific games, make a thread about that specific game.

We're gonna take PAX East to the MAX East.

It's not a SMRPG proejct, strictly speaking. Think of it more as a Mario series project with themes from Dr. Mario and SMRPG prevalent throughout the album. The motifs should be present in all the tracks.

Go go go!

Basically this. The whole piece sounds dynamically flat. Transitions are flimsy and the drums feel like they're on autopilot the whole time. This is a prime example of the kind of medley that I don't like. Each source treatment feels like a separate piece. Why not do 3 or 4 really well developed Turrican remixes, rather than a series of brief looks at the soundtrack? Developmentally this goes nowhere. A-B-C-D-done. Sorry but I need more a cohesive piece of music. NO

Moved this to Recruit & Collaborate. Good luck.

Thanks. I hope you guys find all the music you need.

Yeah, no anger or hostility at all. It's just that we have certain agreements with SE (as djpretzel said) and we have to be careful about involvement in this kind of thing. I'm going to close this up, as there's already a thread in R&C about this.

Saw an announcement on your Facebook page indicating that OverClocked ReMix is "on board" to create music for this. That's very misleading. Here's what I posted there: In addition, djpretzel has posted about this in this thread.We'd really appreciate it if you took that announcement down or adjusted the wording to not imply that OCR is involved in an official capacity.

Their announcement is worded really badly. We are not officially involved with the FF7 Web Series. Individual artists, maybe, but OC ReMix as an entity is not.

We are? When did this happen?

Post Your Remixes is the place for this thread. Looks like a cool album. Looking forward to it.

We already have a requests forum for this kind of thing, so I've moved the thread here. Just poke around for suggestions. Furthermore, OC ReMix is a fan community that provides a constant stream of free video game remixes. I don't see how you asking for suggestions for an album that people will have to pay for jives with what we're dong here (are you even getting the proper licenses in order to sell?). You haven't even posted any examples of your work. Sorry, but no thanks.

E3 is an industry event for game developers and publishers, specifically businesses, and geared towards press, not the general public. OCR would have to do a lot of things before we'd be eligible to exhibit anything at E3. Our con presences are geared towards fans and general public. MAGFest, PAX East, Otakon, etc., those are the kinds of conventions that are a good fit for us. Tournaments like Apex 2013 are also nice, albeit different from what we normally do (we had a vendor table in the vendor area/artist alley and sold merch, rather than doing a panel or performance). Anime conventions are good because there's a lot of crossover in those fan communities.

You didn't use it wrong. Stevo is just really really stupid.

caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake

I wouldn't worry too much that it's not related. It's super good.