DarkeSword

For stuff like NES, SNES, and PSX mini, I pretty much passed. But this seems like it's right up my alley. Wily Wars is huge.

Aaron Webber @RubyEclipse on Twitter, Social Media and PR guy for SEGA of America was delivered by us, over 70 copies of the physical Arcadia Legends album! They also sent over copies with personalized letters from us to SEGA of Japan where a copy got into the hands of REIKO KODAMA, the producer of Skies of Arcadia! She was VERY pleased! We did it guys! They appreciated all the hard work and effort we did to make this a reality!   It may not make a huge difference in getting a Skies of Arcadia 2, but I'm willing to take whatever we can get! Thanks again to everyone who contributed and supported us!

This is a killer track. I'm really not feeling the complaints about the repetition. The percussion stays fresh, the syncopation rocks, and I dig the whole texture with the strings and synths.
I will co-sign one complaint though: that fadeout is no good. I use fadeouts all the time and I will go on the record in saying that this is the wrong way to do a fadeout. Let's break it down:
The fadeout is only 4-bars long. This is really bad in a song that relies a lot on groove. It's just too short of a fadeout. The volume drops significantly, right on the downbeat. It sounds like it's just a single-curve with no adjustment to the tension (i.e. it's just...linear). Despite the song fading out, you can still hear when it ends. Why fadeout at all? Here's how I'd fix it: a song like this needs a fadeout of at least 8 bars. I would do 12. Use a double-curve with the tension adjusted so that the fadeout is VERY gradual when it starts, then drops out faster, and then returns to a gradual fade into silence. In FLStudio it looks like this:
And while the fadeout is happening, just solo/doodle in your lead over your vamping rhythm section. This gives the impression that the song is continuing, but ALSO that it's not REALLY important to hear the rest.
I wanna vote YES on this but I'm gonna say NO. That fadeout is really jarring. Let's fix it up and get this resubbed, fast-tracked, and posted.

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Really nice take on the source tunes. Never heard this OST before, it's pretty good.
Live performances are great and as a result, I feel like the sequenced strings are being exposed, especially the lower marcato stuff. I think you'd have done better to lean on your wind players in that regard.
Either way, it's still way above the bar. I like it! YES

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OCremix is not dying, your standards for activity are just out of whack.

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Hey man, what are you doing? What's going on? Everyone in this topic is discussing DAWs that use sheet music and you're posting strange off-topic complaints. Do you have something to contribute in this topic with regards to DAWs that use staff notation as a way of writing the MIDI data or what?

I had the pleasure of writing the music for Chucklefish's Wargroove, a spiritual successor to old-school tactical games like Advance Wars:
Being a huge fan of tactical games myself, this was a bit of a dream gig and I'm extremely proud of how the tunes turned out.  Wargroove is available on Steam, Humble, Switch, and Xbox One/Windows 10 (w/ Xbox Play Anywhere).
The soundtrack is available on my bandcamp and on Steam as DLC (can also be bundled with the game for 10% off!).  It'll also be available on all major streaming platforms by the 15th.

Hope you love both the game and the soundtrack!

Hey, don't do this. Don't call out other replies as "patronizing." Give your advice without the snide commentary.

Hey, don't do this. Don't call out other replies as "patronizing." Give your advice without the snide commentary.

Hey, don't do this. Don't call out other replies as "patronizing." Give your advice without the snide commentary.

Hey, don't do this. Don't call out other replies as "patronizing." Give your advice without the snide commentary.

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OC ReMix #4318: Final Fantasy IV "Empress Waltz" [medley] by RebeccaETripp feat. Samantha Ballard, May Claire La Plante, Medllix, P2 Sue, Kristin Naigus, PitTan, Michelle Eng, Tiggs, Julia Henderson, MatcHey OC ReMix #4289: Zelda II "Secret Labyrinths" [Great Temple, Temple BGM, Lost Woods] by Gaspode OC ReMix #4134: Chrono Cross "All I Am" [~Scars Left By Time~] by Moiré Effect, Viking Guitar OC ReMix #4112: Tetris "T-Spin" [A-Type (Korobeiniki)] by Schtiffles OC ReMix #4065: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim "Dragonborn Concerto" [Dragonborn] by Mazedude, Dhsu OC ReMix #3919: Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time "Princess Ruto" [Zora's Domain] by Smooth4Lyfe OC ReMix #3719: Mass Effect "One Small Step" [Uncharted Worlds] by Moiré Effect OC ReMix #3716: Super Castlevania IV "Dracula Is Our Vampire!" [Vampire Killer] by Jorito, BMC_WarMachine OC ReMix #3679: Mega Man 5 "A Crook Man's Eyes" [Dark Man Stage] by Nightswim OC ReMix #3669: Final Fantasy VI "Snowy Pines" [Terra] by RebeccaETripp OC ReMix #3662: Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild "The Triforce Needs Five More Minutes" [Temple of Time] by Joe November OC ReMix #3532: Kingdom Hearts "Protect Your Kingdom" [Dearly Beloved] by Smooth4Lyfe OC ReMix #3476: Pokémon Silver Version "Lucky Coin" [Goldenrod Game Corner] by Schtiffles OC ReMix #3408: Chrono Trigger "But You're Still Hungry" [A Desolate World] by Marshall Art OC ReMix #3284: DuckTales 'Apollo Duck' [The Moon] by WillRock OC ReMix #3216: Super Mario Galaxy 'To the Stars' [medley] by Stephan Wells, Laura Intravia OC ReMix #3193: Super Mario 64 'Sunken Ship' [Dire, Dire Docks] by Leandro Abreu OC ReMix #3154: Mega Man 3 'Harder Than Steel' [Hard Man Stage] by The Megas OC ReMix #3083: Final Fantasy VI 'Day of Ruin' [Kefka] by Dj ThirdEye OC ReMix #2998: Metroid Prime 'Hot Machine, Cold Surface' [Ice Valley] by Ben Prunty OC ReMix #2978: Xenogears '(You Give Me) Wings' [Wings] by Ivan Hakštok OC ReMix #2959: Harlequin 'Coming to Chimerica' [In-game 3]] by Binster OC ReMix #2883: Final Fantasy X 'Just This Once' [Suteki da ne] by Dj Mystix, Sabrina Valenzuela... OC ReMix #2680: Final Fantasy XI Online 'A Decent Challenge' [Battle Theme] by Tweex OC ReMix #2670: Legend of Zelda 'I Do It for the Faeries' [Above Ground] by The OneUps OC ReMix #2412: Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker 'Her Smile in Every Summer' [Outset Island] by Hot Freaks OC ReMix #2387: Ufouria 'Above the Clouds' by Drakken OC ReMix #2212: Final Fantasy VI 'Forever, Young Rachel' [Forever Rachel] by Poolside, David Saulesco OC ReMix #2118: Super Meat Boy 'Power of the Meat' [Betus Blues, Forest Funk] by Poolside OC ReMix #2023: Final Fantasy VIII 'Shine Tonight' [Fragments of Memories] by Poolside OC ReMix #1506: Double Dragon II 'Twin Blood' [Mission 9 (Final Screen)] by Sixto Sounds OC ReMix #1295: Final Fantasy VII 'Aeris Lives' [Aeris's Theme, The Prelude] by Kevin Lau OC ReMix #1175: Mega Man 2 'Chillout' [Dr. Wily Stage 1] by sedure OC ReMix #1162: Final Fantasy VII 'Prayer' [Aeris's Theme] by MENBAH! OC ReMix #1138: Donkey Kong Country 2 'Forest Birdcussion' [Forest Interlude] by Protricity OC ReMix #1114: Dance Dance Revolution 4th Mix '4F73R M3' [B4U] by MC & SGX OC ReMix #1034: Wizards & Warriors 'Wise Wizards, Old Warriors' [Title] by bazooie OC ReMix #888: Super Mario World 'Super Mario's Sleigh Ride' [Map 2, Overworld BGM] by The OneUps OC ReMix #598: Super Mario Bros. 'Underworld Rock' [Underground BGM] by dimmer OC ReMix #587: Soul Blazer 'Tears for a Moonlit Knight' [A Night Without a Lover] by Israfel OC ReMix #577: Super Mario Bros. 2 'Super Buck II' [Overworld BGM] by Estradasphere OC ReMix #455: Zanac 'Space Dance' [medley] by Insomnic OC ReMix #54: Metroid 'efsisos featuring Samus Aran' [Title] by efsisos

That's an interesting idea.
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hey fellas, sorry for the lateness; out of town right now w/ gf currently in hospital
music as soon as i can

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Music will go up either tonight or tomorrow.

Music will go up either tonight or tomorrow.

Music will go up either tonight or tomorrow.

Music will go up either tonight or tomorrow.

My last thought, which I'm giving, leaving, and not coming back to:

One of my remixes is so far removed from the original that if you take away the original melody, because of the altered harmony and counterpoint, it sounds like a completely different piece.  I've actually performed said remix without the original melody as an original composition for a graduate composition recital.  An analysis of it shows that without the melody, the style, harmony, and counterpoint are so far removed from the original that it can classify as a completely different piece no matter how you look at it.  I mean like...it's now less than 10% the speed of the original, the melody was almost completely reharmonized.  The harmony doesn't even classify as tonal anymore at this point.  It has a loose key center, so it's key centric, but the function of the chords don't exist in a traditionally tonal sense.  If you speed it up 10x, then the groups of measures together suggest a tonal progression, but the actual phrases in the piece are not tonal.  Basically I wrote a contrafact of the Underwater theme from Super Mario Bros.

I'm a jazz musician, so the idea of taking several tunes with the exact same content and changing the melody is normal.  The concept of contrafact is kind of a center point of the genre.  Sometimes when people write a tune, the original writers fade into obscurity while the performers of said piece get credited.  Donna Lee is credited to Miles Davis, but that is heavily debated.  It is a contrafact of the tune Indiana, and is practiced as such.  The chord changes to I Got Rhythm are so iconic that we just basically call them rhythm changes.  There is no effort at all to hide the fact that it's basically the exact content of the song minus the melody.  There are other times where tunes are arranged in DRASTICALLY different styles and although they are the original song, they contributed to the development of the genre, or in some cases multiple genres in a significant way.  Many musicians do arrangements literally all the time to develop their compositional and arrangement technique.  More times than not, doing an arrangement of a VG tune in the style of a composer helps me learn more about the writing of that composer than if I were writing an original tune in that style.  It takes less time, so I can get more out of it really quickly.

Brahms wrote Theme and Variations on a Theme by Haydn.  But Brahms is credited as the composer, not the arranger.  In the classical canon, having a theme and variations form virtually always results in a new piece, even though the melodic content was written by somebody else.  Brahms, Mozart, Beethoven, and Strauss are some of the major composers in the classical canon, and they all wrote theme and variations on the themes of somebody else, yet are credited as the composers.  Theme and Variations on a Theme by Haydn was basically a remix of a piece by Haydn.  But Brahms is credited as composer.

I mean if by added some seasoning you mean I dumped so many seasonings to it that it's basically a mountain of rainbow powder with no liquid left, then yes.  I just added some seasoning of my own.  That is a simplification of what goes on and you know it, so please drop the condescending attitude toward the matter, thank you very much.

And please for the love of God don't do the thing where you quote each individual sentence of this post and make me defend it line by line, because I have better things to do with my time.  People get tired of that REALLY quickly, because more times than not, you simplify what they said in your response, which just adds fuel to the fire rather than continuing the discussion.  People waste so much more time correcting your simplifications than actually continuing the discussion because you "don't give a shit."

That's an interesting idea.
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