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Yeah, the flute often seems to be the biggest problem, and I want to eradicate this lead problem completely now. Earlier this week I had WillRock offering to provide some filtering work; I gave him the flute parts via midi... and waited. Nothing came back; all I got was 'flute and horn humanisation is the hardest thing to do', and to be fair it just got me more determined to try something completely different. Instead of a natural sounding instrument, for the lead in this version I went completely backwards and looked for synth leads that sound flute-like. The original flute is merely background ambience now, while the Zebra preset HS Bamboozle is now taking the front of the stage. And SuperiorX; to answer your concerns: 1) I got the demo for WIVI but the keyboard restrictions kept on cutting notes off for the flute parts when I assigned them. And after all I spent on gear in the past 2 months I'm definitely NOT in the mood to spend money on other things right now. So for me, I just want something that works without cutting into my wallet any time soon. 2) Yes, that's me increasing the modulation on the synth to try and give it more of a punch leading into the next flute part. I've managed to loosen it a little bit, but I still want that dynamic transition to be there. Either way, I just want these lead issues to finally go away; am I FINALLY in the right direction?

Will, if Larry's mentioned in conversation, that's not how you respond. Partially, we'd be glad that Larry won't be in the panel, otherwise there'd be the scent of pubefro everywhere.

Being more of a pianist, the keyboard comes more natural to me. Though, I'm still more used to writing complex rhythm sequences and drum parts by mouse. So yes, best of both worlds EDIT: And you are welcome Matt

Yes, that was the plan Ben. Go for it! And well done this round too, you made us proud to be bad

Yeah, Brandon brought me in to contribute to the vocals. We TRIED to get Hylian Lemon but between Thanksgiving and his 'shitty mic', he didn't make an appearance. Was fun working with him on it though!

Dude, I feel for you; I was partially deafened by ear congestion over a month ago, and it feels terrible to struggle to hear and criticise music properly I hope you'll get better soon, and make sure any medication you take will heal the process.

I've gone and voted. Will keep badgering my teammates to vote too

You know, I'm greatful that I gave you a hand this week. If it had happened any later than today, you would've had to put up with me fighting a cold; so consider that good timing

Part of it might be the source tune as well. As I stated, my familiarity with MM5 is restricted and I'm pretty sure I may not be the only one. That doesn't mean I won't vote though; once I have my 3 set in stone, I shall get in there and give Ben the free points he wants (Plus I get a bonus by NOT celebrating Thanksgiving, so there... kinda )

While I see your argument, I think I can understand what Brandon was saying. Since FF7 was kept so secretive, when the information was announced there were several other remixers that DIDN'T have involvement prior to the announcement that really, REALLY wanted to be involved in a project as big as this. I think between this and zircon's selective decisions, there have been people that have seen the exact opposite effect as what you're implying. Otherwise, the rest of the guys have it covered. If you want to do something with FF6, then give it a shot, though it all comes down to motives and guts to push it all the way through to a finished release. That's how many of these projects managed to pull through in the end

Yes, the alerting so close to time made it difficult for even me to book the time. But i shall be sure to rally back with how it went plus video recordings of the live performances at least. Here's to a great first international panel

Brandon is going for the BGR this week. And he will melt your face off :3

Not sure if C7 would be happy seeing that, but I still thought it both combined the source really well and matched the production really well. I haven't voted yet, but I'm sure it will make my top 3. As for Topsy Turvy, I caught Wily straight away, which is odd for me because i'm unfamiliar with much of mm5's score. I can feel here because it seems that we try so hard to make both themes present but we still get shot down as if we didn't make one source clear enough. But it may be something to learn from even if we may not necessarily agree with what they're saying.

Having done a secret santa in the workplace last year, something like this probably won't be too problematic for the interwebs as well. But yeah, I'll have a go. I sent my address to your Facebook inbox. And whoever's matched up with me would have to take into account the last post dates for the UK if not air mail in general o_O

Yep, welcome to the team TGH! Still feel sorry for Emunator to suddenly leave, but it'll be a plus to see what you can be able to come up with

Double post, but I soon reacted with another version. The secondary bass fade was fixed as well as taking into account some feedback from Shinny in the IRC. Things done here in comparision to WIP 2: * Lowered the flute by 2db. Shinny approved of the frequency, so that's a start. * Tightened up the timing for the flute part in its first instance. * Fixed some string panning (lol picky is me). * Added a minor synth arpeggio run during the keychange section but just prior to the synth solo at the end. I'm open to all feedback

I've done my part and re-tweeted. This is a bad day for OCR I am sure

Quite a lot of it's helping I managed to host a new version taking in the quick feedback over the past 4-6 hours, and it's hosted here (and will be in the first post soon as well) - http://instaidgrace.com/freqrexy/junk/rootofallthings-ocrver-wip2c.mp3 Firstly, in regards to DjMystix's concern about the chords (let me say first of all that one of my non-OCR friends LOVES your work particularly with your Sunset Riders and Bayonetta ones ), I didn't cut any chords out from the source; in that part, the Wily melody was on top of the (rather simple, I know) chord progression for the first 8 bars of Plant Man's. Quite a lot of these sections mangle writings from both sources together, so I hope that can be understood. Anyway, things that have been fixed so far: * Flute fine-tweaked by cutting 4.5 at 4.5 hz (that precise numbering wasn't intentional xD) and re-levelled into the mix (almost considered the compression but I'll try the EQ first and see how it goes, thanks though Lidawg) * Flute harmony had samples changed completely. Originally the harmony flutes (a Zebra flute-formed patch) and the solo flute (from EWQL) were two completely separate patches, and with the live performance as well I thought there's no way I could get a natural sounding sound from Zebra; change required. * Doubled up the glockenspiel part at 1:36 (which was already doubled up anyway with the guitarron tremolo) with a gentle pad pluck. * Restored the second bass layer, but changed it from a square to a more subtle low banjoid synth. (yes, I forgot to put the fade-out back in; I'll do that in the next version.) * Boosted the main bass layer's low end EQ by 2.5 at 100hz and applied a low shelf filter to it. * Boosted the string parts by 6db in the middle of the synth solo. They had a countermelody presence before, just not quite as distinct as this. (volume is restored prior to coming again before the key change.) * Lead synth's legato portamento is cut overall by 75%. I CAN automate it if I can, but I'm not sure which parts require it the most to be honest. And that's what I have so far. I'm open to any more crits with this release

Last update - 4 December(see details in latest post) Yes, this was entered for the second round of the Wily Castle Remix Gauntlet. While I appreciate some of the crits there, it somehow ended up being quite overwhelming when I thought I was already proud of what I had. But you see, the point is, I want to send it onto OCR. The arrangement, I've already covered by intertwining both themes quite well; what I DO want to do on it though is make sure it sounds its outright best before I even consider sending it off to the judges. Here's a slightly revised take from the original WCRG version; flute is a little wetter, first part of the flute was transposed up an octave, synth layer of the bass is taken out (sorry OA ), timings fixed in places (most notably on the drums) and some level revisions were looked into. I'm open to all suggestions possible, I want to see if I can FINALLY get a track on the site that's neither a piano solo nor a collaboration with someone else (and if there's any way I can actually rake in points for next time I'm open for that too )

Hoping for extra pineapples on mine Brandon might be taking the slot this week, but it depends on how he feels towards this source. Once he surfaces, we should come to a decision.

Donkey Kong GB was awesome; tried playing the ending theme on the piano when I was a teenager; good times Ultimately it comes to the stance between franchises. Though, given the different main game mechanics and even main characters (DKL - DK & Diddy / DK GB - Mario) it might warrant a little difference yet.

That's the point, Plant Man is a delicate Robot Master all the way down to being a shield user. So it's best that this organic/industrial clash is handled that way. But you know, with the way this is going in regards to the mix-and-match source usage nitpicking, next time I'll see if I can make you ALL happy with Plant's usage and make 80% of it a straight cover with just 20% vague references to the Wily theme. How does that sound

Well done, Emu! Hopefully this will mean a boost in your remix collection too, and the chance to continue bettering the community. With love from a fellow piano enthusiast

I thought Sixto uses Drumkit From Hell? But yeah, should this version end up going through to refining for OCR (which seems very likely) I'll be sure to consider working on the balancing there for that and the flute. I think I learnt a few new techinques from last night's Punchfest too, so I'll be prepared to see what I can do. Thank you again Wes

I'm not saying they don't, Nabeel. But you've seen so many people around here in this thread that have felt that they found it so hard to just pick 3 out of so many, right? Think about how disappointed you would be if you had a mass amount of people saying they didn't quite put you in their votes, coming with the price of a painfully weak rank right at the end. As one that looks out for artists' welfare, this to me is just not on.