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Excellent work, gentlemen! The so-called "curse of PRC93" has been lifted! I'm listening to the entries now to verify their placements, so it won't be too long until we get to the voting.

The mixing stage is over! Now let's dive into the voting stage, y'all. Do do this, you visit the visit the ThaSauce page and listen to the entries there, then at the bottom of the page you select three mixes and order them from first to third, with a reasoning attached. Contestants are encouraged to vote as they will automatically gain three points for themselves if they do so. The vote of PRC120's winner (Siamey) will count twice. You have until Tuesday, June 3rd at 4:59AM EST to make your vote. The winner will get to pick the source material for PRC122! Binweasel - Terminal Shock Chickenwarlord - Inside the UFO just64helpin - Seek the Cat munchi - When Saucers ATTACK!! setokaibarocket - Damn, Can't Think of a Good Title The People's Remix Competition 121 PRCv5-17 Hello everyone and welcome to the People's Remix Competition! Last contest's Final Fantasy VI related endeavor continued to push the intense turnouts that PRC has been receiving as of late, thanks to a total of five contributing mixes for Jidoor's Magic House. And it was a comeback from Siamey that secured the fate of this coming contest - an intricate fusion of FF6, FF8 and mid-tempo trance (in which he thought sounded more like something Timbaland would do) were what was on offer in his winning entry. Before we move ahead to this coming contest, let's cast our minds all the way back to PRC93, where after winning a Teddy Boy based contest, Siamey picked a track from a SNES game based on a Fox Kids cartoon. However, miscommunication on the song choice resulted in a poor one-entry turnout, the abolishment of the original PRC system and the stimulus for analoq's conception of the Compo ThaSauce system used today. Now, Siamey is willing to revisit the past but will the results be better received this time around? Or will it, like PRC93, take the show's catchphrase "It never hurts to help" to a different meaning altogether? Eek! the Cat - Flying Saucer (Stage 2) MIDI | MP3 | SPC If only if Siamey linked to the sound rip at snesmusic.org rather than Zophar, that would have saved me trouble squatting through the first level and the game's sloppy control scheme just to find out where this track is played. But oh well, it speaks volumes on how everything else was done right... or so I think. GOOD LUCK! Fine Print: PRC instructions If you happen to be mixing this song already, start over in the interests of fairness. Limitations at ThaSauce require your entry to be 6MB or less in size. Length for length's sake and MIDI rips are not allowed. Entries must be posted in the ThaSauce link by NEXT SATURDAY, May 31st at 4:59 am Eastern US Time. You may enter as many mixes as you like and work with as many people as you like on each mix. Do not make qualitative comments on an entry until the results of the vote have been posted. Mixers cannot vote for themselves but if they vote they recieve a free first place vote added onto their score. The winner of the previous contest can't take part but their vote will be doubled. Doulifee's PRC Archives! If you need help with hosting your mix, contact myself or Doulifee, and we'll help you out.

Staying up til THAT hour? That's best reserved for the freakin' Dwelling of Duels, not PRC But anyway, we got results! Who saved Relm from the likes of Chadarnook and is advancing to Kefka's tower? Who got lost inside Owzer's house? And who still needs a freakin' airship? Total number of votes - 9 Total number of mixes - 5 Highest possible score - 27 Chickenwarlord and setokaibarocket are both sharing a last place wooden spoon between them with 8 points each. munchi lounges his way through to third place with 13 points. OneUp just got rocked out to second place with 15 points. And the winner of PRC120 is Siamey with 25 points! Well done once again! Who would have thought that FF6 and FF8 would blend together like that? (And for the record, no, it didn't sound like Timbaland; his beats are thinner than that ) Still, I'm assuming you know the drill concerning PRC source selections, so be sure to send it into my PM box by Friday morning. Thanks for your time everyone; once again the turnout was fat and I hope the trend will be able to keep itself up over the weeks to come. I'll see you all on Friday for PRC121!

ThaSauce downtime means that there'll be a voting extension of 6 hours. I can't let it happen like that >.>

Talking of which, does anyone know how long R:TS has been down for? I'm almost implied to extend the voting deadline if it gets any more serious overnight.

Alright, time to move onto the voting stage! We've got five mixes submitted, so we've got ourselves a coherent round. Nice one. Here's what you're going to do (and pay attention Siamey, this is a different system than last time you submitted an entry). You will visit the ThaSauce link and fill in the form at the bottom of the page. Select 3 mixes and rank them from first to third with a reasoning attached to it. Contestants are encouraged to vote as they will automatically get three points added to their score if they do so. The vote of PRC119's winner (Showroom Dummy) counts twice, so make sure you impress him just as much as your peers. You have until Tuesday, May 20th at 4:59AM EDT to cast your vote. The winner gets to choose the source tune for PRC121! Chickenwarlord - Totally Ordinary Cottage munchi - La Casa de la Magia OneUp - Haunted House setokaibarocket - Call of the Arcane Siamey - TimeShock

Providing there's a hint of Magic House there, I wouldn't mind. Still, we got a bunch of entries, so I think we should move onto the voting stage. I might be nearly 2 hours late, but I'm sure we'll move ahead pretty soon.

Don't worry, after hearing your entry you're in the clear. It's alright to reference to certain sections of MIDI to include in a mix in some form or other (I believe Chickenwarlord does that quite a bit). It only gets really extreme if it ends up being a conservative arrangement; I believe PRC76 was nasty in particular considering midi-ripping, due to there being three disqualified entries and all. You can tell that since then I've had to be more careful than the usual validating PRC entries.

Bundeslang got it right. I think the last time we had a PRC mix head onto OCR was with Bladiator's winning entry for PRC81.

I have, and what a ride that was Mind you, I'm more inclined to do a second new game + and this time sweep for a Kratos ending in order to fill up the collector's log at last. I don't care about plot twists, Kratos is cooler than Zelos, end of story.

Yeah Katie, don't let Lea and Luiza down now

Hey, at least I was a good little girl and got a WAV and title sent off before the ORIGINAL closing date. We females on the project have known track records for time keeping

You got bored before you even first witnessed Kefka, THE greatest Final Fantasy villain of all time?* News to me. o_O() (*Screw you Sephiroth, you can't even become a successful god and keep that status for more than 2 weeks )

What deadline? (Shhh, no telling what the hell happened there)

The People's Remix Competition 120 PRCv5-16 Hello everyone and welcome to the People's Remix Competition! We faced a REAL surprise last contest, when voters and remixers turned up in their mass quantities, thus providing the most active turnout the competition has had for the past 15 months! Amidst the quantity also came a first win for PRC rookie Showroom Dummy, providing a Kraftwerk-esque interpretation covering a source tune from Tales of Symphonia. We're still with RPGs this competition, albeit we are shifting our focus from Namco to Square this time. This game doesn't even NEED an introduction, given that it's among one of the most popular known titles around the remixing community; even Liontamer hates its theme song to death. Last one to Narshe is a rotten moogle! Final Fantasy VI - The Magic House MIDI | MP3 | SPC Come on everyone, we're looking at one of the most recognisable RPGs of all time. Surely we can mimic the success of the previous contest, right? Anyway... GOOD LUCK! Fine Print: PRC instructions If you happen to be mixing this song already, start over in the interests of fairness. Limitations at ThaSauce require your entry to be 6MB or less in size. Length for length's sake and MIDI rips are not allowed. Entries must be posted in the ThaSauce link by NEXT SATURDAY, May 17th at 4:59 am Eastern US Time. You may enter as many mixes as you like and work with as many people as you like on each mix. Do not make qualitative comments on an entry until the results of the vote have been posted. Mixers cannot vote for themselves but if they vote they recieve a free first place vote added onto their score. The winner of the previous contest can't take part but their vote will be doubled. Doulifee's PRC Archives! If you need help with hosting your mix, contact myself or Doulifee, and we'll help you out.

Well, there's a good number of wave editors out on the market. When I was at University, I found Sony Sound Forge to be a good example of such software, and it can also do wonders for post-processing of any actual live instruments you want to include in your work. A similar thing can be said about Steinberg's Wavelab software, though I found that their options weren't quite as diverse as the former. Those that have low budgets could still get things done with NCH's Wavepad software. Of course, some of its features could only be used if you purchase a location license, but the free stuff it supplies are still amongst the essentials including - as we just discussed - wave normalisation. I'm glad to see you've calmed down, and I hope you could be able to take our little talks through to your own personal growth. I do however hope your setback isn't discouraging you from taking part in the future, because as far as I know, you sound as if you can provide something fulfiling on a good week.

Psychog, calm down. Perhaps I didn't explain things clear enough; bear in mind that pretty much my entire vote was written in the last hour, and I had problems trying to figure out my top three throughout the entire voting period. First things first and most importantly: I'm a SHE. Apparently my Crash Bandicoot avatar doesn't do much justice to that, but I don't care because I love the series anyway. Oh well. Secondly, your attitude to this reminds me of the period of time in which I struggled to get a sophomore mix onto OC Remix's main site. Take it from experience; it can be fun to work on something that you really enjoy doing, and if you like it yourself, then there you go. Sometimes people may raise eyebrows, and sometimes they may look away; as far as an audience is concerned, they want something to make themselves click. I felt similarly frustrated trying to get MY first PRC win and all, not to mention facing numerous situations in which I felt I placed more effort into my entries than various higher-placed finishers, but stuff like this shouldn't get you down: for such a high turnout like this contest, a high amount of quality is expected all around, which makes it more difficult for the less experienced remixers to make a mark. To be fair I wasn't expecting such a high turnout after such a quiet spell at this time last year, but this is what we've ended up with at the end of the day. Now, let's see your concerns about all this. I have understood that you spent a long time getting your instruments leveled up as they are. That's actually a very good start concerning it, it's just the overall master volume that just needed to be adjusted. I've taken your software to account as well with this one, so here's some advice: if you could lower the sliders on the master mixer by a few decibels, process your finished result into a wave file as you did and normalise the resulting wave to around 90-odd percent, then you can still get your loud produce and yet everything would sound a lot clearer. I understand that it may sound perfect through your own speakers before the processing, though bear in mind that even though this can be the case, playback volume levels and recording volume levels are two entirely different beasts altogether. I also saw that you felt equally concerned about the reception for your piano. Your piano patch is actually really good, so I can't really fault that; furthermore I didn't even say THAT was compressed, as when I did hear it in the track it was one of few channels that didn't sound compressed. It's just that if a piano needs to sound really realistic, it doesn't always come down to velocities and volumes; the reason why I said it was mechanical is that we don't expect actual pianists to play every single note with 100% perfect timing and with the exact note length before moving onto another. Furthermore, they don't always play at the exact tempo of the track unless they are performing ragtime, which is usually more defined for the left hand's dependancy on providing a distinguishable rhythm. If you use a keyboard for input, then it should be no problem for you playing around with it yourself and seeing what you as a performer could potentially come up with. You don't have to be Frederic Chopin or anything; regardless of skill level, it's a lot easier to express a two-handed piano pattern playing it yourself rather than using quantisation or mouse inputs. If you don't use a keyboard and you are indeed using a mouse to work on everything, then I suppose that more work is needed for your note length and timings. Even so, remember that for most of the time, sequenced piano is usually frowned upon around here no matter what the situation, so bear that in mind. You stated that your audience clapping effect was needed to fill some empty space. I rarely dive into electronica, but I can still offer an idea: one such method that I think could be beneficial is applying some subtle synth arpegio work in the background and in a middle note register (possibly from an octave below middle C to an octave above the same note). That can give in a good melodic possibility as well as filling in some blank space. Sir Nuts could probably find some better solutions to this since he's a better trance mixer than most of us in this entire thread, so he could also throw in some other ideas too. Furthermore, I didn't stay that I didn't like your piece at all; in fact, when I first heard yours, I honestly felt that I could be thrown into making a very difficult voting decision, and it was further enhanced more as I got to listening to everyone else's work. As Sir Nuts mentioned, I found it to be a mixed bag; for the reasons I stated I found it to be a little rough around the edges, but I do honestly believe that I saw potential in you. Just be happy with what you've managed to deliver: fourth place is very good for a compo like this. Heck, there are still some people worse off than you, struggling to get a strong and definable entry in the Dwelling of Duels contests, or at least into the top half finishers for each month. Just keep putting effort into your work; you're grasping the concept, and I have a good feeling that you can be able to go places if you keep at it.

Well, even though you aren't allowed to formally take part next time, you can still attempt a remix of it yourself and classify it as a bonus entry. I've done that a few times, and so did Hylian Lemon; it's our way of putting together our own little challenges should we want to accept them

Voting time is over! And what a round we have here - let me say this now. For the first time for a VERY LONG TIME (and I forgot how long it's actually been too), we have gone into double figures on vote input! And don't worry about multiple voters; I have an IP address record that has shown that no suspicious activity has undergone here. So yeah, very warm surprise Now it's time we got into the final standings! Which of you reached the fabled Tower of Salvation? Which of you got held up by Zelos' crazy antics? And which of you are merely left stranded at the Temple of Martel? Total number of mixes - 7 Total number of votes - 13 Highest possible score - 39 munchi received the last place wooden spoon with 6 points. just64helpin obtained sixth place, inching ahead with 7 points. 904 404'd (!) his way into fifth place with 10 points. xGx made a promising start into fourth place with 12 points. NeoS claimed a happy third place finish with 13 points. Binweasel only just lost out into second place with 20 points. And the winner of PRC119 is Showroom Dummy with 22 points! Man, what a round that we ended up having! I feel proud of just about everyone who managed to take part here, so that was a more than welcome surprise here. But still, congratulations on your first win Showroom Dummy! There's been a lot of voters, including myself, who felt surprised at what you managed to pull off as a music track, and to me that shows real surprise on what someone new to the contest ended up pulling off, so that in itself is just amazing. Now, let's inform you on the next step. You are to choose the next PRC source tune. It can be any track as long as it hasn't been covered on OC Remix before; this can open the scope widely, whether it be an underappreciated track in a popular game (e.g. DKC2 "Flight of the Zinger") or any track from an uncovered game (e.g. pretty much anything in Donkey Kong 64). Tracks covered in site projects but not on the main site are still fair game, so stuff like DKC1's bonus room theme is still acceptable. Once you've chosen a track, you send a private message or email to me with your choice. I would like to see it as prompt as possible - I will give you until this coming Friday to send something through. Still, that wraps up one of the most active PRCs we have had in a long time. Again, well done on making this a contest to remember, and I hope to see you all again this weekend for PRC120!

Okay, now it's time to get to the voting! Here's what we're going to do. You're going to visit the ThaSauce link and check out all seven entries. Once done, you should fill the form at the bottom of the screen, pick three mixes and file them from first to third with a reasoning attached to them. Contestants are encouraged to do this as they will automatically get 3 points for voting. Since I won PRC118, my vote counts twice so I'm equally as important here. You have until Tuesday May 6th at 4:59am EDT to cast your vote. The winner gets to choose the source tune for PRC120! Binweasel (f/ Nick) - Warning: Gibbous just64helpin - Sly Land munchi - Sylver Lining NeoS - Happylands Showroom Dummy - Pixelated Tales V (as 904) - Ovaltine xGx - Euphoria in Sylvarant

The mixing is over. And may I say this now - we have put together the most active PRC we have had for 15 months! Congratulations everyone! I'm currently verifying the entries myself in the event that a MIDI rip fell through the cracks. Once I'm done, we shall move on to the voting post.

Whichever happens, we've got a surprising turnout so far. Can we push it to be the most active PRC this season? Anything can happen with just 8 hours to go!

Just letting you know that since I actually won PRC118 and got something for the unlucky sods to work on, I'll actually have a WIP on Euclid by the end of next week. I promise

Okay, now it's time to get to the voting! Here's what we're going to do. You're going to visit the ThaSauce link and check out all seven entries. Once done, you should fill the form at the bottom of the screen, pick three mixes and file them from first to third with a reasoning attached to them. Contestants are encouraged to do this as they will automatically get 3 points for voting. Since I won PRC118, my vote counts twice so I'm equally as important here. You have until Tuesday May 6th at 4:59am EDT to cast your vote. The winner gets to choose the source tune for PRC120! Binweasel (f/ Nick) - Warning: Gibbous just64helpin - Sly Land munchi - Sylver Lining NeoS - Happylands Showroom Dummy - Pixelated Tales V (as 904) - Ovaltine xGx - Euphoria in Sylvarant The People's Remix Competition 119 PRCv5-15 Hello everyone and welcome to the People's Remix Competition! PRC118 saw the return of Kirby 64 to the PRC; a lighter turnout than its campaign with Neo Star 3 years ago, but it still had enough for a strong diversity of entries, from happy hardcore to new age to Irish folk music. And once again, you guys wanted me to pick the next source tune after dealing with the new-agey stuff. Thinking long and hard, PRC119 takes us one console generation upwards. We're looking at a classic GameCube RPG from the guys at Namco; pretty much anyone hanging around in site project circles would be familiar with this one. If not, then maybe the terms of summon spirits, a giant tree of mana, two fighting worlds for that mana and the legend of the Journey of Regeneration familiarise you? I didn't become an active GameCube gamer myself until I swagged a Wii and a set of GC peripherals a few months back. When I did, I wanted to explore a good amount of games that it offered, and having been asked by KyleJCrb to write a few tracks for the "Summoning of Spirits" Tales series project (comprising of tracks from this game and Tales of Phantasia), I somehow felt as if I wanted to see more into the source material that I covered by looking at how the games flowed together. In that case, I found myself going into a more fast-paced RPG than what I would normally play, and I absolutely loved it. The scenarios were what can be expected from an anime, had enough twists to keep going and pretty much every character had their own personality to ensure that their significance in the plot and in gameplay are equally balanced. I have no regrets in looking into it. That said, I couldn't help but think there needs to be some coverage in the PRC. The track I've chosen, the field music for Sylvarant, isn't among those to be covered in Kyle's project and he's no longer taking any Symphonia-based spots on it. But I would like to see it covered anyway - it's got a nice simple melody and chord structure, has a happy and adventurous feel to it and feel can work well to anyone regardless of remixing skill. I hope it all works out; enjoy! Tales of Symphonia - The Land of Sylvarant MIDI | MP3 You'd better do okay with this one, otherwise I'd cast Indignation on the lot of you GOOD LUCK! Fine Print: PRC instructions If you happen to be mixing this song already, start over in the interests of fairness. Limitations at ThaSauce require your entry to be 6MB or less in size. Length for length's sake and MIDI rips are not allowed. Entries must be posted in the ThaSauce link by NEXT SATURDAY, May 3rd at 4:59 am Eastern US Time. You may enter as many mixes as you like and work with as many people as you like on each mix. Do not make qualitative comments on an entry until the results of the vote have been posted. Mixers cannot vote for themselves but if they vote they recieve a free first place vote added onto their score. The winner of the previous contest can't take part but their vote will be doubled. Doulifee's PRC Archives! If you need help with hosting your mix, contact myself or Doulifee, and we'll help you out.

I never realised that before O.o I think it all comes down to luck of the appeal of the source tune, interestingly enough. You'll get there, I'm sure of it. Keep at it and your time to pick a source tune will be nigh.