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Those first four notes are really started to get overworked sounding to me.
I think Magus theme is becoming the next Terra.
Anyway, back to the mix... Something about the bizzare ASDR on those
strings intrigues me and disgusts me at the same time. Interesting. What's
up with those chords at 1:30ish? The hats at 1:50ish are a little flat
sounding.. i'm not big on that choralish sample either..
Magus has been done so many times that if you really want to do anything
worth posting anymore it has to be some pretty awesome shit. This isn't
terrible, but it's not going to be on my "man you've got to hear this list"
The ending was interesting, but felt sloppily done, and yeah whats up with
the silence at the end?
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As much as I find dance music mostly dull and aggravating, the one thing
I normally DO like about it (when it doesn't suck, anyway) is that if it's
going to do anything neat musically it's going to take it's damn time doing
it and let you appreciate the transition for several minutes.
the samples here are just too low quality to be meaningful in the context
of the track. Sometimes low-fi just sounds cool, like in that T2 track we
saw a few weeks ago, but here it just sounds awkward.
The ending is non-existent, and the drums really could use a little spice in
them.
Keep pluggin at it, there's still progress to be made. The game might be
easier when you're level 99, but half the fun is getting there.
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As detailed as some of the synth work was in the original, this remake
(not a whole lot of creativity taken with it) just sounds tired by
compairison.
The drumkit is unarticulate and dull sounding. It just sounds flat. Try some
distortion on a highpass layered in, maybe some compression to tighten
up the sound, and more dynamic variation, esepcially on those snares.
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If this had really gone anywhere more than what it was, it might have
been better. I really thought I'd hear something creative after that
intro section.
A few neat synth moments, but otherwise rather uninspired sounding
4otF beats.
NO
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Yeah, I'm definatly up there with Dan on this one. Very neat stuff going on,
but just not where it needs to be. I like that little lead, and the beat is a
very well used loop, chopped up in a few places and all that good stuff.
Definatly neat ideas going on, but the samples really need some sugar and
it's just sooo short.
NO, but please please get some higher quality samples and flesh this out
more
(Does that sound like the Dune soundtrack by Toto at the end, oris it just me?)
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Multitrackers: Acid Pro 4.0
Carrying a heavy pricetag, Acid Pro (the stepped up version of several
other 'lite' versions) is a good multitrack arranger which allows DX effects
per individual track. The full boxed version will come with a rather healthy
set of loops that can get you started on the concept of loop and multitrack
arrangement, but for any serious project you will almost certainly want to
look at other loop packages (which are also expensive) or write your own
drum sections. This is not to say you should avoid default pre-sets; they
can often be a good source of inspiration.
Free multitracking is a slightly different beast. Offhand I cannot name any
programs which will easily and graphically let you arrange multiple
wave files for editing in a 'mixdown' format. Buzz could be adapted to
do so, loading each line into its wavetable, then playing them via a
sampler and then chained into apropriot effects, but this would be tedious
and problematic with timing.
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Pretty cool. very light and all that stuff.
Totally unfamiliar with the original, but I have enough faith in Vig to
not try and pull a fast one on us
Sounds very nice.
There really isn't a whole lot I can say critically on this one. This particular
style is pretty hard to critique since it's so free-form. The technical aspects
of the recording are great, very crisp and clear. My only concern is that
some of the bass bits are a TAD resonant... sort of a blooming effect.
I'd have put the mic nearer the neck, or used a higher up pick up if it
were electric, but thats me.
Also I would have rather heard the vocals in the end instead of the start.
It's sort of a climactic effect since it's such a nice haunting sound, and
it makes you want a bigger high point the rest of the track, which never
really comes. Nothing technically wrong though, so I'm not gonna rant
over it.
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Well this is cute.
The drums are a scint dry, methinks. I like the feel of the guitar, very
clean indeed. If there's a weakpoint in this track, it's definatly the drums.
It's not that they are bad, they could just sound a little less synthetic,
I think. Still great stuff though.
yay for happy music or some such shit.
YES
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You know this was going really neat until the end... from next to me I
heard my girlfriend comment: "... That's it?"
My sentiments exactly. The fade-out ending is a complete cop-out after
the neat quality of the rest of the instruments, arrangement not
withstanding.
Definatly some neat ideas going on in here, but this time I will say
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There are a few places where I was really left going "Errr..." in this track.
While I do really enjoy the feel of it, I'm a little confused by a few sections
here and there where the sample quality and arrangement just
bombshells.
I dont understand how so many people could have worked on this track
and so little be going on. Don't get me wrong, there are some
wonderfully rich minimalistic moments here (oxymoron?) but I just don't
see how places like 2:35-2:45ish can happen. That snare and percussion
is just abysmal in the context of the rest of the mix. It's not that it's bad,
it just seems horribly out of place. Given the rest of the track though,
and how it builds and floats in teh background, I'm giving it a thumbs up.
I think this track could have gone further and into more depth, but it's
still a nice little light journey as is.
YES
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Ah, one of my favorite songs from the Dune soundtrack.
I'll definatly be doing a remix of this one day.
First off some definate issues with volume level.
Secondly this really isn't much more than the original with some new
drum breaks and sections where the bass is expanded.. It's really nice,
mind you, and I'm digging what you're doing with it, but it still sounds
like it could be an S3M, as far as instrument quality goes. Now while
I'm very cool with S3Ms and all that (yay for amiga in my youth), that's
not what we're aiming at here at OCR and all.
Ah cool, this near the end bit is a pretty cool expansion of the theme.
I'm really digging this arrangement so far.. it just still feels incomplete
somehow. While we all know I love minimalism to death, this is just
arranged like it wants more going on, to my ears. (btw, I did NOT dig the
keychange bit that wasn't in the original)
Somehow that lead flute reminds me of a patch used in "Ascent of the
Cloud Eagle" by Necros I think..... that was a damn spiffy S3M....
Anyway, on to the sad part:
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Definatly get this posted up somewhere else though. The Dune soundtrack
is way way way way too overlooked. Definatly some solid gold stuff there.
I'll be hanging on to this mp3 (:
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The quality of the recording definatly is nice... very clear.
I do rather like the style of the arrangement, very much digging the
feel of the track, but there are a few rough spots that sort of make me
tilt my head and go "huh?"
But.. um.. I've hardly heard any bit of Aeris in here. It's a pretty beloved
theme among the fanboys, and this is almost too much of a minimalistic
take on it to work given teh genre context.
Neat, but feels to unfocused.
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Sounds like like Oasis.... I kinda like Oasis.
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This marks my first OCR submitted remix of 2003. Guess I've been a little
too busy, hm?
Several of you have heard at least some incarnation of this track, but
here we finally a final version. Ambient, minimal, dark, and slow.
Children of the Monkey Machine
Super Metroid
"Norfair 1 (Frailty Awaiting)"
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While i'm not overly thrilled with the mix as a whole, it does have a
rather nice 'complete' sound to it. Like Ari said, it's pretty simplistic, but
I think that in that, it still sounds pretty good as a goofy little electronic
track.
Obviously nothing terribly groundbreaking here, but it's still a solid little
track from something we don't hear too terribly a lot of.
Not one of my favorites, but still decent enough for a YES
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yeah, some of teh samples are pretty neat and all, but it just feels so
static. Without really any building, as has been mentioned, it gets a little
dull by the end, but there are parts of it that really do sound pretty good.
Bleh, seems like we're all torn over this one, which means it might not be
stellar, but people will still like it, so i'll give it a
YES
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I really think this could be more powerful than it is now. There's alot of
untapped potential here that's getting lost in the mixing process.
I think this is postable as-is, but really could be even better.
I'll give this a YES, but I wish there was a deeper balance in the elements.
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Ehhhhhh I dunno, I'm kinda digging the low-fi drums.. I'd be digging them
a whole hell of a lot more if that bass hit were higher quality and the
other instruments were also. Damn I'm torn on this one, because it
really is a spiffy little track, but those instruments just need some help.
Now whats this second little section here? more kinda neat stuff that needs
better instrument loving.
This has me split four ways to tuesday..
damnit... what the hell.
YES.
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Yeah, this almost sounds like it could be straight off like an N64 game
or something, as far as soundquality goes. I'm not too familiar with the
original, but now only a minute and a half into the song i feel like I've
been listening to it for a half hour.. just too much of the same over and
over.
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Yeah, definatly in need of some changeups and some variation in what's
going on. It's like it wants to be dance and ambient at the same time, and
can't come up with a medium in between. Just not enough going on here
to justify the genre.
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It makes me sad that trumpets generally sound like such crap if they are
not real. So far, just a few seconds into this track it's a neat little
arrangement, but there are some instrument quality issues that are really
killing it for me... if a few of those lead trumpet lines were replaced with
something that wasn't suffering from bad midi patchitus I'd give this a
yes, but right now those few moments are just killing an otherwise killer
little latin track. I just don't think it's fair to let something that has such
fun potential get away with something that can be fixed.
You can drive a car with shit smeared on the windsheild, but why not
do something about it?
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I really didnt' find this all too terribly different from the original, save
for the instrumentation..
Past that, it just felt very undefined with all the softness of the sounds,
it... it is pleasing, but still not something I really enjoy.
I dunno I'm torn, but I guess it's enjoyable to some people, so I'll
say YES and see if it's not outvoted.
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Holy GM Batman!
Neat arrangement, horrible patches.
Get some soundfonts, some softsynths, or some hardware and this almost
definatly a auto-post.
I dig it, but not yet. (:
also: way way way way too short.
NOt yet
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Some neat sounds in here... but it never really goes anywhere.
Too short, too underdeveloped.
NO
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It's pretty nice sounding, but there are still sections that sounded a little
too empty to me... then again i've got a pretty demanding ear.
I got a little tired of the bassline by the end, but the filtering on the end
was a neat little distraction.
Interesting stuff. Nothing that really blew me away, but enjoyable..
YES