Darangen

I make the arrangements because I love the music. I submit them to OC ReMix because I want to give back to the community that got me started. I've been downloading OC ReMixes since I heard Terra in Black by Ailsean back in 2000, when the site was an awful orangish color. I want to share what I create with people like those that came before me did. Plus remixing vgm gets you all the ladies............right?

It's not like 2 of each song would be a BAD thing. I'd love to hear more than one arrangement of every track on the FF6 soundtrack.

I'm still excited to be on this project!

As far as there being an "elitist group" or hierarchy, it's just not true. If you've ever been to MAGFest (if you haven't you should go at least once) or any of the OCR meetups you'd quickly learn that the community is full of incredibly down to earth and accepting people. I think it's an inherent flaw in online communication or any textual communication for that matter where words are too often taken out of context or read in a way that makes the writer interpreted in a wrong way. I think that's what causes people to see others as elitists, separatists, etc. In most cases they're 100% wrong.

That's my view too. A personal album project is a personal album project. You're not getting the community involved, so there's little to no reason to inform the masses.

With the current situation, will that effect current and future due dates for WiPs?

Well, yeah, I guess. But isn't there already like 9000 albums in the queue?

They can continue, they just wouldn't be released/published anytime soon. Probably years.

To be fair to those in charge, MAGfest was last week where the majority of the OCR staff attended and it takes quite a bit of time preparing for events like that. Throw on top of that the fact that they have personal lives, new years was the week before, Christmas the week before that, etc. Sure, it sucks. I was on the project and looking forward to being part of it. But to call people douches or to imply that they intended to make a mockery of everyone here is not really called for. Just keep working on your track, you obviously chose it because you wanted to do it. It just won't end up on the project.

Not exactly douchey. It's probably been in the works for months if not longer. It was a private project. They made a new policy about private projects to keep this from happening again. The game(s) that private projects are working on will now be visible to the public. You won't know who's running it, the theme, who's working on it, etc - just the game(s) involved.

Killer. Studio. Chops. Welcome back!

This must've been a tough call, but I can definitely see the reasoning and necessity of making private albums semi-public. The games being revealed will help would-be directors know what their options are and keep people from signing up and working on tracks only to find out that 2 weeks later the album is already being worked on by a completely different group. It kills some of the surprise and mystery, but it's for a good reason.

I think I'm actually going to resub this. I like the track, and Killer Instinct is a severely under covered source. Only real things I'm going to be changing/fixing is the timing issues they heard and go easier on the production, since it's admittedly over compressed. I'm working on a new track right now, but after that I plan on returning to this and cleaning it up for a resub.

But to contribute to the actual topic, this was one of my more favored DoD entries. I think it was 4 or 5 on my list (which given the other entries is pretty damn good).

Plenty, they're just the only ones who I've seen say something along the lines of: "People who remix with vocals should be shot" or "As soon as I heard the vocals I turned it off and deleted it" Of course, to be fair, there are plenty of shizzies that love vocals, they're just not the vocal ones. Irony.

The Shizzies are good guys, but some of them can be a bit biased against vocals.

You'd be surprised at some of the talent here though. Couldn't hurt to post in the Recruitment forum asking if there is anyone willing to give it a shot. Worst thing that could happen is you don't find anyone.

Very nice I think some light percussion would really make this pop. Maybe some shaker/tambourine lovin'. It's pretty close to the original but has enough variance to keep me interested. Very good performance though, I know how hard it is to get a good acoustic sound.

Arrangement is A+!

I hate sheet music, tabs, or any other kind of notation in general - I feel it dampens my creativity. I do know how to read music, tabs, and various other notation. I just hate using them. They're incredibly beneficial for some people though. The only time I'll reference a midi is if I trust the author/creator. Even then I'll usually solo the track I'm trying to learn and just let the notes swirl in my head for a few hours. That said, my melodies aren't always 100% accurate, but I like it that way. Most of my stuff is improvised at the beginning of the writing process. I'll usually have the melody playing on loop and just grab my guitar, hit record, and start playing with chords to try and find something unique. When that isn't the case, it's usually that I'm playing around with a chord progression and my brain starts developing a melody that sounds similar to a vg tune.

I'm saving now so I won't have the same financial problem next year.

Every time I start a remix I end up making it so that if you took out the leads it'd sound like an original.

Yeah. Dj Mokram, if you don't like the way things are being done by the director, you don't have to be a part of the project. If you don't want to do something as simple as resending the pm, then don't send it and be on your way, the door is over there.

Everything starts in my head, like a burst of ideas. If I don't get a basic part recorded shortly after that it's usually lost forever. Once I start recording I begin with my main guitar track, just playing through the whole idea to start the foundation. Then I add some temporary boring drums, then start building the real instruments around that, usually starting with bass. Later I go back and replace the guitar and drums.

It's a lot better than my first few attempts were back when I started! Schala is a good place to start, since it's such a captivating source and it's simple musically. A few starter points to look into: - The drums are repetitive. That said, personally my drums are overhauled 2-3x during my creation process. Try to make the drums accent the music, and inversely make the music accent the drums. Right now it sounds like the drums are just there to keep tempo, when they should be there to give life to the beat of the song. - The bell/chime repeating pattern. It's very catchy and is throughout the entirety of the source, but it gets old and stale quickly when it's left alone for 4 minutes, especially since it's slowed down. Try pushing it back in the mix a bit (some reverb and maybe 3-5db lower) so that it's there but not right in front. You could also try blending it with other similar phrasing so that it gives the listener something new to hear. - It's slowly building up but doesn't seem like it ever really goes somewhere. This may be your intent, but while I was listening to it I kept thinking "Ok, now he added that.." or "Oh, there's that again.." Try changing up the movement of the song so that it's taking the listener somewhere. You need a big high point of the song to get your listeners to. On a scale of 1 to 10 it probably starts around a 2 and goes up to a 4 by the end. It's fine to start out at a 2, but make sure you're bringing it up to at least a 7 or 8 at some point in the song so that the listener can go back and feel satisfied. Think like a roller-coaster, you don't want that starting ascent to end right before you take the plunge, you want to give them that plunge too.