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Ah, must have been the vgmix one that I remember then. Surprised it didn't catch on. thanks for that

yeh I've done a couple myself, want to see what else is out there. Am tempted to start a mini project myself and finish off the rest of the FF5 soundtrack that I've started ^^ It's impressive what a bit of tweaking can do an already epic soundtrack!

thanks, never saw that. theyve been busy adding stuff to this site since I've last stepped foot in here eh

Apologies if this is posted in the wrong section. I've searched the forums a bit and turned up no result so here goes. I remember, a good long while back, there was mention, I think on here, of a community based around taking old SPC tunes, exporting the 8 individual tracks and upscaling/modifying/modernising the sound and creating newer versions of old tunes using only the base SPC source track as material. I can't for the life of me find it anywhere on the net, google nor forum search functions seem to be helping me. Just wondering if anyone remembers or knows if this little project is still going on? or was it part of a thread on this site somewhere?

random question....any performers on this project able to play the flute, or anyone not already involved be willing to contribute a performance?

sure we are it's only taken me 3 attempts and about 6 months to get this far with my one track hehe. I'm sure we'll see a finished project sometime in the....not so near future... Ah no seriously though, I think things are coming together nicely from what I've heard so far. this is gonna be a project to be proud of when it's all done n dusted Good things come to those who wait...

A lil while after finding this thread I found myself messing about with Fable and came up with something interesting. If there's still room on the project I'd like to contribute something..

he used one of my song titles one time and put a different artist as the example. needless to say I was a little ....confused/bemused/amused it's only an example for example's sake tho.

the lyrics? works fine for me. I'll post em here anyways if you like. (EDIT: I see now, the file has an extra DOT on the file extension, the project site is linked correctly but the forums arent) I don't suppose that flp would work with v4.5 would it? or is there any way you can save it in the older format? A Million voices urge me on But they're all up inside my head A million hands that judge my work Could they all be wrong I try my best, I give my all Weaving patterns in the air Hear the melodies Weaving sounds inside your head **Bridge** And all of these melodic waves Will they wash me out to sea I'd be lost eternally And though the rain clouds never lift They block my vision of the world Let the rain pour down on me **Chorus** 'Cause I will rise, I will burn My vision will clear as my heart it yearns Sweat droplets form on my face Wipe my brow and I'll struggle on ------------- Poems words and paper waste Tools of trade, my great mistakes Come together, bear my soul My story to the whole wide world is told Never once, Never twice Captured the essence of my life Stay awake don't sleep tonight Sunrise makes everything alright Bridge + Chorus ------------- And everything that I'm missing Lies locked inside my head ...don't dare to dive too deep... And every lie and every whisper Already put them down to pen My life's notation scrawled for you (And only you) The public eye forms its opinion Harsh and cruel and always cold Ignore the crowd they're easily led (They're easily led) ------------- I say what I mean, I mean what I say I'm pullin the strings of the puppets in the play I'm all by myself getting further away In my virtual world where night turns to day (repeated) Sometimes I wonder what I'm doing this for Sometimes I wonder what this crying is for I don't know, I don't know....what I'm doing this for (Don't tell me what is wrong what is right) I don't know.....what this crying is for (Don't tell me that I'm wasting my time)

sonic splash is linked wrong or the file is missing/mispelt?? either way its not working

voting is one week this time round isnt it? two weeks really was too long last time.(actually I forgot to vote in the end because I thought I had looooads of time left..im a bad planner see..)

submitted mine, just waiting for a confirmation from abadoss that he got it, wasnt sure if it sent right?

not supposed to post the link here, pm it to abadoss and they're all released together on sunday. Also, 95% complete and I get writer's block. 4am miracle my &^$&^$% and also, that wikiupload is terrible, i cant even download the file because of the backwards form system they're using.

have you ever heard me sing before? I'm an engineer's worst nightmare I assure you

quality over quantity my dear man, quality over quantity mine will be done, rest assured. vocals are soooooooooooooo tedious and time consuming to mix correctly....

quite true

I know I broached on this on my last entry with the indian vocals, but are full vocal songs allowable, or is the focus more on the musical interpretations of the theme? I have a song in mind and lyrics already, just toying with some ideas at the moment...

not quite the theme I wouldve hoped for, but I'm sure I can twist it enough to suit my current style of writing Not really in the mood for spacey computery effets, tried it once for college assignments...failed miserabley hehe. Should be an interesting month, hoping to see people taking lots of creative liberties with this one, I know I will.

Some close voting there. Congrats to SirNutS on first spot. He's been writing great music since before I even got my first mixing program so I'll happily take second place next to him hehe. Apologies for not getting a chance to vote and write up some reviews, kinda got busy the past few days and ran out of time (read parties,beer + gigs ). I'll post up a few quick thoughts on the tracks now as a thank you to all those who took the time to comment on my track and voted for me. First off, the general mood of almost all of the tracks was, at first listen, very similar(apart from stringfiend and maybe Simon Frisch's), it almost turned me off listening to them. It's amazing how one idea can impose the same kind of idea on a majority whilst it gives a smaller contingent such completely opposing ideas. Musically most of these tracks are brilliant, but from my point of view, as you might have guessed by whatI came up with, they're just not really what I would associate with sunrise, not in my current frame of mind anyhow. I can see the ideas of trying to capture the grandeur and beauty of a sunrise in tracks like Extacide's, Sir NutS', Chief's and Chavous' and this they do well, but in a really over the top hollywood style. It was just a little cliche for my liking. Moving on though.. Extacide: Really liked this one, I've listened to it a few times now over the last while. The first thing that springs to mind is mv, really reminds me of his style of music (that's a good thing by the way ). The pulsing strings in the background tend to get a little repetetive further into the track but at 2:17, the shortness of the track saves them from driving the listener insane. Decent percussion sequencing and a very nice piano synth make this overall very aurally pleasing. Very little happening in terms of arrangement, it's like you were afraid to expand much on the main theme and just decided to solo it out. This could have been fleshed out a good deal more, but stands as a good track for the length that it is. The description however, I found doesn't really tie in much with the music. Simon Frisch: Very ominous, very dark very...Tim Burton. The instrumentation in this is top-quality, shows good skill at mixing an orchestra. As for the theme though, I don;t really see a sunrise as appearing with slow rays of lights, your description and music convey more of an image of a completely shadowed world under a blanket of black clouds and the rays as you put it, when the string section hit their crescendo, is like the clouds being parted momentarily and these rays of light penetrating the darkness. Without the description you wrote, I wouldn't associate this with sunrise as much as what I just described there. I think this is probably because the music descends into an oppresive, dark tone again after the buildup and the atonality returns towards the end as if the darkness is returning. Still, musically, this is a fine piece. nice work. Sir NutS: It's been mentioned before, but it's the most notable point made about this piece so far. It doesn't build to anything notable. A musical representation of a battle scene needs to be violent in its nature (unless you're going for the slow, distraught, "what a waste" or "the futility of war" style of depicting a battle scene). By the style of this track though I assume you were going for the former idea and in my opinion failed to pull it off. There's just a lack of real energy, or wistful sadness, for this track to fall into either category for depicting a battle. Musically though, I like this. Great sounding synths, I like the pulsing bass you used. Decent percussion sequencing, although fairly simple. There's enough transitions here to keep the listener interested the whole way through. Overall a very relaxing listen and feels very fleshed out. I like the break in the middle especially. 2:24 is where the aggression I was expecting should have come in and really thrown me flat on my ass..but it just didn't happen. The rest of the track just kind of ambles along after this all the way to its anticlimatic end. Overall, great mixing as always, good ideas, but let down by poor translation into their musical counterparts. Stringfiend: Class, hehe. I loved this one. Musically bouncy and crazy, going by the description it does exactly what it says on the tin. The mixing however is pretty poor, and no I'm not talking about the lo-fi effect that you're tryig to get, it's the fact that you didn't quite achieve that 50's black n white film effect quite so well. There's too many inconsitencies in the mixing styles that it really threw me off. Everything sounds like it was recorded in different rooms, the reverb is messy, working well on some instruments but muddying up others way too much. Also the levels were irritating at times, sometimes the trombones just being too in-your-face overpowering at times. the kick/tom drum sounds like it's planted right in the middle of the room by themselves and then mixed in afterwards. other times theyre panned off to the left, then sometimes it disappears completely off to the background. The composition is fun and quirky though, very much captures the style you're after. Good work overall. Just some annoying inconsistencies in the mixing. Chief: Um...think I'll follow suit and just ignore the GM sounds here. Nice buildup on the intro, the instruments do seem to capture the essence of a big eventful sunrise. Could be imagined at the end of some cheesy Disney movie where all the baddies are gone and the sun is just coming up over a pair of lovers. Hehe, yeh actually, thats what this one makes me think of. Cheesy movies. Chavous: Slow and kind of boring is my first impression. I like the percussion instruments used though. This kind of reminds me of the Fear Effect soundtrack. Very ominous and remorseful. I reckon this one is the track that's come closest to matching its description. I can very much imagine the procession taking place as the last rites are read, I'm imagining this taking place more on an Indian reservation overlooking a scorched red desert landscape though. for some reason it evokes this harsher image than the cool blues and greens of a cliffside landscape. Good efforts all round. Looking forward to number 6. I reckon I'll take part again, was a bit of fun and I'll always welcome anything that gets me writing more music. Kris

well, seeing as I recently got banned from VGMix (woops) and Virt hasnt answered me in days, I'd be happy to enter this one for the OCR side looking forward to how this turns out now. good luck to anyone who entered.

how many entries so far by the way?

yes, but still no forum its just an idea, thats all, could help creating more of a central community rather than having people from all over the place.

nice to see there's actually some life in this project somewhere. scanning the other forums there seems to be little to no interest elsewhere. You should really pimp this competition a bit more and maybe at least set up one central forum rather than having 4+ threads all on different websites. I'm finalizing a piece i started two nights ago, will more than likely enter it.

no, its not beyond my ears, but it's beyond my comprehension how you can still deem this to be an original interpretation/mix of the ff4 battle theme. its a 99% MIDI rip with, as you just admitted, some of your own stuff layered on top. as for vincents theme, there was a bit more work done on your part and it drifted away from the main theme once or twice, but not enough really, it was still fairly close to the original overall and, like you said again, used parts of a midi aswell which is basically stealing other people's work and claiming it as your own, which basically just pisses people off on this site. I'd advise you to rethink exactly what you're doing here and if you plan to continue posting songs here make them 100% performed/sequenced by you yourself or incorporate other peoples work with their 100% consent.

if all else fails, turn back to the songs that influenced this track and try improvving to those. some of my own solos ive written while playing along to other songs and then reworking them into my own songs. if the song is really that awkward to finish then just give it a break and come back to it later with a fresh approach and you'll probably come up with something first time off.