Uboichi2 Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 Songs used: Super Mario World - Castle Theme Zelda - Zelda's theme Final Fantasy 6 - Phantom Train & a fragment from the opera World of Warcraft - The Music from Karazhan which actually doesn't have a name. Early WIP =) The Ghosts of Nintendo are haunting Karazhan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skummel Maske Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 What a coincidence, I did a Karazhan run with game music enabled for the first time a couple of days ago, and thought the music had great remixing potential! I can really picture your track as a proper background track for a castle-type dungeon. I'll be keeping a close eye on this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Xyco Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 Okay, I gave this a listen. The presentation is really, really good -- but the arrangement seems to be lacking. You've certainly managed to throw together these different melodies into a cohesive track that definitely had a strong feel to it. However, each one seems to lack artistic variation. I'm not sure if you plan on submitting this down the road, but if you do, I'd suggest articulating on the melodies a bit more if you do. Course, I'm no musician... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uboichi2 Posted April 13, 2008 Author Share Posted April 13, 2008 Okay, I gave this a listen.The presentation is really, really good -- but the arrangement seems to be lacking. You've certainly managed to throw together these different melodies into a cohesive track that definitely had a strong feel to it. However, each one seems to lack artistic variation. I'm not sure if you plan on submitting this down the road, but if you do, I'd suggest articulating on the melodies a bit more if you do. Course, I'm no musician... Actually, I thought the presentation was still crap o.Oa. Atm it's just a midi with fancy soundfonts, haven't done any real editing yet =P. And some parts idd only have basic chords supporting the melodies. And some parts that are a bit better get drowned in many other sounds. Thanks for your feedback! =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoboKa Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 I'll put in a more detailed critique later. All I have to say so far is that this is AWESOME . The organ sample is sexy too...I want that one x_x. I think that the arrangement is alright to me; but that's just me, and I'm a newb still. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SplinterOfChaos Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 I like this, but the lower instruments create too much noise sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darksaber2 Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 I liked it a lot, granted as you said it's still in a pretty rough form, but everything takes steps, the way the songs just kinda meshed together even when at their loudest was pretty amazing, and it makes for one hell of an Audiosurf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uboichi2 Posted May 19, 2008 Author Share Posted May 19, 2008 Been a while since my first post on this, but here's a little update The Ghosts of Nintendo are haunting Karazhan I made a few little changes in the arrangement and tried to get the more important melodies more on top this time, but also tried to let secondary melodies be more audible. Haven't had much time to edit this piece because of a very busy schedule. Got exams coming up in a week and our choir conductor asked me to make arrangements for choir of Suteki Da Ne and Hijo de la luna. He wants a concert with songs in as many different languages possible, so we doing stuff in russian, latin, english, japanese, spanish and maybe also in finnish. So got my time filled up with learning all the different pronunciations as well xD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rozovian Posted May 19, 2008 Share Posted May 19, 2008 Finnish? What's that? Some language of some backwater country with a random world-leading cell phone company, operating system, education...? Some language only of interest to fantasy writers and Conan O'Brien...? Some language that nobody besides evktalo speaks on a daily basis? Finnish? Seriously tho, that sounds interesting, let me hear it when it's done. Especially the finnish parts. I want to hear how close to epic fail the pronounciation is. Anyway, I'm unable to listen to your track atm, but will check it out later and leave my feedback. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uboichi2 Posted May 19, 2008 Author Share Posted May 19, 2008 Finnish? What's that? Some language of some backwater country with a random world-leading cell phone company, operating system, education...? Some language only of interest to fantasy writers and Conan O'Brien...? Some language that nobody besides evktalo speaks on a daily basis? Finnish?Seriously tho, that sounds interesting, let me hear it when it's done. Especially the finnish parts. I want to hear how close to epic fail the pronounciation is. Anyway, I'm unable to listen to your track atm, but will check it out later and leave my feedback. We actually have someone on the choir who speaks finnish, so I trust her to learn us to pronounce finnish properly (IF we do that song) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bren Posted May 19, 2008 Share Posted May 19, 2008 There are a lot of points where the engagement of different soundtracks doesn't sound quite right. I would recommend tweaking the melodies so that they can fit properly. Also, one piano lead of Karazhan's original soundtrack (the detuned chord) is a little off...might want to take a listen to that on the project file. Other than that, I can say I love this idea and arrangement. Karazhan's soundtrack is great, and your remix idea is great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rozovian Posted May 25, 2008 Share Posted May 25, 2008 The organ seems to clash with some of the other tracks at times... pretty much all the time. I like the feel of it, but the organ is very harmonically rich and dominating and... well, too much music. A couple of detuned chords would be nice for effect, but not this much. It's also too loud, especially during the 2:20 section, but other places as well. There's a lot going on in the track, I'd recommend cleaning it up. The Zelda's Lullaby section is nice, but the one before is a little too cluttered. It might be really elaborate beautiful writing, but much of it is drowned in the rest of it. De-clutter and fix the organ. The sources I knew from before are there, easy to recognize. I think this could get a YES once it's polished, but there could be issues I'm not hearing (laptop speakers, no headphones atm). Gonna be great when it's done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uboichi2 Posted June 9, 2008 Author Share Posted June 9, 2008 Still don't think it's finished, but here's an update again. The Ghosts of Nintendo are haunting Karazhan Now back to studying again for those exam resits =s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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