djpretzel Posted July 26, 2003 Share Posted July 26, 2003 name: Disposer songtitle: Drill Salsafied style: Salsa e-mail eb_disposer@hotmail.com location: original game: Megaman IV theme song: Drill Man enjoy ~Dis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcos Posted July 27, 2003 Share Posted July 27, 2003 Nice stuff. Could have been taken up another level had it been busier at certain intervals, but this is definitely a YES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m68030 Posted July 29, 2003 Share Posted July 29, 2003 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? NO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vig Posted July 30, 2003 Share Posted July 30, 2003 hmm....borderlineage. there is great percussion, and the arrangement is solid. but it is awfully repetitive for a fairly short song, and the lead patches (trumpet mainly, but sax as well) are bad. i think with a better lead, i would probably give this a YES, but for now, it's a NO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Dan Posted July 30, 2003 Share Posted July 30, 2003 ok so the horns aren't THAT bad. But let's change the title, mmkay? It's not salsa. More Merengue, if anything. Salsa is much slower and laid back. Anwyay, some of the horn blasts sound pretty nice. Actually, the thing I think needs more work is the percussion. Find some nicer conga samples (they're pretty easy to locate (much more so than, say, strings)), and listen to other examples in the merengue style to get an idea of how the percussion is arranged in this genre. Listening to salsa won't do you much good in this instance because you'd have to slow the piece down to like 66% speed and rework most of the instrumentation. Stick with merengue, it's working for you. Also, you may want to try to uncrowd some of the instrumentation. Latin jazz is all about dissonance, but they're all about clean dissonance, not just "hey let's all just play what feels right in this section and it'll sound cool and jazzy 'cause we're misunderstood, etc." Not that this is THAT bad in the crowded department, it could just use some cleaning up. I think.... Either way, in its current state: NO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Protricity Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 Its just too much of the original melody repeating over and over. I like the variations. Very nice, but the arrangement as a whole is following the original way too closely. Secondly, the sample set might need some updating. The drums and instruments sounded very GM and thin. The drums never changed much. NO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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