Final Fantasy 7 - Cid's Theme

[Tyler Johnson]

Not really a remix, but I updated it with new samples.

Cid's Theme

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-Tyler

[docnano]

These re-orchestrations are lots of fun and a good opportunity to hone one's arrangement skills (I just did one of Anxious Heart myself). Nice job with this.

What samples are you using? Most of them sound good, and definitely a few steps up from the source tune. Drums are nice 'n boomy, which is perfect.

My only real complaints are the trumpet's constant, high-amplitude vibrato (a little distracting) and the strange instrument that plays the countermelody starting at 0:42 (I honestly can't tell what it's supposed to be -- a solo cello?).

Other than that, I think if you added some crescendi leading into the high points, as well as more dynamic shaping of the phrases in general, it would give your cover an even more authentic feel.

[Tyler Johnson]

Thanks Doc, I was going for just a plan vanilla update of the song, no fancy bells and whistles.

And that counter melody is an oboe, the cornet and oboe are both from the VSL Library, I used SD2 for percussion, VSL strings and some EWQLSO thrown in there as well.