OceansAndrew Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Your ReMixer name: Emunator Your real name: Wes McDonald Your website: I guess emunator.deviantart.com for now, will probably change it later. Your userid (number, not name) on our forums, found by viewing your forum profile: 16467 Name of game(s) arranged: Donkey Kong Country 3 (both GBA and SNES soundtracks) Name of arrangement: Footloose Falls Name of individual song(s) arranged: Cascade Capers (Waterfall) SNES & GBA Additional information about game: GBA soundtrack composed by David Wise, SNES soundtrack by Eveline Novakovic Sources: & Comments: Aside from a few short project tracks that ended up being part of multicollabs and a few improv piano pieces, this is the first song I've ever finished in my life, as well as my first solo submission to the site. That said, I feel like I've learned a lot from being involved in the evaluation/workshop/project directing side of OCR enough to get an intuitive feel for remixing so that I've been able to jump right into the world of mixing and arranging without actually having much musical background/history aside from a few years of self-teaching piano. Shoutouts to Ergosonic, Flexstyle, Cody Wedel, halc, WillRock, Jason Covenant, OA, and a million other people who listened to this through its creation and gave me motivation to finish As for this mix, it started off as an original track that was intended to be entirely ethnic/ambient, drawing heavy inspiration from mv's classic "A Foray into Eastern Horizons." However, the chord progression reminded me of Cascade Capers, one of my favorite tracks off of David Wise's criminally-underappreciated Gameboy Advance remake of the Donkey Kong Country 3 soundtrack. I arranged around that for a bit before realizing that the totally-unique SNES version was also in the same key and had a lot of backing elements to pull from that fit nicely with the soundscape I'd already come up with. I added a dance beat as a joke, initially, but I guess it stuck and what I ended up with is some weird-yet-cohesive (I think, anyway!) genre-fusion that I think works pretty well. The mix was done entirely in FL Studio 10. The ambient sounds were pulled from free sample packs across the net and Alchemy Player (which is, bar-none, the most gorgeous-sounding free synth software anywhere) the beats were default FL Studio samples and Kore Player for the ethnic percussion, the instruments were all from Sampletank, and all the riffs/backing tracks were played live on my electronic piano and then quantized to fit. The bassline was actually rendered by my buddy Flexstyle using Harmless and Toxic Biohazard. Thanks for that! Cheers! - Wes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonAvenger Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 What? YOU? NO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonAvenger Posted November 26, 2011 Share Posted November 26, 2011 Ok ok, I'll actually listen to it. Hmm...not bad.... Definitely an ambient take on the themes, which get's a little repetitive at times, but there's a lot of personalization you've got here. I think the song fit's well for the style. Like the dropping bass later on, too. Guess you can mix on your own. YES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halc Posted November 26, 2011 Share Posted November 26, 2011 i'm only voting on this because wes asked me to NO(resub) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emunator Posted November 26, 2011 Share Posted November 26, 2011 So, for my resubmission I'll make sure to remove the part of the song where I ask you to vote on my mix. I wasn't sure if that part was really gelling with the rest of the mix. My bad, bro. NO (resub) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halc Posted November 26, 2011 Share Posted November 26, 2011 yeah yeah, this is nice stuff here. samples and synths are pretty tight. great integration of the two sources. mixing isn't without its faults, but is very strong for a first (solo) sub. a little disappointed that you didn't mention how much you ripped off me and anosou's mix of (one of) the same sources in your submission novel though. ok i guess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palpable Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 I've never heard anything apart from your piano work on that Pokemon sub, so I wasn't sure what to expect. This was very chill and tasteful, but with a surprising electro-house bass. I love seeing weird combinations like that, when they work. If there's anything that could be improved, it's the sequencing of the lead. It was a little rigid most of the time, both in terms of timing and the way the sample played the same each time (which may come down to the instrument or the velocities). But when the mixing is solid, the instruments are high-quality, and the arrangement is good, one aspect that's not totally working isn't going to sink it. YES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceansAndrew Posted February 4, 2012 Author Share Posted February 4, 2012 Pretty tasteful work here, with some nice arrangement choices. I do think the mixing could be improved slightly balancewise, but I think it's good enough to pass. Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emunator Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Just to clarify though, OA, this isn't a project mix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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