prophetik music Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 Game: Flowstone Saga Song: To The Ruin Mastering by Chimpazilla! She rocks! OA put out a call to folks to do remixes of the soundtrack for this game as a promo situation. I personally thing OA is the best thing since sliced bread, so I jumped on the opportunity right away. I listened through the OST a few times and this was one of the songs that stuck out to me. I liked the rhythmic elements and how they added energy to a slower track. I also liked the bridge section, which reminded me of the Beauty and the Beast score =) I probably haven't done a remix that wasn't a requested thing of me since the Chrono Cross project, so it's been several years. I am nowhere near as fast as I used to be, and historically the act of grinding through that lack of familiarity has been a real difficult thing for me to overcome. I had already told OA I'd do a track, though, and shame is a powerful motivator, so I pushed through and made something that I'm proud of. Then Chimpazilla took my stems (eventually, after several technical missteps on my side and some render glitches) and made the track sound awesome. This is primarily Omnisphere and Addictive Drums, with some Gladiator for a few of the leads. I used whatever older version of FL Studio was still on my computer. I did get midis of the parts from OA but used them as guidelines only due to how FL imported and quantized the files (ie. not well). This might be the last track I do on my discrete music PC...my poor i7-870 was struggling to handle all the processing-heavy verby leads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexstyle Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 Ya made this on a freaking first-gen i7?!?!?!?! With OMNISPHERE? Bruh. This sounds good. Maybe get you a new PC that isn't almost old enough to drive a car though? :P Anyways, I'm loving that sixteenth-note bass and synth action here. Giving me flashbacks to the old Windows Pinball app for some reason. Mix is clean and the master is clear (great job, Kristina!). This takes the very organic source tune and really switches it into a space-age jam. A space jam, if you will. Hey, that's a pretty good name...someone oughta copyright that...hmm...anyways. No nits to really pick -- the arrangement is always moving somewhere, the sounds are pleasing to my ears, and that ritardando on the ending works really well. Can't wait to see this on the front page! YES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MindWanderer Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 It's not often we hear a demake from orchestral to electronica! Started off with some surprisingly retro sounds, but I quickly got into it. There's definitely a "rusty but getting back into it" vibe here: a classic toolkit but used expertly and to modern standards. Sounds great, no complaints. YES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emunator Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 The mixing on this is pretty brash and aggressive in a way that evokes old keygen music ? It's all clean as hell though, the pulsating bassline feels like a brain massage in a good way with how much clarity you have between all the elements in your mix. The drums are almost comically larger-than-life, but again, it works. In the hands of someone with less of a keen ear for mixing and frequency balance, this could have been a disaster but you stuck the landing! Great stuff man. YES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liontamer Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 This would sound perfect in a rhythm game. Definitely dug the melodic variations here, which kept going and going, feeling like a gradual but noticeable build in complexity for the writing. Fun theme by Andrew given a more futuristic inspiration by Brad! YES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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