prophetik music Posted October 22, 2024 Posted October 22, 2024 updated version in submission thread This is remix started in 2012 for the original version. At that time I wasn't ready to produce proper Drum & Bass but I would periodicaly try my best. I never finished the song but I still liked it for a while. I pretty much don't remember anything precise about inspiration from that year. Fast forward today, I fired up the project in late 2023 to replace all the drum sound with my new knowledge of how Drum & Bass works and how to compress drum properly. I was still on the edge with this one so I completely removed the drumstep bridge in the middle to redo it and cut the last repeat of the song since it was repeating the first verse with nearly no variation. I got my Electric guitar and started jamming on the newly written drumstep part. I also used my new favorite plug-in, Rift, to add some flavour to my synth and expand the soundscape. Also this added various element you would find in a psytrance. After that I went back to the intro, added some more psytrance element and wrote a second bridge that bridges the first bridge and the last part (Yes 2 bridges before the comeback.). And this version sat on my drive for a while. Fast forward again to July-August 2024. I picked my guitar and added those crunchy riff all along and now I was satisfied with the result. Went back and forth in the workshop for some fresh listening of other people and applied the correction needed to this Final version. This remix took a while but the wait made this a really polished song compared to what it was 12 years ago. Never too late to finish a project! I hope you enjoy as much as I do. (By the way, master is loud.) Games & Sources Chrono Trigger - Schala's Theme
prophetik music Posted October 22, 2024 Author Posted October 22, 2024 (edited) classic original. opens with the iconic arpeggio in some glassy synths, and opens up with some harmonic elements and a nice broad synth pad with some automation and interesting cutoffs. some glitching to add complexity as well. the melody comes in soon after and has an exciting drum build under. immediately after that, we get a certified bruh moment: the added guitar work here is nice and the bass has some fun slides on it. there's a nice break with some really cool resonance artifacts in there at 1:47. right after we get a big half-time original section that feels good and mean for a bit, before another break with some more sound design going on until 2:50 kind of gets back to the driving beat. i like the idea of having the bass on sixteenths but the drums on half-time. this whole middle two minutes of chopping back and forth is a great energy driver and feels great from a build perspective. and then we get the payoff at 3:33, and it's hair-raising, just what you wanted after all that up and down. it's really hard not to bob your head in this section. there's some odd choices around chords around 4:01 (but i like the changes to the melody there). 4:20 starts what feels like some descending action, and we truck through some chord progressions - but then it just ends? not prepared, not anything, it honestly feels like there's something wrong or we got an unfinished track. the cymbal crash is even clipped. this was a slam dunk until the last five seconds. there's no way we can post this with this ending. at least give it a sustain or hit the root or do a drum fill into it. what's here sounds incomplete. NO edit 10/25: the last 30s got a rework and there's more of an expected shape to the ending now. it's at least intentional now. it's enough for me. YES Edited October 25, 2024 by prophetik music
Liontamer Posted October 25, 2024 Posted October 25, 2024 FYI, I've only listened to the revised version. Something about the balance feels off. The guitar adds clutter to me, BUUUUUT, it's not a great sound as is, so you actually wouldn't want it more exposed. I still feel your dNb beat writing's missing some sophistication in how it's produced and the core snare pattern (first at 1:04) still sounds plodding. Forgive me for not being able to articulate it well; it feels like the way it's mixed makes the writing seem more simplistic than it is. Maybe another J will be able to glean where I'm coming from and/or reference some good genre examples to listen to. The writing from 3:59-4:05 sounds off-key; it kinda, sorta resolves, so I'll live, but it's still off, so I would rather it got tweaked before we posted. Regardless, the arrangement's strong, and I really enjoy the creativity of the "Schala" melodic treatment as well as most of the other instrumentation choices. YES
Flexstyle Posted October 26, 2024 Posted October 26, 2024 (edited) I do love me a good DnB track, especially with electric guitars added in. This one hits all my happy points: memorable source? Check. Good interpretation of that source? Check. Simple-yet-effective genre execution? Check. Guitars and EDM combined? Check. Loud but tight master? Check. also bonus points for the lazy anagram name, I approve. See you on the front page! YES Edited October 26, 2024 by Flexstyle
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