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Hi. I've come here mainly to show off some chiptunes which will be included in my own Mega Man fangame. Whilst Youtube is nice for praise, noone on there gives me the professional-ish criticism that I need. So, for my first act, I nervously present thee with the first three themes I composed for this game (attachments).
I'd luuurrve it if you took the time to give me some C+C on each song (or just one or two, whatever floats your floatation device).
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[quote=iGotno_scope]im going to continue making this crazy stuff then after a while my style will be so sick that you will be like damn suuun that shit is so sick i dont even get it. i will be like bro its ok.. you dont have to.[/quote]
[quote=InterrobangPie]Hi. I've come here mainly to show off some chiptunes which will be included in my own Mega Man fangame.[/quote]
Ignite Man is used in Mega Man: Time Tangent and Polar Man is used in a currently unnamed project that is split from Time Tangent, and then I doubt that another fangame also uses Trick Man. Rename them!
[quote=InterrobangPie]Whilst Youtube is nice for praise, noone on there gives me the professional-ish criticism that I need.[/quote]
Youtubers betray their ears. Here is something that you often see:
"this note is wrong, that note is wrong, the whole song is quite inaccurate"
posted by user2
1 week ago
7 thumbs down
"oh sorry i think my ears deceived me, it is actually 100% accurate, it is one of the most accurate works done in famitracker, user1 you are god"
posted by user2
3 days ago
18 thumbs up
@user2: "never mind, thanks"
posted by user1
22 hours ago
[quote=InterrobangPie]I'd luuurrve it if you took the time to give me some C+C on each song (or just one or two, whatever floats your floatation device).[/quote]
The vibratos... they are not executed properly for Mega Man-style songs. This is not Mega Man 1, so delay a bit before using 4xy. And similarly, avoid using vibrato on the triangle channel!
There needs bigger variation on the duties (Vxx effect). Trick Man is very dull with V00 throughout the song, although that could be just me.
And Polar Man's percusion and bass lines are weird for Mega Man-style songs.
RE: Attempted Mega Man-ish OriginalsPosted: 2010-12-23 18:54
[quote=nicetas_c]Ignite Man is used in Mega Man: Time Tangent and Polar Man is used in a currently unnamed project that is split from Time Tangent.[/quote]
Pah, I got there first. Back in my day Mex's RMs included a Nova Man.
[quote=nicetas_c]The vibratos... they are not executed properly for Mega Man-style songs. This is not Mega Man 1, so delay a bit before using 4xy. And similarly, avoid using vibrato on the triangle channel![/quote]
I didn't know what you meant by this until I relistened to Cut Man's theme - that triangle does sound extremely wierd. However I think it's only Cut Man's theme that suffers from this, the other themes in that game are clean.
[quote=nicetas_c]And Polar Man's percusion and bass lines are weird for Mega Man-style songs.[/quote]
Do you mean the triangle channel or a bit of the Sq1/2? I must say that the only MM I remember that does an alternate octave bassline like that is Crash Man's, and thats only for a very small section. Also, could you explain how the percussion sounds odd?
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[quote=iGotno_scope]im going to continue making this crazy stuff then after a while my style will be so sick that you will be like damn suuun that shit is so sick i dont even get it. i will be like bro its ok.. you dont have to.[/quote]
Hey, nice to have you here. You're absolutely right about the majority of YT criticism and I hope you'll find the criticism more constructive here.
I do quite like Ignite Man and Polar Man's themes. I think Polar Man's theme would work nicely as a Mega Man Gameboy-style track.
One thing I could recommend is to experiment more with the triangle, particularly with note cuts. At the moment the constant, unpausing triangle notes are kind of washing over your songs with little effect. Some variety in the bass (in terms of note lengths) would make your songs more interesting.
One more thing I'd recommend is perhaps trying to create some more dedicated percussion instruments than just 'Short' and 'Snare'. A kick instrument and an open/closed hat would help to give the percussion a boost.
But I'm liking the melodies you've been coming up with so far. You've certainly got potential.
I'm the worst person to talk technical about a song since I don't know any of the correct terms but here it goes:
The songs sound quite good, except I think it's missing something that makes it a Mega Man-style tune. I think some of the songs are styled a bit more like the 16-bit and 32-bit MM games instead of the 8-bit ones. It seems like it's missing... er... a... guitar solo-type... main instrument........
[quote=KuroBit]It seems like it's missing... er... a... guitar solo-type... main instrument........[/quote]
I do think you mean an obligatory 50% duty solo with echo. It's in just about every [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELfru0vq_C4]Wily [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_UPDQYsGGQ]Stage [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpX-X3MB8Iw]theme [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFKtYCcMWT4]ever (okay, so that third one isn't 50% duty pagusdjgfosmvsritie4t).
I tried putting my songs into Mex's FTM to see how that would sound. Now I'm beginning to think it's the songs that aren't Mega Man-y, not the instrument set.
Regardless, I studied Mex's FTM a little bit more and made a new instrument set of my own (plus a demo song thing). I like how the triangle came out in this one - I might use that in the future...
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[quote=iGotno_scope]im going to continue making this crazy stuff then after a while my style will be so sick that you will be like damn suuun that shit is so sick i dont even get it. i will be like bro its ok.. you dont have to.[/quote]
EDIT: Just noticed that ftm. An edit so simple yet it sounds unbelievably awesome. <3
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[quote=iGotno_scope]im going to continue making this crazy stuff then after a while my style will be so sick that you will be like damn suuun that shit is so sick i dont even get it. i will be like bro its ok.. you dont have to.[/quote]
A WIP regurgitation of Ignite Man. It sounds a lot better than the old one now, but I'm still not sure that it's Mega Man-ish enough yet.
EDIT: Also Mex, could you shorten that rage to just one 'F'? Page stretching isn't funny anymore.
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[quote=iGotno_scope]im going to continue making this crazy stuff then after a while my style will be so sick that you will be like damn suuun that shit is so sick i dont even get it. i will be like bro its ok.. you dont have to.[/quote]
The current iteration of the theme lacks direction. There's no clear climax of the song that it's building up towards, so it sounds less like a Megaman song and more like a general platformer song. Not a bad song, just needs somewhere to go.
Instead of doing an exact cover of an individual song, I tried to cover several D.D. songs as accurately as I could (note-wise) and then squeeze 'em together. I think it flows pretty good and I wanted to put more in but I kinda lost interest. So I guess this is unfinished.
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