These are all really great. That's all I really have to say. You have done Mr. Hubbard's and Mr. Baldwin's music justice.
Oh, thank you. I am kinda annoyed that these covers are not more accurate though, but as I have said before I do not wish to work on a single cover for too long or tear out my hair, so I have to live with it.
Im_a_Track_Man wrote:
EDIT: and "mellow" is a hell of a lot better than anything I could ever write (delicious pulse switching BTW).
I would have to disagree, I think you write a whole lot better music than I could ever do. (I did not even realise I even did those pulse switches, I just did stuff that I thought would sound good.)
Im_a_Track_Man wrote:
(Also, I gave you some arps and made those trikicks a bit shorter and thumpier)
Regarding the arps, I did not want to use seperate instruments for them, but I probably should have used some cycle changes though. And I liked how the Rxy command sounded on regular arpeggios. ;D. But these arps sound great.
As mentioned in the comments on Mellow, I cannot make good sounding drums so I just knicked the ones that I liked, and those happened to be Neil Baldwin's fantasticly hard-hitting drums from Hero's Quest. I probably should learn how to create decent sounding ones myself. ;P
I quickly put together this edited version to see how duty cycle changes sounded with the arps that I used. I am kinda split on how it sounds. Maybe it sounds a little bit better, but I am not certain.
I also made another version with the edits you suggested (I just made the arpeggios a little bit faster). I am still not sure which one I like the most, your version, my original, my edited version or the last one.
Also, why does the attachments not like "-", capital letters or even spaces? It is kinda annoying.
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"Simple is always better. For something to sound simple, there has usually been a whole development cycle behind it." - David Wise
Mellow is a great track, have a little faith in yourself Love the triangle in this. Also I think your Arp2 version sounds best.
OMG that esper dream track.....It is all because of that exact song that I started using those DPCM drums. Been using them in my tracks for a while now. But I will change that so0n. Maybe.
+1 on the forums renaming the file names. very annoying.
I hope you guys and girls do not mind a little necro-bump.
I just submitted a slightly modified version of this song to the Summer Chip III competition hosted by BotB. So, I think it is appropriate for me to upload that version here, in the old thread.
If you want a reason why I would submit this song is because I just spontanously decided that I would enter it into a competition to see where people thought it deserved to be placed. I know the competition in this Summer Chip is absolutely crazy so I do not expect to get very high up but my curiousity got the better of me so here I am. Maybe I am very stupid for even trying to compete with the "big guys" but I did this for fun to see how absolutely massively stomped I will get.
I am horribly anxious to see where I place in this competition. My guess is somewhere around the low end, probably around the bottom 75%.
Good luck to all who entered!
EDIT: Link to the entry incase someone actually have urge to check it out on BotB.
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I have always been a curiously curious person.
(Sort of frequent mega poster here, beware!)
"Simple is always better. For something to sound simple, there has usually been a whole development cycle behind it." - David Wise
Hello again! (Sorry for bumping this thread once again :P)
Since I cannot edit the original post about entering "Mellow" into the BotB Summer Chip III competition I thought I might aswell tell you where it placed and my thoughts on the whole thing. (You can read a bit more here if you'd like.)
First of all, it placed 82nd out of 231 entries (top 35.5%?!) and got 17th out of 38 in the nsfplus category. Holy freaking donkey on a bicycle train, I never thought it would place so high up especially since it was only 2a03; I think almost every nsf song other than mine used some kind of expansion chip. I had no idea that people "liked" it that much.
Secondly, the voting, atleast in this compo, seemed very weird. Many of my favourite tunes placed waaaay too low, even lower than mine at times(!?!?), while seemingly troll-y and / or "bad" entries got positions very high up either due to them being made by a well-known artist or being "hilarious" in some way. Since I have not been around the community for a long time I cannot tell if this was just some random fluke or if this is actually how the results usually go. (I am probably obsessing over the rankings too much anyway. It's not like you win anything by placing higher or lower.)
I do not regret the "spur of the moment" decision I made after hearing commandycan's wonderful "Relic" on YT to enter this competition. Thanks to that pseudo-random decision I got introduced to the great community of BotB and it's irc. I also got more feedback on my song, which I did not get a lot of here, but that is my fault for bunching up an original with 4 mediocre covers.
I enjoyed this little thing, I would have even if I did not place as highly as I did. Congratulations to everyone who entered!
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I have always been a curiously curious person.
(Sort of frequent mega poster here, beware!)
"Simple is always better. For something to sound simple, there has usually been a whole development cycle behind it." - David Wise
Love the triangle in this. Also I think your Arp2 version sounds best. 
