Aug 27, 2015 at 9:27 AM
Join Date: Feb 2, 2013
Location: Canada
Posts: 620
Age: 29
Pronouns: she/her
After a couple days of deciding, I think I can say that the better entries of this group were "Boo Star", "Chivalry is Dead" and "Tpmalco". I will say this about the other themes/users in general though:
Overall, I'm just kind of curious as to the approach participants took when making their theme. Did anyone try to focus on character, or take their character's personality into account?
Ultimately I ended up voting for Tpcool and CookedChef's entries. I'm not even sure if Tpcool's fits the theme of Malco, but he completely sold me on it. A jazzed up entry makes any character look and sound good. CookedChef had a really simple, but well executed piece. It does feel a little empty, but I feel like it worked in the music's favour in reflecting loneliness, which seemed to be suiting for Momorin, at least for me.
Safu's entry had awesome accompaniment, but the melody seemed to be really drowned out from the moment it was introduced. I also feel like track 5's notes shouldn't have decayed so quickly, as it makes the notes seem all detached and the piece loses its flow. Track 6 at bar 16 also just makes the piece feel lost. But again, I do like the embellished notes and the intro with tracks 8 and 4 are just lovely stuff.
2DBro, you've got some all right ideas for themes. The lead for themes are all right, but to me they just seem like a start to a theme and don't have enough weight in them to make for a short loop. Consider experimenting more with extra voices and counterpoint.
hate9, the Curly theme is quite grating on the ears yes but I think the percussion is pretty decent. I find it interesting that you use Per01 as part of accenting the strong beat. Also, choosing Wave 00 for track 1 when you have a bunch of loud instruments taking the lead means it totally gets drowned out. When I set it something like Wave 66, then I can at least hear that part and the piece has some better pacing. But from what I gather, this was created when you thought you could only use the default instruments for making a mod?
As for your King theme, I like the idea of using a tremolo decay for the higher notes, but they definitely needed some different instruments. Additionally, do try using the Notes Volume (2) tool or messing around with volume enveloping for your lead.
Strangely enough, despite having clashing harmonies, ColdCallerloppy has a way of making them sound listenable. I'll admit "Death waltz" doesn't sound pretty, but it's not entirely grating on the ears. Part of that, I think, has to do with instrument choice. So yeah, I thought that was worth mentioning.
Uh PhantopCS' was interesting...a 317 is something I've never seen before. Also the repeat range is set from bar 8 to 48, yet you still have some sounds and those don't end until bar 10, leaving many measures of silence with occasional music looping. Not sure if that was intentional or not, but it was quite odd to me. As for the music itself, it was very scattered and sort of reminded me of a low range, less refined version of An Untitled Story's music unused StrangeCastle track.
Jpzarde's piece didn't have enough momentum in the beginning and not a strong enough lead to carry the lead. Which is a shame, because the last half of the piece is quite nice. It reminds me of "Scorching Back" a lot. But when the piece starts out so soft and introduces track 4, it comes too strong.
hate9, the Curly theme is quite grating on the ears yes but I think the percussion is pretty decent. I find it interesting that you use Per01 as part of accenting the strong beat. Also, choosing Wave 00 for track 1 when you have a bunch of loud instruments taking the lead means it totally gets drowned out. When I set it something like Wave 66, then I can at least hear that part and the piece has some better pacing. But from what I gather, this was created when you thought you could only use the default instruments for making a mod?
As for your King theme, I like the idea of using a tremolo decay for the higher notes, but they definitely needed some different instruments. Additionally, do try using the Notes Volume (2) tool or messing around with volume enveloping for your lead.
Strangely enough, despite having clashing harmonies, ColdCallerloppy has a way of making them sound listenable. I'll admit "Death waltz" doesn't sound pretty, but it's not entirely grating on the ears. Part of that, I think, has to do with instrument choice. So yeah, I thought that was worth mentioning.
Uh PhantopCS' was interesting...a 317 is something I've never seen before. Also the repeat range is set from bar 8 to 48, yet you still have some sounds and those don't end until bar 10, leaving many measures of silence with occasional music looping. Not sure if that was intentional or not, but it was quite odd to me. As for the music itself, it was very scattered and sort of reminded me of a low range, less refined version of An Untitled Story's music unused StrangeCastle track.
Jpzarde's piece didn't have enough momentum in the beginning and not a strong enough lead to carry the lead. Which is a shame, because the last half of the piece is quite nice. It reminds me of "Scorching Back" a lot. But when the piece starts out so soft and introduces track 4, it comes too strong.
Overall, I'm just kind of curious as to the approach participants took when making their theme. Did anyone try to focus on character, or take their character's personality into account?
Ultimately I ended up voting for Tpcool and CookedChef's entries. I'm not even sure if Tpcool's fits the theme of Malco, but he completely sold me on it. A jazzed up entry makes any character look and sound good. CookedChef had a really simple, but well executed piece. It does feel a little empty, but I feel like it worked in the music's favour in reflecting loneliness, which seemed to be suiting for Momorin, at least for me.
Safu's entry had awesome accompaniment, but the melody seemed to be really drowned out from the moment it was introduced. I also feel like track 5's notes shouldn't have decayed so quickly, as it makes the notes seem all detached and the piece loses its flow. Track 6 at bar 16 also just makes the piece feel lost. But again, I do like the embellished notes and the intro with tracks 8 and 4 are just lovely stuff.
I'm honored to have placed first, and it truly makes me feel special that so many people voted for my entry. I really mean it: seeing people like GIR (my inspiration for making ORGs in the first place) vote for my entry, as well as being able to beat Safusaka (who has many more years of musical experience under his belt) has helped me realize that I haven't wasted my time making so many ORGs in the past few years, and that I've really been improving.
