So I'm doing musical stuff that will -hopefully- end up in the Jigsaw Memories Banjo-Kazooie remix album. Wish me luck.

I'm tired now. Going to probably take a few days off from this, and from there, just sort of sleep. Or something.

I'll probably have something new sometime later in the week. I want to play with organ arrangements now.

I'm going to be uploading all the pieces over the next few days, many of them are either remixed, arranged, or straight reorchestrations of the originals. I'll put up the first 5 or so today, then the next 5 tomorrow, so on and so forth.

2 weeks, 17 tracks in total, and all I need to do now is re-level the master volume on everything, relative to one another.

Each track was literally put together completely independant from one another, save for shared soundsets and all being on the same project file, so I'm going to be working this upcoming week to level everything so it's not "quiet here, ear-rape there".

Also played through Sweet Home again, just for the hell of it, and I put a lot of tracks together based on that experience.

For example, the "Encounter with Mamiya" theme is shortened significantly in this, mainly because, well... When it first plays in-game, the most I heard of it was the first theme and variation on the A section of the song, and there's a forced teleport before it even really went into the B section. That, and the actual "Final Battle" theme sounds rather boring and repetitive without the lead-in provided by the "Encounter with Mamiya" theme.

So tl;dr expect a couple songs popping in more than once, a few leitmotifs that weren't in the originals, some amount of arranging, and possibly even remixing of some tracks.

Side note: I need a new piano soundset. The one I have is annoying. It's high-quality and it really is a rather awesome set of Steinway piano recordings, but... the hight notes. A lot of hammer noises and a lot of hissing noises there. Tried to get rid of it without dulling the notes, and nothing works.

Also need to get a nicer set of pizzicato and non-pizzicato string soundsets. The ones I have are decent, but either they sound crap at high notes, are mis-timed on low notes, or slightly out of tune, and I don't have the patience to compensate for some of these issues.

Anyone have any suggestions for alternative plugins/soundfonts/sample libraries/etc?

Back on topic though. I'm thinking that once things are leveled, I'm going to gradually release each track one at a time, so it's not a solid upload dump, just to taunt whoever gives a shit about this stuff. Or I'll just dump it all on at once. I don't know, I'll figure it out next Friday I guess.

I've been moving rather quickly with this, but mostly because I'm trying my absolute hardest not to just run around and improvise and deviate.

Just to make a few things clear, I'm working with a few self-imposed restrictions:

1. Going to use only orchestral sounds for this. Strings, horns, harpsichords, organs, pianos, and some percussion instruments. No electric basses, guitars are almost... well, out, that can be debated, depends on who's doing the arrangement.

No, not even on the theme for the Second Floor. Pizzicato is my friend.

2. There will be some amount of improvisation, but only if the piece in question was that short or repetitive (only two exceptions to that: death sound, and level up.)

I really don't want to improvise to the point where I'm not even working with the song I was starting with. That's happened once before, and I blame my inability to do jazz-style rhythms. Resulted in an arpeggiated and insane weird thing that was MEANT to be the Seavet Submarine theme from U.N. Squadron. I'll probably upload it in a few minutes so people aren't left in the dark on this one.

3. Try and get as many done in a day as possible, without completely spewing a few notes on and saying 'done'.

So far I've done rather well in that regard, I've gotten 6 out of 19 songs done (6 out of 22 if you count the 'level up' and 'death' theme). I've gone back and listened to the ones I've done, they're all at the best possible quality I can muster with my current set of soundfonts and plugins, without destroying my computer.

1-hour render of time on average, I think I'm getting good at minimizing the footprint.

4. Specify one track for looping early on, release it as a preview to tease people.

Ok, fine, that's not really a restriction or a guideline, that's just me making you all wonder what it could be. Battle theme, perhaps? Maybe the First Floor theme? or perhaps even the Ending theme?

**UPDATE**
IT'S... not... a secret anymore!!!

I just uploaded the loop, the song in question, is, in fact, the Eastern Garden theme. The theme in question is extremely short-lived in the game, and as a result, I think many people overlook or don't really notice it, but I sort of really enjoyed that song the most out of most of them.

It has an extremely powerful melody to it, and it's one of the songs in this whole set that I'm expanding on and building up to, instead of making it into a straight transcription. There will be a few of those sorts of songs, where either I felt I didn't have enough to work with, or it was too short, or too repetitive...

Just as an example, the basement theme. I really disliked how it sounded like the chopped off ending of another song, and I'm certain that whatever arranged album or sountrack album the released for the game would probably clarify what exactly it was chopped from, but... I prefer to go straight from the in-game music, and I more or less constructed what I think might lead into the portion of the song you'd hear in-game.

So, in a nutshell: Loop uploaded, and everyone can look forward to (or dread) creative reinterpretation and expansion of a theme.

Well, it's a nice subject title, isn't it?

Of my own volition, I'm going to be doing a complete set of tracks, and I'm going to be absolutely sure that I remix/reorchestrate every single song in that game. It's more leaning on transcribe-and-reorchestrate, but either way, you probably know what I'm talking about.

For those of you who don't know it, Sweet Home is a game, made by Capcom in 1989, based off a 1989 movie of the same name. Both the game and movie were released simultaneously, and the film's director, Kiyoshi Kurusawa, oversaw development of the game. It's the first real 'survival horror' videogame, before the genre was really actually named, and served as the inspiration of Resident Evil, which was originally to be a remake of this epic RPG.

But anyway, go on Youtube, look it up, the movie's on youtube as well, if you're interested at all, as well as the Arranged Soundtrack (AST) and OST (though the OST was smashed together into a set of 3 videos... annoying, in my opinion.)

Hell, even the movie's soundtrack is on Youtube, so check that out as well. I won't be doing anything with that though. Well, I don't plan to, anyway.

But yeah.

tl;dr version: I am making complete remake of soundtrack for an old japan-only game based off a movie that you probably have never heard of.

Last note: Won't be uploading any of it until it's done.

Until next time,

-S.J.N.
"Mairujyat"

Back from MAGfest. And really damn insane on the last day, at least for me. Sort of burned out, not eager to type about it really. Anyway, uploaded two more of those eight-bit things. the last one should be soon, along with something that ISN'T eight-bit, so I'm not just sitting here with my synth stuff and having people think I deal exclusively in it.

I'm at MAGfest, and stuff. not too much to say. been here for a few days, only just now have an actual ROOM (as opposed to bouncing between rooms that I went through hell to get a space in). So now that I have a room for myself, I can sit down, and use my laptop. compose something. etc.

Anyway, if anyone else is here, then just look for a guy in a green/grey hat, ponytail, goatee/moustache combo, and thick blue jacket. that'd be me. Also feel free to punch me for destroying your ear-drums with eight-bit evil, or something. I dunno.

In case anyone stumbles on my work, and more importantly, wants to know what's with the generic titles and (so far) sort of okay-maybe-not-too-great music, compared to the Wizards and Warriors bit I put out at first...

I sort of have all that extra music sort of in a backlog, and I'm trying to get it posted up SOMEWHERE, so then at least, after all those are up, I can post things that aren't akin to stuffing your head into an NES.

I have like a few organ arrangements, some remixes of a few songs, some complete remasterings from way back when I still bothered transcribing music piece by piece from the audio, so I more or less have a lot of stuff I can put up later.

For now though, SPC: STG, until all 16 are uploaded.

Well... Not much to say here. Probably an introduction.

I'm Mairujyat. I compose music and sometimes remixes. I want to get into composing for games. Etc.

Favorite color is green. Favorite composer is Grant Kirkhope. Favorite flash animator is currently a tie between Egoraptor and Harry Partridge. Uhh...

Anything else... hmn... I do fencing? I fence. Swords. yeah. And I play video games. Zelda. Halo. CoD. Battlefield. anything. etc. Big Zelda fan.

...I suck at biographical information. xD

Anyway, still waiting for my first two submissions to be approved. It's been, what, 3 days? Hopefully they're approved by the end of the week. It'd really be nice if they'd get approved by Christmas.

Whatever. Anyway, peace, cya, whatever. No idea who's reading this, but yeah. Good luck and stuff with whatever the hell important stuff you're putting off doing. I mean really, only reason you're reading this single post is the waste time, right?