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Mairujyat
I blap out a music. woahhhhhhhhh
Sometimes I do audio for games I guess too.
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Update on my progress with Sweet Home: Reorchestrated **LOOP UPLOADED**

Posted by Mairujyat - May 1st, 2012


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.


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Battle theme.