Originals

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feels unfinished as theres a bit of a lack of content, but whats there sounds good

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oooooooooooooooooooooooAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA MY HEEEAAAAAARTTTTTTTTTT
GOD DAMN man, this shit is crazy good; the DnB drums are a solid 10/10 already, but my god man, this song just feels great to listen to, the bass and trumpet especially is goddamn FUNKY as all hell, hooooooooly shiet man

Jazzy yeeeee, happy that we get some new good jazzy SNES music! Cool composition and arrangement, especially that breakdown, love that!! One piece of critique though, is that when the key hits the tonic (f+, if you tuned your instruments to C), the bass has an out-of-place note every time, namely a d. You could make it work by making it a blue note, doing a walk from c+ to d+ with a short stop at d inbetween, but as such the note clashes with the chords. I think your sample selection, and usage of the samples, is superb (though, I think the ADSR on the piano chords could be a bit more snappy!), and the loop is neat and tidy.

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Damn this is nice

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really not a fan of that kick sample, and mix is rather thin, but composition is very cute and nice and good

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Ooooooooh, this one is quite nice; was expecting this to be the Owl City song, but then I remembered this is the originals section lmao
This one sounds quite happy and upbeat, like something from Kirby mixed with some 90s demoscene goodness, and honestly I just love the vibes from this haha

Cool composition, nice and bright, which contrasts in a funny but neat way with the lo-fi ish instrumentation and the slightly shimmery, unstable pitch of the song (I absolutely love the pitch in this, marvelous job). There are some volume leveling issues though (channel #4 at 0:39 is very loud), and most glaringly, in the intro the bass has bass, but the main loop's bass has no bass! I'll say that listening to the loop for a while has me feeling like the piece could work with that lo-fi ish low-end lacking sound, but it doesn't combine with a bass in the intro that *doesn't* have that. At that, I love the loop.

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The mix sounds really flat, but if the mixing was better I would easily rate this really high.

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This was an accident on my part. I accidentally sent an unreleased Kung Fu Furby: The Game song that I had ported over using Secret of Mana samples (I also have a version with more original samples). Thus, I never planned this, and thus it's actually frozen in time in 2012, as that's how old it is (and the original, which is not a SNES song, is from late 2011). And if you're wondering something else... I had originally planned this for SNESology, but ended up abandoning the idea after making a few songs with pre-made sample sets (albeit with me ripping them straight out of SPC files rather than using soundfonts). As for why I submitted this in the first place? To blend in, since I have some savviness in how to ensure I don't get ratted out too quickly. On that note, this actually pre-dates an actual port that I did in 2014 of the same song, and was normally split into three parts (this is the only one where those three parts were combined).

this rules

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The intro almost made this think this was going to turn into Wind Scene from Chrono Trigger lmao
Well, this is not bad at all actually, tho if there's one thing I can say is that the echo can get quite overbearing, especially when the piano hits those high notes, but outside of that, it's quite pleasa-------- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaand suddenly it goes into
goddamn Touhou levels of epic LMAO, allllllright then :V

The composition is pretty cool, it has a good sense of progression to it! I think the samples are good too (one of the best piano samples that I've heard), and volume leveling is done well. I do have a few points of critique, firstly the echo. It is, *incredibly* dubby, as in, the feedback is crazy high. It has a nice effect in places, but it has a really strong resonance to it that isn't too pleasant, and messes with some instruments that I'd like to hear better, especially so in the second half, but generally everywhere. Maybe consider adding a filter, or lowering the feedback, or inverting one of the left or right echo volume bytes to make it "surround". On that note, the stereo image isn't very satisfying; aforementioned byte inversion could help, but I think it's better if you did more with panning. You have a fitting arrangement for it.

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Little wonky but otherwise okay. I thought the intro was gonna turn into Wind Scene from Chrono Trigger.

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composition isnt too bad, but i really dont like the choice of instrumentation. tho - without trying to come off as rude - it feels a bit.. untrained. that is - i think you need to work on making your melodies fit with your chords and harmonies better. as it stands it falls a bit flat because it sounds like a bunch of uncooperating layers each trying to do their own thing

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Neat. Cute little composition. The stereo image and volume leveling are very fresh, and the samples are nice and clean.

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I like this one

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i enjoy the dissonance. i just wish it developed more

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Hmm, quite a interesting song here; I like the feel of this very much, it's kinda like a more atmospheric version of Mining Melancholy from DKC2; not bad at all, tho it doesn't really suits my tastes all that well, sorry :P

I liked the composition pretty well up to 1:16, where the new instruments on channels #4 and #5 came in and clashed *hard* with the chords; they tonally don't work well at all. Now, I really love how you wrote the loop, has a great sense of direction to it. Your stereo image is gorgeous too, with nice panning, echo and faux-echo. I also think the sample selection is pretty good! One more thing to change is the volume on the first snare, it's a bit too sudden. I'm sorry I couldn't give this a passing score, I *really* hope you fix #4 and #5, because this has great potential! I'd likely have upped it to about an 8 if those channels were in key!

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Really nicely done

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not a fan. feels very aimless

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Hmm, I quite like the echo volume modulation here actually, quite an interesting effect to use for this, the composition itself is kind of crap tho, I don't think this really has a very strong direction on where it's going to, and only the bongos really make me feel like this is a desert, while the monotone lead really drags this down by quite a bit
I'd say this could be better if it was more fleshed-out tho, but it's not too bad, just feels very... incomplete to me :V

The percussion sets a nice tone, really like that. It's a bold move to go for such lonely melodies, but unfortunately I'd say they're too directionless to make it work. The idea is definitely there though. I'd say keep experimenting with it!

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Not bad at all. Good job

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weird insturments

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This one is a tiiiiiny bit better than the last one, but still very amateur-ish; sorry, but this still isn't quite good to me :(

Neat! The chord progression has some quirky standoffish bits, but for the most part has a good progression to it. I love the sample usage, but I do have to critique it on being very centered on the lower and mid frequencies, which makes this song a bit muddy. I'm not saying that this piece needs to have more going on in the high-end (though some sparkle wouldn't be misplaced I think), just try and be creative about un-muddying the mix :) really nice sound.

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Ew

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A literal last-hour entry, and that was with the extension. I created it as a surprise by using a genuine copy of the N-SPC sound driver, porting it over to asar, then porting over a prototype I made in Schism Tracker (although the N-SPC song got started first: I just got carried away and ended up making the entire song in the prototype). Next time, I should consider hacking the sound driver to account for key off situations and get a little more polish on some of those samples... I was also considering adding on echo outside of the ending, but I abandoned the idea due to memory and time constraints due to finishing the port just before the deadline.

doesnt do too much but this kind of song doesnt rly need to. mix is a bit cluttered

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Hmm....... sorry, but this one is a bit too boring for me; seems like it wants to build up into something greater, but it just kinda... doesn't??? The part after 2:00 is quite nice tho actually, but still a bit too long of a buildup for me... hmm, actually no, wait, is it still going?????? hmm, quite interesting... it keeps building up more and more, without ever wanting to end--- ah, I see it now, it does indeed build up eventually, but it's way after the SPC's length ends... I think this gives me quite a good idea on who may have made this actually, only them would make super long songs that make you feel like you're embarking on a great odyssey through the cosmos haha; ngl, this was a great one indeed, was quite a experience :P

The gentle smallness is executed really well. I'm rather fond of the composition. I do think the main melody on channel #0 lacks character (some ADSR, and/or a gentle vibrato, would've helped a ton). I also think that the main chords are a bit too muddy, so I'd rethink the choice of notes (I think it could prove hard to keep the chords un-muddy at this low an octave with 4 notes; perhaps removing a note could be good enough). Stereo-wise I would've loved at least an echo, which I think this song could use very well (a long delay time would be cool if you can make it fit in the ARAM, that sounds really exciting for this song), or at least some panning. Especially the instruments that you've doubled in channels could use some panning. Nice work, interested to hear what more you will do with this, if anything!

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Really weak sounding. Could benefit from softer ADSR, better mixing, echo and maybe some GAIN on Channel 1

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This was originally made in 2014 for a theoretical Manchester Beat soundtrack featuring a remix of the actual NES song (found in Cover 006) as part of a wider Action 52 remix project I was planning to give the entire collection their own soundtracks for theoretical games, 4 tracks minimum. See also Original 010, which is part of the Manchester Beat soundtrack. There's one track not included because something major was never added on to it.

i like this better than the cover version, still not hitting my CCOooL VibE bone though

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Just like the other entry, it's............... quite a nice beat indeed LMAO

Hey, this sounds familiar. First, a question; how is cover006 a cover, but this isn't? I'm not familiar with this Manchester Beat, but it's a bit odd. Either way, doesn't matter. I'll start with recapping that like cover006, the main stab on channel #2 (src: 04 and 05, mostly 05) is tuned a bit too flat. This does have a better stereo image. I really dig the lopsided groove you got going here, works really well with the stab sample and bass. Some samples could've done well to be treated less plainly, like the square lead (src: 08); could've used some vibrato, tremolo, *something* to give it more body, more character.

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All I can say is that I find this one interesting

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This was originally made in 2014 for a theoretical Manchester Beat soundtrack featuring a remix of the actual NES song (found in Cover 006) as part of a wider Action 52 remix project I was planning to give the entire collection their own soundtracks, 4 tracks minimum. See also Original 007, which is part of the Manchester Beat soundtrack. There's one track not included because something major was never added on to it.

this is p good actually but i want a full song :(

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Hmm, quite a good game over theme actually, suits it's purpose very well... Tho it's not a good choice for a contest song at all lol

Alright, short and sweet! I am really fond of the instrumentation and arrangement in this fanfare! The volume curves on the chord synths are really nice. I love the way you've written the bass.

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More or less okay

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By my own admittance, this had some similarities to Dusk Horizon (a Summer Chip IX entry on Battle of the Bits), at least that's what I thought.

i dont get it :(

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Uhh, alright...??? This doesn't sound nearly as dissonant as before, but the way the song goes up and down in speed like that is quite... random, I should say... Sorry, but I'm really not feeling this one ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Woah there, Mario's on steroids! I like the dynamic volume leveling you got going on. I think I like your intentions with this song, but I'd say this is a bit *too* restless, at least in the sense that it comes at the cost of a clear direction in the song.

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Big meh

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i actually really love the dissonance in this one lol. still feels like it doesnt completely know what its doing but this is legit something i oculd listen to for a while and not get bored of. i wish it was longer also the steel drum is too LOUD At the END

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Hmm... I don't think I like this very much... It feels icy, that's for sure, but there's WAYYYYYYYYYY too much goddamn dissonance in this, and none of it seem to be very coherent and just kinda "random", like the product of someone's first port or composition... Sorry, but I can't really enjoy this :V

Aaaaaalright hmm, I'll start with a positive. Instrumentation is nice, and the mixing is pretty well done. The reason I'm scoring this one pretty low is because of the tonality of this song. There is not a clear direction that the song goes, and it doesn't ever find any closure or otherwise explains itself, and I think that's not a good thing for this song. Sounds like you're pretty new to composing, so I'll be sure to tell you, that's alright, it really takes a lot of time before you get a good grip on that, so I definitely recommend you to keep at it! I'll also say, most people would jump to say "start by studying some music theory," and while learning music theory can in some cases definitely be very useful, especially the longer it's gotten to develop and settle in your memory, I'd only recommend you do that once you actually *want* to. If you don't want to, I encourage you to wait with that, just keep working. It's a great tool if you *want* to use it! Also, nice tempo fade at the end of the loop, don't hear that often!

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Sounds like the person who made this is musically inept. Sounds so wack.

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Guessing EnigmoreSFC for an artist.

i could see this working decently with better sampling and a bit better compositional experience

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...well then.

I'd suggest experimenting a *lot* with intervals and chords, really listen for harmonic relationships that work and don't work. I'll say that I like what you did with the percussion, but the tonality of this piece needs a lot of work as it is. Keep experimenting!

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Neat

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this is uh. very all over the place. almost feels like its randomly generated

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Welp, nothing much to say about this one... it sounds bad that's for sure, and also hella fucking incoherent; those super fast staccato notes really aren't good at all, and it just sounds funny, but not in a good way sadly :(

There are some nice ideas in this, but the general execution is... messy, disorienting in a not-good way. Keep at it!

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Sounds like someone tried to mimick a Pokemon Battle theme in 2009