Astral Body :: FFR Batch Submission
jacobvl39 - Astral Body - Between The Buried And Me [6.75 / 10]
Aug/Sept 2022
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This one's a bit of a marathon, very different from anything else I've charted

Simfile Folder Name

Astral Body (jacobvl39)

Note Count

2802

Chart Length

5:02

Average NPS

9.5904

Estimated Difficulty

77.44

First Note

0:10

Ending Note Delay

0:01

Hand Bias

x -8

Framers

0 - 0 1 - 0 2 - 1 3 - 2 4 - 316

Jumps

x 536

Hands

x 196

Quads

x 2

Color Jumps

x 37

Color Hands

x 50

Color Quads

x 0

Most notes in:

1/3 of a Second
9 - 27.00 nps 0.5 Seconds
12 - 24.00 nps 1 Second
21 - 21.00 nps 2 Seconds
39 - 19.50 nps 5 Seconds
77 - 15.40 nps 10 Seconds
136 - 13.60 nps 30 Seconds
382 - 12.73 nps 1 Minute
739 - 12.32 nps

Color Count

x 1051 (37.51%)
x 732 (26.12%)
x 158 (5.64%)
x 554 (19.77%)
x 117 (4.18%)
x 43 (1.53%)
x 0 (0%)
x 12 (0.43%)
x 135 (4.82%)

Largest Note Gaps

4.5s3s2.5s1.93s1.27s1.13s1.07s0.97s
35
28
21
14
7

Cleaned up layering, added some "fun" color theory

A new chart file was uploaded with the following changes:
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Note Count changed: 2697 => 2775
AVG NPS changed: 9.23103 => 9.498
Hand Bias changed: -41 => -27

Various patterning improvements

A new chart file was uploaded with the following changes:
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Note Count changed: 2775 => 2802
AVG NPS changed: 9.498 => 9.59042
Hand Bias changed: -27 => -8

Astral Body (jacobvl39) [6.5/10]

PERMS OK
SYNC PARTIALLY OK

19.153-19.835: By this point, it's already confusing as to what's supposed to be layered in this intro. In this little bit the drums are layered, but clear notes such as 16.153, 16.563, 17.790, etc are not.

20.790-21.744: The drum flams are pretty clear here at 20.835 and 21.381. Could be nice to include them for variety. Although this would have big implications on the rest of the chart.

45.063-45.881: Inconsistent with 27.608.

1:00.199: Would suggest moving this to col 1 and changing the preceding hand to (234).

1:23.790: Jump. Actually the layering in this section is a bit confusing. Thought the jump went to crashes but doesn't seem like it.

1:32.121: Not really justified. Quite spiky and the PR allows for having this on column 4 for example.

1:44.173: Would be nice to have this and the following 16th be the same jack.

1:57.060 & 1:57.196 & 2:03.469 & 2:03.605: Missing guitar notes. While they are definitely subtle, the straight 16ths are the same and 32nds would add variety.

1:59.719: See 1:44.173.

2:09.810: Missing single at least.

2:12.264 & 2:18.810: 32nds here, not 24ths.

2:42.104: Missing note.

3:01.979-3:02.429: Wrong quantizations. See 3:10.679.

3:14.129: On the other hand, this one isn't correct either: it's three 16ths starting at 3:14.279.

3:18.089-3:39.321: There are quite a few jacks resulting from the color theory here which don't really fit the song. Changing some of the jumps could allow for a bit less of those while keeping PR mostly intact.

3:34.916: Missing 16th around here.

3:41.321 & 3:43.167 & 3:45.013: Missing color theory notes.

3:39.471: Missing note.

3:54.007: Missing note.

4:13.173 & 4:13.673: Not even jumps??

4:45.173: Ending is off by a whole 32nd (~72ms).

This is a respectable approach at a relatively complex marathon song. Unfortunately, there is a significant amount of cleanup to do, some of which is not trivial. Playability wise it's pretty good and reflects the song's intensity well. Would highly suggest giving this one a thorough look and cleanup because it has good potential.

Astral Body (jacobvl39) [7/10, CQ/FR*]
>Perms, metadata, sync good

8.313 - Sounds closer to 8.290. It’s currently a 96th too late
9.335 - Should be hand. Compare 22.426
12.335-12.472 - Should be jump. Compare 8.244-8.653
16.017-18.335 - Not stepping the kick drum too?
17.517-18.608 - These are fine as hands since the Hi-Hat is accompanying the snare
27.608/27.881 - Should be jump. Snare
28.153 - Should be single. No snare
29.157 - Should be hand. CymbalCrash
34.835-35.517 - Fill the kick drum?
42.881 - Move to [1] for better PR
45.199/49.017 - Should be jump. This snare is loud compared to 45.063
50.790 - Why no hand?
51.355-52.426 - This part sounds similar to 50.244-51.199, but it has anchors for some reason?
55.426-55.563 - No minijack? Compare 54.881/55.972
58.153-58.699 - Mind the anchor
1:00.063-1:00.199 - I suggest changing this from [134]2 to [234]1 for better snare PR (first single isn’t part of the minijack)
1:09.063 - Could make this a jump
1:19.972-1:24.335 - Why are some of the blue notes jumps?
1:37.900-1:38.037/1:53.446-1:53.582/1:59.992-2:00.128/2:11.446-2:11.582/2:17.992-2:18.128 - See note/logic on 1:00.063-1:00.199
1:44.582 - I suggest moving this to [4]
1:47.855 - Why jump?
1:50.173/1:51.264 - Why single?
2:05.446 - Should be jump. Compare 2:05.719
2:07.219-2:07.901/2:09.946-2:10.355 - Fix PR
2:12.264-2:12.537/2:18.810-2:19.082 - Technically 32nds
2:26.300 - I suggest changing this from [34] to [24] since it’s not part of the snare jack
2:27.929 - Move to [4] since it’s not part of the snare jack
2:38.129/2:41.579 - Should be [13]. Compare 2:32.879
2:54.479 - No jump?
3:18.089-3:46.090 - The white notes didn’t need to be white notes. Nothing special about the guitar noise being emphasized. Looks weird when compared to the rest of the file. Also why didn’t the white notes extend up to 3:47.937, where there was more of the guitar noise?
3:25.474 - Why hand? Would’ve expected 3:27.013 to be the hand noise
3:47.783-3:49.673 - Fix PR. The descent could be better
4:27.173 - Should be single. It’s neither a syllable of the vocal “freely”, nor an echo of the vocal “freely”
4:38.173-4:39.923 - Should be all singles here. It’s all drumroll and no vocals.
*4.45.173-4:59.837 - Based on the sync of the 4ths, this entire section is off by a 32nd

>>The layering and PR needs more polishing. CQ/FR* for minor sync issue near the end