Day 9: Tension by Inspector K
Once again guys, we apologize for the loss of scores on the previous 8 days + Coat Czech. What it really comes down to is that we knew how amazing everyone one of those songs were… so we wanted to make sure you all played them at least one more time. 
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Tonight’s song is our second release by famed ITG artist Kyle Ward. Tension is released under his Insector K alias, but he is the same guy as Smiley, who did Delirium. The stepchart is by Kit-, and is fairly straight forward at 180bpm stream and just under 1000 notes in 1:56. I’d rate it a mid 4.5. Nothing at all compared to TOMORROW’s file. Muh haha. Then days 11 and 12 are special.
We also felt that Tension was appropriate for tonight, given that we’re all quite tense in our anticipation for that new server tomorrow. Will be such a blessing without all of those Server Overloaded messages.
Enjoy and happy times,
Tass & his 3 cats, Pixel (the fats one), Corey (the boy cat), and Maya (the rat).
Twelve Days of FFRmas.. Wash, Rinse and Repeat.
Yes, it’s true.. Synthlight made a mistake this afternoon trying to shuffle files around on the server. Score records from 12 days of FFRmas have been reset. Tass is working to re-enter the top scores that we know of. This problem stems from the clever and sometimes not so clever ways we try to extend our capability on site. 
The good news is that the new server is on it’s way and arrives tomorrow afternoon. During the afternoon I will be down at the datacenter setting things up and relieving our growing pains.
If you want to look at this in a good way, you have a better chance of being in the top 10 scores for now. 
Cheers,
Synthlight + Please get here Mr. FedEx truck with our server.
Day 8: January’s Song by The Fat’s Sabobah
Yes, today’s song is called January’s Song. We’re quite aware that it’s not January yet, but we’re putting this song out anyway in…anticipation.
The song is by The Fat’s Sabobah, known on FFR as forum moderator and long-time FFR vet jewpinthethird. Last night’s song took a nosedive in difficulty from Day 6′s song, and we’ll be somewhat gradually climbing back up again in difficulty, as you can see from tonight’s song–it’s around a 3/3.5 on the 6-point scale, using some jump-step 8th patterns and 16th bursts, although at a rather low BPM. The steps are by jimerax, and they’re as fun to play as all of jimerax’s files are.
The song can be found in Misc. Why Misc again? Tass and I feel that Dance is getting rather long, and that it’s better to have a couple bigger genres then a lot of tiny genres and one gigantic, 10+ page genre.
Anyway, have fun with January’s Song.
Merry FFR’ing,
Weathering the Storm
For the next hour, multiplayer and profile chat will be down while we try to keep system load under control. We appreciate your patience.
Cheers,
Synthlight
Day 7: See You Dance by Star Salzman
A mere 4 AAA’s on last night’s song. Told you it would be the toughest so far. But be warned…it’s definitely not the hardest of the 12 Christmas songs
Today’s song is another song by Star Salzman, who also did the FFR Misc song Platypus. As Tass said yesterday, we’re taking a break from our steadily increasing difficulty to bring you a song that’s nearly as easy as Day 1′s song: See You Dance. Like Day 1′s relatively easy Christmas song, See You Dance is also stepped by dore, and is around a 2 on the 6-point scale, employing nothing harder than a scattered few 16ths and some longer 8th runs. It should be a fairly simple FC for almost anyone, and an easy AAA for any of the vets. You can find See You Dance in the top left corner of the Misc section.
(Tass has had a bit of a long day today, so I’m doing today’s news post instead, for anyone who’s curious).
Happy FFR’ing,
Day 6: Classical Insanity by DM Ashura
I gave everyone a clue in the FFR General Talk thread… but it would appear nobody noticed. Classical Insanity is an awesome mix by our favorite remixer in the whole wide world, DM Ashura. And of course… stepped by everyone’s favorite stepfile artist (except for EHHS, GGC, etc etc etc) Shashakiro. 1 part Revo, 1 part Moonlight Sonata, 1 part Rondo, 1 part HD5, 1 part B-Virus, 1 part FotBB (and 3 other not as cool parts because they aren’t seperate files in FFR… yet) = Classical Insanity, for sure.
Definitely a solid 5 on the difficulty chart between long streams at 175bpm (few jumpstream) and those DREADED running men. Will be difficult for the average FFRer to even pass and the great FFRer to FC. Don’t expect a AAA unless your name is Shash, Baha, JX, or scottish (maybe a few other uber FFRers). Although, we’ve steadily gone up in difficulty over the past 6 days… tomorrow we go back down to the easy file; the cake AAA.
Oh yea. It is located in Classical (duh). 3rd row, middle.
Enjoy the insanity,
Day 5: {Firestorm} by cornandbeans
OK guys… I want you to go HERE right now. What is it, you ask? It is cornandbeans‘ music page. All of you need to listen to his stuff, that is how good it is. {Firestorm} is an Ethnic Techno / House song that has a very unique sound to it. It is stepped by newcomer Silvuh, who I don’t know very well, but it just goes to show… you don’t need to be an FFR God or a forum regular with 5000 posts to get your stepfile onto FFR. Once again, you can find the file in the lower left hand corner of Dance (expect a few non-Dance in the next couple of days, I promise!).
Also, expect a few more of cornandbeans’ songs appearing in FFR over the next few weeks. You can read and post comments about his songs in this thread. If you are interested in stepping a song for FFR, please read the information in this thread.
This file continues the trend of each file being more difficult than the one before. It is 2:38 long and has 1010 arrows. A 4.5 on the 6.0 scale, IMO. Basically… we’ve gone from 100+ AAAs on Come With Me to 58 on Horizon to 38 on Kick It to 9 on Palindrome… I’d be shocked if we have more than 5 or 6 on {Firestorm} after 48 hours.
Until we repeat this dance again tomorrow night,
Fluent Chinese?
If anyone reading this speaks / writes fluent Chinese and English, please send Synthlight a PM.
Cheers,
Synthlight
Day 4: Back to Sanxion7
Since everyone liked Horizon so much, we’re giving you another shot of Sanxion7. Palindrome is yet another very unique sound. On Sanxion’s website, he says that the song is inspired by TaQ, and it does have a bit of a TaQ sound.
This file is also pretty unique, and I hope we don’t have that strong of a negative reaction to it. It is EXTREMELY repetitive, but it is done that way on purpose to fit the song. Personally, I like the way our 1st Lady of FFR, Kit-, stepped it… but I can also see how some people wont’ like it. My advice: make sure your right arrow isn’t broken; you’re going to need it in this file.
You can find it in the lower left hand corner of Dance. I’d say that it is a 3.0 or 3.5, although definitely harder to FC and AAA because of the 32nds.
Discuss it here. Brag about it here.
I’m running out of stuff to say in these daily news posts,
