Re: Songs of the Week (May 11, 2013)
I will now remember the song as the song of the puppet man.
I will now remember the song as the song of the puppet man.
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Re: Songs of the Week (May 11, 2013)
Simple =/= Bad
Also, it's certainly more entertaining than sleep or fractured. I'd rather play DMB.
I would like to refer you to Resistance 4, Louder!!! Posers Listen to 8 Bit music ect.
Which are like drowning in pools of literal shit.
All of those have similar sounding to a bunch of other stuff in the game. There's maybe ONE other music box song I am aware of in the game... I fail to see how you can call it boring. It sucks you aren't giving it it's fair due.Comment
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Re: Songs of the Week (May 11, 2013)
DMB literally hurt to listen to. I cringed so bad I think I pulled a muscle.
I have less of a problem with the amateur composition, but I do have a problem with the like, default MIDI sounds.
Next time try to at least make it sound like you spent longer than zero seconds mastering it? Please?
Generally I expect stuff in FFR to feel like it took longer than 5 minutes to make (for song and simfile)
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Re: Songs of the Week (May 11, 2013)
For comparison, I'll use AJ's first song on FFR.
Faint Breath is also compositionally pretty amateur, what with the recycled beats and default fruityloops bass sounds and stuff. However you can tell at least a minimum of effort was put into making it sound like a well-produced song. There's dynamic changes and a variety of instrumentation... it's pretty listenable despite its shortcomings and I have no problem with that kind of song in game.
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Re: Songs of the Week (May 11, 2013)
It kind of saddens me that people are always complaining about recent songs ingame being too boring (Renard, beep-boop buzz stuff, etc.),
and when I try to do something a little different it's shit on. I'm sorry I'm not a professional music producer or use FL Studio or whatever, it's obviously not going to be the best.
That being said, I was hoping people would find it as a fun little jack file, and looking at James May's comment (he can't be the only one that finds it fun),
I'm perfectly happy with how it turned out. Actually noticing a trend in the people that are expressing their dislike of it, it's really no suprise to me.
To be honest, I was expecting the reception to be a lot worse given the posts/comments/whatever of the community recently.
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Re: Songs of the Week (May 11, 2013)
Look, it isn't about being different, it is about effort. Add percussion, change up the rhythms, just.. do something else. It doesn't sound like you tried hard at all, that's all there is to it.
If you really are genuinely concerned about how it sounds, ask other musicians. There is plenty of them here on FFR that can give you tips, but don't play the victim because people criticized you.
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Re: Songs of the Week (May 11, 2013)
I will definitely be playing Devil's Music Box in the future for jack practice. The song is simple. One of my favorite symphonies consists of a 8 octave scale in the first movement, and the last movement is basically the reverse of the first. Simplicity isn't bad. Yay, subjective stuff.Comment
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Re: Songs of the Week (May 11, 2013)
The solution to people complaining about boring songs is not to make a song that is MORE boring and call it "different"
Not annoyed at you so much as the judges. Songs have been rejected for production quality before and it would have been pretty simple to say something like, "hey Jake this is a fun file but the song doesn't have very high production values, we'll conditionally accept it if you can show the song to some people in the musician's forum. Once you get it mastered nicely it'll be fine to go in the game"
There everyone wins. In fact you could still do this pretty easily. Honestly just needs a few dynamic changes with like, a little echo to make it sound more music box-y. File could stay the same and everything.
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Re: Songs of the Week (May 11, 2013)
Wow I just played VALLISTA and I am extremely surprised that was not a bmah file.
LG clearly channeling his inner Typhlosion when he made that.
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Re: Songs of the Week (May 11, 2013)
I thought it was a bmah chart too lol it plays frighteningly similar to Halcyon
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Re: Songs of the Week (May 11, 2013)
Eh, Devil's Music Box isn't bad. I like playing it because it's so happy and cute sounding, heh.
I'm musically amused easily if I like it initially. I can see how though people can see this as a cheap way to get Song Producer title. But eh... I don't know, I have fun playing it as it is currently.
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Re: Songs of the Week (May 11, 2013)
I'm sorry
what
edit: just played DMB. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt, and say that this was your first real attempt at making a song/file. Which, if it's true, I will say it's not bad at all. Yea, the file and song are very bland, but if you're as new to musical composition as I am, I'd say the song wasn't that bad, since I can tell you right now I'm not capable of even making a song like that. Good on you for putting an effort to make song for FFR, and then stepping it. Next time, you should try either a) adding some different instruments/changing BPM/key changes, and b) send your songs/files to friends/judges/strangers/anybody. It's very important to get people to playtest files. That's key in perfecting your work. Good luck Jake!
also nice releases this week as well, rofl Throwin' Down. LOL I genuinely thought VALLISTA was BmahLast edited by yo man im awesome; 05-13-2013, 07:29 PM.
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Re: Songs of the Week (May 11, 2013)
why? the only benefits DMB has are that it's good lower-level practice for jumpjacks and it's short.. there's no way you could say it's more entertaining than fractured sunshine or sleep unless it's because you can't read those charts lolOriginally posted by Xx{Midnight}xX
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