Can anyone "Orchestrate" the CT Soundtrack

[chi_z]

yessiree bob

[chi_z]

http://www.mediafire.com/?zwf0zxzwy3w
try this one on for size


alright mate these are the songs I can do. take what you KNOW you want off the top of your head and highlight them in a different color or erase the ones you don't want and I'll get cracking to it.

premonition
peaceful days
memories of green
gonzalez
a strange happening
wind scene
goodnight
secret of the forest
guardia castle~pride and glory
huh
cathedral
silent light
boss battle
frog's theme
the trial
the hidden truth
a shot of crisis
people who threw away the will to live
robo gang
bike chase
robo's theme
battle 2
fanfare
the brink of time
delightful spekkio
fanfare 3
underground sewers
boss battle 2
primitive mountain
ayra's theme
magus' castle
magus theme
singing mountain
tyran castle
at the bottom of night
corridors of time
sara's theme
sealed door
undersea palace
chrono and marle "far off promise"
wings that cross time
world revolution
first festival of stars
epilogue-to good friends
to far away times

[neo-fusion]

Ok I will just put a list of what I want

Now the premonition track is okay, but the strings seem harsh to the ear when they switch notes (Sorry I am not to colorful in the music department vocab wise, but I know what I want lol) Again try to emulate the quality of THIS SONG  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0FkaQI5F-I&feature=PlayList&p=4E4FCFF11A7B3993&index=63

Add percussion where need be and make it work. The instrument choice is now completely up to you. Just make it work and we will see what we can do! 

peaceful days
memories of green
a strange happening
wind scene
cathedral
silent light
the hidden truth
a shot of crisis
people who threw away the will to live
robo gang
robo's theme
battle 2
the brink of time
delightful spekkio
underground sewers
magus' castle
at the bottom of night
corridors of time
undersea palace
wings that cross time
epilogue-to good friends

[chi_z]

I know exactly what you mean by harsh strings, I was thinking the same thing. They probably just need to be at a higher pitch, cello and violin are meant for some pretty high octave stuff and that was like 3rd octave. I'mma see what I can do about percussion, gotta be careful with that though because the percussion will either make or break the song.



Ok mate I think I really struck gold with this one. http://www.mediafire.com/?gdj5xnimmld

[neo-fusion]

It's better, but I think I need to hear a different song. I think Memories of Green would be a good track to give me a feeling of how well we are going.

[chi_z]

Alright I'll get to it. Fun fact: I'm having to do this under xp virtual machine mode, fl9 doesn't seem to like my ultimate windows 7.




edit: check it out here http://www.mediafire.com/?mhtiw5h2egj

piano
flute and piccolo
celesta(its the one that does the 1 2 3 4 low note rhythm)
string section(kicks in for the chorus, on the CT soundtrack this would be the really high pitched choir)

[neo-fusion]

Also, you need to start doing .mp3 files if possible, those wavs are killers on memory.

Ok as for the song, is it me or does it sound scratchy for you to? I think there is an error with the file.

Anyway, I think we need to expand the "umph" to these songs. They seem like it's only one instrument. I want it to sound like a true orchestra.

Sorry if I seem demanding lol. But it's a process I guess.

[chi_z]

And an ever-evolving one at that. Yea I realized that the file is screwed up, I'm guessing my shit went awol with too much running at the same time. try this one instead
http://www.mediafire.com/?mymz45cj1my

yea I'll start doing mp3s, but once we actually have it all said and done it should really be in wav format so as not to skimp on quality for the in game music.
I'm slowly starting to get more familiar with this program, so expect the instrumentation to get better. I imagine the next week or so will be nothing but going to the drawing board and figuring all this out. It took Mitsuda 6 weeks to decide on how he wanted CT to be done you know! rome wasn't built in a day, and this soundtrack won't be ready in a month either. thanks for all the collaboration though man, the more specific you can be the better the end result, a win win for everyone.

[neo-fusion]

I just don't want to offend you or anything lol.

But my "musical-lingo" isn't what it outta be, but I do know what I want.

But, I am going to need mp3 in the end though because lance's game was around 130 mb. wav, would kill me here and mp3's are gonna put a load on it to, so we gottta go mp3.

As for the track, the piano seems forced... not smooth feeling. It's feels like someone jumpy is playing the piano. The beginning pacing also seems off. Some of the wind instruments also hit the notes kind of flat. I think you can hear what I mean. We got time to work on this which is good.

[chi_z]

well I'm not sure about the piano, but I think I've struck gold with the wind instruments.
http://www.mediafire.com/?2y2wcrzwyjc

[neo-fusion]

Well we are definetley moving in the right direction.

The piano seems eh lacking.

But besides maybe 3-5 notes on the wind instruments you have indeed done it right!

[chi_z]

alright let's see if I hit a sweet spot on piano with this one:
http://www.mediafire.com/?tzfmjanoynk

[neo-fusion]

The Piano is progressing slowly, but surely which is good.

Are you using the notes that you purchased from square?

If you are can I suggest try doing some of the notes by ear for the flute by listening to the song.

[chi_z]

yea it's all a transcription of the notes. I think I know which notes you are having beef with, I'm guessing you want them to be slightly higher pitched? any more thoughts on the piano, I'm not really sure what else needs to be done with it.

[neo-fusion]

The piano just needs to roll smoother, it seems like it's being very very rough because the note transition just doesn't seem to be there.