2022 Free Round Special! (MnP130)
Outline
5 day's ago we just said our final goodbyes to the hectic year of 2021, and welcomed with open arms, 2022. To kick off the year, as a formal celebration, we are going to have a no holds back Free Round!
This means nothing is off limits!
- Want to remix a video game source you like? Go ahead!
- Want to dabble in a soundtrack that's just been released this year? Have at ya!
- Want to make an original tune? Why not, it's all up to you.
- Remixes of your favourite artist/song? Yep.
- Come up with your own OST? Yep.
- Mashups? Yep.
- EP's and Concept albums? As long as it's not 2 hours long lol, More power to you!
- MIDI Rips? Of course! Nothing is off-limits!
- You can even do more than one entry (See conditions below).
And these are just examples!
The only conditions (Mainly in regards to submission) that apply are as follows:
- More than one entry is allowed, but you can only have up to 3 max.
- If your going to do an OST or EP (Or any extremely lengthy tune), then you can only submit one entry.
- None of the rules in regards to source selection apply here, since it's a free round, however the standard uploading rules for ThaSauce (20mb size, MP3 etc...) remain as normal.
And that's it really. Like i said, there is no limitations for creativity, it's whatever you feel is best for submitting. Good luck and have fun! I'm here if you have any questions.
The winner of this round will join the winner of the last round in a Double Dose for MnP Round 131. Hope you have fun!
Tip: If your doing a VGM remix, it would be advised for you to write down the game and source in the description, so people can understand, what's been remixed.
Deadline: 2nd February @ 1PM
Closing Date: 4th February@ 1PM
Vote Ends: 11th February @ 1PM
MnP ARCHIVE - made by Trism 
Rules
MISSION STATEMENT
The goal of Compo: MnP is to promote that "meat and potatoes" conservative approach to remixing: this includes the mood and composition of source tunes. It is up to the remixer to create their own personalization, or to simply give it a sound upgrade. Moreover, the compo is a great opportunity to hone your remixing skills and give video game music the respect that is due. SOME reinterpretation is recommended, but not required.
MnP Instructions/Guidelines - Not applicable for this round, but will be in normal/future rounds.
Rules for Picking a Source:
- All video game sources are limited to the 6th generation of video game consoles and earlier. This was due to community consensus, where people preferred to remix more retro games, than newer games. 6th generation includes: GameCube, Xbox, PS2 and Dreamcast.
- I'm now restricting big name franchises (Such as Zelda and Mega-Man) to one source per year. This is to encourage more obscure games, that not many people will know about to be picked.
- Make sure you provide me both a video and a MIDI of the source in question.
Guidelines:
- Modifying the Source is fine, so long as it doesn't sound completely separate from its original intent.
- If you're gonna do a genre change, at least make sure the original aspect of the source is not lost.
- Tempo changes are fine, as long as it's not a big change. I'm talking like, going from 80bpm to 140bpm.
- Submissions must be at a maximum of 20mb (keeping in step with ThaSauce's file size max), and submitted as a MP3 file.
- Only 1 entry per participant. Previous winner cannot participate but can submit a BONUS entry.
- Try to avoid making quality-based comments on submissions until after the Round is concluded. It is to avoid a Bias in Votes.
MISC/TIPS
- When picking a source tune, make sure it has a MIDI to make people's lives easier.
- In-game sound FX are permitted, so long as they don't comprise the whole track (i.e. replacing entire MIDI tracks with just sfx)
Entries (8)
My first original song for 2022. It' uses parts of another song I made but is quite different. Honestly, composing music isn't my forte but what I love about it is that it allows me to take ideas that I've had for a remaster or remake that I couldn't fit make work and give them new life. Some of those ideas have been for something in this style. Hip Hop? ChillHop? Chill beats? I really don't know what to call it but here it is!
The title "Spin" comes from the feeling or action that sometimes I find my mind start to do. Just going in circles and not able to break this circular motion of thought and emotion. The end result is a blurry image and thoughts unclear. The colors don't make sense but are somehow familiar and there's noise everywhere, like rain. I think that comes across in this song not only in the effects but in the melodic line as well. Never quite breaking that feeling, that tiny chord progression.
Remix of Zero Wing's 2nd Level, "New Day For Me." You know, that game that created the AYB craze back in the early 2000s.
More importantly. A mostly synth take on the highly energetic source. Was going to try a symph rock thing, but that died and left the strings. I probably made some glaring mixing errors, but had some fun.
Recently, I played through the Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney Trilogy on Steam and thoroughly enjoyed the games. So, here is my small homage to that. Since the individual sources are fairly short this is sort of like a medley of a few different sources. Starts off with the Trial theme, that very clumsily goes into the Inform the Truth theme. After that I go into the Objection theme which then follows into the Cornered theme. Next up I go into the light Examination theme then into the fast Examination theme before ending out on a solo piano of the first theme. Don't worry it sounds a lot longer than it actually is.
I tried to make the track a bit like how an actual trial plays out in the game. That is it starts off promising enough, then you get sucker punched with some bad news. Then you find some weakness and try to exploit it only to find out that you opened up an even larger can of worms. However, as things progress you go on the attack more and more before finally getting to the bottom of things through the ultimate discourse cross-examination. At least that is the silly idea going on here.
I also made use of some samples from the games to help with that. I dunno, this was pretty fun honestly.
I mixed two songs from Tales of Symphonia together in this hot mess. Fatalize is a boss theme and a personal favorite of mine, and a mixed it with the theme of the character Sheena. This is a typical Thunder remix of bashing you over the head with as much symphonic rock stuff I can fit in FL studio's limiter XD
I named the tune in slight reference to the character Sheena and her tendency to fall down holes.
A short and fast little Dance track. But man is that lead melody F I R E
Enjoy
If you don't know the source tune, you live under a moon...I mean rock. (PS, don't remix this theme while depressed. Did my best!)
A quick mix from a song from Dune 2.
Omori - By Your Side/Dear Little Brother
Figured I'd do something more recent since I could this month