Sounds good! I think you did so well with the harmonies. Just to lend a critical ear (and I love what you did here so I'm only saying this for discussion's sake), the combination of the snare syncopation and sparse percussion might be chill for SMK. Melody-wise, from the tunes I can recall, I feel like when a melody ascends to a high note, it often happens on an offbeat 8th note in a sharp staccato and resolves down right after so there's a lot of micro tension-resolution, call-response action
@waltzforluma But anyway, pretentious-and-probably-inaccurate-observations aside, I think your success was well-deserved and you really know how to do justice to other composers. I was definitely thinking, "Waitwait is this an actual SMK track?" when I first hit play! :)
@waltzforluma yea i feel that melodies are the weak link in all of my writing, so i'm not surprised that they're off the mark here. haha. parts sound awkward to me. the chords+melody even misharmonise once or twice due to not finding a better compromise.
i think i hear what you've described in mario circuit. it's something i hadn't even considered (at least not consciously) but sure, if the song is good enough to suspend disbelief then i'm satisfied. haha. thanks for the feedback!
I think Soyo Oka might have felt a bit of pressure, working under Koji Kondo's style- then again, it's not exactly high-pressure music as long as it doesn't get old, which is the real secret.
I want to think that there is more percussion happening in Super Mario Kart's music, maybe we'll compare it to the GBA Mario Kart instead? ;) Good job
@chunter203908 it's sort of funny, the soundtrack gives you the impression there's more percussion going on than there actually is, probably because of all the rhythms bouncing around on other instruments.
I'm not sure you entirely succeeded at emulating Soyo's SMK sound. There are just a few too many elements going on. Instead, I feel you've created a harmonious combination of your own unique sound and Soyo's, which, in my opinion, sounds wonderful in it's own right. I really dig this track.
@Outshinedsg glad you like it. it was certainly a challenge, i don't think it's entirely successful either. i think in future, i'd just write songs with the sounds and not worry too much about digging into the composers skulls.
So how long until we get a Plok! style track from you? I'd love to hear what you could do.
teckwerks 1 year ago
@teckwerks I'm too lazy to make a soundfont :[
goniochromism 1 year ago
Sounds a lot like Frappe Snow Land, but good nonetheless.
yoshiroks777 1 year ago
@yoshiroks777 you're at least the second person to make that observation :< haha
goniochromism 1 year ago
Sounds good! I think you did so well with the harmonies. Just to lend a critical ear (and I love what you did here so I'm only saying this for discussion's sake), the combination of the snare syncopation and sparse percussion might be chill for SMK. Melody-wise, from the tunes I can recall, I feel like when a melody ascends to a high note, it often happens on an offbeat 8th note in a sharp staccato and resolves down right after so there's a lot of micro tension-resolution, call-response action
waltzforluma 1 year ago
@waltzforluma But anyway, pretentious-and-probably-inaccurate-observations aside, I think your success was well-deserved and you really know how to do justice to other composers. I was definitely thinking, "Waitwait is this an actual SMK track?" when I first hit play! :)
waltzforluma 1 year ago
@waltzforluma yea i feel that melodies are the weak link in all of my writing, so i'm not surprised that they're off the mark here. haha. parts sound awkward to me. the chords+melody even misharmonise once or twice due to not finding a better compromise.
i think i hear what you've described in mario circuit. it's something i hadn't even considered (at least not consciously) but sure, if the song is good enough to suspend disbelief then i'm satisfied. haha. thanks for the feedback!
goniochromism 1 year ago
I think Soyo Oka might have felt a bit of pressure, working under Koji Kondo's style- then again, it's not exactly high-pressure music as long as it doesn't get old, which is the real secret.
I want to think that there is more percussion happening in Super Mario Kart's music, maybe we'll compare it to the GBA Mario Kart instead? ;) Good job
chunter203908 1 year ago
@chunter203908 it's sort of funny, the soundtrack gives you the impression there's more percussion going on than there actually is, probably because of all the rhythms bouncing around on other instruments.
anyway THX!
goniochromism 1 year ago
I'm not sure you entirely succeeded at emulating Soyo's SMK sound. There are just a few too many elements going on. Instead, I feel you've created a harmonious combination of your own unique sound and Soyo's, which, in my opinion, sounds wonderful in it's own right. I really dig this track.
Outshinedsg 1 year ago
@Outshinedsg glad you like it. it was certainly a challenge, i don't think it's entirely successful either. i think in future, i'd just write songs with the sounds and not worry too much about digging into the composers skulls.
goniochromism 1 year ago
Soyo Oka would be proud :)
100hundert 1 year ago