Alrighty, criticism! I have no qualifications whatsoever, I just like music.
Let's go through it in the order I listened to it:
song_title.ogg: It's pretty neat. Some parts are emphasized differently than I hear them in the original, that's okay. I like the trills in the background, it gives it a more... ethereal feel. Reminds me of the "The Dig" soundtrack. As a whole, it sounds a bit more mysterious than the original. Very good as a main menu music.
song_game.ogg: It starts out simple enough, the usual melody with a simple beat underneath. But just after you get used it it, the song just explodes into layered melodies and rhythms! And it's really hectic and upbeat, but there's still this intense quality to it from the original melody.
song_game is performed on one guitar, and most adaptations of it keep one single melody line and maybe put a beat on it. That's fine, it's a complex melody and it has its charms. This version here is the first time I've heard it expanded in such a magnificent and chaotic way, and the result is just...
frenetic.
Good adaptations of a song always show you something about the original that you didn't hear before. This is a masterful song. It menaces with spikes of sawtooth waves.
I kind of wanted to separate this from the praise about the music, hence the spoiler tags.
I don't really understand why an .aif and a .wav version of the songs are included in the download. ogg files are lossless already, the other two files just bloat the file size. Also, I'm not sure what's going on in the MACOSX folder.
Nonetheless, I've really enjoyed these songs! Is there a place where I can download or buy more Smoip music?
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Topic: Chiptunes Arrangement (Read 1521 times)