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Crypt Of The Necrodancer Boss Battle submission for Alternate OST Jam #4 hosted by Aurélien Castel for Itch.IO's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Credibility | #33 | 1.857 | 1.857 |
| Sound quality | #38 | 2.143 | 2.143 |
| Creativity | #39 | 2.429 | 2.429 |
| Composition | #39 | 1.571 | 1.571 |
| Impression | #39 | 1.714 | 1.714 |
| Overall | #39 | 1.943 | 1.943 |
Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/crypt-of-the-necrodancer-coral-riff-boss-battle-ost-alternative-music-jam-4-for-itchio
Track description | Creative process
This is the first time I used both the Roland FA-08 and the Akai 25-key MPKMini together, the latter to control the DAW in Mixcraft 10.5 Pro Studio. The 'backbone' of the piece was made in the Roland and then flourishing synth-lead voices were added by playing notes on the Akai into Mixcraft while the WAV file from the Roland was an Audio file (I also used the Roland's MIDI to double Mixcraft-exclusive instruments, for 3 total sources)
This is envisaged as a loop but its structure kind of falls apart at the end, it's strongest in the beginning. As the first time I was combining from multiple things it's very much an experiment.
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Some cool sounds in here, but a little hard to follow at times - some of it sounds a little distorted/glitchy. Some of the voices are out of sync or competing with each other which makes it hard to follow. I think if you maybe took out just one of the voices you'd have something really solid!
somewhere around in these comments i muttered that the 3rd rather than 4th version had exactly that, one-less layer :)
I really like the melody and synth choice, but dang, u combined rythm that can't fit together in my opinion and it confused me real good (like the combination was fine, weird but real great until the tenth second and then I'm lost XD)
I write these checks with the bass line that my lead-line can't cash quite a lot. usually to do with pulling out of the first pattern and shifting key signatures.
When i hit it, it's a home run, when i don't: gets ugly fast :)
Re-Ex crowd very candidly and probably correctly gave me only 6.8 out of ten for this one.
We do better next time!
this had 4 versions and yeah sadly the 3rd one was less busy and was better than the 4th one that got submitted
i got excited working the new Akai keyboard and wanted to use it (probably basically the right idea) for doing single note flourishes but the final product has one layer too many