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Earthbound SNES Shops for Alternative Soundtrack Music Jam #5 hosted by Aurélien Castel's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #2 | 4.273 | 4.273 |
| Sound quality | #17 | 3.545 | 3.545 |
| Overall | #24 | 3.164 | 3.164 |
| Composition | #25 | 2.909 | 2.909 |
| Impression | #30 | 2.636 | 2.636 |
| Credibility | #30 | 2.455 | 2.455 |
Ranked from 11 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Streaming link
https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/earthbound-snes-shops-for-alternative-soundtrack-music-jam-5-hosted-by-aurelien-castel-itchio
Track description | Creative process
Looping track 2 minutes and 55 seconds
Manually performed on a Roland FA-08 synthesizer and then the MIDI and WAV file were exported to a laptop for the final fixes using Mixcraft 10.5 Pro Studio as my DAW.
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Interesting track, though I felt it would've been better without the high hat part considering the song is performed rather freely.
Very interesting track. I am not too sure what you're going for in this track, but if I may make some suggestions to the style I assume you are going for -- 1. drumset can have more kicks to drive a more steady rhythm. 2. A bass to solidify the melody. 3. Harmonies are great, but since they are chords, perhaps a cleaner sound can better convey your vision.
The guitar is great for the melody. Lots of ideas you have here! One common thing I used to do in my compositions is also to put a lot of ideas. But it took me some time to learn that a lot of the times, less is more.
Perhaps you may find some of these suggestions useful. Have fun experimenting!
Many of these things are more for the cross-impact to other musicians rather than I will really ever polish unless someone with clout that makes revenue on Itch says "ok this one, we'll use it in an actual game or an asset pack if you cinch up the timing flaws"
and so too with my Soundcloud, Spotify. And so the wisest thing may yet still be to just lay down the ideas before i forget them :)
I -do- at times make an unflawed thing about 5 percent of the time. But I don't worry too much.
Glad everyone is having fun!
Wow ! So many great ideas here, very dense track. Might be a bit too much for my personnal taste, but there's a real work on the composition, well done !
This was a fun journey! Not sure if it would be in Earthbound, but it's a clear winner on the creativity side. Excellent riffs/lines, any amount of them could be taken as is for their own track. Well done.
Yeah i fully freely admit I only listend to the Youtube samples a few minutes :)
Just a vague sense it would be a bouncy early 90's SNES like Neko's tune in the shop for Secret Of Mana 1 in 1992/93
Glad you had fun, everyone in our beastly outfit submitting for Aurelien knows I write kind of rough cut things.