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sampling is totally allowed

Thanks!
Which games?

Thanks! I'll have to check out Rayman Origins to hear the similarity you noticed.

Thank you!

I'm still not sure if I'm going to do more with this project. If I do, I'll probably make extended versions of the two tracks (which would include more time with the chords at the start) and write out Diurnal Desert. I'll also post in the discord, if I do end up writing more.

I tried this, and it sounds better as a chord, but in the context of the song I really wanted to keep the chords consistent. In my mind, the melody note is not part of the chord, so I picked the note based on how it progressed melodically and not based on how it fit the chord.

Thank you! I'm also not sure which one I prefer. I think that if I fleshed both of them out more, Sunset City would end up being my favorite of the two, but I don't know.

I'm pretty confident that would be fine, but I'm also new here so I don't know for sure

Thank you!
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by unnatural voicings. Are you talking about the chords, or the harmony? Is there a specific point in the song that sounds unnatural? All of the voicings sound natural as far as I can tell.

Thank you! I'm still not sure if I'm going to do more with this OST, but if I do, I'll post in the discord

Thank you!

Thank you!

I wasn't worried too much about scoring the music well, more about getting the playback right in limited time. I definitely will make that change if I do anything more with the piece.

You definitely read a lot more into the music than I intended, but that's one of the things that is so great about thematic analysis 🤣
Thank you very much!

Thank you!

You in the discord? I can send the mp3 there so you can download it

ahhh, never seen that one before

Thank you! I also thought they were short and I wanted more 🤣 but they definitely turned out better than I expected, considering that I wrote them in only four hours.

Actually, looking back at Sunset City, I just realized I uploaded the wrong mp3. The correct version is longer (although primarily because of looping), and can be listened to on the MuseScore page. I will also update the project page to have the correct mp3. (edit: I screwed it up, so people will just have to listen on the MuseScore page)

Thank you! I had a LOT of time to think about the concept for the game, because I looked at the theme right away but wasn't able to work on the music at all for the first 32 hours, so I had all that time to think about it.

What does "BD" mean?

Thank you! Yeah, I really wish I had been less busy this weekend because I was really getting into it, but by the time I was able to write I was already really tired and so after 4 hours I couldn't keep going 😴

Sweet Dreams is a very nice piece. It fits well as a title screen. One thing in particular that I liked is how the melody played the same motif at different places within the measures, specifically right at the start. The melody and arpeggios also fit together really well. There are a few places where I personally would change the arpeggio to use a different note. I also think that having an additional instrument (I would choose violin or cello) playing on each of the emphasized notes on the arpeggios would help listeners to feel the beat more.

Flee? reminded me a lot of Forsaken City from Celeste. I personally would cut the first 10 seconds off of this song, to get to the music sooner, but I also don't fully see what you were going for; perhaps, if the game was made, those 10 seconds would be very beneficial for atmosphere. My only real complaint is that the song ends very quickly once it gets going. Your mixing work on this one is impeccable, and the parts work together very well.

In Wake Up, the soundfont you are using for the clarinet does not work well with the high notes. A flute would probably have worked better. I really like how it sounds starting at 42 seconds in, when the bass comes in. What I would have recommended is that you replace the clarinet with a flute from the start until 42 seconds, and then have the clarinet play until the loop, with some modifications to it's melody to keep it from going quite so high. The bass cutting out at the loop feels pretty abrupt. The guitar part is very well done. I really like how it the guitar plays in 8|4 at the start, in a 3 beat - 2 beat - 3 beat pattern. The clarinet part could have been written to fit that pattern better.