It's more stacatto in the midi (like all midis). On my desktop computer: - Field 1 sounds good both ways. If you have the same set of instruments as the converter, it presumably sounds identical. Pretty sure all they did was run the originals through a midi to mp3 converter, heh. That's the problem with midi music - every computer plays it differently. I know mine is actually missing an instrument or two, so there are certain tracks of some midis that just don't even play. Depends on how well your sound card renders midis. The originals here sound vastly superior to this "remastered" pack.
*Shakes fist in the general direction of Japan*Īuthor=Ratty524 Yep. From here on in, I will direct my frustrations towards Enterbrain themselves. EDIT Kain Vinosec did not do the conversions. But, in the wake of the RMN Music Pack, I refuse to believe that nobody else is going to listen to the XP Music Pack and notice its mixing and mastering issues.
Now, I'm not a petty fox, but I can't help but feel a little bit cheated that, in the midst of me working on this project, someone else has taken the music I love and charged twenty Dollars apiece for doing very little work to it. A tall order, but I love XP's music enough that I aimed for it. Rather than haphazardly converting the original MIDIs, I was recomposing my favourite tracks from scratch, and trying to improve on them to bring them up to a similar feel and sound to RPG Maker 3's gorgeous music, while retaining their brilliant melodies and the "gamey" orchestral sound they had. Before the RMN Music Pack project was announced, I had actually just started work on my own vision for an XP music pack. Guided by Happy, we released a music pack with much higher mixing and mastering standards than this for free. I haven't been in the RMN community long, but I've been here throughout the RMN Music Pack project, and I know the RPG Maker community at large is capable of better than this. Without some serious additional mixing and mastering work, this is not worth $20.00. Since the release of VX Ace, this is the first music pack Enterbrain have promoted that I won't be buying. The result is two loud flutes playing the same melody and sounding like they're just competing for the listener's attention. Kain has missed this point totally, and left the volume the same for both tracks in his DAW. The result is a pleasant and subtle echo effect. The first plays the melody, panned to the left, while the second plays it again after a short delay, panned to the right and at half the volume. The flute in Field 1, for example, was originally split over two tracks.
He also seems to have misunderstood some of the original composer's clever MIDI tricks. The mixing is haphazard - all of the supporting instruments and phrases seem to be taking the centre stage, while the melodies and rhythms sink back and are lost in the mix, helped down by too much reverb. Kain's MIDI to audio conversions sound unpolished, unfinished even. and I'm sorry, but this pack just doesn't do it justice. I've heard the original tracks until they've been burned into my very brainage. Quoting from the post I made on the official forum: In my opinion, RPG Maker XP had the best music of the series. Having listened and re-listened to the previews, I'm making this the first music pack they've released since VX Ace that I won't be buying. Enterbrain are promoting the new XP Music Pack by Kain Vinosec.
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