Thank you very much for the high quality mod, iJinjin!iJinjin wrote:
Ok time for modderino for my personal ET Blocko >.< i'm not ET
Your 7K Happy end is so good ;-; there's really not much stuff to point out, but oh well here goes nothing;;
And you told me you were not gonna find anything to suggest lmao
[7K Happy End]
00:01:964 (1964|0) - If you are concerned about relative pitch, this note should be higher up (to the right). Alright, moved to 3.
00:03:858 (3858|0) - This note should be higher up too, maybe you can try Ctrl+J these two notes 00:03:227 (3227|2,3858|0) - I was going for the pitch to be going away from the center column, but your suggestion plays better.
00:11:437 (11437|1) - Bring this note more to the right Done, rearranged patterns around that, too.
00:21:227 (21227|5,21227|1,21543|2,21543|3,21543|4,21858|5,21858|1) - This pattern, while it does work, is kinda weak: it does not convey the feeling of the piano + percussion combination well. Through a musical standpoint, those double chords should be more closely together and the 3 note chord on the 3-4-5 column should be spread more far apart like for example 00:22:174 (22174|0,22174|3,22174|6) - . This gives an overall better feel to the music Nice suggestion. Applied.
00:23:122 (23122|1) - Move to column 4 for pitch relevance Hm.. I think I'll leave this as it is. I'd like to see the concept of a higher pitch going from the center to appear in some instances.
IF you applied my previous suggestion:
00:23:437 (23437|3) - move this more to the right Didn't apply, so I couldn't apply this.
00:25:332 (25332|2,25332|4) - Again, make this more spread apart so that the percussion notes feel more clumped and the piano notes feel more spread out. Rearranged the patterns around it, following your suggestion.
01:00:069 (60069|2,60069|4,60069|6,60279|3,60279|5,60279|1,60490|2,60490|0,60490|4) - I think it would be better if these were all in the same column. These three cymbal crashes would fit better with the emphasis in the repetition in the notes Alrighty then. I had to rearrange the patterns below to give a better buildup to these guys.
01:00:701 (60701|4,60701|0,60701|6,60701|2) - I think up to this point, you used this note pattern a lot (column 1-3-5-7). Maybe give it a little change and make the pattern into something like this? Did a variation of your suggestion instead, just to keep drum pitch in check
01:08:753 (68753|5) - Move to column 3: the percussion in these parts 01:08:279 (68279|6,68437|5,68595|4,68753|5) - sound like they are descending in pitch. Moved.
01:11:437 (71437|1) - This long note should follow the ascending pitch of the bells like the previous three long notes used for emphasis on those pitches. You might want to rearrange the patterns a bit to achieve this (or just invert these two 01:11:437 (71437|1,71437|3) - ) Inverted those two instead, I intend to keep the pattern going for consistency
01:13:016 (73016|4,73016|6,73016|2,73016|0) - I think this 4 note emphasis might be too much for this specific part. What are those two long notes representing in the music? Similarly, 01:07:964 (67964|2,67964|4) - this part has the same issue. If your intent was to emphasize the hi-hat, I guess your method might work, but having a lot of much 4 note chords in the "relaxing" part of this marathon map can be reduced in my opinion I was actually unsure about these if I was mapping it a bit much, but I reduced at least 1 regular note for these parts to keep the relaxing concept.
01:16:174 (76174|5,76174|1,76279|6,76279|0) - Ctrl + J: This is to make it coherent with that previous part at 00:35:437 - Also at a percussion standpoint, the pitch and the volume feels like this particular part should be inverted Inverted.
01:17:753 (77753|6,77753|0) - Don't really feel the need for these two notes, the two long notes convey the bells that are present at this part of the music
instead, I think that 01:18:069 (78069|3) - this can be emphasized with more notes. My reasoning is that 01:18:543 (78543|5,78543|1,78858|1,78858|5) - these notes that follow are two notes and have the exact same sound as the part that I just mentioned. Applied this suggestion. I somehow forgot to check the patterns around this part since I mapped this months ago.
01:27:701 (87701|2) - Doesn't this note feel like it should be more to the right? I normally put the higher emphasis on the rightmost columns. You can keep it this way, but if we were to go into detail, this might be a nice change. You might have to rearrange the next few notes tho Rearranged a few notes around just for this one.
01:29:122 (89122|1,89122|0) - Since the bells here are in a complete octave, you might want to spread either the long note or the regular notes. Or you can also change one of the current regular notes into a long note and vice versa Separated the long notes so they're not next to them.
01:30:543 (90543|0) - This note is barely audible in the music, I suggest deleting it It is, but I kinda want to leave it there to emphasize the kick.
01:46:174 (106174|2,106174|1,106385|6,106385|5,106595|4,106595|5) - Again, I feel that this could be better if these cymbals could be emphasized by putting all the notes into the same column. Might have to find a way to rearrange the notes so that the long notes are in different columns whilst placing the cymbal notes at the same column Applied this. Long notes are on the left, cymbals on the right.
01:48:069 (108069|0,108069|1,108227|2) - This is just a minor suggestion (it honestly doesn't have to change) but I think this pattern might be a bit unenjoyable (also 01:49:332 (109332|4,109332|5,109648|6,109648|4) - this part is similar too). Maybe change the long note positions to columns 3 and 5 instead of the current 2 and 6?) again, this is very minor, just bit of playability suggestion. Since this is a 6*+ difficulty, I think some challenging patterns should definitely be considered Even if this is a 6*+ diff, I can at least go for comfortability here, so I applied this suggestion.
01:51:543 (111543|1,111858|0) - Switch columns for these notes: the guitar progression that you charted with these long notes 01:50:595 (110595|1,110911|0,111227|2,111543|1,111858|0) - in order to keep the maximum pitch relevancy, the 3rd degree jump from E to C should have a two column gap. In addition, applying this change allows you to make these long notes 01:51:858 (111858|2,112174|1,112490|2) - in pitch. Been trying to find a way to fix that, thanks!
02:01:964 (121964|2,122595|2,123227|2,123858|2) - you should change these single long notes into double long notes to account for the multiple string pitch that is heard here. Similar to what you did in 02:04:490 (124490|3,124490|2) - here, for example. The single LN is just for the string, and I mapped in double for the string and hi-hat synth combined.
02:07:016 (127016|6) - I guess you can leave this part as single note cuz of the density of other notes that represent various parts of the music :/ (no change at all) Oh.. huh.
02:08:122 (128122|5,128122|6) - If I am listening correctly, this part and 02:07:806 (127806|5) - this part has the same volume, I suggest you make these two note intensities equal They don't seem to be equal in volume from what I'm hearing.
02:08:595 (128595|3,128753|5) - A quick suggestion after hearing this song in repeat: this percussion section where you have a hat-release, i think a long note release might be appropriate. For example: This image This LN expresses the hat synth, adding a 1/2 LN right beside it seems unnecessary imo
From what I hear, 02:10:174 (130174|4,130174|1,130174|3) - these percussion parts should be higher in pitch than 02:10:332 (130332|5,130332|6) - these notes Rearranged patterns around for the pitch
02:21:543 (141543|3,141858|3) - Instead of having these two notes, why not make a long note starting from 02:21:543 - for that buildup in the cymbal? I guess you'd have to find a way to alter the next part that follows :/ Added the long note. Removed the 4th column LN after this one for playability
02:22:806 (142806|1,143437|2) - I honestly think that it would be okay to make these into two notes (the bell sounds are two separate pitches in each part) Leaving this as it is. Even though they have two separate pitches, it might be a bit much since they're sort of drowned out.
02:27:227 (147227|5,147227|4) - Move one of these notes to the left hand column, the music here feels like it should be more heavily favored on the bass clef Move one of them to the left side
03:02:736 (182736|0,182736|6,182736|4,182736|2,183052|1,183052|3,183052|5) - Seems to heavy for me. I understand that you are trying to continue on the buildup from that last part as it is too awkward to reduce these notes into 2 note chords, but I think the first 4-note long note chord can be reduced down to 3 Reduced them to 3.
03:06:368 (186368|3,186368|5,186368|0) - Add a note to 7; this part has equal volume as 03:05:894 (185894|1,185894|3,185894|0,185894|6) - this part and some parts that follow after Added. Had to rearrange some patterns around for playability
03:22:526 (202526|2) - I think this should be snapped to the 1/8 (try hearing it at 25% speed to confirm) They sound more exact snapped in 1/3 to me.
03:30:210 (210210|5,210210|2,210368|1,210526|4) - If you aren't planning to make all these into 2 note chords, they should still be in pitch :p I got what you mean here after rereading this a few times lol (rearranged for pitch)
03:54:526 (234526|5,234526|6,234526|1) - 03:54:684 (234684|4,234684|0,234684|2) - I think these two chords should be in the same column, try to rearrange the notes for that to happen Rearranged it based on playability instead.
04:02:736 (242736|1,242736|5,242736|0,242736|6) - Add a note to column 4: this is to keep the volume intensity equal to the following note: 04:03:368 (243368|5,243368|3,243368|6,243368|1,243368|0) - Added
04:06:526 (246526|6,246526|5,246684|5,246684|6,247000|6,247000|5,247158|6,247158|5) - Maybe try shifting one column to the left so that you could make this part 04:07:473 (247473|5,247473|0,247473|1,247473|6,247631|6,247631|3,247631|1,247631|4) - in pitch (the first chord would be 1-2-5-6 and the second chord would be 2-3-6-7-) Ooh, nice. Done.
04:19:158 (259158|6,259158|0,259158|2,259158|3) - this can be 5 chords in terms of note density Don't want to add 1/3 jacks there.
04:40:908 (280908|3) - If you added this note here, I think it's adequate to add a note 04:39:408 - here too (try listening to it at 25%) I don't really hear anything on what you suggested. Is it just me or the song?
04:41:894 (281894|5,281894|6,281894|1,281894|0) - Don't you think this note should be heavier in terms of intensity than this note? 04:41:579 (281579|1,281579|3,281579|4,281579|2) - ? I mapped them based on technicality, but I think you're right. I think I just needed some assurance. Suggestion applied
04:42:684 (282684|6,282684|0,282684|5,282684|3) - Here it's the opposite from the previous suggestion: don't you think this should be lighter in intensity compared to the previous chord at 04:42:526 (282526|3,282526|0,282526|6,282526|1) - ? Again, I think you're right. Mapped them based on technicality, but somehow that didn't work out as I intended. Applied suggestion anyway.
04:45:842 (285842|0) - Move to 7: this should again be in the same column for emphasis of repetition of the same instrument Moved
04:57:921 - Add a note here for the percussion Added
04:59:815 - ^ I don't really hear anything there..
05:04:947 - Since this is Happy end, aka the hardest difficulty, I think it would be a nice touch if you could somehow incorporate the small electric guitar glissando that you hear here into a triplet (occurs in various places after this too) Hmm.. I kinda don't get what you mean here. Will have to talk to you by IRC about this.
05:14:342 (314342|4,314342|0,314342|2,314342|6,314579|2,314579|6,314579|4,314579|0) - The piano part here slightly descends in pitch, maybe show that by differing the columns? They do, but I'd like to emphasize the more audible ones and make them repetitive since they're pretty audible compared to those notes.
That's about it, I hope my suggestions helped a bit ;-; They did, actually. Even more than a bit. I can easily understand your reasoning behind these suggestions in great detail, which is really good!
HAPPY END ACHIEVED!!!!! \o/