Told ya your mod could be useful, thanks for the star as wellAgka wrote:
Hi.
Reminder to downgrade your mp3, in case you haven't. Placeholder reminder for me to do that which pains me so.
All of what follows is opinionated, following my own biases with respect to charting, and may not represent your original intentions.
With respect to consistency checks, Maxo is goddamn crazy, so all of the points I'll point out will be left to your own criteria.
With that said, I hope the observations (which are on the spot!) that follow have value to you. With that said, I do 1 through 4, left to right.
[Normal]
00:24:619 (24619|0,25024|0) - To follow the harmony chord going down, perhaps you want to do a 2-1 sequence instead of a 1-1. A tempting proposition, but the melody doesn't change note, and the jack helps emphasize the kick soooo
00:17:727 - The chord at the background fills in at this point. A less observant player would probably confuse it with flowing into the 2-3-4 that comes afterwards. Perhaps add a note. Good call
00:26:376 (26376|3) - Move to 1 to keep this ladder pattern consistent with the previous phrase, perhaps. I'm not too sure - but you might want it. Made same as what I ended up doing above.
00:29:889 - There's a good reason not to include the 1 in here. Just noting that I noticed. ayy
00:34:079 (34079|2,34079|3,34349|2,34349|3) - +clap sound?
00:34:619 (34619|1,34619|0) - +soft-whistle?
00:38:943 (38943|2,38943|1) - +finish sound? If so, possibly change the clap for a finish for consistency. No hitsounds yet lol, but I'll def do that.
00:40:700 (40700|1,40970|1,41241|2,41511|2,41646|3) - I'd vouch for pitch relevancy, but this does follow the ladder theme. The chord does change, and I figured it would be a nice change from the 1K pattering. Good suggestion though.
00:43:673 (43673|0,43943|0,44214|0,44349|0,44619|0,44754|0,45024|0,45295|0) - But on the next phrase, you still use the 1-lane you used previously.
But then you do the ladder again, and start transitioning to the next phase of the song.
Welp, nevermind that. This got me thinking about the pitch a little more, so I fixed the second iteration of the ladders. Good note.
01:15:970 (75970|3,76105|0) - You were using the 2 jumps to signify this, and I am not pointing out the point where you left out the jump because of this, but you drop it here. Given the focus the synth gets and that it'd mean you'd have to also go for the sound at 01:17:592 - I'm sincerely not very sure.
01:19:349 (79349|0,79484|0) - So did you drop the 2 jumps? To be honest, I have no idea what I'm doing with these easier diffs as far as layering goes. The idea was to have a jack at every snare for a while, but I guess that died with some of the earlier mods. Fixed up some stuff in this general section which should now be more consistent.
01:20:430 (80430|3,80565|1,80565|0) - Aah? So did you drop the 2 jumps?
01:21:511 (81511|0,81646|1,81646|2) - Oh, you dropped them.
01:23:808 (83808|1) - And then you dropped the jump altogether again.
01:24:889 (84889|3,84889|2) - I can see why - you chose to focus on the bell sound instead of the crash later on, but at the density you're going, you'll probably be fine if you keep them.
01:41:376 (101376|1) - Hmm. Is this in 2 for balance's sake? I believe you could do a 2-3-2 for that and keep the balance, but stay pitch relevant. Good call, did 2-3-2.
After some layering self-checks, I am excited to announce the SR for this map went down 0.01!
[Hard]
00:45:970 - Through this section your structure of doubles goes A B B A. Abstaining! Wow!
01:00:970 (60970|0) - Insert note? Good call, found another iteration of this where I made the same mistake as well.
01:10:024 (70024|2,70160|2) - The short LNs are unnecesary, I think. Second person to say this, so fixed.
02:43:380 - Hey, you go A B A B with the doubles here. Mmm.
[Challenge]
I'm starting to wonder if the hitsounds blend too well or if they're missing.
00:48:673 - Since you do a kick at 00:49:754 - you could put one here! I sure can!
01:15:969 (75969|3,75969|2) - 3 for clap like you do two 1/2 beats later Good catch
[Extra]
00:20:024 (20024|1,20024|0) - 3? Results in unnecessary anchor in 3
01:37:862 (97862|0,97862|1) - 3? Fixed some stuff around it
01:40:024 (100024|1,100024|0) - 3? Minitrill is excessive here I think
02:05:518 - I'm wondering if the bass around this section is too subtle for most people. I assume people are using decent headphones when playing music games at this difficulty.
The violent drop of any acknowledgement of it at the next section where you emphasize the hihats instead is a bit strange.
It's more of a playing decision than a music-following decision. Also, I found it difficult to keep both the hihat and the kick simultaneously at the front of my mind's focus when charting this, due to their different sonic ranges, so I decided to focus primarily on one and ignore the other, if that makes sense. It is probably strange, but hopefully these bursts are distracting the players from that fact lol
[Chordslayer]
This is the first chart I looked at before actually starting modding. The song appeared to change every time I listened to it.
Though, surprisingly looking at the chart made it easier to follow.
Haha, just leaving that anecdote for posterity. Good shit lmao
00:00:565 (565|0,565|2) - 3, for sure. Done, I think.
00:07:862 (7862|0,7862|3,7930|3,7997|1,7997|2,8065|1,8133|0,8268|1,8268|2,8335|1,8403|3,8403|0) - The jacks are so violent for the introduction!
It does make me wonder what's coming up next if this is the intro. Slight nerf on the quieter ones whee
00:09:214 (9214|0,9214|3) - 3. This works
00:11:376 (11376|3,11376|0) - 3. You're very consistent on using 2 though, so I have to wonder if this is a fault - seems like a design choice. In the same way you seem to like column 3 haha, probably instinct more than anything else, but I'm keeping this in [14]
In that case, I have no idea if you did this by instinct or had a reason. In any case, it would be fine, but I'm still curious. Instinct indeed.
00:17:862 (17862|3,17862|2) - Same as before.
00:20:024 (20024|1,20024|0) - Yeap, definitely intentional.
I'd like if you did add the clap since it's fairly regular, and very stable, which helps a lot to understanding the song itself, I think!
00:30:835 - Oh. I guess not. Oh god handstream already
Holy damn, your structuring is so clean, lol.
01:02:727 - Didn't you drop this layer? I did, didn't I...
01:13:403 (73403|1,73403|0,73403|2,73470|1,73470|0) - hahaha this is so evil I love it lmao
01:22:524 (82524|0,82592|1,82592|3,82592|2,82660|0,82727|1,82727|2,82727|3,82795|0) - Can you shuffle these around a bit? Not sure if 4K allows for it, if I'm understanding your intent here.
01:51:241 (111241|0,111241|1,111308|0,111308|1,111376|1,111376|0) - The volume is a bit low for this to be a jack, I believe. Still a good foreshadowing for what's to come, I think.
And the previous phrase barely had any to close it this way.
02:14:479 - On second thought, the bass layer drop seems fine.
Whew. This is great, I swear. I was extremely sequential about the whole mod - so think of it more as impressions in sequence. Good stuff
Have a star for good luck.
Time to hitsound I reckon.