I like hybrid sets, so here I am. First mod probably. Once we've set the stage what you guys would like to change and what not, we can go one more time into detail (possibly also spread wise).
[General]
00:18:609 place the greenline at least 5ms before the note or just at 00:18:471. When hitting early, the note is only 5% in volume. Even better, just delete it as well as 00:18:333 since nothing happens here anyways for some of the taiko diffs.
I would ask you guys to check your greenlines in general just to be sure. Try to remove obsolete ones. Makes it easier to prevent having wrong volumes or SVs.
[makimen's Inner Oni]
00:17:508 (1) - Good idea with the spinner, but I don't think it fits the bill. Would just go with a kat. Same for the next one.
[64bits_'s Oni]
[SN707 & Rycy's Oni]
00:57:691 (10) - Consider using a D and move 00:56:177 (2) ->00:56:453 + changing 00:56:040 (1) - also as a D. In this way (6) doesn't stay awkwardly alone while the end of this section gets more emphasized. Sure, some cymbals like 00:57:141 are not mapped, but that is due to the 1/4. I think rhythmically it works quite well.
If you feel like this might be too much, (6) could be changed to a normal note then. Works as well.
00:58:242 to around 01:07:049 falls a bit apart in structure but nothing too bad. Just here and there some suggestions I would give to counter that and have some more cohesive patterns if you will:
[Rycy's and SN707's Muzukashii]
00:25:489 (7) - Kat? It just alternates nicely when playing and becomes a intertwined pattern as d k k d d k.
00:36:223 - I might be a little to invasive, but how about d k k d k k k instead? Drums are quite prominent and the kats help to emphasize the vocals. I know it isn't 1 to 1 like 00:31:820 for example, but I think it is forgiving considering it is the end of the measurement. If you don't like the long pattern, you can just go for d k k d too. Or
One general thing I also would like to drop here which came to be after I scrambled around with the patterns I mentioned in the timeline tab (please check these first or check the review tab):
It incorporates what I mentioned before but also helps to have consistency with the tripplets. Like it goes from kkk to ddd and back to kkk at 00:13:654, 00:22:462 and 00:31:269. My bad if this is a little too invasive. It felt like if nothing else, it might give some more ideas about don placements.
00:55:214- Try the following pattern. Tried to go with the vocals a bit more. Feels more natural with the tripplet:
01:10:352 (4,5) - Considering moving one tick earlier as kats to follow with a kkk the vocals?
[Amasugi's Futsuu]
[Black's Kantan]
soon...
Recheck time.
[General]
[Storyboard]
The blur.jpg doesn't have to be that big. Could have went with half the size. I mean, at the end it is only 700 KB, but you should reduce the filesize for an image that is just a blur effect if possible. Quality doesn't really suffer because it being a blur. Same for vignette.png. Halving both could save you half a MB.
[Storyboard]
Just want to make sure that these flashing lights starting from 00:52:328 at the middle are intentional as they don't seem to follow anything. Seems unintentional to me since they follow really nothing. Would either remove or follow the drums.
[Syncro Oni]
00:34:842, 00:37:585, 00:40:328, etc. I want to mention just for the protocol again, that I still think these SVs on the single notes look not clean and should be just removed so they become cohesive patterns SV-wise. It is deceptive especially when playing with other mods.
If you don't want to change these, fine by me. Just need an explanation then since this is a BN's insurance.
[Tsukani's Oni]
00:51:642 (81) - Consider changing to d? Starting from 00:49:585 you have a d'n'b rhythm so not following it feels counterintuitive. That's why the d k d suggestion. d d k would be also possible but you might felt bored having it twice in a row.
[Futsuu]
00:24:899 (43) - D. Would be consistent to your previous finisher usage while the last finishers as kats feels good.
00:35:185 (71) -> 00:35:356 might actually feel more rhythmical. Same for 00:37:928 (79), 00:40:671 (87) and changing 86 to don.
01:04:328 (33,34) - Either move both half a beat earlier or (34) to 01:04:671 to have a consistent rhythm. Current one is too confusing since you change the rhythm basically midway. Or do something you did at 01:11:871 which works much better since it is clear to the melody.
I should get to work. But only till Muzukashii for now. Will continue once I have time.
[General]
[Kin's Kantan]
01:37:708 (42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50) - It would be nice if these were the reversed patterns (abekobe) of 01:32:908.
[KPY's Futsuu]
01:03:958 (199) -> 01:04:108? We can leave it if you want. I think this is a reference to the old TNT map where the slider starts at this point.
[Peaceful's Muzukashii]
[General]
03:21:947 - Usually I am all in for improvisation, but this came so sudden, that I had no idea what to follow in either of the diffs.. I left it as a "I guess am not accustomed to these patterns", but what tripped me off after checking again, is, that I still wanna follow the d K K d K K d ... you usually go for since at this time it is already engrained in me. Would just go for 1/2 in all diffs.. Very engaging idea, but having it only at one place makes it come off as not fitting. Reconsider it one more time maybe.
[Blizzard Oni]
00:48:447 - Could be deleted to make that SV change not look weird, but I am fine with keeping it if you want since I see the issue here.
03:05:947 (1172) & 03:11:280 (1214) - finisher. Your whole finisher concept kinda falls apart for me in this section because it feels quite inconsistent. 03:11:613 and up I understand, but it came so sudden without starting on a full-beat, that having some more finisher before that could help to midigate that problem.
[Oni]
[Muzukashii]
00:13:447 (54,55) - kk, so most of the section is an abekobe to the one at 00:07:447. Could do the same for 00:14:780 (61) - and change to don as well as for 00:15:280 (63,64,65,66) - to kkdd ?
00:16:947 (70,71,72,73) - kkdk I suggest. Seems more fitting to the overall tone. Alternates nicely.
[Futsuu]
[Syncro Oni]
01:38:956 - Would stop the kiai here because of the intensity ending here. SB does the same.
[Tsukani's Oni]
00:43:585 -> 00:43:756; delete 00:43:928 (50) - ? You go mostly by drums, but maybe it is worth following the vocal here.
[Muzukashii]
[Futsuu]
[Kantan]
00:53:356 - Would add a don here. Very intense. And you got a bigger break till the kiai anyways.
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00:43:585 -> 00:43:756; delete 00:43:928 (50) - ? You go mostly by drums, but maybe it is worth following the vocal here.
03:21:947 - Usually I am all in for improvisation, but this came so sudden, that I had no idea what to follow in either of the diffs.. I left it as a "I guess am not accustomed to these patterns", but what tripped me off after checking again, is, that I still wanna follow the d K K d K K d ... you usually go for since at this time it is already engrained in me. Would just go for 1/2 in all diffs.. Very engaging idea, but having it only at one place makes it come off as not fitting. Reconsider it one more time maybe.
03:05:947 (1172) & 03:11:280 (1214) - finisher. Your whole finisher concept kinda falls apart for me in this section because it feels quite inconsistent. 03:11:613 and up I understand, but it came so sudden without starting on a full-beat, that having some more finisher before that could help to midigate that problem.
00:13:447 (54,55) - kk, so most of the section is an abekobe to the one at 00:07:447. Could do the same for 00:14:780 (61) - and change to don as well as for 00:15:280 (63,64,65,66) - to kkdd ?
00:16:947 (70,71,72,73) - kkdk I suggest. Seems more fitting to the overall tone. Alternates nicely.
Yeah, unfortunately we will need another Futuu while renaming KPY's diff to "Ura Futsuu". the jump from Kantan to Futsuu is really big compared to the rest, so there is no way around it to have another diff. inbetween.
01:37:708 (42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50) - It would be nice if these were the reversed patterns (abekobe) of 01:32:908.
01:03:958 (199) -> 01:04:108? We can leave it if you want. I think this is a reference to the old TNT map where the slider starts at this point.
[Storyboard]
The blur.jpg doesn't have to be that big. Could have went with half the size. I mean, at the end it is only 700 KB, but you should reduce the filesize for an image that is just a blur effect if possible. Quality doesn't really suffer because it being a blur. Same for vignette.png. Halving both could save you half a MB.
00:34:842, 00:37:585, 00:40:328, etc. I want to mention just for the protocol again, that I still think these SVs on the single notes look not clean and should be just removed so they become cohesive patterns SV-wise. It is deceptive especially when playing with other mods.
If you don't want to change these, fine by me. Just need an explanation then since this is a BN's insurance.
00:51:642 (81) - Consider changing to d? Starting from 00:49:585 you have a d'n'b rhythm so not following it feels counterintuitive. That's why the d k d suggestion. d d k would be also possible but you might felt bored having it twice in a row.
00:24:899 (43) - D. Would be consistent to your previous finisher usage while the last finishers as kats feels good.
00:35:185 (71) -> 00:35:356 might actually feel more rhythmical. Same for 00:37:928 (79), 00:40:671 (87) and changing 86 to don.
01:04:328 (33,34) - Either move both half a beat earlier or (34) to 01:04:671 to have a consistent rhythm. Current one is too confusing since you change the rhythm basically midway. Or do something you did at 01:11:871 which works much better since it is clear to the melody.
Move the Taiko BG a bit down to smt like: 0,0,"fgf.jpg",0,70
In this way Rika, the stone and the text is visible.
00:18:609 place the greenline at least 5ms before the note or just at 00:18:471. When hitting early, the note is only 5% in volume. Even better, just delete it as well as 00:18:333 since nothing happens here anyways for some of the taiko diffs.
I would ask you guys to check your greenlines in general just to be sure. Try to remove obsolete ones. Makes it easier to prevent having wrong volumes or SVs.
00:17:508 (1) - Good idea with the spinner, but I don't think it fits the bill. Would just go with a kat. Same for the next one.
00:57:691 (10) - Consider using a D and move 00:56:177 (2) ->00:56:453 + changing 00:56:040 (1) - also as a D. In this way (6) doesn't stay awkwardly alone while the end of this section gets more emphasized. Sure, some cymbals like 00:57:141 are not mapped, but that is due to the 1/4. I think rhythmically it works quite well.
If you feel like this might be too much, (6) could be changed to a normal note then. Works as well.
00:58:242 to around 01:07:049 falls a bit apart in structure but nothing too bad. Just here and there some suggestions I would give to counter that and have some more cohesive patterns if you will:
00:25:489 (7) - Kat? It just alternates nicely when playing and becomes a intertwined pattern as d k k d d k.
00:36:223 - I might be a little to invasive, but how about d k k d k k k instead? Drums are quite prominent and the kats help to emphasize the vocals. I know it isn't 1 to 1 like 00:31:820 for example, but I think it is forgiving considering it is the end of the measurement. If you don't like the long pattern, you can just go for d k k d too. Or
One general thing I also would like to drop here which came to be after I scrambled around with the patterns I mentioned in the timeline tab (please check these first or check the review tab):
It incorporates what I mentioned before but also helps to have consistency with the tripplets. Like it goes from kkk to ddd and back to kkk at 00:13:654, 00:22:462 and 00:31:269. My bad if this is a little too invasive. It felt like if nothing else, it might give some more ideas about don placements.
01:10:352 (4,5) - Considering moving one tick earlier as kats to follow with a kkk the vocals?
Overall fine Futsuu, but I will come back one more time so we can check together some structures. It is just late for me right now.
Please don't give me kudosu on stuff you did not apply. Why do you make it so haaaaard for me. I told you now a few times that stuff is getting logged, and we need proper responses and follow the procedure. Remove the kd and respond to everything properly as you did in this post. Please stop with the "?" "d" and whatsoever responses. It is confusing to anyone else trying to understand what happened.
I'm not sure I understand. The synth sounds appear in both cases. I don't see what is currently followed because the two main layers are ignored:
The 2/1 guideline could be skipped given the nature of the song, but now we have two more solutions that help us with that.
As in: the full beats go with d k d k... rhythms but break at 00:51:642. The drum in the background is straightforward, so continue it in a straightforwad way seems to be better. It's up to Tsukani. Does he even talk? Just wondering since this person didn't replay once. I need an answer from him at least to know if they gave you the go to apply changes on their diffs.. (same for all other points)
Please give clear responses for also others to comprehend what happened.
It looks like it got changed, but I got no kudosu. So was this a mistake, or...?
Holy on. Why is this unnecessary? This isn't being picky. You can see that the change is not smooth. That's why I noted it. There is no reason to not smoothen it out. So please do that.