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| NeatoAnAccount 03/17/21 9:44:33 PM #34: | Epyo posted... I love the writeup summaries :) Honestly, and I know this is sacrilege, but I don't like the soundtrack very much. Uematsu is a good composer, but he isn't a very good producer. Meaning, his core competency is putting the right notes in the right order. He's not good at telling the computer how to approximate a human, emotive performance, or ~*~crafting a sonic aesthetic~*~ This worked great in the NES era because the sound chip did basically 100% of the work of ~*~crafting the sonic aesthetic~*~ if you're not an audio engineering wizard like Tim Follin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQlLl2j5THQ The only real difference in the "aesthetic" of the soundtracks between Mario and Bubble Bobble and Final Fantasy was the actual compositions, because the soundtracks all had basically the same sounds. But now in the PS1 era your soundtrack can be literally anything, so the composer has to choose good sounds, and make sure they sound good together. And honestly Uematsu is bad at it. The strings are the worst offender here. They just sound unpleasant. The problem isn't that they're video-game-y, it's that Uematsu's using them like classical strings, even though they start way louder than real strings, and lack dynamic range. It's like you're supposed to imagine real humans playing these string parts with emotion, because Uematsu didn't put it in. I wish they got Yoko Shimomura to do it. She composed SMRPG just a year prior. She can do fakey strings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWpsEP17Yug and industrial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKQbXaNJ5LQ and every song she makes just bops. My favorite song so far is the boss battle theme. It sounds like it's being played in a big empty high school gymnasium, but all the individual instruments sound like they were recorded in the same big empty high school gymnasium. This song's general live-rock-concert sound feels like an intentional choice, while the rest of the soundtrack feels like the composer gave up once he typed the pitches into the software. Mako reactor theme is real good too, the focus is mostly on the nifty piano and horns and the 12/8 time signature. RoseChevalier posted... This is a great topic Aww thanks :D She might have idk. I remember Barret was all "wait is Sephiroth a good guy" because he's also trying to stop the Mako reactors, and I don't remember Tifa saying anything but she might have. --- Neato, an account ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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