I on the regular like to go back and listen to stsrcraft’s soundtrack. So many hours spent in that game, oh the memories. I’m definitely going to listen to this!
Good job! I han hear some artifacts here and there (those fast guitar and bass parts especially) but it’s not distracting and compared to the originals side-by-side much more enjoyable.
I‘d love it if you could take a swing at the Zerg. Which AI did you use and for what, if you don’t mind me asking.
For the instruments I have a private plugin originally based on spleeter and I have LALAL.ai. Some tracks (like the drums) which it’s not as good for, I get my buddy to extract in FL studio (its implementation is surprisingly not terrible) since I use ableton. Sometimes the result is good, sometimes it’s not. There’s only so much you can pull out of these old tracks but the fact we can do it at all is pretty mind-blowing.
From what source? To be a remaster you’d need access to the original tracks or even higher quality ones. If you used the in-game music it’s not a remaster, at best it’s a remix.
That’s what I thought too. But then again, there’s no “The Starcraft Band” which could record a new master. So I think that in the case of video games soundtracks which are not attributed to specific artists, “remaster” becomes a bit of a fuzzy term. You mention remix, but it could also be a cover or it could be accepted as a remaster (if it would be something official).
All of the above, including my original question is just curiosity and not meant to diminish the effort put into creating the audio tracks.
From the description he put on the per track pages he just added a bunch of equalizers, compressors, stereo imaging shapers and increased the BPM because why not. Oh and also he added “audiophile grade” to the title for good measure.
Every instrument has been separated out and reconstructed by AI so technically it’s more of a “remaster” than most of the commercially released “remasters” of older music. Or the best we’re ever gonna get anyway. That other comment is just salty.
If you’re in doubt just listen to the new one and old one side by side - it’s not even close.
Ever considered the Command and Conquer Red Alert series? For me Red Alert 2 is the most memorable, but all of their songs are very metal and industrial sounding. I’d recommend even just checking out the menu music for Red Alert 2, it goes hard.
Hell March and stuff already has some really good remakes, so I don’t think I can improve on those much. But I’m sure some of those haven’t received a lot of attention.
This is the kind of self promotion that Reddit once thrived upon and which made it an interesting place to find user made content. It's fine.
All of those "no self promotion" rules seemed like they came into existence to combat spammers... but really in the end, it just turned into a way to clear the subreddits and make advertising space for big brands instead of the little guys.
“Self promotion” can and often is conversation. Ads are ever just ads. Of course rules and expectations were put in place to push for a divisive paradigm that only “the big guy” can afford to sidestep.
Can’t have advertisers’ treasured impressions diluted by discourse that happens to involve a specific person’s (often) passionate labors. Drink your multinational conglomerate verification can now.
That’s indeed how I view this rule as a mod. Self promotion is ok, “excessive” self promotion isn’t. I’m aware it is a bit vague, maybe we should explain it better on the sidebar to avoid unnecessary conflict. I’ll bring it up on the moderation Discord.
But to make it clearer, my opinion on the matter is that excessive self-promotion amount to the following cases :
Making multiple post about the same topic, multiples time is a shortish amount of time. Like posting once, then reposting the following day if your topic didn’t get as much traction as you’d have wished
Promoting things for monetary gains (sponsored links, etc.) without first disclosing it. As an example, I removed a service offering a backgammon online platform, by removing their first topic in order to make sure it was legit, which it seems to have been, not a ads/virus ridden website, which it wasn’t, and not paid, which it didn’t seem to be. As they happened to have made a new post in the meantime, I did not restore the first one, but did not remove the second one.
Of course that’s my opinion of the rules, the other mods may have a different opinion on the matter. I try my best to find a balance in my decisions.
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