The Black Mages (Nobuo Uematsu)

Moonlight Soldier · Post by **Moonlight Soldier** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 8:37 pm

I am seriously loving this.

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 9:46 pm

inthesto · Post by **inthesto** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 11:14 pm

[quote="flint_the_dwarf"]but that's to be expected when you're converting midi sounds to rock.[/quote]

Well, it's not like they "converted" the MIDI sounds, per se. This was performed with real live instruments, so they really could have arranged it with whichever instruments they wanted, guitars included. Force Your Way was more or less guitar-driven.

Also, you could compare the Guilty Gear X OST to the GGX Hard Rock Tracks.

Sushi2 · Post by **Sushi2** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 2:52 pm

Too bad we'll never get a chance to see them live.

Sushi2 · Post by **Sushi2** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 2:53 pm

Here is a web page with more info on them http://www.square-enix-usa.com/uematsu/black_mages/

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 3:55 pm

Thanks for the link. ^_^

inthesto wrote:
flint_the_dwarf wrote:but that's to be expected when you're converting midi sounds to rock.
Well, it's not like they "converted" the MIDI sounds, per se. This was performed with real live instruments

Yeah, I already said that...

I wrote:But this isn't midi quality music here, it's redone with drums, guitars, keyboards, and synthesizers. But it still maintains that nostalgic midi sound, just... much nicer.

From what I've heard, Uematsu wanted to keep it as close to the originals as possible so it would maintain that nostalgic value. But we're not really going anywhere with this. ^_^; You don't like prog, that's about it. This is just more or less how prog is arranged.