Board Thread:Weekly discussions/@comment-27385163-20180818164409/@comment-27385163-20180821095628

i hated the unused music personally. i think there was like 1 unused track i liked but i hated the rest. the thing about trying to imitate an orchestra's sound is that there's a lot of sampling and stuff like that, that well, needs to go into making it sound authentic.

and peter mcconnel did a fucking amazing job, and i mean A+mazing job at imitating its sound in lost city's theme. hell, i'm not even sure if it was all just kontakt library sampling but if so, he's a great musician.

now steam ages also goes for this psuedo orchestra thing but the music...the compression whole-heartedly does not help the fact it's trying to sound majestic and orchestra-like but the composer likely used soundfonts and no kind of dynamic samples off of anything.

and it sounds awful. the instruments sound super fake (in how the composer wrote it, and the general soundfont samples), and the compression is awful. maybe if the music wasn't compressed, it'd be somewhat more decent.

the composer,looking at his work, is a c- tier musician. he's nowhere near professional-level musician, but he's slightly above, not by a lot, but by people like peamix. the only thing that sets this guy apart from people like peamix and others are the sample quality and a bit more skill here and there.