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Sonic the Hedgehog - Green Hill Zone by Dark Mario Bros

File Name: Sonic the Hedgehog - Green Hill Zone
Submitted: by Dark Mario Bros
Authors: Dark Mario Bros
Insert Size: 0x0698 bytes
Type: Song
Sample Usage: Many
Source: Port
Duration: 0:51
Featured: No
Description: The first stage BGM of Sonic the Hedgehog.
And this time sampled!
Sounds pretty close to it's original,
anyone with a good ear can notice the differences.
SPC

The biggest issue with this port is that a lot of the samples are detuned.

Now, a detuned port isn't necessarily bad on its own, and admittedly, I hesitated before rejecting this port, but I find that ultimately, the fact that the channels are detuned with respect to each other (instead of all being harmoniously detuned compared to the original) takes away a lot from the quality of the port. The biggest things I notice are the bell at the beginning, and the lead and background arpeggios starting around 0:14. I lowered test.brr and Bell.brr's tunings by about $10 and they were already sounding more accurate. As for SLead.brr, I lowered the tuning to $01 $FA to make it sound somewhat better. Note that these aren't definitive values by any means, but just rough approximations. I'd suggest playing with the tunings some more. I believe one thing that makes determining the tuning more difficult is the fact that some of the samples are not fully accurate to the original, the most obvious being Bell.brr.

In short, I'd suggest overhauling the samples and/or their tuning and comparing it closely to the original as you're doing so.

I'd also double-check your optimization. You've got many loops that are too short and only inflate the insert size (ex. [f8r8]2 or [j8]2[k8]3 (in this case; also, note that using the macro actually inflates the insert size because you're recalling the @ command multiple times even though you don't always need it), and any other single-note loops that repeat only 2 or 3 times), as well as some loops that could be label-looped but aren't. Also, places like the end of channel #4 could use superloops as well.