MRC MuSiXmas Challenge: Closed

10 days before Christmas we got the idea to do a nice theme-based music competition. The MRC MuSiXmas Challenge was born. In Christmas spirit, every contestant would get one prize by default: a cool MSX button. The winner of the challenge (soon to be announced) wins an extra prize: ASCII's MSX Magazine 1 (including MSXPLAYer). 10 days later we had received 11 entries. Time for an overview:

01. Navodad - (mp3)

Created by: Dioniso Hernandez

Soundchips: PSG

02. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence - (mp3)

Created by: DrMSX

Soundchips: PSG, SCC, MSX-MUSIC

03. Xmas Files - (mp3)

Created by: Meits

Soundchips: OPL4 (Moonsound)

04. Oldschool MSXmas - (mp3)

Created by: BiFi

Soundchips: PSG

05. Jingle Things - (mp3)

Created by: Joram van Hartingsveldt

Soundchips: OPL4 (Moonsound)

06. White Christmas - (mp3)

Created by: Wiz

Soundchips: PSG, SCC

07. Joulubugi - (mp3)

Created by: ccfg

Soundchips: PSG

08. Iceworld - (mp3)

Created by: Frederik Boelens

Soundchips: OPL4 (Moonsound)

09. SD-Xmas - (mp3)

Created by: Frederik Boelens

Soundchips: OPL4 (Moonsound)

10. KVK-Xmas - (mp3)

Created by: Vincent van Dam

Soundchips: PSG

11. SillyCone Christmas - (mp3)

Created by: Wolf_

Soundchips: OPL4 (Moonsound)For your convenience, we have added mp3 versions of all entries, recorded with 'the real thing'. As announced earlier, Hally of Vorc.org will now have a good listen to all these entries and decide which one is going to be the winner. The MRC would like to thank everybody who contributed to this challenge for the great entries. Once again, you have shown how much one can do with MSX, even in a short timespan. Keep up the good job!

Comments (25)

By snout

Ambassador (5381)

27-12-2004, 03:48

Sorry for the pops'n'hisses in the MP3s, guyz... although they do add to a certain 'retro feel', better MP3 files will be uploaded soon!

By Meits

Paragon (1057)

27-12-2004, 03:49

Crap to emulators again

... My tune sounds awful on a real machine... Another disappointment...

I wonder why the envelopes of ownwaves are different on the real thing

By Meits

Paragon (1057)

27-12-2004, 03:50

@Snout: So the clicks should not be in my tune on a real MSX? That might enlighten the disappointment which I feel...

By wolf_

Ambassador (5677)

27-12-2004, 03:52

in these mp3's, every entry has ticks ..

By Meits

Paragon (1057)

27-12-2004, 03:54

I got little worried that the OFF events on the emulator were faster than the ones on the real thing... but on the other hand completely the other side around as well...

if the fantasia ticks, the OFF is too slow, but the choirs releaserate is way too fast...

/me confused...

By wolf_

Ambassador (5677)

27-12-2004, 04:01

Which emu? iirc openmsx recently has underwent some opl4-envelope-fixing

By Meits

Paragon (1057)

27-12-2004, 04:05

blueMSX 2.1.

Something got me thinking now... I wonder (for myself) howmuch use it'll be to release music as a plain MWM. It seems not to sound how it supposed to do once it's in the wide open world. I'll stick to mp3 exclusively from now on, to avoid future disappointments.

I do have a real moonsound, but it lacks RAM until now... That's why I chose for the emulator. I never thought that the envelopes I made manually would crack up on another platform

By BiFi

Prophet (3142)

27-12-2004, 07:26

Hmm, Oldschool MSXmas sound better on my NMS8250... I have a feeling Snout used his turboR and set it to 50Hz when playing... I hear the glitches

Apparently the PLAY statement is fully optimized for that frequency, as I still hear the glitches I know from the PLAY on my turboR and the 50Hz tempo is faster as well.

By BiFi

Prophet (3142)

27-12-2004, 08:22

I took the liberty to make an MP3 at right speed etc. You can download it here.

By BiFi

Prophet (3142)

27-12-2004, 08:56

Good job to all indeed. There are some quite nice tunes in there. Pity there wasn't a 12th entry though... Would have been nice for the "12 Days of Christmas" idea or something.

By Meits

Paragon (1057)

27-12-2004, 13:21

Recorded the tune myself, as it should sound:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~jelle77/Meits%20_%20The%20Xmas-files.mp3

It differs quite a lot.

By Sonic_aka_T

Prophet (2365)

27-12-2004, 13:26

Okay, new rule... From now on all OPL4 songs must use those PSG/SCC sounds!!! Dang that sounds cool!!!

By wolf_

Ambassador (5677)

27-12-2004, 13:37

huu... well, sofar for my 640k brainwash-tour then

By Grauw

Paladin (1010)

27-12-2004, 15:31

Meits, I want to make an RPG with a snow area and your song in it

. Great tune! And er... well, emulation isn't perfect, there's nothing new.

~Grauw

By Grauw

Paladin (1010)

27-12-2004, 15:43

And I like Iceworld, Oldschool Xmas, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence and SillyCone Christmas a lot too! And the rest of course...

They're all great tunes! A valueable addition to my MP3 collection, definitely.

By DarQ

Paladin (844)

27-12-2004, 16:33

where are the .ogg files??

By wolf_

Ambassador (5677)

27-12-2004, 17:01

are there OGG files?

By Abi

Champion (441)

27-12-2004, 17:38

nice!! Good job to all of you, you all got short time for this challange and still 11 entrees, more as a expected!!!

By chaos

Champion (276)

27-12-2004, 17:43

yeah.. it was a very nice challenge.. I hope more music-compo's will come in the future

By DarQ

Paladin (844)

27-12-2004, 18:29

no, but i prefer ogg over mp3

By Grauw

Paladin (1010)

27-12-2004, 22:37

Right, MP3 isn't a free format... My favorite MP3 converter (dBpowerAmp) went to a paid version for MP3 encoding because they were forced to by Thomson (who bought the rights from Frauenhofer). In any case, I am most definitely not going to pay for that, so whenever I convert to an audio format, I convert to OGG now

.

~Grauw

By Meits

Paragon (1057)

27-12-2004, 23:02

I once gave ogg the benevit of the doubt to give it a try... The size was nice, but the sound was horrible, like having your equalizers in an overreacted V shape... I stick to mp3, cuz ogg is only for my computer and mp3 is of multipurpose on more devices I have... And why bother about a few mb per tune since there's enough place to store stuff anyway...

ogg, nice try, but nothing for me...

By wolf_

Ambassador (5677)

28-12-2004, 00:37

uh .... ?

What ogg encoder did you use then? I use Oggdrop .. no issues with Oggdrop... and don't you just love that rotating stoned fish?

By ro

Prophet (2695)

28-12-2004, 09:28

Any body familair with MP+ ?
that'l change your live. GREAT quality over beter crunching and it's free.
testing results turned out mp+ to be my fave. period. although I use mp3 to upload for all you folks who don't 'ave the mp+ plugin registered yet...

By BiFi

Prophet (3142)

28-12-2004, 10:39

although I use mp3 to upload for all you folks who don't 'ave the mp+ plugin registered yet...Sounds like MP+ isn't free either.

My MSX profile

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