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Releases / Re: Final Fantasy VII OST Symphonic Remaster

« on: 2013-08-14 05:35:50 »

Siera is overmodulated maybe walz,too. I think they are all bit overmodulated. Aseri2 has strange noises (at 0:26 as example).
The drum in bat is too noticeable. Isn't it possible to use the vocals from the huge midi pack for the one winged angel theme (lib2)?

When you say they are "overmodulated", what exactly are you referring to in the tracks? Because they sound fine to me.

I can't hear any "strange noises" in that track on my studio headphones, my reference monitors or my pc speakers, so I'm going to have to assume it's a problem on your end (drivers? the media player you're using?) rather than the track itself.

Maybe this is just a personal preference thing, but the drum sounds fine to me on everything I've listened to it with.

It is possible to use the original choir and I did originally use it, but it sounds completely crap in the track because the original (from the PSX OST) isn't exactly the best quality. It also only made use of 2 sopranos, 2 altos, 2 tenors and 2 basses which is a small choir. So I just did them myself with my own software to get a bigger and better sound.

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Releases / Re: Final Fantasy VII OST Symphonic Remaster

« on: 2013-08-13 18:22:09 »

Cintro is wrong, there should be only one bell. But it sounds great so far.

My mistake. I just took the opening to "Those Chosen By the Planet" (which does have 2 bells in the intro) and assumed cintro just had 2 as well, without double checking first.

Thanks for pointing that out! I've uploaded a fixed version here - http://www.mediafire.com/listen/0waazczr3dxl5p7/cintro.ogg - which I'll add to my links in the first post.

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Releases / Re: Final Fantasy VII OST Symphonic Remaster

« on: 2013-08-13 13:21:10 »

Great news! I've been playing around with the settings in SUPER for a while and, after a few failed attempts, I've finally got the cutscenes sorted. They are no longer stretched and the quality is the same as the originals (to my eyes, at least). The .rar is now 172mb, up from 69mb, so that's an indication of the improvement in quality. I've replaced the old download links in my first post with the newly uploaded movies.rar files.

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Releases / Re: Final Fantasy VII OST Symphonic Remaster

« on: 2013-08-13 11:13:59 »

Do loop points work the same between ff7Music and the 2012/STEAM .ogg plugin?

I'm not sure about this; I haven't tested it (I don't have the original PC release installed anymore, so I can't test it out with FF7music. I don't remember uninstalling it though, so I have no idea what happened to it). All I know for sure is that these all work and loop fine when you put them in the music_ogg folder for the 2012/Steam versions (I've tested the soundtrack with both versions)

Looked at the two movies but the quality of the actual video is low, while the audio is superior--are they meant to just have their audio ripped from? The video looked stretched vertically... 

That's probably thanks to my inexperience with erightsoft's SUPER ©. I put the original AVIs through that so I could work with them (for some reason, Adobe Premiere couldn't import them unless I re-encoded them), then I encoded with SUPER again with my new music and put them back in the game. I just left everything on default settings. I'm sure with some fiddling I could make it look better but I'm not sure what I'm doing with all of these settings on SUPER! If I get better with using the program, I'll redo them in higher quality. Unless someone who knows what they're doing wants to give it a shot (I'll provide my audio files).

It's annoying that the music had to be in those 2 cutscenes (opening and ending) rather than just playing during the cutscene like all the other ones in the game, because then I could have just replaced the .ogg files with my new ones and not worry about the videos.

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Team Avalanche / Re: [HD Remake] Midgar sewers

« on: 2013-08-12 11:00:02 »

Wow, this looks incredible! Keep up the great work.

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Releases / [FF7PC-98/Steam] Final Fantasy VII OST Symphonic Remaster (2013-10-16)

« on: 2013-08-12 10:28:09 »

What is it?
This is a complete remastering of the original Final Fantasy VII soundtrack in a symphonic style. In other words, no use of any midi or synths; this uses only orchestral or rock instruments. The original soundtrack was quite synth-heavy, so this remastered soundtrack may be a bit too far from the original for some people, but for those who want a high quality symphonic soundtrack for the game, this could be the one for you.

Why did you do it?
I LOVE Uematsu's work; I'm a huge fan. I also love the old Final Fantasy games and have been enjoying re-playing Final Fantasy VII since it was re-released on PC last year. So when I discovered how to mod the audio in the game, I went ahead and did my own remasters of the soundtrack. After all, the original midi soundtrack for the PC is a disgrace to Uematsu's fine work. I wanted to do it in a purely symphonic style rather than just simply copy the original soundtrack (after all, if I wanted the original soundtrack or something close to it, I could have just used the Anxious Heart music mod or FinalFanTim's remastered soundtrack).


On the whole, I'm pleased with how everything turned out. There are a few things I'm not 100% happy with (for example - the choirs in One Winged Angel aren't perfect, but I don't think I can get them any better, considering the limitations of my software), but I feel I've achieved what I set out to do and I believe I've done justice to Uematsu's great work.


I've started uploading my remasters on youtube, so please check them out before downloading to get an idea of what the soundtrack will be like - http://www.youtube.com/user/symphonicremasters


Download Links

Disc 1:

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http://www.mediafire.com/download/p4j7rqrgs9l9ad1/disc1.part1.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/download/3dbbrch9nnmv0ow/disc1.part2.rar

Disc 2:

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http://www.mediafire.com/download/0j8j87o68o9385m/disc2.part1.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/download/ysyodex55wfnk26/disc2.part2.rar
Disc 3:

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http://www.mediafire.com/download/kf0xtb0oh3oc9w1/disc3.part1.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/download/0uu4wsdrg0hiiri/disc3.part2.rar
Disc 4:

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http://www.mediafire.com/download/xgjh12bbbsfuub1/disc4.part1.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/download/fu743nqn29q6w9i/disc4.part2.rar
Movies: (this contains the Opening and Ending cutscenes with my new remastered music)

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http://www.mediafire.com/download/zk2059fdppvlar4/movies.part1.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/download/f3jqu0l0a8b3arz/movies.part2.rar

http://uploaded.net/file/zdcs57s0/movies.part1.rar
http://uploaded.net/file/evvntgry/movies.part2.rar
How to install
Installation is very simple - simply replace the original music (and movie files, if you are using my cutscenes) with the ones in the links above.

Note: I recommend backing up your music folder, as well as the two cutscenes, just in case something goes wrong or you decide you want to go back to the original version

If you are using the 2012 version from the Square Enix store, you need to extract the ogg files from the links above into <drive letter - the drive onto which you installed the game>(for example - C:)/Program Files/Square Enix/FINAL FANTASY VII/data/music_ogg (if you are using a 32bit operating system. if you have a 64bit OS it'll be in "Program Files (x86)" instead).

If you are using the Steam version, you need to extract the ogg files into <drive letter - the drive onto which you installed the game>(for example - C:)/Program Files/Steam/SteamApps/common/FINAL FANTASY VII/data/music_ogg (again, if you have a 64bit OS it'll be in "Program Files (x86)" instead).

For the movies, you need to put opening.avi into the folder /FINAL FANTASY VII/data/movies and you need to put ending2.avi into the folder /FINAL FANTASY VII/data/lang-en/movies (I've only done the new music for the English text version)


All the ogg files should be looping perfectly fine, but if anyone does notice anything wrong please let me know.

Also, if anyone wants to upload the files to another file host (or seed it as a torrent), feel free to do so and then give me the links so I can add them to my ones above.

I hope you enjoy listening to this soundtrack as much as I've enjoyed producing it If you have any questions, please go ahead and ask.