[News] Symphonic Fantasies Concert to Celebrate Music of Square Enix

I was there as well and i had some mixed feelings. There were great episodes, without question, but some arrangements seemed raw to me. For example, at the final fantasy prelude, they didn't really bring out the main melody that usually plays after the famous arpeggio accompaniment has run through once. also, i think the drum player was overrated, he should have just been a non-soloist in the orchestra. the drum solo he did at the encore was awfully long (2m15s) and didn't have anything to do with game music, it didn't even sound very impressive to me. not to mention the moderator with his sometimes flat and inappropiate comments..

but i don't want to lament too much here, it was still a great concert and i'll have to listen to it again to see if i don't just need time to appreciate some of the arrangements.. and kingdom hearts and secret of mana were superb anyways.

by the way, the asf posted here by squirrel is pretty low quality, are you sure there wasn't a higher quality stream? the sound-only radio broadcast probably has a better sound quality anyways, so it would be great to have that as well

edit: found this HQ cut:
http://isohunt.com/torrents/?ihq=symphonic+fantasies

edit2: most of it is already posted on youtube:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost...postcount=1047

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hmm interesting point squirrel, have to look for that when i listen to it again.

here's a 256kbs mp3 cut:
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edit: there's an error in the second track, secret of mana, at about 8:26, where it stops and repeats from some seconds earlier. should be repairable though.

along to the HQ video stream cuts:
symphonic fantasies | isoHunt - the BitTorrent and P2P search engine

and the youtube postings (just look for it on YT):
NeoGAF - View Single Post - Symphonic Fantasies (SE concert in Cologne) will be LIVE STREAMED tomorrow 12.09.2009

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Great idea, most of the pieces have already been identified on YT in KajunW's videos, except for the Kingdom Hearts medley i'm afraid:

YouTube - Symphonic Fantasies - Final Fantasy medley part 1/2
YouTube - Symphonic Fantasies - Chrono medley part 1/2
YouTube - Symphonic Fantasies - Secret of Mana medley part 1/2
YouTube - Symphonic Fantasies - Final Boss Medley

KH:
YouTube - Symphonic Fantasies - Kingdom Hearts medley part 1/2

if someone can post the times there, i'm sure Kajun will edit them into the video comments.

i could do a translation of the moderation, if subbing is really serious. The only thing i don't like about this is the moderator himself. He's often polemic and even insulting to the composers and musicians. one of his quotes: "In case you wondered why the moderator has become so fat this year, it was a different one last time."
it's actually more self-insulting, but it's rather displaced for a concert.

i've tried converting the asfs into avi xvid, but there's an audioshift unfortunately. i've worked it out to about -1150ms, but i can't get more precise than about 25-50ms. i guess it's xvid that does the desynching frequently.

edit: there's a playlist of all the original songs that were put into the arrangements, a pretty cool idea i think:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_lis...CAC6B97D609A7F

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Thanks a lot for the MP3 cut, Sorcerer88! I don't think there's an error in Secret of Mana Suite, but in Final Fantasy Suite, at 9:42, in the "Clash on the Big Bridge" introduction, there's a little interruption.

Sorry, the error is at 8:48, not 8:26, the audio stops and begins from a few seconds earlier. What you've found is another jump, so it seems like this cut is a bit broken and we'll need to find another one.. just to clarify, it's not my cut anyways, found it on a forum. There was another 192 kbs cut which didn't seem to have these problems, although i'm not sure it was fine either, but unfortunately i lost the link.

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