Upgrade (Metroid)

Environmental Tension

Item Room/Bridge

Tourian

Ending Redux Version 2

We have a new staff member: Nyte Hisagi! He is joining the MREO Team as Reorchestrator and Online Activities Director.

A while ago we asked the fans which direction we should go musically. The majority of them answered: “Finish the Metroid album”.

And so we shall.

The album will most likely be completed by the end of this year. There are five songs left to be reorchestrated: Ridley, Kraid, Mother Brain, Norfair, and the Get Item theme. We will release each of these songs as soon as they are finished. Once those five are finished, we may remaster some songs so the album is as consistent as possible.

Here is one last tidbit of information regarding the Metroid album: we will be producing a high-quality physical CD of the album, most likely priced at the cost of production. More details to come.

Get Item Theme Redux from Metroid Prime.

Get Item Theme Redux

To help get you stoked for our Crateria Surface Redux, here is Floyd Race from Jet Force Gemini. If you’re interested in hearing some of my other non-Metroid reorchestrations, click here.

Floyd Race

Entrance (Metroid)

Brinstar (Metroid)

Lower Norfair Redux (Super Metroid)

I would say that Lower Norfair Redux is our first true redux as the jump in quality is almost palpable. There are two reasons for that leap: Garritan Personal Orchestra 4 and Reaper. Before I purchased GPO4 in October of 2010 I had been using the Garritan sounds included with Finale 2010 (most of which is downright awful)  for all of my pieces. The first song to utilize the GPO4 library was the ending theme redux from Metroid. As you can hear, GPO4 is quite a step up from the Finale samples. Finale is a fantastic tool for putting notes on a page and arranging them, but it flounders when it comes to making the song sound just right. Reaper allows me to refine and master the music in a way that Finale could never do.

Our newest staff member, Draconic, was instrumental in helping Lower Norfair Redux reach its full potential; Draconic will be an invaluable part of the team as Musical Advisor.

From here on out, every piece we release will be of the same quality as Lower Norfair Redux, if not better. In the coming months we will be working to bring every piece released thus far to our new standard of quality. To meet that goal we will need the greatest people in the world to give us feedback: you, the fans. Your feedback is vital to our success, not only does it allow us to improve upon our pieces, but it tells us which direction we should go. Whether it is about the music, the website, or our facebook page, any and all feedback is welcome and greatly appreciated.

In other news, the download and listen pages will be completely up to date as of this post. Also, as you can see, there is a facebook like box on the right hand side of our site.

Escape (Metroid)

This month’s song is Phendrana Drifts from Metroid Prime.

Phendrana Drifts

]]> http://www.mreomusic.com/january-update/feed 1 http://www.mreomusic.com/christmas-update http://www.mreomusic.com/christmas-update#comments Sat, 25 Dec 2010 17:00:07 +0000 Light_of_Aether http://www.mreomusic.com/?p=323 Merry Christmas! We have two songs for you today: Torvus Bog from Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and a redux of the ending theme from Metroid. Enjoy!

Torvus Bog (Echoes)

Ending Redux (Metroid)

Upper Brinstar (Super Metroid)

Main Theme (Echoes)

Get Item Theme

P.s. We know that the listen and download pages need to be updated, for now listen to the new tracks on their respective posts. Also, you can download the newest tracks by right-clicking the hyperlink and selecting “Save as…”.