Having fooled around with sequencing for almost one year I'm finally starting to feel that my productions are good enough to post here.
First, a quick overview on my working methods. I originally used LMMS (Linux Multimedia Studio, an open source sequencer for WIndows/Linux that's still somewhat buggy and under development) as my sequencer, and Audacity for finishing touches. Now I've started using Podium Free as my sequencer. As for instruments, I use whatever free VSTs and Soundfonts (whose contents are not too questionable legally, I generally only use Soundfonts that either are recommended on various forums or ones that appear homemade enough) I can find. Since I mostly prefer acoustic sounding instruments, this narrows down my selection a lot, and it has taken a while to find decent sounding instruments. My instrument playing skills are terrible, so I create my pieces with pianoroll editing by mouse, not recording.
As for music styles, thay can vary a lot: Metal, orchestral sounding (I'm nowhere good enough for real orchestral pieces, but I like the sound of classical instruments) and whatever the generic videogame music style Touhou uses can be called. I listen to videogame BGMs a lot, and that may have more or less effect on my style. Also, I'm still only learning a lot of stuff generally used in music making, so don't expect these to be top quality.
And then on to the music. Newer ones are higher on the list.:
Reign of Ruse - arrange of "Loose Rain" -
Youtube linkOr whatever the name is. Loose Rain, Lose Rain, anything. I even played a joke on that with the title - If it turns out ZUN was actually meaning "Ruse Reign" (as in, Cirno thinks she's the strongest but her reign is just a ruse), I'll probably burst out laughing by then.
Another epic song, I pretty much fell in love with this song instantly when I got mangled by the 12.8 extra stage over and over again. However, it's also another huge pain to arrange. It took me really long trying out possible combinations and pretty much nothing worked as I wanted. Fortunately I think it's good enough now that I've finished it.
It also came out with ridiculous overkill bass first time and I had to eliminate some of it, so I hope I didn't overkill the amount. It sounds kinda high-pitched through my speakers connected to my computer, which eliminates bass quite badly normally. Otherwise it has sounded good enough.
Feast of Desperate Unveiling - arrange of "Demystify Feast" -
Youtube linkStill improving my orchestra imitation.
Another awesome Touhou song (seriously, there are way too many of them) that can never have too many arranges. It has some parts I especially like but overall it's O.K. in my opinion. I still need to improve my skills with using solo strings (as you can see in the beginning).
This was practically something I did to break away from a long period of trying to compose something original but failing due to having no inspiration. I fear my standards in accepting melodies have come too high after arranging a lot of ZUN's stuff...
Cantor's Nightmare - arrange of "Bell of Avici ~ Infinite Nightmare" -
Youtube linkIt turned out completely different than I had planned. Which actually is quite interesting. The original plan was a full heavy metal arrange, but I can assert you all that in my opinion this is worlds more interesting.
The title has two meanings here, I'll let you figure them out yourselves.
Genocide Wakes up - arrange of "Sleeping Terror" -
Youtube linkThe title is there to remind you that waking up Yuka Kazami in the midst of her nap is usually a bad idea.
This was pretty much done to test a new free DAW (Podium Free) I found while searching the web for potentially useful new tools. It seems to work quite well, so I'll probably keep using it instead of LMMS in the future unless some extremely severe bug crops up.
Also a word of caution, this song has an extremely loud bass timpani. While it fits the song quite well IMO, if your audio playback emphasizes bass frequencies a lot it might be quite uncomfortably loud. I pretty much arranged it using headphones so I have no idea if the bass is disturbingly loud from a huge subwoofer, but I do know it's quite loud.
The Ancient War ~ Suwa Foughten Field - arrange of "The Venerable Ancient Battlefield ~Suwa Foughten Field" -
Youtube linkI guess I outdid my previous ones hard here. Or at least that's how I feel like. Took the entire week but turned out absolutely awesome. Suwa foughten field is a challenging song with lots of tempo changes that have to be handled carefully. However, when you finally think you nail it, it sounds awesome. This one is quite close to metal with some classical parts thrown in. Hopefully you find it as good as I do.
Wrath of Namazu - arrange of "Unknown X - Unfound Adventure" -
Youtube linkIt so just happens that a certain big fish from Touhou 12.3 is my all time favorite Touhou character, and the theme of said fish also one of my favorite songs in the whole Touhou project. Another one I haven't heard many remixes of yet, but that's possibly because the song is quite new. As for my remixed version, it was done rather hastily and I had some technical trouble exporting it, so I'm not exactly sure of it's quality. Pretty much just warming up after a long break from sequencing.
Yakumo's Law - arrange of "Night Falls ~ Evening Star" -
Youtube linkTitle inspired by a certain quote from Perfect Cherry Blossom. Night Falls is an awesome song but in terms of the amounts of remixing it tends to fall in the shadow of Yukari's other theme, Necrofantasia. It's still an interesting song to remix, since the two different moods of the song give a chance for interesting variations in instrumentation. Also, thank god I'm using mouse editing instead of actual playing, since while the song's quite nice, playing it on an instrument must be absolute hell. No kidding.