Well, that kind of depends on what you meant by 'real guitar' versus 'synthesized'. All of the guitars used were sampled, not synthesized (I think, anyways; 's always possible I'm not paying attention) -- it's just that the recording quality, etc. are less than stellar, and they're without any human playing sounds (fret noise, etc).
But anyways, yeah, about what you said on the other one -- the goal I aim for (currently, anyways) when arranging videogame music is to 'color' / 'complete' them, not actually change their style or contents. I like to be able to neatly delineate which part is my doing from which is others', as I basically see reusing and altering material by someone else when you don't actually significantly improve upon the original (or strongly develop apart from), as, well... Basically lousy and plagiarism-y. Potentially, if it was actually well re-done as something else, then yeah, a remix / rearrangement can be neat -- but something like 90% of such things just end up sounding distinctly worse than the original to me. :/
... And, yeah, I don't have nearly the level of confidence in my composing abilities yet to think I can do that 'significantly improve' thing on the composition of anything that I'd see as good enough to want to bother arranging anyways.
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Well, that kind of depends on what you meant by 'real guitar' versus 'synthesized'. All of the guit
What I meant by real vs synth is that sampled audio from a guitar replayed through keyboard or software lacks characteristics of what a guitar sounds like when played on an actual guitar. Most notably the remnant hum from previous notes and the flowing way real'taur sounds.
And yes you are very right. Remixes are only worthy if they are an improvement (ie DHT's two different covers of Roxette's song "Listen to your Heart"), and just a cheap imitation or blatant rip-off the rest of the time (Kid Rock's "All Summer Long" definitely comes to mind).
What I meant by real vs synth is that sampled audio from a guitar replayed through keyboard or softw
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