Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-12432848-20140117170254/@comment-24145588-20140118185015

Noivern6 wrote: It seems that BBB was going for the improvisation with grace notes and sixteenth notes style that the saxophone is known for... Listening to the Sox alone exposes its flaws. Instead of the well executed improv style, I hear rhythm/tempo mistakes. Am I the only one who feels this way?

You clearly know (and care!) a lot more about music than most of us; I haven't heard a Sox yet (still not available in the Windows version), but I doubt I'll notice anything like you're describing. I might be able to tell "there's something off there," but wouldn't be able to quantify what it is.

That being said, I think it would be a lot to ask, to hear a "well executed improv style" from something that's just a cut-and-paste of a small number of canned notes. There isn't really anyone playing a song, you know. ;-) For what it is, I think the developers of the animation/music engine, and the artists who constructed the singing and dancing monsters from a few .PNG images and XML files, have done a remarkable job. And if they notice something off, it can always be fine-tuned on later updates.

Relishgargler wrote: if he's based on the saxophone, and his song is in the style of most modern jazz sax, there's a good chance he'll be going on mute. The sax can be beautiful, but the vast majority of music with a sax feature makes me want to shove pencils in my ears.

Oh, please, please tell me that one of the names used for the Sox is "Kennyg". ;-)

Relish, you probably already know this, but just in case people don't: You don't have to mute a monster to turn its music off. When you go into the "Move" interface for a monster, you can lower its volume down to zero. That way, it will still be dancing and lip-syncing, instead of lying there snoring. I think it looks much better that way. I've turned off the sound on some of the particularly obnoxious vocals, and kept mainly instrumentals. My Plant Island is essentially one big drumline, but all the monsters are doing their funny little dances even after I've shut them up.