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Final Fantasy VII Concert turned scam.. not all songs are live, and 3/4 are MiDi Files
- Thread starter Mgs2master2
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I totally forgot about those. Their website does say the arrangements are exclusive however.
From my understanding, the Symphonic Fantasies concerts are quite different from Distant Worlds. I do hope they expand outside of Europe eventually.
I went to Distant Worlds 2018 in LA. Artie Roth was the conductor and I thought it was just phenomenal.
My SO and I got tickets for both the KHO and FF7 concerts and we're super excited. KHO was fantastic—they put a lot of thought and time into the set list and I def cried.
We drove to FF7 today, super excited: as soon as the midi started playing, my heart sank. There were segments of like 14 mins of just mini with the orch just in the dark. I expected more from Artie Roth, and after how great KHO was more of Le Fe Savage or whatever the name of the company was. It was okay but absolutely disappointing to just sit there watching a video of the game with the original audio. Also there were almost no new compositions...like everything was from distant worlds....
Also the "exclusive trailer" was super short and no new substantial info other than the release date :/
My SO and I got tickets for both the KHO and FF7 concerts and we're super excited. KHO was fantastic—they put a lot of thought and time into the set list and I def cried.
We drove to FF7 today, super excited: as soon as the midi started playing, my heart sank. There were segments of like 14 mins of just mini with the orch just in the dark. I expected more from Artie Roth, and after how great KHO was more of Le Fe Savage or whatever the name of the company was. It was okay but absolutely disappointing to just sit there watching a video of the game with the original audio. Also there were almost no new compositions...like everything was from distant worlds....
Also the "exclusive trailer" was super short and no new substantial info other than the release date :/
Why do people keep posting that Sephiroth midi? I really doubt that was one of the songs they played in midi form, as they'd have a choir and whatnot for that. And are you sure that's the quality of the music, I thought that was from the first PC release.
Does anyone have any examples of actual songs Midified at the concert?
Does anyone have any examples of actual songs Midified at the concert?
Yo, if Square can't even get the rights to their own concert, the fact we even saw two songs in Smash Bros is Herculean effort.
It also doesn't look like they had a large ensemble. The Symphonic Fantasies arrangements are for a BIG orchestra.
Square isn't producing the concerts though, WildFaery is. Just feels weird to me that compared to their KH concerts this one was so lacking.
I'm shocked to hear that he was conducting. Money is money, but events like this will make people question his own DW concerts in the future.
Yep! I was excited to see him expecting a DW tier performance but def am going to be extra wary in the future.
There sure is a lot of hyperbole in this thread. The in-game audio segments were a little strange, especially the first time, and the Compilation of FF7 bits were plain unnecessary, but very few of those tracks would have made for interesting live performances, so it's not like we were really missing out on anything (though I would have liked to see them try Crazy Motorcycle live). Otherwise they played most everything you would expect from a VII concert and then some. All told, I think they felt they had to pad because there are only so many unique interesting performances you can get out of one game, even one with as great a soundtrack as VII.
Personally the only other missing track I would have liked to hear them do would have been Birth of a God.
Personally the only other missing track I would have liked to hear them do would have been Birth of a God.
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Aerith's theme was played twice in midi form before finally getting a full version. a lot of the map music was in midi form that I don't know the name of off the top of my head...
One Winged Angel wasn't.
Hmm, I'm seeing tweets saying the orchestra was playing along with some of the video scenes, so it's not all bad
There were both. Like the scene where Cloud meets Aeris with the slow version of her theme? That was the in-game track. The actual performance of Aeris' theme came later, around the end of Disc 1 (the show was structured like a full play through of the game).
Conflicting reports it seems.
Well for one, "half the live music" was definitely not solo piano. I think only 3 or 4 tracks were. Off the top of my head they were the boss battle theme, the Kalm music, and Tifa's Theme. There might have been another, but I can't think of what it World have been.
That's nuts, because their concert series are normally great.
I went to Distant Worlds II when it came to Atlanta and it was amazing.
I went to Distant Worlds II when it came to Atlanta and it was amazing.
I can't tell if this is an exaggeration or not. I've been to both a FF Distant Worlds concert and the Kingdom Hearts one last year, both were outstanding. I skipped out on this one and regretted doing so, but now I'm reading it was THAT bad? But there are also conflicting reports of folks saying it was great. Maybe I dodged a bullet but maybe it's not as bad as the post in the op is claiming it was.
I have been to every single final fantasy concert in Chicago since 2005 with Dear Friends. Been to VGL, Zelda multiple times, both KH shows, overworld, and Intimate music. This was 100% the weakest show they have ever done.
That said, I still enjoyed it. The problem with the original OST moments is they they were simply too long. They were successful when they were used as transition moments but that only really happened at the end. The start of the show was super strong but then they played OG music after that for just far too long for comfort.
If you have all the orchestra tracks of ffvii music that was basically the concert. I can see people being unhappy with that.
That said, I still enjoyed it. The problem with the original OST moments is they they were simply too long. They were successful when they were used as transition moments but that only really happened at the end. The start of the show was super strong but then they played OG music after that for just far too long for comfort.
If you have all the orchestra tracks of ffvii music that was basically the concert. I can see people being unhappy with that.
Paying 77.77 for some sound files to get blasted through speakers and the exclusive chance to get marketed to, incredible
That's a shame, at least there was some good to come out of it.
Looking at the set list for Distant Worlds London, it looks like they played about a dozen songs. That's about what they played tonight.
Prelude
Opening/Bombing Mission
Battle music
Kalm
J-E-N-O-V-A
Cosmo canyon
Aerith's Theme
Tifa's Theme
Chocobo them
Jenova Absolute
One Winged Angel
FF Theme
I think I might be missing one or two, but that's most of what was performed live.
It sounds like it was a case of managing expectations - people expected it to be all orchestral the entire time, and it wasn't. Some people were fine with it, some weren't.
I was there and it was too much but didn't ruin my time. The Distant Worlds crew played all the ff7 music they created already and no new ones. seems the midis were just filler. I was ok with it but it should have been less
Wow as someone who visited a KH concert, multiple Distant World's and Final Symphony concerts this is disgusting.
There's no excuse for this. Especially considering how expensive these are. Get your shit together who ever organized and is responsible for this. Hope this gets more attention.
There's no excuse for this. Especially considering how expensive these are. Get your shit together who ever organized and is responsible for this. Hope this gets more attention.
Lmao what a shit show
way better than midi, a real performance at least, lol
i love tsuko.G so much
way better than midi, a real performance at least, lol
i love tsuko.G so much
Can someone clear up whether they used music from the PS1 release or the 1998 PC release? The word MIDI seems to have made everyone assume PC version, but nobody who was actually there has clarified.
This seems unusual for SE. Their concerts are usually fantastic.
Pretty sure they won't be happy about this.
Pretty sure they won't be happy about this.
There's also both JENOVA boss themes, just for thoroughness same.
