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Final Battle with Sigma - "For The Last Time" (MMX5)
Click here to download the .mid.

Length: 2 minutes, 41 seconds

Difficulty: 5/10

General info:
This orchestral piece kicks in as you take on Sigma´s final (very ugly) form.

About the original:
I still don´t know why I chose to sequence this, seeing as it´s one of my least favourite themes in the X5 soundtrack. The only thing that´s even remotely cool is the french horn fanfares in the middle of the song, but still, they tend to drown in the rest of the corny scary-movie-feeling. Also, it seems odd that Tanaka-san and Miyawaki-san can´t handle orchestral percussion at all - they both rule when it comes to trance-ish songs. Oh, well.

Motivation:
As with so many others before the time of the Request Form, this song was a random pick. It seemed like an easy song to sequence, I was having a headache and my friend´s computer only had a very basic music program (which definitely couldn´t do pitchbends).

Sequencing the MIDI:
Since this song is orchestral, it proved a lot less difficult to sequence than the other ones I´ve tried. Problems came along when I attempted to get the brass section right - Studio4 (my program of choice) just doesn´t like triplets, which made that section rather frustrating to sequence. Also, it took me a while to figure out what the french horns were actually doing during the "fanfare" part. I´m afraid I might´ve been a bit creative with the choir chords as the song loops, but hey, it works.

About the ending result:
It turned out as good as it could.