Mandela Sound Effect [feat. Kobaryo]

Srezcat

Snap this, probably an accident but easy enough

this anchor is too long pls fix. also split trill bad. change it to jump trill at least

This one should not be a hand. Make it a double instead since it doesn't represent the song the same way as 67592|4,67592|3,67592|2, 67276|1,67276|2,67276|3 and 66961|3,66961|1,66961|4

167370 to 170212 seems to be incorrectly snapped

the growls seem to be at 167370 167607 167844 168002 168212 168423 168870 169107 169344 169581 169817

the percussions are easy to hear i think i don't need to guide you on this

might cause playability issues i think

yea.. this chunk is inaccurate to the song. the track plays 5 continuous 1/8 hardstyle-kicks but you applies 1/6 mini-jumptrill which ends at 146107 (i'm fine with rhythm simplification for playability but impactful, noticeable patterning like this should end accurately if it doesn't hurt). something like this can work: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/884302362733346886/1005819108887105637/unknown.png

no percussion, single fits better

i'm pretty sure 109739 and 112265 should be left blank since no snare or anything noticeable

to match the kick better, the double needs to be at 108554

nitpick;
i suggest using a double here cuz the feeling a jumptrill provides is far different from this

(you have to rearrange 103422|2,103422|4,103501|1,103501|3,103580|2,103580|4 if this is accepted)

there seems to be a missing double here

from 55581 to 57949, the doubles seems to be placed with no consistent rhythm imo. i advise using doubles every 1/2 to accompany the snares on this section.

53528 and 54002 being triples seems quite odd imo, you applied doubles at 51002 and 51475 so i think it'd be better to do the same here

50528 and 53054 should also use the same chord (you can use double for both or triple for both, but i advise not to use different chords) due to how similar they are as downbeats

idk if there's any build-up technique used here but i'm just gonna point this out to be sure

can't hear any percussion here, reduce to single ig

quite sure the rhythm here is 1/3. you can use 1/6 snap to do this.

7185|3 i can't hear any piano here, if that's the case, remove?

These kicks don't start until 171159, so please reduce this jump to a single

Most of the other times you have a roll for this sound, you start it on the white line, but in this instance you have a jump before the rolls start, offsetting them by a 1/8 snap. See 166738 or 68212 for comparison.

You map a note here in the intro (13975|3) but not at the repeat section later

This is on the 1/12 snap for some reason in the middle of a 1/8 roll.

This isn't necessarily an issue, but you map the guitar riff here and not earlier at 23212. Similar thing with 26370|1 and 23843 respectively.

This could be interpreted as increasing the intensity with the music though. If that's the case, I think you could make it more obvious by mapping more of the guitar sounds the second time around. e.g. at 26685 and 27001

16422|1,18949|3,21159|4

Some minor inconsistency here. Not sure how you want to address it. It sounds like you're mapping a jump to that part of the guitar melody sometimes? Or maybe there's something I'm not hearing

There is a kick here, so this should probably be a jump

there are 4 kicks here, so this should probably instead be a 1/8 roll like the others

I didn't really notice this one until I played it back at a slower rate, but there is a sound here. Maybe map it? It's not very noticeable though

This is inaccurate. The last hit in this sound is on the barline at 171791. Also this should be on 1/8 snap. This might be better mapped as rolls.

I think this is a ghost note

This roll starts late, probably a result of fixing your timing point.

This roll is not like the others, should be 4 notes

You've used rolls to illustrate this sound in this section but you did not do so here. If you don't want to do a full left-right or right-left roll a [3421] or [3412] roll should probably work here

I think this is a ghost note I've mentioned in previous mods haha

This roll ends prematurely and should continue up to the white line

This is inconsistent with what you mapped earlier at 143685|3,143685|2,143685|1,143764|1,143764|2,143843|4,143843|3

This is incorrect, there should be 5 jumps in this space not 4.

I'm not sure what this jump is for. You use a jump to emphasize a spot in the melody at 137528|3,137528|4 and 132475|2,132475|1 but this one is different and I don't hear a similar sound there nor a kick.

I think this should be a jump

Is there a reason this is so different from 49264|1?

There is a crash here, so this should probably be a jump

There are some inconsistencies in this section, which I mentioned in another mod https://quavergame.com/mapset/map/84329/mods#mod_8143

However to be more specific about it, while it is okay to intentionally not map to a sound, it makes it somewhat confusing for the player when the sound that is not mapped is inconsistent.

For example, you do not map this sound at 98922 but you do map it at 99396|3. I think one way you could achieve the effect you're looking for is to leave gaps in the single stream at the following timestamps:
99001
99475
99791
100264
101685
102001

Some of these are already gaps, so I think this is what you were going for and just missed some spots.

There isn't a kick here either. However, there is a kick at 108554, so maybe you can turn that into a jump

There isn't a kick here. I'm guessing you copypasted from earlier, but this is a difference between the two sections.

So now you've moved all the jumps in this section to map the actual kick sound, but there is a sound right here as soon as the roll ends. I think it might work to help the player understand the offbeat nature of this section if you were to map a [12] at the timestamp, and a [34] at 46185.

Based on your chord structure in this section some other things may need reworking for you to do this.

Section here's a bit off too. It doesn't help that it doesn't seem like the kicks are timed quite correctly in the music either. I think the following would work as a good enough approximation without seeming too off:

Remove 48001|3,48001|1
Move 48106|4,48106|1 to 48080

If you listen back to this section at 25% it is very apparent how off it is, but I think as long as you have the right number of hits and they're evenly spaced throughout the section that's fine for gameplay purposes

Since you map other snares in this section as hands, it might make sense to map this as a hand as well. The context is slightly different though so up to you really

You build this section up into jumptrill, so I think it would be a cool idea to also make this a short jumptrill to hint at the upcoming pattern.

This section starts with this minijack to represent this sound, but you never use it again to represent this sound. I would suggest either removing this minijack or adding them where the appropriate sound is played.

To be clear, if you choose to add this elsewhere, it's fine to make exceptions especially for the purposes of maintaining flow of gameplay, but this sets a precedent that is then never followed up on.

Compare to 88422|2,88422|4,88422|3,88422|1

As far as I can tell, these sections sound identical, so they should probably use the same pattern

The kicks you map here starting from this jump are inaccurate. Try using the 1/6 snap. For example for the kick mentioned above, that kick actually happens at 59791

Ghost notes? I don't hear anything here but perhaps you just wanted these for gameplay

I think you could start this roll on the white line. That way you don't have a jump in the middle of the roll which makes it easier for the player.

This entire section is off by a 1/4 snap. The first kick should start here 46185 and it continues on blue snaps

I'm not sure what these are mapped to. It is neither the snare (which you've ignored in this section) nor the kick.

This is also mistimed by a 1/4 snap and should be on 42396|3,42396|4

These are mistimed and should be here instead 42159|2,42159|3

I'm guessing this might be a result of resnapping notes after fixing the timing point

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This is fun! but it also conflicts with your style for the same sounds at 41145|4,41250|1,41356|2,41461|3,41566|4

I can understand that it might seem like a difficulty spike to launch straight into this sort of chordjack style, but you have a half measure of mostly empty space right before that you could do something with to help give the player that sense of intensity.

This is mapped to a sound that does not exist.

Also missing a note at 36066 and 38908

Generally speaking it isn't clear what your self-defined rules are for when you continue to stream and when you do not, making for this section to feel rather inconsistent. Here are some examples:

• You need to make up your mind about mapping the guitar or not. You map them here, but ignore the sound later at places like 16408|1 and 16882|3
• Also missing a note at 13961
• Not sure why the stream is continued here 19961|1 but not here 20119

For other similar sounds in this intro, you only use a jump, but you use a hand here. It's both inconsistent, and also takes away from the impact of the hand at the beginning of the next section at 12619 because you remove the density difference by doing this.

Sidenote: It's okay to leave 2514|1,2514|4,2514|2 as a hand even if it isn't necessarily consistent with the rest of the section because it's the very start of the song.

Timing point issues:

• Your bpm is some weird fraction, and in the .qua file it shows as 190.00001525878906. To fix this, open the qua and manually set it to 190. This will cause syncing issues and you'll have to fix a lot of the rest of the map as a result.
• The actual timing point is a bit early. A pretty good spot to check for offset is at 55581 since there's a bit of the music with no sound then sound on the beat.