I will do the entire timing of Terraformer in 3 sittings, with 4 songs each sitting and split this post up in 3 parts according to the sittings. So here's part 1 of my Terraformer timing adjustments.
Wrinkle was relatively easy, however there was one spot where the drums came in later than the measure line indicated, around 20-30 ms later and I fixed that accordingly. Were also a few spots with slightly variable timing but nothing big. I also fixed the slowdown and timed the saxophone solo at the end.
FXMDLR was fixed in some parts, variable in some others. Interesting to note is that it becomes mostly variable when there's just instruments playing and no vocals, some slower sections are also variable. The most variable part was a short drum lick before the chorus picked up again, so nothing major in this one.
In Son of a Serpent I timed the instrumental intro, since it had a swing feel I adjusted the bpm to be equivalent to 1/3 instead of 1/4, but didn't do it in the section when the vocals entered as that is where a stable drum beat enters, so it may or may not be a weird change. Here I also fixed a few timing signatures, for example a place with 5/4. Also one section where the time signature is inconsistent, with the same musical section switching from 3/4 to 6/4 out of nowhere, when it actually should be 6/4 throughout barring some additional time signatures. The guitar solo and many buildups (which seems to be a common theme in Thank You Scientist) were extremely variable and were way too simplified in its current timing.
Lastly I timed Geronimo, which was probably the toughest of them all, since only 2 sections seemed stable. Because of the unstable nature of this song, many offsets were also really wrong, and because it was simplified so much it is noticable even on 100% how inaccurate some places were. Otherwise not much to say about this song other than it was very hard to time well enough.
Link to the .osz (some have my name in them for some reason, dunno why)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YXSITrkBXR7um7DvuJ_tCzbuZtifFyhe/view?usp=sharing
Wrinkle was relatively easy, however there was one spot where the drums came in later than the measure line indicated, around 20-30 ms later and I fixed that accordingly. Were also a few spots with slightly variable timing but nothing big. I also fixed the slowdown and timed the saxophone solo at the end.
FXMDLR was fixed in some parts, variable in some others. Interesting to note is that it becomes mostly variable when there's just instruments playing and no vocals, some slower sections are also variable. The most variable part was a short drum lick before the chorus picked up again, so nothing major in this one.
In Son of a Serpent I timed the instrumental intro, since it had a swing feel I adjusted the bpm to be equivalent to 1/3 instead of 1/4, but didn't do it in the section when the vocals entered as that is where a stable drum beat enters, so it may or may not be a weird change. Here I also fixed a few timing signatures, for example a place with 5/4. Also one section where the time signature is inconsistent, with the same musical section switching from 3/4 to 6/4 out of nowhere, when it actually should be 6/4 throughout barring some additional time signatures. The guitar solo and many buildups (which seems to be a common theme in Thank You Scientist) were extremely variable and were way too simplified in its current timing.
Lastly I timed Geronimo, which was probably the toughest of them all, since only 2 sections seemed stable. Because of the unstable nature of this song, many offsets were also really wrong, and because it was simplified so much it is noticable even on 100% how inaccurate some places were. Otherwise not much to say about this song other than it was very hard to time well enough.
Link to the .osz (some have my name in them for some reason, dunno why)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YXSITrkBXR7um7DvuJ_tCzbuZtifFyhe/view?usp=sharing
