[docnano]

Thanks for the feedback. I'd be interested to hear your renditions of the FFIV soundtrack in the future. While the entire soundtrack has been remixed/remastered several times, including at least twice (that I know of) for official game remakes, I don't think any of them has successfully captured the atmosphere of the SNES OST. The ports of this battle theme have been particularly heinous, lacking the harmonic richness of the original and coming across as quite robotic despite "improved" samples.

The reverb problem you mention is one that I struggle with quite often. It is exactly as you say, challenging to find settings that sound equally good on high- and low-end setups. I tend to err on the side of too much reverb in my orchestral arrangements, in part to try and hide the imperfections in my sample library (and/or execution thereof). But it only goes so far.

As for performance vs. sequencing, I tend to go for the former, but with occasional quantization to pick up the slop. I find it hard to get good humanization when I rely on sequencing alone.