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Old Mar 12, 2016, 05:34 AM
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Default Arranger question.

what exactly does a arranger do? Some game ost's have just one composer, but many Arranger.
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Old Mar 12, 2016, 05:56 AM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrangement
This probably isn't the best written article as it's somewhat of a mess of various things, but it does give the overview of the fact that's it's a somewhat loaded and broad question.
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I didn't see this mentioned on the initial paragraph of the wiki article, but I often consider altering the instrumentation to be a form of arrangement as well.

There also seems to be a general misunderstanding of what a remix/remastering is these days, too. I see quite a few posts here and on other forums where people are submitting "remixes" or "remasters", when doing such requires the original files from a recording. What they are submitting are in fact usually new recordings and/or arrangements, but people are using the erroneous terms interchangeably.
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