So I was working on another port since I liked doing my previous one, but as I'm working on it, I realize that my midi is very innacurate. Instrumentation feels different, a few parts have plainly completely different notes, and a whole section of the song is gone. Is it still acceptable if it still ends up sounding ok to someone unfamiliar with the original?
As long as it sounds subjectively good then it can be so inaccurate it doesn't resemble the original thing (at this point it shouldn't be a "port.")
Quality is what determines whether a song gets accepted and that includes sequence data. I believe 2016 I submitted a port and an original song, both got rightfully rejected (I never updated them anyway lol.) We're talking about ports so we'll go with the former.
Can't remember the insert size but it worked with #optimized.
1. One of the instruments were not tuned properly (I tuned differently back then, they were less accurate)
2. It had leftover instrument changes which were unnecessary because I removed multisampling. This resulted in an instrument being duplicated twice so it costed a number of extra bytes.
3. Similar to the above. I included the extra omitted sample BRR's so the downloaded file/.rar takes up more space.
4. No loop optimizations.
5. Apparently the ADSR on one of the instruments (Celesta?) could be better. They recommended shortening the attack.
If the tuning was fixed it wouldn't be noticeable to the user, however ALL THE OTHER issues inflated the Insert Size and ARAM usage. Thus, moral of the story, put effort into a quality product. If you're giving them a 5lb steak then cook it right. If you at least put the effort then you'll be rewarded in some way.