Winter

"Winter" reworks the famous opening movement of Vivaldi's "Winter" concerto into an electronic arrangement by BanYa. It first appeared in Pump It Up THE REBIRTH and has lived in the Original channel across the classic versions, from 1st through Zero. The full original track runs about 2:54; the arcade cut uses the first minute and twenty seconds, while the Short Cut draws on a later passage that the arcade version never featured.

The level spread is wide. The S4 is pure entry-level, while the S7 is deceptive: it starts gentle and suddenly bites, especially after the highlight section. The S12 (the old Hard) brings twists and off-beat note patterns that punish weak siderun. At the top sit the S16, packed with drills and twists and lacking freeze notes to ease gauge recovery, and the S20, a thoughtful, stamina-heavy chart built around its closing siderun. On the Double side, the standout is the D21 (the old Nightmare), descended from PREX 3, with very dense runs and unintuitive weight shifts.

Several charts are old enough to contain no hold notes, which makes life-bar management harder; in PHOENIX, the S16 gained a minimal closing hold note purely to square the note count. The D21's final note, for years an aggressive leg-split, was swapped for an ordinary hold note in PHOENIX. There is also a quest-zone-only Co-Op chart, added in Prime 2, that reuses the design of Avalanche.