well
i give it a 6 because it is better than half the crap on newgrounds for the quality and idea, and how he used the reverb effects and how the composition wasnt unpleasent, and a creative synth pattern i like it.
keep at it
dont listen to that noob below
ok....
ok ian you have majority improved. progress had been made it is becoming apparent now. but im actually not going to adress the orchestration in this one, for the most part it was fine. nice lead synth by the way. i will say at 3:48 though , it was a little off putting, came out of nowhere and changed the theme. i had no idea what was going on. i liked the vocal pads but this became something weird, lol. but very original.
uh, ok you mixing on this has got to do a few things. in the first half that kick has more bottom than my recent ex, i feel like it needs to be shortened so that some of that is cut off. because its muddying things up when it gets more intricate, maybe shave some off with an eq, instead of shortening.
at 1:57.... dude that sweep and then accented with the piano at the end, was just great. im impressed. very propper use of instruments there
your intro was superb.
at 1:40 though that synth comes in without warning and startles the listener.
I fully agree with your comments on the Kick. I've been trying hard lately to make sure that the kick as a whole compliments the other instruments and vice versa. Sadly I put these songs together before I developed this picky attitude. But thank you none the less for commenting - as it does give me some direction to play with.
And my appologies if the song as a whole had it's disorienting moments, it is a Mix of two seperate songs I am working on. I just half-a'd the transition : (
And I see what you are talking about with the "startling synth." I will address it : ) I am thinkin mebe a low and bandpass in.
youd better not
youd better not be using a midi files ian lol. ill skin ya, j/k
this sounds cool.
i like the break at :39 interesting.
i wasnt a fan of the synth that came in at :17, it was pretty strong to me. and i became confused a little from the intro.
lately your higher range stuff has been very well constructed but dont forget to work on the bass too i just wasnt crazy crazy about the mid synth.
anyway despite, i thought it was pretty cool.. lots of new things iv not heard you do in this one,
ian
ian very cool loop.
nice use of delay on that piano. that bass... man that is funky shit. i keep feeling like its so electro, and and i like where its volume is at. its cool.
i do however thing that when that shaker comes in round :24 it needs to be pitched down 3 semitones? and turned down slightly in volume, not much though but it would blend better.
Glad you like it. This one is gona take some work. I feel like I set the bar high just in how well the melody turned out ... o___o
just need to relax and play with it till I like everything around it I suppose. ^____^
But again, I am glad you like it (I do too)
composition
well ian you have surprised me with your composition because in this one things are very alive and you have managed to get alot of exciting instrument events happening without cluttering your song. lots of little accents to your melody that i appreciate, at :47 i smiled because it just felt exciting when you had your notes trail up like that.
the only complaint to your instruments i have is about the bass. at the beginning the way you were filtering it just wasnt suiting me, i would have enjoyed the filter to have been more heavy at the beginning and less able to distinguish that it was saw? more like as present as a sinus(sin) wave i thought it should have been. but really it wasnt that big a deal to me, i liked the way your bass was filtered throughout the rest of the song, at the beginning it just seemed too heavy. and since you filtered in that mid range bass synth with the pattern that is rhythmic if that bass hadnt been the focus until that part swooped in i could have been anticipating the build a little more. <----- this is me picking out stupid details because you want me to think!
uh.... turn down that ride hat a little, the one on the off beat. and just for curiosity you should see how it sounds slightly shortened. you dont hav to though. but do turn it down.
around :44, i really enjoyed that. it seems like you let the other instruments out o you could feature the pad and i think you started releasing the "release" on your envelope? this was a smart move as not to clutter things but to create a dream like effect. and then you let out some delay around then and it was just swelling in the background when the rest came back in, very cool ian.
at parts like :52 i liked your filtered sweeps of the mid range synth. very cool as well.
anyway good work here ian. make sure not to make that bass very complicated or dominating you you will keep this all in control.
i feel like its my fault for teaching you not to be minimal, which is what most electronic music is sometimes. take electro. usually only 2 to 3 synths max involved in the song, trance could be 4 or 5, ambient god who knows , but i have always embraced synths and used them like crazy to improve orchestration, and i dont wanna act like it was my idea but lol there are alot of synth variations here and unlike me at the early production years you are keeping them all very balanced in this song, and they arent clashing at all. good work here, be careful not to get carried away and this will be a pretty good song.
if this continued
if i made music on civil engineering courses it would have to incorporate dirt and steel and ... measuring things...yay, but hey this actually pretty good. im assuming the class inspired you?
yeah i think you should finish it. the beginning especially makes me envision emerging slowly on the back of a turtle to the surface. the atmosphere is presented well.
i like the subtle synths, good use of filters i believe.
drum patterns were relaxing
lol, i'm not a biology major, or minor for that matter.
i'm a physics major, or i will be.
the song just reminded me of the ocean, and how waves are fomed.
yeah, i tried to make the song really chill and smooth.
thanks for the review!
was a fan
i feel like that guitar distorted instrument maybe detuned, idk but it was over kill, a little less of what ever effect was on it, way too intense, but that one mid bass synth you had that came in at :40 was pretty cool, i really liked it, probably one of my favorite synths you have made
yeah. That opening synth was just a lame cover at trying to open the song w/o having to put effort into making it's own intro ... : \ my laziness as a musician. But I am glad you liked the synth that came in after it because THAT ONE is the meat and potatoes of the song. I need to go back and give it a legitimate opening, but what I have so far is 5 mins long with smoother transitions (tho lacking much of an ending ...), and I have also mixed it with another project that I'd started yielding a promising mix ...
Very glad you enjoyed it ^___^
woah!
dude that main synth you made is really cool. i think you have some delay on it that sounds good. at 2:02 i feel you made a mistake on that higher note, and i felt it needed to be fixed.
man my head kept going in a thousand different directions with what this song couold be.
i felt that at 1:55ish that highhat should have come in a few bars early and at that part there could have been a high energy trance synth that came in with high portamento and longer less plucky notes that followed the same pattern as your main lead.
awesome!
^_______^ I am very happy to hear you enjoyed this one. I have too. Duely noted and agreed upon the 2:00 mark. it was one of the first things I fixed after I put this on NGs (ya know, one of those mistakes that slips through and 'sounds' good for some reason when you have to project open ... maybe that's just me). Sadly at present, inspiration and direction escapes me on this one. I think the biggest thing I am wanting to hear is a change in direction with the percussions (ie: everything but the kick) - but its one of the most time-consuming areas of making a high energy song for me. But I won't give up on this one b/c I do enjoy it as well. I will keep you posted.
never heard
i have nevver heard of the program so im going to look it up, but this sounds really good. i would have liked to have heard more done with the sample vocals like a little wider sound.
the drums sound pretty good. like you used distortion on the hats?
good work, submit again!
they were electro hihats, I didn't modify them. They have a long tail, probly from being distorted. You shud definatly check that program out... and fix your fuckin msn. You keep signing in and sending me MSN virus links xD.
i just cant
i feel like you could have substituted a xylophone if the kalimba clashed too much but it fit the atmosphere and that is all that matters to me.
this was beautiful.
great work man
3d art, Electronic music, Dance
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My first techno song. 