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[Xinoa To Wash The Brain]

heh

Sample of someone talking shit about a random theme eh. Classic start to those "INSERT GENRE HERE"-type songs. Cliché, but I love it ;D Pan the female voice to one side and the male to another one though. It makes a much more complete impression of the song.

The whole song really goes smoothly with the voice samples. But lemme guess for a moment, were ra few of these sounds made with Reason? I hear tons of malström-esque sounds like the metallic breathing and somewhat distorted synth. Good stuff anyway. Great sounding 8bit drums btw, they fit perfectly into that technical sounding, somewhat computerish song. Lovely.

Nice song yo

Twoism responds:

Yeah I made this when I was about 16 or something. Just starting out. I wish I'd have added reverb on the vocals on some bits. On My myspace lots of people consider this a favourite, probably because it's simplicity is it's best aspect.

Yeah all reason this one. Didn't even master the drums properly, but it just sort of, fell together.

Thanks for taking the time to listen man.

[Solus- A Samurai's Lament]

wonderful

I love the melody of that piano... kind of alike the Norwegian national-romantic stuff's melodies. Since that was the first thing I thought of, (and despite the title) I immediately thought of a traveller in the mountains, having a rest and watching the endless landscape of grey mountains and almost cloud-free skies. A bit of a reverbed wind sample would amplify that feeling a lot, and a bit more reverb overall, plus it'd give my image of it a feeling that it's almost on the very top of a mountain.

And again, there should in my opinion be some more reverb on certain parts, especially that piano. I dislike simple and plain pianos, so any massreverbed piano, I'll fucking love. The piano samples/instrument you used has a great, realistic sound on beforehand though, and again I absolutely love the melodies of it.

Flute and accordion rocks, but that accordion is hard to make sound great ('tleast to my ears) but you coulda made a bit less synthish instrument, or simply swap that instrument with another one of a similar texture to the sound. The drums sound good, but there's just a few hits, so I could see more of it there. Nothing big, not necessarily in a rhythm either, this track doesn't need a drum rhythm at all. But maybe a few snare hits and some toms once in a while? Lovely choir by the way

I loved this little track. Great and smooth sound, sounds like it could be the beginning to an absolutely mcgodly music story. Well done!

also like review me back or something lol

SolusLunes responds:

SBB, your suggestions are made of win. Especially those about the drums and wind. Snappy snare sounds so damn good here, as does added reverb.

And you have your review back. Go check it out. :D

[-=LJC=- 8-bitty Ditty]

To most of the contestant in this month's MAC:

THIS is a proper chiptune. Goddamnit.

LJCoffee responds:

Yes Goddamnit! :)

[(::Towards The Sun::) =FINAL=]

Notice that

If you still used garageband for that. Send me the .band file. I am so going to add some calm though kickass drums to that. Bah, that's not the point.

You have a wonderful combination of ethereal and exotic pads in this piece. But sadly, that's it. I'm sorry to say, but I could see so much more in this piece. Why not some kind of keys synth or even a melodic lead? I really really feel like remixing this stuff or adding some. But luckily for you these pads kick so much of an awesome butt that it makes a good song alone. And again you're lucky because ambient music doesn't really have a single rule about diversity and such as long as it fits for background music. :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D So I can say you did your job as an ambient composer and musician pretty darn well.

Good stuff my fwend but send me the project file cause I want to add a bit of stuff

FatKidWitAJetPak responds:

Thanks a lot SBB, that's the highest I have goten from you lol. And I am only about 4 months in experience right now so I am still trying... I am thinking about adding some soothing electeric piano to it as well. But it is in the top 50 on the 1st page af ambient and will most likely be featured on the all time top scoring for a little bit. =) Well, I sent you a contact so check your inbox! Thanks.

FatKidWitAJetPak

[Blazing Phoenix]

cool

Some real nice leads goin' around there. Is it like, a real guitar or some synthed/sampled stuff? Sound a bit synthed, but I might be wrong again... I'm not so good at this guitars thing lol. Cool drum patterns, though I can see you evolving it into some complex, kickass stuff, and possibly use a better, more aggressive kit. Them definitive synths sound great too. I'd like to see you making it more of a song and less like a loop- and there's only one way to do that, being making a decent ending to it.

Nice song anyway, real catchy stuff. Hoping to see more from ya!

Suspended-3rd-Chord responds:

thanks SBB :) nah, all synthesized lol...glad you like the drum patterns, i definetly could change up the samples and patterns more hehe. really, i want to blame it on FL's setup but its really my fault that I cant make a more progressing song, i've been trying hard to crank out full, longer tracks and put more effort into mastering. I was always fail, when I start a project and come back to it later, I can never fully finish it because i'm not in the right mindset :( thats prolly why I havent submitted stuff in a while...but whatever, its still fun, and I always appreciate when people enjoy my music, so thanks. theres my rant.

thanks for the review and constructive criticism once again SBB :)

[Yummy Muffin ft. Cyril]

jesus

I FUCKING LOVE THIS SONG

Rig responds:

I FUCKING LOVE MUFFINS

[Where My Heart Is]

yay

Very christmassy. You caught a very certain part of this "christmas spirit" perfectly with the bells and especially them strings. Sadly it doesn't seem to progress much after the build where you added layers of instruments. Of course that is perfectly fine if you were going for soundtrack, but in the listener's case I'm not quite so sure. add a little progression through the track and fix some of the clipping issues and you have a damn neat one

PianoFortress responds:

yeah I'm working on that right know...adding some percussions, cymbals maybe....

[Falling Farther (Trance Remix)]

yup

Now I didn't see much of that original there, it was more of a piano thang in the beginning then it evolved into a bit of trance that didn't resemble falling farther much at all- well anywhee, it changed its mind after a while into a HUGE GODDAMN MIDDLE PART which to me was way longer than it should. And then it went all bombin' with a supersaw awesoming up the melody. Outro also was bit too long for my tasty.

So well alright then, I DID see a bit of the original there, guess it woulda been way too repetitive if you used the melody more, cause it ain't too much of a varied melody to begin with. I'd really really love to hear a more present, less filtered piano thoe

Bah I don't have much to add. Everything seems perfecly fine to me.
Yeah

Sorry for coming so short with teh improvmentz zuggestionz D:

Karco responds:

The original is there - in the sense that this is where I originally wanted to take this song. Yeah, the middle part was repetitive. D: Again, I didn't kill myself over the diversity and I'm not going to go back and fix it now. :\

The filtered piano is an idea I took from the original, though I guess I could have chosen a "meatier" piano sample, if you know what I mean - now that I think about it, the one that I chose felt a bit thin and weak.

Nah, it's fine, reviews are always appreciated - thanks for reviewing, and for the high ratings! :D

[Rig - Our Secret]

so um

Nice

I mean

Great trip hop pad in the start and stuff- samples from the start sound like they're taken straight out of an electroacoustic piece made by either you or sinerider something I dunno. I like the ploppy percussion, kinda makes me wanna drink a large mug filled with water

brb, gonna go have some water

mm that was tastay
Now where was I

Oh and I absolutely love that reese thang. And every single other little piece of synth. The whole thang is 5 minutes carefully picked out of a huge block of audible awesome. Incredibly detailed sound, very professionally done. Damn you're skilled as fuck. You also followed rule 10 very well.

I dunno what to say, review my entry or something (just to fill up review space, no real message in this line im totle serious whait wat)

umm

bah

*walks off the scene*

Rig responds:

You're right about the beginning - a couple of the samples (like the radio) are taken from an electroacoutsitc sound pack thingy my teacher handed out. And yes, I tried to follow rule 10 to the extreme.
Thank you very much for the review! I'll hit you back. :)

[(::Rain::)]

yah

after a while it sounds pretty random, like 'oh let's throw in a synth texture there' and stuff- even though it's ambient you need to have a little bit of structure to it. With the rhodes thing too, 'imma play something' type thing, wasn't really called for

'cept for that it's a nice sounding song and it arouses me

FatKidWitAJetPak responds:

VERY TRUE, You are the only one who hasn't put a 10 on it yet, which is a good thing. It needs some structure I agree. I am going to change it around a little bit so don't worry lol.