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[=In Defiance of Fate=]

Yeah...

This gave me some nostalgia. For some reason I was reminded of the movie score to "Hercules".

This song contains one of the mainstream elements that many video game music sequences have. I am of course speaking of the melodic structure that gives this two of following:
1.That egyptian sound though not as ethnic as to suspect in it's purest theme :). Great job on that one
2.Prankster baroq with a modernistic characther. There is really no other way to explain it.

Regarding the low-range-section I can see what you mean yourself by a backup. If it weren't for that bass it would make the one note bass piano note sound, too infiltrating if you catch my drift.

Hades responds:

Yeah, I see what you mean! Thanks a lot for the review! :)

[Rayun - Not The Usual]

Not the usual indeed:

(These are just my opinions. If you disagree with them then you, of course, have every right to do so xD, hope not to offend )

Although this is quite good and have no doubt, there are some things that bother me slightly when listening to this particular piece.

There are three things that I hear carrying a melody.
The bass - rather simplistic, but it is a bass after all.
The piano - quite normal, goads the melody onward.
The flutes/or whatever - makes a short filling appearence.
The drums don't carry a melody of course and there is nothing wrong with them that I can tell :)

Now the problem with the interaction between these top three is that the bass seeks to drown the other out. Not just with a glass of water but with a garden hose.
I don't have a problem with the glass of water if it were that way and what I mean by that is that you make the contrast between sequences to great when it comes to flipping the switch on it. Listening to 1:57-2:01 is the greatest example of contrast mismatch.

(Yes I noticed the ease of contrast with the filters)

How this affects the song in whole is to carry the melody of the bass the heaviest, making it (as I stated earlier) sound rather simplistic at times even when it is not.

MiLink responds:

Thank you for the detailed response, I'll take this all into consideration the next time I make a beat. (:

[~Dragonfly Clouds!~]

So,,,

...how many mushrooms did you eat to get to happyland?

I'd always know the day would come when I'd hear a proper violin/string spiccato accompanied with drums.

I can't say there is anything wrong with this song at all.

Here is what I like the most and I urge you to keep defining yourself as a musician with those traits when it comes to these songs xD

I especially like how you carry the melodic themes over instruments/synths without blinking an eye (almost without pause).

The sinodic build-up before the relief around 1:50 through 2:10 is brilliant too and just as faint as it should be :)

Keep it up man. Favorited :)

Atundra responds:

hahahaha! Thanks for the review man I really,really appreciate it ! I always try to go out of my style and try everything like trance etc, but when ever i come back to this orchestral breakebeat type stuff, its like comin home ;D

Thanks for the review man!

[Stephen4705- Into the sunset]

Really nice!

(Remember that this is just my opinion. If you disagree with me then of course you have every right to do so).
This short piece is incredibly well mixed. The plucks, drone synth (?), and the ambient touches are nice.

Since this is not the full song I cannot completely judge how this intro will interact with the rest but there is something I find amiss with the drums that begin to surface in the background somewhere around 0:23

Correct me if I'm wrong here (and I hope I'm not wrong, otherwise I will look like a fool xD) but I suspect that you're passing them drums (excluding the panning hihats) through a filter system with these following affectors:
High pass, change-able resonance settings and automated cut-off frequency settings.
It seems to me that you're upping the High pass a little, It could do with a tiny adjustment towards the complete bypass. Don't by too much though because it might render the sound unaffected by the resonance and the ever-lowering cutoff frequency.
IMO it wouldn't compromise a sound conflict nor overlapse and still give that filling sound.

STEPHEN4705 responds:

Ok, wow. You really know what your talking about. First time I've felt confused about digital music for a long long time xD

I'm actually using a bandpass on the drums, so I think I need to either mute it for the first 16 bars, or only start raising the X and Y on the love Phtler on the last 16 bars, then carry the composition on from there.

Just listening to it again, you can here a slight deep rising noise about 9 or 10 seconds in.. thats the same bandpass.

Thanks for spotting that, I'll sort that out when I upload the full thing.

Will probably put your name in the description too ;)

Ste :D

[dogbot]

Intriguing

(This is just my opinion. If you disagree then you have every right to do so :3)
This is how I would imagine cheerful blues with a tribe-ish 70's influence. Nice one.

There is this thing however with some peculiar changes (for example at 0:40-0:43 and again at 1:20-1:23) that seem to force you to regain yourself into the feel of the song after falling out for a moment. If you were to retain the previous sound in a slight, almost invisible, reverb to help ease the changes that would be great xD! That which I am pointing out isn't a major flaw at all so no sweat though.

willisisapillis responds:

I've added the changes, tell me what you think?

[RavaronI]

This is fun but...

(Bear in mind that this is just my opinion. If you disagree then you have every right to do so :3 and I sincerely hope you're not offended )

I feel like this song is not mixed to its full potential.

This piece begins with a steady kick until a short arpeggiating synth seeks to dwarf it out. The beginning is too overlapping for my taste from 0:18-0:50. The rave theme is moderately well executed until the overlapping begins again at 1:19 through 1:40.
To put it short: Overlapping is present for 53 seconds of a 108 second song which ruins about the half of it for me.

The range of synths is to narrow; that is, the spectrum of variety is little. The filtering put into them as presets or by effect is all to similar on every single one.

Other than that, it is all good :)

ziq2010 responds:

Thaks for the advice don't worry im not offended i put songs on so ppl can veiw and give me pointers but the raeson its so rpedative is cause i tried alot of sounds and none of them rlly mixed good so i only had pre much just these sounds

[Lussis Solar]

A danish movie?

Perfect for those dark humour movies from Scandinavia :)

But...
I would have to agree with the comment below. It is too paralyzing given the expectation that the sweep presents to me.
Allow me to explain:
The slice sweep or whatever you use as a resonant mid-range vibrant throughout the song gives the expectation of a change to a little more powerful or a 'different' section, but that doesn't happen. However, I am of course to expect a relatively quiet background-ish music from the "ambient" genre. I would suggest blending the sweep a little more to the softer tones heard along with this and allowing the master volume to gain a steadier voice.

Btw, do I hear a beepmap somewhere?

falling responds:

That's good advice, thank you :)

No, no beepmap. I'm not very familiar with beepmap.

[Strike (Rightside)]

Quite nice

I find it easy and nice to listen to this but this song hangs in the balance between "great" and "a little repetetive".
The melody or "feel" of this song is nice and the relief of change is immense when it comes to 2:10, great work.

I'm not trying to be arrogant but:
May I assume that perhaps you're using FL studio?
May I assume next that there is a limiter set as a default on the "Master mixer track"?
May I then assume that you haven't tweaked the ceiling or the gain properly?

I'm sorry if I come off as really mean to you by asking these questions but I feel as if there is a certain peaking action being corrected by the limiter which seems to disrupt the string spiccato to a slight volume falter every time the bass kick hits.

Otherwise the sound is excellent :)

Djflashstep responds:

this may sound strange but i was going for that. I wanted to make the kick seem more powerful, yet still achieve the string hits. Side chaining if you will.