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[_=)a new begining(=_]

Hey review

Wow, 50 patterns. It looks like the song is going to be diverse. Here is what I think.

Good:
1) So first off, thankyou for not making this strictly classical...eg not all classical instruments. Might as well take advantage of the electronic era to make a classical piece more modern.
2) I like the reverb and delay placed on the pianos. Very heavenly sounding. The composition sounds rather catchy and it isn't all sorrowful sounding. I like more of the brighter types of classical music...just my opinion.
3) 40 seconds in I'm sensing some nintendo game music. I enjoy it. Brings the childish play theme to this song.
4) Interesting use of drums. Are those dnb drums?

Hmm:
1) Well there is a slight bit of clipping in the piano. Maybe that was intentional?
2) Despite you using 50+ patterns (I didn't count but I'll trust that you did use more than 50 patterns) I still felt the song was not diverse enough. After the whole nintendo sound section it returns back to the similar piano section.

I kinda liked this unique classical experience. Maybe it is a new beginning to classical music? :)
5/5 vote and 9/10 review. If you take a listen to my new song....system override journey it has a lot of musical patterns...if that's your thing....assuming it is since you like to use a lot of patterns yourself.

Bye for now

hotdogwater responds:

wow thanks hopefully it will end up in the best of the week thats all i want right now i want to know that feeling of having a song that everyone likes and ect... any way thanks dude watch for new songs : )

[-(Spedzuarg ExtendedClub)-]

Review

Hey Corey,
Well we both submitted long songs close together. I have no idea what spedzuarg means. Anyway, here is what I thought.

Good:
1)I I think your trying to portray a alien type feel right. Lots of alien like sounds and I feel like there is some kind of army getting prepared. Nice job.
2) Lots of filter changes or phaser you used. Does add a bit to the diversity.
3) The kick has some nice rev to it. Really deep and loud which I like.
4) 3:26 I like that that lead instrument. It doesn't last long though. I think it reoccurs in previous parts too and after. It took me a while to fully enjoy the sound.
5) Fx sounds are neato. Panning is good. Nuff said
6) Some parts I like the bass pattern. Surprisingly I can hear it with everything going.

Hmm:
1) For the most part your mixing is good. However, I think one of your instruments (the one that starts at 48 seconds) is a little too loud. Clipping is kept to very minimal so good mastering too.

2) You already warned of this song being repetitive. Mostly all my reviews I talk about lack of diversity. I just like lots of diversity, but this is only a opinion.
3) Despite you using the fairly typical alien like sounds, I have a feeling you could have worked more on making better sounding instruments. They seem rather basic.

Overall, I felt some story was going on. That is always a awesome thing to me. I just realized the part where you quoted "that certain part of the male body". What are you talking about here? Anyway, like I said, make the song a little bit more diverse. For a 8 minute song, it is very tough to maintain the listeners attention. Instruments might need some revamping too. I know how hard it is to make a 8 minute song so kudos to you for putting in the a strong amount of effort. 5/5 vote and 9/10 review.

Bye for now

Tykwa responds:

Thanks for the review, I'm acually slightly still working on this, The whole thing about the male body was just a line, kind of like that commercial for Extends, only a joke. Otherwise ill try and master this a tiny bit more, I fell asleep last night working on this, im really happy that I have somthing good for once, and long to boot, thanks again. peace.

[AlxEllis - Welcome To Hell]

Review

Hi Alex,

Back to school for a lot of us. More reading and less music now right. :) I looked over some of the previous reviews and I have to agree with darksporks that this is a bit too happy to fit the title of the song well. Something that seems to be bothering me is your response to TaichuKaisen's review. What do you mean you ran out of samples? Any music program has a infinite supply of samples. You just make them or modify samples any which way you want. Anyway, here is what I thought of your song.

Good:
1) Has a slight jumpy happy feel to it. Could almost be jumpstyle music if you had a harder kick and more meaner bass.
2) Well, you managed to make a catchy beat sound good without a lot of drums. Only the kick I think you have here.
3) Looks like your lead instrument has just about the right amount of reverb to it.

Future:
1) So I don't know your style of trance but if your working towards a more serious form of trance rather than this happy somewhat cheesy trance then try this. For your bass use a sine wave. Using a sub bass or aggressive form of a bass (fast attack) works well too. The human ear loves distorted sounds so maybe put a distortion plugin on the bass. EQ can be intensified around the 200 Hz range. Sub bass maybe around the 100 Hz range. If you have a "bandpass filter" use that. It basically intensifies a certain range of frequencies keeping all frequencies outside that range unchanged which is more faster to use versus EQ. For your lead, instruments with delay are great sounding. Not only does it bring more of a fat sound but it adds a interesting panning feature. I prefer stereo delay rather than mono delay so that panning becomes more obvious. Oh, if you like the loud pounding snappy sounds set your synthesizer to "mono" and "unison". This will make it so all your "voices" will come out together. This will make your kicks sound snappy. These are just guidelines, but the best advice I can give you is do whatever sounds good to your ears.

2) Well the beat doesn't really change at all. Good thing this is a short song. Maybe make your next song longer and change up more. Put more instruments too.

So good luck with your future stuff. If your in school, good luck with that too. Hope to hear more from you. 5/5 vote and 9/10 rev.

Bye for now

AlxEllis responds:

Cool thanks for the review yes it was my first attempt at a decent song plus my FL Studio has had some "malfunctions" so i only have like 3 packs so i need to re installs it lol ive left school and im just looking for work but god luck with school thanks for reviewing m8 ;)

AlxEllis

[NightlifeDL]

Nice

Hi Duke,

Not sure why your song score is really low and not many have heard this song. I like french house, but I can't make it. I'm more into the space maybe deep house style. This is what I thought of your song.

Good:
1) Well done with your frequency changes. A bunch of instruments used them keeping things fresh.
2) I'm loving the kick. Has a nice hard snap to it. The usual four to the floor beat of house. I like it.
3) The space like vocals were neat. Not sure if they are just samples or you actually said those words, but it fit well.
4) I like the pad used. Keeps things filled. Your fx sounds were pretty nice too.
5) This one is right on the border line (I'll round it to "good"). The bass pattern is rather unoriginal...typical beat like trance music; however, the bass sounded quite nice so despite the unoriginal bass pattern, I'll let it slip by.

Hmm:
1) I think your saw instrument needs more ommph.
2) Well you probably won't get this from anyone except me....I like diverse music and though you got the filter modulations, not much instruments are used in this song. I don't get bored of the percussion nor the composition, but listening to same instruments over and over again gets me a bit bored. My opinion though

Overall, I'm giving this a 5/5 vote. It deserves a higher score than 2.48. 9/10 review too. Keep making house music. Your good at it.

Bye for now

DukeLukeProd responds:

Hi Music-Story
Sorry, I havent't been around for some time.
Wow, this is about the most constructive review anyone ever gave me, thanks for the extensive advice!

First off: The vocal samples are the famous Apollo 11 transmissions from Neil Armstrong found on Wikimedia Commons (There's hell of a lot of useful stuff on there for us music producers)

French house isn't all that complicated. Take a 4 on the floor beat, add chords in a 1/8th pattern (mostly square/pulse + saw, lowpass-filter envelope with rapidly falling decay - that's roughly my pad) and you're almost there. Ask if you need help.

And now for the excuses ^^
Hmm 1)
Yeah it's pretty thin, I cut off the lower frequencies because I didn't want them to interfere with the bassline. But, as you pointed out it was a bit too much. You know, with headphones it's hard to judge (Bad excuse because in the meantime I got myself Alesis Monitors and not a lot has changed ;P Gotta practise more)

2)
You've got a point there, I don't like monotonous compositions either, yet I'm too lazy to add more instruments respectively afraid to add something "out-of-style"

Okay gotta get some lunch now!
Take care
-Luke

[Imagine THis (House)]

Yeah House music got on weekly top 5

This is going to be a short review because I have to go someplace soon. This is some cute funky house music. A little bit of a space theme due to your strange filter changes. I like the upbeat feeling this song portrays. I didn't think at 32 seconds that new instrument was in tune. It eventually didn't become dissonant so that's one good thing.

1:04 mark I like the dramatic climax. That saw instrument is pretty neat. I think you will need to make it louder though. Saw sounds are great so they should be very audible.

Overall, I think you did well with your filters. The delay on the instrument at 16 seconds was right on. Well synced to the tempo. I suppose your song title fits well. A lil magical feeling in this piece. The composition is quite unique so kudos to you.

I'm pleased that a house song finally made it to the weekly five. I just recently got interested in house music and submitted my first. (Spatial) I have not yet got a review from someone else that produces house music. That will help me a lot.

5/5 and 9/10 review.

Bye for now

JohnDare responds:

I know that the sound is not tune at 32 sec. but in the program, it's sound great!
I don't know what can do that?
Maybe when it encoded in Mp3

Thank!!

[Karco - Time For Morning]

Review

Hey Karco,

This one sounds pretty neat. I'd say it might fit house more or techno. I only heard the beginning so maybe it turns to trance later. This is what I think.

Good:
1) Nice saw. I used a similar saw sound too in my house song. Saw sounds are my favorite now. :)
2) I think you were inspired by a certain artist. Forgot his name though. Beat sounds familiar, but it's a nice one so kudos.
3) The fx sounds were good. Filter modulations fit right for your transitions.
4) 1:30 I now snese the trance part. Feels ambient like. Interesting percussion used too. I suppose this may be the part that I could see linked to your song title.
5) No vocals. That was a very good decision on your part. The song wouldn't make sense with vocals. I don't sense any empty parts except near the ending part of the song.

Okay:
1) Well after the nice beginning, the song kinda dragged out. Meh, trance I guess.
2) originality factor is a bit low here (maybe I just listen to a lot of music by such artist as David Guetta and Fredde le grand)
Not much negative stuff to say. You use reason 4 right? A lot of your sounds are very similar to stuff I already heard by other artists. Reason 4 comes with these samples already? Sounds like a good program to get my hands on...but I already bought a new one. I like how you changed your style. I like house music. The originality factor is a bit low here, but I think you should expand more into this style of music. Up to you though. 5/5 and for taking the step into a new genre...a 10 rev. Keep it up. Bye for now

Karco responds:

Hey Music-story, been a while! :D Go down several reviews for my reasoning on why it's in Trance. As always, I'll go down your points one by one:

Good:
1) Thanks. :P
2) I listed my inspirations in the commentary. ;)
3) Great to hear...
4) Possibly. :O
5) You think so? It feels like there's no core melody in this song, that's the place the vocals would have taken. Ah well, whatever you say...

Okay (just say bad for once, seriously :P):
1) Really? I was going for a slightly faster progression with this one. Though it did slow down later on. :P
2) Never heard of them, I assume their styles are similar to this song?

Nope, I don't use Reason 4, I use FL8 Producer Edition. ;D None of these samples came with it either, they're all from sample CDs. Thanks for the review and the high ratings, glad you liked it!

[-victory- 2]

Oh, I like this

I am sensing a victory in this piece. It is a bit short though to be considered a song. This shouldn't be that long of a review by me.

Good:
1) Those instruments used sound very crisp and lifelike. I'm not sure if you actually played the instruments or if these are electronically played, but they do sound like the real thing. Great job.
2) The composition is well done. I heard it before it a different song, but I think yours sounds better because of the instruments used.

Hmm:
1) Well the ending of the song was a bit weird. You shouldn't have stopped there. Transition into a climax. Put some horns or something in here. This song sounds like it would fit well in medieval times.

I like that piccolo or flute like sound. That's what made this song stand out to me. I also noticed no drums in this piece which I usual consider a bad thing, but it worked really well here. You should make a victory 3 song....but this time a actual full length song. Keep up the good work. 5/5 and a 10.

howamisupposedtoknow responds:

thanks for the review...
but as i said... it's only a preview... drums will be a part of the final version... and the flute... was actually just the fruity loops piano ^^
are you sure it wasn't just the original -victory- tune you heard? (also by me)
hope im not unknowingly copying someone else :o

uploaded the next part http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/liste n/154875

[[TranceFusion]]

First submission and your first review

Hey Fatal,

Glad you are able to make electronic music for the AP. Is this your first electronic song ever made too? Kudos to you if so. I am generally nice on anyone's first submission on the AP. I would say that lead instrument does have a happy and somewhat catchy tune. I sense two waveforms used on that instrument...unless you had two instruments playing that same lead melody. For your first submission, I thought you did a great job. Sure, it may not be as good as the more experienced musicians on the AP, but everyone started just like you. (Well I think you started better than most others)

Here are some quick tips to help you improve faster.

1) I find that raising the EQ levels in the higher frequency ranges (eg. 800-1400Hz) on your percussion makes the drums have more lush...that is if your drums have hi hats and/or cymbals or any other higher frequency instruments (eg. cowbell). For this song, your drums definitely have lots of cymbals.

2) You need a bass in this song. If your going for the more happy techno kinda feel than square waveforms are generally used. More serious dark like trance the sine waveform is good. However this is not a rule. If your looking to be really unique you can always experiment with the many other waveforms and digiforms.

3) I know the song is a loop, but you could reach a climax in here. I didn't notice no climax so I see no difference in making this a 20 second song compared to a 47 second song.

I'm surprised how well you mastered this song. I heard no clipping whatsoever so you must be using your dynamics and EQ very well. Good luck with your future projects. Your on the right track. 5/5 and 10/10 review.

Fatal responds:

Hey thanks buddy this was my first submission

Your tips are helpful, i'm going to make a full song as my next submission, in a similar style of electronica/trance

I'm glad people are helpful your review was constructive I know exactly what you mean about reaching a climax it does sort of drag on as I just made it longer from about 25 seconds to 40.

Look out for my next submission i'm sure you will like it.

=D

[Illusion - [viz]]

Hey Viz

I suppose the past reviewer is correct in having familiar instruments, but everyone has their unique style. You can keep it with the happy synths further showcasing your style, or surprise us one day with a totally different style. I don't mind though. This is what I thought of your song.

Good:
1) Well, again I like happy sounds. This is just my opinion though.
2) I like the background support. The whoosing wind fuzz along with the voice effects keeps the song feeling full.
3) around 38 seconds in is some kind of effect that sounds like rain. Maybe my ears are decieving me, but I thought using ambient sounds is a neat idea. Further improves the environment of the song.
4) 1:53 I like that techno saw like instrument. I would have liked it more if you moved the composition up an octave.
5) Well mixed and mastered. Nuff said.

Bit more:
1) This was a nice song to relax to. I would have enjoyed more climaxes because right now I'm not in a relaxed mood. :) Soccer game in less than 2 hours.
2) For the patterns used, they are good but sometimes moving them into different octave ranges rather than keeping them in a specific octave range will add more variety.

Overall, its a good song. I have a song not on NG yet but might need your advice. However, only by email. I don't want to post it on NG yet. PM me if you want to help. 5/5 and 9/10 review.

DJ-VIZ responds:

Long time no see! Thanks for the review...and I have some new stuff as well Id like to send you before I sumbit. We should keep in touch via email, and ill definitly help you out. I agree with the synthing, but I orignally made this 5 months ago when I did not have much other than what I used for all my old sumbissions. Anyway my new stuff is much better, so yeah ill be happy to help you.