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[skyInfinite]

I quite like it! It IS very up-beat and happy, but not in an annoying or cheezy way. Best of all, it breaks away from its rhythm just before it gets repetitive, which maximizes the effectiveness of each part.

If I HAD to suggest something to improve it, I might say break even further away from the up-beat-ness somewhere in the middle, but as it is, I feel it is a completed work. Good job!

Alloud responds:

Thank you, glad you enjoyed!
I didn't want it to get too moody. I tried removing the percussion in the middle when the bandpass filters come in but it sounded really weird to me; like the whole song kinda stopped moving. Nothing wrong with being more dynamic though, I'm sure I could have found a way to improve the breakdown.

[Wibbly Wobbly]

Dr who in the first 3 seconds. "Time's gone all wibbly wobbly!"

Glad I'm not the only one who thinks the new Dr. Who music is frackin' amazing! I've somehow never heard an electronic mix of the themes. One could go nuts with this stuff.

I think I have one Dr. Who inspired song on my profile if you're interested in checking it out.

zlarke responds:

Yay! You knew :p I'll check yours out for sure.

[Inception Time Remix]

I... love it. Just love it. There is just enough Inception in there to justify the name, but not so much as to overwhelm. It also stands as its own work without relying too much on the original work.

Thanks!

SethKorn responds:

no, thank you! Glad you liked it man :D

[-We Are Alone-]

I like what I can hear, but it needs some mastering work. Not like I'm any sort of expert, but it sounds like you've got the standard tools FL Studio or any other sequencer drops in for managing bass and such. Each time your kick goes off, its dipping every other instrument to keep your sound under control, and this is creating a 'breathing' type effect that is undesirable. Because it dips the sound over time, it makes the breathing sound off beat, and just throws a wrench in the whole thing.

Try adjusting your levels so that the software doesn't think it needs to dip everything so far when there is bass. Everything else sounds great!

kirja100 responds:

Thank you!

[Artificial Intelligence Evolved]

The work is very well put together, but I think your inspiration from Jablonsky is a bit overboard. Some of these themes are only a few notes off from a certain toy inspired Bay film we've all seen recently. Nothing wrong with being inspired by a fantastic composer, but it wouldn't hurt to mention him in your credits.

EvilRaccoon responds:

Heh, if you know me you can hear all my stuff is inspired by Zimmer, jablonsky, mancini, rabin, Gregson williams etc. Jablonsky is seriously inspired by zimmer, yet you never hear him credit him. If I were to write who i was inspired by, i'd run out of space here. ;)

Thanks tho!

[LED (MSB) - (wip)]

LOL! Voted 5 during the intro. Then the beat dropped and I tried to vote 5 again. Just love it. Unique sound, pleasing and flawlessly mastered into a wave that maximizes use of the dynamic range. Keep it up.

GrantBowtie responds:

Thanks

[(HoS) Templar Attack]

Your bass and percussion needs some tweaking. One of the low drums you are using is being played at a pitch much lower than the original sample, resulting in some unpleasant sounding rattle (You'll hear this in my music too, which is how I recognized it)
I also feel the percussion would sound much better with some sort of stereo separation. Right now its VERY center-channel. For example, listen to how Hans Zimmer uses his Taikos. VAST separation.

I know there are some free low drums /Taikos out there that would work better for you. I'd also advise a little bit of 'humanization' for your strings. Its tough to make a digital sample library sound like it isn't digital, but a bit of variation helps.

As to the song and structure, it feels like the first half of a song. Not to say it is too short, but it builds up and up, then kinda hovers there before ending. Again, this is an issue I have too, which is why I notice it so quickly.

When you ask for feedback, also try and include a bit of info about what sample libraries you use, what software you use and how you 'master' it all in the end. I'm not sure if you were looking for such a technical response, but that's the best I can do.

I do quite like the vocal work though. Its nice to hear 'real' voices instead of a string of vowels running together. :)

HonorOfStyle responds:

Thanks for the lengthy technical review! It helps out a ton with understanding where exactly the weaknesses in my music are.

[Rising Tension (Mac Mix)]

Fantastic! I love it! All of the instruments sound like a live sample, IE no transition issues with the strings, as you find most of the time.

The voice obviously has transition issues, but voices are nearly impossible. Actually I've kinda' grown to like the 'sampled' sounding voices like this one. I'm curious where this one is from. Is it one of the Native Instruments?

F4LL0UT responds:

Thanks. :) Well, as for the strings I'm using several different libraries, none of which is state-of-the art, but if you use decent reverb settings, play the instruments well and spend a little time on on manually polishing the legato (instead of simply quantizing the recording) you can achieve this even with rather simple libraries.

As for the vocals: it's the soprano soloist from East West's Symphonic Choirs. Actually I believe that by experimenting a bit with some of its features I could've gotten much better transitions but I'm still rather satisfied with how it turned out - one of the main problems is that the panning isn't the same for each note so you'd have to fix this manually. But I have to say that when actually using the library's choirs there's almost no problem with the transitions. Also I believe that the soloists from Voices of Passion are much more advanced, considering the authenticity but this one is pretty much exactly what I wanted in this piece.

[Season of Hope (30DC)]

Um.... dude, why hasn't this been reviewed yet?

Wow, super impressive yo! Next month you should do the opposite and compose one song in 30 days. You might blow some minds.

Good work. High five. Fave.

BlazingDragon responds:

Lol. I think that I'll take you up on that idea! Thanks, man. :D