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[4-minutes-Orgasm]

ok bare with me here...

I can tell you tried. I give credit for trying. But this song reminds me of something.

Have you ever ridden in a shitty-ass car and wondered how the hell it even ran? Have you ever been to a carnival and refused to ride something because it looked like it was going to fall apart any second now? Well, that's how I thought this song was. It was holding on for dear life, just barely making any musical sence whatsoever.

One part of it may be the heavy distortion. It seemed like there was an entire range of frequencies that was being left out. The sound is very dry. You might have overdone the effects because the tone seems to be lacking somewhere. It is a fast song and fast songs usually have a very full sound, but the sound in this peice was almost boring. Compare this song side-by-side to a Radiohead song and focus on the tone differences. Radiohead has rich and clear sounds, despite the electronica sounds.

The drums may have had something to do with it. The drums were very fast, probably too fast. Because the rest of the song was moving slow (not tempo-wise, but just listen to the song at 2:00 and maybe you'll see what I mean), the fast drum beat just made the song boring because it was loud and didn't seem to fit the song. So it almost seemed like these drums were the focal point of the music, and that is not a good thing in this case. If you turn down the volume a little, and write a slower drum beat, this peice will have a much greater impact.

The very-fast arpeggio in the background was probably the main thing that made me dislike this piece. It rarely seemed to follow the rest of the music. Perhaps some of the notes you chose were off-key, because it really sounded like it. Let me tell you what helps me write arpeggios. I'll use a string instument first in place of the arpeggio. I will write chords, and change the pitches until it fits with the rest of the song. Then, I'll write it as an arpeggio and put the notes onto the other insturment. Sounds good every time.

I'm not trying to diss your music or anything, please dont think that. I just try to review with the absolute honesty.

headbang87 responds:

well that's your true opinion and i respect it, even if my is another, it's a quiestion of taste (music is always a question of taste)->there is no bad music, there is only music I like/don'tlike
by the way: check out my other songs, most of them are extremly different, the reason is: I make experiments & also: I couldn't see a single heavy metal song, which was posted by you, I don't know whether you like/dislike metal, but it seems to me that you have no idea about it
Sorry I don't want to insult you, but that's my honest opinion
thanks for the review

[Jungli]

work != good

Ok, you put work into this. That much I can tell. Nobody can construct something like that without some amount of dedication. But hard work doesn't always translate into something good.

So let me explain where I'm coming from here. Alot of the music seems to have a lot of dissonance. And by that I mean, some notes just plain dont fit. If used correctly, dissonance can be a very effective tool in writing music. But random out-of-key notes isn't necessarily "effective". I'm trying not be mean here, so if it seems like I'm trying to condescend then I have been misunderstood.

The solo thing that comes in at :13 is exactly what I'm talking about. Throughout the whole thing, it really doesn't stay put in-key. It's sort of a rebellious teenager and feels like doing whatever the hell it wants. Which describes me by the way.

But there is no doubt in my mind that you will get better. Everything that I see wrong in your music will eventually be worked out. You'll get better at recognising good ideas. You see, I've endured the same things other people go through and there's no words you can say to help them, they will learn on their own. But I hope that maybe I've pushed you in the right direction.

Klasmus responds:

I guess I don't work..... I just slice some stuff instead of looping it making me lazy... And certain notes turn you off. Ok sure.

[the scientist remake v.2]

hahaha

I listened to it at first and was like man this is familiar... then I was like man this sounds like Coldplay sort of... then omg this is exactly like one of those coldplay songs... he didn't rip off coldplay did he? Surely he'd know that someone would notice... Let's see what song did he rip off? The Scientist... oh. Oh shit. Oh it's a remake. Whoops.

Sounds very good man!

Wickedlat responds:

lollll i'd never rip off colplay trust me :P thx man!

[The Calming YT]

wellll

I'm not a fan of the genre, but I can definately tell that you have talent. It's a good song, but I dont like the repetiveness and such.

But yes, that solo is really good! I would never have the patience to write a solo that long... but you did a very good job with it. Did you have to hand-program every note? If so, kudos!

Yourz-Truly responds:

Yes i did have to hand program every note n let me tell u it was a pain in the ass lol ty 4 ur review.

[windows 96]

Sounds like...

... the beginning of a Radiohead song. I was waiting for some pretty vocals to come in :)

This is a very unique song. It is unpredictable, yet maintains somewhat of a uniform sound. I am surprisingly satisfied after listening to this song. W00t!

meltinjohn responds:

thanks!!! seriously!!!!radiohead just happen to be my favorite band EVER!!

[The Creation: Escape [Event]]

Good.

You definately got your point across. It was a nice peice that told a nice little mini-story. Unfortunately I really dont like it. I personally would have liked a little bit less distortion. I would've liked it longer, with some kind of changes in the song. This sounds like an intro for something but the something never happens.

Other than that, good feel, good music, etc. Just not enough there to grab me.

uten responds:

it is an intro ...I'm planning on making a series out of 'The Creation and each part will come with a bit of the story I'm writing

[System Override (MS RAVE)]

I like this one!

What do you do to make it sound so full? Second-Party software? This song sounds very professional. Lots of cool transitions to keep the listener interested. It's not like the traditional boring rave music, one solid beat that's the same as everything else. No, this music has style. It screams, "I didn't write this on my coffee break, I was inspired."

Music-story responds:

Well, to tell you the truth, I just put a bunch of instruments together to make it so full. Again, I didn't know anything about my music program when I made this. Now that I know a lot more about my music program, here are ways to increase fill. I think what your trying to say is how to get more fat. There are many ways to do this.

1) Increase the cutoff dial...the more intense means more fuzz. White noise also helps.
2) Add a fat equalizer to make umm more fat. :)
3) Add a "spreader" vst plugin to spread the sound evenly or unevenly across the speakers
4) Add delay and the more "feedback" you put on the delay the more fat you get. To make things really fat I suggest you use "Stereo delay" rather than tape delay.
5) Add multiple wave forms in unison. Eg. Create a instrument consisting of 3 different wave forms or a mixture of waveforms and digital waveforms
6) Use filters effectively. Modulation of the filters usually brings out a lot of fat.
7) You could do it the newbie way by increasing the distortion dial and color dial to max. However this only increases fat a little and is high risk for clipping to occur.
8) Slap a rotor cabinet plugin to improve fat. A rotor cabinet just spins the sound in a circle like shape between your stereo speakers.
9) With your synthesizer to make the instrument, put it to mono or poly along with unison enabled
10) You could use the vector envelope to create fat. Note that this is based on logic pro. I don't know what your program calls it. Basically a vector envelope modifies the instrument when you hold it down. Eg. Holding the note for a decent amount of time. (this is arbitrary because you can choose any amount of time you want for the vector envelope to take effect) You can modify the x and y coordinates of your waveforms as your holding onto the note....so the note will actually change in tune while holding the note. Just make it so that the x and y coordinates move toward a fatter waveform. This method is the most versatile yet the most time consuming.

There are other ways to increase fat/fill that I don't know yet but for this song I was just lucky to randomly modify the instruments to get a lot of fat. I'm disappointed with this song. However, if some one liked it than I'm happy too.

[carnaval charMS (Mellow song)]

Chrono... something?

Theres a game called, ChronoCross? Something like that. Anyhow at the beginning of the game you are at a carneval and this song definately sounds like something that could play at that part of the game.

You need to start submitting more stuff! Your style has many similarities to mine, although its a bit more... sane? And I like it.

Music-story responds:

Cool, it is rare to get reviews on my happy music. Sorry, I don't submit on NG anymore. I have a bunch of songs made but never posted on NG. I don't like posting music on sites that have score rankings or download counts. I probably will post my songs on a personal webpage or something like that in the future. For me I like to make music cause it is fun and NG has been a huge deterrent for why I really make music. However, that's just how NG influenced me. Doesn't mean it is the same for everyone else. You actually got me interested in how your songs sound like. I'll go check one of yours right now. Bye for now.

[constellation]

ah!

Not a good song to listen to when my parents are sleeping! You made my woofer screaaam!!! This really reminds me of something though... I never forget a melody. I haven't really listened to techno since my DDR days but this techno was marijuana, this shit would be chronic.

k235 responds:

thanks a lot :)

[p4c-Bittersweet]

i like!

After listening to a few of your songs this is probably my favorite so far and I wanted to leave a review but sme goddamn active-x control is making some of my letters dissapear! So I'll make this short.

I really liked this... the only thing that idn't rub me rightpersonally was te distortion. Given theright context it would probbly e fine but idk just something that I thought of. really good otherwise good job!

p4c responds:

haha stupid ie. get firefox dood!! :)

yeah, the distortion was kinda harsh, see above review/response. maybe if i expand on this later itll be worked in better, but as of now, im leaving it to work on other stuff. ty for the rev!