Score: 10

"Your voice"

submission: RapeMuffin's Story.

date: January 14, 2009

It's just... so... fantastic. You're quite a storyteller. I'll have to win one of these writing competitions sooner or later, just so I can hear my words matched to your voice.

Well read.

<3

Score: 10

"Makes the blood pump faster."

submission: _-={The Darkest Hour}=-_

date: November 23, 2008

Loved the game, loved the soundtrack.
Maestro, you sound at your best when you make music that's loud, agressive and in your face. And this is one such track.
The song is very busy, it's slightly clustered, but on the whole that's not too bad. There's the heavy percussion, the aural backdrop and the guitar sitting somewhere in the middle.
This part of the game was intense, and the music does well to represent that, and give the player the intense mood and emotion that this part of the game deserves.
Well done Maestro. Keep on being awesome! ;D

Score: 9

"Nice"

submission: °°Sunny Autumn Skies°°

date: November 21, 2008

Nice and sweet, whirl. I can see the orange/brown leaves drifting through the sky, a hint of winter in the cool breeze that runs across the hills. A lone stranger walks along the forest path wearing a red scarf and brown coat. That's what I see.
I'd love to see this theme developed upon, it's really quite beautiful, but I know the woes of being stuck at the keyboard playing the same short phrase over and over again.
Nice tune, WG.
5'd and 9'd.
:3

Score: 8

"Things I should point out:"

submission: KR- S3&K Zone 1 Act 3

date: November 21, 2008

The lead can get too loud sometimes, and it'll clip and distort, whereas the harmony is often too quiet, barely audible. While it should be in the background, it should still have a defining presence. The different segments of the song felt quite stiff and static, in that they didn't flow all that well together. Overall, I felt the song was too "thin", maybe add some more instruments in to boost the atmosphere, just soft background stuff, leaving the loud percussive sounds (such as the piano) for the bass and lead (and maybe for a soft harmony).
Maybe you could add some atmosphere to the music by adding in effects, I'd suggest adding a little bit of reverb to a few instruments, it helps the instrument to sound a bit more realistic.

Overall, I think you did a pretty decent job. With a bit more practice and trying things out, I'm sure you'll get the mixing sorted out. It's a difficult process, and I spend a lot of time with my music trying to find the right balance. Keep at it knux, you're doing great. :D

Score: 10

"Haha, brilliant work, man!"

submission: Retarded Windows Song

date: November 4, 2008

How did you get to be so awesome!
Seriously, you kick ass.
A great, inventive song. Yes I do want there to be more to this song, but due to your limitations, I'm not at all disappointed.
Keep it up!

Score: 9

"Nice"

submission: {Ceb} The Cosmos [DnB NG Cut]

date: October 6, 2008

The pitch bending stuff at the start is a bit random, but pretty good for where it goes later on in the track. The drums were good, there were a lot of patterns in here that worked well with each other, but I think it was a bit on the counter-productive side that there was a lot of different things going on, particularly near the start. There was quite a few short contrasting sections in there that might have suited better if they were longer and more relevant to the flow of the song. The last half (or so) of the song was awesome, I just think if you could keep it relatively level near the start of the song and mix it up a bit later, the development and flow of the song would work wonders for this piece. As it is now, it's really enjoyable to listen to, but I think a few small things would make it just that bit more awesome. I'm quite all over the place here, I hope you get what I'm trying to point at.

Score: 9

"Sweet"

submission: Quarl- Broken Melody

date: September 25, 2008

The muddy piano with the ton of reverb sounds really awesome blending with the drums. The melody was nice, very soothing. The drums were very well done. The strings added a nice charm to the piece. Very calm. Kind of pretty in a sorrowful way.

Overall great tune quarl.

Score: 7

"The start was pretty good"

submission: KR- S3&K Act 2 boss

date: September 17, 2008

And the part around 2:15. I still think the guitar sounds out of place in this song.
The harp and guitar at the end sound out of key. The ambient tone at around 1:25 was quite nice, but the part before it sounded like a completely different cover of the same song. The extra instrument at around 1:35 sounds out of tune, and doesn't mix well with the ambience you had just built up. It was too fast and too loud and harsh by comparison. THe drums sound very dry and empty, too punchy for a song of this style. Add a bit of reverb and turn the volume down a bit should fix this. The chords with the main melody at the start doesn't sound like the best thing to harmonise with, it sounds like it should have more direction, but doesn't.

As a whole, I think it sounds more like two songs than one, and again, you've got some mixing/blending issues, but I thought the part at 2:15 was very good, and had a lot of potential to be a great track in its own right. I think you just need to get a good group of instruments to work with, fine tune the mixing, make sure the drums and bass and harmonies don't drown out the lead, work on getting a more even flow between different sections of the song, and, like I said in the previous review, just keep working at it, you're a hell of a lot better than when you started, but the work doesn't stop here, it never stops, so I think it best to keep the criticism up, just to keep the pressure on ya ;D
I'll PM you with some instruments you could use in the future, but keep the piano and harp and various other keyboard instruments.
Fo' Sho!
Keep it up, knux.

Score: 7

"It's good, but it needs work"

submission: KR- S3&K Act1 Boss

date: September 17, 2008

The brass/harp are out of tune with echother at the start. The quick brass notes sound cut off, those sorts of samples are meant for more sustained notes. After that it gets better. Then, the guitar like sound, it doesn't really blend well with the other instruments. The pan flutes are nice, except for a few pitch (I'm thinking the pitch discrepancies were intentional here?) and timing issues, and when they go too low. THe pan flute is a high pitched instrument, and only really sounds good within those higher frequencies. The best part, I would have to say was when the pian came in. You get some good pace there, and the tune really powers through. It was probably the part with the best mix too, most of the time the lead didn't stand out enough, as it was drowned out by the parts that should have been supporting it.

If I were you, I'd probably use the guitar a lot less, bring the melody out some more and balance the mix of instruments better. Keep using that piano though, if you were to have the piano as the harmony throughout your songs, and maybe give the flute or harp the lead, or maybe try using a violin every now and then, that would be damned awesome. The drums were great, too, not overpowering, but they gave out a good forward momentum for the track.

Sorry to sound so negative, but there are fundamentals that are missing from your music, such as a more cohesive blend of instruments. There are flashes of great work here, there really is, and I'd love to see you turn those short passages of great work into full songs.

Keep it up, man! Let me know when you get some more music out, and I'll review them for sure. Keep on working at it, and keep on improving. I look forward to the rest of the album.

Score: 8

"Hehe, nice"

submission: Usain Bolt

date: August 29, 2008

The adult male african albino leopard bides its time, waiting, ever so still, for the opportune moment to strike.
This is a nice rhytmic ambint piece. It's not overly outstanding, and the bending of the wind instrument was a bit too odd for me to handle, but the percussion is great, handled really well.

Keep it up. It'd be cool if you built up a whole song like this, and added more elements to it to have a colourful and energetic melody to go with the drum work.

Nice title too. ;D