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[Unwavering Assault]

Epic bosses

I like how it has that feel of you beginning to start a very long boss battle. The only bad and highly annoying part of the boss battle is you need to leave one minion out at all times or it will summon a whole new slew of them to come and bother you while it gets in cheap attacks at you to annoy you and dwindle down your health very quickly. Very amazingly done boss styled song.

The xylophone sounded awesome as it almost always has a rising feel when I heard it in the song. The guitars are very well done and sound almost as if someone was really playing them too. Anytime I try to use them in Fl Studio or the piano it never sounds like a piano for some reason, more like just some bass notes or sine notes maybe for some reason.

The drums sound incredible and I love how they have that hard hitting beat as if saying you can beat the boss if you keep coming back at them and being patient enough to wait to strike. The piano is nice and sounds beautiful here. Love how it gives a feel of starting up and ending the battle and all you have to do is keep trying and never give in.

The chorus is very lovely I think. The bass is long and ambient sounding notes too. The trombones are nice here and awesome to me too. When the all the instruments play at once it makes for an amazing work of art as a song. Great job here.

Overall, incredible boss song!

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Step responds:

Hey man, thanks for the long review!

"I like how it has that feel of you beginning to start a very long boss battle."

Lol, another comparison to boss battles. I'm OK with that :D.

"The only bad and highly annoying part of the boss battle is you need to leave one minion out at all times or it will summon a whole new slew of them to come and bother you while it gets in cheap attacks at you to annoy you and dwindle down your health very quickly."

Haha yes you've just summed up most of the frustrating boss battles in the history of gaming :P.

"Very amazingly done boss styled song."

Thanks!

"The xylophone sounded awesome as it almost always has a rising feel when I heard it in the song."

That's actually not a xylophone, but you were close. It's a glockenspiel.

This is one of my first songs in which I significantly incorporated that instrument. I like the outcome!

"The guitars are very well done and sound almost as if someone was really playing them too."

Someone DID play them :P. I asked SBB to record those guitars for me!

"Anytime I try to use them in Fl Studio or the piano it never sounds like a piano for some reason, more like just some bass notes or sine notes maybe for some reason."

No surprise there. When it comes to the default instruments that come with FL Studio, well... I can make more realistic sounds with my mouth :P. Get this soundfont: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V5YNBFRO (use this to extract it: http://www.melodymachine.com/sfark.ht m). It's great for miscellaneous sounds and with a bit of mixing they can sound pretty good. Far from the best, but leagues better than FL's default crap, lol.

"The drums sound incredible and I love how they have that hard hitting beat as if saying you can beat the boss if you keep coming back at them and being patient enough to wait to strike."

Heh, nice observation! I'm glad you like the drums. Haggard didn't but it's nice to know that some people still like them :P.

"The piano is nice and sounds beautiful here. Love how it gives a feel of starting up and ending the battle and all you have to do is keep trying and never give in."

Thanks, I'm happy you liked the piano. Being a pianist myself I always strive to make the pianos in my songs sound half decent.

"The chorus is very lovely I think. The bass is long and ambient sounding notes too. The trombones are nice here and awesome to me too. When the all the instruments play at once it makes for an amazing work of art as a song. Great job here.

Overall, incredible boss song!"

Thanks a lot. I really appreciate the great feedback!

[Timelapse (WIP)]

Lighthearted

Really do like the galloping drum track, kind of makes me think of a certain Dead or Alive song actually. The tone of this song has a feel of kind of time traveling or possibly moving a forward a bit and getting a grip on life at the same time. The tune has a great quality to it though.

The synth has an icy grip to it but it also sounds very light in tune giving that feel of being overly happy to go and do things with your life. I guess a synth solo later into the song could also be cool as well. The bass here is solid and sounds very nice on the ears as it helps back up the synth here too.

The drums sound great and have a good rhythm too. Love the plastic sound I keep hearing as well, forgot what that part of the drum was called but that's alright. Loved the breakdown and calming area where it starts with a bass then adds in the synth and slowly brings back in the drums. It just sounds very nice right there. Gives a feel of you having found hope in an empty city.

Overall, incredibly calm trance beat, very nice.

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ochrence responds:

Good that you liked it! Speaking of Dead or Alive, I do enjoy myself some New Wave. Maybe I'll post some once I figure out how to sing without latency in FL Studio.
By "plastic sound", do you mean the rim of the drum? Also, later in the song, I'll definitely make a synth solo.
Thank you for the review!
-ochrence

[Lone X - Lost Land]

Great beat

Really great beat. Milla Jovovich is a great actress too. The piano, drums, and everything coming together to make this song is great. Keep on making great music. Great beat, very cool on the ears. Gives a feel of going to a rave of sorts.

Lone-X responds:

Thanks, man! I totally agree to the cool on the ears part. Feels like you want to move to it, but also just relax to it.

Peace and love.

[<<Replicants>>]

Great dubstep

This is a pretty great piece of work and I enjoy the slow start having a video game atmospheric feel to it and you very slowly and gradually feel the kick coming on as it slowly switches to light wubs and gets better and better. This song was pretty cool though and gave a feel of being in a boss battle too.

The synth has a very light and cheery feel to it as if letting you know there is a light at the end and all you have to do is beat the boss to reach it. The dub is pretty great here and has a great tempo along with it making it feel awesome. The drums are cool and I love the radio like filter they get from time to time too.

Overall ,awesome dubstep piece. This song is just amazing.

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BulimicLemur responds:

Cheers man, thanks for the review. Flattering. :P

I NEED TO MAKE ANOTHER SONG LIKE THIS ONE!! :P

[realguitaring WIP "Good as..."]

Clean and charming

I really like the clean sound of the guitar. What kind of recording device are you using to make it sound so clean anyways? The song sounds very good though. I think if you were to add a bass line to it that it would be cool and maybe vocals to fit the mood to make it all the better.

The clean sounding guitar gives a feel of playing somewhere live. It kind of sounds like it possibly has a phaser effect on it to give a feel of the notes rising and falling as you play them. Then the second and lighter set of notes give a feel of joy as if smiling all day and watching fun things too.

Overall, great work in progress.

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UltimateCJ64 responds:

Heheh, sorry, both guitars are run directly inputed and put through 20% gain on the GarageBand amp simulator, then ran through a chorus preset. Nothing really clean on either of them. Although I stodd away from my Mac to avoid background noise and stuff.

Yeah, this was an early version of this, basically kind of like a "I want to record my ideas before I lose them" kind of thing. Which didn't turn out too bad, but still needs a bit of refining. (Okay, a LOT of refining.) Me and Firefreezer are working on a better version, more organized, more bass, more drums, more etc.

And as for the improvised lead guitar, it was, well, very improv'd. I know next to nothing on lead/solo guitar, pentatonic scale aside, but I'm working on that. It is supposed to sound upbeat in part of it, so that worked well. Yay. Either way, it's something that will need to be worked on.

Thanks for the review, dude! :D

[Project Malu & Kaumaha]

Nice and strange

Kind of reminds me of older movies where you watched those long intro in the 90's and they were usually accompanied by this music for some strange reason or another strange enough. The tune is very well done though and enjoyable.

The guitar plucks very lightly giving a feel of someone being there yet not being visible to you. The drums have a simple echo rhythm to make you feel like you have a long path ahead and no idea where it could possibly be taking you either. The ambient wind noises give a feel of walking a long and lonely road to a new city and hoping you can start anew there once more. I also like the tone of the piano, very beautiful.

Overall, greatly composed ambient piece.

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Rinileki14 responds:

Thanks. Part of what you said sums up what I was going through with this song.

[A World Away.]

Skilled jazz

Is that some jazz I hear there? The background beat is quite great. More great rhymes from you once more again. The tune gives a feel of feeling sad like you just lost something and there is no way of getting the person or thing back from where you now begin anew. You try to move on but sometimes want to head back and see it sometimes.

The lyrics give me a feel like you are just in constant pain and that shake I hear every now and then kind of makes me think of someone shaking a pill bottle actually which is cool and strange to me too. The backing beat helps move your message as well too. The song is great, very well done.

Overall, more great lyrics, gives a feel of sorrow as well.

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[Adjeye-3 ~ Sentivicated.]

Inspiring

This has a real robotic and uplifting feel to it. It gives a feel of suddenly awakening to having a new power and you slowly begin to understand how to use it. You have to defeat a boss first before leaving the facility with your powers however as the scientist there only view you as a tool and not a human with emotions. Simple being angry sends shock waves every where freeing you of them.

You head out and soon wonder what they did to you. You notice on your hands it looks almost as if they had given you manicures and painted your fingers nails light blue for some reason. You wonder why and looking closer you notice tiny bits of cold ice coming from them. You touch the ground and notice the ground has frozen a bit.

You walk away and put on a cloak wondering what to do with the power. Your first thought though is taking out the person who has caused you so much pain and put you there in the first place and then the people who cause the city problems....

The synth has a very uplifting feel to it and I really enjoy that. The bass is soothing and bouncy on the ears. The drums have a simple feel that feels like it is giving you an adrenaline rush too. Very awesome beat.

Overall, great song, I enjoy it.

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Adjeye responds:

It really give you a warm feeling when people find your music inspiring, Thanks for the review :).

[Riddickulous (WIP)]

Boss time

This sounds like it would make a great boss rave song actually and for that I truly enjoy it. Tune it a bit and make it longer and it will be even greater. Great rave piece right here though. Has a feel of having to get really fast to beat the boss too. Very nicely done.

The synth has a calm feel as if trying to inspire you to come up with a strategy to beat the boss quickly before it destroys you instead. The bass and drums make a nice combo here for a nice thick thump, thump, thump sound while the synth and guitar synth play together to make a chaotic boss symphony.

Where did the voices come from anyways?

Overall, very fast and wickedly done song. Sounds awesome!!

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Dj-GST responds:

Hell yeah, this would be perfect for a boss battle :D

There's no guitar bro, the bassline and lead were done in 3xOSC, sampled, and then distorted. Though, guitar would definitely go good with this track!

The vocals came from this "112 Vocal samples" pack that I downloaded. The guy said that they're from some RPG. Though, they didn't sound like that originally, I used a vocoder and white noise to give them that demonic effect.

Thanks bro! glad you liked this!

3S

[BigT's New Unfinished Beat]

Needs better title

Well the track itself sounds great but I think the title could use a much better name that makes it sound more standing as well. Maybe Robot rap beat maybe? The beat itself doesn't sound too bad though and is rather enjoyable on the ears too. Very nice little beat.

The robotic voice feels a bit unneeded I think. The robotic synth gives a slight trance feel to the song that is nice on the ears I think. The bass is nice and smooth as well. The drums sound pretty cool, simple, and I like the claps you have added to it too to spice it up a bit.

Overall, just remove the robot voice and it will be just fine. Nice beat.

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