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lotsa panning and glitchy fx... there's a few melodic things a little longer into there... this is fascinating. Lotsa lo-fi and IDMishness... could fit greatly for some kind of cave or future factory level in a game... it woulda fitted so damn well
oh and if that is a .rns I seriously want to look at it
Author's Response:
Sadly, there is no .rns to look at :(
This was created in AcidPro using VTSi's. There are two instances of Massive and two of Zebra2. I could have used any VST host for it though.
.rns files are tough - I rarely ever use Reason on it's own. Even if I do something almost entirely in Reason, I'll still almost always reWire it through AcidPro for what I think is better control over the different tracks.
That's about it :)
Thanks for reviewing it!
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that's a bit of thumpy kick drum you've got there. Four on the floor beats annoy me so damn much, it kinda takes away a little of the song for me. But anyways, this song is damn groovy, still it has great speed and action. The sound quality and mixing/mastering is a bit crappy, so it sounds kinda like the music is coming from a box which you're standing on. Nice use of the guitar, quite an original twist of a techno song. I like it! Good work!
Author's Response:
I'll increase the quality of my submissions soon. Thx for reviewing !
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don't pan everything that much, it's annoying. the drums sound really random, and the rolling changes up too little, but holy hell they make a great feeling in the track. That dramatic, adventurish feeling right? Guitar lead coulda been a bit louder. Leads have good melody, but not enough construction. The thing playing from the start could use changing, but it does work very well. Great work, could get even better
Author's Response:
I'm very new to the concept of panning, and it sounded really boring without the pan, so I might rework it a fair bit more. Jeez, I never rework songs...
I might see if I can get some adequate drums to break up the rolling a bit. The thing from the start... the cello, I might try to rework a more static melody near the end and change the lead at the end... it doesn't really feel like the best conclusion.
Cheers for the review.
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Interesting lil song here, but it still is trancey. Nice phasing and reverbing of that lead. Drums are a bit glitchy, but sound good. The oldschool lead fit perfectly to make a whole new machinic feeling to the song. Nice DnB style drums later on the song. Greatly done song.
Author's Response:
Thanks for the reveiw, i agree with the drums needing a little work ive been thinking that myself. Ill see what i can do about cleaning them up a bit before i do up upload at mp3.com
Keep an eye on - http://www.mp3.com/artist/BENTO-SAN/songs/
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scary lil lfo'd synth melody you've got going on there, sync lead kinda spoiled that later on though. But seriously, it's quite a good 'scary' loop!
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sounds like it could need a major cleanup- there's just a few generic synths playing off-tempo with fairly random melodies. Drums would sound awesome, much better synths and effect would do so too... This would need much more work and shaping to sound well. You've got a farily good idea of a good song in this tune though.
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doesn't sound a lot ambient-y to me except for the start- it's all very very reverbed. The saw bass with a little delay that goes forever with 3 notes, You could've changed it up, or given it some melody- you change a bit of it later on tho
Interesting 'alien' fx and winds, they surely make the ambient atmosphere- but not much
Then there's a new sawtoothe/PWM lead, it's okay but you shoulda used another kind of lead for the same melody, the sawyness gets a bit tiring after a while
percussion, techno thumps and some higher percussion like hats and shakerz, works out except for the thumps- needs more snare and reverbed kick
Really, quite an interesting piece. Did you put a reverb on the master track or something? That would be friggin lazy, but work out excellent
It's a bit more minimal techno (the thumps turned one part extremely ghey) mixed with ambience- But that's for sure a good thing too! :D
Author's Response:
Wow, just to start a great review, too.
I didn't put reverb on the whole track, but I used automations like crazy(hence the alien effects). This really is only the fourth time I've really used slicing and automations, but then again I've realized they're necessities!
I believe the lead synth needed just a tad more on the volume and filter, but I didn't really think of what you suggested. I'll keep that in mind.
Like I said, thanks for the review and trust me, I'm not even close to being done with this fascinating program. Catch ya later!
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For once I can hear the vocals excellent. Sounds a bit- early pink floyd or supertrampish
the whole thing is dipped in a whole lotta reverb, so the piano sounds almost like a pad. A little plucky acoustic guitar I could imagine would sound great
Author's Response:
cheers SBBBBBBB,
the reverb thing is a shame, sounds really murky, i did the piano and lead vox a couple of years ago and all i have is a wav of the 2, no way to clean it up.
chaars
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nice triangle synth in the start, sounds bouncy- glitch beats doesn't really fit my taste- disorted square synth? a lil far away sounding, but good. Plucky guitar- simple thingy, interesting loop, could like to be an octave or so lower, it sounds annoying that high. Vocals are pretty drowning in the mixage, but I can get a slight idea of what you're saying. Unique lil compostion, can't see much wrong with it except for really small things based on opinions
Author's Response:
hey SBB, most of the synth work is done in crystal for this track, infact all of it, theres only two lol. lots of morphing patched together till something comes out that i like.
You don't like the glitch beats? awwwwwwww! im still getting me head round it so there will be a few mistakes once im tighter with it hopefully i can turn you.
The second synth again done in cystal, added the northpole filter to it for the distortion. Yea plucky guitar, simple as you say, you wouldve thought it sounded better an octave down, but that second synth clashed with it, so played it from the 15th fret (g) on the e string and b.
The vocals are meant to be washy, probably whats losing the clarity is the reversed reverb i used. and all i say is 'close you eyes, just leave me be'
anyways i think you like it, just pointing out a few things you werent too happy with, and opinions matter so thanks for the pointers.
pitters
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what's that thing in the start? sounds like a cheap brass soundfont, cause it's screaming "SAMPLERRRR" loud and clear- if I'm wrong then fuck it
interesting panning thing, a little annoying, but it makes an atmosphere.
The lead guitar sounds like... off tone, a guitar version of someone singing horribly false, get it? Should have some tuning or at least some better notes- the other guitar sounds okay to me, a lil low possibly
nice rolly drums
interesting composition, lollish
Author's Response:
Haha. Hooray this finally got a review!
That, in the beginning, would be whatever 'instrument' swells up in the original MIDI.
I'm still working on how I pan and everything mixes together in the end. It's still a lot of Greek to me.
I'm totally digging the review though, thanks mate!
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