by

Alvaro Overflow
(Overflow)

This song's strongest feature is composition. These are quite good segues between parts of the song, but poor when you don't have a major part change, like orders 19->20, 25->26 (where you just bring the claps in as if it were just the next instrument up). Other than that, there are some very good ideas and very good segues here. In the low end this entry was missing something. The real bass was inaudible behind the piano in orders 18 and 19, and sometimes conflicted with the pianos. Drums could have used some variation, and real drummers use two or three crash cymbals -- take this idea and vary the pitch of the crash cymbal (maybe a couple or three halftones either way) more or less at random. Tracking is better than some -- perhaps a bit simple. The opening strings needed to be a sample an octave higher and probably about 2/3 as loud. Some parts were just plain out of key with respect to the rest of the composition (pianos at order 12 and the bells buried beneath the strings). Samples need some work -- sample 21 was severely distorted from mixing with that powerful tympani, for instance, and you can really hear it in the decay. Most of this song's deficiencies were technical -- if I were you I'd work on that critical ear. :-)

this song sounds like a Beatles tune; with some techno additions/ The change of pace at pattern 16 wasn't needed. The song was going somewhere really nice. The change could have been used much later in the song before the final chorus. The 16-bit samples are really fat and clean. Sample # 2 definitely makes the song.

The repetition makes the song really boring, so watch out. Play some more with panning and Volume. The samples are very standard; be more creative with them.

the beginning turned me off the song somewhat... the transition from orser 13-14 is nonexistant... well, listening to the song some more, you have no transitions, you just change the song suddenly and repeatedly. Not too much I can say about the overall theme of the song, since there isn't one. This song seems to have been written to stand out, which it does... but is that a good thing?

Strings on sample 4 are out of tune Chimes on sample 9 are out of tune Transition to 14 is very ubrupt, making the transitions between ideas is the hardest part of writing. cool break beat on pattern 16 good transition to pattern 20 should consider echoing the piano voice to make the solo sound full.