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Arne neXu$
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The overall sound of this tune was in some way fresh. Sample quality was quite ok. Nice use of chords (the first part of song, from order 15 to end it became too ordinary). the strings were a little too raw on some places. Too much panning in some bass samples (at least when listening with headphones). I didn't like the ending, but that's just my taste.

I like the start of this tune, sound great, but I think the choirs used sound a bit out of place at the start. The bass line used it good, and the 'wavy' string chord are well fitting. The melody it good. And the change in the middle of the tune show a good use of dynamics. The final section could have been a bit shorter, just seems to go on a bit long. Most of the samples are well fitting, and the tune is well structured. As it does seems to flow quite well from one section to the next.

This tune starts off promisingly, but that choir/vox sample (no. 5) is clearly off-key. A shame, since the bassline is animated enough to be of interest to the listener, the song seems to develop well and show good variation. Some of those samples are a little, uh, "familiar" ;) but the song is good enough for me to forgive that. ...WHOA! Order 14/pattern 11. What the HELL was that with the cymbal? Using a crash cymbal every four rows is not good tracking practice! That hurts the song. ...Uh oh. Order 19/pattern 16. You just changed from a minor to a major in the *same* key. That sounds pretty weak. The ending is pretty weak too, and the last pattern is just silly. It just shouldn't ever have been put there. A shame, since the song initially showed signs of being a good track.

Of your piano chords. Putting 1th, 9th and 3th note of the chord in row sounds choppy. (Your voicing was A, B, C, E, I'd recommend B, C, E, A or even omitting A if you have bass playing it.) Some weak points in the mixing. The bass, for instance gets lost and percussion is maybe too soft. Pads are definetely too loud. Transition from pattern 11 to pattern 12 needs work. Structure could be more coherent. No serious flaws here, anyway.

"Leviatation" has a good basic idea that isn't exploited all that well. The first few patterns sound really good (although you may want to do a real quick fade of the pianos rather than just hitting "note cut"). Heck, pattern 1 sounds great, especially the last 32 rows of it! Here's what needs work. When the choir samples change chords, they should be divided into four patterns rather than two. The first chord fades out as the second chord, in the new channels, fades in. Or you could do that with two channels and some use of NNAs. Order 9 sounds pretty good, but in order 10, the chords just blare right in. They're too loud in contrast to the piano. Either raise the piano volume or lower the chord volume. I don't see what the point of the changing cymbal notes in order 14 was, that should be taken out. The maraca beginning in order 16 is about twice as loud as it should be. The ending wasn't very effective, either. Try to get it to sound a bit like the first few patterns so you can give the listener some closure to the song! Well, that's all the comments I have.