by

Paul pme
(pme)

This song needs to be refined. It is very disjointed with many potentially good ideas thrown together and not developed. Transitions are not smooth. Individual channels in this song are tracked well and show promise but they don't seem to come together into a complete song. The increase in speed at order 25 is done well and is effective. The samples and use of panning are quite good, although some samples need fine-tuning. The ending is quite abrupt. The track gives a disorganised impression - try to pick a single musical motif and develop a song around it with sub-themes related to this main idea.

Really strange. Yep, that about sums it up. Its theme seems to be having no theme. Its transitions seem to be anti-transitions, quickly jumping from loud to soft back to loud again, without much of a warning. All in all, though, it's not an unpleasant effect. That being said, I'm not sure how to judge this song, as some of the weird jumps would have caused me to knock down most songs quite severly, but with this song, it seems intentional; it seems to fit with the song, in some strange, whacked out way....Orders 17,18,26-28. Again, it might have been intentional, although the chords in 26-28 seem too close to fit....Samples were chiptune-ish, with nothing that makes them stand out as good samples....This song does have an edge to it, though, which made my emotions jump from time to time, which is a bonus, as it didn't make me scream in agony; the song worked, but just barely.

*File Specs* [Additional vote] ... [Filename]m6i-rvex.xm [Title]Rave Expo [General comment]Well well, playing a bit with the panning... it could have been a little bit less extended to it's maximum, strange rave-branche here, i thought it sounded like a less experienced rave-musician.. The song is actually offering more variation that you can expect from rave, though the key-concept is on low expanded scale, the breaks and structure is not boring, nice sfx used only some effects are quite unprofessional used or surfacial expressed. It's not that bad to experiment with limits and if you don't care about winning a compo, it is even a good idea to experiment a lot in your entry.Some of the width aspects (stereo environment) have been used proper, be sure not to make instruments go to the extend limits right and left so that they aren't balanced out on both sides anymore. Also try to use more echo/reverb techniques to bring in some depths into your song, this sometimes require more voices but in some cases it is just nessesary, like your xylophones are getting cut-off by the next played sample:this is not good, that is too synthetic. The way you play with melodical effects near the end is neat, building up notes and striking in chordmode offers an impactive effect to the listener.

hmmm... quite average track, not exactly inspiring. Dunno, it just doesn't sound exactly interesting, not exactly boring either but... maybe the idea itself just isn't all that great to start with.

This kind of music would need much better sample set. Effects are overused and panned annoyingly. Somehow this module already sounds very old. Little if any musical content, and some of it has clear errors. Beat lacks edge and is infinitely too weak. Try to update your sample collection and expand your musical knowledge.

Heh...This song is crazy. The beginning sounds cool with a strange sparkly sound, then all hell breaks loose. :) The instruments are totally random but they all seem to work well together. The song even manages to gain a little emotion in pattern 18 with the chords. This is about the best someone could do at making a song with no form whatsoever. No real complaints other than that it really doesn't fit the form of a song.