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Jiro Ponkaroyde
(Ponkaroyde)

Not bad, but shows quite a bit of ameteurism. Problem spots: tempo change in the beginning to accellerate you into the song is a little abrupt, sample quality is lacking in the snare and lead-synth-horn sample, piano is quite detuned, during the oboe solo the song seems very empty without any background strings or pianos, hi-hat percussion is a bit too strong as it seems to overrun the rest of the instruments. I'm sure if you continue to track more that next year you should be definitely in the Intermediate level. Try to listen to more songs that you like and pick out specific qualities in them and incorporate them into your own work.

C maj / A min again; progressive intro. Nice major theme. Little bit clumsy drums. The part with violins sounds hollow (no bass). Good sine/synth work. Nice chord prog for a rookie, though I'd recommend some porta/volume work. Panning is ok. Samples are bad and old but well tuned. Overally - very good for a rookie. Nice, mellow, soothing tune. Some more fx and work, and I'd recommend to enter it in the intermediate category - according to what I've heard in the m6i :)

*File Specs* [Additional vote] ... [Filename]m6r-adwf.it [Title]As dreams of winter Fade [General comment]This started quite familiar i have to say... It also started towards the commercial direction in the beginning. It turned out to change to more intresting parts in the second quarter of the song. The musician of this piece has tried to add a lot of variaty without loosing the main issue of this song's theme, ofcourse not all samples are perfectly tuned but actually for a beginners song this one is a real nice one though the musical experience has to be developed further but basically i see a lot of strengths within this song: Good breaks, different sections, varying rythems, changing lead themes, try to bring harmony into your song by bringing the instruments into harmony, balance them out in volume and panning so that one does not sound too much in the foreground and one does not sound too much in the background. It is neat that you adapt echo effects in the leads and they bring some depth within your song but i also noticed that you panned some instruments a bit too much out of the center. Try to tune your piano's on your other instruments, this is really hard but the best way to tune pianos is actually to play the concept in one pattern and tune the piano while playing the piano. Why? I have tried in the past on frequency in hearing but also your hearing can let you down sometimes when finetuning individual instruments because the result can be dissapointing when listening to the whole timbre in full harmony.Important is that you use one instrument as main frequency guide else you will keep poundering with the frequencies!

Since this is "emergency voting", I don't think I need to be too concerned about making comments, eh?

Some glaring errors in the harmony. You should tune all the samples to the same pitch, and that would help some. (I don't mean the samples were out of tune, they were just in different tunes.) Some samples were used out of their intended pitch range. Some parts of this song sound like I have already heard them somewhere. Drumming is a bit repetitive. Nice use of stereo and the mixing could be far worse. Anyway, the clashing notes are too obvious and annoying to be ignored.