MC6 Round 1 Results - Astral Skies

 
"Astral Skies"
(m6r-astr.zip)

by

Justin Stein
(Stein)


This song competed in the rookie division of Music Contest 6, where it ranked in block 5.

Judge: Fok ,Bernard

Nice piano samples, though alot of the time the piano harmonies and melodies don't seem to fit together very well. Not a bad bass and beat, but was very repetitive. Consider more variation to the bass and the drums? I like the ending, how it slows down gradually to a halt. The strings are not bad, but there's so much more you can do with them, such as chords and interweaving of different channels of strings.

Judge: Jagdmann ,Dirk

The first thing I notice is that the complete song sounds totally detuned. The author has made the mistake to choose each intrument / sample indepedantly of the others. Played solo each track sounds good, but together with others they do not fit at all. This makes it very hard to judge the song, because the total output is really awefull.

Judge: Johnsson ,Hasse

Another pianotune,they have to be REALLY good to keep my interest,and this one does not hold my attention for long. Apart from the keychange in the 14:th pattern, this song ain't going anywhere. The bass sounds out of tune and would have needed more variation. The same goes for the drumming. It's cool but too repetitive. The volume levels are ok in one way: Nothing is too loud, and bad in another: everything sounds the same througout the song. I miss some kind of a lead on top of this,just hammering on a piano doesn't really cut it. The samples are average,apart from the voices (1,2,3,4) that could have been left out all together.They don't do anything for the song. It's not a BAD song at all,just makes me want to fast-forward.

Judge: Girard ,Marc

Hmmmm, watch out your scales! It sounds "bad", I mean, it's not in tune. The drums are good and the technique is OK too. Work on your scales and notes.

Judge: Bowen ,Jayson

Ok, for the most part the song had some good ideas in here, BUT; for one you did not change the main melody until the end, it should have came much much sooner. Second, everything was WAY WAY out of tune. If all the samples were in tune this song would sound very good.. but as it is out of tune that hurt you the most.. also the very repetitive melody hurt you as well.. and some other littler things like ineffective panning and lack of effects where needed. other than that.. sounded like you had some sort of idea behind it.. just didn't show thru becuase of the other problems.. also you left all the channles open.

Judge: Youkhana ,Kevin

Nice song but lacked patern quality the song didn't flow that well it was too repeative.