by

Sylvain ElenDiL
(ElenDiL)

Hmm, averageish song. Order 3, Channel 3 Instrument 5 seems really out of place, the ditti with two notes next to each other doesn't work. I think the sample needs the start cut out of it so it kicks into full volume on a row rather than part way through, I notice a lag between this instrument and the rest of the song. The melody in channel 13 seems a tad off, it should change more to keep the listener instrested too. I likes the drum bits near the end and order 10 onwards, it is panned well. A little less copy/paste ing of patterns could help this work a bit better.

A good beginning with the chord, and the piano is also good. but the bass line samples is bad and off time and breaks up the bit. From order 7 the song is good with a pretty nice solo, but sticks too much to the base chord notes, and isn't free to develope, not in harmony and not in it's rythm. Order 15 - when the rythm stops you can here the problems with the samples. From order 16 the new bit is good and fit the song and chords perfectly. The last solo is too long and limited - no so good. Jenerally it's a good song - could have benn much better! vel.

Your orchestration is rich. Your samples are not really personnal but clean. You made a good utilisation of echoes. The progression you wrote is perfect, but the entire song may need more variations : you played the same (violin ?) solo all along the piece of music. Your orchestral percussions are perfect. I expected a more relaxing ending : your horns are playing a loud solo note to close the song, and I think this would be better if the part was more subtile. Good work. Try to enter intermediate division next year.

From this song i can tell that you have written a good few original tunes, and I liked the idea you had, although i did expect the power chords and and distorted guitars to appear in the beginning :). The first few patterns are very nice, i just thought that that your piano faded out too slowly because you put the notes in different channels, and sometimes if you listened to the piano's by themselves, they were out of tune. I was impressed also to see a rookie entry that had tuned his samples. There is a problem with sample 5, there is too much of a lead in to the sample and the fade in takes too long because you played it at such a low note, that it sounded like it was just out of time... cut a bit off the front, FT2 has such a handy cut in the sample editor so this could have been easily avoided. The lead was nice, although the song did get a bit tedious and repetitive, perhaps a break where you changed the melody totally? Anyhow, I enjoyed your song, nice work and good luck.

Good use of tympani and cymbals. But, the violin sounded too artificial. Listen to more violin music - you'll notice more note slides and syncopations that make the violin sound more natural. Overall, a good orchestral piece, but brought down by fake-sounding samples. Work on some natural intrument playing techniques - you've got lots of potential.