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Andrew basic
(basic)

The first pattern sounded impressive until I realised it was just an extended sample. Couldn't you have tried to chop this sample up into bits? You use FT2, it's easy enough to do it from there. Even for a rookie. The brass/synth type samples sound like they're not tuned properly. The ending shows no imagination. It's like you decided "okay, the song ends here" and gave no thought as to how.

Sounds pretty good. Use of different sounds to bring forth some emotion. The different sounding sections are linked together with the baseline that continues throughout the song.

My main complaint about this song is the melodic line that starts around order 11 and also around order 2C. The stringlike sample doesn't seem to be a good choice for the line that's trying to be achieved, and the line itself sounds really scattered and directionless. The synth lead that comes in between those sections is much nicer and makes more sense musically. Really nice beat and bass throughout. I think this song could have been really good if not for that annoying string lead.

A second-rate tune. Too many melodies with no sense. The overall apeal is under the rest of the elements to juzge (sample quality, originality, form and technique).

umm... there's not much to this song... the extended samples are the best part, which is not a good thing. Song turns to mud leter on, there's too many different, incompatible themes going on for it to make much sense. Are the samples out of tune or are those bad notes? Ending is terrible. Hmm... I didn't write any good comments, but your song isn't all bad. (Disclaimer: Emergency Vote!)

Good effort. The riffs got old. It was too ambient. The panning was extreme on instrument 10. The solo was a little off key. The mood was good. The ending was way too abrupt. Some ideas worked very well, some didn't work very well. Good luck on your next song!

The song sounds to me like the composer is fascinated with all the capabilities of ft2, and has a ton of musical ideas swimming around in his/her head. Unfortunately, s/he apparently got overexcited and in the flood of activity of composing this song, neglected many technical aspects and refinements that could have made this piece shine. However, it was hurt by a number of things, namely its inefficiency. A couple of the samples were WAY too long, sometimes a full pattern. The breakbeats and acid loop could have been much more useful (and memory-conserving) had they been broken down into pieces and redundant parts discarded. The chord progression sounded strained in places, perhaps individual strings instead of sampled chords could have been used. The composer did use individual string sounds, but as a lead instrument. This sounded incredibly strange to me. The lead at pattern 1d got off key a couple of times. The switch from the a section to the b section came at just the right time, as I was starting to get tired of hearing the initial chord progression. The change from a hiphop style beat to the 4/4 house-like kickdrum came completely out of nowhere, but was not unwarranted.