by

Anders

In the introduction, the string slides could have been replaced with a fade. The strings slides were either too heavy, or just didn't sound right. The heavy bass kick starting at Order 01 was sort of unessesary. It was also too loud and made the song clip. That should be one thing you should try to avoid, is having a bass instrument too loud. When you have a sound THAT loud (especially basses), the sound clips A LOT, and that anoying "rumbling" sound occurs. The guitar bass at Order 06, was not sampled to go down that low of a pitch, and neither was the piano. The chord progression was repeated too often, but overall, the song was pretty good.

Some of your samples don't match well wuth the other, for example the slap bass. I like how you don't overuse the vocal, most people would overuse it and make the song annoying. There's not much technically wrong with this; I can't write much about it (but I guess that's because it's a veteran :).

Nice sample quality. Vocals are cool too, nice ambient song. Though, it could use a bit more variation. Nothing happens after the vocal parts. A good entry.

*File Specs* [Additional vote] ... [Filename]m6v-chlr.xm [Title]Chlorophyl is the essence [General comment]Nice and neat song... good transitions, dissolving breaks through transitions, your melodic aspects tempt to go to the borderline of disjoy, your samples are reasonable to good, descent instrument arrangements, i noticed a technique which is not effortable anymore:it is too much work and you can make mistakes by forgetting to adapt them here and there:the note-delay command. Most people, actually all people are tampering with the speed settings, by bpm-change or in most cases:general speed-change, in rare cases you also see people using pattern delay tricks at each 2nd quarter or each fourth beat to have the same effect (it saves some bytes and you can use speed AND tempo for other things). Using note-delay came out of the time where pattern-delay was only a luxury thought, that goes back to soundtracker time i believe.

Sounds like something Enigma may have done, but not as smooth. I would have liked to see wider panning to give this tune more depth. Not very much can be done with this tune to keep the listeners attention. It's a relaxation tune so it's designed as background music. For that purpose it does reasonably well. The flute is drowned out by the choir chords, which is mainly due to the panning. The piano was probably not the best choice of instrument to fill the role it played. Something more along the lines of some sort of rounded synth sound may be better for the arpeggios. Samples were a bit noisy giving a hiss to the whole tune. There is only one 16bit sample, why is this one 16 bit while the rest are 8 bit? There is no quality differnce which this sample will make, but that's only a very minor point. Try to keep samples which play a major part, such as chords, 16bit, or at least 8bit free of noise.

I like this tune a lot. It uses a swing beat effectively and continues to be a very luxurious, textured, soft song that makes you just want to curl up atop it and snuggle into it like a comfortable blanket. And then maybe do the Humpty Dance. :-) Panning was very well done, except near order 16 it sounded a bit heavy on the right. Logically low piano notes go on the left... :-) The springy resonant bass sounded good against that low piano, though -- it also works well with those flutes order 14 and following. The samples are an unlikely orchestra and complement one another quite well. Effects were effective (heh). On a good pair of headphones this song is incredibly captivating. The flute duet at order 20 was a great transition, and a lot of subtlety and care was paid to their envelopes. I noticed a lot of careful sculpting going on throughout the song, actually. This song was well-polished without being overdone and trampled. The ending gets points for being quirky. This is probably the most danceable MC6 entry. :-)