by

Richard Whitewind
(Whitewind)

What is this? Is this an orchestrated piece or a weird techno theme? Some decent beats are present. The song is very noisy, and the melody is off. The flute intro sounds really lame. I suppose this deserves some sort of score for panning. The samples are out of tune but I'm not sure if that really matters since the entire piece is always off key.

*File Specs* [Filename]m6v-twis.xxx [Title]Twisted Pitch [Total playing time]05:37 *Musical Values* [Creativity]The creativity is there, sound effects are nice, idea is great, i have found no problems here..[Story]There is a story, i don't know what environment but it's a thriller/action kind of type [Structure]Breaks are good, structure is reasonable, sections are up-builded and/or overlapping [Harmony]Harmony in the music:yes, harmony in the songenvironment:no[Realness/Fantasy factors]A great fantasy has been used here i want to hear a rewrite of this song after a few years when the author of this piece is in posession of enhanced skills to create a more controlled song, it does not match the least level of experience i expect from a veteran. *Technical Values* [Instruments]N/A [Samples]Ripped, old, distorted, some detuned, not really suiting with one or another used sample [Arrangements]The songconcept has been created reasonably some samples are cut-off in their play, the volumes are a real pain in the ass here (through the ears all the way down!), i will not believe that the author of this piece did not noticed the distorted noise that came forward to him, this will cost dearly some major points here due to lack of intrest in arrangement [Use of...]64 enabled tracks? i counted a maximum use of 11. [Sample Quality]Some good some bad, some have too much volume gain, they are not super in overall! *Sounding Techniques* [Depth]Nice depth found in Sfx, some percussion parts. [Width]Yeah very wide, so wide that it cuts your ears off.[Headphones]Use old headphones for this if you don't care about your ears. [Speakers]Use old speakers for this if you don't care about your neighbours :)

The song started out great. I love the flutes...although they seem suffer from something which effects most of the song. They have absolutely NOTHING to do with any other part of the song (they just sound tacked on). From the flutes, it goes downhill, with the majority of the song being a repetitve (make it stop!!) beat. Long pauses in the song really break it up and make it sound even more jumbled. A greater sense of coherency is greatly needed.

I find the overall feeling of the song pleasing, the strong points being the technical skills. When it comes to samples, the drums are overdriven, which makes my ears feel really bad. The structure of the song is a bit loose, which makes it hard for me to keep my interest.

The overall of this song cannot exceed 10 in my opinion. This song is meant to sound evil and disasterous, with big Mayhem monsters tearing people into pieces, but what I see before myself is a big monster dancing Polka-clap-clap with his hands behind his back. Not a good combo, if you get my meaning. This is NOT meant as an insult to the author, but a reminder. Nothing in this song get along with anything else; the samples sound relatively good but are too ordinary and pale, the editing is badly performed and so are the rest. He could have used 16 channels instead of 11 to adjust the flowing in the samples. Effects like delays(volume-adjustements) and simple pannings are there, but I beleive the pannings could be more flowing, from left to right instead of in one speaker. I even heard some false notes in the song, that puzzles me. To enlight the author would be to ask him to read the documentation of the tracker he uses. Veteran or not, this guy still needs guidance. The original idea is cool when it should be hot like hellfire.

There seems to be no theme to this song. All this song is made up of is many smaller songs. Each minor song is totally independant of the rest. There is no repeating theme to bring back the listener to what the song is. This song is one that would fit under the "Thrown together" category. This song is not well done and It sounds as if it were put together as quickly as possible. The only glaring error that I will point out is the sour voice ahhs toward the end of the song. This section really hurts the song I believe. Every note seems to be sour and ear-grinding. To make this song good, you would have to separate the individual parts and develop each part separately. There are many good sections in here, they just need to be taken aside and made into a song. Try to stick with the theme when composing it.