by

Tomi T-Jay
(T-Jay)

Flawless! Love the neatly segmented portions of the song, esp. the re-entry to the original song after the solo, and the transitions inbetween were smooth and easy to follow. This song will be in my playlist for a loooong time.

The flute was a nice expressive lead... unfortunately it was the only one that expressed. The rest kind of just carried the song on. Eventually it got a bit boring. You did have variation, but you needed to have better leads. The synth you used was a very poor choice of sapmles. Use a sharper lead.. not that muted synth. Still, there were many high points, such as your great drums (well tracked). In fact, the drum opening was fascinating. It's one of the greatest openings in the veteran catagory. It's a nice lead-in and buildup. You're an ace in everything but sadly not in the lead. (Even with a nice melody). The well tracked flute was the only saving grace for the leads. The guitars also sounded too artificial. Please use more effect values on them. Using high and low guitar samples for those notes would also help.

Good song. Good guitar and flute. Nice idea with guitar break. One of very good bass line. To samples, good guitar fret slides. Whole song is little bit killed by not such good quality synths

Samples: Reso-bass worked surprisingly well in this song (though given just the sample set you might wonder). That flute was taken far out of range in orders 21 and 22. Effects: Multiple instruments for panning and volume change was a clever touch -- must make echo really easy. :-) Composition: I like sub-melodies, especially when hidden in harmonies. You did this well enough to keep this tune from being labelled "nondescript". Subtlety: Blatantly inspired by "Search For The Lost Riff". You needed more and different fret-slide samples for best realism (this one sounds too close to bird-chirp). A little too much thump in the kick drum at the top of order 3 (again inspired by SftLR? :-) ). Otherwise good attention to detail. Balance: The song had good volume control, the spectrum wasn't out of whack, and the panning had a much fuller sound than you'd expect from left-right-center panning (but you wasted a lot of virtual channels in doing so). Strong points: Lazy not-quite-swing beat, obviously veteran tracking. Weak points: Low originality. Could improve: The ending sounded abrupt. (Maybe a bit like this review. :-) )

[my comments from round 1] [Nice, clean samples, although not so original. You've created a good stereo sound by clever sample-to-instrument management (pitch envelope), that's a plus in Your score for technical. But why did You need so much virtual channels (57) ? My P200 mixed them without any blood loss but please keep in mind all the other people with weaker HW or GUS cards (capable to mix "only" 32 channels). I liked Your arrangement, the drum sequence was really catchy and that flute sounded nice, warm... except that annoying noise in the beginning of the waveform, maybe that was Your intention... I won't penalize. The only fault in your song is the ending, that sharp cut with fadeout cannot be called nice and suitable. At all, I liked your tune, and will be happy to see You in the second round.]

Most excellent piece of work there. Excellent clean samples, obviously considerable time was spent on finetuning the samples and designing the envelopes used for the instruments. The track flows wonderfully and has enough variety to keep the audience hooked to the end. Stylewise it may not be all that original, but it is an excellent work for the genre. I frankly don't have much to offer here, I can but only recommend this track for the work put into and the pleasure it gives. Excellent work! I will definitely be keeping this one around :)

First thing I must say about this tune is that someone has spent a lot of time on the panning. As part of my review I always listen to tunes in Headphones, and this tune passes the headphone test with flying colours! Good choice of drums, they add a feeling of power to this song. I must complain about the chords and samples at the beginning, they just stick out from the rest of the tune too much. The synth chords could have also done something a little more to make it smoother, they seem to just hit the next chord in the sequence without much of a way of lead in or follow on, so they sound very raw in this regard. Actually the more and more I listen to the introduction into those chords, the more I dislike it. Anyway, on with the tune.. There's a very nice bridge. Good choice of samples for this part of the song. The guitar sample sounds a little forced at first. I know it's sposed to sound like a strum but it sounds a little off. The instruments in general were quite well chosen, however, they sound a little too "generic", like they had been used everywhere else a bit. The bass is overly repetative, it could have had more variation. I feel the lead around sequence 23 onwards could have been used a bit more, and also with some higher notes. It tended to hang round middle range too much.

m6v-adve.it - Adventurous -------------------------- Overall: The song makes a truely tracked start but sounds rich. This reminds me of old amige 4ch modules. The song is a typical lead sound, string, bass and drum song. Afer 2 minutes there is a sharp break and the song shortly becomes a more guitar based song. Originality: This song is nothing new. It is just themes we all have heard many times combined and made well. Sadfully this song sound like one out of hundreds. Although well made it lacks the certains speciality for a competition. Form: The song has the classic three part structure. After a short beginning the first main part comes, which is more or less repeated at the end. In the middle a second party is presented which is different from the first one. In the middle part the composer has tried to make a too complicated melody, as the flute is playing many notes shortly after another. Technique: The composer knows his tracker and the play with volume command and the speed command to make a somehow groovy sound in the strings. But in the second part the tempo is a little bit too high, as the samples can not play really long and notes are played at a very high rate. Perhaps the guitar theme should have occupied some more channels, so that sharp breaks in the sound could have been avoided. Sample: the samples are ok Point: 50

Nice progressions, main lead a bit annoying. Guitar work good though. Too much sound in some places though. Get tired of listening to it after a while despite being interesting

I actually thought this was The Zapper when I first heard it. I know better now, but really, the similarities are amazing. You've got a good style there. The chord structure, the heavy synth feel. The guitar break in the middle is a nice touch. It does, however, get up to, what, 52 channels? Isn't that a bit much? :^) The ending could have done with being a little more gradual.

This song is very distinctive and well down. Excellent percussion. The flute melody was particularly catchy, especially near the end. Great transitions to and from the guitar section.

Intro strings are ugly but the percussion that comes in underneath them is pretty cool, professional sounding-- and actually the drums keep getting better. Very pro quality to them, something simple but called-for, like vinnie c. playing with Sting. The keyboard work that comes in after that and the cheesy synth leads sound really wreck what could've been a solid production. The repeating bassline figure works pretty nicely. Poor guitar sounds in the guitar bit, not that the section would've been that great with the good sounds either-- the synth sample slid into that section doesn't sound right in the mix either. Overall it's fairly cheesy and the initial promise kind of fades into mediocrity which was disappointing.. if anything songs usually get to the better stuff later.. From a technical standpoint, anything less than exacting is to be criticized in the veteran category, so while this is technically fine that's only 'average' as far as vets go..

Well i have a very few things to say about your song. I enjoy listening to it. It sounds like someone having a ballad. Happiness and calm flows through your music. There are good transition between the different part and a good end. The thing i regret is that you don't use any stereo effect. You use two channels to have a stereo sound whereas you could have used another trick to do so with one.