by

Juha Tourach
(Tourach)

this is actually one of the first MC6 tunes i listened to, mainly because (don't be too insulted) people "thought" it was possibly mine...don't i wish :) drums are really clean but dont go overboard with toms or cymbals... piano is nice in some sections (like progression @ 1:45 or so) but pay a bit more attention on the volume details and dont let it get too sloppy, like in the main verse (chorus?) where the piano is a little over-arpeggiated.. however i definitely like the switching of octaves/piano samples in different sections.. samples - no complaints here.. very clean and relatively original; well orchestrated... form - transitions are a little rigid (e.g. @ 2:45).. the progressions are nice but see if you can add some fluidity between them.. technique - nice.. just watch sustained-echos that can add dissonance to some really nice chords that dont want them.. overall, really nice.. just tighten some details...

Good verse style song with very good chord progression. It has in my opinion optimistic end point ( which I've missed at other ones ). It is using piano lead but it okay instrument whith different samples of piano tone. It has okay panning and fx as at piano as at string tracks. I feel some ethno influence from this song ( maybe due drum line ). Nice work.

[my comments from round 1] [Very good drums, that's what I found as the first... then your excellent technique. Very good transitions... immediate but smooth, many veterans could learn from You. The instrumentation is suitable, clean sounding samples and some simple but nice piano melodies these were the positives. When I listened Your song first time and reached the end, I just tried to remember the motives, the main line, but I couldn't. And I also tell You why. Because the build-up is not the best one... You did not follow one main line, You put many changes there. This is not bad. But this way there is missing the compactness from Your song. Please try to create a more powerful arrangement the next time, anyway I liked it very much, thanks. Hoping to meet You in the second round.]

I found the piano theme particularly attractive. However I would have changed the sample to reintroduce the theme. This song shows a unique progression of chords, and changes on the main theme, which rend it attractive and a pleasure for listening. Samples are very good, well organized and equalized when used in the song. Technique is not particularly enlighted, but originality is the main powerpoint of this piece.

Well tracked dreamlike piano track, with very good samples which use intrument envelopes fairly well. Individually the piano samples used are a bit grainy, but you don't hear that in the track itself. Rest of the samples are of very good quality though. In fact, my only real complaint about the track is the flow, there are parts where I think the track doesn't change smoothly enough between sections, and I sorta feel like the final mix was a bit of a last minute decision, so the pattern order isn't as smooth as I would have liked it to be. There are lots of really good bits in there, but the mix just somehow doesn't feel right, parts of it repeat itself a bit too much, and sometimes I feel like it sort of stumbles along between sections. Which is a real shame because this has the potential to be an excellent track.

Some nice parts in this tune. Especially the nice arabian break halfway through. It was a little short lived and could have been explored further. The chorus came in and ended a little abruptly, and the tune lost direction in places due to the following sequences after the chorus. The piano work was quite nice, though the piano sample was a little crusty. Some samples sounded like quite a few I've heard from other tunes. Maybe a little more processing on them would not go astray :). Some good use of textured samples like Sample 8. Adds an extra layer of depth into the tune. Instruments were created with good panning envelopes, and the right amounts of pan swing and volume swing, along with the use of multi-sampled instruments such as the piano, it shows the author knows how to use Impulse Tracker to it's fullest in regards to instruments. However some could have been 16 bit for especially percussion samples which sound crunchy when 8 bit.

Originality: The song style isn't very orginal, but it has nice progression and good chord- variations. And there are moodchanges throughout the tune. Form: The song has got a very nice mood, with lots of "emotions". And this keeps the listener interestet all the way through. Technique: You use very little effects, but a tune like this shouldn't have much either. But close off the channels you don't use. The panning is ok. Samples: I think i've heard some of the samples before, but they are ok. Overall appeal: I think you've done a very good job composing this tune, including every important factor. Really nice tune!

Nice composition, everything well-balanced. Real easy listening. The thing that attracted my attention the most was the piano part. Very good instrument. Gives the feeling that you really know how it should be played. Keep up the good work.

A bit generic and directionless. Some very fine piano work though which carried it a lot.

The belltower sample seemed a bit detuned. The snare needed a little more reverb, IMO---this was mostly due to not putting the instrument NNA to "continue". As a result, your tambourine had this nice 1-second reverb but the snare kept getting cut off prematurely. No "continue" or "fade out" NNAs were used, actually. The accents with the ride cymbal, the piano work, and the added attention to the drums did add to the atmosphere. The ending was rather odd, though. Starting with pattern 37, the mood changes drastically with a weird melody sequence, a strong chord change, and then seems to just slow to a halt. That did not work well, as it was completely out of style---you had this nice flowing rhythm and melody with soft chords and then just drop it all for the ending? But, overall, the quality of the tune is very good with simple melodies, chords that just melt into each other, and a very John Tesh-like acoustic feel. :P

Yeahh!!! Again a really nice tune!!! I can imagine it in a ´diskmag´!!! You can listen to it while doing other things. The modulation is correct. The melodies are fine. It has an individual style in computer music. The voices are according very well. I can not explain it perfectly, but this modul is all right and really over everage. :-) I´m just a little coder not speaking english this well.

First thing I notice is the pretty decent piano-play. The tune is built up with nice floating chords, that controls the soundpicture - very nice! It's also overall quite varied with shifting leads - shifts that sound connected and nicely structured. Only really annoying thing about this tune is, that the drums are too much in the background. Volume-mixing is definately something that needs improving. Another small detail is the panning. Some people like it narrow and don't like panning consequently left-right. I tend to agree with that, although in this particular case, I could've used a bit wider panning - and perhaps spreading the drums into 2 channels with pan-left and pan-right would've done the job on the drums low volume. Still... this tune is very nice as is.

A strange song. I love it and I hate it. Well, to be exact, I love all the parts, ideas, instruments and soundscapes you do. I hate the form. It just doens't make any sense. The good points and details are too numerous to list. If this song had some kind of a red line, I'd say it could be one of the best I have ever heard - transcending the whole music scene. As it is, all the strong feelings this song gives me just fade away before they can reach their peaks. Well, at least no one can call your tune repetitive. The amount of ideas and moods you use in this song is just plain awesome, and the fact that every one of them is excellent even more so. I'd give you 95 if not for the complete lack of form. So you'll get much less, but still a top mark.

This is an example of someone biting off more than they can chew: musically it starts out a bit typical but promising. Unfortunately, even though the music itself is simple and could be powerful, trackers really do not allow the full treatment that something like this needs (a kind of pop music for lack of a better term), so it ends up sounding very amateurish. Once again, this person shoes some nice compositional abilities and sounds like they've had a lot of experience with this kind of music. While the piano lines work as piano lines, the piano sound used is pretty awful and is an example of how a nice live track with a real player would've made it sound tons better. Too many dropouts- not a comment i often give since I enjoy breakdowns but they're too frequent especially in the first 2/3 of the song and their positioning doesnt make much sense.. Later on the song seems to get more uninspired, like the person just wanted to make it longer and used bits from the previous sections.. Overall nice technique and some nice ideas, fairly corny and pretty much totally predictable as a whole, though.