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[Town Theme Loop]

Link's home

Simple, effective, quaint. This reminds me more of the sort of tunes that you expect to find in LoZ games or Simon the Sorcerer, from the country houses. Excellent, as there aren't enough of them in the world :)

I think you can take this further by developing other themes that go with this sort of settings, such as the market theme, boss theme and castle etc. This could certainly lead to you taking it further when someone comes after a few for a game or movie project.

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sarias responds:

i cant figure out if you like it out not because you make it sound like you hate it terrible because im no the first person to make a town theme, im not sure if you like it out not tell me that. i wasn't the first person to make a town theme, but nither was pokemon, or neither was zelda, and they didn't get sarcasm thrown at them

[MAC 2008 - Monster]

Slow and steady

I can almost feel the tears running down my cheeks with this one.

I can see this as the grief of someone who has lost a loved one and is standing at their graveside in the pouring rain, wishing that they had died in place of the loved one.

There are a few issues with your chord notes, at about 1.30 to 2.00, you really become aware of one of the chords being on the sharp side of things, which really doesn't sound good when it's on its own. When you add the other instruments, it blends in a lot better, so you don't really get a chance to notice it.

Sorting that out would be a great boon.

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Scribbler responds:

Nice imagery. I will listen to the notes you pointed out and fix the problems. Thank you.

[.:Sleepless Nights v2:.]

Enchanting

This song has a great deal going for it - you've given us a nice relaxing tune, despite the harsh sound of the low chord that you keep throwing in there for the beat every fourth note. I'd suggest having that as a held note, rather than such a sudden end of it.

Reminds me of part of Final Fantasy, where they go into the ice caves - with all the twinkling of the light off the perfect ice crystals. Sublime.

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GronmonSE responds:

You know, I hadn't thought about that (referring to the chords thing). I'll try it out and see how it turns out.

Thanks for the review :D

[-Stormy Dream- |[Glou]|]

Weird, but good

Not a bad combination of the sounds in this one, you've given it a blissful sounding happiness about this tune, that brings a smile to even the most grizzled office worker.

The beat is good and the melody is, but I think that you could do more on the variation front, possibly throwing in a few curveballs, such as pauses in the beat, while the melody picks it up strongly.

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Gloudas responds:

K i'll take that into consideration, I guess I need to work on my melodies and whatnot to ensure variety. Thanks for the criticism and review

[Jxl180 - Run With It]

Not bad

I think that the bass is a little rough around the edges and you've got a conflict between parts of the tune, where the timings clash. Smooth out these rough edges and we've got a great little tune in the making.

I think that the ending was a powerful piece, but not really of the same type as the rest of the track, so that should be taken into a separate work and elaborated upon.

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jxl180 responds:

thank you for taking the time to review,
jxl180

[Tell Your Mother]

Vocal Sample

I think that you've produced a simple loop that even someone like me could get away with for the purposes of the Audio Portal. All it sounds like is someone remonstrating loudly into the mic.

I'd have appreciated this to be combined with music, as that's the real beauty of the Audio Portal and the great stuff you can find there. I'm fortunate to feel that I'm not the only one who feels this, judging by the score of this piece.

Of course, when you've added music to this piece, you'd need more vocal samples to take it further. Keep experimenting and give us something else to review.

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KlanMaster911 responds:

Alright.

[Dont Listen To This Song!]

Hmm

I think that for your next piece, you need to come up with some sort of song with substance. This just seems like a random collection of sounds, with no real direction. The reason I gave you 3 stars was because some of the sounds did actually sound good. Take those, like the metal guitar riff and build on them

Once you've got that as the basis for a tune, expand on it, so that you've got something that wouldn't just be miscelaneous, for example...

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KlanMaster911 responds:

SUCK MY DICK WITH THE NEXT PIECE OF SHIT!!!!!!!

BURN!!!

[Soul Summon]

To you?

Sorry, but I can get a better price elsewhere. This piece isn't the best I've heard by a long shot. You need to concentrate on adding other things to the tune, rather than a dodgy little vocal sample.

Beat. Melody. Counter-melody. Those are the three things that you need to produce to make a nice sounding tune. You need to work on those three, before you consider trying to add the vocal samples to the piece.

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KlanMaster911 responds:

I dont know what melody I can add.

It sounds fine as it is.

HEY, YOU LOOK LIKE A FAG!

[Song of Storms (Windmill Song)]

Too light

You've called this the song of storms, but it's too high pitched to seem like a story weather style tune. I think that you'd need to go an octave or two lower and maybe add some bass to represent something like Thunder and Lightning.

This seems more like wheat fields blowing in a summer's breeze, surrounding a mill, which is spinning slowly, grinding the wheat into flour, which gets taken away to the bakers. The smell of fresh bread and the relatively simple task that produce it.

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Expectrum responds:

You see, the reason it is at that register is because that's how it's played in the game. And even though it is named Song of Storms, do you know why it is also called Windmill Song? Because it does give the feeling of a windmill, since the person who plays it (in game character) does it inside a spinning mill.

Thanks for the review :)

[(TGF) Vulpus Overture Redux]

Dramatic Crescendo

What a great introduction to an epic this is going to be. I can sense the whole tune making for an excellent flash production - do you have the means and drive to take it that far?

As any good overture should be, this is a blend of tunes that will eventually consitute the score for something larger, so you would need to make about 4 or 5 different tunes, which you could try presenting to us in their individual formats. I would love to hear them and pass comment on them myself.

Are they all based around war? It seems like we've got a build up and then a sudden die down of the tune, that's my only real issue, as it causes the mind to wander between the parts. Something that could keep my mind on track would have been more effective there.

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BudGPStudios responds:

Yes, I do have the means of turning this song into a flash movie, Also, I am making a TESIV: Oblivion mod for my story.. As for the individual songs based from this overture, I already have made the "Vulpus Public" theme, and the "TGF War" theme I submitted also carries this melody in parts. Esentially, the story is about some characters preparing their nation for a massive scaled war. This overture is about the nation of Vulpus, one of the places the characters stop to get some reinforcements.