Yeah, I realized the bass was too low after I rendered it and closed the project.

I'm not sure what you mean by "effects of running". Could you clarify in a PM?

Thanks for the review though, I'm glad you liked it. Hopefully another song will be up in a week at the most, since I finally have free time to work on another classical piece.

The anomalies with the string are most likely due to the fact that during the recomposition of this song from its earlier version, I attempted to change akk the synths in the original to their most similar acoustic counterparts. Some synths were hard to emulate though, and the result was, well, you can kind of tell hahahaha

Thanks for the amazing compliments though, I didn't expect this song to recieve the reception that it did, especially since the ending turned out much weaker than I intended. If you wanna see why, check out the original version. The power in the last section was amazing in that version.

I'm surprised that your favorite portions of the song involved the woodwind and the keyed instruments, especially since I only used a flute, a piano, and an organ from those two families.

Thanks again, this review, as well as the others, made me feel good. Honestly.

I usually try to layer my instruments in order to create a more unique sound while also masking any bad sample elements. I also eq everything below and above the main signal to the lowest point possible, while moderating the rest. I EQ every instrument that sounds a bit beneath par.

As for reverb, I keep all instruments under the same reverb settings, so that each instrument sounds like it belongs with the other. All the volume envelopes are edited while the reverb is still active, so that no instruments sounds like it's ending too soon.

I try to make sure that the amount of instruments playing on one side of the stereo field equals the other, or is at least close. As a result, many of the instruments are separated.

I also try to separate the melodies, make sure that an instrument playing one melody isn't on the same octave as another playing a different melody.

That pretty much sums up the ways that I keep everything clear.

The fluidity of this piece is actually a weird effect of the samples I chose for this piece. Since I used a lot of section instruments, which have a slow release time, the piece seemed to swim, adding to the mystery effect that linkcrazy cited below.

Thanks for enjoying, man. That's all I really ask for. Thanks ;)

Well, most MP3s suck for looping anyways, I wasn't really worried about perfecting the loop too much. Personally, I just make sure there's some kind of effect at the beginning to keep people from noticing that it just looped. On a few songs, I used a cymbal roll that began at the end of the song and finished on the other side.

I was actually worried that the end of this track wouldn't sound dramatic enough, and I definitely know that the original has a much more dramatic sound at the finish.

I wish I had a different organ to choose from, but unfortunately that's the best organ sampleset that I have right now.

Thanks for the review, and thanks for the good comments about the drums especially cuz that means I'm finally doing something right hahahaha

And I have to say, it took me a good 20 minutes to finally think of this name :P

Oh and I just remembered, the loop might have been helped by the impulse reverb, which causes a ton of latency. If you notice, the actual beginning of the song starts at the last beat before it's supposed to because of the latency.

Actually, if you were counting the number of different samples, sample-sets, and programs I was using, it would probably be closer to 30 lol XD

Instrument-wise, I used....let's see....the violin family, 3 members of the brass family, 2 keyed instruments, 1 woodwind, and several drum samples. The only thing is that I usually load several different articulations of the same instruments and layer some instruments together. This one was actually a small project compared to some of my others (especially La Guerra, that was a HUGE project).

Thanks for noting the lack of a repeating riff, I'm definitely gonna address that in my next piece ;-)

And don't worry about your review style, especially with me. I personally think that people who demand that the reviews that they recieve should be in a specific format are a little too full of themselves. I accept all reviews as long as they aren't abusive, even if they're nothing but 1 word responses.

BTW, those drums are courtesy of ProjectSam's True Strike freebies. I need to add that site to my list, but I never got around to it....

Thanks for stopping by, and thanks for the review! Sorry I haven't been around as much, real life is getting real pressing nowadays. Even my music As soon as I have a good chance, I'm gonna leave a few hefty reviews on your songs.