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A gentle kind of song...

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Very calming.

It was extremely well done. The bass repetition in the background was marvelous, and as someone who appreciates well done bass I quite enjoyed it. The chimes were melodic and had a decent amount of variation.
However, it got fairly repetitive and seemed to lack any sort of climax. It had a slow start, then stayed on the same normal ground for the entire song before dieing down in the end. A bit of variation in the end to maybe make the piece stronger towards the end would have been nice.

Only other quibble I had was somewhere in the middle, the chimes seemed to get mixed up for just a moment, and messed up the flow of the song for maybe 10 seconds, if that.
Anyway, good to review another wonderful piece by you.

I look forward to listening to more of your music in the future. C:

alternativesolution responds:

Ahh, thank you for your kind words. :) I really appreciate the critique especially about the repetition, I will work on that in future pieces. Oh and YESS bass! I always seem to have bass troubles, so right now I am pretty much happy :P
Thanks again, Kaneda <3

I like it!

First of all, i really like the atmosphere in this song. I think the atmosphere is really important in ambient songs, so good job on that :)
But as you can see, the score i'm giving you is not a 10/10, but a 9/10. The reason for this is that i really don't like that first, bottle(ish) sounding synth that comes in. Later in the song it fits a bit better, but i think it jumps out too much.
However, the next synth that comes in is perfect. It just fits.
The FX (the sound of the sea) that comes in is pretty soothing and fits well with the mood of the song.
The choir/synth that comes in at 02:24 really adds something to the song and is just.. nice sounding :p
When it's all playing together it's really soothing and gives the feeling like.. like you are swimming in an ocean.
Everything around you is clear, blue water. Fishes are shooting past you and they are so pretty! They have all kinds of colours and look! In the distance you can see a whale coming towards you.
This should be a bit scary, but for some reason you trust the whale and you wait for it to come closer.
It's pretty close now and you swim to the side of this gigantic ruler of the ocean.
You're swimming side to side with this amazing creature and it feels incredible. It makes you feel small, but safe. Like a little bird, under the wings of it's mother.

But let's continue with the song :p
I've told you what i think of this song in it's current form. The next thing i'm going to do is to tell you what i would've done. Note: this is based on nothing but personal preference and thus this doesn't affect your score. I don't even know if it's helpful.. but i'll do it anyway :p
So yeah, i would've done the intro the same. The only thing i would've changed is that synth, but you already know. And maybe build it up a bit more, in terms of velocity. The second synth that comes in is perfect, so i wouldn't change anything about that.
At 01:03 i would've put a legato type of synth that plays long, high notes.
After the sea sound, on 01:22 i would bring a snare in. A deep sounding snare, with reverb. And maybe a tiny bit of delay.
I don't have anything to add to the rest of the song, i would just leave that as it is. Maybe add some hi-hats, but i'm not so sure about that.

So yeah, that was my review. I'd make it longer if i could, but now i just ran out of things to say and continuing with writer would just make this part of the review.. nonsense. Or gibberish. It wouldn't add anything.
On the other hand, i don't think you'd mind a little piece of text that actually says nothing. Maybe you'll even like that, yeah, i think you'd like that. No, no, i KNOW you'd like that :p
And look at me, writing, like there's no character limit at all.
Speaking about character limit, i have 1,326 characters remaining at this point. I don't think i can fill all of this space, but i'll do my best.
What to talk about now? Wait, what was i actually talking about before?
Oh yeah, that's right, nothing. I was talking about nothing. I'm pretty good at talking about nothing, but you may have already noticed that by now.
Whoo, less then 1000 characters remaining, i'm good.
But i can't really talk any longer about nothing, so i'll just make a little rant about what ambient music means to me. How i think that ambient music should be.
Well, i think that ambient music should always have atmosphere. It's already in the name too. Ambient. Ambience. A feeling or mood associated with a particular place, person or thing. Atmosphere.
Also, ambient music should make you think. It should make you imagine things. The best thing is if it can transfer you to a whole new world, a whole new universe. That happened to me too when i was listening to this song. I really felt like i was swimming in the ocean and it soothed my mind. It felt relaxing.
You know, i don't know what wrong with me, spending so much time on a single review xD
But i know you'll like it and read it with a smile. That's what counts, right? :)
There are currently 91 characters remaining. And you'll see that i have too little characters remaining to fini

alternativesolution responds:

:D Thanks!! Indeed, I did read it with a smile :)
I absolutely LOVE your images ! I was listening and reading your review at the same time, --I never got the same images, so it was pretty interesting to hear your story & I'm so glad you took so many characters I mean all of them to say it. As always, getting feedback from you is like ...taking a fresh breath of air on the most beautiful day ever xD
And yes, you are helpful =] I don't think I would've added snares, but I like your idea on the dynamics change...although I can't really change it because I made this before my hard drive crashed . Good thing I saved the final render somewhere eh??

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Apr 14, 2010
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3 min 33 sec

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