DAMN that's an enormous review, on just 1 minute and a half of music. And it's all so detailed. Ridiculous attempt at critique my ass!

"-Not a bad intro there"

Sweet. I had that intro in mind for a while and even practised it on my piano at first.

"-Speaking of the intro, that piano. Sounds. Great."

Mhmm, that's thanks to East/West Symphonic Orchestra's really awesome Steinway piano sample. I think in every song of mine that incorporates a piano from my song Eclipse onwards there's that East/West piano sample. I wish I could record myself playing but I don't have anything to record with! :(

" ...also, you're getting your little brother to drum? Sweeet."

Yup! My dad's the one that taught him drums and he actually drummed to the song yesterday for Father's Day. He did great, and he just missed a snare hit at one point which was pretty unnoticeable anyway.

"-The guitar sounds pretty good"

Strictly speaking I think it's recorded from a real guitar so yeah it should be pretty realistic. I've used the Virtual Guitarist guitar strum samples for every song of mine that has guitar strumming, it's a pretty good VST, which is leagues cheaper than East/West.

"-Tune's nice, I suppose. Definitely not bad to listen to, though it's not your best one."

Yeah I know. Glad you liked it though haha.

"-The drums could use a few fills - don't forget those toms or ride cymbal rolls!"

You're totally right. I focused on them towards the beginning of the song but when my brother announced to me that he can drum to it I decided to not focus on them much and just repeated the patterns with a few subtle changes.

"-There is something odd about the bass' mixing."

Could be. I really had to do some weird mixing to it so it won't sound that bad as I said below.

"-Also about the bass. The rhythms and notes seem to be slightly off."

The rhythm should be only ever so slightly off since it's supposed to be humanised but I see where you're coming from with the pitch. I actually added a lot of bass slides all over the place on loads of notes. I thought they might work and I kinda like them but I guess to each his own :P.

"-The strings could use a little bit more depth, and they move a little bit too fast for strings."

I was thinking of adding background strings to the song but I thought that might make it a bit too full of depth and only added them to the intro a little. I might've been wrong! As for the notes being too fast, that's certainly a possibility, I always assume that every instrument can play as quickly as the piano but I know that's a bad assumption xD.

"-Even pop can have a secondary section and another tune."

Naw you're right. I didn't manage to think of anything to add in time without sacrificing the flow and I wanted this to be a sort of quick thing, especially since I had a tonne of studying and other music projects to catch up with :P. But yeah you're definitely right.

"-Not sure whether the flute should have been in there."

True dat, I would've made that some more pop-ish instrument like a lead guitar but I didn't have a lead guitar and as you know I can't care less about the specifics of each genre, as long as what I make sounds half-decent in my ears :P.

"-If you're looking for a better bass..."

The reason I had to use this soundfont is because I wanted to do note-sliding which only works with native FL VST's and soundfonts. But I didn't even consider using BooBass or Sytrus, so that's a really good idea. I'll keep it in mind for the future if I want to add a bass and incorporate note-sliding.

"I honestly don't like lyrics that much in songs unless they're done really, REALLY well."

Same here! From my library of nearly 1000 songs, around 8 have vocals :P.

"Okay, bye now! I must be getting on the plane to Australia~ I'll be sure to work on more music on the flight there, so hopefully I'll have enough to at least preview up here."

Haha I'm going to Australia too, on the 15th of July :P. Anyway, have fun there, and thanks a million for the fantastic review. I must find the time to review you back! Thanks again!

Thanks for reviewing!

I explained to Buoy down there what I did to the bass. I really need a better bass sample :P.

Thanks for the quick feedback, I promise I'll try harder in the next track I submit! By the way, forgot to tell you! You know Harmony of a Hunter: 101% Run? The Metroid album I'm part of. Don't know if you saw my newspost but there's a new album preview out if you'd like to see it! My track is the Luminoth one.

Oh hey, thanks a lot for reviewing!

"Gonna comment on each element real quick:"

Gonna respond to each comment real quick.

"Piano is good. Love the deep end of it."

Haha I've gotten used to using this piano sample and mixing it so I know which frequency ranges to lower and how much reverb I need to put on it like the back of my hand.

"0:16 was cool."

Yeah that kind of transition was in my head for a while and I tried it for the first time here.

"Guitar sounds pretty great for what it is."

You know Virtual Guitarist doesn't give you much control (the strums are all presets and if you want your guitar to do different strums then you need to load up the guitar again and choose another one of the fairly limited strum presets). Still, on the bright side the guitars sound fairly awesome.

"Strings sound kinda, uh I guess I'll call it "raw", I didn't care much for them anyway."

I see. To be honest I didn't work on them much, I just added them there as a testament to the original version.

"Bass is pretty blurry/muddy, sounds like there's a chorus or reverb there that it'd be better off without. Bassline is good though."

I did add a tiny bit of reverb but you've got to have god ears to actually hear it so I think what you're hearing is the weird EQ I put on it. It's a soundfont so it sounds pretty bad and unrealistic (for example when you let go of a note the sample just stops really quickly, as if the string suddenly stops vibrating) and it had a really ugly plucking sound which I removed by obliterating a lot of its high/upper mid frequencies, making it sound blurry/undefined. Trust me, it sounds better than how it was :(.

"I feel that the drums sound a bit out of place but I can't quite put my finger on it."

I'm not used to doing these kind of drums in a piano roll. I usually do them in a step sequencer but I obviously can't do that with EZdrummer so maybe I messed up a little.

"Ending works fine."

Yay.

"So yeah pretty okay, nowhere near some of your other works though of course."

True that. My dad loved it though at least! The only mistake my brother did while drumming was missing a snare hit. It's probably due to the fact that he stays too close to the drums so that his fairly short leg can reach the bass drum pedal :P.

Thanks again dude!

Hey thanks!