This is excellent. Honestly, this is my favorite Newgrounds submission of 2012. What did you use to make this?
Reviews for "Westminster Tune"
Troisnyx responds:
The whole thing was on FL Studio 10, but I'll list the stuff that I used down here:
- As far as instrumental plugins go, the only one I have EVER used is Fruity Soundfont Player. I can't afford anything else D: Many of the soundfonts I got over here on NG, and there is one which HFX has shared with me, but the electronica soundfont (the one which gives you the beeps at the recapitulation section) was from the Mario Paint community.
To my knowledge, there's a page with 800+ soundfonts over at the Audio Forums. If you haven't checked it out already, PM me and I will pass you the link.
- Volume and tempo envelopes, quite a few of them. A little bit of mouse-click humanisation, which can be quite painful.
- Fruity Reeverb and the standard panning function on the mixer. I didn't even take care to use Parametric EQ 2 because I didn't know about it at the time I did this.
- Raw passion.
Admittedly, that's it. o.O I'll readily admit that I haven't got much, but if this is what it is capable of doing, I must learn to stretch the limits.
great piece. but your comments make it sound like you're leaving. it'd be a shame to lose such a great artist.
Troisnyx responds:
I had contemplated leaving, especially with how discouraged I've been made -- not only losing or barely scraping through every competition, but simply being told I just wasn't good enough. But the few who have stood by me all this time have told me, in more ways than one, not to give up. T_T
Kinda reminds me of Tron Legacy if they went for more analog stuff than electronic.
sounds beautiful. Nice work! You have some excellent sounding instruments. And Woot! I use FL Studios too! =v=
Troisnyx responds:
Eh, thank you. ^_^ I have, among others, the people who posted the 800+ soundfonts on NG to thank. Are you running on FL Studio 10 or 11 out of curiosity? (I'm still running on 10...)
I really like it. The backing bells, synths, choir, organs and other things I can't identify are not overused, used only at strategic moments, which I can appreciate. Strikes a good balance between grandiose and quiet, neither overdone nor boring at any moment. The pauses where the strings take over are a nice contrast to the piano.
The ending kind of trailed off, but that's not a big deal for this kind of music.
All I could suggest is slightly less overpowering piano (it sometimes grates at the ears at higher volumes) and a stronger ending. I'm favoriting this.