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Dreamland

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Woah, two songs in a month? Wait, it's already February, agh!


Another song for that school project, this one acting as a "bonus track". This song took me about four days to make, by far the fastest song I've done, and I don't know if I'll ever be this inspired in the future lol. I may share the school project here one day, not sure, but hopefully I will.

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GOOD JOB !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

xZiriusX responds:

just noticed this review, thank you!!!!!! So glad people still enjoy my old songs :)

this is real nice wow

Cool =)

ITS WAY PAST YOUR BEDTIME, MAC BABY

A very appropriate title with that opening. It is lofty and adrift, and the underlying swells add a great sense of foreboding which is capitalized by that delayed bass edging in the drums.

The beat was a little underwhelming after that intro (probably says more about the intro than anything else). Maybe tweaking the snare down a few semitones might do the trick. It is otherwise a very full sound, especially when the two lead synths are working with each other.

The (keyboard?) melody at 2:15 was overpowered by all the reverb and bass. I'd be interested to hear how an acoustic piano would sound here instead...it would add some more punch to the attack, and you'd be able to really lean into all that sweet, sweet reverb.

The breakdown before the 2nd half was executed well. The tom / snare hits sound great together. The keyboard solo reaffirms my belief that this should be on an acoustic piano :) I like the synth hits at the 4:14 mark, but you can barely hear them.

Overall, it's a solid track that sets a great tone and is arranged well. Some minor adjustments on the mix are needed (imo), but that should be expected when you've only spent 4 days on it. Some of my favorite songs are the ones that seem like they've been just waiting to get out.

Nice work!

xZiriusX responds:

To clarify, the keyboard at 2:15 was made with Dexed, and with one of the e. piano presets from the original cartridges. I definitely should've spent more time equalizing it, or used an acoustic piano instead :P. The more i hear it, the more mistakes i hear in the mixing of other synths and even the drums, but I guess I'll leave them as is, for posterity sake hehe.

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Uploaded
Feb 1, 2021
2:18 PM EST
Genre
Synthwave
File Info
Song
12.6 MB
5 min 32 sec
Software
  • Synth1
  • Dexed
  • Reaper
  • Hybrid
Hardware
  • MPK Mini MKII

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