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AIM 2021 - Citadella

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My AIM 2021 submission. Made this in roughly 4-5 hours.

Apologies if it's too repetitive, I aimed for an ambient song that'd typically work as background music, but I hope you still like it


Art I used was made by @Kamikaye (love your art man ^^):

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I feel like what this piece exceeds at is finding instruments that sounds good alone, but fitting them perfectly with the other instruments to create an absolutely beautiful texture.

My only criticism is a bit of the background clicking at ~1:35 (perhaps percussion?), which feel a bit too hard, in that they break the silky texture. Despite the fact that they're very quiet, such a texture makes me focus more on the smaller details. ~3:05 however makes this clicking kind of sound work however, so perhaps the instrument is too quiet?

Anyways, awesome work!

Albe responds:

The listener appreciating the little details I put into the sound is one of the things I treasure and appreciate the most, so thank you ^^

The clicking sound is part of the preset I used for that texture pad, though I thought it'd still sound cool as if they were some sort of bongos playing in the background, but I get what you mean.
Glad you liked the song! ^^

This is very relaxing :D

You perfectly captured the water and futuristic vibes. I love the arpeggiating synths and the transformations of the lead instrument. You created a beautiful atmosphere with all those pads.

The only thing I would suggest is EQ the low-mids of the mid-range instruments such as the piano and suppress any resonant peaks in the mid-high range.

Albe responds:

Thanks Ev! Will have that in mind for next time, glad you liked it!

Top!!

Your sense of melody and structure is very mature, well done.

I bet this will be Top 3 for AIM.

Albe responds:

Thanks a lot, Sequenced!!

Nice and ambient! Would love to explore a 3D game set to this!

very spacey and mysterious, love it, especially the vocal melody over those arpeggiated chords

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Votes
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Score
4.54 / 5.00

Uploaded
May 5, 2021
11:55 AM EDT
Genre
Ambient
File Info
Song
10.4 MB
4 min 32 sec

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