Made in early 2023, released in early 2024, before it became a year old!

This was an old unfinished track which the original is published, but obviously it was rushed and unfinished, this track was made for a contest in Waterflame's discord server where you have to make a track with some samples he had created, the original track had some samples but were poorly used and mixed, and in this remaster version, those samples were removed unintentionally (No seriously, I didn't realized that not even one of the drum samples (heard in S.N.A.F.U theme) was deleted); how you might ask? After I released the original, unfinised version, and Waterflame himself said that the song should be extended, I returned to this track and gave some changes, all in mixing, sound design, and structuring, which all took place in late January or early February, somewhere after the contest, and for a whole month, I was trying to change the song a lot because I couldn't get it into my liking, which means I added and removed some stuff, which I likely deleted pretty much every sample, including that drum sample, and other sounds used as harmonies, speaking of harmonies, I know that this track kind of not have that much depth due to the weaker harmonies which are just the arpeggios, but what the heck, its trance, (jk not a great excuse but I just couldn't get anything out for harmonies though this track likely needed some), so despite the melodic tone in this track, it does feel a little monotone, I know, I have the opportunity to give the song a little more life, but I don't want to do too much on the track because this track is, to me, a gem, not just because my musical career is young, but because its my first real song created on FL Studio 21, and I love the main in the track, it felt like the first melody I wrote with some soul inside.

For those who don't know, this track was inspired by two songs by Waterflame which being Sky Maneuver and December Dance, two very upbeat trances tracks with different sounds, and the original track sounded more like December Dance while this version sounds like Sky Maneuver, not really an intent but I just noticed that.

Writing wise, all the melodies, arpeggios, drums, and basslines were all written in early 2023 (late January to somewhere in March or April, I don't quite remember tbh), but one part that stood out to me is the last arpeggio in the track, which was another thing I was proud of other than the main melody, because I wrote that at a school and it was my first attempt on making something intricate, and something kind of Dimrain47 inspired, and an interesting fact is that the arpeggio was written on Bandlab on a school computer, which was pretty difficult to use the piano roll, but I am still happy with the arpeggio.

Structuring wise, the whole songs structure was completley changed on the original and the remastered version done after Waterflame's contest, the first half of the track is about the same but the second half was done today, or the day where this version is uploaded, along with some mixing changes; suprisingly, the mixing when I got back to make this version of the track, I didn't realized that the mixing in this track sounded better than my recent tracks mixing, I will guess that it is because I was more focused on production than composition at the time, which probably is why I was a better producer than me mixing the previous tracks, but as said, I tried new methods which the mixing sounds much more better, not perfect but for my standards, it is pretty good.

Also this has been haunting me through out most of the year of 2023 (early to mid) and I couldn't even start a new track without the melody haunting me, calling me to finish the track, so it was very difficult to start anything new without thinking about this track, but gladly this track is finally out, maybe not in its perfect form, but at least its released.

What do you guys think? Let me know what do you like or what do you not like about the track, what did I do right, what did I do wrong, please, tell me so my next tracks will be better in both production and composition, but other than that, enjoy! :D

There are also some patterns in the track that never made it in the final piece, some have appeared in the original version and some of them never had a chance to shine, heres a video of me presenting them: https://youtu.be/6ZK81j-WA-E?si=8XmGCkq9NL4USJgy

Also I just realized that all three melodies were written in three DAWs, the first melody on FL Studio 21, the second melody on FL Studio Mobile, and the third melody on Bandlab, so thats something.