.:Townsfolk Melody:.

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.:Townsfolk Melody:.

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Hold on too much edge let me tone it down.

Made a track, had rendering problems, re-rendered 15 times, still sounds glitchy, eh.

I actually did this today and was going to enter this into the AIM contest. One problem, rules state the song has to be 3 minutes long at minimum. The only way I could've made it 3 minutes was to make it more repetitive. However that would mean messing with the rendering again. Even though this was a fail I will still be making another track for the AIM contest and I still wanted to show it. It's not a bad track if you overlook the quality. It also uses more patterns than I have ever used in 12.

This was inspired by http://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/aba1/town-thesis
so go check that out.

Can't use that for my next one so time to look again lol.

~Alpha

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LaserVision

2016-05-23 18:18:34

First of all, try to be a little more positive. If you dislike your music so much then maybe you shouldn't be a composer yet. More often than not, shown negativity tends to alienate other users. I'm not saying that you can't be pessimistic about your music because that would make me hypocritical, but try to limit it somewhat. Anyway,

I think you should have given the thunder a little more time to fade out before introducing the bell already at 0:02. Perhaps 8-10 more seconds? Also I think the pace is going forward at a velocity that is too fast.
The "xylophone sound" sounds more like a high pitched kick and there's not much melody to be heard from it. The synth that starts to fade in at 0:17 hurts my ears and is just annoying.
I like the part at 0:51-1:25 though, because it seems like you were taking the time needed to set the mood for the song. After that the song repeats it seems.

Conclusion:
- Too short, should be at least 1 minute longer, preferably even more
- Very repetitive, nothing stands out
- Tempo is too fast
- 0:51-1:25 is the best part, even though it's used earlier in the song
- Good use of audio samples

I apologise for coming off as rude, I understand that FL studio can be hard to work with since I'm new to the program myself. But I hope that I've helped in some way at least.

BlueAlpha14 responds:

Heat of the moment man :v I probably should edit the description..
And it was longer, but the rendering was screwed up lol.

-Ok let me respond in order:
I didn't want to extend the thunder. But I also did throw this together shortly.
-The repetitiveness is something I didn't want to break. There was a repetitive break but it was very glitchy. I would show you if I didn't overwrite the file.
-At 0:17 the rendering screwed up, it didn't match the X modulator automation I set up.
-The tempo is 130 BPM, that's really too fast? I didn't really notice it. I tend to find it hard to edit the tempo after I compose it a bit, there's are all things I could fix if I could save and re-open a .flp file.
-I figured the Xylophone would fit since the synth at 0:17 didn't seem right to use.

Don't worry about coming off as rude, I really appreciate criticism. Personally I haven't been able to really sit down and focus. While this was my most complicated track, I hope I progress more and more. As said, even when I fail someday I'll get featured and I will look back at stuff like this ^^. Thanks for the review and I will put this into consideration if I attempt something like this in the future.

~Alpha