Reviews for Invention No. 2

[Soapbubble]

Slight improvement

===============
Score: 9 / 10
Summary: Slight improvement
Review: Compared to Invention No. 1, that is.

Don't get me wrong, No. 1 was awesome, but this one sounded even better. Instruments were slowly introduced, and nothing came on right in your face. Everything fit perfectly together, and the only thing I really could want for was, no, not a loop, but simply a longer track.

A simple, yet really great, melody, that works soothing and sort of like an ambient track to the background of a slow-paced game.

-=Review Request Club=-
===============

loansindi responds:

Thanks for the review!

[bladerunner627]

What does this remind me of?

I'm not sure if you've ever played Everquest (I'm talking about the original one) but that's the first thing that came to mind when I heard this. All the songs in EQ were classical and they were all awesome, so I hope you take that comparison as a compliment.

It sounds very clean, parts of it need some "humanization." Some parts of it sounds a bit empty if you know what I mean.

Mixdown is excellent too.

Overall, great short tune :)

loansindi responds:

Thanks for the review.

Oh man everquest, I never played it but I can guess at what the music was like.

There's -some- humanization, but that's a property I'm still working with.

Glad you liked it.

[Aerochord]

Invention No. 2

I love your selection of the instruments in this one. The instruments match with each other and the funky melody too.
The melody is relaxing and quite happy too. Brings back the memories from the old Final Fantasy IX.

You should make this one longer and use that string at the end too.

Overall this song's pretty good and relaxing but needs to be a bit longer :)

loansindi responds:

Thanks for the review!

The key of D is a good one for anything positive or uplifting.

The thing about making my songs longer is that I typically lose motivation pretty quickly.

[Step]

Better than the first one

This is definitely an improvement to the first one. Quite short, but not bad at all.

The melodies were great. I especially liked the harp towards the end. The instrument quality over here is none too special, but better than a lot of samples I've heard on NG. Still, the choice of instruments fit very well with each other.

The transitions were done much better than in the first one. I liked the pizzicato in the intro and the ending was excellent. The strings seemed to come out of nowhere though, since I didn't hear it in any other parts of the song. You should do like Aerochord said - lengthen it by using the strings, and give it some more fullness after when all of the instruments come in to end the song.

Quite a good song. It needs a little more fullness and length, but the melodies and structure were fine. Good job.
8/10
5/5 since this got badly bombed...

-Review Request Club-

loansindi responds:

As I write more of these I feel I get more comfortable in the style, I'm noticing a definite improvement, myself.

I just wanted to throw a generic end on the song, which is why the strings are there. I might revisit this piece and introduce another theme.

It's worth noting that this one was written while drunk, so there was an attention span issue.

Thanks for the review, it's greatly appreciated.

[Fro]

~ Review Request Club ~

Hm, I wish I could write something like this when completely sober. Maybe I need to get drunk to write good music. Or maybe I need to learn a little bit about music first. :P

Yeah, a bit better than the first version in my opinion. Wasn't as sudden when introducing new instruments like the last one. The introduction has a little bit of a sneaky feeling to it also. Pretty good piece all around. Perhaps not better enough to increase by an entire point, but enough to see the difference.

~ Review Request Club ~

loansindi responds:

I'm not sure how the drunkenness played in. It was jack daniels sour mash, if that helps.

I definitely like this one better, and will be expanding at least on the ideas used here.

Thanks for the review.