It's that time of the 8 days, isn't it? :D The mood at the beginning was interesting. It was a little distorted, yet there was this epic sort of clarity to the synths and piano that just made me feel like I was floating on a cloud. I loved those riser-transitions like at 1:09. The melodies were excellent, as always, and I love the instruments as well, especially that funky one at 1:38. As usual, you incorporated the guitar very well, and the structure and transitions overall were, once again, very, very good. One complaint I have is that you seem to use very similar drums (especially snares) across tracks. Couldn't hurt to shake that up a bit in the future. The melody at 3:13 is one of my favorites, though. The glitch-y drums around 3:30 to 4:00 sound excellent. You somehow manage to make those glitch-y sounds work well in almost any piece of music, John! :D AH! That cut-off ending really got to me, though. This piece DESERVES a timely cut-off, man! Overall, though, excellent work! Antiskill is awesome, and your piece really fits the art well. Best of luck in the competition! :D Unfortunately, I don't have time to enter this year (I was considering using one of Antiskill's pieces myself), but I wouldn't be surprised if you won. ;D Keep it up, Johnfn! I wonder what April's theme will be...
Reviews for "soar"
> It's that time of the 8 days, isn't it?
hahaha. Actually I have another song coming out really soon which I was working on in parallel with this one (which is why I was a little more quiet than average).
> riser-transitions like at 1:09
This was really fun to do! I just took a frequency shifter and shifted the frequency of the whole track :D
> funky one at 1:38
Yeah omg I loved that synth.
> One complaint I have is that you seem to use very similar drums (especially snares) across tracks
This is actually a really good idea. The main problem is I have only downloaded like one drum library and I just keep using it haha. Will be getting some more variety in the future :)
> melody at 3:13
You have a really good ear, this was actually my favorite also. That's why I repeat it later on in the outro at 4:43 (you can usually tell how much I like a melody by how often I repeat it haha).
> That cut-off ending really got to me
Lol I'm a derp. I'm getting better at not forgetting to do this but I still do sometimes. I'd fix it except that, since I'm using the demo version of the glitch vst, I lost all my glitching data when I closed (it doesn't save) so I'd have to recreate it all :( If I update this track I'll fix this.
I don't really expect to win the competition but it was super fun to write this track :)
Thanks for the review dude!