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offline cataLYST from Waldorf (United States) on 2003-07-03 23:17 [#00766728]
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its simple, hence the name.. please listen all the way
through, i'm trying to work with my transitions.. it lacks
melody because i was unable to midi up my keyboards right
now so i sampled the strings.. everything else is from
scratch..

feedback is appreciated and constructive criticism is even
better.

www.zebox.com/catalyst



 

offline Jazembo from The Earth ball on 2003-07-03 23:26 [#00766732]
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it better be good, i'll have to stop playing pancake lizard
to listen to this...


 

offline cataLYST from Waldorf (United States) on 2003-07-03 23:27 [#00766733]
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lol *waits for a fist in the face*


 

offline Jazembo from The Earth ball on 2003-07-03 23:37 [#00766735]
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you can lower your guard now. I thought this was a very good
track actually, a bit boreing at the start but you soon made
up for that and the last minute or so was just great.

Not as good as pancake lizard though, sorry

Keep up the good work!



 

offline Sanguine from San Francisco (United States) on 2003-07-03 23:42 [#00766737]
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Doesn't seem to fit together... drum beat + ambient just
doesn't fit to me I guess.

You do some neat things with the sounds you've got, but most
of it is uninteresting... you extend bars of beats that
aren't very catchy, and stop really quickly on things that
are.

Maybe listen through it and pick out the best parts, then
remix?

I like what you did with the string sounds around 3:20...
and even though I didn't like what it went to, you kept it
short, and it added instead of detracted from the piece,
offering a new idea. Yay

The piece as a whole lacks a definitive climax. Personally I
consider this a problem with most amatuerish music
(including my own)... it's hard to do and harder to do well

Cleaning up the rythmn on the drums would help a lot (second
time listening through it). Chop it and add some
quantification just to see if it works better for you... if
you were going for some more disconcerting drums, you hit it
on the mark, but it's not my sort of thing.

The metallic high hat sounds are really crisp in the
beginning, round the :30 mark, I like

Too much going on, lacking direction (climax, whatever you
want to call it), but great for experimenting with
transitions... you've got some good ones, and some less
fluid ones in there

Don't really know what else to say... inspired me to go work
on some drum programming again since I spent all day
sampling breakbeat/jungle beats


 

offline cataLYST from Waldorf (United States) on 2003-07-03 23:46 [#00766741]
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thank you both.. ill take that into consideration sanguine,
makes a lot of sense.. still reworking it as we speak, will
keep u updated as time goes on.


 

offline Sanguine from San Francisco (United States) on 2003-07-03 23:48 [#00766743]
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Cool... I try to be as honest as possible on these reviews,
glad it helps, hearing people's music on here has definitly
given me a lot of tips about how I can do things better
myself, let us know when you've reworked it a bit!


 

offline APeSHiTZ from ¤BANgbANG¤ on 2003-09-06 18:43 [#00853193]
Points: 641 Status: Addict



CataLTST
i'm still waiting to see u man..
loved tha show with CD ...
ur intro aug 29 is Badass !!!

my feedback wont be as developed as Sanguines, strongly
because im more into the Ultra Intense but i still like
this track
i think u should seriously change it up bigtime after your
sample at 1:59, maybe speed things up, and when u get to the
strings at 3:20 slow it into the strings
i dunno man u n i work differently, hopefully soon u ni can
work together on something ..... good track


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2003-09-06 18:49 [#00853204]
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I wasn't really feeling this..it's not bad...but I think
Sanguine wrote enough to cover everything I would say too.


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2003-09-06 18:50 [#00853206]
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Have you got an autechre sample in there off confield?


 

offline ambsace from canaDUH. on 2003-09-06 19:27 [#00853288]
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yeah, sanguine said everything, i do believe. i was just
going to point out specifically how i enjoyed your
transitions (something i lack completely. the moment it
comes time where one might natually fit in, my track just
kindof ends. thus, i only have about 2:30 tracks. makes me
sad). nicely done, though, for the greater part. =]


 

offline ambsace from canaDUH. on 2003-09-06 19:33 [#00853313]
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after listening to your other tracks, i couldn't help but
notice a definite...hmm. similarity between the beats in all
three of these tracks. almost like they were all the same
thing (but changed every so slightly?) emul shin was the
most different, i believe. especially where it "picks up" at
about 1:30. i think this was my favorite of the three you
have there. you've certainly got a "style" (something i
think most of us lack around here). i like it. =]

keep us posted as to what you're up to, yeah?


 

offline kochlear from aud-stim.com on 2003-09-06 20:04 [#00853380]
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it's got some good beat programming and odd samples, but
it's just a wee bit repetetive. i liked it for the most
part.


 


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