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offline nobsmuggler from silly mid-off on 2003-07-05 02:46 [#00767674]
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heres a half finished album by me
just want your thoughts on it
spam


 

offline Netlon Sentinel from eDe (Netherlands, The) on 2003-07-05 03:38 [#00767679]
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listened to a few tracks, very nice ambient stuff!
professional sounding too. big orange sun and padsuup remind
me a lot of boc, but they're lovely tunes. good stuff


 

offline hanal from k_maty only (United Kingdom) on 2003-07-05 04:08 [#00767685]
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yeah nice,keep it up


 

offline nobsmuggler from silly mid-off on 2003-07-05 04:18 [#00767687]
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thnx

im not gonna lie i was going for a boc sound but its a good
one so im not botherd


 

offline nobsmuggler from silly mid-off on 2003-07-05 10:09 [#00767778]
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*bump*


 

offline Sanguine from San Francisco (United States) on 2003-07-05 13:55 [#00767907]
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Big Orange - nice ambient work in the background, chords
don't quite mesh well, but it gives it a unique sound.

Piano love - actually one of the better piano tracks I've
heard from just MIDI stuff. The delay is a bit much for me
in some parts, but that's probably because this is one of
the few areas I'm heavily perfectionist... very simple and
effective

music for film 1 - oh god the panning is driving me nuts on
headphones... this one is really hard to listen to... the
electronic drone on the left side is way too loud for me...
takes a lot away from the rest of the piece

red balloons - Almost organic patch sounds in some places,
interesting combination of electronic sounds to make it go
between nature and more industrial... I like that. I turned
the volume down some and was quite happy as an ambient
track... the only suggestion I have is not to change up
things so quickly, seems to change very rapidly, once every
4 beats or something, think it would be more effective if
you just changed when you felt like it... same length, don't
extend it, just make the changes more subtle? I don't know,
just my comments

padsuup - got an image of an electronic orchestra tuning...
but after the beginning it got a little tedious listening to
the same reverse sound over the chord changes. Some
delay/reverb/noise/something would add quite a bit.
Especially if you wanted to keep the same feel of the piece
and give it some more headspace

vbrmbraa - Some really nice chord progressions in there,
sounds like some random elements or deliberate anti-chordal
notes were put in there to keep the listeners on their toes.
I'm enjoying the dissonances with the piano/plucked notes,
but the pads I'm not feeling as heavily when it varies from
what's going on on top.

All in all very ambient sounding, most of the pieces keep a
constant energy level which lets them just sink into the
background very nicely, and once in a while, pulls you back
in.

I don't detect a lot going on besides the main loop, and
that's my bigg


 

offline Sanguine from San Francisco (United States) on 2003-07-05 13:56 [#00767910]
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Whoops...

I don't detect a lot going on besides the main loop, and
that's my biggest criticism. As you get better I think the
subtle changes will improve a lot, transitions are very hard
to do in ambient stuff, harder than dance no question.

Sorry for the slight delay on my review, and hoped that
helped!


 

offline _user from rostov-on-don (Russia) on 2003-07-05 14:23 [#00767925]
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....i saved the page.......can not dl for now [i'm already
dlng a couple of files.......]......see it later.....


 

offline nobsmuggler from silly mid-off on 2003-07-06 01:19 [#00768155]
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thnx for the review san

on the red balloons track thats a random noise generation so
i had no control other than stop or start which explains the
4/4

music for a film was 2 separate trax put together ive never
listend to it through headphone i see what you mean though

what software you using i would mind a remix or reworking by
you?


 

offline Sanguine from San Francisco (United States) on 2003-07-06 01:52 [#00768176]
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Sure thing

Cubase mostly at this point, but I'm experimenting with some
other things to make new sounds

Handful of plugins, haven't found anything perfect for
drums, not enough control


 

offline nobsmuggler from silly mid-off on 2003-07-06 01:55 [#00768178]
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what format do you want the samples
is wav ok cause im using reason


 

offline Sanguine from San Francisco (United States) on 2003-07-06 01:57 [#00768181]
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Wavs are perfect... any song, but just one for now... my
head is almost exploded as it is... tick tock tick tock


 

offline nobsmuggler from silly mid-off on 2003-07-06 02:02 [#00768183]
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ill you send you big orange sun in the next 24hrs
you public email alwright to use?



 

offline nobsmuggler from silly mid-off on 2003-07-06 02:03 [#00768185]
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ill you send you big orange sun in the next 24hrs
you public email alwright to use?



 

offline Sanguine from San Francisco (United States) on 2003-07-06 02:14 [#00768196]
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Hmm... public email probably won't handle it... if you can't
upload, I'll work something out tomorrow, will let you know


 


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