Krichotomy's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Tensity]

"The Fox Chases the Lizard Through the Desert" :D

[Well of the Wandering]

The beginning handful of notes really pull me in, and the piece paints an atmosphere around me. Around 1:21 it seems to just get very random, though, and I don't care for that. It totally breaks that nice atmosphere for me.

[For my Little Girl (Loop)]

:'(

When do we get the full length special? This is beautiful.

Bosa responds:

Perhaps never ... there doesn't seem to be enough interest.

[Odd Music Box]

That creepy vibe. Nice! The bass sounds best heard at the beginning really play a significant part in the atmosphere this piece creates.

Seeing the label "Dance Loop" makes me try to imagine what a dance to this music would be like. And what I'm seeing.... is.... *weird*.

And it loops wonderfully to!

Stapless responds:

thank you for feedback :_)

[_-={The Last Unicorn}=-_]

Hey! I saw that movie when I was /really/ young. But all I remember is a drunken skeleton. I don't even remember there being any unicorns.

This is a really pretty composition. I feel nostalgic listening to it just because it has that sort of sound to it.

[Gypsy Queen Demo/Snippet]

Catchy! I'd certainly like to hear the track when you complete it.

CantorMusic responds:

Hey, thanks for the feedback! I've put Gypsy Queen on the backburner for now. But it seems like that's what I do with a lot of things :/. This part was written on a spurt of inspiration. Something that I don't have too often, so I needed to record it and put it somewhere before I forgot it. I'll definitely be sure to message you when the track is done!

P.S. The final will DEFINITELY be more on time than this is.

[Wind Waker - Laruto's Lament]

I love Laruto's theme, and you turned it into something unspeakably beautiful. Oh music. :'|

[Tsukikanade (月奏)]

What language are you singing in? (Other than the la la la la XD) This is a beautiful composition. Great singing. The piano work is masterful. The flute is amazing. The effects that sound like an ocarina crying work very well.

I'll be honest in saying that the bright percussive melodic instrument (kinda like a xylophone or marimba) is throwing me off. That may just be personal. Also, the shaker thing could stand to be less bright and up-front. These two instruments are very bright, while all the others are actually the opposite, including the vocal recording.

Unfortunately this track seems to suffer from overcompression, distorting everything whenever there is a lot of volume fluctuation (01:20-01:43).

Also, the loop point pops.

So, I do have some complaints, but, regardless, I could listen to this track over and over. :D

Troisnyx responds:

Thanks for listening and being honest -- the nitpicking will be necessary for a time very near in the future, I assure you!

So in response...

1) It wasn't really a language; I was intending the vocals to feature a little bit of Sauveterrané but it didn't work, so it's just vocal sounds now.

2) The effect of the "ocarina crying" is actually a whale's cry :P Though I wonder if ocarinas could be played like that; that'd be awesome.

3) The shaker is a tambourine. I agree about it and the mallets being very bright, and somehow I didn't match it up to the mellowness of the rest of the piece.

4) A little help with the overcompression bit, please... this tends to be a recurring problem in a lot of my recent works. I'm often not quite sure what to do. Pointers will be much appreciated.

5) On the loop point: mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. A few people have told me that Audacity does a bit of a pop lasting a split second or so when we export a file from WAV to MP3. I previously had a bug on FL 11 where, if I did my usual sample-bouncing trick, it would just... render wrongly. I then decided to load up the full project file, soundfonts and everything, throw the voices in there, and then export as WAV, run it on Audacity to see if it rendered alright, and if the looping was okay. So... yes, I ought to have circumvented that little blip in the loop point somehow. I might do a bit of a reupload, exporting directly from FL instead, now that I know this works.

Thanks again -- and glad you enjoy the piece. ^_^

["PDX Landing" - Game Menu]

I have a complex emotional reaction to this track that I don't understand. Probably because it has many similar elements to the Sonic 3 credits music. (Not the S3K credits music.) I'm sorry, I'm having trouble seeing your track through my nostalgia-tinted glasses. :D

Cool music! I like the sweeping effects.

[-Super slam dunk league-]

Going back to the /genesis/ of funky video game music. ;)