Why thank you for enjoying my album fellow person on the internet!! :DAchromalia wrote:
album drop!! track #5, AGen, was the most compelling for me. behind that was track #7, THE END OF THE END. i felt ambivalent about most of the other tracks, but i kept coming back to those two and i believe they were taken in promising directions :OB0ii wrote:
new album dropped 4 hours ago
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notably, so much went right during AGen:
those bit-crushed ambient pad chords with their initial upward glide and soft attack. they truly carried the harmonic movement of the song and their presence outlined a lot of important sections within the song (especially their absence during 0:23 + 0:35 + 1:19, which tended to serve the purpose of emphasizing the progressions of sampled breaks and other instruments as they led into new territory)... i really appreciated the entire section of 2:11 and how it followed through to 2:38, very appropriate for this progression. the sections/progressions where the entire arrangement gets pitched down/up (1:19 through 1:31, 2:13 through 2:20, 3:07 through 3:21) were emphasized very nicely thanks to these pads
other notable features... those subtle mid-range triangle-ish leads peeking through very briefly, most easily heard at 0:36 and 0:39 when most of the instruments retreat and leave the sampled breaks alone. the thin quiet plucks were also very well-appreciated and were finally melodically consistent with the key signature and scale and harmony, in contrast to a lot of the other songs where there wasn't very much relation between any of the melodies. the crunchy garbage-noise bits were also used tastefully for the most part too
and how could i forget, the breaks themselves!! they were genuinely really good, and appear to be the most intricately designed element of these songs, especially here during the progressions through each new section. they evolve a lot with all the cutting-and-splicing and pitch-gliding while being low-passed at different times, and each little change feels relevant and functional even despite it very clearly being the same drumloop being recycled
overall, a very enjoyable song :>
for the second-favorite, THE END OF THE END:
not as enjoyable melodically, but really this song is saved almost exclusively by its maj7(?) rave pad chords and by its intro and outro. i love the texture of that pad so so much, and it once again carried whatever square-wave melodies were used over them without complaining, mostly complementing each other without many problems with harmony
oh!! the sparkly chimes! those were also really sweet additions in my opinion, they fit so well with the pads <3
otherwise, most compliments i would give are similar to my comments on drumbreak samples and progressions found in track #5
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and that's pretty much all i have to say, i wish i could've had more to say but i treasured my time listening to what you made anyway <3 good luck, emoticon friend
Anyways time to give some background on those two songs that you said that were your favorites!
Track 5: AGen - I'll admit it, I honestly didn't really like this song that much while producing it compared to the other songs, and I even considered dropping it from the album entirely. But I needed to make enough songs to put on the album for it be considered as one, so I continued producing it. I don't know if it's just me, but I found some parts of the song kind of overwhelming even for myself (especially in the part where the drum starts producing more extreme stutters and in the pitched down part when the string instrument kicked in). But looking at this review of the song (and just some general self-reflection) made me realize that I might have a small self-doubting problem. Most of the time when I'm producing a song, I keep on having doubts about the song, and how it doesn't really "sound right". But in spite of that I am able to make stuff that people do indeed enjoy, and when I see that there are people out there who really do enjoy my stuff, that feeling of having my songs not be "good enough" gets washed away.
Track 7: THE END OF AN END - The highest BPM song I have made (second highest if you account for my first ever song lol). I personally enjoyed making this song the most, and I think it was the pad sample that I used, very groovy, very awesome. Most of the song (like ~65%) was based off of that one pad sample, and I can see why I did base most of the song off of it! Along with the square wave + triangle wave combo I used too. And this is the first time that I have ever made a song in that key before, and I think it turned out surprisingly amazing!!
Also 8/9 of the songs used an nes sound emulating vst in them in some way. And your favorite song (AGen) being the only one that didn't use it at all!
