Musical-Memoirs's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Run Away -MM]

i would love to see what happens if you continue

work on the tempo, its not steady at all eben before the beat came in i heard it already, but the beat made it obvious
and redo the beat, its simple and doesnt fit the song
the singing doesnt catch my interest either
but!!! it has potential
the buildup is good and the chords are nice
interesting to hear some guitar finaly

scullcrusher responds:

ya the reason it sounds so crammed and rushed is because it was, the class wanted 12 tracks within a minute and I hadn't messed with the piano to much by this point which is where the drums came from unfortunately. But thanks ill see what i can do :)

[Witness 2nd Draft [A-C]]

great

this is a beautifully piece
its really been a while to find this type of music on newgrounds made so well
he only the second part should have a bit more power, a way more velocity and a beat change (a tiny bit more active) would make that part way more interesting
the part from 1:20 till 1:50 also needs more velocity (but not a more active beat)
other then that it would give more depth and feel into the song if the lead guitar would have a tiny bit of vibrato into some notes
though its not perfect its something that really sounds great!!!

Autumn-Collapse responds:

Musical-Memoirs,

Thanks for your review, and we're glad you enjoyed it! Actually, you might not believe me, but only the first part of this song was legitimately recorded. We got lazy since we were only recording a draft/quick idea memo, but we decided it sounded so good that I took the rhythm guitar part and looped it over and over throughout the song. If you listen carefully, each individual part sounds the same. So... yeah, we're definitely going to be working on making the song better and give it more 'velocity' and better stuff halfway through the song! :D

Thanks for your time,
-Autumn Collapse

[Tubular Bells[Hardtrance Mix]]

not gonna work

the melody doesnt fit the style
some melodies are really designed for specific sounds types, this is one of the kinds you cant remix with any sound
if you decide to change the synths it might have a chance, but for now its not working so i advice you not to continue on this song, you have a lot more things that have way more potential

D-Chain responds:

hey bro... there is no way to continue this.. just bc this is done in like a couple of minutes it really means nothing to me..
thats why it hasnt been progressed any further and thus there wont be any finished version.
i know mike as a composer,
and its really great what he has done so far,

comparing my knowledge with his knowledge is like turning his godly music into garbage.
so in other clearer words: this was just for fun and nothing more.

perhaps if you want to remix ANYTHING from the guy, you should remix it into another style.. not hardtrance imo.

i still thank you for your time and effort(for what it was)
take care.

[Reconnection DEMO [MM]]

yay, some new stuff

a very unusual style like always :)
hope i get to see your style develop into some great music one day
unusual styles are the hardest to give advice on but i think i know some points you could improve this piece on

the most important thing you should work on is the beat
the percussions you choose doest work well for this piece at all (especially the clap) and possibly the whole rithm of the beat (i have the feeling that you made the beat so active on some points because you tried too hard to make it sound well because you got the same feeling and didnt know how to improve it well)
for this piece you would need some very unusual sounds used as percussion to make it mix well into the song
since your the only one i know who works in this style its hard to give some good examples but i think Cao Aid from Marco V is the best i can think of to show you some ideas, in that piece he uses some sounds in the beat that would normally never be used like that and it works well (those strange sounds doesnt even fully give the feeling that they are part of the beat, so fluently it mixes into the song)

something ells that could be improved is a better support to some of the the current sounds, when you use a sound on the background that follows the current melody it can give some more structure to it (in this style it would sound well to make those backgrounds sound change in form a little while playing with some effects in the mixer by the use of automations)

last thing i can think of are the transitions from one part to another, some goes smooth but some could use a little more work

hope i gave you some ideas of how to improve it

scullcrusher responds:

I have to largely agree with a lot of those points some of the transitions im not happy with and i need to fill the beat but i gotta figure out how. i guess my mind is to creative for itself at times :p i have this one and a couple other projects on the go right now but i mainly uploaded this demo so you knew i wasn't sluffing off lol im gonna be working on it tonight i believe and hopefully i can actually get somewhere with it. if not it might end up back in my revisit later folder lol. thanks for the review :)

[The Titan's Sword *C-Star*]

great, but might be better if it had more power

wow nice! i really love this one
only it needs a little bit more power into it to give the composition true justice (not much is needed i think, a little might be enough)
tend the beginning part (which you repeate in most part of the song) can be a lot more alive... you should play a little with the velocity of the notes, slowly going up and down might make it feel more alive already and would probebly give that part a tiny bit more power too

good luck!

CreamingStar responds:

I know! This was my first attempt at composing, on a really lame program, and so it definently needs an update. I've started redoing it on EW, but it just takes so much time starting from stratch and all. Anyways, I'll get to it one day. Thanks for checking it out K4P, and thanks for your comments!

[All of our memories (Album Version)]

nice

the high piano notes (and some other notes) are played too loud!!!
but other then that this song sounds great

ShikiGamiLD responds:

I don't know if you are referring to the part where the piano and flute are playing side by side and the piano overshadows a little bit the flute. I tried to lower the piano's velocity in that part, but most of the effect I wanted to get with the piano would be lost because with the piano samples I'm using, if I lower the velocity to a point were the flute is not so overshadowed by the piano, there is a sample change, and by that a change in the general sound of the piano.
I'm trying to recreate the song using some other libraries, so maybe I will upload latter another version of this song.

Thanks for your comment and I'm glad you liked my song.

[Arms Down]

cool

its a shame you lost ideas on it!!!
but i think if some flash artists finds this they can definitely use it
and having it as a loop makes it for flash games easy to apply
guess i give it a high chance to hear this in a flash one day

the drums are just like the other guy said excellent
nice melody and well balanced volume levels
the choir is a little repetitive after a while, but its nice
i guess ill check out the Magnus Choir VST too, might be cool to use choirs in my own songs too

Babyblue91 responds:

LOL!
I just pmed ya. :)) and yea you found it anyway.
Yea the choir is just like that. Simple. An interpretation of men shouting their hearts out in victory. Thank God I now know where to adjust the volumes.. XD I was just a little confused with stuff, I guess. You should try Magnus. This is actually my test drive to it. XD

[Secrets of the Night]

great

this is great
the melody, choices of instruments... only the soundquality is not that great
i would love to hear a high quality version of this
if you ever make a high quality one, please send me a notice right away

MoonlitRaven responds:

I'll eventually, I gotta remember it full and write it down. This was a live recording on my webcam expect form the strings which was pre-recorded on the keyboard I was playing on. But I'll get it done some time lol.

[[Fiji]As Long as Forever]

great

you did a great job... on this composition
only at 2:19 you gave a stereo effect for a while, which is too big and chaotic that it gets disturbing... hope you can fix that problem soon
all other stereo effects are well placed!!!

cant say much bad about this... only every happy tune i hear makes me sad after a while since something happened with my happiness a few days ago... so i better stop listening now and check it later again when i got over it a little... hope the small stereo problem is fixed when i check again

K4P

MrFijiWiji responds:

ya its a whole new song know

[{Meinsla} Elysium]

great

wow this one is nice!!!
there is not much i could give bad critics on, the things i could give on are just because those parts are a little different style then i prefer, so its not even important to mention
only i would probably make a part in it where i played a little with the main melody to make it in that part more advanced (only the idea i have might sound great in my head, but in reality it might be too hard or not sound so well)
guess i even favorite this one

also everyone has a different way of creating songs... mine are sometimes finished in short time too... i get a burst of inspiration and i can make something nice very fast... but once i loose my inspiration i get stucked and then i can spent days on it without getting any progress...
~K4P~ 22 - sunshine (after the rain) was finished in 3 hours because i had a giant burst of inspiration... but when i wanted to do things on it later to improve it more nothing happened, every try to make it better failed because i lost my inspiration to continue on the same project...
the first 3 hours were with inspiration and created 95% of the song... the next (i think i spent around) 6 hours trying to improve without my burst of inspiration gave only a little 5% of the songs progress

but there might always be some people who wants to show of by saying how less time they need to make something... so they might lie or not count some time they spend for the preparation for the project like the time you need to find the right synths... most people spend a hell lot of time to create something simple, just like you do... dont let others who might even lie about it make you feel less good or fast!

Kill4Peace

meinsla responds:

Thanks man, your reviews mean a lot to me. Glad you liked it. :)