Really well done, especially if it's all being played out by hand! This album gave me strong Jun Fukamachi vibes which is always a good thing. I personally like the mix, it gives the music a really authentic feel that you just don't get nowadays. I gotta know how you did these chord progressions, they are so unorthodox and beautiful. Great work! (Water Tactic is my favorite but it was hard to choose.)
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Glad you enjoyed it.
I -can- step record and quantize on the synth i just....often times don't and didn't for my first Itch outing :)
(for which see : Arandulia's Lament)
https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/arandulias-lament
my track list over there is kind of a complete record of how i slowly climbed beyond my one year of piano lessons to teach myself advanced keyboarding by the bootstraps (with the sequencer -in- it, you don't have to hold the stuff all in your head anymore)
I'll tell you a little bit of that is just tunneling-forward first with manual performance, daring myself to do chords that are barely in my ability limit, say going 3 seconds then going "ok save" or if i know i have a clear concept but i have to dial the tempo dial on the synth from 120bpm down to 80 or even 60, then back up to get it right. At length hearing my own composition enough times I can then play (some of) the constructions at full speed. But often it only took 1 or 2 takes anyway.