got a lot of great ideas here! I think you need a better instrument patch though. IMO it doesn’t scale well between different note velocities. Kind of makes it sound like you’re just tweaking the volume knob rather than playing and interacting with the instrument. I dunno, I feel like a better synth could bring those notes more alive!
I love the commitment to whole tone. I think you got the whole tone heroic stuff down here. Sometimes it’s just the crescendo into big instrumentation and you get a unique heroic sound because you’re using whole tone and hardly anyone else is.
this is sweet jrpg esque pop-rock I dunno I’ll stop now. It’s great!
I think maybe getting a different/louder snare might work for you. It sounds like it wants to come out but is actually drowned out by the hats. Love the break transition.
Great job! Love the whole tone ending! Sounds like someone died haha
I’d suggest play around with the note velocity and legato on your strings. Every note starts quiet and ramps up and it starts to pop out a bit much after a while.
Sweet chiptune!!! I think you can maybe do some note modulation for those held notes in the middle to give it a little movement. Like a tapering vibrato maybe. I dunno it’s all real good!
Omg I’m so glad you asked haha! My partner and I went out into the wilderness (i.e., the city ravine) and took pictures with our dice. It was part of our RPG music pack project that you can find here with many more dice covers!!
Nice work! I love the composition. Also, genius making an overture for this jam; what a concise way to get a flurry of ideas in a single track. Lots of work though haha.
only thing I can think is to play with some effects maybe? I think the piano could use some reverb/delay. In the mid section where it’s all spooky. I think a lot of the transitions and different sections can be characterized with more separation, and FX might be the way to go. Composition is so strong that you really want to highlight it.
Thank you for the thoughts! I also think it’s crowded at the 1:30, but was time limited. A lot of things would have wanted to address with more time (basically all of which you said!)
thank you for the feedback! I also agree I think it’s way too busy but I was on a time limit. Partly why the lead didn’t get its due spotlight, trying to balance the following section. Should have just removed parts instead.
Oh no sorry I just wasn’t sure if you were cuz my headphones weren’t great. I think you just need to turn the guitar up. Never really good to sidechain to kick/snare with rock/metal. Just gotta trust the instruments to self-balance
For sure! So I do a lot of rock/metal so I use EZDrummer and a metal add-on pack. I think it was like 300-400 USD total, kind of pricy if you’re just dabbling.
For guitar samples I’ve not really been able to replace just real recordings and amp effects software (I use guitar rig and some other stuff)
Nice submission! To get a heavier sound, you should do two rhythm guitars panned all the way to either sound. For rock and metal, you kinda have to compress the crap out of everything. Your bass could use some distortion and heavier compression to keep the volume more consistent. Great ideas in this piece!!
Great work! I love the composition. The jazzy breakdown in the middle is killer.
Rock/metal is hard to do without real guitars I find. Also, it’s hard to do without the right drum samples. It’s gotta sound hard and aggressive and you can’t really get that without the right tools and sounds. Maybe by using a lot more overdrive and saturation to squeeze out those harmonics??
“(Note to self... do not attempt to do three composing jams at the same time...)” hahahaha learned that exact lesson myself. I saw you on the motif one I think, what else did you do??
