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[Battle Scarred]

NO!!!

1st Review
This ACTUALLY sounds like what Nobuo Uematsu would do on an early FF game - 6 or 7.

But it builds up to an awesome epic chorus at about 0:06 - and doesn't have it D:

2nd Review
Wow! this is a perfect boss theme - wow, i was writing the first review while listeneing lol

nice work blackattack
>>Zero (btw you wanna join a piano collab? there are lots wanting to join - look at the thread and my profile)

blackattackbitch responds:

Wow, maybe I just don't understand this song then. I just can't seem to figure out what people like about it.
And the funny thing is that this was intended to be a battle theme for a game I was making on RPG maker VX, mostly because I got tired of the crappy midis that they included with the game. (RMXP had some decent midis and some were actually freaking amazing but RMVX had atrocious ones. I still wonder who was the music programmer in XP.)

Anyways, I'm IN DAT COLLAB! I'm downloading the sample song right after this, findong out the bps and mayking teh sixxest piano solo evar!!!

[34 Seconds in A Minor]

Sounds like FF in the making

I loved at the beginning of 0:07 - but the right hand's melody i thought didn't really go.

Try repeating a melody riff - then change a few notes in the second repeat of the rift so that people can relate to something they have already heard - and the change makes it more interesting.

Plus - try some reverb :D FL has edison where you can add effects and reverb.

The first 6 seconds were great though xD

>>Zero

Lamplighter responds:

Now this was helpful. :) I'll be working on this soon. I'm going to try out that repetition you suggested and see what I can do... oh, and I did have reverb on this. It's weird, because I put the knob up to 125% on FL Reeverb 2 and I still can't hear much of a difference... it might be the overlapping delay I put after the verb, though. It should work if I switch the order...

Glad you thought at least some of this was good... haha, for some reason I find that last bit funny. Ah well. Thanks for the helpful review!

[Zero Piano Collaboration]

Mmm like it :)

Nice

that's the main thing i love about this collab - is that everyone has different styles

shadow6nothing9 responds:

Thanks, oh and pm when its done. I'm very curious to how it will sound later on

[[KgZ} Piano Collab "A minor"]

nice

and easy listening - like in a bar :)

nice one - i'm glad to use it xD

KgZ responds:

Thanks man :D

[MH16: Flutes]

:D thanks *blush*

woah. this is real good stuff
i want those flutes!! they are really nice

1:12 is my fav. with the little tril.
This sounds perfect for some mountain village
woah this is relaxing
thankyou for giving the world such beautiful music!

>>Zero

FairSquare responds:

Haha, thanks!
I tried to change the instrument to Piano and it sounds even better :P
I really apreciate this review :-)

MH16

[[AltS]- Chippish]

Nice

Nice looping and great melody
well done

alternativesolution responds:

Thanks!

[MH16: Heaven Is Close]

Sorry

I may not agree totally with Spirit - but the strings are sounding a bit like a soundfont or keyboard recorded.

mixing - or changing the sample for the strings i suggest

The progression is very nice and the chords don't get too old
Nice work
Good Luck with a music career if you ever wish to pursue one!
5/5

FairSquare responds:

Yeah, you're right about the strings.
I'll try to change that.
Thanks for the review and the 5 :-)

[Through Adversity of Night]

Finally!!

I liked the samples very much -you still both using rusty old FL Studio!?
this is amazing, especially on free software!! of course Blaze was the kind soul who turned me onto FL so thank him.

Great choirs - were they timpani's on the calm part? it is really unusual hearing that but worked so well!

Very well orchestrated and put together, obviously lots of time went into this.

My only suggestion is the Cymbal to be an orchestral cymbal, and if it was the quality wasn't the best and it wasn't that loud.
But out of a whole song all I could criticize was one piece of percussion!

5/5 - 10/10
Good Luck in MAC8
Merry Christmas
oh! and tell blaze happy birthday!!

Tamadrum responds:

[This is Blaze responding]

Yep, we're still running off of the good 'ol FL Studio 8 Demo. Everything here was just free soundfonts except for the piano, which is a free direct wave file that I found here on Newgrounds.

The "timpani's" were actually snare drums. Tamadrum lowered the pitch significantly and we saturated them with reverb to make that cannon-like sound. (Just another trick in the book. XD)

I would have personally liked the cymbal to be louder and more dramatic, but it is too late to go back and fix it now. :P

Thanks for the review and the happy birthday! This is the first song I've composed/collabed on in months. :) Merry Christmas!

[MAC8: Unfettered Heroism]

I liked it

It made me look back, to what I had done last year
rather than making me look forward/

It was original but for me not euphoric enough = though it does start getting happy in the middle.. alot like a film score the emotions change alot, some bits sounding FF style and some like a dungeon

well done blackattack - I loved the samples you had, especially the choirs and tambourine - oh and the cymbals. lol

good luck!

blackattackbitch responds:

Thanks man, I was a little worried about the euphoric part too after I submitted it. I focused mainly on the part where Maestro talks about what you would like to have playing in the background as you make a life-changing move. And I took his joke of the Rocky theme and thought of making a song with the same type of emotion. And that's how I ended up with this.

BTW, you can thank Kore 2 for the drum samples, Flobakks for the first set of choirs, and Papelmedia for the second set of choirs.

I can't remember whether I've reviewed one of your songs yet, but imma make sure to do so. Same with Sorrowskies.

[End of a struggle]

mmmm

i'm really tired now - this just made me drift into a half sleep where i shut out everything but this song.

Beautifully put together and relaxing. I love the chord change sequence at 0:43.

Well - all i can say is well done.
good night *yawn*

Ritz190 responds:

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