The-XI's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Northstar]

Beautiful.

I was expecting some half assed attempt at trance, but this song has some professional sounding arrangment going on, and same goes for the melody and the instruments!
Wow, I am impressed. You got my attention fairly quickly with the beginning.

As pro as this song is, i think it might be better if when you brought in the beat, it had a little more of an 'impact', you know? Like, maybe you could start to filter in a soft synth, then filter it in. or something.

When you filtered in the awesome panning hard synth, I was like 'wow, this guy sure nows what hes doing'. And yes, you do.

Very nice drums, very ncei arrangment, but I DID here clippage every here and there. My only piece of advice is that it needs to have a little more of an impact...the song is very subtle.

Great work!

PS: Do you think you could review my music? I've only got one, but I'm going to have more up...very, very soon.
Thanks!

[_-=[Dancing with Darkness]=-_]

EVIL!

Or something.

Awesome stirngs in the beginning, but it seems like the low strings you have distort themselves? Like, they go too low or something.

I'm hearing some awesome choirs and organs and evil motherfucking shit that I love so much that I shall commence to download this track as soon as I am done listening.

I loved the melody work, and eveyrthing of that sort, but I still have an issue or two with a few parts in the song...

Yes, i know, unbelievable...

The piano-ish type arpeggio you bring in is great, but it gets repetitive! Change it up, add an arpeggio ending, then switch it entirely, and don't be afraid to slow it down either :)
Your reverse cymbals are a nice touch, but they are so tinny, and low quality like :(
Your booms are also a nice touch, but...they are FL presets man. It shouldnt be too much to find a royality free boom sound that gets the point across just as well, if not better?

Other than these things that i decided to nit-pick at (cause I'm a whore) this song is a 5/5 rating.

5/5, + DL.

Awesome work! You amaze me and my insignificant mind.

MaestroSorrow responds:

I am glad you found this song enjoyable. Yes there are big plans for this song, and I hope it will be worth it all.

The crash Cymbals were too tinny? Seriously?! On my headphones, it's as if they're going to explode my ears X_x. I'll see if i'm the only one with this issue?

Also yeah, GO PRESET BOOM XD! Because this was a demo, it has a bunch of presets and stuff so that I can remember what I was thinking at the time. The full thing, will have its own boom.

Also... piano? O_o... there was no teh piano here? But... that is actually a pretty good idea! I have an organ, if thats what you mean.

[[FUSION] - Airwave]

You deserve a review.

Seriously this a very well arranged and professional sounding track. But as soon as I got into it and i was expecting something amazing to some from it, it just cut out.

I can understand if you cut it out if you gave us a taste of the melody firrst, but you didnt! You just kind of...gave us a 'melody tease'... a damn good melody tease, but it didnt sound like the real thing. The masses demand hard trance leads and awesome drum programming to be pleased >:(

Lol, I kid, I kid.

I will be truthfully honest, if i heard this track at a music store, i wouold be bored with the beginning. I probably wouldnt have enogh patience to get to that awesome bass pattern. Maybe just cut out the beginning and start the song out with maybe some glitch drums, or the offbeat bassline.

I really like the synth work, even though its all presets... you should try making your own synths, man. Not to be offensive to you or anything, but it makes making music so much more challenging, and fun. Really, it does. It even gives you originality :D

Awesome work, but maybe you should consider giving more than just a teaser to newgrounds :)

PS: The song Airwave is a progressive trance song, that was even remixed by DJ Tiesto. If you ever wanna show the masses this track, maybe you should change the name. Just giving you the heads up :)
And maybe you could check out my music sometime? I've only got one track up, but that is soon to change...lol.
Thanks!

Fusion responds:

Thanks for your review and your critical comments, i go to check what i can change about it.

[OCON- LSD Production Factory]

I decided to check out your recent track...

I think it sounds very abstract, to say the least.
Thats in a good way :)
I sounds as if you are using 3xosc in your acid synth...maybe you should try adjusting the filter freq a bit to make it sound like its changing :)

This sound has the 'clumsy stupid hero' feel to it, because of the basic beat, and the bouncy bassline and the 303ish synths. If you want people to 'take this song seriously' in a sense, so they can sit back and get a good groove from it, try maing it faster, TRY not making the synths so childish sounding, but the arrangment is alright.

I'm not saying this song is bad, its actually pretty good. I just don't like the voerall feel of this track, thats all.

Good work!

Mynewaccountis-OCON responds:

Thanks man, for the advice and the review in general ^^ i was just messing around with FL 3, this wasnt a serious try for me man, but im glad u liked it dude, take care man!

-Alyk

[Basking_in_sun_of_2005]

Planning to take over the beach? :)

I thought that this was going to be a halfassed attempt at making good club/trance music for a summer day. But i was wrong!

The bassline in the beginning fit VERy well, it made the song seem very full and accomplished!

Amazing melodics, great dance beat, great melody, awesome song! The ONLY piece of advice I have for this track is that theres one sour chord in the melody.

Great work!

PS: Mind dropping me a review on my music? I've only got one, but i'll be sure to get more soon :)
Thanks!

SLYSTER12 responds:

Thanks for the review,next time i'll try to make something better!
Now i'll try to fix that sour chord ;)!
Thanks,

[Planet X9 Aftermath]

I like the melody.

Very much so, actually. I hope you made that synth, cause it sounds so...ringy and perfect sounding for this kind of atmosphere.

When you brought in the bass synth, I thought it was very appropriate. Made the song seem very glitchy and violent...but eerie.

I think it would have been awesome though, that with the first melody and with the bass synth you already had, it would have been awesome if you just brought in a standard trance beat with a basic bassline.
Just to make it feel all groovy, instead of unstable.

I don't really like the chaotic part in the song. It takes away the unstable acid feeling, and added a random osunding feeling, which i feel kind of ruined the song, I'm sorry to say.

Maybe instead of bringing in those drums, maybe you could have some organized drumNbass drums going with the trance beat you alreayd had going on, so that you can have the dirty and fast feel with the song you have.

Good track, but needs a bit of improvement :)

Sweet job!

PS: Do you think you could do me a favor? I'm new to the AP and it'd be nice if you could drop me a review. I've only got one song, but there will soon be more :)
Thanks!

DJ-Chilvan responds:

I will apply all those suggestions in my future works! I did make that synth. Almost all my stuff is original cuz sometimes I use pianos and drumsets to manually find melodies and beats.

[Playful Memories]

Woah, bass.

Hey man, thanks for the review you dropped me.

I like the beginining bass riff, its full of, well, bass! Awesome.But I think it sounds a little bit unorganized? Maybe it might be nice to make the notes shorter when you have them playing one after another (i.e. and F after an F, make the first one shorter so that it doesn't 'blend').

I like the little arp you have going on. Very organized sounding! The drum work you have is also very nice, but to cover up that its an FL preset, have other drum hats from non-FL producers going, with those a little bit quieter. They kind of cause unnessecary noise, like it blends some things out.

I like the big sappy lead you bring in, but its too 'out there' when it starts out. Maybe it would be nice to have a little delayed and reverbed clav pattern going while it filters in with an 8 bar drum break at the same time?
Just to make it sound alittle more professional sounding.

Overall, good song! But try not to use FL presets so much :)

Remember to keep my music posted :D

[-=LJC=- ILL]

Wow, this is...different.

The bassline doesn't quite workk out, the drums are retro, the glitches are, well, glitchy, the song is a near homocidal mess in itself.

I love it.

I've never heard anything like it before, and I guess neither has anyone else :P
9 downloads? This deserves well over 200, if not more.
I guess people don't conform to new genres very well or something, because you DO have a gold track down there...

Awesome music, no complaints, other than its short >:(

Sweet! Aweosme! Orgasmic! Any other complimentary words that I can think of belong to this magnificent song.

You > Me.

Keep it up!

PS: Do you think you could do me a favor and review my songs? Theres only one, but a review would still make me all warm and stuff inside :)
Thanks!

LJCoffee responds:

That was one of the better reviews I've gotten - for the first few lines I was thinking that you were about to rip it apart then you hit me with "I love it.
" - :D

Your review is on it's way! I'm always happy to get positive feedback - makes me blush...

heh

See you around!

[XON3 - Blue Dragonfly]

Matches the name

Well, the beginning does anyways :P

The lyrics you brought in were actually very nice, but I think they were a little bit over flanged.
Try slightly vocoding them with a soft lead instrument, that might make them sound a little more appealing. I'm not saying they are bad, but they could be better.

I must say that I like the overall melody in this track, even though the theory doesnt quite match uo in places, thats alright, cause then its a bit different from the others :D

Good song, but maybe you should try getting some VSTs and making your own synths. It'll make making music have a whole new outlook :D

Good work!

PS Can you please check out my stuff? Ive got one right now, but tehre will be more soon :) Thanks!

[Racstraw]

Ambient techno?

Oops, got that wrong. Ambient ORCHAESTRAL techno.
Man, I hate sub-genres...

I like the beginning. Even though i think that the nice rain sounds you have going in the beginning start loud, they quiet down a lot through the track.
I think it might be good to let them fade out after a while? I think it may cause unnessecary noise in the song.

Then you can focus on adding more instruments and making it sound more pro-like! :)

I'm liking this nifty drum work i'm hearing, did you program that? Cause if you did, I might be forced to go on my drumset and learn it right now! Awesome riff! Adds a very funky feel to the overall song.

Good song, but the few points i have is, either let the rain fade out, turn down the rain volume, or just plain turn the rest of the song up (the drums and melody and whatnot).

Good work!
(I would ask you to check out my music, but you already reviewed me! 8D Thanks!)

Triskele responds:

Sadly, I did not program the drums. I prefer to use live drum tracks whenever possible, so I'm forced to look for loops. It's a living hell, cuz I usually know what I want almost exactly once I get the melody parts figured out. Fortunately, I found two loops that combined to form just what I was looking for. I really should learn set, though :P

I know the rain's loud, but I meant it to be almost an instrument in itself, not just an ambience. I really wanted to keep it in the foreground, and I like how it turned out.

Thanks!