[Pony][WIP][Orchestral][Help!] Music and Love

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[Pony][WIP][Orchestral][Help!] Music and Love

Postby Familiar Foreigner » 20 Aug 2012 05:10

For Cadence.
http://soundcloud.com/familiarforeigner/wip-music-and-love

Now please, help, quick! I want to submit this to Faithful and Strong, and I've listened to it so much I can't tell if some parts are fine or horrid.
For ex., the start is fine, I'm not sure about the transition around 1:38, I'm worried about 2:20 and the very last part is driving me crazy.
Change is very likely.

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Re: [Pony][WIP][Orchestral][Help!] Music and Love

Postby Dr_Dissonance » 20 Aug 2012 06:22

Sounds pretty nice!

Technical problems:
When the piano starts speeding up at about 0.28, it starts clipping, careful with that!
The Flute sound that comes in at about 1.50 is suffering from the 'machinegun' effect. What that means is it's using the exact same sample over and over and it sounds unnatural. If you can fix that, do so!
The whole thing feels very dry (besides the synths), stick some reverb on!

Composition:
Your use of instruments was nice. I'd recommend making better use of the piano than single lines and the occasional chords though. Also consider being more creative with the rhythms, they're very basic at the moment.

But good overall! A little polish and it'll be great!
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Re: [Pony][WIP][Orchestral][Help!] Music and Love

Postby Trillionage » 20 Aug 2012 22:49

Dr. Dissonance has said it better than me, but at least for my speakers, there's a lot clipping and distortion.
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Re: [Pony][WIP][Orchestral][Help!] Music and Love

Postby Hangin' From A Cloud » 21 Aug 2012 06:26

Like the Dr. has said, needs more reverb.
From 1:47 to 2:12 is a bit repetitive I think. But I like the overall composition, nice :)
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Re: [Pony][WIP][Orchestral][Help!] Music and Love

Postby Familiar Foreigner » 21 Aug 2012 12:06

Thank you for the quick and useful comments, everyone!

I'll see what I can do about the clipping.
As for reverb: Well, I'm using LMMS and I played a little with a reverb effect I found, and bloody hell I have no idea how to make it work. I looked at a tutorial, but it didn't help me beyond the basics. I think the reverb I'm using is too basic.

Hangin' From A Cloud wrote:From 1:47 to 2:12 is a bit repetitive I think.

Well, I think it's fine, but I'll keep that in the back of head.
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Re: [Pony][WIP][Orchestral][Help!] Music and Love

Postby Dr_Dissonance » 21 Aug 2012 17:41

Try this, works quite well!

http://dasample.com/products/glaceverb/
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