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where the ocean meets space

Really great snare rolls there, always commendable when someone goes to all that trouble. Very Twin. Cool majestic pads sound really glorious, great shimmery patterns in there. Wouj ya spill the beans about where those sounds are coming from?
Very nice stuff. A very satisfying listen!

great

wow, very impressive.
I love the shimmery organ like tones and there's some really nice dissonance in there.
Great drumloop, fits really well. I like the transition very much when you drop the beat.
Cool more aggressive arp, and some great spacious sounds in the background. The 'in your face' arp leading into the techno sequence is a big change of mood, really unexpected. Maybe it leads into the next track you plan to release? :)
very nice work!

tasty!

Nice one. I liked the rhythmic click and the multilayered gentle swirling.
Very nice piano melody.
I was a little bit unhappy with the drums. The kick didn't stand out and the cymbals were a little bit excessive.
Really nice part afterwards, really brings to mind some of Moby's work. Nice build up to the main sequence.
Well, keep up the great work man!

ooh

Cool trance man, you've captured the rave flavour just right with your build-ups and progression.
Very nice choice of sounds and all the percussion was arranged really well.
Would like to hear some more aggressive sounds at the peak of the buildup though.
Keep it up mate!

Jiao-Zhang responds:

Im glad you like it padman! Yeah, I have trouble with build ups, but hey. Im still learning ;) Thanks for the review!

~Yogosun

tribal

Some nice beats and rhythms. Gave a very tribally, islandy kind of flavour. The kick seemed a little bit distant and weak, the same with the snare and the kick. I guess you wanted the marimba or whatever it is to take the lead.
It's cool, but you may want to think more about track development and more parts. bass for example?:)
The rhythms are really good and thats a good foundation!

To answer your question I use Ableton Live 6.0.

DSMagnum responds:

The kicks were more just to back up the lead. They weren't meant to be loud. For the basses, there were two of them actually. As for the lead, call it whatever you want. I have no name for it.

Thanks for reviewing!

cool

You've got some nice melodic elements in there. I liked the groove of your beat from the introduction. Nice little pitch bend on the trance blippy sequence. The piano is a little bit random!
You need a bassline dude!
Keep going!

B34T1N responds:

Thanks, I'll keep your review in mind padman :)

eeerie

Tasty man, I'm loving the searing bass line. The drumloop has an awesome pulse with it and those beats are accentuated really well to get the driving momentum going.
Some cool (reversed?) vocal fx in there, nice!
Nice interlude, it was a little strange to have the pads playing in a major key. Creates tension nicely, without being downright evil! I was a little dissapointed that the last section didn't introduce some cool crazy new parts. Hey, very good effort as usual!

cool

Good energy and pace. I like the trance parts the best I reckon. When you add the arps on top of the metal it really is a bit too much for the track to handle. The parts with the metal riff playing by themselves were cool, just with everything else it gets a bit hectic!
Nice one, the beat is rocking, but I wasn't feeling too much of an offbeat pulse, so maybe a louder clap or snare?
good progression with the gradual rise in energy level, but remember not to overload!
Well done.

ArisingFlame responds:

Thanks! I need to learn how to master my songs...

excellent

Really nice interleaving of parts. The percussion adds a lot in the introduction I think, with the ebb and the flow of the piano, and then the running piano higher up. Very tense and thought provoking. Easily of pro standard, keep up the very good work!

Forgive me, but I cant hold my tongue, do you have any experience with Miroslav Philharmonik VST. I have the demo but it doesn't want to locate any of the sounds, the instruments folder is acutally empty. Any ideas? I figured if anyone knows it's going to be you! ;) and sorry to latch it onto a review!

MaestroRage responds:

Hey no problem man, i'll try to answer it to the best of my ability, if what I suggest here does not work, feel free to send me a pm and we'll try to work it out.

Now I assume you use Fruity Studio's? I installed the demo of Real Guitar2 and for some reason it gave me the same error, the library files were in my vst folder, the instrument .dll file was there and everything. Why it would fail on me was and still is a huge question mark. I sent both the creators of Real Guitar as well as the creators of Fruity Studio's and though i'm still waiting for a response from Real Guitar, the folks over at Fruity Studio's simply said that the file was probably not compatible. This is a case with some obsecure or specifically designed VST's. Miroslav Philharmonik is a very high end VST and so chances are it does not communicate with Fruity Studio's properly.

Try these, just in case.

Completely uninstall the demo, redownload Miroslav's demo, and try re-installing into the VST folder.

If it doesn't work again.

Try re-routing the VST folder of Fruity Studio's to somewhere else and install in that. I doubt it would have anything to do with the fact that other VST's.

If it still doesn't work, we'll have to send an email to the good people over at Miroslav and see what the big habub is.

Also i'm glad you enjoyed the piece, thank you for the review, I apologize if you are not using Fruity Studio's, and effectively didn't get much of what I said ;).

magic

Really impressive work as usual. The harmonizations were beautiful and I especially love the cello. Great dynamics and expression, you really know how to get the most from your software!
I'm loving the reverb treatment, considering its coming from around a campfire :) I would have guessed the Vienna recital hall!
Keep up the fantastic work. I'm a big fan.

MaestroRage responds:

My appreciation for the cello SKYROCKETED after listening to Apocalyptica's rendition of Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters". If you havn't already go to YouTube and watch it... it brought a tear to my eye :'(

Speaking of Vienna, have you heard of the Vienna Orchestra VST? The sucker is 550 gigs large X_x. When you order it, you get sent a harddrive. I found this most amusing. I"m sure you'll need at least 50 pc's to operate the damn thing...

I love the reverb, it emphasises the feeling of being alone, kind of abandoned so well, and of course with an appropriate melody that feeling can be turned into a sad kind of hope, which was the core of the image here :D.

Thank you for the review padman, i'm glad you liked it ^^.

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