mickomoo

I've been using guitar vsti and I wanted to get feedback on their sounds. Here are 3 examples from some of my recent stuff: http://tindeck.com/listen/yeiw http://tindeck.com/listen/wqkh http://tindeck.com/listen/uywl

I never really got feedback specifically about this song. I know it's a bit over the topic but it's technically the first song I've ever written and finished: http://tindeck.com/listen/wqkh

lol, by now I'm sure it's either broken or filled with mold since I haven't used it since I was like 11. >_> lol yeah it is, it gets the job done. Also as I stare at my rooms wall I forgot to mention my fender acoustic electric... which I never use. Man playing guitar is hard. I am a keyboardist all the way >_<

you lucky awesome people. Lol all I have is a casio keyboard and an axiom 61. I had a tenor sax in hs but it was my schools. Also had a recorder... well I still do lol but yeah

Why wasn't I aware of this! Good timing too, doesn't black and white come out this week? lol, in ways I'm super excited, like I think my head might like just exploddde. Although the trailer says there's R/S/E music in the album I don't see it. Or maybe I'm just too excited to see >_<

I do have to admit it is kinda bland. It's the second song I wrote I was being a bit conservative, though even now, after about 4-5 months of getting into this craft I don't have much else I can think to add to it lol

I tried to write jazz awhile back and this was the result >_< I know, not really jazzy, but none the less I wanted feedback:

Hey, this song seems familiar lol. Anyways thanks for the feedback on my mix, more or less I hope I can give you some on yours. 2:10- a bit abrupt, maybe you can slowly increase the tempo of the drums until about 2:06 where they begin like playing really rapidly. 3:16- while I noticed the abrupt transition at 2:10 without you motioning it, this I didn't pick up, it felt fine the way it was. Imo it works doesn't seem like an ending at all 4:22- it could possibly use a transition, but seems ok the way it is. Imo the major critiques would be of the ending itself and 2:10 but everything else seems pretty good.

lol thanks. I think I recall you commenting on the orchestrated version I made of this song lol. In any case, does anyone know how I can make this piano vsti sound less bright and more ambient and real. Like this: I added tons o reverb and delay and lowered the treble of the instrument but that definitely didn't help... >_<

Yeah the trumpet starts playing the midsection after the beginning, then a part I made up, I'm still trying to decide what role it should actually play. As for the guitar, yeah it's not playing cords you're right. I believe in the original song the bass alternates between playing Eb E and Bb B, so I had the guitar play them together at some part. I was thinking about mixing up the cords but I figured with another guitar leading it could get messy, I wanted to be as conservative as possible I guess. I'm reworking the song so I'll see what happens. Are you referring to the lead specifically? I kinda noticed that guitar tended to play short and I'm going to re-record it. Or were you talking about in general, including the other instruments? It's cool, I merely appreciate that you took the time to give me feedback, even if you didn't enjoy the song lol. I know it needs quite a bit of fine tuning, also I'm supposing the fact that I kinda rushed to an ending so soon kinda kills any mood you can derive from the song, well at least for me. Is there anything I could specifically do to make it more interesting. This is a genre of music I typically don't write... or listen to so I was kinda conservative and hesitant with this arrangement. I think variation would help. I'm thinking that if I make it longer I'll have more time for variation. I normally don't write this type of music. I was originally going to do an orchestral remix, but it'd have just ended up like this or this probably (yes, shameless self promotion the first one's better ). I don't know what in the world possessed me to want to do this style, but I want to grow in my composition style so I went with it. It was suppose to be much more bolder, hence the trumpet and the guitar alone in the beginning, but I created two guitar tracks and one of them suddenly gained a subtle drive and created a more mellow and distinct lead, so I decided to go with it. Now I'm thinking I have a better idea of what to do to add to the song, we'll see what happens...

lol. Mine technically has a name, but... I don't really like it, for now I guess it is still a "new piano song"

for the most part this piece is done. Anyone have any basic feedback or suggestions?

I made changes to the piano track. I just basically want feedback on producing a better piano sound, and also want to assess how my current sound is

EDIT: This is my first remix ever, and it's no where near done. For the most part it's done, but I kinda rushed the ending I guess so I might go back and make it longer. But as of now I wanted to get feedback on the sequencing, the quality of the sound, the mixing, and the composition.

I think that's beyond true with anyone, for the most part anyways. We all grow to learn and like things at different rates. I kinda was spiteful when taking lessons and didn't see any practical use for playing an instrument, I wish I could kick my younger self in the arse >_> FL definitely has the more user/beginner friendly interface, most people I know just plugged and played. I took a look at FL before I technically knew I was going to write music and just ran away, idk why, extremely silly in hindsight. I settled on using mixcraft, which is kinda limited, but it works for what I'm trying to do, I'm just trying to have fun and experiment before I become serious about playing. Actually one thing I love about mc is that I can use 3rd party daws, it's not extremely limited. I'm thinking I'll use it for the midi, and mix in another program. Also It literally has a plug and play interface... but I bet my dad is going to force me to start using pro-tools when I get home for summer... either that or my best friend'll force me to use another daw lol. The music btw is again amazing. I actually like this one best of all. Again no critiques from me, lol, I actually should seek feedback from you. I actually did notice a change in the strings from the last song though, the 2nd I think. I sounds like you changed the velocities, they don't don't sound as stiff if I'm hearing correctly.

Yeah, I kinda kinda relate to that. Though I kind do have a music background, I went to a private elementary school where they forced us to study basic theory for 4 years and play a recorder. I took piano lessons for about 3 years awhile back, well, while in elementary school. I just never took any of it seriously, I kinda regret that lol, Because I didn't take piano lessons seriously. I barely know how to play with two hands, it wasn't till recently I started to make some mild improvement in that area. Nothing beats playing a piano though lol, it has to be my favorite instrument... regardless of how much I hated waking up on saturday mornings as a kid for lessons. A lot of people use FL, I could never get use to it, lol... that was about 2 years ago when I started simply looking at DAW interfaces, it wasn't until about half a year ago that I started writing music. I use mixcraft and some other random resources, my dad has pro tools so when I go home maybe I'll use that too. I play everything by hand on a controller, just for fun, though my rhythm was quite off in the beginning I'm getting better at it. I too was inspired to write by video game/orchestral music, specifically Japanese composers I guess cus I played a lot of rpgs growing up but now I'm expanding my tastes. Yeah, it was just a minor suggestion, nothing really glaring to me. Your volumes are pretty toned well together, well especially when compared to my work lol. It's something that I really have problems with lol. But I for the most part love the blending of your instruments. I didn't really think highly of FL until recently, I met a lot of artists who used it fairly recently and you've pretty much sealed the deal lol.

I decided, for practice to remake some of my own pieces of music on the piano. Currently I've written this: Which is based off of this (well part of it anyways, there's a version with a guitar playing the melody if you care): I'm just wanted to see what I could do to make the piano version more dynamic.

Hey, we're in a similar kinda boat... I picked up a DAW a few months ago and started composing, I have a relatively weak musical background, but I'm no stranger to it. I have to say though by simply composing my ear has gotten much better in a short amount of time. Likewise, my inspiration comes from movie and game soundtracks as well. I really love both tracks, they're really nice! I know I'm a beginner myself, but I honestly I can't tell that you are, everything sounds mixed well and the instruments maintain their distinctiveness (something I have real trouble with). Not only that but all the instruments and parts go together nicely, lol you've had to have some exposure to music before. I might suggest that for some of your lead instruments (mostly the string playing the melody in the second song, a place to be) you could try editing the velocity on certain notes to make the melody more distinct in certian parts, but it's not something that's really a problem. Well anyway this is all as far as I can tell, someone who's more experienced might have much more to say obviously. I do look forward to hearing more stuff from you!

You're no noob to mixing lol, I am; I could stand to get some tips from you. How long've you been doing this? What library and daw do you use? Really good stuff you have here, I agree with some of the other post, the beats in your songs kinda lend themselves to asking for lyrics, but they're extremely solid instrumentals.

for some reason, every game in the series (or rather every other game) seems to be an exeperiemnt. Like some random variable is thrown in to vary up gamplay. In some cases this is really observable (epic yarn, canvas' curse) in others it's not a big deal (dreamland 2, crystal shards)

the only remix of pollyana I know that has vocals. They sound french, but it was made by a japanese group I think... idk lol

I don't think PSR sticks extremely close to the source material. Also pretty much all of Duane&Brando's raps are awesome lol

: A beautiful piano jazz remix of my favorite song from Link's Awakening.

For the first song, Tremedous trouble, I actually don't know the scale honestly, I haven't studied theory in years. Essentially I took a c minor cord and a D major cord and played notes on those scales. With the exception of the guitar which is cromatically playing various notes. Out of curiosity when writing this I used a scale finder on these chords and it mentioned a G melodic minor scale, but I don't think that's accurate. And you're right about the percussion... I only added added it to try to see if I could loop the song, rather than writing a looping point into the song. I'm going to rewrite both from scratch though, eventually. I updated the first song again, I'm testing new instruments. The second one I'm hoping to finally fix this weekend

Honestly I admire anyone who can hold the instrument. I found it really annoying to learn... that and I'm really lazy.