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[Plasma]

Brilliant!
Happy new years!

Cursedsnake responds:

Thanks! you too

[Asau]

Time signature changes are fun, even though they suck in FL 12 (though they are integrating something of the sort in 20).

This is awesome. Love the hand percussion in the middle bits. Really adds some unique textures. this is definitely a banger for me

Onefin responds:

Thanks man, this was like the one time I made something pumped up and big and I don't know if it'll ever happen again

[Aeolia]

So, uh, yeah. This is amazing.

Everytime i listen to this i forget the drop is coming and then it hits and im like “woah.” I mean the shear amount of emotion expressed in this piece is incredible. The instrumentation is beautiful and the melodies are amazing, and simple. Ill be humming to this one awhile ;)

I also wanted to praise the ending. The first time i heard it i was thinking “uh oh” because it sounded like you were doing a picardy* third type of ending and i usually don't like them, but here i was pleasantly incorrect. A lot of pieces don’t know how to end (i have this problem a lot), and while fading out is okay, its not very original and sometimes is unfitting. This song’s ending is like a zelda ending, before it blissfully sneaks away, which perfectly fits the dream theme and the adventurey vibe i get from this.

TLDR: this is a good song :p

Onefin responds:

THANKS MAN

I'm sure you meant "Picardy third", right? Because that's the name of the thing I did :P

I'm actually really surprised myself at how well the drops worked, every time I sit back and listen I tell myself, "I can't believe that that was me." I still can't. It feels like in that moment when I produced that drop I wasn't myself.

[Red Traces... Run!]

I gotta say, that high pitch at 1:27 really hurt :(

Otherwise its beautiful, i love jazz music and this catches the theme you are trying to create very well. i get a steampunk deep city chase with this one.

Azhthar responds:

Thanks a lot! Glad you like it! The gritty sounds starting at 1:27 are bowed cymbals and I used them to create a more unpleasent atmosphere. Maybe I exaggerated a bit here... Sorry for that!

[Lunar]

This song is amazing!
It was never repetitive and it was bursting with emotion and dedication.
i have one question, though. the percussion coming in around 2:20 sounds like hitting a rim on a drum, and i was wondering how you made the sound. :) i would really like to know!

Cursedsnake responds:

I'm a big fan of Native Instruments :3 The little Taiko-rim thing should be in this plugin here:
https://www.native-instruments.com/de/products/komplete/cinematic/damage/

But there is another way (never tried it; might sound shitty):

Allright lets hope you have Fl-Studio otherwise I wrote this for nothing xD

-Search for free "wood-percussion" samples and download them.
-Pick one you like and edit the length, pitch and panning !very subtly! > save all the altered versions in some folder (10 should be enough).
You could also layer a few of those versions for a more ensemble-like result.
-If you have DirectWave load it up and drop all those samples in the grey list like area.
-Things should turn yellow now. I hate yellow...

-Now you have all your samples listed in there> Go to the top one and search for the L-Key, Root Key and High-Key numbers>
change them all to "60" which hopefully should be your "C5" Key
-Now you've edited those numbers only for the top one.> right-click on that one>"Copy to all zones">Root Key, High Key, Low Key
-Now you have all those samples playing on your "C5" Key. But we don't want them to play simultaneously:
Go to the vertical menu in the bottom left corner and click on "Zone". Now there should be a "Trigger" section in the first little menu.
Go there and change the group to "1" and the type to "random"
Save your DirectWave preset! Save it! QUICK! BEFORE IT CRASHES! O_O

Now you can play all your edited wood-percussion samples randomly on your C5 Key.

Oh and don't forget to set the "loop-type" in the vertical menu "sample" section to "disabled" for every single sample!
Otherwise it will..well.. Loop your samples when you hold the key O_o

I used this for my voiceglitch set but with multiple keys and way too many samples. I had to edit 822. Took me 2 days @_@
Hope this helps a bit :3

[calm]

Awesome song, i absolutely love it. *downloads*

btw
do you make the cover art yourself?
or do you use a website?

Cursedsnake responds:

Nope this is selfmade.
It's just a bunch of random Photoshop effects :P

[Aether]

This song is so awesome.
Percussion
Synths
Everything
(@__<__@)
Teach me your ways pls.

Cursedsnake responds:

Ruin your school/sanity by making too much music every day over ~4 years.
That's my way @_@