POST YOUR MUSIC

I made this: Dancing On Starlight
I'm stilling adding parts, and the piano gets a little wonky at parts. What do you guys think?

Hey Guys!

Re: Blobofgoo on "Dancing on Starlight" and Rast on "Despondency," I really liked these tracks, but wondered what software you were using? I noticed that the melody notes weren't as joined as they could be, maybe you were going for that effect? If you haven't already, maybe experiment with using slurs to smooth it out a little? See if you like it anyway. :)

These are two tracks of mine;

Ice music - https://soundcloud.com/natasha_gita/ice-music
&
Seaside - https://soundcloud.com/natasha_gita/seaside

Let me know what you think?

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Ice music - https://soundcloud.com/natasha_gita/ice-music
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Let me know what you think?

That actually sounds pretty interesting. So, does the fade-out at the end mean there's a full version, or are you just ending it there for now?

This one is just a short loop ( I originally intended to be for a short 1 minute game level) so where it fades out it begins again at the beginning. :)

Hey, a double post:

https://soundcloud.com/a-very-long-rope/new-applications-of-quantum-1

This is the first metal thing I've written in Reason; I think it turned out pretty sweet.

Edit: I added a couple of bars of silence so the track would loop better.

The first step is to stay away from fart synthesizers.

Ahem.

I used MIDI programs for a long time; Reason is a relatively new program for me, but I certainly love it. As far as I'm concerned, the important thing is to have a strong musical backbone, as I'm certainly using only a fraction of Reason's features. On a song I worked on last week, for example, I just figured out how to fade out, haha. If you want to talk shop, I can critique your work or try to struggle through learning more of Reason's features with you.

@Housekeeping - I was sorta kidding a little bit (I do think my mixing sucks tho) but Reason users are kinda rare around the RM community compared to folk who use FL Studio. I do have some meager bits and pieces up at http://www.soundcloud.com/draggingthemoon though, feel free to comment.

@nurvuss - not when you're still using Reason 4 like me :D But yeah I have a lot of love for Reason's design as a program and the workflow/devices, even if it is a little limited by being self-contained.

Here's a few pieces from a new retro-styled project I am working on to be released commercially:

Airship Theme

Underground Cave

Darrio's Theme

This is great stuff, the underground theme especially has a great atmosphere to it.

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@Housekeeping - I was sorta kidding a little bit (I do think my mixing sucks tho) but Reason users are kinda rare around the RM community compared to folk who use FL Studio. I do have some meager bits and pieces up at http://www.soundcloud.com/draggingthemoon though, feel free to comment.

Your stuff generally does a good job of setting up an atmosphere, which is definitely a good method for writing background music. Personally, I'd try to vary the instrumentation and play with rhythm a bit more, but that might get in the way of your atmosphere. Your unfinished battle theme was the most interesting track to listen to since it plays with a few more elements.

I think Distressed Signals could be really cool if you played with the rhythm of the little fwip sound that repeats through the entire song, maybe even using it to distinguish sections. I always appreciate changes when they occur in minimalist stuff because your ear gets so accustomed to the pattern (or similar patterns) that when a more dramatic change occurs it kind of snaps you out of a trance. I wouldn't recommend doing that to many of your songs, but Distressed Signals might benefit from that if you ever return to it. Whenever I hear one song repeat over the course of a song, it kind of needles me. I used to like Electricity by OMD until my ear started fixating on the little air compressor sound that repeats through the whole song, and now all I can hear when I listen to it is fweh fweh fweh fweh fweh fweh fweh fweh.

@Housekeeporz - Reminds me a little bit of Genghis Tron or The Algorithm. Shame about Reason's guitars being terrible though. I actually spent many hours "making" (using the Combinator to put devices together and changing many params) better guitars for Reason but alas they are now gone along with the rest of what was on my external HDD. I'd recommend trying it yourself, though - try running your guitars through distortion (or the Line 6 amp modelling if you have a newer Reason than me) EQ, reverb, chorus, phase etc (you'd have to play it by ear though D: I have no recollection of exactly what I did to get the sounds I got)

Unless, of course, you happen to like the "almost MIDI" sound the default heavy guitars in Reason have D: