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[8bitimagination(rough)]

Nice.

It was very solid, but I think your ideas came across a little noodly, if you know what I mean.

It seems like you were sitting in front of the piano roll hoping for things to happen, and thats what you went by. Perhaps If you composed with a little more structure it would have greater impact. You have good ideas and I enjoy the fact that you put in some accidentals, sharps, flats, etc.

The drums don't string it together, howver, and the bass is a little to prominent to be so redudant. Perhaps work at a faster piece?

Either way, try to have a concept that you are invested into and see what happens :).

[8-bit Boss Battle]

Holy shit!

As soon as I heard this Cave Story popped into my head. Nice vibrant and poignant tune!

[Guitar Time (WIP)]

Nice.

A little over the place, but it's great.

I'd like to know what program you're using, the guiar is pretty clear. Is it Guitar Port, or a POD by Line 6?

Nice anyway, I look forward to seeing your stuff around...

P.S: The tone in the beginning sounds like "Got You Where I Want You" by "The Flys"

Parkerman1700 responds:

Actually, this program is Sony Acid Studio 7.

[b0mBz - Creation]

Oh yeah.

It's great. Some of the strings sound a little unnatural, but what do you expect. Great instruments and beats.

[64 Select]

Boss.

Ha, Star Fox. My favorite game of all time.

Well job on the chorus, but it seems to get repetitive. Another angelic lead, or a following chorus of a lower octave could help.

Jacob78 responds:

this was just a quick little loop I made and at the time I made it I was also useing the demo of FL Studio. I will probably go back some time soon and redo this one cause I really like how it sounds.

[Tranquil Dreams]

Nice.

This has a gentle and soft feeling to it. The only thing that ruins it is the main chime lead, because it sort of kills the naturality and flow of the melodies. Sounds like something in Zelda: Twilight Princess, though, and that's a good thing.

As for a name, I'm puzzled. Tranquil Fiction?

Jacob78 responds:

Tranquil Fiction...I like that. Thanks for the review that was really quick =)
Not gonna change the name quite yet but that is a really good name. Its not from Zelda tho I do hope to use it or have some one else use it in a RP game. Perhaps as a dark cave scene...LOL Any way im not sure what you mean about the main chime exactly but I think I may know what your talking about tho so will see about fixing it.
Again tho thanks for the review I hope you come back to see my other songs.

[!Trancelvania]

Love it.

Its supposed to be out of tune, yo, you got to appreciate accidentals and such.

It isn't music if you follow a scale and everything sounds like it always has.

[Dancing on clouds]

Boss.

That's some pretty solid composition, I enjoyed it.

By the way, what program are you using? Anvil Studio?

Anything that composes MIDIs should not be in a professional composer's belt. I started off making MIDI's, and finally moved on to FL Studio 8, the aforementioned program. FL stands for Fruity Loops, and is not to be confused with Flash 8. FL Studio 8 is a hefty costing program, though, and most of the people on here most likely have gotten it free via BitTorrent (I don't reccomend the illegal way though). If you continue to use MIDI avoid anything above an eigth note because it gets repetitive.

I don't know any good FREE programs to be honest, your best bet to make decent music for free would be a Tracker, but those produce NES music and are EXTREMELY difficult.

paradimensional responds:

At the point I made this I was using a TRIAL version of a cheap $20 random midi maker... I used hamienet to change this from midi to mp3... I'm thinking about reuploading this with some better sounds that I got with a program called Cakewalk Music Creator lately...

And I'm not a professional composer =) I'm a thirteen year old child lol

[Bouncy Waltz]

Beautiful.

Nice atmosphere, the quality is stectacular.

Sounds like something movie-esque.