Score: 9

"Very nice..."

submission: Unexpected Battle

date: December 25, 2008

Given your profile I'm assuming your going for the Sonic/Genesis sound? If so, you pretty much nailed it here.

The piano backing probably needs to be shaken up a bit - nothing much, just a bit of variety in there - but otherwise its right on. Nice job!

Score: 9

"Looking Good..."

submission: solo for eagle

date: October 15, 2008

I know it's not the focus, but the drums and the bass at the beginning feels off. I'm assuming their midi? :)

They're overpowering the solo itself (at least on my setup), but thats all I can pick on. good job. :)

Score: 9

"I can't see why this is scored so low..."

submission: Forest of Curruption

date: October 15, 2008

Beautifully done. I'd bow down to you but I've put my back out. :P

Only reason it's not getting a ten is a slight hiccup in the looping. Shouldn't be a problem for a short cut scene, but for anything longer those pauses when a song loops get annoying.

Score: 8

"Does the job :)"

submission: _[ Out of Time ]_

date: October 12, 2008

But the previous poster was right in that there is a problem with the looping. Timing is fine, so don't worry about that.

You've got some reverb on the instruments that isn't carried around with the loop, which breaks the tracks self-consistency. The trick to that is to render it out with an extra blank bar at the end. Find where the track should end time wise, cut from there onwards and paste it as a new track back at the beginning. The start will sound a little odd for it, but the loops will be completely masked.

The alternative - given that the intro is just a bass drum - try moving two of those beats from the start to the end. That way you wouldn't need to screw about with reverb at all. With the fade you have for the other instruments, it wont hurt it.

Score: 7

"Good sound"

submission: -Chain-

date: October 10, 2008

You probably want to try and work in some key changes or tempo changes. It helps to break up a piece and keep the listener interested, as well as giving you more to work with.

Score: 9

"Good feel."

submission: Star Gazing

date: October 10, 2008

Don't worry too much about the length - short loops like this are Ideal for flashes, which is what the portals supposed to exist for anyway. Keeps the file size down :P

If you did want to write something longer, try looping it twice, then change the key. Just hum to yourself while you're playing it back, and you'll get some ideas come forward. The minds strange like that...

Score: 5

"Needs work."

submission: DontmakemeDestroyyou

date: October 10, 2008

Its a good intro, but the track just feels flat - there's no real development and the constant volume ramp on the drum loop gets irritating quickly.

I almost thought it was going to break into dance when the the key changed, but nothing happened. :/

Score: 9

"Nice"

submission: MS - Termination

date: September 11, 2008

The more I listen to the other submissions, the more I realise just how far behind ya'll I am. I should stop listening to them. D:

Anyway, good luck with the contest.

Only issue I can see is the way it loops - it doesn't quite fit the energy you have going through the rest of the track? That said the join is flawless. :)

Score: 8

"One to finish..."

submission: Electretal

date: September 3, 2008

It's a good sound, and I can certainly see it working for a madness-style submission. Aggressive, moody, and just a little bit weird. :)

You've got a wicked sound there for that first second - it'd be interesting to see if you could bring that into it a bit more.

Good luck with the MAC.

-Malt

Score: 9

"Time well spent..."

submission: Grind It (Metal)

date: August 31, 2008

The time put in really shows in the final product.

Only niggle is that the end is probably drawn out a bit much, but Im guilty of that myself. :D