Logickin's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[growing on me]

I remember the game; up to these days, I still can't finish it.

[Event Horizon]

It is great. The guitar surely lacks a bit of force and it is a bit thin, but it works really well in this trance track.

Also, don't use Newgounds as a backup, and use it as a main instance instead because SoundCloud sucks so bad these days, where I got no new audience other than spambots. (besides the usual audience in my community) Also for some reason, the interface in Newgounds encourages me to explore new tracks much more than I was in SoundCloud where I only cares my own upload in there.

Sakita responds:

thanks for the feedback, i really appreciate it.
as for the reason i was using newgrounds as a backup, at first i wasn't really convinced by the limitations of what i was able to upload (mostly not being able to upload remixes of commercial tracks) and soundcloud seemed like the industry standard so grew quite fond of it after using it for so long, but it's true that it's filled with bots so i might consider using both of them for the time being.

[Revival]

Not Trance, but it sounds great.

[what's the deal with you]

Awesome Complextro! I have to rate it although I am really busy on my assignments.

[A falling star]

Hello fellow tracker user!

This track gave me a strong tracker music vibe, and I was wondering if that is made from a tracker software; after reading the description and seeing "The Modarchives", everything makes sense now!

Love it so much!

DreaMSectioN responds:

Yes! It was made with Fasttracker 2
Good old times

[One More Sunrice (Kioshi Remix)]

Haha, this is the third time I have stepped into a track made by you and rate a 5 stars within an hour. Well done! Enjoying your dubstep so far!

Edit: I was listening tracks from the latest of the audio portal.

[Kurai w/Empty]

Awesome!

[Time VIP]

After I have found your account, one of the things I did was: "Oh, I want to find that track I like which it includes a side-chained fmx piano and that groovy sub bass."

This is easily my favorite track from yours because every time I have been here, I have to listen this at least once; like other said, this track have a really dreamy feeling, especially the intro and the cool down.

OVERSCORE responds:

Thank you for the compliments! This is my best track imo so I’m glad you thought the same. That dreamy feeling was present in the original Time, but I didn’t have the technical skills to pull it off… this Time, it came out right

[Walk Away (SpeedoRH Remix)]

I was doing some coding assignment and I forget about stopping the music player. It has played a couple tracks, but this track has caught my attention. Awesome breakbeat!

SpeedoRH responds:

Haha that's interesting. I am glad you stumbled upon my track and decided to show appreciation! Good luck on your assignments ;)

[Smoof]

It is no need for apologizing about the chime sound, as it doesn't seem to destroy the track, and it actually works since the overall result is quite groovy and smooth!

The drums are also fine for this track, considering what you have; besides the choice of samples, some tracks has more impactful kicks because they have used some compressors to reduce all the volume of other instruments, for each time when the kick triggers, to emphasize the kick sound, Or they use compressors (e.g Maximus in FL) to press a snare, to bring up the overall volume to make it more aggressive. (but this is more advance, and it can easily be messed up if it is done wrong)

I guess the next step that you may try is to mess around with synthesizers; since you have FL studio, you may touch the 3xosc first, to understand how to make some simple patches like some basses or pads. Because there are some default presets, you may open them, and open another blank 3xosc for recreating the sound, to see how things works. By doing that, you will learn some sound design skills which you can make your own sound, that is more flexible than using soundfonts in certain cases. You don't need fancy plugins for now, as you can get a lot from 3xosc if you know what you are doing.

Perhaps you may ask, why do I care your tracks? This is because unlike some beginners, you don't spam random noise and call that a "song", and you have taken that seriously and actually created a song with a proper melody, bass line and structure, while you have given a story about how you make it, and what were the problems about it which it gave me some good indicators if you have actually made the song or not. Everything adds up to show me that you are willing to do good music and seeking some improvements.

I wanna see how you will improve after one or two more tracks!

Update 1:
harmor is really complicated and it it easy to get overwhelmed (even I found it complicated while I have no problem working on a sunvox project with 1.5k modules) because it has a lot of controls and it is slightly different to the most common type of synth, which is an additive synth (changing timbre by adding harmonics) rather than a subtractive synth (removing harmonics, making it sound darker). For that reason, I recommended you to look at the subtractive one first like 3xosc, sawer, minisynth, or the recent juno emulation because they have cleaner interface, so you will have better time to understand how a synth work (at least you will know what is an osc, filter and envelope), then slowly touching things like sytrus and harmor once you have the fundamental knowledge.

Poofboie responds:

Funnily enough Ive recently been playing around with synths. i downladed some stuff from the quick brown fox that ive been playing with and stuff like harmor but jesus experimenting with synths is slow going lmao. im under the assumption i should learn a bit of technical stuff about them to learn faster so ill look into that. Also about the drums, i just really like fat drums and bass but im not super into that genre so ive been trying to have those take up a larger portion of the sound.