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[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.

[Space Trip - Acid Paradox]

One of the best tracks in Symphonic Tower Defense, also one of the hardest levels. The piano solo part at 3:20 is timeless.

[Assy - Dancing Through Time]

The track is a bit basic; try to play around with different chord progression, and different arpeggios orders to make it sound more interesting.

The good things are that your mixing and the choice of instrument are fine; at least it is not too muddy or to harsh, which is quite balanced. I prefer a bit more side-chain though, but it is just my personal taste.

EDIT: if you have questions, I will append at this review:
Update 1:

I definitely want to recommend SunVox to more people because it is FREE and it can run anywhere, while it has an extremely powerful modular synth interface which you can basically make any sound you would imagine (as long as your computer can handle), despite the lack of VST support.

However, if you choose SunVox, this means you will have to make a big decision because you will enter the realm of Music Tracker interface which is different from conventional daws like FL or ableton.

Music trackers can be quite overwhelming if you are a beginner because its timeline travels vertically, and it has no graphical readout like pianoroll or music notation which every note information are written as a matrix of Hex numbers, meaning that you have to relearn how to write music, but once you have get used to it, you can write music faster than linear daws since you will know a handful of shortcut key to speedup the editing process, and you can write a more expressive track due to the note effects.

This is HARDCORE music production software which you will face a lot challenges, but if you become proficient in SunVox, you are basically unstoppable since you will learn a lot about sound design, mixing and music theory (because you can't rely on the piano roll, but seeing the interval of each notes) when you are using it.

How far can SunVox go? I can show you some examples:
- https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1016070
- https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1256234
- https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1231161

Also we are currently having a competition; you may listen what others make using this tracker software (the video is not the tracker interface though):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh7YvDRcgKU

If you are interested, you may join the SunVox discord group to learn more about SunVox.

AssyMusicc responds:

I will try to put your advice into practice so as to improve my music a little. Now I have a question for you; I saw that in your account description, you wrote that you use a software called "sun vox", do you recommend it or is it better to look for something else? Because perhaps, a really good software could help me with music. Thanks again for the review, see you again!

[Clickadabit Dloppity Bleepus]

I have to say that it is impressive to see you use BeepBox to create this awesome track because I can't get used to its workflow.

Cheeming-Bepis responds:

Thank you! :P
Yeah it's sometiems difficult to understand it did also take me a while to learn :'D

[Polka All Night]

Really playful; like it!

[Battle of Chacabuco]

The instruments are well balanced, and I like the melody and the selection of the time signature.

[Thimkijg]

The bass was a bit funny at 00:18, 00:48, 1:12; I guess it should be downed by a semitone. Other than that, considering this is your first few tracks, this is not bad at all!

[20 (Island of Hope) [Alternate Demo]]

I haven't listened Rock Music for a long time, but this is awesome!

[Vellsmyrk (Original Version)]

The Beat is really nice; that would be perfect with a distinct melody line. A saw synth or a PWM should should work nicely.

LunaGutierrez responds:

Thank you! It's a song I did about 2 years ago, maybe if I did it again today, I'm sure it could be better.

[Not my Game]

Excellent! This track deserves more attention.