by

Henkka Kyllonen
(Kyllonen)

'Pretty bad. There might be a good idea in here, but it's well hidden.' No bad begin, but other part is very, very understandable. Maybe this tune has very good idea, but I didn't find it. Sorry, It's only my opinion.

This song's samples are not very clean, and especially the piano kinda samples is very noisy, but looking at the overall sound, it could have been intention. The chord samples are put into good use, but I miss a bass. The beats are hectic and get annoying after a couple of patterns. They are tracked in a versatile way, though. The nature of this song makes the use of many channels obsolete, and it doesn't use a lot. It's not really original, I've heard a few tunes in that style already, but not too many.

The beginning of the tune had some real potential as a good ambient tune, but the AWFUL drum sample that came in at playing order 12 more or less single handedly destroyed the song. This song, due almost entirely to the awful percussion samples and tracking became irritating and a bad song. If the percussion were completely removed, this would be a better song, but unfortunately the melody/tune was so repetitive that it definately could not carry a very good tune itself. REDO THE PERCUSSION and you will have an excellent, enjoyable tune.

*File Specs* [Additional vote] Room for improvement [Filename]m6v-solc.it [Title]Solenoid Control [General comment]A good musical concept, quite spacey, too bad that the percussion is put quite too much on the foreground, such song deserves subtile rythm, not BOOM crash HAck!, if you dropped the percussional volume it would have made a complete world of difference. Surround mode...Surround mode? on speakers this sounded intresting the way surround mode is used unfortunately i had less joy of this environmental sounding on headphones i should advise to bring down the percussional impact to some blurring background rythem, arrange your stereo environment a bit more deeper instead of wider and add some nice subtile sfx, they really are neat in such songs like this one! Ones that is done, mail me the new version, i really like the main concept of this song.

Now there's a really good track. Not much I can offer here or complain about ;) The only thing I though was missing was a nice fat bass/sine to drag me into the tune before the drums kick in and then to taunt me in the background along with the strings. Nice use of panning IMO :)