Hardstyle is a huge hit or miss for me, and I think this is sadly a miss. A lot of the synth design is sorta undeveloped and theres a lot that sounds like pure waves(mostly the leads, the stabs and 303ish stuff going on is fine). I'd suggest working with distrotion and reverb way more on them.
The melodic breakdown really doesnt do it for me, the melodies are nice, but I find it too cheesy and unfitting, esspecially right after the first climax. there's also something about the simple new chord every bar that sorta trips me up, but that might just be me
The kick seems like it has a lowpass on it, which ruins a lot of the harmonics going on up in the higher freq area for me. I understand you wanna make space for the other stuff going on, but I feel you lose a lot of impact.
The voicesamples are typical of hardstyle, but I still dislike them, I dont feel they fit.
It's by no means a bad track, you've done good with the arrangement, both in melodic and in what sort of direction you've put it in, but it doesnt sound a bit bland and uninspired, plus as I mentioned, hardstyle is very much a hit or miss for me. Hope you dont take any of this too close to heart.
Stakeout Punch wrote:[b]
Here is my song, Sequence. I'm going for more of a boss battle sound in this one, that is part of the reason it loops and is a tad repetitive. I'm not sure if the structure is finished, if I come up with something I may add more to it. Finally, I know the drums need some more variation, I have just been too lazy to track them again.
https://soundcloud.com/evanhroberts/sequence-wip/s-7Uyzw
As you say, drums need work, just a little variation here and there. it sorta weirds me out that you have these drums along with everythign else sounding chiptuny, although that probably comes down to personal preference.
It does sound very boss battly. For a game or something, I dont think it would have been too repetive. I think I would have been fine with it if I was playing a game and focusing on that. At first, the intro bothered me a little, but now I think its fine
Pretty cool, liking this.
Glitchhog wrote:Here's mine. A potential opener for my upcoming EP now that I have at least three tracks I'm happy with. A bit different to my usual style, but people seem to like it so far. I've barely sent it around. I should get onto that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_OvFGeY-3c
I'm liking this one a lot, good use of fx, although I kinda dont understand what image a ticking clock along with wind is supposed to give (nitpicking) Really liking the chill vibes of the piano, good solid melodies.
It builds up super nicely too. I'm not feeling the chorus too much though.
The sidechain of that is really putting me off, it just sorta ruins the nice little freeform piano feel it had, and forces a 4 to the floor feel on it, which it doesnt change up and the constant white noise is really distracting(Which isnt sidechained?) I also feel as if the lead could be a little louder.
I also dont know if its the kick or if the snare is just hitting every time the kick is, but it sounds off to me.
All in all, I really really really liked the piano parts, but I was sorta dissapointed by the chorus, didnt feel it fit the song.
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I tried venturing more into synth design, something I usually dont really do much off, so I started a remix of
this. I'm sorta unexperienced in whatever genre this is supposed to be...(I was told moombah?) but idk, think its sounding sorta cool so far.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/765 ... %20edm.mp3