Reasoner's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Little Drummer Punk Droid]

!!!!!!!

Awwwww Yeeeaaahhhhhhhh!!! Seriously that was so perfectly sequenced and the performance on the guitar was superb. I'm breakin out the egg nog just for this occasion. Short and sweet and to the point. Well done from both of you. I'm gonna loop this for a little while. AHHhhhhhh.

Evil-Dog responds:

Hey man, nice hearing from you, you're pretty known around here :)
Glad you liked it!
Thanks for the review buddy, see ya around

[ProgTrance]

Incredible Musical Ideas

Sorry it took me so long to get back to you for the review. I must say, though, that this music is exceptionally well thought out and structurally outstanding. I cringe to even label this as simply Trance. It's way way more intricate and thought provoking then any trance on newgrounds has proven to me so far. This deserves to be in an Electronica genre all on its own....unfortunately the powers that be have not given us that option right now.

You have tons of talent and listening to this ever-changing, morphing piece of music is proof of that. If I could give any kind of advice, I might say that the ending leaves much to be desired. I'm taking an utter journey through this music and it ends way to abruptly. Keep up the stellar work and you'll have many fans of your work here before you know it.

-Reasoner (Ryan)

NATOSymmetric responds:

thanks, thats really encouraging
yeah. i know what you mean about it being more thought provoking than most trance, i would rather make music as intresting as i can. Im not trying to make trance as it should be made, im just making it as it comes to me
well thanks for your advice, encouragement and score!
i should be putting some more of my tracks up here soon, lets hope you find them as 'thought provoking' as this!

[DXM - Breaking Point]

Great Work

These are some really great textures you've created. I love the fading, compressed pad that comes in around 2:25 :-D......it makes me smile. Great job at keeping the track interesting with lots of transitions and sounds to keep the track fresh. I know this is experimental, but I really wish there was a distinct melody to kind of keep the song together. Just a suggestion. Keep producing!

-Reasoner

tijnn responds:

Hehe that was totally nót my intention, i wanted chaos and diversity, i could've let the pads go through the song but honestly, i think this is really cool like this (:

Thanks for the review!

[Instrumental #4 (Karco Remix)]

Well Worth The Wait.

Alright so I finally get to hear what you decided to do with my track and I'm really pleased that you decided to go in a different direction from the original. When I started up the track I already kinda had an idea from demo's you had sent me, but it's nice to finally hear the finished product.

I'm intrigued by the chord progression you chose. Obviously it's not the same as the original, and I like that. I'll be honest, my ears took a little while to get used to it simply because I'm so used to the song flowing in a certain way (this would be due to the 100s of 1000s of times I've listened to my own...ugh). This is nice though because i really feel it gives the melody a dreamy, lighter then air feeling that I don't think the original was able to achieve as well.

I felt the breakdowns and buildups for sufficient for the type of feel you wanted this track to express. A part of me really wishes that you had included another synth or piano line to play along with the original melody at certain points. That's just wishful thinking on my part though.

And then 5:01 comes in and I smile. Just as when Bjra included the counter melody, so did you and I thank you for doing so. Without it my impression would be much different.

All in all this is a really great dance track, and I'm glad I was able to spark the interest in it. I'm sorry that this is going to be your last submission here, but I'm honored you chose this to be your exit out. Keep me posted on your new submissions wherever you decide to upload them at.

-Reasoner

Karco responds:

Hey Reasoner, looks like you liked it. :D Thanks!

I do agree another synth would have helped the track quite a bit, and many others have suggested the same before you have. Thing is, I didn't want to clutter the mix too much, or divide the listener's attention, and I simply couldn't find a good synth to fill that role anyway. I wish I had, but the track seems to hold its own pretty well regardless. :)

And yes, the idea of including the counter melody pretty much presented itself to me (silver platter, bright blinking lights around it, you get the idea) right when I hit the second break. I couldn't turn it down. ;D

Thanks for the review and high ratings, Reasoner! I'll be sure to keep you updated. :)

[Puddle of Tears]

Sweet

Really nice textures bro and that flute sinewave synth ur using is haunting my head with this very eery, hopeless feeling. Great stuff!

itsameyayo responds:

Thank you, it's how I feel right now, so I'm expressing it as best as I can. If you post any other new song, hit me up with the link, I enjoy them.

-ImperfectDisciple

[\\\Flight - Nintechno///]

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I appreciate you trying to give it your all in this track. I think you have a lot of great ideas in your head that I can hear you trying to express through your tracks. I'm not a very good critic, partly caus I get enough people telling me how my music should sound that I don't feel like dishing it out to another fellow musician. If I had one suggestion, I would say to try to stay away from the trance cliche of playing these long upbeat patterns again the beat. I know this is primarily a dance tune but I don't want you to get stuck with your tracks starting to sound like one interchangeable trance theme after another. Harmonies, variation, and seamless transitions are soooo important for you bro and I'm really looking forward to hearing a major epic piece from Nintechno with those aspects considered bro. Thank you for your support and I look forward to your next track. Keep em comin :)

Nintechno responds:

Whoo! Thanks dude! Great review

[MAC08-Hank in Hell]

Very intimidating

I really think this track fits perfectly with the theme presented for the MAC 08. The first part was well thought out and really does a great job of creating that sense of fear and despair. Then we push on forward and get to bust some heads wide open towards the second half. I really enjoyed it. I wish I could write some good d&b like this. Keep it up bro.

itsameyayo responds:

Thank you, I worked hard on this. I'm glad that immediately, the feeling I was setting up for this piece of work was understood. I did all those voices myself, it was quite fun :D

-Again, thank you very much! I should go listen to something by you now!

-ImperfectDisciple

[Happy Madness Times - Mjattie]

Very well thought out

This is really great. I'm not reviewing it as a MAC entry, but as a piece of music itself. I love the transitions and the violins sound beautiful. I'm not sure if this track fits as a loop though. I'd much rather hear a true ending rather then the music cutting out all of a sudden.

mjattie responds:

hey reasoner, tx for reaction :)

Well, about the ending, I agree with you, but I tried this time to let it loop, so that maybe more people would put it in their flash submissions...

[Karco - Abyss]

Pitch Shift?!

Dang my mind is like jello right now after listening to this. I can really appreciate you trying to keep this an "experimental-esqe" production. There wasn't a steady melody (besides the piano line that echoed throughout the piece), and it's not a track that you can hum along to. But it's not supposed to be that, and for what you've molded it to be, it really works well. The textures and ambiance are superb. Great work on stepping outside of the box and writing something that cannot be easily imitated. Now get on with my remix!!! =D

Karco responds:

Hey Reasoner. :D Actually, I wasn't necessarily going for an experimental feel, rather, I actually WAS experimenting. :P

The piano was supposed to be the melody, so of course if you remove that there isn't one.

Glad you liked it, and thanks for the review! As for your remix, I've hit a block right now, but sooner or later I'll find a way around it. It'll be done in time. ;)

[Karco - Beginnings]

Thank you!

Alright so I'm not going to dive into the mixing issues because you've already covered that yourself, and Immune touched on it as well. I'm not a trance artist, and I don't really think I ever could be because of the amount of focus there has to be to take the listener on a journey without his/her ears getting tired, or bored. The best kind of trance is the one that can keep me interested, even after 7 minutes....which you did perfectly. This is the kind of music that uplifts me and encourages me to keep going..whatever that may entail. You're well aware by now that I'm all about deep harmonic content...which is why I believe this to be one of your best works. Yeah yeah...mixing this....cracking that...blah blah......that can all be fixed. But if you don't have the talent to begin with then what's the point? You've got it bro...and I'm very happy to take this journey you've created for us.

Karco responds:

"Alright so I'm not going to dive into the mixing issues..." That's fine, no need to get technical. It's good enough someone as respected as you are on the AP gives me reviews like this. XD

As for the focus thing, really all you have to do is follow the break-build-peak pattern and do your transitions in between them well, and the rest takes care of itself. ;)

Funny thing, this subgenre of Trance is called Uplifting Trance. XD

This is no doubt my best melody in my opinion as well. The mixing and VEC samples brought the song as a whole down... though the melodies save this track for me. As I can come back to it later and make an even better version of it sometime, perhaps a full-on remix, if I want to. :D

Thanks a lot for the praise and the high ratings (as apparently you voted 5? :P) Reasoner! Glad you liked it. :D