Music - Quantum Destination

It all started after i had listened to the last battle song far, far too many times (60? 70?). I got a melody idea and tried to make it into a default trance/techno song. Unfortunatly, it didn't have the right feel to it at all, and i ended up shelving the song. Later (I.E. about 1 hour ago ) i realised that the melody i had resembled many of the Cave Story songs, so i redid the entire song attempting to replicate the feel of Cave Story. I'm very pleased with the results, but i was hoping to have a bit of feedback from the community here.

Quantum Destination (mirror)

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It's pretty good, I think, but not really Cave Story.

It's a little light (Could use some stronger and more existent bass), but I say that so much that sometimes I wonder if really that's just a personal nitpick and not good criticism.

The drums are kinda boring. I'd suggest speeding them up to increase the pace of the song. Also, the main melody is nice (Lord knows I can't pull an original tune out of my ass), but nothing happens with it. Once I did notice a little variance with the strings, which was nice, but that's it. It would be cool as hell if you tried some other melodies, or maybe even a solo for the lead near the end.

It's a fun listen. Good song. But it has the potential to be a great song if you work on it.

 

Not a bad start, I say, but it most definitely does need a more defined bassline. It's very top-heavy as it is, really, but with a few little additions it can be a jewel.

While I don't have any professional tools on me or anything, I'm actually tempted to fire up Impulse Tracker and hack up a quick remake of this, hehe. Pretty good idea, really!

 

I've always sucked at drums

I'll try putting in a bunch more variation for the song. Its funny because usually i'm pretty good about putting in lots of variation... go figure.

Glad you guys liked it

 

Yeah, it's fairly good, but with stronger drums this could really be great (I'm not a musician in any way, shape, or form, so I don't really know what I'm talking about. ).


Actually, this song would be great for a level. Maybe not so much a boss, but this would be awesome as the BGM for a level of some kind. Especially something high-tech and mysterious.

 

Ok, i tweaked the song, added a bassline, and put variation all over the place, extended the alternate melody, and tried to put more variation into the drums, and also adjusted my kick sound so its a bit more powerful. Hope you like it

Quatum Destination v2 (mirror)

 

It's definitely an improvement over the last one. The melody changes you made really make it much more interesting - I can definitely see this as the background music for a tech level of some kind...

...except I still do have some complaints. Mostly the same ones from before. The bass you added in is nice but is still high and thin - maybe lower it a key and boost it up a bit? And the drums don't seem to have changed at all - they're too slow and make the song feel basic, kind of like a processing march, but the music doesn't match. If you sped the drums up, and upped the tempo of the song a bit, it could turn into a slick piece of work.

It is way better though, and still much more than I could do myself.

 

I'm really, really bad at bass, and not very good with drums (its why i prefer doing piano and more classical oriented songs, this really isn't my usual style =\). If i try to up the bass, it either overpowers everything else, makes the song sound bad, or doesn't exist.

Now, upping the tempo i probably can. In the original version, i had the melody going twice as slow, but the actual BPM was twice as fast. As it is, the songs only going at 116, i could easiely push it to 220, double the length of the melody, and make the drums go crazy, except thats all i really know how to do, make the drums go really fast. And that doesn't nessacarily make them sound good. So, is there a drums expert here who could provide assistance?

 

Perhaps DrumUltima?

 

Well after much thought i decided i would give it a shot myself. I'm pretty good about getting good beats, but i'm unsure of my drum instrument usage (and questionable samples), so criticism is welcome This is uncharted territory and i'd like to improve

Quantum Destination v3 (mirror)